Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - NFL Will ‘Choose Love’ Again

Aug. 21, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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NFL Will ‘Choose Love’ Again

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey lament pro football’s persistent soft-headedness. They also discuss La Toya Cantrell, Spike Lee, St. Augustine, Baron Baoteng, and “Peace in the Hood.” Thumbnail credit: © David Rosenblum/Icon SMI via ZUMA Press

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	Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I am your servant, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
	With me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	And today is August 21st, year of our Lord 2025.
	We begin, as always, with comments.
	And here is a difficult one, Mr. Kersey.
	I may need your help in answering.
	I have a question.
	My family and majority of friends are all progressive, and I was raised progressive until I woke up.
	How should I navigate talking to people about these topics, specifically my family?
	My family is completely against the idea of any sort of nationalism, and I've had a hard time seeing eye to eye with them.
	I love them dearly.
	I don't want to cut them out of my life, and I feel like I can't express myself around them or share any different views about life.
	Have you any advice for maintaining a healthy relationship with friends and family who have completely opposing views?
	Also, how can you carve out a friend group in a deeply progressive city?
	Well, you know, I've had the same problem.
	I think many people who are wide awake on all these questions have the same problem.
	And in my experience, you can gently open the door to some of the sensible views that we hold and which not enough Americans hold.
	If people do not walk willingly through the door or at least are not even willing to talk about these things rationally, you just let the subject drop.
	My father, for example, he was a wonderful, wonderful man, but a true blue to the core liberal.
	And I loved him.
	He loved me.
	But after a while, we just did not talk about certain subjects.
	Again, gently, gently push people in the direction of good sense.
	If they resist or if they flare up, then especially with family, these are people whom you've known all your life and who will be part of your family until you die.
	And those relationships are valuable, and you should not sacrifice them to political purity.
	I know it's very difficult to be around people, spend lots of time with them, and be unable to express yourself frankly and fully, but those familial relationships are well worth preserving.
	Mr. Kersey, what is your advice?
	Yeah, I'll be brief.
	I'll be quick and I'll be concise.
	I think a lot of people come into this when they are exposed to ideas that they've never really thought about, and then they want to immediately bring that same conversion to whatever you want to call it, the truth, the racial truth, to other people that they know, thinking that they're going to have the exact same reaction that they did.
	And the most important thing, like you said, is maintaining those relationships that have been in place where roots have grown for, in some cases, decades.
	And the last thing you want to do is uproot those by believing that the same conversion tactics for you will work on them.
	And you just need to sometimes find commonality and remember why that relationship flourished in the first place.
	And what, you know, it's occasional, it's occasionally okay to bring up certain topics and be a contrarian, but the last thing you want to do is dictate and try to proselytize overboard to where it strains the relationship.
	Yes, it's probably true.
	When people have just come or more recently come to a sensible view about race and demographics, then I believe they probably are inclined to think, well, gosh, this is so obvious and so clear and the world makes much more sense to me.
	And now, why can't I open up everybody's eyes and the people around me?
	And it's just not easy.
	You're fighting, you're fighting decades of brainwashing.
	You're going against all of the institutions in America.
	And so it's just going to be tougher than you think.
	So yes, preserve those relationships.
	Now, the other question, any advice on carving out a friend group in a deeply progressive city?
	I don't have particularly good advice on that.
	However, one thing that I can tell you is that if you attend an American Renaissance conference, and the next one is going to be November 14th through 16th, not far outside of Nashville, Tennessee, people wear name badges and they indicate where they're from.
	And if you keep your eye open, you may find people who are from where you are from.
	And that would be a good beginning of finding someone with whom you can share certain ideas.
	There used to be Amran clubs in a few places.
	There was one in the Chicago area, for example.
	And American Renaissance used to be active in trying to get people together.
	That's a lot of work, and there's a certain amount of danger involved because people can be doxxed.
	But that is the only idea that occurs to me right now.
	Any ideas on that, Mr. Kersey?
	I think you have to be unbelievably judicious and careful in cultivating relationships in the real world.
	Again, because you're coming into it with the basis of that friendship being entirely political at first.
	And I think one of the best things you can do is as you are doing whatever avocations you like, ask people questions.
	Don't come out and show your proverbial power level right away, but you'll be surprised at how people's interactions and observations on life will begin to align with yours the more you get to know them.
	And I think that's the best way to do it because you're on a journey together.
	I mean, things aren't going to change.
	We're going to talk about a lot of amazing stories today, Mr. Taylor.
	And a lot of the things that are happening are things I didn't think would happen until perhaps 2040.
	Well, the point is, if you're trying to establish a group of friends with congruent ideas, there are places in which you are more likely to find them.
	Correct.
	And for example, I'm a member of a pistol club.
	The boys in the pistol club are pretty solid boys.
	And back when I was being recognized frequently, when I was a YouTube star, and we still had a YouTube channel, it seemed like practically every time I went to the range, someone would recognize me.
	That is where you have red-blooded white Americans who can shoot straight and often they can think straight too.
	The other thing you might consider is hovering on the fringes of Republican politics.
	Agreed.
	Local Republicans are much more racially aware and wide awake than national Republicans, the ones who are out in the open.
	They can't afford to really take a clear position.
	But the people who are active locally, they have no choice but to work for the Republicans because the Democrats are vast worse.
	But you will find that among them are people who are more racially aware than you would think.
	But you have to gently open the door, gently open the door.
	And if they walk through, you open it a little bit further and then you open another door.
	But it's tough.
	If you're stuck in a progressive city, there may be only a very small Republican group.
	But those are the two groups, Republican organizations and shooting clubs.
	Those people are likely to be sympathetic, but you can't count on that either.
	Now, Mr. Taylor, real quick, your YouTube channel was destroyed in April of 2020 on the same day that Stephan Molyneux lost his channel.
	And you had about 115,000 subscribers at that point.
	125 was our maximum.
	Wow.
	Well, I was plus or minus 10,000.
	I think it'd be well over half a million right now.
	We can all fantasize, can't we?
	And then you'd be recognized everywhere.
	Maybe even Cracker Bear.
	Yes, maybe so.
	Maybe in the local gay bar they'd recognize me.
	Anyway, let's see.
	Here's another comment.
	Well, if you get really famous, let's see.
	Come in.
	First, thank you for your weekly podcast.
	I love the humorous approach to very strange and uncomfortable situations and stories.
	When you talk about the United States, it's like listening to a mild version of things where I live here in the new South Africa.
	Secondly, I'd like to inquire about Mr. Kersey's podcast.
	I'm unable to find his podcast on any podcast applications.
	I would be grateful if you could tell me how to reach his podcasts.
	So speak, Brother Kersey.
	Wow, great question, because I didn't know that really had one.
	I know that every week, Gregory Hood, we do another podcast here on the burgeoning New Century Foundation Network, Radio Renaissance called View from the Right.
	And then on Tuesday, I have invited Mr. Taylor on many times.
	We are taking advantage of X's platform to have spaces.
	It's called Life in the Alien Nation.
	It does have VDARE editor in XL, Peter Brimlow, and Dan Lyman, who writes for InfoWars and is the editor of BorderHawk.news.
	His brother Wid is actually a little bit more.
	Okay, so how do you find these?
	How do you find these?
	Get great question.
	How do you?
	Go to Rumble and type in VDARE.
	And then that's where we post them, the VDARE Rumble show.
	Okay, so, all right.
	And also the weekly podcast with Gregory the Great.
	That is available.
	You can find that on our Amran website.
	That's correct.
	And then finally, our South African listener says, a word of encouragement to my USA brothers and sisters.
	Hope is not lost.
	Oh, no.
	Hope is lost only when you believe it is lost.
	Here in the land of my birth, I still hope my people wake up, stand together, and pursue our 400-plus years, our goal of having true freedom.
	We are all boers now, whether you are in USA, Europe, or Australia.
	I like that.
	We are all boers now.
	Well, thank you, sir.
	And yes, we very much love to hear from our listeners.
	There are two ways to reach us.
	You can get a message straight to me if you go to our website at amran.com, amre n.com, hit the contact us page, and that's where you'll find this podcast.
	And also, you will find the weekly podcast, including Gregory Hood and Paul Kersey.
	And you can get a message to Paul Kersey by doing the following.
	Easy.
	Quick email at because we live here at protonmail.com.
	Once again, because we live here at protonmail.com.
	Now, our first story here.
	The NFL.
	Now, you know more about the NFL than I do, but I pay attention when it does things like this.
	It's continuing its on-the-field social justice messaging for a sixth straight season.
	Does that mean it started with the year of St. George Floyd?
	That's when it started this stuff, didn't it?
	Or did it start before that?
	What prompted all of this stuff, these messages in the end zone?
	It was that COVID year.
	It was the aftermath of it was the COVID shortened season.
	I don't remember what the NFL did that year in terms of how many games they played, but that was the year, sir, that they decided to allow players to wear names on the back of the helmets for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin and other names.
	That's right.
	All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of its choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four possibilities.
	There's only four.
	One is end racism.
	The other is stop hate.
	This one, choose love, and then inspire change.
	Now, once again, it takes all of us will be stenciled into the opposite end zone for all games.
	So they can have a home end zone where they can end racism, stop hate, choose love, or inspire change.
	The only change from 2024 is that inspire change replaces vote.
	I guess in 2024, the idea was we can subtly tell people to vote for Kamala Harris without actually saying her name, but it said vote.
	The league will use end racism along with it takes all of us in the back of end zones for all international games for the second straight season.
	Well, it's an international game.
	That's when they play in Japan or Europe or something like that.
	When they play in South America or Europe.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	Now, the reigning Super Bowl champion, Philadelphia Eagles, will feature Choose Love for its season opener against the Dallas Cowboys.
	And players will, again, have the option to display one of the five messages on their helmets this season.
	Man, do you have to wear one of those things?
	Presumably not.
	Can't you just have a plain old helmet?
	I guess that looks bad if everybody's choosing love and inspiring change.
	And you don't want to choose love or inspire change.
	And apparently what they will do is they will rotate all of the four league-approved end zone messages throughout the season.
	Choose love, by the way.
	Do you know what prompted choose love, Mr. Kersey?
	Choose love.
	I guess they don't want people to choose hate or choose.
	No, but there was a specific event that prompted choose love.
	Tell me what it was.
	That was when 18-year-old Peyton Jendren went to the tops-friendly market in Buffalo and shot 10 black people today.
	That's right.
	Yes.
	And so he used a modified AR-15 rifle.
	He live streamed the attack on Twitch.
	That prompted choose love.
	Now, what I saw choose love, I assumed that was some sort of hippie-happy homo message.
	But apparently, we have to love our dusky fellow citizens.
	Now, one of the spokesmen for the league says, choose love continues to resonate across the league.
	It has become a unifying message of healing and hope, one that many players continue to wear voluntarily on helmet decounts.
	I guess when you think about it, you can't really go wrong in putting choose love on your helmet.
	But that would be an interesting question.
	How many people have none of these, none of these touchy-feely messages on their helmets at all?
	This is in a game, of course, where you're wearing a helmet because people are not exactly choosing love when they slam full tilt into you.
	But be that as it may.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, you have us a comeuppance story.
	Cracker Barrel is taking a beating in the stock market.
	They have been.
	You know, back in 2021, the stock was trading at $171 a share and it's been on an unbelievable downward trajectory.
	But the reason why this is in the news today, sir, is because Cracker Barrel has apparently decided to unveil not only a new logo, removing the old white male who's propped up on a cracker barrel.
	I guess he's a cracker on a barrel.
	But they're also doing something really strange, and that is radically redeveloping the interior of their very cozy inside.
	When you'd walk in, there'd be knickknacks and artifacts from America showcasing old pictures.
	There's always a George Washington portrait.
	There's normally a firearm, a rifle or shotgun over the large hearth where the fire is roaring.
	It felt like you were walking into your grandparents' home.
	That's the way I always likened it.
	Well, it seemed as much your grandparents' garage.
	There'd be old tools and old advertising for, I don't know, now long extinct brands of chewing tobacco or fertilizer.
	I've been maybe three or four times to Cracker Barrel, and invariably I just walk around the whole eating area and stare at the stuff up on the walls.
	I think that's really so interesting.
	And they're taking that stuff down.
	In some locations, they are, and they're unveiling this very sterile magnolia.
	There's this couple out of Waco, Texas that tries to teach interior decorating.
	And I think they're actually trying to take some of those concepts into the store.
	And I'll tell you, I've been many times, many more times than you have.
	And I always like to sit in the middle because I'm always fearful that one of these antique farm equipments that they've got on the wall is going to fall off as I'm trying to eat a breakfast or lunch or enjoy some of the sweet tea or play the peg game and impale me or my family.
	But I've never been there.
	I'm not making that up because you see this stuff and it's like, how long has that been sitting there?
	What if it's just jostled a little bit and falls on me?
	That looks rusty.
	That's definitely tetanus.
	Anyways, on August 19th, the Southern-inspired casual dining chain unveiled a new logo, quote, rooted even more closely to the iconic barrel shape, end quote, but without the barrel itself or the old white guy who's propped up on the barrel, the cracker.
	It's a central part of the brand's identity since 1977.
	As for the barrel itself, it was essentially the water coolers of the day, Cracker Barrel explained in a blog post.
	Almost immediately, shares of Cracker Barrel, CBRL, they nosedive more than 12% in trading today.
	Again, however, if you look at a timeline over the past five years, Cracker Barrel has been on a downward trajectory.
	I believe you're going to tell us a little bit about the way that they've been going woke and their branding as well in terms of marketing.
	Yeah, well, I guess if it's been down that much, that sounds like a colossal drop since it has been.
	They've cut their dividends, sir.
	And that was one of the main reasons to invest because Cracker Barrel was, it's a 660-plus restaurant chain.
	It's beloved by patrons for a variety of reasons.
	And now they're just basically putting that proverbial middle finger up at the people who love it and love to go to it.
	Well, one of the ways they're doing so is with four new themes.
	And they've got these snazzy, colorful decals.
	One of them says, Hola, Cracker Barrel.
	And the explanation is, Ola's mission is to promote Hispanic and Latino culture through hiring, developing, and retaining talent.
	It's going to create a culture of inclusivity and awareness.
	Hola.
	That really attracts the white people who are there, I'm sure.
	Now, here's another one.
	This another colorful decal.
	I'm sure you can buy these and slap them all over your bumpers and the back of your head, if you like.
	Cracker Barrel Neuroverse Collective.
	The Neuroverse Collective is focused on advocacy and education around neurodiversity.
	Now, I've never been very clear on neurodiversity.
	That's for people who are just a little touched in the head, but you want to hire them and love them anyway.
	And then there is the Cracker Barrel LGBTQ Plus Alliance.
	And the explanation for this happy little decal that you can put on your bumper or again on your forward, it says supporting home office and field employees to bring their whole selves to work.
	Boy, oh boy, wow.
	You wear that leather jockstrap to work.
	Yes, sir.
	Strengthening Cracker Barrel's relationship with the LGBTQ plus community.
	And then finally, there's one called Be Bold.
	And it looks like in the back, it's got what looks a little bit like a Mexican sombrero to me, which is pure Americana.
	The mission of Be Bold is to cultivate and develop black leaders within the Cracker Barrel organization, utilizing allyship, mentorship, and education to create a path to continued excellence as well as a vibrant and diverse community.
	I guess this is all a part of trying to stop the stock slide, but I'm afraid it ain't going to work with the kind of people who go to Cracker Barrel.
	No, the stock slide, again, it's been catastrophic as a shareholder.
	And it reminds me of my grandmother loved Cracker Barrel.
	She passed away a few years ago, and she would be mortified to see what the country became, especially in 2020.
	And we actually stopped going to Shonys.
	As a southerner, people might remember the name Shonys.
	That used to be as ubiquitous as Crackle Barrel, but they got sued for racial discrimination by one of their black employees.
	And that franchise completely collapsed.
	I'm not even sure how many Shonis there are anymore, if you've ever even heard of or been to a Shoni's.
	I've heard of Shonys.
	I'm not sure I ever patronized a Shonys.
	But now, have you owned Cracker Barrel since that high of 2021?
	I have.
	I've started buying.
	I'll tell you.
	I was told by a very, very smart wealth manager who said, buy stocks in equities that you do business with.
	Because if you like to go to them, if you frequent them, if you do business with them, odds are that there's a reason behind why you do that.
	And Crackle Barrel, it just paid a great dividend.
	And real quick, during COVID, the price dropped a lot, as did a lot of the restaurant stocks in that vertical.
	They came back very quickly and very fast.
	And Shoni's, I'm sorry, Cracker Barrel also did something really weird, sir, is they unveiled alcohol sales, which I thought was going to be tremendous in terms of the bottom line and in terms of profitability.
	But that's actually backfired tremendously.
	Wow.
	And another thing real quick to bring up, Steak and Shake on their official X page put out a picture of the old white guy on the Cracker Barrel, and they wrote this.
	Sometimes people want to change things just to put their own personality on things.
	At Cracker Barrel, their goal is just to delete the personality altogether, hence the elimination of the old timer from the signage.
	Heritage is what got Cracker Barrel this far.
	And now the CEO, a white female, wants to just scrape it all away.
	Well, I think that's all true, but I guess she's desperate if things are going down that much.
	Well, I'm sorry you have been in to watch it decline so precipitously.
	I'm actually, believe it or not, I'm still up from my from my from what I purchased the stock at.
	So again, you must have had it since 1912.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I started purchasing it in my cost-benefit analysis as well because it went down so much during COVID.
	But again, it's remodeling some of its 660-plus restaurants.
	It's in an effort to declutter the interiors by removing the country theme trinkets that line the walls and lighten up the interior, shifting away from the dark woods.
	Again, you'll feel safer.
	No more pitchforks on the wall.
	No, instead, I'll have some crappy art from Hobby Lobby fall on me or wherever they or wherever they wherever their vendor supplies them.
	Now, again, Crackle Barrel was as pure American as it gets.
	And now all the things that made it such a wonderful destination for gastronomical delight are being stripped away.
	It looked like a Hilton Hotel lobby, I guess, when they're finished with it.
	Anyway, here's some interesting news.
	ESPN has confirmed it is scrapping Spike Lee's planned documentary series of ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
	This is a result of, quote, creative differences.
	The series must have chronicled Kaepernick's career with the San Francisco 49ers, which came to an end in 2016 after he began kneeling during the playing of the national anthem before games to protest racial injustice in America.
	Well, apparently he got the boot that year, the next year.
	In any case, in 2019, he reached a confidential settlement with the NFL after filing a grievance that accused the league of colluding to keep him off the field.
	I follow these things only because of the knee business, not because it's football.
	And apparently, he was trying to get back into the game.
	The 49ers let him go.
	Nobody would hire him.
	And I guess he figured there's some sort of collusive act to keep him off because he was bad news.
	But the other argument, of course, is he just wasn't that good.
	You have any take on that?
	No, Colin Kaepernick, his numbers were declining and also the headache that he became.
	I mean, you remember he was causing ratings to drop.
	And that's what encouraged Papa John of Papa John's Pizza to say, hey, you know, all this taking a knee.
	Our sales are down and we're a huge sponsor of the league.
	This isn't good.
	And he was one of the major cultural focal points that caused sort of the, I won't say the end of wokeness, but for the speediness of wokeness to try and eclipse everything.
	And the fact that it's being canceled now, sir, I think that's a sign that we're on the right timeline.
	Oh, I agree.
	I agree.
	And I think that was the declining NFL ratings.
	Wasn't that the origin of the get woke, go broke or pretty much about the same time?
	I would agree with that.
	I think Breitbart.com would get a lot of traffic by pointing out, but both the attendance for games dropping within that time period.
	And this, again, this is all between, say, 2017 and 2020 when all this was going on.
	So this predates George Floyd.
	Well, let's see.
	We have a few black ladies in the news.
	The mayor of New Orleans has been indicted on charges from an alleged scheme to use over $70,000 of city funds to maintain a clandestine relationship with a bodyguard.
	Mayor Latoya Cantrell, first elected in 2017, used her office to maximize time with Jeffrey Paul Vappy.
	She spent tens of thousands of dollars on trips with him under the guise of official business.
	The two went on 14 trips together.
	And even before this has come up about all this money she spent, Vappi was indicted in July 2024 on charges relating to billing false hours, including those he spent inside the mayor's French quarter apartment.
	Well, that's pretty nice.
	You get overtime while guarding the mayor's body at close quarters.
	Well, Cantrell is the Big Easy's first female mayor, also, as I mentioned, an African-Americaness.
	And the $70,000 refers to the amount the city spent on just Vappy during his trips.
	It doesn't cover how much money the city spent on Cantrell on these trips.
	Well, we will see what happens there.
	And then there's another story about an African-Americaness, Lisa Cook.
	Lisa Cook is a Biden-appointed Federal Reserve governor, and she is the first of her stripe to become a Federal Reserve governor.
	Bill Pulty, leader of the Federal Home Finance Agency, alleges on social media that Cook submitted what he called fraudulent information on a pair of mortgage applications.
	He claims that in 2021, Cook sought mortgages on two properties, one in Michigan and the other in Atlanta, and described both of them as her primary residence.
	Well, you can't have two unless, I guess, you're going to split your time absolutely 100% evenly.
	And then I think you end up having to pay tax in two income tax in two states.
	I don't really know how it works when you have multiple residences.
	Never having had that problem myself, lenders often offer homebuyers lower interest rates, lower down payments, and higher borrowing limits on a mortgage that they claim is for the primary residence.
	That was Letitia James' alleged crime when she also was borrowing money.
	I guess the banks assume that if that's where you live, you're going to make sure that it stays in good shape.
	You're going to look after it.
	You're going to love it and cherish it.
	And so they're more willing to lend you more money.
	Now, if Cook doesn't resign, this, we're talking back now back to this Federal Reserve Board governor.
	If she doesn't resign, Trump is discussing about how to fire her for cause.
	The only way Trump could fire for cause is generally interpreted to mean dereliction of duty or malfeasance.
	It's not clear whether any alleged malfeasance that happened before a governor takes office would be legally sufficient to fire Cook.
	On the other hand, when you've got somebody on the Federal Reserve who is trying to finagle her way into lower interest rates by lying on a mortgage application, that certainly doesn't look good.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have some interesting statistics on the consequences of the federal takeover of policing in D.C. Do tell.
	This has been fascinating to watch, Mr. Taylor.
	We talked about this at length on the podcast with Greg Hoodview from the right about what was going to happen, and it's pretty incredible to see the results so quickly.
	D.C. has murder free week as Attorney General Pam Bonnie touts 77 more arrests in the federal takeover of Washington, D.C. 53 federal arrests plus 24 ICE arrests, 10 guns seized in an operation on August 20th.
	They confirmed to Fox News Digital that there has not been one homicide in the city in seven days.
	Quote, there have been no recorded homicides in the city for the past week, said Public Information Officer Michael Russo.
	The homicide free week comes after President Donald Trump's federalization of the D.C. police on August 11th as federal law enforcement arrests skyrocket.
	To put that into perspective, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Taylor and I talked a few weeks ago about how in one week span, I'm sorry, in a two-week span back in 1990 in Washington, D.C., there were more homicides in our nation's capital than there were for the entire calendar year in England.
	Think about that for a second.
	Well, and how many were there just out of curiosity?
	Unfortunately, the book that I got that stat from Dream City by Harry Joffey, they didn't actually say how many there were.
	And I should have read the citation.
	And I'll tell you what, when you do your next story, I've got the book right here next to me.
	I will find the answer to that.
	Okay.
	Well, in the meantime, I can tell you last year, I'm sorry, in 2023, how many homicides there were in Washington, D.C. There were 244.
	And if you divide by 52, that's an average of somewhere between four and five per week.
	And especially in the summertime, which is when the frisky folk are more likely to be out waving their guns around, not to have had any, any homicides in a single week is pretty good.
	On the other hand, this widely publicized presence of all these federal guys in their flak jackets and their cool guy outfits and National Guard, I would think that that would keep people under wraps in a way that is just affected just from the fact that they're there.
	We'll see what the long-term effect is, but do continue, sir.
	Yeah, Pam Bondi said it best.
	Our mission to make D.C. safe again isn't slowing down.
	Since the federal takeover, just over two weeks, just under two weeks ago, called in the National Guard troops to clean up the Capitol streets, 630 people have been arrested in total and 86 illegal guns have been confiscated.
	Again, the FBI director Cash Patel provided further updates on X. He says that the FBI joined federal partners in 31 more or less arrests last night.
	So you've got plainclothes officers out.
	And this is something that, if you recall back in the dark days of the post-George Floyd altercation in Minneapolis, New York City's plainclothes police officer corps just completely disbanded because they didn't want to incite any more antagonistic interactions with the black or brown community.
	Patel said this is a team effort across multiple federal partners.
	They're working around the clock to get it done and your capital city is safer every day because of it.
	Another thing that's not mentioned in this article, Mr. Taylor, but it's happening, is that the tagging of graffiti all across the city is being removed.
	And when you see graffiti, you know that there are gangs within that area that believe they have the monopoly of violence or that they control that real estate.
	And I think that's such an important thing to see removed.
	And not just our nation's capital, but hopefully we'll start seeing it across the board.
	Again, this is fantastic.
	Fantastic news.
	I entirely agree.
	I think it's wonderful.
	And now, I actually did a video on this whole business of crime in Washington, D.C., which perhaps you have not yet feasted your eyes upon it, Mr. Kersey.
	But I focused on a report by some lefty organization, and it looked into who is doing the killing and who is being killed.
	And this outfit, well, of course, everybody's black.
	There's no question about that.
	Something else that this very lefty outfit found is that they are all known to the police.
	And they're all very similar people.
	The people doing the killing and the people being killed, they're all gangbangers.
	They've all got a dozen arrests.
	They've been in and out of jail.
	And this outfit said, if you could locate these, probably, there are probably no more at any one time, no more than about 200 of these habitual, awful criminals out there.
	They're all young black men.
	Now, why are they on the street?
	That is the big question.
	They've all got records, and you could probably, if you just took all 200 of them, or maybe 300, throw in a few extras and collar them, then that would transform the city, it seems to me.
	Of course, Ayub Bukele in El Salvador has shown exactly how that works.
	When they're behind bars, they are not killing each other, and they're not killing you.
	They're not raping your wife.
	They are not stealing your car or anybody else's.
	It's great to get them off the streets.
	And of course, when it comes to the amount of crime that is never even reported, according to one statistic I saw, half of serious crimes aren't even reported to the police.
	That's right.
	Yes.
	Mr. Taylor, that study you're talking about is the Gun Violence Problem Analysis Summary Report put up at the National Institute for Criminal Justice back in December of 2021.
	And I remember when the first publication reported on that in Washington, I want to say in early 2022, I was blown away by the fact that they pointed out that the analysis showed that it's about 200 people that are known to the police who are doing this.
	And your first reaction is, all right, if they're known to the police, go get them.
	Yes.
	Take them off the street because within that report is one of the most incredible little graphs you'll ever encounter.
	And I mean this.
	I post this constantly when people bring up what's happened in D.C. because there's a table that breaks down the homicides and non-fatal shootings.
	And it shows that blacks are 46% of the city, but are responsible, but are suspects in 97% of homicides and 97% of non-fatal shootings.
	Whereas whites are 37% of the city and responsible for 0.8% of homicides, suspects, and they're not even counted in non-fatal shooting suspects.
	Yep.
	So there aren't any.
	Well, this was a period over two years.
	This national, whatever it is, National Criminal Investigation Reform or something.
	National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Those are the boys.
	That's done.
	Yeah.
	They took a two-year period and they looked at every single homicide, every single non-fatal shooting, and they tracked down who done it and why.
	And that's how they arrived at this 200 people figure.
	Get rid of these 200 people and boy, the city will be transformed.
	And so again, the question is, why aren't they behind bars?
	And the National Criminal Justice Reform Institute, National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform, that's what they are.
	They said, no, you can't lock them up.
	That just hardens them.
	That turns them into bad guys.
	Good grief.
	They're already bad guys with an average with an average rap sheet of 11 arrests already.
	Good grief.
	And they have all these crazy ideas.
	They're going to get these intensive life coaches to sit them down and give them behavioral cognitive therapy.
	And that'll turn them into choir boys.
	This is just so nutty.
	So nutty.
	In any case, I did a video about this.
	I can't wait to see it.
	I don't think I've watched it yet, but Mr. Taylor, what's so fascinating about this report that this left-wing NGO put out is that the DOJ could simply say, hey, Heather McDonald, hey, Jared Taylor, hey, Paul Kersey, you guys want to do analysis on these cities for us?
	We want to find out who's committing the crimes.
	We're going to give you access to all the books, all the arrest records, put together some charts for us.
	Milwaukee actually did this for a number of years.
	They had the Milwaukee Homicide Report Commission, and they lost their funding because they basically showed that, hey, guys, it's basically just blacks doing this.
	They never came to that conclusion, but you can still find their data.
	And it's pretty in your face about who's committing the violent crime in Milwaukee.
	And you can do this for every city.
	Yes.
	When anybody looks into it, no matter how blinkered lefty they are, they always find the same results.
	But do you remember after results like this come out?
	Then there'll be a gang database, for example.
	It's important to have a gang database.
	You don't want to put the Crips in the same cell as the bloods or the Mexican mafia because they will tear each other's guts out.
	But no, no, because it turns out that they're all black and occasionally a few Mexicans involved.
	Oh, we can't have a gang database.
	That's stereotyping.
	That's going to make the police go out and pay attention to them.
	Well, those are exactly the people that we need to pay attention to.
	Anyway, it is just so utterly coo.
	Years ago, I read an excellent book on crime called Crime and Human Nature.
	Oh, it's one of my favorites.
	Oh, it's a great book.
	Richard Herrnstein, who later went on to co-author the Bell Curve, he was one of the authors.
	And I think James Q. Wilson, he was the other co-author.
	And they said, for decades, for centuries, really, people have been trying to reform criminals.
	And there is only one thing that works.
	Do you know what it is?
	Incarceration.
	The one thing that works is getting old.
	Yes.
	After about age 40, even the wildest gangbanger is just not in the mood to go out and shoot up a bunch of rivals or rape a woman.
	Age is the only thing that cures these people.
	I'm going to ask you a question, and I went, as always, your opinion and your honesty, your veracity.
	Is that book more important than The Bell Curve?
	Yes or no?
	I would say no.
	Because the Bell Curve, I think the whole race question is ultimately more important.
	And there are many other people who are writing sensible books about crime and the fact that all of these do-gooder uplift programs are mainly futile, but hardly anybody is writing honest stuff about race.
	Boy, the time has raced by.
	We need to get right to work here.
	Let's see.
	Okay.
	Oh, this is a story I got from you.
	This is really quite fascinating.
	Boynton Beach, Florida.
	On July 5th, there was an event called Peace in the Hood.
	It was also called the Stop Violence Awareness event on the organizer's permit application.
	It was going to foster a peaceful gathering to raise awareness about reducing violence.
	The event drew nearly 500 people, families, children, and it was a community-focused initiative to encourage nonviolence.
	Well, they organized it.
	They asked the city for a permit, but the city declined.
	They said there wouldn't be enough police available to staff this Peace in the Hood event.
	The police are smart.
	They don't care what it's organized on.
	You're going to get a bunch of black people.
	You need police.
	Well, despite that, the woman went ahead with the event.
	And actually, it wasn't so bad.
	Only three people were shot in a hail of bullets, but a lot of cars were damaged, apparently.
	And many people were injured in the chaos, running away, and by the flying glass from all the car windows that got shot out.
	Well, last Friday, the police finally made their fourth arrest.
	The case, 20-year-old Dondre Ledger.
	He faces the same charges as the three other gunmen, including second-degree attempted murder.
	Now, Boynton Beach is 40% black, as you pointed out, Mr. Kersey, in the article you wrote about this.
	Some of the victims are, of course, suing guess who?
	Not the lady who organized it without the permit.
	They are suing the city.
	Now, the name of the organizer has not been made public, and her name has not been revealed.
	I suspect she is an African-Americanist who had the best interests of the city at heart.
	She wanted people to stop shooting each other, but you get black people together in one place, and the music gets going, and it's a nice day, and the drinks begin to circulate, and out come the pistols, and bang, bang, bang.
	But all of this raises, it does raise interesting legal points.
	If you are a city, you say, no, you can't have that.
	You don't issue a permit, and so you don't send police because you don't think things are going to happen.
	It does happen.
	You've got 500 black people kneeling around, and some of them stop bullets.
	Who's liable?
	Who's liable?
	I'm sure this will be an interesting court case.
	The lady who did it, I'm sure, has no assets, so she will not be sued.
	And let us just hope that Boynton Beach on Florida will not be on the hook for millions of dollars in damages.
	Moving on to Midland, Texas.
	This is one of those good news stories.
	Midland Independent School District Board of Trustees.
	on August 12th voted four to three that's a narrow that's a narrow majority to change legacy high school back to its original name Midland Lee High School named for none other than Confederate General Robert E. Lee the motion followed more than four hours of public testimony from over 50 residents and drew a crowd of hundreds with attendees waving lee flags urging unity and inclusion.
	And Josh Gwynn, Midland Independent School District trustee, wrote on his social media, this is not division.
	It's about honoring the patriotic legacy that binds us.
	Let's stand firm, protect our heritage, and ensure Midland Lee High School rises as a beacon of our West Texas spirit.
	Now, as I said, the vote for restoring the Robert E. Lee name was four to three.
	And I was quite struck by this, Mr. Kersey.
	One of the yes votes was from trustee Angel Hernandez.
	So good for him.
	All the other names appeared to be Anglo-type names to me, but Angel stood up for Mars Bob.
	So I'm proud of him.
	Now, the board changed the name in 2020 during the madness that followed George Floyd's fentanyl overdose.
	But this is the first time that a school has restored General Robert E. Lee's name after cravenly removing it.
	So as you said, things are looking up.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story according to which DHS is trying to make sure that new residents of the United States have, or at least do not have, an absolutely hateful attitude towards the United States of America.
	It's always incredible when we see what's happening.
	This is one of those such instances that the government can simply decide to make things better for actual Americans by not inviting anti-American and vitriolic attitudes from places where there are century-old blood feuds going on.
	And this is one of them.
	And as we've done this podcast, a news story is broken that President Trump has advised the government to investigate the issuing of, Mr. Taylor, 55 million visas to people who aren't Americans.
	That's an astonishing number.
	That represents-Well, only non-Americans get visas, by the way.
	Oh, I know that.
	I know that.
	But I'm just saying, that's an astonishing number of people who have visas to go into.
	And now these are people who are in the United States or could come to the United States?
	Who have been issued a visa.
	It is an extraordinary story that is blowing up on social media.
	Because again, there's so much low-hanging fruit to go for, to just simply make life better.
	Going to DC and going after this concept of home rule and saying, you guys had multiple decades to get- get a hang on things and to try and get crime down we're going to do it now and here comes homeland security who has decided to apply president trump's america first policy to immigration benefits they announced Announced on August 19th, they're going to instruct officers to use migrants' anti-American behavior to block them from upgrading their legal status.
	Under a new policy, if you espouse anti-Semitism, post anti-American rhetoric online, or express common cause with terrorist organizations, you'll be considered an what it will be considered an overwhelmingly negative factor when U.S. citizenship and immigration services rules on an applicant's case.
	Well, I guess under Joe Biden, that was all considered a very positive factor.
	Probably rushing to the front of the line, actually.
	Yes, yes.
	You hate America.
	Of course, I don't know.
	This anti-Semitism, that's going to be a disqualifier.
	How about anti-whitism?
	You know, we see a lot of things.
	Well, what's fascinating, when this story was first reported on social media two days ago, a number of people actually tried to claim that they were attacking anti-whitism.
	And then there was a community, a community note put on that said, nope, it's actually not.
	But it is anti-Semitic, as mentioned.
	But anyways, it's going to factor in migrants' use of Biden-era parole programs to enter U.S. to enter the U.S. as officers are being told to look for irregularities in parole applications.
	Matthew Tregresser, a spokesperson for the agency, said the changes are part of the Trump admin effort to do more to screen those who seek to put down roots in the U.S. Here's the key quote.
	America's benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies.
	Immigration benefits, including to live and work in the U.S., remain a privilege, not a right.
	Mr. Taylor, this is such a departure from what you've lived under for decades.
	That's right.
	You know, the whole concept of the Emma Lazarus poem somehow nullified every aspect of our nativist history, which America has a astonishing history of nativism when it comes to promoting the interests of Americans.
	Perfectly commonsensical.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And here we are now.
	The hour is late, and yet there are people who are trying to do what they can to make and to spread the light for Americans to be able to.
	It is remarkable.
	And it seems so obvious.
	If somebody's living here, you're not going to upgrade their resident or their potential citizenship status if they clearly hate the United States.
	But no, that would have been no obstacle.
	The other one is you can't come to the United States if you're going to put your snout in the public trough.
	You have to have somebody who's going to support you, or you have to support yourself.
	This is another thing that Biden completely ignored.
	No, that's fine.
	Get your kidney dialysis here.
	Be a destitute hanger on in the United States.
	That was one of the great things that Trump did under his first term.
	Jeff Sessions, he was the attorney general.
	I thought Jeff Sessions did all kinds of great things.
	That was one of them he did.
	Reinstate this no public charge barrier to being admitted to the United States.
	Anyway, no, I agree 100%, Mr. Kersey.
	This is a remarkable change.
	It is so astonishing when common sense perkles up to the government.
	No, it's contagious.
	And that's the one thing that we're seeing from across the board.
	I mean, the fact that they're going to review this extraordinary amount of visas that have been given, 55 million.
	I mean, the response is, I'm sure you'll get a chance to take a look at X in a few moments here after this.
	And this story is captivating people because you're asking yourself, weren't those guys who participated in 9-11, weren't they on overstayed visas?
	Like, what's going on here?
	And to hold accountability to the government is something that really hasn't happened in decades.
	If not, you know, since the government basically just declared, hey, you know, anybody has a right to be an American.
	And it's amazing, sir, to read a story like this and say, no, no, no, it's a privilege.
	And we have a right to evaluate who wants to participate in the perpetuation of that privilege.
	Yes, indeed.
	Yes, indeed.
	It is a remarkable.
	It's a remarkable 180-degree change.
	Now, let's see.
	We're going to have to hop across the Atlantic, as we so often do on this program.
	We hop there and we hop back, and sometimes we hop across the Pacific, but this time it's to England.
	And a children's book written by the Church of England depicts St. Augustine as a black man.
	It's a book called Heroes of Hope.
	And it seeks to inspire children with examples of black and brown saints who have often been erased and whitewashed from history, who formed the church and therefore modern society as we know it today.
	Black and brown saints did that, Mr. Kersey.
	And I guess St. Augustine is one who was whitewashed.
	I mean, he's certainly not been written out of the history books.
	Everybody knows about St. Augustine, and people who are Catholics pay him a lot of attention.
	But the idea that he is black is quite an exciting one.
	He was born in 345 AD in the Mediterranean coastal town that is part of modern-day Algeria, he's known as Agnes Augustine of Hippo.
	It was a Roman province at the time.
	And the idea that he was a sure enough black-skinned Negro is preposterous.
	But that is the way he's depicted in this children's book.
	So I guess a lot of children grow up thinking that he was a black man.
	Now, two of the overlooked saints are Rosa Parks.
	I didn't realize she'd been canonized.
	And Desmond Tutu.
	Desmond Tutu is in the list, too.
	Of course, Rosa Parks, to me, is just one of the most super over-inflated non-entities in the history of the world.
	She sat down on a bus for half an hour, and then she dined out on that for the rest of her life and got her casket lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
	Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.
	But in any case, at Catholic University of Villanova in Pennsylvania, an official at the university wrote, it's important to depict St. Augustine as black because this actively dissenters whiteness.
	I guess it makes no difference whether he was black or not, as long as it decenters whiteness, Mr. Kersey.
	And Heroes of Hope was co-authored by the Reverend Dr. Sharon Prentiss, who was appointed the deputy director of the Church of England's Racial Justices Unit in 2023, and who is just about as black as Augustine is depicted in the book.
	The other co-author is Alicia Lara Ayon Rinde, something of a mysterious character who, from her photograph, looks sort of half black, half Indonesian to me, but no white lady she.
	Now, the book is being published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
	It's the biggest independent Christian publisher in the United Kingdom.
	And the fold of the book is written by Lord Paul Botang, Lord Botang.
	Now, do you know about him?
	He is a labor peer.
	Now, there are several peers there in the House of Lords who are certainly not white, and Lord Botang is one of them.
	I decided to look him up because I've heard that name from time to time.
	I may be pronouncing it wrong.
	It's B-O-A-T-E-N-G, but Botang is the closest I can get.
	He was Britain's first black cabinet minister in May 2002 when he was appointed secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury.
	And in June 2010, he was elevated to the rank of Baron Botang.
	Baron, to be a baron, you have to be a baron of some place.
	You know what place they chose for him?
	He's Baron Boteng of Akim.
	Akim is in Ghana.
	So he is a Baron of Akim in Ghana.
	What do you know?
	He's also a lay preacher.
	He served as the Methodist delegate to the World Council of Churches and as vice moderator of its program to combat racism.
	He has a long career, this stuff.
	And in 1988, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, you know who they are, those are the inheritors of the mantle of holiness of Martin Luther King himself.
	They honored Boteng as the representative of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
	Award for his contributions in the field of civil rights.
	And in 2003, he was named on the list of 100 great black Britons.
	So this guy is hot stuff indeed.
	There is only one black mark on his record so far as I can find, and that is November 2011.
	I guess he wasn't Baron Botang.
	No, no, he was Baron Botang.
	Yes, yes.
	The very next year after he was elevated to the baroncy, his son Benjamin, then age 27, was jailed for four years for a sex attack on a woman.
	At least it was not a woman.
	But anyway, that is the kind of literature that's circulating among the youth in Great Britain.
	Now here's another story.
	This was in the New York Times.
	New York Times Sunday magazine gave this guy a huge, huge article full of color photographs.
	Well, as it turns out, nine months ago, a 28-year-old Ghanaian artist and entrepreneur, that's what they call him, an artist and entrepreneur.
	I don't think you could call either of us an artist and entrepreneur.
	His name is Joseph Auadarko, not Darkie, Darko, announced on Instagram that he wanted to die.
	His battles with bipolar disorder had crushed his will to live, he said in a minute-long video.
	So he had moved to the Netherlands to pursue medically assisted death.
	And he said that as he navigated the obstacles of an officially sanctioned end, he wrote in his post, he would launch what he called the Last Supper Project.
	Anyone who wanted to cook an at-home meal for him could sign up on a calendar app linked to his Instagram bio.
	Oh, wow.
	Yes, you can cook him a home-cooked dinner, Mr. Kersey.
	And on the appointed evening, he would visit.
	And they would converse and eat and connect.
	Well, within a few days, I mean, this is in the Netherlands after all.
	You're talking about white people and you're talking about a Mr. Auadarko, not Darkie.
	So within a few days, thousands of people reached out and signed up on his calendar.
	Now, to date, nine months later, he has attended 152 last suppers.
	He has boarded trains to visit homes in Berlin, Paris, Antwerp, and Milan.
	He's traveled to cities all over the Netherlands and to dozens of Amsterdam neighborhoods.
	And some who don't cook, they are so desperate to feed him his last meal that they take him out to high-end bistros where meals cost $100 a person.
	But he's also been invited out to Burger King.
	Boy, oh, boy.
	And along the way, he has captured the interactions with videos and photographs.
	He's got his own scrapbook with a soundtrack by Debussy.
	And the meals look very convivial and usually end with hugs.
	The hosts and thousands of fans appeared buoyed by Mr. Auadarko and his readiness to speak with candor about his innermost turmoil.
	So there you go.
	Ah, that's white people for you.
	That's white people for you.
	And even more so than that's black people for you.
	I think most black people wouldn't have the wit.
	And I don't know, it takes a certain manipulative mind.
	Of course, Nigerias were having all these internet scams and things.
	But in any case, this guy cooked up an idea.
	Oh, I'm so miserable I want to die.
	But before I die, while I'm getting the authorities in the Netherlands to off me, finally, I got this last supper project.
	When you invite me off, that could be my last supper.
	What do you think?
	Oh, boy, oh, boy.
	And the poor white people fall for it.
	Good grief.
	Yes, this, now, I wonder, as I say, this is an enormous article in New York Times.
	It went on and on and on and on.
	And there are all sorts of other aspects of Mr. Joseph Auadarko's life that are a little bit suspicious.
	He's been a bit of a con man here and there in his past.
	But I suspect that his calendar is just going to be completely full up now with people who just want to have that last supper with him.
	And I guess there's certain poetry in calling it the last supper project.
	It's my last supper.
	Please cook it for me before I die.
	Well, as it turns out, in the Netherlands, if you're perfectly healthy and the chances of your getting medically assisted suicide are just about zero.
	You have to be, doctors have to say that you're just barely hanging on, you're in agony, and you've got six months to live.
	It's not just you snap your fingers and say, do me in.
	So, anyway, well, gosh, Mr. Kersey, we're out of time.
	Oh, God.
	It happens every week.
	It does.
	Every week this happens.
	God.
	Well, we kind of got distracted on some of our first stories.
	We had so much more to tell you, ladies and gentlemen.
	We look forward to doing the same next week because it is a joy, an honor, and a great pleasure to spend this time with you.

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