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Feb. 20, 2026 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Quentin Deranque, Nationalist Martyr

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey mourn the death of a Catholic nationalist beaten to death by thugs close to France's hard-left LFI party. They also discuss Jesse Jackson, the US census, and the biggest sewage spill in American history.

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Correction Requested 00:02:10
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, esteemed listeners of both sexes and all nationalities, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
With me is my esteemed co-convener.
You're not a co-host anymore, at least not for now, Mr. Kersey, after that wonderful word we discovered last week.
My co-convener is co-convener today.
We might stick with that.
Well, as usual, we will begin with comments.
And we frequently ask for correction from our listeners, and we got one this time.
In a recent podcast, you discussed a Muslim rapist in the UK from a town.
And Mr. Kersey, I will spell the name of the town, N-U-N-E-A-T-O-N.
N-U-N-E-A-T-O-N.
Now, I think I probably fumbled around and called it Nuneaton or something like that.
I think so.
I think I called it that.
Well, that was wrong.
And the more I think about it, that was a stupid mistake.
N-U-N-E-A-T-O-N is pronounced none eaten.
None eaten.
That makes much more sense for English speakers.
There's no such thing as a nunaton.
That sounds like a subatomic particle or something.
Anyway, thank you very much.
We always appreciate being corrected.
And here's another comment.
Last podcast, you mentioned Bernie Sanders, who called ICE an invading army.
Yeah, what an idiot.
It kills American citizens in cold blood.
Yeah, what an idiot.
And they were all in danger.
In light of the death of Jesse Jackson, which happened just a few days ago, let me remind you that Sanders proudly circulated photos of himself praying with Jesse when he got Jackson's blessing for his run for the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
He is, in the photographs, in this humiliating posture of being practically on his knees in front of Jackson, almost as if he were praying to Jackson rather than to whatever God he claims to pray to.
Adopting Pets: More Than Me Substitutes 00:03:20
Did you ever actually see that photograph, Mr. Kersey?
I have not.
I don't believe so.
Oh, I saw it floating around just the last couple of days.
It really is.
And I made a post about it.
I said, well, this is the position that Jesse Jackson always wanted to see the white man in, on his knees in front of him.
And here's a comment.
This is someone calling our attention to a story that we never covered.
And it goes on to discuss the fact that dogs have switched from being working companions to emotional surrogates for many owners.
Some owners may even view their dogs as a soulmate, not in the romantic sense, but as someone with whom one has a unique, deep connection based on mutual understanding and acceptance.
Some owners describe their bond with their dog as more emotionally fulfilling than relationships with people.
For many, dogs are analogous to children.
In 2001, 80% of Americans, I'm sorry, 83% of Americans refer to themselves as the mommy or the daddy of their pet, and that was up from 55% six years earlier.
You talk about the mommy or the daddy of the dog.
You talk about owners.
No, That sounds like slavery.
For some, dogs are not merely substitutes for children.
They're preferable.
They're considered easier and more emotionally reliable than people.
Owners strongly bonded with their pets often socialize less, opting to stay home with their pets.
Now, it's hard to know which is the first cause.
Maybe the people who want to stay home and don't want to socialize, they're the ones who buy dogs.
Or is it after they buy a dog and fall in love with the dog, then they just stay home because they're happy with the dog, happier with the dog than people?
Let's see, childless households are responsible for about 70% of pet-related purchases.
Isn't that amazing?
Childless households.
You know, I don't know how many dog-owning or pet-owning households are of couples or, well, they could be couples, I guess, but childless.
The idea you generally have, it has a man and a woman, a couple of children, a dog.
That's sort of the all-American family.
But childless households are responsible for about 70% of pet-related purchases.
And they report stronger emotional bonds with their dogs than they do with their parents.
And many millennials are adopting pets, adopting pets.
I guess you go to the pound, that's the meaning of adopting pets, instead of having children.
And much of Gen Z plans to do the same.
This trend is so pronounced that Pope Francis publicly criticized couples who choose pets over children.
It's bizarre, sir.
It's bizarre.
I call any of my neighbors who have dogs.
They're like, oh, yeah, I'm a dog mommy or a dog daddy.
If someone says that, you got to really think about where you live.
But you're really just a dog walker.
I mean, that's all I ever see my neighbors.
It's like, oh, that person's walking their dog again.
Reverend Al's Competition 00:13:46
All right.
Or if you own a cat, you are, to pardon my French, a shit scooper.
Although I have seen electric litter boxes, or at least have heard of them.
But I must say, you know, I had a girlfriend in New York City.
I broke up with her and she bought a dog.
And I'm not going to necessarily assume that the one caused the other, but there were mutual friends that speculated that the dog was a me substitute.
In any case, they always say owners get a dog that somewhat looks like them.
I'm sure you've seen some of those pictures.
Well, yes, I have.
I have seen these pictures.
No, this was a black, what do they call that?
It's not a Shibainu, an Akita, an Akita dog, a black Akita.
I do not have a curly tail.
I do not have pointy ears.
Maybe a nice golden retriever.
I don't know.
I'm not sure what type of.
You definitely are not a pit bull.
No, I'm not a pit bull, nor am I a chihuahua wow.
In any case, let's see.
I guess we have to talk about Jesse Jackson.
Yes, indeed.
Old Jesse died this week.
He was age 84.
He was born in 1941 to a teenage mother and her married neighbor.
That's sort of the way things get started in black neighborhoods.
So he was the son of an unmarried mother.
And he claimed that he was just a few feet away when King was assassinated in 1968.
We'll go into that in just a moment.
He founded what would ultimately become Rainbow Push Coalition, which was the premier shakedown organization of his time.
That was before Al Sharpton came on the scene and certainly gave him a run for his money, if not being even better at the shakedown business.
He would show up at some place and say, hey, you don't have enough black executives.
And we're going to start a boycott of your products unless you do this, unless you give money to my Rainbow Push organization.
And I remember he would go around Silicon Valley and he'd say, even your own statistics say there are only 3% blacks who are on your programming.
This is no good.
And I remember wondering, when is somebody just going to come forward and say, look, we hire the best.
We give them tests.
We don't even care what race they are.
We hire the people who are the best.
And sorry, you guys are not the best.
Nobody ever, ever did that.
They would grovel and they would whine and they'd promise to do better.
And Jesse Jackson would march around and lord it over these poor white guys.
Terrible, disgusting.
That's about all they did for a living.
If I could just repeat briefly, wasn't Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson in Memphis in April of 68 because they were going to shake down Wonderbread or the sanitation workers?
Well, I think they were, it had to do with the sanitation workers, all right.
I think they were trying to get affirmative action for sanitation.
No, wait a minute.
The sanitation workers were already all black.
I think they were going to insist on having them unionized, but it was, yeah, some kind of shakedown in the name of garbage men.
But while we're talking about 1968, it is true that Jackson, when he was 26 at the time, and he was a member of King's staff, he has repeatedly claimed that he was one of the first to reach King on the Lorraine Motel balcony after the shooting.
He claimed to have cradled and held King as he died with King's head on his chest.
And as a result, King's blood got on his shirt.
And the next day, that would have been April 5th, 1968, he appeared on national TV on the Today Show wearing this bloodied turtleneck shirt.
And he pointed to it as evidence of his closeness to the great man.
He said things like, he died in my arms.
I was the last person he spoke to.
And he's made this claim over the years.
He never, ever repudiated that idea.
But several of King's closest aides and eyewitnesses who were on the balcony said this is baloney.
They started saying this almost immediately.
Ralph Abernathy said he was the one who cradled King's head, not Jackson.
He said Jackson wasn't even on the balcony, and he came up only later.
Andrew Young, who was on the balcony, also said in multiple interviews that Jackson left the motel shortly afterwards and returned the next morning with blood on his shirt.
And Jose Williams accused Jackson of smearing King's pooled blood from the balcony onto his shirt the next day.
He said this was pure publicity stunt.
Pure theater, huh?
Pure theater.
And so the cradling claim, oh, I was so close to him, he died in my arms.
He murmured, oh, Jesse, you are my best.
No, well, that's just a bunch of baloney.
But, oh, you know, he ran for president.
Well, he ran for the Democratic primary, wanted to be Democrat primary candidate in 1984, 1988.
And I remember thinking it was so interesting that he got the largest number of white votes in the states with the smallest numbers of blacks.
Ain't that always the way?
It's the ones who read about black people in Time magazine or in the New York Times.
They're the ones who say that.
He dominated at the time, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont.
That's right.
That's where he got.
Yes.
Now, he didn't.
I think he actually won a primary or two in 1988, not in 1984, but only where there were just overwhelmingly white people who had probably never seen a black person in their lives.
And as it turned out, he had six legitimate children, but he also fathered a child.
I beg your pardon.
Very fecund.
He was fecund, but he had a love child with the director of the Washington Bureau of Rainbow Push, his organization.
But then I'll never forget these goofy lines of his.
Probably our younger listeners never heard him talking this way.
He'd say He'd be in front of a bunch of people and he'd say, down with dope, up with hope.
And when he was running for the White House, he would say, from the outhouse to the White House.
I'd be thinking, gosh, pull up your pants first, Jesse.
With people, Mr. Taylor, who popularized this idea that the White House was built largely with slave labor.
I don't know.
Hear this, and it's like, you know.
I'm sure Amran has done a tremendous article that's just like, hey, yeah, okay, some slaves helped move some bricks around and then put up some characters.
Could very well have done.
So what?
But they make it sound as though they designed it, they conceived it, they chose the wallpaper.
No, but yes, from the outhouse to the White House, and then from the guttermost to the uttermost.
Another one of his was, from slaveship to championship.
If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I know I can achieve it.
These were all Jesse Jackson's contributions to President.
Did you ever debate or were you ever in the same room with the Reverend?
I was.
I was.
On one occasion, I was in the same room with the Reverend and with the Reverend Al.
We were on a television program.
What was her name?
Gosh.
Sounds like Jesse Raphael?
No, no, no.
This was a white lady who had a television show.
Her name will occur to me later on.
This must have been 20 years ago.
And I recall at the time, the Reverends were competing for who was going to have the most profile and the most attention because Jesse had come on the scene first and Reverend Al kind of chewed into his game.
And yet I remember leaving the studio, I saw the two of them walking off together apparently very companionably.
So, yeah, yeah, they seem to be getting along just fine.
But let's see.
Oh, yes, did I say hands that picked cotton will pick the president?
And keep hope alive.
That was one of his favorites.
Keep hope alive.
Keep hope alive.
Wherever he went, you know, keep hope alive.
And let us not forget, Mr. Kersey, that he once confessed that when he worked in a restaurant, he spat in the food that he was going to serve to white people.
Very interesting that he brought that up himself once.
I would have thought that once you got in the public eye, that's not the kind of thing you would noise around.
And then there's another thing he once said that he deeply regretted.
I used to quote this frequently when I would go on media talking about racial profiling.
He once said, I hate to admit it, but when I'm walking down the street at night and I hear people behind me and I turn around and I see it's white people, I breathe a sigh of relief.
Because as I would say, he was doing racial profiling because he knows black people are more dangerous than white people.
Well, later on, when he was confronted with this, do you know what he said?
Do you know how he tried to wriggle off the hook on that one?
I don't.
He said, well, it's only because I know that if I'm in a white neighborhood, then the policing is going to be more safer and more secure.
Wrong, Jesse.
You got a whole lot more police.
They go fishing where the fish are, Jesse, baby.
You're going to have a whole lot more police in the black neighborhood.
No, no, you can't get out of it that way.
But he was embarrassed to have admitted the truth that he looks around and he sees white strangers.
He feels safer than if he looks around and feels and sees black strangers.
Ah, poor Jesse, alas.
Poor Jesse, poor Jesse, we knew you well.
But anyway, in 2000, Bill Clinton gave him the Presidential Gold Medal, the highest award that a citizen can get from the United States government.
So he must have been a really important guy.
Well, Jesse, farewell.
Farewell.
Let's rest in peace.
At least unlike some of the other black people who went to their graves, you're not going to rest in pieces.
You know, Mr. Taylor, real quick thought before we shut the coffin on Jesse Jackson.
He's kind of an anachronism in a way.
He doesn't, you think about, you know, I'm, you know, 40.
Jesse Jackson just seems like just this throwback in the same way that Al Sharpton does.
It's like you look at these people and you wonder why did whites tolerate that game for so long of shakedown and just not say, no.
I mean, because now if you were to try and do a Jesse Jackson shakedown for a major corporation for a lack of minority participation and employees, I mean, basically, disparate impact is gone.
It's been made illegal.
Well, but Mr. Kersey, let us not forget that in the last, say, oh, eight or 10 years, you didn't even have to threaten a boycott.
Correct.
That's the point.
Yes.
All of these companies were diligently and desperately appointing blacks to positions for which they weren't qualified.
And, you know, I don't see him as so much of an anachronism as people have changed their approach.
You still have these, you know, the Tanahisi Coates types and the Ibram Kindies who over and over and over, they tell us everything.
This is something that blacks have, they've been singing the same tune for so many decades now.
It's all Whitey's fault.
It's all Whitey's fault.
Now, they sing it in different keys.
They sing it in different tempos.
Sometimes it's in a minor scale.
Sometimes it is in a major scale, but it's always the same tune.
It's all Whitey's fault.
Got the same chorus.
It's funny.
It's funny, though, because even now, those names you just mentioned, Tenizi Coates and Ibram Kendi, even they seem passe.
It's like, oh, they had their moment.
And that moment passed.
We're at this weird period.
And it's just, it's fascinating.
Jesse Jackson.
I don't remember him really coming up that much during the George Floyd, Ahmed Aubrey, Breonna Taylor moments in 2020 at all, really.
I guess he would have been, what?
He would have been in the late 70s.
I think he had health problems.
Yes, he did.
He had some kind of problem that put him in a wheelchair for a while, poor guy.
Yes.
It was something like cerebral palsy or something, some degenerative disease that, in fact, went more rapidly.
Well, but then Alice Sharpton, Alice Sharpton was really, and then Ben Crump.
It's kind of a baton pass.
Benjamin Crump, he's the latest guy that I see as playing the role of the Alice Sharptons and the Jesse Jackson.
Of course, he's a lawyer himself, which the Revs, neither Rev was a lawyer, but Ben Crump actually goes to court.
And he, I'm sure, he's making out like a bandit.
All of these settlements, he's taking it on commission.
Isn't he the guy who's going to be representing the guy who stabbed that white guy at the track meet?
I'm forgetting their names now.
Austin Metcalfe.
Yes.
That's the white guy who was stabbed.
That's a story that, again, we still.
Water Troubles in DC 00:12:32
It hasn't gone to trial.
I mean, of course Shiloh is going to be in court on Friday, tomorrow on the 20th.
Oh, is she?
Shiloh Hendrix.
Well, now, that's because she's accused of what then?
Racial intimidation?
Or some misdemeanors?
Yeah, I'd have to look it up.
I forgot what the actual language is, but she's facing, you know, potentially 60 days, I believe, in jail.
But it's still, It's something so minor, but she's not going to plead out.
She's got an attorney and they're going to go to court and see what happens here in Rochester, Minnesota.
That'll be very interesting because it's still not against the law, amazingly enough, to use the N-word and to use it ferociously and in the heat of the moment.
That's not yet a crime.
We still have the First Amendment.
Not that I recommend people doing that, but well, well, well, Mr. Kersey, you have one of the hot stories of the last couple of weeks.
I guess you could call it a story of DEI and PPM, parts per million.
You know, this is one of the more fascinating stories.
For a couple of days, no one wanted to talk about it except for people on Twitter.
And that is the fact that you've got the largest sewage spill in U.S. history.
Some people I saw were comparing it to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
I guess it was the late 80s.
That was four or five when that happened, but that was something that we were constantly taught about as the environmental impact and why we needed to get away from fossil fuels.
Well, we have now the biggest sewage spill in U.S. history happening in the DMV, not that far from where the New Century Foundation's headquarters used to be, actually.
So I wonder if some of your old neighbors can smell the sewage.
I'm guessing not, because it just went into the Potomac River.
True.
It hasn't seeped into the groundwater, as far as I know.
Now it comes bubbling up in people's wells.
Talking about 300 million gallons of waste of sewage, of raw sewage.
And as the Daily Caller reports.
Well, that's the only kind I know about.
I've never heard of cooked sewage, but be that as it may.
You got to read more about Johannesburg here.
You're right.
They are desperately hungry.
You're right.
I've got this book that I've been reading, Stories of Johannesburg.
It is incredible.
Helen Andrews actually recommended it on Twitter, and so I picked it up.
I'll have to send you a link to it.
Anyway, it's very good.
DC Water CEO oversaw $520 million in DEI contracts.
And of course, this is happening leading up to the biggest sewage spill in U.S. history.
While these millions of gallons of raw sewage accumulated in its pipes, the DC Water and Sewer Authority, it's called DC Water, was focused on diversity, equity, and other left-wing priorities.
Actually, they bragged about in their annual reports how many of their employees took unconscious bias training.
And I should point out that in 2021 in their ESG report, for our listeners who don't know what that means, sort of a passe term now, but it was all the rage then.
That meant environmental societal governance score.
That was a way that I believe you're going to have a story on Goldman Sachs as how they're going away from that.
But that was the rage of major investment firms, the way that the S ⁇ P index was going to evaluate companies that were going to be listed on the stock index to see if they had a good ESG score.
Well, DC Water in 2021, they bragged about how in 2018, 63% of the leadership was white males.
By 2021, it was down to 25% and it was 75% black.
So they were saying this is progress.
Fast forward five years, Mr. Taylor, and we have this situation where the black CEO of DC Water, David Gaddis, who has champaigned equity and diversity throughout his tenure, he was also named, sir, in a lawsuit against his former employer for allegedly withholding information about water contamination in Flint, Michigan.
might recall that they had a Boyle warning for quite a long time.
Yeah.
Majority Black City.
Yep.
He served as the executive vice president of Viola North America and the CEO of Viola Water Indianapolis, the utility's first black CEO and the first black executive to lead a major Indianapolis utility, according to his esteemed bio.
It touted his partnership with municipal leaders and his leadership on diversity initiatives.
I mean, that's pretty much the main criterion job qualification for these major public utilities over the past 10 years is how many diversity initiatives?
Does he have the right racial hue?
You know, how black are you?
Basically, that was pretty much your ticket to discuss.
He was part of a amended class action lawsuit, which cited the Viola statement in which Gaddis promised the company would deploy its technical expertise to ensure water quality for the people of the city of Flint, touting experience with challenging water sources and contaminant management.
The suit claims residents had every reason to rely on Viola's subsequent assurances of safety.
They told the public that Flint's discolored drinking water resulted from old unlined cast iron pipe when it actually contained dangerous levels of lead.
The former mayor testified in 2002.
You might recall, I believe Barack Obama himself said that the water was fine, and I think he drank what was purported to be Flint Michigan water.
I didn't remember that.
That's brave of him.
Yeah.
We had greenish and brownish water.
It smelled weird.
It was giving people rashes and they were loosing hair.
Patients were asking, was it okay to use this tap water to mix in their baby's formula?
Dr. Mona Hanna Atisha, an associate dean for public health at Michigan State University, told NPR, which reported in 2024, that many Flint residents still lack clean water a decade later.
So I didn't realize he was in charge of that water system.
He was one of the utilities that was brought in to evaluate.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It's astonishing how you have this, you have this small pool of black candidates who then continue to fall upward as their previous job stop goes up in flames around them.
They find warmer grounds to aspire to.
Before Gaddis arrived, DC Water was considered a global role model, commanding one of the highest reputations in the water sector, according to world leaders.
Gaddis sought to take the authority to the next level by prioritizing equity for employees, customers, communities, and contractors.
An effort CIO views recognized when it named him one of the 10 most influential black corporate leaders of 2022.
I've never seen a list of the 10 most influential white corporate leaders put out by any, by Fortune, by Forbes, by Bloomberg, by Businessweek.
Maybe I missed it, but I do know that in that 2021 DC Water ESG report, they bragged that 82% of the employees of DC Water, Mr. Taylor, were BIPOCs.
Wow.
82%.
And yeah, yeah.
I want to win for our community by extending water equity to every customer, including the eradication of lead pipes within the district, Gaddis was quoted as saying.
Water equity.
I guess that means you don't have to pay your bill.
I mean, maybe we'll pass it on to the tax.
No, that means you don't have to pay your bill if you're a BIPOC.
Yeah.
Yes.
Exactly.
Let's see here.
There was one other really fantastic quote.
Let me see if I can find it real quick here.
Excuse me.
It was, I found it in town hall where he basically bragged about.
Give me just one second.
Well, I can hunt for it a bit.
I've got some information about this spill up on my screen here.
Yeah, go ahead.
It was something called the Potomac Interceptor.
And that is a sewer line.
It collapsed in Montgomery County, Maryland.
And the pipe is roughly 60 years old.
And it normally carries 60 million gallons of wastewater per day.
And it is a 72-inch pipe.
That means a six-foot-tall man can stand straight up inside this pipe.
It's a big pipe.
It's a big pipe.
A lot of sewage flows through that pipe.
You want to be standing there when that sewage is flowing unimpeded.
Boy, I would imagine not.
200 million, 300 million gallons.
Wow.
And it is the largest wastewater spill in American history.
Boy, it's nice to be part of the record-breaking team.
Here's another interesting thing.
Virginia issued a recreational water advisory for a 72.5-mile stretch of the Potomac River.
You don't go boating on it.
Wow.
And interestingly enough, they found a huge boulder inside the damaged pipe, which makes it harder to fix it.
But they think they, well, apparently the actual outflow has been stopped, but in another four to six weeks, it'll be all fixed up.
But the largest wastewater spill in American history.
Well, initially, sir, there were reports that it would take nine months.
And one of the great quotes that somebody dug up, it was in one of these videos where Gaddis was discussing that 2020 ESG report that I mentioned a few times.
And he said this, you know, when I arrived at DC Water, this was an organization that looked very similar to our industry.
It was predominantly white males at the top, but this was a utility that's more than 70% of color work at this utility.
And I really believe, and I still believe, and it has been fantastic.
The outcomes have been fantastic, that the people at the top, the executives, the chiefs in the C-suite, they should look like the employees that they serve and that they work with.
And the same thing with the community.
And so my executive looks exactly like the community.
It looks like the employees, the staff, be it people of color, women, men.
And it's just a fantastic team that has come together to do a lot of great things here at DC Water.
Wow.
So here's a black man saying, so many black people here.
How nice it is.
How happy we are.
Can you imagine a white executive saying anything remotely similar?
Absolutely out of the question.
Absolutely out of the question.
Now, another part of the story is, as I recall, they just built themselves, what, a $60 million or $70 million new headquarters.
I saw a photograph.
It's all gleaming glass.
It's a beautiful facade.
I have no idea what goes on inside.
Probably not much.
I guess they're trying to figure out ways to pass on the water bills in D.C. to the taxpayers.
But I would recommend all of our listeners go to your Google machine and type in the name Unique N Morris Hughes.
She's the chair of DC Water, and her background, she has a PhD.
It's not in anything mathematical, scientific.
She's not an engineer.
She's the chair of DC Water, and her past is basically working with the National Forum of Black Public Administrators, Women in Government Relations, the American Education Research Association, International Leadership Association.
Her CV does not read like someone who should have any position of authority with a public utility, let alone something as important as providing clean drinking, you know, potable water to an area of 800,000 to 1 million people.
Well, she's a black booster these days.
That's qualification to do anything to the moon.
Why France Wants Christian Fascism 00:08:39
She's a very light-skinned Negress, as you might say.
She passed the brown paperbag test.
I guess so, well, that probably helps too.
Well, moving on from the nation's worst wastewater spill to a horrible thing that happened in Europe.
On February 12th in 2026, a 23-year-old young man, a mathematics student named Quentin Duranck, was attacked on the sidelines for protest outside an event at Science-Po University in Lyon, France.
This was a speech by a woman by the name of Rima Hassan.
She is a far-left member of the European Parliament from this utterly, utterly hard-left, completely loony, burn-it-down party called France Ansoumise, which means France unbowed.
Now, this Rima Hassan, she's a Palestinian.
She showed up in France at age eight, and she's grown up to hate France, to hate Christianity.
Certainly she hates Jews.
That's one of her absolute top calling cards.
She's an absolute open borders person.
And there was a protest against her by a group of identitarian feminists called Collective Nemesis.
Now, the Nemesis, I think that's a great name because Nemesis is the goddess of revenge.
And what they most protest is the lack of feminist outrage over all the horrible things that these immigrants are doing to native French women.
All the rapes, the cat calls, the constant harassment.
The usual feminist groups are cowed into silence because they mustn't criticize these brown-skinned newcomers who are going to be the future of France.
No, these ladies don't hesitate to criticize them at all.
So it's an interesting group insofar as they are, on the one hand, feminist and at the same time, identitarians.
In any case, Quentin Duran and two others who had come along just to show moral support to the women.
They weren't in any kind of armed brigade to protect them.
They were ambushed and assaulted by masked men.
In the video, it looked like, oh, there must have been about seven or eight, maybe a dozen men who attacked them.
And two of them got away.
But poor Quentin Durank, you can see in the video, he's knocked down.
He's beaten repeatedly.
And even while he's down motionless, they come and kick him repeatedly in the head.
And he was hospitalized, put into a coma, and he died on Valentine's Day.
Well, the French authorities have opened a murder investigation exactly as they should.
This was done by people affiliated with a group called Jeune Garde.
That is to say, the Young Guard.
And the Young Guard was established by a fellow named Raphael Arnaud, who is a parliamentarian for La France and Soumise, the LFI party.
That is, as I said, this burn-it-down radical lefty organization.
Well, there has been a huge amount of media coverage here.
And I think the media coverage was inevitable because identitarians all around the world took up this murder of a nationalist.
This guy is, he's a Christian, very much a serious Christian.
He wants France to be Christian.
He wants France to be European.
He had absolutely no criminal record, the nicest possible guy, and beaten to death, beaten to death by these anti-fascist types of the young guard.
And he was taken up immediately.
There were posters put up of him in France and in Europe.
And so the media could hardly brush this under the rug.
And at this point, even the French government, the Justice Minister Gerald D'Armanin and Interior Minister Laurent Nunez have blamed the ultra-left for creating a climate of violence.
And they have accused the LFI, the France Ansoumese, France Unbound politicians of inflammatory rhetoric and inciting physical attacks.
Now, Jean-Luc Melanchon, who is the head of this group, he is one of the most hard-boiled lefties in politics today.
He makes absolutely no secret of his desire to have a complete leftist revolution in France.
He is a perpetual candidate for the president.
And as our listeners probably know, in France, you have two rounds of presidential elections.
At the first round, you may have half a dozen candidates.
And it is the top two finishers who face off for the second round.
And more than once, he has been the third of the top two.
And he has always wanted at least to get into the top two and be in the second round.
But he is not an insignificant figure, but he appeals directly to non-whites, Muslims in particular, despite the fact that he himself is an ordinary Frenchman.
There's nothing Muslim about him at all.
And he seems to think that France would be better with open borders, more Muslims if possible, because they'll certainly vote for him.
And initially, his party, LFI, condemned the violence and rejected responsibility.
But his latest statements have been, well, what do you expect?
These are fascists they were going after.
Fascists get what they deserve.
He, in effect, said, yeah, they're our guys.
We support them.
It's really quite remarkable that a leader who is a member of parliament, instead of backpedaling and saying, no, no, we completely disavow this.
These guys are horrible.
He says, no, they're doing what they're supposed to do.
This is really most, most amazing.
This seemed like one of those morbid footnotes in the inevitable path toward what Guillaume Phi wrote in his last book, Ethnic Apocalypse, which I believe you were forward to.
Yes.
And that's when I first saw the story, which you highlighted on your ex-account, which you can follow, Mr. Taylor, at RealJar Taylor.
I encourage every one of our listeners to do that.
That's what I thought.
I thought back to that book, which came out, I want to say, in 2019, and right before COVID, if memory serves correct.
That sounds about right.
And here we are now, and it's just, it feels like that calm before that proverbial storm.
It really does.
Well, this has been a very clear case of the so-called Antifa.
And every one of the people who've been arrested, as far as I can tell, is white.
This is a white group that is behind all of this horrible lefty, pro-Muzzy foolishness.
It's remarkable, especially, that the party not have completely disowned and repudiated everything that this group did, especially because just next month, there are going to be municipal elections in France.
Next year, there's going to be a presidential race.
And as I say, he wants to finish at least in the top two.
And for him to come right out and say, well, this is what fascists deserve.
It's absolutely remarkable.
Well, Quentin, he was a fervent nationalist, and I believe he was a convert to Catholicism, a pro-life activist, and he was there to support the women who think that ordinary feminists have been completely, completely cowed and unable to defend French women the way they should in the face of this Muslim and non-white invasion.
This Nemesis Collective is really an interesting group.
It has perhaps only about 100 to 300 members, but they're pretty active.
They march against immigrant violence.
They have groups in French-speaking Switzerland and in Belgium.
And the group's president is a woman named Alice Cordier.
And I once approached her because I thought she'd make an interesting speaker at American Renaissance Conference, but her English is apparently not very good.
But I think it would be very interesting to have someone like that speak.
Why Philly Has So Many Chicken Bones 00:14:50
I've seen photographs of them.
They're these nice-looking ladies.
And sometimes you'll see three walking in front, and they'll be wearing stockings.
One has a pair of white red stockings, then blue stockings, white stockings.
So as they walk along, it's the French flag.
Really, really very nice.
Anyway, that has been the big news in Europe.
But to return to the United States, Mr. Kersey, why are there so many chicken bones in Philly?
To go from the morbid and serious to the ridiculous.
Well, there's a Bruce Springsing song, which I think it goes, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night.
So maybe it's that.
Anyways, you probably don't know that song.
No, I don't.
This is in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the story that went along with them on social media, it garnered, as you can imagine, quite a few snarky, hilarious comments.
And it's worth reading, though, because the question is seriously asked.
Why Philly has so many chicken bones lying around?
Well, a reader asked through Curious Philly about the discarded drums and flats found ubiquitously on the Philly streets.
As the cold thaws and the snow melts, one constant remains the same.
There are chicken bones on the streets of Philadelphia.
Time may be a flat circle, but that doesn't stop us from wondering why.
What's that got to do with anything?
I'm not sure.
That's what it says.
A reader asked through Curious Philly why there's so many chicken bones.
Well, two architects appear to be behind Philadelphia's chicken bone temple.
First, animals.
Animals, sir, who forage through trash looking for the final scraps left on discarded bones.
Whether they discover drumsticks by ripping through trash bags on the street or from dumpster diving, these animals likely drop the bones wherever they finish them.
I like that word likely, as if to give these rascals an out in terms of the culprits most likely to blame are rats.
Yeah, okay.
Followed by raccoons and possums, says Rich Foreman, the owner of Dynamite Pest Control in West Philly.
I don't know.
As I'm reading this, I'm thinking of maybe a potential other culprit, but we'll get to that.
While it's unclear if rats have a particular taste for fried chicken, the animals are among the least picky eaters around and will take advantage of any food source from human scraps to cannibalism.
Philadelphia is seemingly a good place to be a rat, being declared the eighth rattiest city in the United States.
The eighth rattiest.
Yes, by Orkin, by the pest control company, Orkin.
I did not click to see what the top 10 rattiest cities are, but I have a feeling it probably correlates with The percentage of a certain racial group, but that's just me spitballing.
Anyways, Foreman sees the chicken bone problem all over the city, as with some restaurants in Port Richmond that called dynamite when they saw their trash all over the street.
He's confident animals were behind the mess and said he has never seen humans do anything of the sort.
Again, they're doing everything they can to try and blame our, you know, our four.
Our furry friends.
Yes, yes.
Scavenging animals was a conclusion that the search engine podcast reached in a 2024 episode investigating the cause of chicken bones littering the streets of New York City.
Other cities have reported the same problem, including Chicago, Miami, and Washington.
And yet, anecdotal evidence from residents demonstrates that human activity clearly contributes to the problem, burying the problem.
I see.
Jessica Griffith has become the David Attenborough of Abandoned Chicken Bones, documenting and appreciating the beauty of what she encounters in the wild.
More than 10 years ago, when she lived in South Philly, Griffith would notice chicken bones frequently on walks with her dog.
She started photographing them and posting the pictures to Facebook, finding the bones everywhere, including a pile on a SEPTA train.
Now, it might just be me.
On a Septa train?
A pile on a septa train.
Well, you know, there are commuter possums.
You know, they probably brought them their breakfast on the train, and then they left them on the train.
That's very loud and unruly, and they have a penchant for fear evasion, by the way.
Yes, you're right about that, too.
It was just bizarre to me, she said.
Just a phenomenon.
Her documentation gathered a following, and people started to send her their own submissions.
She received pictures from all over the globe.
People in Seattle, Las Vegas, South Korea, Sweden, and the Dominican Republic all had their own pictures of discarded chicken bones to share.
Okay.
When Brian Love walks his miniature dog Ziggy through the gay boar horde, he often sees other people smiling at his dog, but then he realizes it's because Ziggy is carrying a chicken bone in his mouth.
Love has complained to his friends about constantly needing to tussle with poor Ziggy over what the dog sees as a treasure.
He has watched people toss chicken bones on the ground.
All right.
So again, you go through this whole article and you're like, okay, it's got to be these pesky possums, these raccoons.
No, no, no.
It's not the rats either.
He's watched people toss chicken bones on the ground, and recently Crane came across a pile of four bones on a mound of sand.
Love wishes his neighbors would just use trash bins.
He's not talking about possums.
He's not talking about the rats.
He's talking about his fellow bipeds.
Stephanie Harmalin has the same problem with her dog in West Philly.
And she said she accepts the bony sidewalks as part of living in the city.
She's been aggressive.
She's seen aggressive squirrels rifling through trash, but also came across bones at street quarters under park benches that appear to have been dropped by humans.
Now, Mr. Taylor, this was not in that infamous article, Being White in Philadelphia.
If you remember that Michael Nutter got all mad about back in 2013, 2014.
I remember.
Yes.
She said part of the problem is educational.
Once Harmalin pulled her dog away from a bone on the street and two fellow walkers asked her why.
Even if people get the message, though, it appears you will still be as likely to find a chicken bone on the street as a fallen leaf.
That's remarkable.
What?
This must be one of those shade.
What do they call the shade deserts?
No trees, nothing but chicken bones.
Chicken bones, as far as the eye can see.
I was in Pensacola one time and we were playing football.
And I got tackled and I got up and I had a cut.
I was like, where did that come from?
And I looked down and there were discarded chicken bones all on this beach.
And my friend, who grew up in Pensacola, said, Hey, we're on Chicken Bone Beach.
And I was like, What are you talking about?
He goes, Every Sunday after church, blacks all come here with KFC.
They eat the chicken and they leave the bones on the beach.
We shouldn't be here.
It's very dangerous.
And years later, I looked it up, sir, and there is an unbelievable amount of lore surrounding Chickenbone Beach in Pensacola and the proclivity for blacks to just get behind.
But I did hear you right.
You're as likely to see a chicken bone as you are to see a fallen leaf.
That is what she said.
That is astonishing.
That's either an awful lot of chicken bones, or there is a real shade desert.
It is a heat island and a paucity of leafs.
Sheesh.
Again, it's a funny story, guys.
It's Black History Month, and Philadelphia knew what they were doing when they published this article.
The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Okay, well, to move on to something a little more serious.
If federal authorities successfully remove millions of illegal aliens, some estimates suggest it would result in the reallocation of nearly a dozen House seats and electoral college votes.
Billions of dollars in taxpayer funding could be redirected out of blue states and into red states.
You know, I'd never even thought of this, Mr. Curz.
It's embarrassing that I hadn't.
This article goes on to say, this is because census figures used for congressional appointments, redistricting, and distributing federal funds have historically counted all residents, including illegal aliens.
Well, yeah, fancy that.
Doesn't the average congressional district have about 500,000 people in it?
And if you got rid of, say, 15 million illegal aliens, that could have an effect.
500,000 or maybe 750,000?
Is it 750,000?
You have a better head for these numbers than I do.
But in any case, if you got rid of 20 million, 15 million, that's what the 15 congressional seats were.
Bam, right out the door.
But on balance, this has benefited Democrat-led states, which is where the illegals are likely to be.
And at the same time, the projected out-migration of citizens from blue states to red states, because Democrats don't make America great again, that too would only accentuate the change in the distribution of people.
Well, Missouri, and this is very interesting, I hadn't heard about this, has filed a lawsuit.
And the idea is: if this is successful, the Census Bureau would count only Americans and legal permanent residents in the census for representational purposes.
And the idea of representation is the core of this compact.
Those who are present illegally and or temporarily are neither party to the compact between the states and the federal government nor entitled to representation.
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, which sets forth the basis for portioning house seats, says that representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed.
Now, from the plain language of the amendment, it does sound like we're talking about everyone counting the whole number of persons in the state.
However, the argument is that the expression whole number of persons in each state refers to a state's inhabitants.
And the state's inhabitants consist of legally domiciled people.
And to be legally domiciled, you must have a lawful intent to permanently remain in the state and have the legal right to do so.
Apparently, the Federalist papers indicated that census count and apportionment figures should include inhabitants.
And every census statute passed by Congress before the enactment of the 14th Amendment provided for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.
As a matter of law, the state of Missouri concludes, a person can establish domicile only when his intent to remain is legal under the laws.
Well, I hope the suit succeeds, but I can easily imagine arguments to the contrary.
Now, this I didn't know, Mr. Kersey, but this is an encouraging precedent.
Authorities have consistently excluded foreign tourists from census tabulation.
Did you know that?
That's interesting.
I mean, it's logical, but I never thought about that.
But if you're foreign tourists, you don't count the census, as of course, you shouldn't.
If the distinction between such sojourners, that is to say, tourists, and illegal aliens is simply the duration of their stay in the United States or their intent to remain in the United States, then defenders of the status quo would, according to the lawsuit, provide representation even to Nazi spies who invaded Florida during the Second World War.
If you count anybody who's here, well, that's true.
If we're at war and we have prisoner of war camps, are you going to count them for representatives in the U.S. Congress?
Are you going to count them for distribution of federal funds?
This is a very interesting thing, but we'll see what happens here.
I think it's quite fascinating that Missouri has gone ahead and filed such a lawsuit.
I would love to see this happen.
I've always thought it was weird that if you have, say, I don't know, 90% of the people of your congressional district are illegal aliens, and there's nothing theoretically to prevent that.
Only 10% are citizens.
Still, that 10%, they are the people who can control a representative in Congress.
It makes no sense at all.
You know, Mr. Taylor, a lot of outstanding things are coming out of Missouri recently.
Eric Schmidt is a tremendous senator.
Missouri is a solidly conservative, forward-thinking state in terms of strengthening the conditions for families to thrive.
Basically, you know, it's basically a white black state outside of St. Louis and Kansas City.
And goodness gracious, what's the capital?
Columbia?
Is it Columbia?
It's not St. Louis is not the capital.
No, it's where the University of Missouri is located.
I'll think of it in a second, but it is a great state.
And I just read today where Boeing is divesting itself from Virginia to locate its headquarters now in St. Louis.
Is that right?
I would encourage our younger listeners, if you're starting out, to consider Missouri, to consider either Kansas City or St. Louis as a place to maybe make your fortune in the world, make your way.
It is a solidly red state.
Again, we're not endorsing politics here.
I'm just making an observation that it is basically a white black state like the country was prior to Hart Seller in 65.
And there's quality white people there.
Right, Jefferson City.
That's the capital, right?
Jefferson City City.
And then I guess the University of Missouri is in Columbus, or Columbia.
Anyways.
Well, good for Missouri to be bringing a suit like that.
And yes, you said we can talk about Golden Sachs, and we will.
Board Diversity Debated 00:02:58
Because last year, Goldman Sachs dropped a commitment to support board diversity for clients it was taking public.
In other words, the board of directors had to be diverse, or they wouldn't help you go public.
Now it plans to drop diversity criteria for its own board, which is only logical.
Goldman Sachs is preparing to remove race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other diversity factors from the criteria its board will consider when identifying potential candidates.
Goldman's decision followed a behind-the-scenes request from the conservative activist nonprofit National Legal and Policy Center, which owns a small stake in Goldman Sachs.
The group submitted a proposal seeking to remove the DEI criteria.
Goldman, like many banks, has pulled back on DEI over the past year, and it retooled its diversity program.
It was called 1 Million Black Women, a multi-billion dollar commitment to invest in black businesswomen.
And that now removes all references to race.
So I guess it's now 1 million women.
I mean, that sounds discriminatory to me too, but in any case.
Now, it ended its requirement that companies in the U.S. and Western Europe have diverse boards in order for the bank to take them public.
That means if you weren't in Western Europe or in the United States, you could have an all-Asian or all-African or all-whatever it is board.
So this was discrimination exclusively against white countries.
The turning point was President Trump's executive order early last year directing federal departments and agencies to launch civil investigations against DEI programs.
Yeah, that should certainly get their attention.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I remember you and I talked about this when they started doing this.
I think that was, what, about 2021, 2020, 2021.
They said, you know, you've got to have a certain number of homosexuals and women or blacks.
We had this funny conversation.
You can see the white guys sitting around the table saying, well, okay, guys, who's going to take a hit for the company and claim to be a poof?
Because how do you prove that?
I mean, you can, well, generally, I suppose, well, these days, how do you prove that you're a woman or a man for that matter?
Could you just say you identify as a female?
Well, I should think so.
Gender identity.
You can't question that.
Yeah, you can't question that.
I mean, the whole board of directors could look like white men, but they identify as black women.
Why the heck not?
So in case they've gotten, in any case, they've gotten rid of all of that.
Thank goodness it's about time.
Boy, oh, boy.
You know, with Trump in the White House and all this anti-DEI talk, it's hard to believe this sort of stuff still keeps going.
Well, Mr. Kersey, we don't have much time, but let us concisely go through what the Atlanta airport is going through, and then we will have to wrap up the program.
Well, do you want to hold that story for next week?
Well, okay.
Celebrate Diversity Progress 00:01:51
That's a good – and I'll briefly – yes, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
It's a good and important program.
It is.
Sorry, story.
And we forgot to say how to reach us.
Yeah, you know.
And it's always very important.
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And Mr. Kersey is 100% in accordance with me.
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And for anybody who's going to be in Georgia on Monday, the 23rd, I encourage you to sign up and join in celebration of Ahmed Aubrey Day.
As the state of Georgia proclaimed, you can go and you can run 2.23 miles, sir, with the Golden Isle Track Club there in Brunswick, Georgia.
Or you can run in place for 2.2 minutes, and then you'll be just as good.
Yep, we can celebrate Ahmed Arbery without even going to Brunswick, Georgia.
Just celebrate it in your heart and soul.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is always a pleasure to spend this time with you.
It is a joy.
It is an honor.
And we look forward to speaking with you next week.
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