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Dec. 24, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Merry Christmas, and Be Glad You're Not in JoBurg

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey marvel at what happens when blacks take over a turnkey, white-built country. They also discuss Judge Hannah Dugan, shariah law, and US Mail trucks that look like gang wagons. Thumbnail credit: © Shiraaz Mohamed/Xinhua via ZUMA Press

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Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Shara Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, the one and only Paul Kersey.
And today is December 23rd, but for reasons obscure and difficult to go into, this podcast will go out on Christmas Eve.
So we're going to pretend it's Christmas Eve, Mr. Kersey, and we're going to wish to all of you a wonderful, wonderful Merry Christmas.
And we hope that you have been good boys and good girls, and you won't get switches and ashes in your stockings, but all kinds of wonderful things.
As usual, we will begin with comments.
Here is Happy Transistor Day, says a listener.
Not Merry Christmas, Happy Transistor Day to everyone at American Renaissance on December 23rd, 1947.
White engineers created what would later be dubbed the world's most important thing.
Now, all you people out there in Radio Renaissance land, you know what that most important thing was?
It was the transistor.
Yes.
Our ancestors truly blessed us in ways that we can scarcely imagine.
Of course, one of the people who invented the transistor was William Shockley.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for that in 1956.
Later, he distinguished himself in race science.
He was one of the early people who said it was vitally important that we recognize that there are racial differences in IQ.
You can't run an interracial or multi-racial society without understanding that.
He was widely reviled, but never refuted.
Another comment: You mentioned the Battle of Blood River in your most recent Radio Renaissance.
This reminds me of the excellent historical work documenting that momentous struggle for survival.
It's called Battle of Blood River by A.J.P. Opperman.
It is exquisite prose and has an unapologetically pro-white perspective, highly enjoyable.
Could not recommend it highly enough.
Now, I've never heard of that book.
Mr. Kersey, have you?
Battle of Blood River by A.J.P. Opperman?
Not only have I never heard of it, but it just got added to my last-minute Christmas list for Santa.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Well, I was a good boy.
You coming down my chimney?
Another comment.
Regarding the latest podcast, Mr. Taylor, just a quick confirmation from an Australian listener that the pronunciation of Bondi Beach is indeed Bondi.
The last syllable rhymes with shy.
Bondi.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I think I'm going to start telling people we have an attorney general named Pam Bondi.
Bonsai for Bondi.
Another comment.
I enjoyed your podcast discussion of the Bondi Beach Massacre of Jews.
It could have been a lot worse, except that four homemade pipe bombs that the father and son team had put together failed to go off.
It was only a matter of time between muzzy hotheads would come at us at scale.
Alas, no surprise as to the official reaction.
Tighter immigration would have been a very popular thing with your average Sheila and Bruce.
That's how the Australians say Tom, Dick, and Harry.
And who else would we say, Jane?
Dick and Jane, yes.
But Official Australia has been dutifully going through all the expected motions: wreath laying, candlelighting, prayers, diversity platitudes, and more gun control and more hate speech bans.
The vibrantly diverse utopia of Australia always seems to need more government control.
It looks like we're in for another gun buyback, which will be just as useless as the last one in 1996.
Law-abiding citizens sold 640,000 firearms, often non-working or unsafe old guns, to the government to destroy that cost to taxpayers just shy of $400 million Australian dollars, while criminals and terrorists, of course, kept their weapons.
Now, I like this line.
We don't need a gun buyback.
We need a Muslim flyback.
I'd add a floatback or a walkback.
Let them just walk the plank.
Muslim terrorism will be solved when there is no more Islam in Australia.
No more Muslims in Australia, whether radical, jihadist, Islamist, or so-called moderate.
The silence of these moderates after Bondi Beach has been resounding.
That's almost always the case, isn't it, Mr. Kersey?
You get some hothead Muslims and all the supposedly respectable Muslims, they don't say one word about it.
Just, you know, it just looked the other way.
Pretended it didn't happen.
Let's see.
Now, I actually asked you not that long ago if you knew of a book that detailed the white-only Australia policy.
And I actually just came into possession of one that I'm looking forward to reading over the Christmas break.
There is a book.
There is a book.
I read it and I reviewed it for American Renaissance.
But I'd have to hunt hard and far to find it.
There is one.
I didn't think it was all that well written, but it did cover the ground.
This may be a better book.
In any case, congratulations.
You'll have a busy Christmas reading.
For our listeners, it's Herbert London's 1971 book, Non-White Immigration and the White Australia Policy.
I wonder if that's the one I read.
In any case, final comment.
In your last episode, the Venerable Mr. Kersey.
The Venerable Mr. Kersey.
I tend to be the venerable guy on the team here.
The definition of venerable means someone or something deserving great respect, honor, or reverence, often due to age, but sometimes due to wisdom, dignity, or long service.
I'm the venerable guy.
Kersey is young and sprightly.
In any case, in your last episode, the venerable Mr. Kersey used the phrase wanton violence, but he pronounced it wonton.
Oh, it's a joke.
It's an insight.
Well, all right, all right.
As in Chinese-style dumplings, wonton violence may refer to what the rooftop Koreans dished out during the LA riots.
That's pretty good.
That was wonton violence.
Now, this is not the only comment about this, Mr. Kersey.
Someone else wrote in to say that she laughed out loud and wasn't sure Mr. K didn't know, or he was just making a clever joke.
Now, fess up, which was it?
You were making a clever joke?
It actually was the latter.
It's an inside joke with a friend.
It actually, but yes, it was a joke that's hilarious that somebody would.
Well, I smothered my laughter too.
Wanton violence.
Well, they are spelled the same, you know, so it's easy to trip up.
Yes, indeed.
Well, Mr. Kersey, you've got the first story.
And this is one of these awful capitulations by non-whites to, I'm sorry, to non-blacks to black degeneracy.
Hyundai and Kia hired if I have decided to pay up.
Yeah, it's a landmark agreement with those two major audio manufacturers, Hyundai and Kia, which will help car owners across Minnesota and the country breathe easier, easing concerns that their vehicle will not be a target for theft.
The Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, announced last week that a settlement with a Korean car maker Hyundai Kia requiring the company to install a free hardware fix for every owner of a vehicle that did not come equipped with a new mobilizer.
This fix involves installing a zinc sleeve that securely wraps around the ignition module of a Hyundai or Kia vehicle, making it extremely difficult to steal because apparently these are the model of cars, Mr. Taylor.
And I want to say we've actually talked about this in another story.
Oh, we talked about it several times.
Yes.
And we knew that they were going to be sued, and we were both rolling our eyes.
The idea that it's somehow the fault of the automobile makers that people stole their cars.
That's America for you.
That is Black Run America, as you used to call it.
Oh, I still call it because I think that Glock actually has been sued, and they've stopped manufacturing a number of their semi-automatic pistols because it was the firearm that was so easily turned into an automatic pistol with the Glock switch.
So if any of our listeners out there have seen a story on that topic, you know our email addresses.
We'll go out later, but we'd love to actually look into that story because.
Actually, Mr. Kersey, let us give out how to reach us because I failed to do that at the usual time.
How would someone reach you with a love letter or hate mail?
Love letter, hate letter, or want in violence.
No, I'm joking.
Because we live here at protonmail.com.
Once again, that email address is because we live here at protonmail.com.
And you can reach Mr. Taylor at amran.com.
That's short for American Renaissance, A-M-R-E-N.com.
There's a tab that says contact us.
You hit that and you can send a letter right to me.
We'd really love to hear you, hear from you.
And especially if we make some kind of mistake, there is a lot of fake.
There is much fake news out there.
And sometimes we are guilty of incorrect news.
We never deliberately fake it.
And when we get something wrong, we wish to be corrected.
Back to you.
Back to you, Brother Kirk.
City generals in blue states and Democrat-run states have really been targeting this because it's easy money to go after Hyundai and Kia because the last thing they'll just settle like what we saw here.
And basically, this has impacted vehicle owners.
They're going to get a notification in early 2026, but the attorney general, the black attorney general of Minnesota, said these consumers can be proactive and contact a local dealer.
They will have one year from notification to get the zinc sleeve installed.
You know, I don't know if we have statistics on the individuals who commit most car thefts, but I do know that in a city like DC, it was about 98% black youth who were responsible for the car thievery.
And weren't they making TikTok videos explaining how to hijack Kia's and Hyundai's?
That is correct.
That's right.
That actually was the genesis of the story that we just laughed at.
We're like, what are we reading here?
Again, they're going to get a computer software upgrade that was supposed to stop the theft vulnerability problem, but didn't.
They're also eligible to have a protective ignition sleeve installed at no cost.
So again, I guess this upgrade, this initial software upgrade, it didn't stop individuals from stealing these Hyundai and Kia's and going out on a droid ride or I don't know, breaking them down for parts.
I don't know much about the aftermarket for auto theft vehicles.
So a lot of it, a lot of it is just fun.
They go out and commit crimes, run into things, run them into ditches, you know, get drunk, do wheelies.
Can't you do wheelies, I suppose?
Do donuts.
They just have a great time, joyriding.
Yeah, so it's a $9 million agreement.
They're going to provide up to $4.5 million in restitution to eligible consumers whose cars are damaged by thieves and pay $4.5 million to the states to defray the costs of the investigation, which that to me was kind of eye-opening, Mr. Taylor.
It's like, wait a second, they're not even going to look into the people committing the crimes.
What does that mean?
The cost of the investigation?
Or is that the cost associated with, you know, why are these people just targeting Hyundai and Kia?
I'm sure the cost of the investigation is the cost of the lawsuit against Yunda and Kia, not locking up the people who were stealing their cars.
That's a minor concern.
No, it's a major concern because they're trying to protect that.
It's basically this is a form of restorative justice.
Because if the blacks, if the black or brown youth who are primarily committing these crimes, if they're never interacting with the judicial system, that's great.
We've already struck a chord for preemptive restorative justice with this law.
Well, this is, of course, confiscatory justice.
When you make the people whose products were stolen make them pay, well, you know, it reminds me of you are required, of course, to build a fence around your private swimming pool because if some dope wanders in and falls in and drowns, it's not his fault.
It's your fault because you didn't build a fence.
This is yet another example of filling the world full of fools if we can't preserve people from the consequences of their folly, in this case, of their illegal and socially destructive greed to steal cars.
This sends a terrible message.
But so are you telling me that Minnesota is not the only state that's doing this?
Every state's going to line up and shake them down?
I want to say New York, New York State, Maryland, and Illinois due to Chicago, Baltimore, and maybe Krasner and Philadelphia.
There are a number of other places have done this.
And that's just going off memory.
But again, we laugh at this, but this is just the cost of doing business in a multiracial society where we protect black and brown criminals from, like I said, interacting with the judicial system.
So it's.
Well, my fingers just did the walk-in, Mr. Kersey, and I have learned that Glock is discontinuing most of its current handgun models.
Yes.
Gen 3, Gen 4, and many Gen 5s by late 2025, focusing on a new V series, primarily to counter illegal switch auto-sear conversions with only the slimline G43, G43X, and 48 remaining untouched.
Well, thank you.
I told you this is a crazy story.
I did not disbelieve you.
And I know several people who have a Glock 43.
Glad to hear that theirs are untouched.
I guess that means my Gen 2 Glocks are all easily converted with auto sears.
That makes them especially valuable, I imagine, especially in certain communities.
But this major shift affects all sorts of models.
The G17, 19, 22, 26, 24, et cetera, with a new V-series featuring update designs to block easy conversion.
Now, do you know, has anybody sued Glock?
Wants them to pay the funerals for all the people who went toes up on account of these auto-sear conversions.
I want to say the reason they're doing this is because California was threatening a suit and they decided to preemptively say, well, we'll just go ahead and discontinue these models so it's no longer a threat.
And what I'd love to know is if anyone's done analysis on those who have been arrested for possessing the Glock switch as they've engaged in a crime, which, of course, converting a semi-auto to an automatic weapon, that's a crime in itself.
That's true.
Well, according to further information here, all of you with older versions, the current models are becoming scarce as dealers clear stock, leading to panicked buying and increased interest in older generations.
Well, now, Mr. Kersey, this could be a time to unload when the market is at a high.
Scarcity.
It's on demand.
Just to finish off this really crazy story out of Minnesota.
So it was in the early 2020s, which shockingly is five years ago, exploded into an epidemic of stolen vehicles, crime, and mayhem that impacted communities and lives of citizens.
We all know the reason for that.
That's because of the interaction that Derek Chauvin and George Floyd had in Minneapolis on May 25th.
And police decided, you know what?
It's not worth it.
Videos posted on social media showed just how easy it was to crack the ignition of Hyundai and Kia vehicle went viral and juveniles and young adults used the knowledge to steal vehicles within seconds.
The article doesn't say the race of these suspects, but I think we can all take a pretty educated guess.
When they were doing this press conference, sir, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey recalled how the number of auto thefts in his city increased 836% in 2020-2021.
836%.
Now, half of those vehicles were made by Hyundai or Kia, cars that came without that common device known as an immobilizer.
Well, that means even if you count out Hyundai and Kia, they went up 400%.
So it wasn't just Hyundai and Kia.
It was just this just fandango of crime due to the fact that due to the Derek Chauvin effect, police officers were just pulling it back.
It's not worth their time to enforce the law.
No, and outgoing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said that in his community, which of course Minneapolis and St. Paul are twin cities, auto thefts spiked 611% in one year.
Again, mostly due to the vulnerabilities of Hyundai and Kia.
Well, no, they spiked because black and blonde people collectively engaged in carjackings.
That's right.
It was 611% higher than the previous year.
And again, it's just absolving criminals of their actions.
Well, you know, guns go off by themselves when they're put in the hands of blacks and cars just steal themselves when they're black people walking by.
We know that's true.
Well, okay.
Shall we move on to item number two?
Let's move on.
Yes.
Okay.
Enough with Hyundai and Kia.
Well, we're back to Ramaswamy.
Vivek Ramaswamy's back to the news.
New York Times headline.
Ramaswamy challenges conservatives on surging bigotry on the right.
Well, I think we know what that means.
New York Times always very upset.
Vivek, the front-running Republican candidate for Ohio governor.
He has challenged a gathering of conservative activists in Arizona on Friday.
That was Amerifest, the TPUSA gathering.
And Vivek denounced a rising tide of bigotry.
He has become perhaps the most visible target of what is sometimes labeled blood and soil nationalism.
In other words, America is for white people, a kind of nationalism.
He says people who cannot denounce hateful ideas towards any ethnic group without stuttering.
I guess if they just remain silent, they're okay.
But if they stutter, then they have no place as leaders at any level in the conservative movement.
He has decided, Mr. Kersey, Vivek in his wisdom and his bliss has decided who can be a leader of the conservative movement and who can't.
He is highlighting surging intolerance towards Indian Americans.
It's deeply personal to me, he said in a text to the New York Times.
It isn't really about defending Jews, Indians, or any other minority group.
Now, that's kind of a red flag.
It's not about defending that.
It's about defending the essence of America itself.
He knows.
He knows.
Vivek Ramaswamy knows better than the founders, better than every single president up through John F. Kennedy, who took it for granted that America was going to be a white country.
Ramaswamy knows.
He goes on, let's see, the Times quotes Rakebamid Naik.
With a name like that, he's going to know too.
He's the director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate.
I love that.
Organized hate.
Well, I guess he pays no attention to what happens on social media or X, right?
Those are just individuals.
That's not organized hate.
That's spontaneous.
That's natural.
That's disorganized.
Hate, I guess he doesn't care.
You can jabber all you like.
But if it's two guys like you and me, Mr. Kersey, are we organized hate?
What do you think?
I don't know.
In any case, I love this term.
The study of organized hate.
Disorganized hate, eh, who cares?
He says the hateful rhetoric we are seeing right now is nothing like we have seen before.
Got that?
Gee, even in the 1950s, even in the 1850s, we never saw anything like that.
Gee.
I guess Horatio Seymour campaigning as the Democratic nominee for president against U.S. Grant back in, what, was that, the 1870s?
When he said when all of his campaign literature was saying, let's keep this a white man's country, a white man's government.
That was his campaign slogan.
I mean, he didn't know, by the way.
And this is even worse, says Rakeeb Hamid Naik, who, as I say, by definition, knows better than you or knows better than I do.
Of course, I guess he's never heard of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in which they vied with each other to see who could be more anti-black.
Ooh, Lincoln didn't want them serving in juries.
He didn't want them marrying white people.
He didn't want them around at all.
He wanted them out, out, out, out tomorrow.
But no, no, this is worse, Mr. Kersey.
But Ramaswamy goes on to be quoted by the New York Times, the point is to prevent the gradual legitimization of this un-American animus.
And he condemns a reluctance from my former anti-woke peers to criticize the new identity politics on the right.
It's brand new, Kersey.
Brand new.
Never been done before.
Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro, a conservative commentator, warned in a speech to the Heritage Foundation this week that, quote, if conservatives don't stand up and draw lines, conservatism and the dream of America itself will cease to exist.
You know, he's got it completely wrong, completely wrong.
Unless you and I prevail, the dream of America will cease to exist.
If he dominates, America will cease to exist.
He has got it absolutely 100% 180 degrees upside, backside, right, left, wrong.
Earlier this year, Mr. Vance delivered a speech to Claremont Institute.
He said, I think that people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don't belong.
Well, good for JD Vance.
And New York Times, of course, is all on the side of Vivek, all on the side of Ben Shapiro, all on the side of Rakebamid Naik, who's more American than you and I.
Okay, now here is a story, and this is one of those all-praise to ICE brief items.
The Columbus, Ohio Bilingual Academies, a group of charter schools focused on bilingual education with a focus on daily Spanish instruction.
The ones Academy North, Academy West, and Academy Central, all three have decided to close due to significantly low attendance.
And Mr. Kersey, you can guess why.
The decision came as reports about ICE activity surged because in January, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, rescinded a policy directive that prevented agents from enforcing in sensitive areas such as places of worship, schools, and hospitals.
You and I talked about at the time.
I absolutely applauded that.
The idea somehow that you aren't supposed to arrest criminals if they happen to be walking by a school or they're in a church.
Lutterly cuckoo, utterly cuckoo.
But that is closing down schools.
Okay, one last short item before you can tell us this astonishing story about Oakland United States Postal Service vehicles.
It's about Irina Zalutska.
Murals of her are reported in at least six cities across the United States.
There are tributes funded through a high-profile campaign, which initially came up with half a million dollars from Intercom CEO Yoagum McCabe, a person of whom I had never heard, plus additional millions from donors such as Elon Musk.
It aims for hundreds of these murals nationwide.
Confirmed cities of murals include Charlotte, North Carolina.
There are at least two.
That's because that's where it happened.
In Venice, California, that's a high-toned part of Los Angeles, right on the beach.
One of the first completed.
Washington, D.C., there's a prominent tribute mural.
I sure haven't seen it.
I'm not far away.
In Abilene, Texas, Gainesville, Florida, Pensacola.
And the project continues to expand with funding secured for up to nearly 300 murals.
Wow.
Now, on the one hand, Mr. Kerzon, and I don't know whether you will agree with me or not, I very much like this outpouring of memory and sentiment for poor Irina Zarutska, the beautiful blonde girl who was slaughtered needlessly by this black brute who should never have been let back out on the street.
Many, many convictions, and it was a whole series of black judges, black appointed who let him out.
The fact that this is being remembered is very important.
On the other hand, the idea of celebrating victims, I'm really of two minds about that.
This is not exactly the same thing as blacks putting up statues of George Floyd, but there is a similar kind of remembering that we are victims that I don't much like.
But again, the idea that we are fed up with this, we want to remind white people, look what these black people today are doing to us.
I do believe that is important.
Well, I think we're, I think, again, I was born in the mid-1980s.
I think we've all been unwitting participants in a racial experiment that has failed.
We now have conclusions.
We had a hypothesis that was put out.
What was that great book?
The American Dilemma by Gunnar Mydro.
Gunner Murdoch.
Colonel Gunnar Myrdahl.
Yes.
Excuse me.
Yeah.
And we know what the real American Dilemma is.
We now have sufficient evidence to show you that this entire scam scheme, whatever you want to call it, it's not going to work.
It's never going to work.
It was never intended to work.
That's right.
It created second-class citizens.
And the Irina Zarutska video, again, it's so important to think back to when that story came out in late August and then September, because the video wasn't supposed to come out, but a number of people requested.
Well, the press.
The press shook it loose through FOIA requests.
They did.
Good for the media.
And then once we saw the full video, once you saw her just simply get on the transit there in Charlotte, sit down in front of, I believe the guy's name was TeCarlos Brown.
She sits down and she's just looks like she's playing on her phone after doing a shifter of her job at her job.
He just stands up menacingly over her.
She never even knew it.
And then she's stabbed, and then she looks up at her would-be or at the guy who ended up killing her.
And he stabs her multiple times, and then nobody else on the bus.
I think he just stabbed her once, didn't he?
Was it several in any case?
Enough to kill her in just no time at all.
But no, these images need to appear everywhere.
In fact, I wish they were more direct because right now the ones I've seen have just been of her face.
But I think that there needs to be a website associated with the, I saw one mural in which there is that classic pose of her.
She's got her two hands up by it.
She's looking up with that look of horror in her face.
That to me is the key moment.
She realizes what's been done to her.
It's this look of terror, horror, completely unexpected, undeserved.
Yeah.
In any case, let's see.
Well, Mr. Kerzin, you've got this hilarious and at the same time tragic story of Oakland United States Postal Service vehicles roaming around looking like gang wagons.
You know, this is a story that I had forgotten about, but then I saw someone post it on Twitter.
And after I stopped laughing, I was like, yeah, we got to talk about this one.
Yes.
So Oakland, I want to say it's, I think it is, it's a plurality.
I want to say whites might be the largest population, but it's not like Chicago.
I'll look it up.
I'll look it up while you're talking.
But just know that this is, of course, the birthplace, I believe, of the Black Panthers, heavy Hispanic population.
Not a place you want to live.
It's definitely a place for the Oakland A's and the Oakland Raiders have decamped and gone to Las Vegas with those franchises.
But the story is: graffiti plagues USPS vehicles in Oakland, raising safety concerns.
Well, you've heard the saying, ladies and gentlemen, neither snow nor rain nor heat can stop the mail couriers from delivering the mail.
But guess what?
In Oakland, you can add one more thing to that list.
That's graffiti.
Mail carriers are continuing their routes, despite many USPS trucks and vans often displaying graffiti that obscures their logos and makes them look unrecognizable as federal government vehicles.
If you aren't driving, if you're at home, pause this podcast, type in it on your Google machine, USPS Vehicles Graffiti Oakland, and just look at these images of these government trucks.
These are government property.
Our tax dollars pay for this.
Just take a look at these trucks that have been tagged and then come back and join us.
We'll be here waiting for you.
But we got a quote from Jasmine Bessard, a former Oakland resident who said, Hey, I think it's dangerous for the postal workers in the community because you can't see who's in here.
You don't know that this is a government vehicle at all.
She works near the downtown post office office and passes the tagged up vans almost daily.
Bessard expressed concern that people, especially in certain neighborhoods, could mistake the USPS vehicles for those belonging to rival gangs, increasing the risk of violence.
I'm sure it's embarrassing for the U.S. Postal workers to have to drive these things around the city, she added.
I think I'd refuse something covered with gang signs.
I think I'd resign and go try and get a job with Amazon.
I'm sure the Amazon trucks aren't tagged.
Maybe they are.
But the issue has become widespread with residents noticing the problem for over a year.
The situation, however, has worsened in recent months with many postal delivery vans and trucks being spray painted throughout Oakland.
And some locals are upset by this, by this site.
It's just not good at all.
And it doesn't look good for our city, Bessard said.
East Oakland resident Charles Cooper likened the vehicles to somebody's truck that was just bought from the junkyard or something.
Yet others see the graffiti as a form of urban art.
Oh, God.
I don't really see too much of a problem here.
The trucks seem to be able to make their deliveries on time.
I mean, they just have a little art on the side said Ismail Zocal, whatever.
Well, you know, that's kind of an indication, isn't it?
Oh, this is just fine.
Yeah, and art is subjective.
Well, graffiti is not subjective.
It is a sign that somebody is tagging this to say, this belongs to us.
This is our territory.
And where I am, and I'm sure where you are, I've never seen one bit of graffiti on the U.S. Postal Truck.
In fact, one just stopped by and delivered some packages here to the Kersey compound for Christmas.
A visitor to Oakland felt the issue wasn't worth much concern, stating, I think there's a lot more other things to worry about than some colors on a mail truck.
However, many feel the extent of the graffiti is a real problem.
Residents have reported that not only the body of the trucks, but even their windows and tires have been tagged.
Gosh, you got to be able to see out the truck.
Come on.
I wonder if the contract the USPS has is with Hyundai or Kia.
I wonder if this is a city, Mr. Taylor, that has considered suing Hyundai or Kia for the carjackets.
I wonder if a USPS truck has ever been carjacked.
But anyways, USPS spokesperson Miko Patton released a statement: you know what?
Graffiti is a challenge faced by many businesses and organizations within the community and beyond.
And the Postal Service is no exception.
I don't think there's that many other cities, Mr. Taylor, outside of Oakland where this is a problem, but that might still when graffiti is discovered on our vehicles, we take steps to address the issue promptly.
However, as part of our responsibility to maintain reliable service to our customers, we must carefully balance these efforts with insurance with ensuring that our vehicles remain in circulation and available for delivering the nation's mail.
I'm sure a lot of that mail in Oakland is registered, sir.
But anyways, you know, the fact is, if you got oil-based paint, or really even these new water-based paints, it's tough to get off.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, it is.
It's really tough.
I don't know how you go about removing a horrible graffiti job on an automobile.
I'd hate to have to do it.
I think, well, I don't know how you do it.
You need solvents of some kind.
Maybe you have to do a complete repaint job.
It ain't easy.
You just need to keep those vehicles locked up.
Yeah, and all the inmates at the Oakland prison, one of their duties every day should be to clean the graffiti off of these USPS.
Oh, that is good.
That would be good.
That would be a good punishment.
Yeah.
I'm sure someone would be like, hey, man, I did this.
No, I'm joking.
Okay.
Do we move on?
We move on.
Earlier this month, Hennepin County Judge Matthew Frank struck down the rollout of the drumroll, please, Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act.
That is MAAFPA, known to its friends as MAFPA.
Well, what could MAFPA be up to?
It has to do with the fact that 83% of the child protection and 81% of the out-of-home placements of people who are being child children, who are being mistreated, neglected, et cetera, involved children of color.
83% and 81%.
What color, I wonder?
Even though Hennepin County is 66% white.
So children of color are more likely to need child protective services, and we can't have that.
Well, what MAFPA did, and I'll repeat its exotic name, Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act.
Clearly, we're talking about black children.
MAFPA sought to require social service agencies in the state to provide active efforts to preserve the families of African-American children and other children identified as overrepresented in the welfare system.
In other words, the idea was: okay, this child is being abused, or this child is being neglected, or starved to death, or pimped out, or whatever it is.
Well, we're going to really try hard to keep the families together if the poor pimped-out child is black.
Well, what Judge Frank determined is there's no constitutional argument for granting legal protection to a percentage of the population based on race.
As a matter of fact, these children probably need to be separated from their terrible families.
But Judge Frank said that is an explicit race-based distinction.
In other words, you're going to try extra hard to keep the family together.
And explicit race-based distinctions are almost always unconstitutional, says Justice Frank.
But the very idea, you know, they're going to pass a law that said, okay, you know, we're just going to try much, much harder for black children to heck with white children or anybody else.
Black children are going to get special, special attention.
As I say, they probably need special attention in order to be more quick about removing them from their crazy families.
And now here's a Milwaukee story.
This was a story of a crazy lady who got her comeuppance.
A Milwaukee jury has convicted the pro-migration judge who smuggled an illegal out of her courtroom and away from waiting ICE officers.
Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, a perfectly ordinary but ugly white woman, judging from her photographs, now faces up to five years in jail for obstructing an official proceeding.
Eduardo Flores Ruiz, he was in her courtroom.
He'd already been deported and faced jail time for sneaking back into the country, but she wanted to make sure he didn't fall into the hands of these wicked people who are ICE.
It took just six hours for the jury to agree on the verdict after Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Brown Watska summed up the evidence by saying she was an angry judge who decided corruptly to take matters into her own hands.
That's exactly what she did.
Dugan, Judge Dugan, had a long career working for pro-migration groups, including Catholic charities.
Now, one of Dugan's lawyers, Jason Lutzak, asked the jury basically to ignore the law.
He said to the jury, okay, you've heard the evidence, but you are the check on government overreach.
You have the power to correct this unjust prosecution.
It's your decision, and justice is in your hands.
Well, they did justice.
Because as it turned out, excuse me, as it turned out, the Flores Ruiz guy was appearing in Judge Dugan's court on misdemeanor battery charges.
He'd already been booted, and so he could be booted or jailed and then booted just for coming back into the country when Judge Dugan confronted the agents when she heard that they were present.
She sent them down the hall to the office of the county's chief judge, and while the agents were away, she postponed Flores Ruiz's hearing and led him and his lawyer out a back door of her courtroom.
This is a deliberate attempt to keep this creep out of ICE's hands.
Well, an agent happened to see Ruiz sneaking out.
They chased him on foot and arrested him outside the courtroom, so she didn't get away with this, but they charged her, and There is a recording of the conversation with her clerk.
When Dugan's clerk asked her whether she should show Floris Ruiz in the turning the door, Dugan herself says, I'll do it.
I'll take the heat.
There's a recording of that.
Well, it looks like she got the heat.
And what a difference an election makes.
First of all, if Biden had still been in office, or if Kamala, Kamala Kamala Kamala, had been president, ICE would probably have never even been there.
And certainly they would never have sued a sitting judge for having obstructed an official proceeding trying to sneak some illegal out the back door so they wouldn't fall into the hands of the law authorities.
Well, Mr. Kersey, what you've got next, I think, is a really remarkable and important story.
It's about hijacked buildings in the Rainbow Coalition, in the Rainbow country.
Before we get to South Africa, just echo what you said about Kamala being in office.
Before we went live, I saw a story that the White House has rebuffed Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement.
The Florida Catholic bishops had appealed to President Trump to pause immigration enforcement during the Christmas holidays, and it was issued by the Miami Archbishop.
And the Trump administration said, Nope, we're good.
We can keep it going.
So, again, it's not a little thing.
It's big things like this.
It's happening.
Wouldn't be happening had the election of President Trump.
But if you understand time, mind you.
Yes.
I understand.
I understand that he is offering a Christmas bonus to illegals.
Yes, I believe $1,000 to $3,000.
That's right.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Now get the hell out.
And I understand that you get an extra bag of peanuts on that flight as well.
Maybe an extra Coke too.
But again, yeah, to raise it that significantly from $1,000 to $3,000.
At this point, why would you not take that to go back to Nicaragua or Honduras or Mexico?
Mr. Kersey, I think we know why, because those places are, to paraphrase Donald Trump, as I often do, those places are dung heaps.
That's why they won't even take $3,000 a head and a free plane ride to go back to their places of origin.
Well, so do tell us about that.
This is really a mind-boggling, staggering story.
Yes, it is.
It is.
And, you know, this comes on the heels of you and I talking about Joe Berg having all those problems with potholes and people taking a swim in one of them.
I think it was a jacuzzi.
I don't remember the Joe Berg jacuzzi name.
That might have been it.
But here we are.
Here we are on, I guess, the 31st year, Year of Our Lord, or Year of Mandela 31.
That's right.
That's right.
This is a story that I saw.
At first, I didn't quite understand the title, but then I started reading the article.
It's like, holy cow, this is important.
Inside South Africa's billion rand building hijack economy being linked to DJ Waraz's death.
Okay, I have no idea who that is, but we'll get into it.
He's a popular DJ.
Well, he got shot outside one of those things.
I didn't think that was particularly important.
But what's important is this.
At first glance, the building looks merely neglected, broken window patch, windows patched with cardboard, security gate welded shot, a tingle of illegal electricity cables draped across the facade like vines.
But behind the locked doors of many inner city buildings in Johannesburg, a highly organized criminal economy is at work.
One that property owners, investigators, and housing advocates say is generating billions of rand a year while hollowing out South Africa's cities.
This is the business of hijacked buildings.
Joe Berg Transport MEC Kenny CUNY said, We are at war with hijackers of buildings.
They have made the lives of South Africans intolerable, he said of the hijackers, adding that the city of Joburg was also losing billions in unpaid bills across South Africa's major metros, such as Johannesburg, Pretora, Pretoria, Pretoria, urban East London, and parts of Cape Town.
Criminal syndicates have seized control of thousands of residential and commercial properties.
Estimates from property owners and urban researchers put the number at around 5,000 buildings nationwide, both commercial and residential, with roughly 1,100 of those in Joe Berg's central business district alone of both government and privately owned properties.
Now, think of what I just said there: of both government and privately owned properties.
These are not spontaneous occupations driven by desperation, owners say.
They are coordinated takeovers run like shadow property companies.
Rents collected in cash and forced through intimidation.
Utilities are illegally connected, hence those vines of electrical cords.
And everyone who resists is threatened into silence.
One property owner said it's a business model.
They take the building, they take the income, and they carry none of the cost.
We, the owners, carry all the risks.
The pattern is strikingly consistent.
A building becomes vulnerable, perhaps because an owner falls into arrears, a managing agent withdraws after repeated threats, or a property stands temporarily empty during renovations or a legal dispute.
A group moves in, often posing initially as security guards or caretakers.
Within weeks, the legitimate owner is locked out.
Quote, when you do try to fight back, the law works in their favor, as you, as the ousted owner, have to find alternative accommodation for occupants.
And the hijackers often turn the tables on you, saying you are the criminal, that the building is not yours, says another owner.
Access points are welded shut.
Armed bouncers are stationed at entrances.
Tenants are told they must now pay rent to a new authority, and it is usually in cash, sometimes via mobile transfers to untraceable accounts.
Those who refuse are evicted, violently, or threatened.
Owners who attempt to enter are warned they will be killed.
The threats and intimidation are real and tormenting.
And Mr. Taylor, the Black Run state of South Africa, the government is nowhere to be found.
Once control in the article, that's just once control is established.
The syndicate extracts value relentlessly.
Dozens, sometimes hundreds of people are crammed into buildings never designed for such density.
Rooms are subdivided with plywood.
Fire escapes are blocked.
Water and sanitation systems collapse under the strain.
Maintenance stops entirely.
Yet, the money flows.
DJ Juarez explained how in the South African podcast, DJ Juarez explained how sometimes a tiny space is occupied by seven people meant for one person.
Meanwhile, a single hijacked building can generate hundreds of thousands of random month in rent, multiply that across hundreds of properties in a single city, and the sum quickly climbs into the billions annually.
All of it untaxed, unregulated, and largely invisible.
Property owners said this: these are cash businesses.
No maintenance, no taxes, no compliance.
Pure profit, unadulterated profit, Mr. Taylor.
Owners have been trapped in a legal maze.
This is where it gets really interesting.
Under South African law, evicting unlawful occupants is governed by the Prevention of Illegal Eviction Act, PIE, which requires court processes and crucially, alternative accommodation for displaced residents.
In practice, owners say this has made it almost impossible to reclaim hijacked buildings.
The court cases drag on for years.
Sheriffs refuse to act without police protection.
Municipalities citing a lack of emergency housing, they often decline to assist.
Meanwhile, owners remain liable for rates, taxes.
Now, of course, they're not collecting any rent, and service charges, even when they have no access to the properties and no income from them.
The hijackers enjoy the building with zero cost, said another owner.
The owners pay everything and earn nothing.
Wow.
You know, one of these companies is going to do an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
You know, that's probably a very, very profitable business model.
I'd like to kind of buy into some of that.
You know what?
Yeah.
Until the buildings collapse, which is actually what's happening, as we're going to learn.
Several owners describe being driven into hiding after receiving repeated death threats.
Others have abandoned properties altogether, not because they are negligent slumlords, they say, but because the personal risk becomes intolerable, untenable.
And this is what the syndicates wish to achieve, to put so much fear into the owners so that they never return, leaving the hijackers to run the buildings with impunity and raking in the millions.
This dynamic has created a vicious cycle.
Buildings deteriorate further.
Municipalities label them unsafe, and neighborhood decline accelerates all while the criminal groups entrench their control and buy out all the plywood in the area to put more people in these rooms.
But we then learn a couple more things.
For residents living inside the hijack buildings, conditions are often dire.
Fires are a constant risk, exacerbated by illegal electrical connections and blocked exits.
Basic sanitation is frequently absent.
Water is siphoned from neighboring buildings or municipal pipes.
Public health experts warn that such conditions are ideal for outbreaks of waterborne disease such as cholera and typhoid.
Communities around hijack buildings report increased crime, drug trafficking, and a sharp decline in property values.
Legitimate businesses leave, streets empty, entire blocks slide into neglect as an entire nation slides into the consequences of black self-government.
It's almost impossible to imagine a building just completely hijacked like that.
And the owners are elbowed out.
And it's a cash business, no expenses, I guess, to pay for the thugs who extract money for the tenants.
And the government doesn't do anything about this.
Thousands of buildings like this.
When I first learned of this, it was at the time of a huge fire in one of those buildings.
And remember, some of the entrances and exits are welded shut.
That's right.
Imagine that.
You're in a multi-story building.
The elevators probably don't work anymore.
And the exits are welded shut.
There's a fire.
You can't get out.
I can't remember.
Hundreds died in one of these fires.
And that's when I first heard about these buildings that are, they're just the wild, wild, wild, wilder than ever West.
And the government just sits on its hands and does nothing.
It's just unbelievable.
This is what happens when this is a really failed state.
This is what happens when you have a first world infrastructure that falls into the hands of savages.
Again, it was a turnkey.
It was a first world turnkey nation.
That's right.
South Africans did willingly give up their nukes.
They did disband their space program, their nascent space program.
They gave an Air Force, a Navy, a first world infrastructure system in all these cities, all these buildings.
And they said, all right, guys, it's just as well the Navy and the Air Force don't work anymore because Africans don't believe in maintenance and all these things flying and these things sail.
But of course, all the admirable admirals and the pilots continue to collect their paychecks.
But moving on, moving on.
France.
A new survey suggests that a third of Muslims living in the country believe Sharia law should be applied worldwide.
And just shy, if 10% of those who support this, think it should be introduced through coercion or force.
Openly calling for the adoption of Sharia is no longer a taboo or a marginal position, but increasingly explicit, supported by ever more Muslims, especially young Muslims.
So unlike the idea that, as opposed to grandpa and daddy, that the youngsters are going to become good little French folk, no, they just become even more muscularly muzzy than the previous generations.
Yep, a strong poll of Islamist ideology among France's younger Muslims is stronger than ever coinciding with a rise in radical views.
So, you know, I don't, I can hardly even imagine what the actual dynamic is, but it's a little bit like young people in Europe and in the United States being much more racially aware, much more willing to say that America was built for white people, that Europe is for Europeans.
At the same time, these younger Muslims are moving in precisely the equivalent direction in the opposite way, that they want not just France, but the whole world to be resolutely Muslim.
So, there'll be interesting times ahead.
Now, here is just one of these stories.
Shakir Mahmoud Shakir, he's one of these people with a first name, last name, the same, a 38-year-old Iraqi home care worker, has been sentenced to just four years in prison for raping a 100-year-old woman in Stockholm.
While the Swedish court delivered a guilty verdict for the assault committed during his service, Shakir was acquitted of a separate rape involving a 94-year-old woman.
The incident occurred in October when the 100-year-old victim was suffering from chest pains.
She called for help, but instead of getting an ambulance, she got Shakir, who was employed in the home service sector.
Despite her yelling at him to stop, he continued to rape her for approximately 10 minutes.
Although Shakir is a citizen of Iraq, imagine that.
You're getting home care, home service, you got chest pains, you call for an ambulance, and instead you get Shakir, who rapes you.
He is a citizen in Iraq.
The prosecutor had requested expulsion, but the court rejected expulsion.
And the judge, now get this, Mr. Kersey, the judge, Mohammed Ali, is his name, a Swedish judge named Mohammed Ali.
Mohamed Ali?
Yes, newly appointed in June 2025, refused to issue a deportation order saying there are strong reasons that speak both for and against deportation.
Well, I guess the reasons against spoke more strongly to Mohammed Ali.
He said Shakir is established in Sweden and has good contact with his daughter, who's a Swedish citizen.
So poor dear Shakir, after having raped a 100-year-old lady who was having heart and chest pains and wanted an ambulance and got him instead, he gets to stay.
The court also found that there were no humiliating or degrading elements when Shakir raped the woman.
Nothing humiliating or degrading about it.
He also faced charges for the suspected rape of the 94-year-old woman.
The victim recalled standing by her toilet needing assistance when she was assaulted and passed out from the pain.
When she awoke, Shakir was there.
While the district court, that is to say, Judge Mohammed Ali, said the woman's story was credible and agreed that the investigation suggests abuse by home care staff, he ruled that it could not be proven that Shakir was the perpetrator, so he was acquitted in that case.
94 years old.
Of course.
Just one thing after another.
It's unbelievable.
This was not Shakir's first encounter with the law.
In 2021, he was convicted of document forgery and pretending to hold public standing after using a forged security guard ID.
And last week he was fined and had his license suspended for driving with drugs in his system.
And despite this criminal record, he was hired to care for the elderly in their homes.
Now, if this isn't just insanity squared, I don't know who it is.
No, I mean, utterly, utterly astonishing to me.
Well, golly, we're running out of time.
Boy, oh, boy, what have you got?
Oh, I've got a very short story here on Ayana Presley.
You know, she's going to save artificial intelligence for us.
Did you know that?
She's helped advocate for the AI Civil Rights Act.
AI civil rights.
I guess that's like, what is it, shade deserts and food deserts and heat islands.
Yeah, shade equity.
That's right.
Boy, everything has got its own civil rights thing.
And this is going to fight biased and discriminated AI algorithms.
As AI grows, it's incumbent on us all to prioritize the safety rights and opportunity of all people, especially black and brown people.
We cannot allow AI to be the latest chapter in America's history of exploiting marginalized people.
Most AI tools are built using data that reflects generations of racial discrimination, redlining, and segregation.
Algorithms built on information about a troubled past can create new models that replicate these traumas.
Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.
Now, I represent the Massachusetts 7, a vibrant, diverse, dynamic district, and one of the most unequal, where in a three-mile radius from Cambridge, home to MIT Harvard and AI advancement, all the way to Roxbury, the blackest part, life expectancy drops by 30 years and median household income by 50 years.
Says Ianna Presley, I'm sure that's all the fault of AI and she's going to fix it.
Now, that's the result of intentional lawmaking, which is why I believe we have to be just as intentional in undoing the harms.
And so she's going to save AI for you, for me, for all Americans, and for the world.
Well, Mr. Kersey, this is not the last year of the last podcast of the year.
We've got one more before the year is out, right?
We do have one more.
That's correct.
Yes.
But this is the last podcast before Christmas.
And again, we're going to pretend that it's Christmas Eve.
And when you hear the pitter-patter of what sounds like reindeer feet on your rooftop, it's actually your servant and Mr. Kersey.
And we are delivering our podcast to you.
And it's something we really enjoy.
And we really appreciate the time that you have spent with us.
And it is an honor and a joy.
And after Christmas, which we hope will be one of the merriest yet on record, we will see you again.
Do you have any extra message to add, Mr. Kersey?
Most important thing I can tell all of our listeners is we appreciate each and every one of you and use this time to spend with your family, your friends, your loved ones.
And we wish you a very Merry Christmas.
And even if it's not snowing, if you play your cards right, you can have a white Christmas.
Yeah, may all your Christmases be white.
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