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Dec. 4, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Donald Trump's Best Week in Office?

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey marvel at the President's explanation of why America is "at the tipping point." They also discuss Somalis in Minnesota, Emmit Till's barn, Wajahat Ali, and good times in Chicago. Thumbnail credit: © Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire

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Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jara Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, the one and only Paul Kersey.
Today is December 4th, 2025, and as usual, we will start with comments from our esteemed listeners.
The last two weeks, you've discussed the sons of Confederate veterans.
Several years ago, I sat in on meetings of the daughters of the Confederacy and the daughters of the American Revolution because I was considering joining.
I brought up the topic of mass immigration and the threat that it is.
But I was taken aside and told by both groups, we don't discuss politics here.
So I did not become a member, despite being qualified for both groups.
Such cowards they are.
Yes, here, here, such cowards they are.
Comment from Down Under.
I am an Australian man in my 20s.
You no doubt know that we are in the same boat as you.
However, we both have bright spots.
You have your president and his advisor, Mr. Miller.
We have our border policy and our recent no vote for the voice.
The voice, as you may recall, was a government proposal to create an advisory body elected by the people who lived in Australia prior to Captain Cook's discovery, those folks otherwise known as Aboriginals.
Every single state in Australia voted no, including Victoria, which is our version of Massachusetts.
As for the border, since 2013, we've had a tough stance.
Anybody who tries to arrive by boat is intercepted and put on an island.
That stopped the trade almost in a year.
Not even our current liberal government will touch it.
It's that popular.
May our two great countries find their footing again soon.
Of course, the trouble is, yes, it's tough to get by boat illegally into Australia, but so many people manage to get there legally by airplane or boat or whatever means is available.
That's the real problem with Australia.
And we have yet another comment from Australia.
You may not be aware of this in the United States.
I certainly wasn't.
But they have removed the Burke and Wills statue of the famous pioneers who were the first Europeans to travel across Australia north to south.
The two explorers famously set out to map the interior of Australia.
The mission consisted of 19 men led by Robert O'Hara Burke with William John Wills as deputy commander.
Only one survived, helped by natives.
But even these nonviolent champions of exploration must be canceled.
One of the options is understood to be a First Nations sculpture depicting the role of the Ranjuandla people of South Australia who helped save John King, the only survivor.
Boy, oh boy.
This is the kind of self-flagellation white people love, isn't it?
No monument for the explorers, but for a group of Aborigines who saved the one guy who survived.
I bet you didn't know about the Burke and Wills expedition, Mr. Kersey, despite the fact that you know almost everything.
No, I've focused a lot of this year, Mr. Taylor, on learning as much as I can about our various battles with the Amera Indian tribes from the 17th, 18th century, and the 19th century as well.
Well, didn't our Australian listeners say we are in the same boat?
Oh, we are The same boat, and the only thing that's going to save us is remigration and the restoration of whites-only immigration policy.
You don't think it's going to be the Yandruwandla people who will save us?
Not this time around.
Anyway, final comment.
I was listening to your latest podcast, Radio Renaissance, and there was something in the segment about Johannesburg that I thought was unfortunately glossed over.
You were talking about the proper pronunciation of the city, city's name.
And Mr. Taylor said it must be Joburg.
And that's the abbreviation, Joburg.
He said, because if you called it Yoburg, because it could be Johannesburg or Johannesburg, if you called it Yoburg, people would think that was Harlem.
That made me burst out laughing.
And I think it was a tragedy.
This quip apparently wasn't noticed by Mr. Kersey.
Well, Yoberg, Mr. Kersey.
He goes on to conclude, keep up the good work, gentlemen.
And yes, it's got to be Joberg and not Yoberg.
Well, Mr. Kersey, it was been a big week for Donald J. Trump, hasn't it?
I think this was one of the best moments of his guess.
He's been in office now for almost five years total.
So yeah, hands down, amazing to watch.
This has been extraordinary.
On Thanksgiving Day, and this was a post for which we all give thanks, he posted, I will permanently pause migration from all third world countries and remove anyone who's not a net asset to the United States.
Deport any foreign national who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western civilization.
Only reverse migration can fully cure this situation.
Now, that is a remarkable statement of a man's determination to make America, let's put it bluntly, white again.
The very next day, DHS said this, the stakes have never been higher and the goal has never been more clear.
Remigration now.
That sounds like Martin Sellner.
Golly, I'll repeat that.
The stakes never higher, the goal never clearer, remigration now.
Wow.
I mean, you could put that on a banner to wave.
And then, of course, later on, he unloaded on Somalis.
He called it a garbage country.
He says we're at a tipping point.
Of course, what did he mean by that?
I think he very clearly meant whites being reduced to minority.
And the New York Times was outraged to note that as soon as he said this, JD Vance pounded the table with enthusiasm.
He's talking about they contribute nothing, don't want them in the country.
And Vance is pounding the table with enthusiasm.
Wow.
In any case, Donald Trump said, we can go one way or the other.
And we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country, by which he meant Somalis, etc.
Fill in the blank as to what you would include in the etc.
Now, it surprised me.
I thought that the whole country, all the liberals at any rate, were going to unite in shrieking, roaring, prancing.
But it was really rather mild.
And I made a pretty careful tour of the general mainstream media outlets, and it was only Vox that seemed genuinely upset.
And they wrote an article the title, The Alt-Right One.
And it had a number of rather obvious things, but I thought there was a line that particularly stood out.
Said, ideas that were toxically controversial less than a decade ago are now officially proclaimed from the highest offices in the country.
A lot of truth to that.
No, that it's.
It's the truth in that statement.
Is it's hard to put into words, mr Taylor, what Trump has said and the conversation that he's kickstarted about Somalians.
Because again, when the NEW Century Foundation was started, when you guys had your first conference, there was only a handful of Somalians across the entire nation, the the colonization of Minnesota uh, it wasn't happening really and uh, in fact they were largely in San Diego and Columbus Ohio, which was two cities where Somalis were dropped off first, and really small numbers.
This is in 1994, thereabouts our first conference.
Now, what are they?
What about?
84 000 in Minneapolis, St Paul Area something, just the Twin Cities alone.
Estimates i've seen range from uh, on the low end, 80 to potentially 120 because again, no one's really ever done a uh, a true um census to to understand how many there are.
And and as we're speaking uh, they're going door to door in Minneapolis.
Isis the DHS.
I mean it's it's, it's extraordinary what's happening right now in Minnesota.
Yes, of course.
Uh, the mayor, mayor Fry, says they're wonderful people.
He's proud to have them.
Absolutely, sir.
He actually broke into speaking Somali when he was denouncing the uh, the Trump administration.
Um, it's again, this is 30 years uh, that this has happened in a blink of an eye.
The state of Minnesota in 1990, when we did the census, it was 94 white.
I mean that's, that's on the same level as a Main or New Hampshire or Vermont right now.
Um well uh, we're gonna pick on Minnesota here for a while, but the kinds of things that we're gonna say in these various news stories, everybody who lives there must have realized at some level long long, long ago and I remember reading for years just what trouble the Somali students are in schools, for example.
They hate the local blacks, the local blacks hate them.
They get into fights all the time and apparently they're these tribal rift, tribal rifts among the Somalis themselves.
They hate each other, they hate the blacks, they hate the whites, they hate everybody.
They are a terrible bother and a pest, and mayor Fry is just pleased as much that they're there now.
Uh, as far as uh, what Donald Trump is actually getting around to doing these days, you can't even come as a tourist from any of 19 countries, every one of which would qualify as to paraphrase Donald Trump in his first term.
I would call them dung heaps.
They're not what he called them, but uh, he's considering expanding the travel band to 30 countries.
And you know, 30 is not bad, but I think 100 would be a nice round number.
The trouble, Well, Donald Trump, you just never know.
That guy could backtrack tomorrow.
I mean, he could decide, well, you know, those Indians, you know, they're pretty good.
Young Chinese, they could boost the economy.
You just never know that guy.
But at least he has put down a marker.
He has said in very, very clear terms that immigration is destroying the country.
And I think everyone could derive from that his conviction that immigration is destroying the West.
And how is it destroying the West?
By reducing whites to minority.
And surely that's what he means by the tipping point.
In any case, this is absolutely remarkable.
No, I've got nothing else to say.
I mean, you saw what Mark Kelly, the senator from Arizona, said that it seems like all these Republicans just don't like brown people.
You know, we're bringing them here and this is ethnic cleansing.
And it's like, well, wait a second.
So if it's ethnic cleansing to remove what are disproportionately non-white refugees, immigrants since 1965.
And I mean, goodness gracious, what was it?
Under the Carter administration, we even redid all our refugee laws to start bringing in significant numbers of refugees from Hmong, Vietnam, from Karen.
I was reading an article about some nation or some tribe called the Karen tribe of Africa.
No, no, no, they're not from Africa.
They're infro.
They're Indian.
No, they're not Indian either.
They're Burmese.
Burmese.
The Karens.
They're Muslims.
They're Muslims in Buddhist Burma.
They're this weird ethnic group that don't fit in religiously, don't fit in linguistically.
Bring them to America, right?
Excuse me.
Just bring them to America.
Of course.
They'll be happy here and so will we.
Yes.
So it's again, and the question that you've seen a lot of people within what Kevin Deanna long ago coined conservatism Inc. is, well, wait a second.
What do we call what they were brought here to do, if not to disrupt the racial balance of the United States?
I mean, again, it's hard for younger people.
I mean, I'm in my late 30s, early 40s.
It's hard for younger people 10 years younger than me to understand that America in 1970 was about 90% white.
Wait, wait, wait.
Well, it was slipping away by then.
1960 was about 90% white, but 65 was the average.
But the racial imbalance had yet to really appear because you hadn't had the massive successive waves of non-white immigration, which has a compound interest because these people have children.
They bring in chain migration.
And again, a state like Minnesota, I looked up the census numbers and it was still almost 95% white in 1990.
And it's just stunning to think in 30 years, what can be done to disrupt what took 140 years of these Nordic pioneers, sir, coming to Minnesota, creating an absolutely stable, thriving government that had a surplus to create this safety net.
I think they used to call it Minnesota Nice.
Have you spent a lot of time ever in the Twin Cities?
I would probably guess I've spent a total of about three weeks in the Twin Cities.
And I'll tell you a story.
Please.
I can't remember what year this was.
This was before 9-11.
And I had a little time to spare.
And so I went to St. Paul, which is the state capitol.
I love to visit state capitol buildings because they're often beautiful buildings.
And it's fascinating to see what they choose to commemorate.
That's where you're going with this, I bet.
No, you don't.
What I'm telling you is on that day, The legislature was in session, and there was absolutely no security.
Not only could I walk into the building without being challenged, without having to show ID, without having to say boo to anybody, I walked right on to the legislative floor.
Yes, I walked right in amongst the legislators and the lobbyists.
I wasn't even dressed very well.
Most people were in suits.
That was how open and free and easy of access the government of Minnesota was.
Minnesota nice.
Minnesota nice is exactly what it was.
But let's get on with some of our stories here.
You have looked into the kind of killing going on in Minnesota, as I recall.
Well, the ill-fated mayoral candidate that the Somalis put up, Omar Fatih, tweeted out something that this guy on Fox News said that 80% of crimes in Minneapolis and St. Paul were committed by Somalis.
And he said, well, this isn't true.
So I was like, I'm curious what crime numbers are.
So I typed in a few things on the old Google machine, sir, and I came across the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, their legislative report from 2024.
There was a news report that kind of broke down the key points, but I was like, I'd like to actually take a look at that report.
So I found it.
And it turns out that it had a couple of fascinating revelations about life and what is a 77% white state right now.
And it's roughly about 7% black.
And back in 1990, we keep talking about that year when it was 94% white.
It was 2% black then.
And a lot of the growth in the black population, of course, has been African refugees, Somalis.
So I looked at the page 10 of this report, which broke down known homicide offenders.
There's a great chart you can look at.
It tells you the victims, and then it's got this chart, which breaks it down by race.
It does not break it down by ethnicity.
So it doesn't break out Hispanics from whites as a racial category or an ethnic category.
But it shows that for homicide offenders in 2024 in Minnesota, there were 193 that were black.
43 were white, nine were Amera Indian, Alaskan Native, and eight were Asian.
So if you break that down, that means there were a total of 253 known homicide offenders.
You do the quick little math, and it turns out that 76% of known homicide offenders in the state of Minnesota for 2024, sir, were black.
Oh, dear.
Now, of course, it doesn't break out how many of those blacks were Somali and how many were homegrown blacks.
That's correct.
But that would mean that that old ratio we all know and love so much, I believe it's actually a hate symbol, 1350.
In Minnesota, it's 776.
776.
Very good.
And of course, so when people talk about 1350, they're really talking about approximately six because we're talking almost exclusively about black men.
Now, black women, they commit homicide at a rate that is a fine multiple of the homicide rate of white women, but it's mostly black men.
So you talk about 650.
In any case, well, yes, there you go.
So this person complaining about the crime in Minnesota was not far off, not far off.
No, and just to point out that there were 39 homicide homicides that did not, the race was unknown of the offender.
So we can guess.
This number could lurch upwards to as high as 87% if they were to be predominantly black.
So it is stunning to think that in a place like Minnesota, that is, again, that 77% white, only 17% of known homicide offenders in 2024 were white.
Well, this is so typical of white people.
Here are the facts available.
You are probably the only person who has publicized them officially the way that you have.
There they are sitting in the records, just getting, gathering dust.
And white people are too nice to come out and throw these figures in the faces of these black people who come here and then tell us how we need to run the country.
But let us return to the New York Times.
The New York Times, it had a really remarkable story just the week before Donald Trump unleashed his mighty blast against the Somalis.
And it was, I'll read some key passages from it.
In a fraud scandal that rattled the state, federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program that was meant to keep children fed during COVID.
At first, many in the state saw the case as one-off.
But as new schemes targeting the state's generous safety net came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.
Now, this reality doesn't jar you, Mr. Kersey.
It doesn't jar me.
It's been real for years, but apparently people who are determined to turn their eyes away close their eyes to reality.
They find it jarring.
Over the last five years, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota's Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made fortunes by setting up companies that build state agencies for millions of dollars worth of social services they never provided.
Prosecutors say 59 people have been convicted so far, and more than, you may catch your breath before this figure, $1 billion in taxpayers' money has been stolen in the three plots that they've investigated.
How about the who knows how many plots they don't know about?
That's more than Minnesota spends annually on its entire prison system, a billion dollars.
Outrage has swelled, not surprisingly, and the fraud has turned into a potent political issue in a competitive campaign season.
Governor Tim Waltz and fellow Democrats are being asked to explain just what happened.
And it has raised broader questions about the sustainability of Minnesota's Scandinavian-style system of safety nets.
Well, of course, Scandinavian-type safety nets were set up by Scandinavians for Scandinavians.
And when you get these third worlders, our dusky brethren, as I used to call them, they just don't work.
You just get chiselers.
In 2022, prosecutors began charging defendants in connection with a program that was supposed to feed hungry children.
At the center was a Minneapolis nonprofit called Feeding Our Future.
And state agencies reimbursed the group and its partners for invoices claiming to have fed tens of thousands of children.
Instead, the owners spent the money on luxury cars, houses, and real estate projects abroad.
Guess on what continent, Mr. Kersey?
And as federal investigation.
You're right, they love it there.
As federal investigators sifted through the records, they said they realized the fraud was not isolated.
In September, prosecutors charged nine people in two new plots tied to public funds.
In one case, hundreds of providers were reimbursed for assistance they claimed to provide people at risk for homelessness.
You know, I wonder if that means they are, in fact, on the street at risk for homelessness.
I guess that sounds like they just have missed a couple of rent checks, rent payments.
But the program's annual costs suddenly ballooned from a projected budget of $2.6 million to $104 billion.
Yes, because all that money was going into Somali pockets.
In another program, that was supposed to provide therapy for autistic children.
Prosecutors said providers recruited children in Minneapolis' Somali community, falsely certified them as autistic, and then paid the parents kickbacks for their cooperation.
And so far, of the 86 people charged in these meals, housing, and autism fraud cases, the vast majority are American citizens by birth or naturalization.
Yep, they're just as American as you and me, Mr. Kersey.
Now, critics of the Waltz administration said all this went on because state officials were fearful of alienating the Somalis.
In 2020, the Minnesota Department of Education that was ladling out the money to feed these children in COVID questioned the plausibility of some of the invoices.
While Feeding Our Future, this Somali-manufactured nonprofit said that if the state agency failed to approve new applicants from minority-owned businesses, they would sue and accusations of racism would be sprawled across the news.
That was back in 2020.
That shut them up, those Minnesota nice people.
And later on at a trial in the meals fraud case, an attempt to bribe a juror included explicit insinuations about racism.
Several defendants in the trial were found to have arranged to send a bag containing $120,000 to a juror, along with a note that read, why is it always people of color and immigrants prosecuted for the fault of other people?
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Here they are in the dock for swindling the state for hundreds of millions of dollars to say it's other people.
It's all racism.
And as even the New York Times recognizes, race sensitivities were heightened because the state was reeling from the brutal murder of George Floyd.
You know, Mr. Taylor, I've got to interject real quick because you said that 2020 was the year America went mad.
And yet here we are at the end of 2025.
And so much of what was put into place because of that madness is in some ways being cured in a way that really the way Trump is doing it, that probably was the only way it was possible, just to say, hey, these people are garbage.
What are they doing here?
And it's forcing this conversation all because a guy named Chris Ruffo and City Journal, they published that incredible essay documenting this.
The New York Times then goes in and yes, they bury one of the most important parts, but it's worth repeating.
The group told the state agency that failing to promptly approve new applicants for minority-owned businesses would result in a lawsuit featuring accusations of racism that would be sprawled across the news.
Right.
It is astonishing.
That was buried in the New York Times article.
It's there.
It's there.
It's the most important part because that's all our country has been since I've been alive, since I've been cognizant of politics.
I remember a story of a friend whose dad worked at one of the big companies in Atlanta, and Jesse Jackson was trying to shake him down.
And he said something to me, I'll never forget.
It's always going to be this way until we say no.
And here we are at the end of 2025.
We endured the madness of 2020.
And a guy like Trump just said, hey, what are these people doing here?
Get them out.
Look what's happened in Minneapolis.
And we have the facts.
We have the evidence to show what the state was like before this happened and what it's like after.
We have the proof of concept that this isn't going to work.
It's never going to work.
Well, yes, you're right.
And we've been saying these things for decades.
And I can't tell you how astonishing and delightful it is to see some of the same observations coming straight out of the White House.
This is really, really, absolutely remarkable.
You're 100% correct.
Of course, Mayor Fry still claims he loves his Somalis.
He says they're wonderful people.
And Representative Ilan Omar, that Somali babe, the poster child for Somali wonderfulness, she says, we don't blame the lawlessness of an individual on a whole community.
Well, you know, if it came to white people, she doesn't even talk about individuals.
She just blames the whole community anyway.
We're all just rotten, miserable people.
Oh, dear.
But, well, let's see.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I understand that when they show up in Minnesota, some of our brand new Americans have a little trouble with the weather.
Look, this is an older story, but it's one of the funniest things I've ever read.
And it's so important that our listeners understand just how incomprehensible it is that Somalians congregated in Minneapolis because as you know, from a geographic standpoint, and I looked this up, Somalia is an arid desert nation where the first recorded snowfall was in 2005.
And yet you go to Minneapolis.
The first time I went there, I don't get cold that often, but I had to put a scarf on.
It was pretty cold.
So I just thought I'd read bits and pieces from this hilarious story from Minnesota Public Radio News.
This is international refugees learn Minnesota winter survival skills.
Now, all of our listeners, please stop, put that in your Google machine, and you've got to read this story because there's a video that comes with it.
And then there's another video you can watch in Somali of a Somalian doctor trying to teach Somalians how to drive in snow.
And it's very much worth watching because it's hilarious.
But I'll just give you some choice phrases from this.
Esser Mu has lived his entire 24 years in a Thai refugee camp.
Last month, he boarded a plane to Minnesota wearing flip-flops suited for the only climate he's ever known.
A day later, he remained sockless in frigid, toe-curling temperatures while attending a winter survival class in his new home of St. Paul.
Resettlement workers offered him snow boots and cold weather tips, but Mu remained anxious about getting through the first real winter of his life.
I'm worried, he said in his native Korean language.
I never saw this kind of weather.
Every year, the United States welcomes tens of thousands of refugees from all over the world.
About 2,000 come to Minnesota.
Many of those refugees are from warm climates and seeking a better life in one of the coldest states in the country.
With a ruthless winter already underway, the latest arrivals in Minnesota are learning to survive the Arctic sting.
Lessons on how to bundle up and use a thermometer are part of a cultured, cultural orientation offered by the International Institute of Minnesota, which helps resettle refugees.
Mr. Taylor, I'd like to stop.
And in case anyone in the administration is listening to this conversation, I would recommend that you audit the International Institute of Minnesota.
I'll stop there.
Well, let's hope that they have been completely defunded already.
Let's hope so.
The main thing, of course, is put them out of a job by having no more tropically bred foreigners that they have to deal with.
Well, that's according to Thanksgiving tweet.
We might be headed there.
But there's a couple funnier lines.
I'll just briefly read real quick.
Please.
The Institute's Liz Ross, who leads the training, clicks through a slideshow with pictures of mittens and buttons.
More than a dozen new refugees, most of them ethnic Korean from Minamar, watching Myanmar.
That's the fancy new name for what we used to call Burma.
Well, yes, remember Myanmar Shave, the shaving cream?
No?
No, I don't remember that.
Burma shave is what it was.
That's even before your time, too.
Well, these Koreans, they watch with bemused faces as Ross encouraged them to make snow angels and try ice skating.
I mean, imagine you survive war, you survive famine, you sleep on the floor, probably in these, in these, in these little tents, there's no potable water.
And then you're brought to Minnesota and there's this goofy white woman who's teaching you how to make snow angels and try ice skating as she's showing you this slideshow.
I mean, Mr. Taylor, this is just comical.
And yet, this was our policy.
That's white women for you, all right.
Of course, I remember stories of Somalis who had never used a light switch before.
This was astonishing to them.
And I can imagine Somalis walking through the aisle in a grocery store, and they've never seen a shop like that.
Everything is always laid out on the ground in piles of pumpkins and whatnot in the marketplace.
They've never seen a store like this.
And I can imagine walking by the dog food aisle and seeing these pictures of dogs on these big bags of food.
And they're probably thinking to themselves, my gosh, these Americans, they must eat dogs.
That's how I imagine a Somali going to a big, a big sort of Safeway or a giant or all those places.
If you've never seen it, just take it from there.
You've never operated a light switch and then you get plunked down in the United States of America or Somalia of all places.
Oh, no.
You know, a lot of them, they don't know what a bathtub is for.
They would go buy a goat someplace and slaughter it in the bathtub because that was the most convenient place to do it.
Or, you know, out on the porch.
Yep.
That's what it's for.
Yes.
What?
Human beings have to be bathed?
No, no, this is the desert.
You know, we need to bathe.
It's just astonishing what's transpired and that this was probably going to go on and persist had Kamala been victorious.
Oh, golly.
Oh, golly.
The idea of this country after a year of Kamala rather than a year of Donald J. Trump.
Wow.
Wow.
This is an astonishing thing.
But let us never forget the Democrats could come roaring back.
They can.
I think it will happen eventually.
I'll tell you the last line to quote from this, and I'll be quick.
With that cautionary tale, she teaches these newcomers about frostbite.
She takes the newcomers outside onto a large frozen patch in the sitter's parking lot.
There they learn an essential Minnesota skill, how to tread cautiously across the ice.
She tells them to look down while walking slowly and carefully.
She warns them not to break their fall with their hands, which can cause them to injure their wrists or arms.
Instead, she advises them to land on their bottoms.
Again, this is just so laughable.
You have to even wonder if this woman was afraid to call it black ice not to offend these dusky newcomers.
But again, this is what happened to Minnesota.
This is what happens when Minnesota NICE is, and this benevolence is taken advantage of.
And the extraordinary thing about the niceness of Minnesota NICE is that it takes somebody like Donald Trump to rub their noses in the horror they have made of their own society because they are incapable of saying so themselves.
This is just an extraordinary thing about white people.
But while we continue to pick on Minnesota, it turns out that a third of Minnesota's non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses turn out to have been illegally issued.
That's according to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
This turned up as part of Trump administration's crackdown on unqualified non-citizens getting a license.
Now, what is a non-domiciled driver's license?
That means it's issued to someone who is not a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident, but who has lawful temporary residency.
Now, Minnesota has 2,117 non-domiciled CDL holders.
That means over 700 of them got their license, even though they didn't qualify.
And so DOT has given the state 30 days to get itself into compliance or risk losing $30 million in federal highway funding.
As the Secretary says, Minnesota failed to follow the law and illegally doled out trucking licenses to unsafe, unqualified non-citizens.
Now, this latest review is part of DOT's overall nationwide audit of CDLs after foreign truckers have gotten into many nasty accidents.
Federal and state authorities arrested nearly 250 foreign commercial truck drivers in November alone.
And Mr. Kersey, you have not forgotten, and I hope our listeners have not forgotten, Hargender Singe.
He came into the U.S. illegally in 2018.
He got a commercial driver's license in the state of California, non-domiciled, despite the fact that he repeatedly failed the exams in 2023.
He failed the knowledge test and the practical test and could barely speak English.
He got licensed.
Anyway, last August, he made an illegal U-turn in an official use-only median crossover that blocked the northbound lanes on the traffic and a minivan with three occupants slammed into the truck's trailer, killing all three.
And of course, he didn't get out to give help at the scene.
He was there with his brother.
Neither of them gave a hoot about what might have happened.
These people are smashed into the car.
He hopped a plane for California, had to be extradited.
Now he is languishing in St. Lucie County Jail in Florida.
And let's hope he goes to Slammer for a long time.
And after Slammer, he is out, back to Singe Land.
But in the meantime, you know, you've heard of Wajihat Ali.
That guy is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times.
And he made a bit of a splash after, yes, after Donald Trump's Thanksgiving Day message, he offered his own message.
And let me quote, we're not going back.
You've lost.
The mistake that you made is you let us in in the first place.
No truer words ever said, by the way.
There's a bunch of us and we breed, and the problem is you let us in in 1965.
You are losers.
Your story is a shit story filled with misery.
It's filled with bland chicken.
I guess he just loves his curry.
It's filled with terrible, dry ass meat.
Your music sucks.
All your culture sucks.
So we're not going away.
And if we do get sent away, literally, your shithole country will become the United States of America.
That's an odd construction.
Our shithole country will become the United States of America.
It will sink.
Thus saith the Wajahat Ali, contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times.
Yeah.
Yeah, this video was incredible.
Again, I encourage all of our listeners, if you haven't seen it, you can quickly do a quick Google search.
It's been on TikTok.
It's been on Instagram.
It's coming.
It's astonishing because, again, it didn't have to be said.
You didn't have to just basically come out and just be like, hey, guess what?
We've won already.
It's like, hey, the game's still on, I think.
The game is still on.
I think he will discover the game is still on.
He's also known to have said, without black people, brown people, and DEI, there would be no culture in America.
No culture at all.
Gee, isn't he insulting the Stone Age people who were here to begin with?
Aren't the people in their streets?
Who worked?
He gave us our Constitution.
That's right.
That's right.
You can insult them too.
But, you know, this reminds me, the New York Times, you remember Sarah Jong?
I do.
We actually made a bet about her, by the way.
I wish we would have followed through on it.
Did you win?
Would you have won?
I said that she would not be fired, if memory serves correct.
You thought she wasn't.
She would.
Well, she wasn't fired.
You were right.
You were right.
How big was the bet?
25 cents, I hope.
It could have been much more.
Maybe a Kennedy.
Maybe a Kennedy coin, 50 cent, right?
Yeah, Sarah Jong.
This is 2018.
That's right.
She had been tweeting away.
One of my favorite tweets was she complained about dumbass fucking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.
And the New York Times, after it, the New York Times hired her for their editorial board, not just to be a writer.
And the word came out.
And the New York Times said, well, yeah, yeah, we looked into her and we thought she was just okay after all.
So that's when the word came out at Atha.
Oh, surely they will fire her after this.
Oh, she wrote about, what else did she say?
She said, oh, I can't tell you how much I love torturing or being mean to old white people.
And stuff about how we burn in the sun.
So obviously that means we're destined to live underground like trolls.
She just loves white people.
But the New York Times said, oh, that's just fine.
But they did let her go from the editorial board about a year later for reasons of which I am ignorant.
But that's the New York Times for you.
Wajahat Ali, Sarah Jong.
New York Times loves these people.
And their circulation, of course, continues to decline.
Well, let's see.
How are we doing on?
Oh, we've got a little bit more time.
Okay, I've got to fit in a story.
Then we're going to go to one of your important stories, Mr. Kersey.
Last month, activists packed the Chicago Teachers Union Center for the annual conference of something about which I had never heard called the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
It was founded in 1973 to agitate for the release of Angela Davis.
So it's been around a long time.
The Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was there for this meeting.
He told the group that his problem was he inherited a white supremacist system.
That is what accounts for all of Chicago's problems, a white supremacist system.
And his solution, taxes on the ultra-rich and large corporations.
That will end the white supremacist problem for him.
And then somebody else was there, Chicago alderman, Byron Sigcho-Lopez.
She referred to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 as a Nazi project.
And then there was an alderwoman, that's the equivalent of a city councilwoman, city councilwoman, by the name of Jeanette Taylor, no relation.
She said, I don't know where they get that American shit from.
I'm from the continent of Africa.
I ain't from fucking here.
Well, why are you here, cousin Jeanette?
And another alderman, Anthony Quasada, yelled, organize a national people's movement strong enough to abolish ICE, abolish the billionaire class, and defeat this billionaire-backed fascist agenda.
Abolish the billionaire class.
Does that mean kill them or just take their money?
I suppose you need to just take their money.
And who else did they have here?
Oh, Freedom Road Socialist Organization Sid Loving boasted of creating a hostile work environment for ICE, DHS, and the alphabet soup.
And Chicago teachers union organizer Kobe Gilroy noted, when we talk about fighting back, we're not talking metaphorically.
We're talking about actually shutting shit down.
So these are nice, nice people addressed by Mayor Brendan Johnson of Chicago.
They're really still living in the past.
It continues to surprise me that people continue to jabber in this way.
But this was sort of the high point, the high point of the conference's final day.
It voted on a number of resolutions.
One was about New Africa.
That is a proposed all-black nation to be carved out of the American Southwest.
And it committed.
The Southwest, really?
I beg your pardon.
Southeast.
You're correct.
Yes, yes.
Southeast.
I beg your pardon.
It's okay.
Yes, the Southwest, I'm sure they'll give that to their brown-skinned brothers.
If I could jump in, is this the same group that Chwekle, what was that goofball's name, who was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, who died, whose son then took over as the mayor?
Is this somehow loosely affiliated?
Because they want to create a new Africa as well, and they spell Africa with a K.
Yes.
No, no, this is with a C.
I can't remember that guy's name.
As I recall, one of his names evoked one of those African West African freedom fighters.
Was it Touré?
Anyway, well, our minds are deteriorating.
Even you are.
I just don't like to pronounce these Star Warsian names as it's labeled now.
I like to get them straight.
I like to get them right.
You got to speak the lingo of the future master class.
But in any case, the position that this group adopted was that denying the national oppression of New Africa, that's the chunk of the America that's supposed to be given to them, is a failure to support the politics of armed resistance to imperialist domination.
Armed resistance to imperialist domination.
And this motion passed overwhelmingly.
So there you go.
There are pockets of insanity that persist even in Donald Trump's America, and they tend to be heavily pigmented.
But Mr. Kersey, we didn't get around to it the last time, but you had a story about Emmett Till's, well, it's not really Emmett Till's barn.
It's the barn associated with Emmett Till, which will be now a national landmark.
Yeah, before we get there, Chuople Lumbamba.
Lumbambe was it.
Oh, it wasn't Lumumba?
Lumumba.
You're right.
You're right.
Lumumba.
Yes, Lumumba.
He is one of the great African liberationists.
And I believe his son, he died in office, and I believe his son is now the mayor of what is now an 83% black city, Jackson, Mississippi.
Yes, Lumumba the Younger.
Yes.
Yes, Lumumba the Elder has passed on to the great pasture in the sky.
He's flying around Wakanda.
Yes.
This story is one that, again, the latest breaking Emmett Till news.
We have a latest submission to this.
The barn where he was killed to open as a memorial ahead of the 75th anniversary of his lynching.
So down in Mississippi, where the 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed, it's going to open to the public as a sacred memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced.
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center disclosed a couple weeks ago that it had purchased the barn located in a rural area outside the city of Drew, aided by a $1.5 million donation from television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes.
That's an expensive barn.
You know what?
I wonder how many animals they got with it.
We think that where the worst harms have happened, the most healing is possible.
The executive director of the Interpretive Center of Emmett Till said, Patrick Williams said, Center plans to open the barn as a memorial ahead of the 75th anniversary of Till's lynching in 1955.
Again, the story goes into the details of his death, but if we all remember, we've all heard the story that at Till's funeral, his mother insisted on an open casket so the public could see the state of her son's battered body.
It was a pivotal moment in the emerging civil rights movement.
Of course, lost in all of this, Mr. Taylor back in 1955 was what happened to Lewis Till?
Well, do tell, sir.
Do tell.
Well, Lewis Till was part of the segregated United States Army.
I believe he was stationed over in Italy.
And it turns out that he had been a participant in, I believe, a number of rapings.
And I want to say a murder of an Italian woman.
Yes, he raped and killed an Italian woman.
Yeah, and then I believe he was held in a military prison.
And there was a very interesting individual who also shared that jail.
Why don't you tell us who that was?
Well, that was Ezra Pound.
Ezra Pound.
He was held for alleged cooperation with the fascists, but he referred to Lewis Till in his memoirs.
He said that Till was in the clink for rape with all the trimmings.
Well, yes.
You know, every year you hear, or it's almost every month now in the mainstream news, you hear some late-breaking Emmett Till news bit or soundbite.
And again, it just tells about Lewis.
Well, it got to the point where you could call the New York Times the Emmett Till update instead of the New York Times.
But, you know, the way they save these things, there is that bus.
They're not absolutely sure they could find the very bus that Rosa Parks sat down on.
But they've got one that's just like it.
And it's some museum someplace.
Let me ask you this, in all seriousness, is there ever going to be the Irina Zarutska tram car anywhere?
It seems to me that sitting down on a bus is a whole lot less significant than being slaughtered in cold blood right in the middle of public transport, and everybody else on the car just calmly walks away.
That to me is vastly more significant than some black lady deciding to sit down on the bus for half an hour.
But I guess I'm not the one who decides where the high holy places of America are.
Be that as it may.
For the time being.
Yes.
for the time being.
But Emmett tells Barn, oh, that's going to be...
Who is the owner?
Does it say who stumped up the cash for this?
I bet you.
Shonda Rhimes.
So the owner is actually the Emmett Till Interpretive Center.
I guarantee they're a nonprofit.
And Shonda Rhimes is one of these black executive producers and creators of, I want to say, Gray's Anatomy and a couple of these other shows that are on ABC.
So she's got plenty of cash to pass around.
Pet causes.
Hopefully she'll give some money to create some sort of memorial in Italy where Lewis Till was hanged.
So we can, you know, people can explore it.
He's buried, actually, on French soil.
I have visited the cemetery in which he is buried.
Now, there are a number of people who were hanged, according to military justice, and their group of graves is sort of inaccessible.
They're surrounded by a very thick hedge.
They're not available to the public.
There's a little plot.
It looked to be maybe half a dozen little markers of people who were hanged.
They had committed atrocious crimes.
And there, resting in peace, is Lewis Till.
But let's see.
Oh, gosh.
Now, here's a bit of a black pill story.
I probably should not even tell you about this.
But there was an illegal immigrant who pleaded guilty to killing a South Carolina college student in a hit and run.
He's going to be released next year after completing his one-year sentence.
One year after killing someone in a hit and run.
His name is Rosalie Fernandez-Cruz from El Salvador.
And he had other traffic-related charges.
He failed to yield, and he hit a 21-year-old college student, white cottage student, riding a motorcycle, and then buggered off, fled the scene.
Well, young Mr. Baker's family forgave Fernando Cruz, and they were consulted about the one-year sentence before it was imposed.
And they did not want this to be politicized, highly publicized.
They were in agreement with the guilty plea and the sentence.
One year is fine for having slaughtered our 21-year-old son.
That's just okay.
He entered the country illegally in December 2016, was released by the Obama administration.
An immigration judge said, get the hell out in 2018.
But of course, he stayed.
Well, at least under the current disposition, after he gets out of the big house, Fernando Cruz will be taken into ICE custody and will be pitched across the border right back to El Salvador, where I suspect they may decide to put him in that famous prison of theirs.
I forget, what is it called?
It's got some...
Do you remember that...
I actually do not know the name of...
It's got a nice acronym.
In any case, I hope he ends up there.
These goofy white Americans, they think it's just fine for one year sentence for a fellow who ran into their boy on a motorcycle, killed him, and left him to die.
That's the way things work.
But let's see.
Moving to Los Angeles.
Tell us what's the story on crime data there.
This is a strange story, but it's worth talking about real quick.
This is the LAPD last month has decided to refuse to release crime map records.
Says the data could lead to public panic.
What?
Do you ever wonder where and when Los Angeles police officers have responded to crimes, made arrest, or use force against civilians?
Yes, I have actually.
For over a decade, you could have looked at the LAPD's online crime map and gotten an idea of what the department was doing in your neighborhood at any given time.
While other areas of LA County still regularly update crime data on the website, the LAPD stopped uploading information and is refusing to release its data.
This was last month.
This was actually at the beginning of November.
So it was at the end of October.
We all know what's going on in LA.
Yes, we do.
But so they're, well, but they're afraid that if the truth comes out and they admit just how centralized crime is in certain areas, that will result in panic.
Was that the word they used?
Well, this is, again, let's jump to that real quick.
LAST, that's the publication, period article that published this.
They requested the CompStat data in May in an attempt to verify claims by city officials about crime and police activities in specific neighborhoods.
Those records included locations of crimes, police use of force, and a number of other categories the LAPD tracks and reports on periodically.
They've maintained these records for more than two decades to improve inspection and accountability.
No doubt this was the residue of the changes that Rodney King brought to the city back in the early 90s.
The department now says the public isn't allowed to see the underlying data.
And the reason is they said it would be against the public interest to release the data, which is preliminary and has the potential to lead to misguided public policy discussions or unjustified public panic.
Now, Mr. Taylor, when I first read this article, you know, LA is about 28% white.
And a few years ago, I don't remember the title of the book, but it was, I think it was called Ghetto Side, actually.
Did you ever read that?
No.
By a Los Angeles Times reporter.
And it was about her experience reporting on the news in LA and how it got depressing having all these arguments end in fatal or non-fatal shootings within the black or Hispanic community.
And LA used to put together a really, I'm sorry, the LA Times used to publish a great database for homicides in the city, and they discontinued that.
But again, it was that line that I just read to you, sir, has the potential to lead to misguided public policy discussions or unjustified public panic.
Wow.
In other words, if the people who are in charge have the facts, they might act on them.
And we can't have them doing that, can we?
I mean, this is something you see over and over and over.
Remember the mass sexual assaults in Germany, New Year's Eve.
And that was in Cologne.
It was in Cologne.
In front of the gorgeous cathedral.
Yes, in front of that magnificent cathedral, the square in front of that magnificent cathedral.
The police absolutely covered it up.
We can't have the truth known.
Same with all of these Muslims, this industrial-scale rape of young white girls, can't have the facts known.
And here we go, Los Angeles can't have the facts known.
I remember over and over, there have been news outlets that have said, no, we're no longer going to publish mugshots of accused criminals because we can't have the facts be known.
Well, and of course, it was the BART system in San Francisco that decided to no longer release the any camera footage or video footage because they didn't want pattern recognition to come into play.
You create negative stereotypes of the minority community there.
You could put together a remarkable compilation of over and over and over and over, white people saying, look, officially we are going to close our eyes to the data.
I remember it must have been one of the very first issues of American Renaissance after it started in 1990.
It was in Minnesota, as a matter of fact.
They did this analysis of gun homicide.
And they said, well, we were looking into causes and we were looking into various other aspects.
So we left the racial data out because that might give a mistaken impression.
No, it would give a correct impression.
That was even 1992.
It was one of the first times I came across this deliberate suppression of the facts.
But God, oh my gosh, we are all.
I actually know the numbers, by the way, for non-fatal shooting suspects in Minneapolis.
They actually published the report, the data, which has not been updated since 2022.
But in 2021, it was 89% of the non-fatal shooting suspects in Minneapolis were black.
Surprise.
Well, Mr. Kersey.
Mr. Kersey, you had a great story.
Free beer if you turn in an illegal alien.
So next week we'll do it.
But today we have run out of time, as we always seem to.
I just don't understand.
It happens every week.
We run out of time.
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