Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - NYT Wrestles With 'Teen Takeovers'
Aired: 2026-05-07
Duration: 01:00:11


=== Chess Rules and Listener Corrections (03:42) ===

[00:00:00]  Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
[00:00:04]  I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
[00:00:06]  With me is my indispensable co host, the one and only Paul Kerzy.
[00:00:11]  And as usual, we will begin with comments from listeners.
[00:00:16]  The first writes in to say, I will nitpick a statement from the last episode by Mr. Taylor that a pawn that makes it across the board to the other side is promoted to queen.
[00:00:28]  That's usually the case.
[00:00:29]  However, there are instances where the player chooses a knight promotion instead.
[00:00:35]  Because it would give either an immediate check or a knight fork, whereas a queen could do neither.
[00:00:43]  Well, that's true.
[00:00:44]  You can promote that pawn to anything you like.
[00:00:47]  That's right.
[00:00:47]  Most of the time, you turn it into a queen.
[00:00:49]  But if you wanted it to be a bishop, I suppose you could do that.
[00:00:52]  But that would be a waste of time.
[00:00:54]  A queen or a knight.
[00:00:56]  Quite so.
[00:00:56]  Quite so, listen.
[00:00:58]  And depending on how well you're doing, you might just decide to say, you know what?
[00:01:02]  The promotion's unnecessary.
[00:01:04]  Leave it a pawn.
[00:01:05]  As a humiliation, you know.
[00:01:09]  Well, except you've lost your pawn because a pawn can't go backwards.
[00:01:12]  That's true.
[00:01:13]  That's a good point.
[00:01:14]  Anyway, I guess if you're really way ahead, you could promote a pawn and say, eh, forget it.
[00:01:18]  You know, I'll beat you anyway.
[00:01:20]  Let's see another comment.
[00:01:22]  I appreciate your efforts on behalf of the white race in America.
[00:01:26]  I'm a Yankee by accident of birth and was taught as a child that the Confederacy was misguided and Abe was a hero.
[00:01:33]  I've since educated myself and concluded the opposite was true.
[00:01:38]  I've lived for over 50 years in the far western reaches of the former Confederacy, southern Arizona.
[00:01:44]  I've heard mention that you, Mr. Taylor, are a descendant of W.H. Taylor, who was on the staff of General Lee as assistant adjutant.
[00:01:55]  Well, I've never made that claim.
[00:01:57]  I don't know about W.H. Taylor.
[00:01:59]  He's probably a fine fellow, and I would probably like to be descended from him, but the Confederate ancestor I usually talk about is William Robertson Boggs.
[00:02:09]  He was chief of staff for E. Kirby Smith in the campaigns west of the Mississippi.
[00:02:16]  He also was a West Point graduate and engineer, and he laid the guns for the first bombardment that opened up the war in Charleston the bombardment, the cannonade against Fort Sumter.
[00:02:31]  But he merely laid the guns.
[00:02:32]  He wasn't there, actually.
[00:02:33]  He had other things to do when the war actually opened.
[00:02:38]  But he did a lot of interesting things.
[00:02:39]  Things.
[00:02:40]  Dean actually wrote a book called The Military Reminiscences of William Robertson Boggs.
[00:02:45]  He's a relatively well known figure among historiographers.
[00:02:49]  But as for W.H. Taylor, as I say, I've never heard that I'm a relative of his, but our listener goes on to say Colonel Taylor is not mentioned by name, but he is mentioned in the Civil War diary of Father James Sheeran, S H E E R A N. Father Sheeran was a Confederate.
[00:03:12]  Catholic chaplain of the 14th Louisiana for the whole war.
[00:03:16]  Listener writes, I am a Catholic with an interest in Civil War history.
[00:03:20]  And if you've not seen this excerpt before, I hope you will read it.
[00:03:22]  And he sent it along, and it is very interesting.
[00:03:25]  I would be amused to claim such a man as my ancestor, but I fear I cannot.
[00:03:29]  Well, ladies and gentlemen, we love to hear from listeners, whether they are chess experts or just have observations of one sort or another, and especially if we have dispensed any kind of error over the air.

=== Redistricting and Consumer Habits (15:20) ===

[00:03:42]  Please set us straight.
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[00:04:03]  Once again, that email address is becausewelivehere at protonmail.com.
[00:04:07]  And if you'd like to be added to the award winning once a week email that comes out from the New Century Foundation, signed by Jared Taylor himself, let us know so we can add you so you can get the digest of all the past week's work that's been done on your behalf.
[00:04:25]  Always happy to add you to our list.
[00:04:28]  Yes, indeed.
[00:04:29]  Now, one of the big stories just this last week has to do with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that racially gerrymandered congressional districts are non constitutional.
[00:04:42]  They've been constitutional for a while, but that's the funny thing about the United States.
[00:04:46]  Things that are constitutional for a while then become unconstitutional, and then they can be constitutional back again, depending on who's doing the interpreting.
[00:04:55]  Now, the law of the land, as laid down by our justices, is that you cannot take race into consideration when jiggering the boundaries of congressional districts.
[00:05:08]  The idea, of course, is that you take race into consideration so that you move the borders around to rope in enough black people, even if you've got a very funny shaped district, so that black people can be the majority or enough of them so as to elect somebody that looks like them, namely black.
[00:05:26]  And it is estimated that.
[00:05:29]  At least 12 to 19 of the black held congressional seats today, of which there are apparently 63, would be threatened or lost under fully race neutral redistricting.
[00:05:44]  So we'll have to see about that.
[00:05:46]  And it is certainly not the case that all of these will be redistricted by the time the midterms come up.
[00:05:53]  However, one of the Republican senators, Eric Schmidt, Of Missouri has been urging the Justice Department to get right on the stick and go after every state that has used race to come up with its congressional district boundary lines.
[00:06:16]  And Assistant Attorney General for DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dillon, responded by saying, Senator, we are on it.
[00:06:23]  So they're going to do their best.
[00:06:25]  Now, of course, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, I guess his name is Charles.
[00:06:31]  I don't feel like calling him Chuck because if he was some buddy of mine, but He called the U.S. Supreme Court ruling a despicable decision that is a return to Jim Crow.
[00:06:42]  In other words, if you don't go out of your way to draw artificial congressional districts so as to make sure that black people become a majority and vote for fellow black people, we're going back to Jim Crow.
[00:06:56]  Or at least that's what a United States senator is telling us.
[00:07:00]  Well, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he will sign quick new legislation to redraw his state's congressional districts.
[00:07:08]  That should give Republicans four more seats.
[00:07:12]  That's quite a little handful in this tight race for seeing who will be a majority in Congress.
[00:07:19]  In Alabama, Governor Kay Ivey has called a special session to reschedule the midterm primaries in the hopes that it will give lawmakers time to rejig their congressional district maps.
[00:07:36]  Now, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, he's in no hurry, but we wouldn't expect that from him.
[00:07:40]  He's sort of a rhino.
[00:07:42]  He said he won't delay any upcoming elections in order to redraw districts, noting only that early voting has already started.
[00:07:51]  But he says, due to the Supreme Court's reading, maps will have to be redrawn in 2028.
[00:07:57]  If I may jump in real quick, Alabama actually successfully has decided to redraw their boundaries, and they voted while there was a tornado warning going on outside.
[00:08:08]  The sirens are sounding.
[00:08:09]  It's an incredible video to watch because the sirens are sounding.
[00:08:13]  There's a massive storm in Montgomery, and they all cast the votes.
[00:08:18]  I'm sure you're going to talk about Tennessee, but Tennessee did the same thing.
[00:08:23]  Either late last year, Yesterday or early this morning, much to the chagrin of a large, well, not just, not just, no, no, Charles Schumer.
[00:08:33]  We aren't on a first name basis.
[00:08:35]  Charles.
[00:08:36]  Yes.
[00:08:37]  Much to the chagrin of a large, dusky population that had gone into the Tennessee Statehouse.
[00:08:44]  I guess what?
[00:08:44]  That's Knoxville, is the capital of Tennessee?
[00:08:47]  Yes.
[00:08:48]  Yes.
[00:08:49]  It's not Nashville.
[00:08:50]  Yeah, it's Knoxville.
[00:08:51]  Great place, actually.
[00:08:52]  That's actually one of the widest metro areas in the county.
[00:08:56]  And as Tennessee has decided to.
[00:08:59]  Cut their one black district, which was in Memphis.
[00:09:05]  I would say this to our listeners if you're starting out, getting ready to graduate from college, Tennessee is not a bad state to look at.
[00:09:14]  Well, tell me this Tennessee has only one black congressman, and that is a congressman from Memphis, and the district is gerrymandered, and he's likely to be out of a job.
[00:09:25]  Is that what you're telling me?
[00:09:27]  Not only am I telling you that, but I'm also going to mention the fact that.
[00:09:30]  It's Stephen Cohen, a white guy.
[00:09:33]  Oh, that's right.
[00:09:34]  Stephen Cohen.
[00:09:35]  Yes.
[00:09:36]  You know, that's right.
[00:09:37]  I've forgotten about him.
[00:09:38]  He applied to join the Black Congressional Congress caucus because he represents a bunch of black guys.
[00:09:44]  They said, nope, we don't care.
[00:09:45]  We don't care how many black people you represent.
[00:09:47]  You could represent no white people.
[00:09:49]  You ain't black.
[00:09:50]  So they wouldn't let him join.
[00:09:52]  That's what happened.
[00:09:55]  But he still loves black people, loves to represent them.
[00:09:58]  But, well, isn't that interesting?
[00:09:59]  Well, he might then change his spots and tell us he's all pro white.
[00:10:05]  And once the district is changed, his campaign might just go in a different direction.
[00:10:11]  He might get elected anyway.
[00:10:12]  We'll see.
[00:10:14]  Again, he's got more of a chance than some of these long term black guys who hardly do any work at all, but they get returned to Congress year after year after year after year.
[00:10:23]  Anyway, it's all quite interesting.
[00:10:24]  12 to 19 black held congressional districts could be on the chopping block on account of this U.S. Supreme Court decision.
[00:10:32]  We really do live under a regime of judges, no question about that.
[00:10:36]  Yes.
[00:10:37]  Well, Mr. Kersey, last week we were running out of time right when I had announced that you were going to tell us about Ann Arbor, Michigan, taking down its last remaining neighborhood watch sign.
[00:10:52]  You know, I decided to kind of do a theme of stories this week, and this comes from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
[00:10:57]  I'm sure.
[00:10:58]  Have you ever been to Ann Arbor?
[00:10:59]  I've never been.
[00:11:00]  I understand it's one of these charming little hippie places.
[00:11:03]  It is a college town, of course.
[00:11:05]  The flagship university of the state of Michigan is located there, the University of Michigan.
[00:11:10]  And it's about 65% white.
[00:11:13]  I forgot the black population amount, but it's insignificant.
[00:11:17]  But they've decided to remove the last of the neighborhood crime watch signs, and they had a ceremony to take it down.
[00:11:27]  This happened as city officials gathered on Princeton Avenue on April 21st for the ceremonial removal of the final sign after weeks of work to remove hundreds of similar signs.
[00:11:40]  Quote, it's great to see the last of these relics of the past come down, said city council member.
[00:11:45]  Jen Iyer, a Democrat representing the Fourth Ward.
[00:11:50]  I guess there's so few relics left of white supremacy that a neighborhood crime watch sign is one of the remaining vestiges that has to be ceremoniously removed.
[00:12:02]  Well, tell me this Is that because there are no more neighborhood crime watches?
[00:12:07]  Is that because there's no more neighborhood crime?
[00:12:09]  Is that what we're celebrating?
[00:12:11]  No, that's actually.
[00:12:14]  Crime has not magically disappeared in Ann Arbor.
[00:12:16]  Oh, shucks.
[00:12:17]  Oh, shucks.
[00:12:18]  And we'll get to that because Iyer.
[00:12:20]  Iyer joined Mayor Christopher Taylor and Councilmember Cynthia N. Harrison, all Democrats, in lifting it out of the ground to be hauled away and recycled.
[00:12:29]  I'm surprised they aren't going to melt it down and turn it into something else, like some Confederate monument taken from Charlottesville and placed in the Mocha in Los Angeles.
[00:12:39]  But, anyways, despite Neighborhood Watch programs being defunct, more than 600 such signs remain throughout the city before the effort to get rid of them.
[00:12:49]  Neighborhood Watch signs are expressions of exclusion.
[00:12:54]  Yeah, we want to exclude criminals.
[00:12:56]  The mayor, Mayor Taylor said, calling their removal a small but important step.
[00:13:01]  Well, the council voted in January to pull $18,000 from the city's cash reserves for the effort, calling the signs outdated relics from when neighborhood watch programs emerged in the 1970s during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change.
[00:13:18]  Research shows that they don't reduce crime and often reinforce racism, council members said.
[00:13:24]  Quote, this idea actually was brought to me from a constituent who was doing a lot of running around the city and noticed these neighborhood watch signs and noticed they weren't connected to any program that's existing in the community, Iyer said.
[00:13:37]  Thus, let's pull some money from the Rainy Day Fund and go ahead and take them all down and have a ceremony to celebrate, I guess, the fact that Ann Arbor is crime free.
[00:13:52]  You know, I bet if they had just put a bounty on the signs, They could have gotten rid of them for a whole lot less.
[00:13:59]  How many thousand dollars did you say?
[00:14:02]  18,000, 600 signs.
[00:14:04]  So, yeah, you do the math.
[00:14:06]  What's that?
[00:14:07]  Uh, 30, 300.
[00:14:09]  That's 300 a sign, 300 a sign.
[00:14:12]  Yeah, yeah, boy, you could have gotten all kinds of bums to bring them in for 50 bucks a sign.
[00:14:18]  You could probably have sold them on eBay.
[00:14:19]  I would have bought one.
[00:14:20]  I love, I love, I love looking at relics from the that are you know anachronisms of a bygone era, and I guess.
[00:14:28]  Trying to warn people that, hey, we're going to watch out for crime because we care about our community.
[00:14:33]  I would think that they certainly reduce crime, even if there is no neighborhood watch.
[00:14:39]  I never much understood those programs.
[00:14:41]  Were they set up originally because there were people appointed on the block to sort of keep an eye out, or they had a network of phone numbers they would call?
[00:14:50]  Do you have any idea how they worked when they really were functioning?
[00:14:53]  No, I've never lived in an area where there were neighborhood watch signs.
[00:14:59]  It's always Funny to go into a community where you are embraced upon entering that neighborhood with the neighborhood watch sign because I immediately think, huh, I'm going to look out for crime.
[00:15:11]  Well, I also think, well, this is probably a pretty safe place.
[00:15:16]  People are on the lookout.
[00:15:17]  They're going to make sure that no miscreants are miscreanting.
[00:15:22]  And so, yeah, I always liked them.
[00:15:25]  You know, good feeling.
[00:15:26]  But anyway, not in hippie happy Ann Arbor.
[00:15:31]  Well, let's see.
[00:15:33]  Here's a story from Chicago.
[00:15:37]  Walgreens has 100 stores in Chicago, and some of them are in high crime neighborhoods.
[00:15:44]  That's a euphemism for something else, but we'll just stick with the euphemism.
[00:15:48]  They are regularly targeted by retail thieves.
[00:15:53]  And Mayor Brandon Johnson has done nothing about this, so Walgreens closed five stores last year.
[00:16:01]  Just can't make money when people don't pay for the merchandise.
[00:16:04]  The company says it can no longer, quote, maintain a secure environment for our team members and customers.
[00:16:11]  I'm sure that's true, but I wish they'd just gone ahead and said, you know, we can't make money when people steal the merchandise.
[00:16:18]  But they said, oh, we're unsafe.
[00:16:20]  That's the common jargon these days.
[00:16:22]  Well, if I may say something real quick, McDonald's has decided to remove all soft drink self serve stations from their stores nationwide.
[00:16:33]  This is tens of thousands of stores because of changing consumer habits.
[00:16:39]  Changing, changing, changing consumer habits.
[00:16:42]  So when I hear this story of this Walgreens closing, whether it's in Chicago or Baltimore or Portland or San Francisco, I think that new euphemism, changing consumer habits, is really just a way to describe thieving blacks.
[00:16:59]  Changing, yes, changing customer habits.
[00:17:02]  Changing consumer, yeah, yeah.
[00:17:04]  Changing consumer.
[00:17:04]  Customer, consumer, yes.
[00:17:06]  Well, this has been happening.
[00:17:09]  Walgreens says, no, we can't keep these stores open, although we can keep certain other ones open in environments where consumer habits are not changing in the same way.
[00:17:18]  But Chicago alderman William Hall.
[00:17:23]  African American, just like the mayor, the do nothing mayor who doesn't call the police when this sort of thing is happening.
[00:17:31]  The alderman held a news conference demanding that Walgreens be prosecuted for a crime that he has invented to be known as first degree corporate abandonment.
[00:17:45]  He says this is going to leave a food desert and a medicine drought.
[00:17:51]  I guess medicines are liquid and foods are solids, but he's going to have a medicine drought.
[00:17:55]  And a food desert in his district.
[00:17:58]  So he's blaming Walgreens.
[00:18:00]  I guess he thinks that Walgreens should stay in no matter what the loss so that his folks can get free food and free medicine.
[00:18:09]  Well, I guess you can't steal the medicine.
[00:18:10]  Well, I guess you can.
[00:18:11]  There's a lot of it you could steal, but not the prescription medicine, I suppose.
[00:18:15]  Although, probably some people walk out with that at gunpoint or something.
[00:18:19]  You pick up your prescription at gunpoint and don't pay for it.
[00:18:22]  And I imagine that happens too.
[00:18:24]  But there was at least one member of the city council, a Democrat, by the name of Raymond Local.
[00:18:31]  A Mexican American.
[00:18:33]  He was more realistic.
[00:18:34]  He says, Where was that anger when the stores in our community were under years and years of assault by criminals allowed to shoplift, vandalize, and destroy neighborhood institutions?
[00:18:45]  There are real world consequences for crime running rampant.
[00:18:50]  Well, fancy that, Mr. Kersey.
[00:18:52]  There are real world consequences for crime running rampant.
[00:18:55]  And good for Raymond Lopez.
[00:18:58]  But this William Hall guy, the alderman who says, Oh, this is Walgreens' fault.

=== State Rep Cunningham Criticized (02:42) ===

[00:19:03]  I mean, Do you think he's stupid or do you think he just thinks we're stupid?
[00:19:06]  Or maybe it's both.
[00:19:08]  But that's his story and he's sticking to it.
[00:19:10]  Well, Mr. Taylor, I'm sure you've read Ayn Rand's The Atlas Shrugged.
[00:19:15]  And that seems like something that one of the antagonists in that book would have tried to do to make it illegal for a businessman to close up shop in an area where things are failing and falling apart.
[00:19:28]  Well, you have to stay open.
[00:19:30]  You know, governments get very shirty when a big company decides to close a factory.
[00:19:37]  The fact that the factory is losing money, that people want too much in salaries and they can't compete.
[00:19:42]  Nope, not good enough.
[00:19:43]  They yell blue murder when that happens.
[00:19:46]  But, yeah, you are not in business to lose money.
[00:19:52]  Now, let's see.
[00:19:53]  Oh, here is another interesting story on an African Americaness this time, who sounds like she is waking up to the dawning light.
[00:20:03]  This is a longtime North Carolina lawmaker.
[00:20:06]  She's in the State House.
[00:20:08]  She has formally broken with the Democrats after siding with Republicans on the question of immigration.
[00:20:15]  This is State Rep Carla Cunningham.
[00:20:18]  She went from Democrat to unaffiliated after more than a decade in office.
[00:20:24]  She says, I came to realize I want to serve the people, not a party.
[00:20:29]  She delivered her speech on the North Carolina State House floor in which she prioritizes American citizens over illegals.
[00:20:38]  If you ask me to line up behind another group of people to raise awareness about their plight, I unapologetically say no.
[00:20:46]  Says she, it's time to turn the conveyor belt off.
[00:20:50]  What words of wisdom, Mr. Kersey!
[00:20:53]  She goes on to say, all cultures are not equal, and she argues that assimilation should be a requirement for immigration.
[00:21:04]  Now, I think this is.
[00:21:06]  I congratulate Carla Cunningham.
[00:21:09]  The fact is, I don't understand whether or not more blacks who are dead set against this liberal, loony, Democrat notion.
[00:21:17]  Of immigration.
[00:21:19]  It is not at all in the interest of black constituents to have their jobs taken, their welfare benefits taken by these louts who come in from overseas.
[00:21:29]  And if Democrats really had any interest in serving their black constituents, they'd all be dead set against it, too.
[00:21:37]  So, congratulations, Carla Cunningham.
[00:21:40]  And I wish there were more black legislators just like her.

=== Medical School Admissions Debate (08:25) ===

[00:21:45]  Now, Mr. Kersey, you sent in a long and dreary, depressing.
[00:21:50]  Story about the nightmare of U.S. medical schools.
[00:21:54]  Could you give us the highlights or the lowlights?
[00:21:57]  Well, it's from Compact Magazine.
[00:22:00]  We talked about this magazine before in laudatory terms when we discussed a writer who could not find work within Hollywood, within script writing.
[00:22:11]  And he lamented that due to the Great Awakening, whatever you want to call it, white guys could barely find jobs within that industry and the colossal opportunity cost that.
[00:22:24]  We're associated with that.
[00:22:25]  So, this is a piece that I encourage all of our listeners to read.
[00:22:30]  Again, it's in Compact Magazine Medicine Without Merit by Forrest Boyler.
[00:22:35]  I'll read a couple paragraphs and then I'll distill down from a great Twitter thread that I'm looking at right now with the key highlights from it.
[00:22:44]  He writes this in first person When I applied to medical school in the midst of the pandemic and in the wake of the death of George Floyd, I had reason to think I was a competitive applicant, particularly for my state's public medical school, which favors in state candidates with strong academic records.
[00:22:59]  I didn't assume I was entitled to admission, but I thought I would get in somewhere.
[00:23:04]  I didn't.
[00:23:06]  So I did what failed applicants are told to do.
[00:23:09]  I sought feedback.
[00:23:10]  Eventually, I spoke with an admissions officer at one of the schools that rejected me.
[00:23:14]  He told me that I was extremely qualified and had everything the school looked for in an applicant.
[00:23:18]  He said he couldn't give me a concrete reason I wasn't accepted, other than that I didn't fit the demographic the school was prioritizing, and that other applicants were viewed as having traveled a longer distance to medicine.
[00:23:33]  My application, he said, was evaluated through that lens.
[00:23:38]  Mr. Taylor traveled a longer distance.
[00:23:44]  Yeah, they think of all sorts of odd expressions to say back of the bus.
[00:23:49]  Why do you don't they?
[00:23:51]  Well, I'm sure there are a lot of closed Walgreens and McDonald's without self serving Coke machines as they travel that distance to get to medical school.
[00:24:00]  That conversation unsettled me in a way that I didn't immediately recognize.
[00:24:03]  I was being told I was qualified, capable, and deserving, but simultaneously that those qualities were not enough due to certain immutable qualities.
[00:24:11]  Characteristics.
[00:24:13]  I have spent years learning about discrimination as something that had happened to other people.
[00:24:17]  Nothing in my education prepared me to think that it could happen to people like me.
[00:24:22]  Here's where he cuts down to it.
[00:24:23]  And again, it's because he's a white male.
[00:24:26]  White man, white man.
[00:24:27]  He's a white man.
[00:24:28]  He's a white man.
[00:24:29]  That's, you know what?
[00:24:32]  Thank you for correcting me.
[00:24:34]  People just get into that terrible habit.
[00:24:37]  We're white males.
[00:24:38]  No, no, no, no.
[00:24:39]  We're white men.
[00:24:40]  Come on.
[00:24:41]  But white men both capitalize!
[00:24:45]  According to the data from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the academic thresholds required for acceptance differ substantially between racial groups.
[00:24:54]  The average MCAT score of a white applicant who is accepted in the medical school is 512.4, approximately the 85th percentile nationally.
[00:25:03]  By contrast, the average MCAT score for accepted American Indian applicants is 502.2, 56th percentile.
[00:25:11]  For accepted black applicants, 505.7, 67th percentile, and for accepted Hispanic applicants, 506.4, 69th percentile.
[00:25:24]  Goes into great detail on more of the mathematics behind excluding whites, but here's what he really focuses on.
[00:25:35]  One second.
[00:25:36]  Well, isn't it the case that whites who are rejected have considerably higher MCAT scores than blacks, Indians, and Hispanics who are accepted?
[00:25:47]  That's exactly true.
[00:25:48]  Yeah.
[00:25:49]  American Indians going to medical school have MCATs in a whopping 10 points below the average white.
[00:25:55]  Obviously, again, which goes into there was one anecdote that I wanted to pull out here where he talks about.
[00:26:05]  Again, this is just another brilliant piece that is being shared on social media that I urge all of our listeners to check out.
[00:26:12]  He actually did, he actually does get into school and he shares this one story.
[00:26:20]  Let's see here.
[00:26:21]  I was expected to.
[00:26:21]  Yeah, he says once you're in, it's just as bad.
[00:26:25]  The story of what it's like once he's in is incredible.
[00:26:28]  And I almost don't want to give it away, but he talks about how.
[00:26:32]  Oh, give it away.
[00:26:33]  Give it away.
[00:26:33]  Okay.
[00:26:34]  I was expected to participate enthusiastically in frameworks that portrayed my demographic as morally suspect, to internalize narratives in which my achievements were implicitly discounted, and to affirm values that often excluded me by design.
[00:26:49]  After a mass shooting, a perceptor launched.
[00:26:52]  Into a tirade about how white men were a danger to society.
[00:26:55]  On an audition rotation in the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, I watched resident physicians share footage of him bleeding after being shot in the neck, presenting it as a surprise for those who had not yet seen it.
[00:27:08]  One person joked about hoping the physician attempting to save Kirk would be a pregnant female surgeon of color about to get an abortion.
[00:27:15]  The following day in the operating room with an attending surgeon and resident, I watched as the resident described Kirk as a misogynistic, fascist, white nationalist pig who had gotten exactly what he advocated for.
[00:27:27]  Now, that passage precedes a very important one, Mr. Taylor, and we'll close with this.
[00:27:33]  In medical education, more diversity means fewer white men.
[00:27:37]  In 2014, white men made up roughly 31% of U.S. medical students, a figure closely aligned with their share of the national population.
[00:27:45]  If the stated goal of equity initiatives in medicine were for the field to achieve roughly proportional representation of the national population, that number would not have been treated as a problem in need of correction.
[00:27:57]  And yet, over the following decade, it fell substantially.
[00:28:01]  By 2025, white men accounted for just 20.5% of medical students.
[00:28:07]  A 30.6% decrease, placing the demographic well below its population share.
[00:28:14]  That to me is one of the, again, that little nugget is buried in this very personal story that Forrest shares.
[00:28:22]  But that's an extraordinary number to show you the effectiveness of the woke tidal wave that has capsized America.
[00:28:31]  If you deliberately keep out well qualified white people, you can achieve that.
[00:28:38]  If you just set the standards differently for your pets, You could make sure that you whittle down the white man population among doctors to zero if you wanted.
[00:28:49]  Nothing to stop them except for the U.S. Justice Department these days.
[00:28:54]  You know, for years, I thought that at least medical schools and airline pilot training programs would be the one place where they would quietly say to themselves, this diversity nonsense.
[00:29:08]  Let other people chase that stuff.
[00:29:09]  But we really need to be serious.
[00:29:11]  We're talking about lives here.
[00:29:13]  But nope, they have marched right into that with their eyes just as firmly closed as any HR department in the country.
[00:29:24]  It's astonishing.
[00:29:25]  You think people, really, if the idea is to save lives, the idea is to make sure that you're training people who know what's going to kill you, know what's going to save you, that you'd want people who were competent.
[00:29:36]  But no, they want their own pets, and their own pets are anybody but white men.
[00:29:42]  I wonder if being a poof is a qualification.
[00:29:45]  Does he talk about that at all?
[00:29:48]  I'll have to take control F and type in poof, but I'll use a different word.
[00:29:52]  No, Joe.
[00:29:53]  Hold on.
[00:29:54]  Hold on.
[00:29:56]  You're one of the few people who use that.
[00:29:58]  No, it's when I type in some.
[00:30:02]  Some G A Y. Some synonyms for some synonyms.
[00:30:05]  Yeah.
[00:30:06]  No, I don't like to use that word.
[00:30:08]  I typed in homosexual.

=== Bond Conditions and Plea Deals (03:34) ===

[00:30:10]  That didn't pop up at all.
[00:30:11]  Let's see.
[00:30:12]  Gay doesn't.
[00:30:12]  Nothing happy about this article.
[00:30:14]  No, I mean, again, it's funny you said that HR agencies had their eyes wide shut.
[00:30:19]  I would disagree with that assessment.
[00:30:21]  I think their eyes are wide open.
[00:30:22]  To find any white guy and say, hey, I'm sorry, you're back at the bus, pal.
[00:30:30]  You're not allowed here.
[00:30:32]  And gleefully welcome in anybody who doesn't share those immutable characteristics.
[00:30:40]  I like that way Forrest described that in that piece.
[00:30:43]  Well, the terrible defect of being white.
[00:30:46]  And with the additional terrible defect of being a man, good grief, what could be worse?
[00:30:52]  Well, here's a story from Minnesota.
[00:30:57]  And it's about a defendant in one of Minnesota's biggest Medicaid fraud cases.
[00:31:02]  These things amount to the millions, you know.
[00:31:04]  And he's going to avoid jail time under a plea deal.
[00:31:09]  This agreement will allow Saeed Aweel Ibrahim to walk free provided he helps the authorities find an alleged co conspirator who buggered off after being granted bond.
[00:31:23]  Well, this Ibrahim guy pleaded guilty on May 1st to nearly $11 million fraud case.
[00:31:31]  But he was prosecuted by, guess who?
[00:31:34]  Minnesota's Democrat Attorney General Keith Ellison.
[00:31:39]  So I think they had kind of a racial bonding over this case.
[00:31:42]  What do you guess?
[00:31:44]  In any case, Ibrahim will get five years of just supervised probation, and he's agreed to repay $2.2 million through a payment plan.
[00:31:53]  You know, if you run off with so much money that you got $2.2 million in the bank that you can pony up, that you stole, boy, oh boy, whether it is tax fraud, Or some kind of embezzlement, you go to the big house for a while, but not this guy.
[00:32:10]  He will cooperate with investigators trying to track down his co defendant, a guy named Abdirashid Ismail, who is believed to have fled to Kenya.
[00:32:23]  Kazoon type, by the way.
[00:32:24]  Well, yes, thank you.
[00:32:25]  Thank you.
[00:32:25]  Yes.
[00:32:27]  Abdirashid.
[00:32:29]  Yes.
[00:32:30]  Yeah, you do need to blow your nose after that.
[00:32:33]  He fled to Kenya after missing a court appearance.
[00:32:35]  Hennepin County District Judge.
[00:32:38]  Juan Hoyos.
[00:32:40]  He's not Somali, but I guess he's sort of an honorary Somali with a name like that.
[00:32:46]  He granted Abiy Rashid a $150,000 bond despite warnings from law enforcement that he posed a flight risk, and one of the terms of Saeed's release allowed him to retain his passport.
[00:33:02]  Now, what in heaven's name is going on?
[00:33:06]  You know, the more you follow the news about crime and you Just roll your eyes at the extraordinary decisions judges make.
[00:33:16]  This guy, he can post bond, keep his passport, despite the fact that the prosecutor is saying, Look, look, look, he ain't going to stick around for this.
[00:33:25]  He'd rather lose his $150,000 bond payment than have to pony up millions in fines and maybe even go to jail.
[00:33:33]  No, they let him go.
[00:33:35]  They let him go.
[00:33:36]  And all of these judges who will let some guy go after his 50th arrest, They won't really take it seriously until he actually kills somebody.

=== AFD Majority in Germany (04:29) ===

[00:33:45]  I mean, assaulting people and holding them up at gunpoint, none of that matters.
[00:33:49]  If he kills somebody, oh, well, maybe we'll hold on to him.
[00:33:53]  This is just astonishing.
[00:33:54]  The judges deserve hanging just as much as the criminals.
[00:33:59]  But let's see, moving on to Germany.
[00:34:03]  Election polling suggests that in the German state of Sachsen Anhalt, the alternative for Deutschland is edging towards an absolute majority.
[00:34:16]  This is really unusual in European politics.
[00:34:19]  We have all of these parties.
[00:34:22]  The latest polls have the AFD at 41%, gaining ground very rapidly.
[00:34:29]  Next is the Christian Democratic Union.
[00:34:31]  That's a sort of a semi conservative.
[00:34:33]  That's 26%.
[00:34:35]  And then coming after that is the Left Party at 12%, and then all the Greens and the SPD and the unknowns.
[00:34:43]  They're just straggling in at low numbers.
[00:34:46]  But this is just fantastic news.
[00:34:49]  They could come in with an absolute majority.
[00:34:51]  And even if they polled only 41%, can you imagine that?
[00:34:54]  It would be very hard for all the other parties to get together and say, well, no, we're going to keep these guys out.
[00:35:00]  I think if they had 41% and the Christian Democrats had 26%, it would be very hard for Christian Democrats to say, well, okay, we're going to make an alliance with all these other lefty, greeny parties and keep you guys out.
[00:35:12]  And of course, they won't have that problem at all if they get an absolute majority.
[00:35:18]  Is that in East Germany or West Germany?
[00:35:20]  That's in East Germany.
[00:35:21]  Okay.
[00:35:22]  It's always in these East German places where they didn't have the poisons of American woke nonsense.
[00:35:29]  They were protected by that barrier we used to call the Iron Curtain, kept them healthy.
[00:35:34]  And then the elections are going to be held September 6th.
[00:35:38]  That's coming up pretty soon.
[00:35:39]  It'll be very, very interesting to see how they do.
[00:35:42]  And then two weeks after that, the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern will vote.
[00:35:50]  And the AFD looks very strong, too.
[00:35:52]  Now, we'll see if in Sachsen Anhalt the AFD comes in with an absolute majority.
[00:35:59]  They run the government.
[00:36:01]  Won't it be fascinating to see how the twits that run the rest of the country react to the people's choice?
[00:36:08]  This is the will of the people.
[00:36:09]  These are the idiots who want to illegalize and ban AFD because they don't like the cut of its jib.
[00:36:16]  Astonishing stuff.
[00:36:17]  But slowly, slowly, slowly, even in Germany, the most beaten down and humiliated country in the world at this point, people are waking up and saying, nope, we do not want to be replaced.
[00:36:29]  This is great news.
[00:36:31]  Hooray for the Germans.
[00:36:32]  Deutschland, Uber alles.
[00:36:34]  Well, it's ground zero for just the most insane post World War II State Department, gay race communism, whatever you want to call it.
[00:36:43]  It was all focused, laser focused on Germany and, you know, obviously West Europe.
[00:36:48]  And it's exciting to see what's happening.
[00:36:50]  I do have a question.
[00:36:52]  Have you encountered in your travels to Europe, do they ever send anyone to these events from the AFD?
[00:36:58]  Oh, yeah, they sure do.
[00:36:59]  They sure do.
[00:37:00]  The AFD.
[00:37:01]  Well, see, the AFD is quite interesting.
[00:37:03]  They have a national party and then they have the Party in the various states, Lander, as they're called in Germany.
[00:37:10]  And the AFD tends to be organized differently from Lander to Lander.
[00:37:16]  And in the East, they've got really sensible, hard headed people who say, all these foreigners, they got to go.
[00:37:24]  And they have AFD elected representatives that show up at these remigration summits.
[00:37:29]  It's great.
[00:37:30]  It's great.
[00:37:31]  At the national level, they tend to be a little bit more circumspect.
[00:37:34]  But this lesbian.
[00:37:38]  A woman who is married to a Sri Lankan, Alice Wiedel, who is the head of the party.
[00:37:44]  I really don't understand why they have this person running the party.
[00:37:48]  She actually talks good sense about keeping Germany German.
[00:37:53]  So we need all the friends we can get, and so we should not complain.
[00:37:57]  Yes, AFD, I think they're doing absolutely great, but partly, of course, is because Germany, the people who run the place, have just shoved diversity and all the very worst aspects of it down.
[00:38:09]  Everybody's throat everywhere, Germans are finally had enough.

=== Teen Takeovers and Legal Status (17:42) ===

[00:38:15]  Well, let's see, here's a story about our new Pope.
[00:38:19]  Pope Leo, Leo XIV, has appointed a man who entered the United States illegally, hidden in the trunk of a car, as the new Bishop of West Virginia.
[00:38:32]  I'm sure he'll be very popular in West Virginia.
[00:38:35]  This new bishop's name is Evelio Menhivar Ayala.
[00:38:40]  He sneaked in the United States in 1990.
[00:38:44]  After two failed attempts, hindered by deportation, he got bounced once.
[00:38:50]  And the second time, there's a guy who deserted his migrant group and left them hanging.
[00:38:55]  He finally got in on his third try, as I say, smuggled in in the trunk of a car.
[00:39:00]  What a way for a Catholic bishop to start his career in the United States!
[00:39:05]  He soon got temporary protective status because he was, quote, fleeing violence.
[00:39:11]  He entered seminary and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.
[00:39:16]  That was about 2004.
[00:39:18]  And he naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2006.
[00:39:20]  Now, I don't know quite what the process was.
[00:39:23]  From TPS, you don't automatically get naturalized.
[00:39:26]  But in 2023, he became the first Salvadoran bishop in the whole of the United States of America, serving in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.
[00:39:35]  He has publicly urged Catholics, believe it or not, Mr. Kersey, to oppose Donald Trump's immigration policies.
[00:39:43]  Well, it's right there in the Bible, you know.
[00:39:45]  Defund ICE.
[00:39:47]  I think that's in the book of Leviticus.
[00:39:50]  But, Mr. Kersey, I think you have a story about.
[00:39:54]  Maybe Ecclesiastes?
[00:39:54]  I don't know.
[00:39:55]  Sorry.
[00:39:55]  That sounds ecclesiastical.
[00:39:57]  Yes.
[00:39:58]  Yeah.
[00:39:58]  Sorry.
[00:39:59]  I was trying to remember my Old Testament.
[00:40:01]  Yeah.
[00:40:02]  Maybe it's the New Testament.
[00:40:03]  You never know.
[00:40:04]  I don't think the Romans, Epistle to the Romans, none of the Romans would have believed in ice.
[00:40:09]  But anyway, Mr. Kersey, you have a story about Los Angeles and just yet another step towards insanity in that already insane city.
[00:40:19]  Keeping with the theme.
[00:40:20]  Keeping with the theme because it's important that people understand that although, as you've said, these might be the golden days we look back upon with all the stuff that's happening with.
[00:40:29]  The Department of Justice, ICE, DHS, Trump trying to roll back the anti white mandates that have persisted for so long.
[00:40:38]  Unfortunately, in very, very blue places, they are swimming in these policies still.
[00:40:49]  The Los Angeles City Council voted to limit pretextual stops by police that had been blamed for racial disparities in traffic enforcement.
[00:40:58]  It's not going to change the way the LAPD's policy, but requires the police commission to take up the matter.
[00:41:03]  The LAPD chief and others have defended the stops as an essential law enforcement tool against guns, gangs, and drugs.
[00:41:11]  Well, what happened?
[00:41:13]  Yesterday, on May 6th, they voted in favor of new restrictions on, like I said, so called pretextual traffic stops, signaling a growing impatience with the police commission's failure to rein in a controversial LAPD tactic that critics say enables racial discrimination.
[00:41:30]  Okay.
[00:41:31]  The vote requests that the department's all civilian watchdog.
[00:41:35]  Adopt new guidelines similar to San Francisco.
[00:41:37]  There's a great city to replicate when it comes to anything criminal justice related, which bars police officers from pulling people over for broken taillights and other minor equipment violations unless there's a safety threat.
[00:41:52]  You know, this type of enforcement goes along with broken windows policing.
[00:41:55]  If you don't tolerate this kind of stuff, odds are that people who don't take care of their cars, Mr. Taylor, probably don't have car insurance.
[00:42:04]  They're probably not paying their taxes.
[00:42:06]  They're probably not up to date with.
[00:42:08]  You know, their car registration.
[00:42:09]  Well, and the other statistical fact is they are, it's the people who behave that way, just as you describe, who are often criminals.
[00:42:18]  And there's probably more likely to be wired up for their arrest rather than somebody who's driving around in a brand new, recently washed Mercedes.
[00:42:28]  Unless that's, unless, you know, if they're brand new, but then not recently washed, then that's a suggestion that they've been stolen.
[00:42:37]  That is a telltale sign, right?
[00:42:38]  Board of Police Commissioners, get this done.
[00:42:40]  We're watching.
[00:42:41]  No excuses, said Councilmember Imelda Padilla, who shared stories of her late father being stopped by police with no explanation.
[00:42:50]  This is what this generation wants.
[00:42:52]  Yes, the ability to drive around unimpeded by police.
[00:42:55]  Mr. Kersey, these protective stops always have a reason, though.
[00:43:01]  They do.
[00:43:01]  They do.
[00:43:02]  This is nonsense.
[00:43:03]  The guy that died, he was stopped for no reason.
[00:43:05]  Well, okay.
[00:43:07]  That's probably not even true.
[00:43:09]  All these tales of racism, I'm deeply skeptical of them.
[00:43:14]  You get some non white who goes on and on about how, oh, when I was in seventh grade, my teacher told me that no black person has ever been able to count past 20.
[00:43:23]  So I'll have no chance.
[00:43:25]  I've never met one, actually.
[00:43:26]  No, I'm joking.
[00:43:27]  This stuff is all just baloney.
[00:43:29]  And the whole idea of protectual stops is there is something.
[00:43:32]  Is it a taillight out or something is not right?
[00:43:35]  So that's just complete baloney.
[00:43:37]  Yeah.
[00:43:38]  A be a baby.
[00:43:39]  License plate isn't, yeah.
[00:43:40]  The registration isn't updated for the current year.
[00:43:42]  If the new policy is adopted, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, LAPD officers would be prohibited from stopping motorists, bicyclists, or pedestrians for minor violations, except in cases where the violation poses a significant and imminent safety risk.
[00:43:57]  I mean, ultimately, the question is why is there a police force in LA?
[00:44:01]  I mean, that's fundamentally where they're headed.
[00:44:04]  The unanimous vote followed sometimes emotional testimony at a city council meeting from Angelenos about how their lives had been shaken by discriminatory traffic stops and searches.
[00:44:18]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:44:21]  Several speakers pointed to a growing body of research showing that minor stops disproportionately affect black and brown motorists and do little to combat violent crime while eroding public trust.
[00:44:32]  Now, in recent years, there have been several high profile traffic stops that resulted in officers or drivers being killed.
[00:44:38]  The current LAPD policy in place since 2022 requires officers to record themselves on their body worn cameras, stating the reason for suspecting a more serious crime had occurred when making a stop for a minor infraction.
[00:44:51]  Mr. Taylor, last time I checked, Los Angeles is 27% white.
[00:44:55]  So, just by simple mathematics alone, you'd be able to determine that the majority of the people pulled over are going to be non white.
[00:45:03]  They're going to be brown or black people.
[00:45:05]  Well, these days, of course, probably a majority of the police officers are non white, but they're all racist too, so long as they're stopping non whites.
[00:45:14]  Los Angeles, up until George Floyd, they actually published something.
[00:45:17]  It was hard to find, but they would publish data which broke down, not to the extent that New York City does, but you could still find some pretty comprehensive data.
[00:45:26]  On non fatal and fatal and homicides in the city.
[00:45:31]  And they ceased publishing that the year of George Floyd in 2020.
[00:45:37]  That stuff gets embarrassing, you know.
[00:45:39]  The truth is very deeply embarrassing to our non white brethren.
[00:45:44]  It is.
[00:45:45]  It's definitely not Mark Furman's LAPD anymore, which is, you know, this is where we are.
[00:45:51]  And this is a reminder to the guys that wokeness is not dying in Ann Arbor and New York City and Los Angeles and Chicago.
[00:46:00]  They're going to make you keep your Walgreens open.
[00:46:05]  Yep.
[00:46:06]  Good.
[00:46:06]  Yes.
[00:46:07]  Good chance of that.
[00:46:09]  Well, now here is another story, sort of along the same lines from Canada.
[00:46:17]  There was a recently leaked report that was compiled by people in the Canadian Armed Forces.
[00:46:25]  And I'll read you a few excerpts.
[00:46:28]  A block of new trainees was plagued by.
[00:46:32]  Allegations of racism and infighting between cultural groups within the unit, such as African people from Cameroon fighting against people from Cote d'Ivoire.
[00:46:45]  Now, isn't that nice?
[00:46:46]  They have enough Cameroonian Africans and enough Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast Africans, so that they get little gangs that fight each other.
[00:46:58]  A significant number of permanent resident recruits, these are people who have the right.
[00:47:03]  To live in Canada but do not have Canadian citizenship, they can sign up for the armed forces, you see.
[00:47:09]  They don't have to be citizens, but they have to be there legally.
[00:47:12]  A significant number had unrealistic expectations of life in the Canadian Armed Forces, including the likelihood that they might be posted outside their hometowns.
[00:47:23]  A surprising number believed that they would simply go home after basic training.
[00:47:29]  I guess they had no idea they might be assigned someplace else.
[00:47:33]  They're just going to go home and be soldiers.
[00:47:35]  I guess they're just going to repel all borders in their apartment building.
[00:47:40]  The report cited other cultural issues, particularly among officer training.
[00:47:46]  For some, this is the first time they've been expected to treat women as their peers.
[00:47:52]  And I guess they don't, Mr. Kersey.
[00:47:55]  And here's an example of an ordained Anglican minister who was enrolled as an artillery officer, leading to questions about what career counseling he was provided.
[00:48:08]  He was ultimately unsuccessful in officer training due to his discomfort with handling a service rifle.
[00:48:18]  Got that?
[00:48:19]  I guess here is an ordained Anglican minister.
[00:48:26]  And the very idea of holding a rifle gave him such jitters that he washed out of artillery officer training.
[00:48:33]  Now, good grief, I would think that being around a piece of artillery would give you more jitters than holding a service rifle in your hand.
[00:48:41]  But then let's see, this platoon where Africans fought each other reportedly consisted of 83% immigrants.
[00:48:50]  And almost half were washed out because they failed their training.
[00:48:56]  Now, of course, what they're going to do is lower the requirements and keep them in despite their failures in meeting what used to be standards.
[00:49:06]  That's the Canadian Army for you, boys and girls.
[00:49:09]  I think just as well that they're not lining up to go fighting in any wars.
[00:49:16]  Now, here is, well, let's see.
[00:49:20]  Yeah, we've got time.
[00:49:22]  I think while we're at it, I'd like you.
[00:49:25]  To go into the story about how the New York Times is wrestling morally with the problem that it describes as teen takeovers.
[00:49:35]  Well, Mr. Taylor and ladies and gentlemen, this was on the cover of the May 7th, 2026 New York Times.
[00:49:44]  What are teen takeovers and why are police struggling to stop them?
[00:49:48]  Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize.
[00:49:59]  And blow off steam.
[00:50:01]  Now, I did the old Control F button to find out.
[00:50:05]  I wonder how long it's going to take for them to mention the fact that it's largely black teens.
[00:50:10]  You have to go down 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 paragraphs to get to the fact that some of the panic over teen takeovers has echoes and worries over wilding in the late 1980s.
[00:50:30]  Super predators in the 1990s.
[00:50:32]  There was a lot of dog whistling there about the fact that there are black kids who are gathering together in these large groups and we should be afraid of them, Mr. Steinberg said, one of the individuals who'd been quoted.
[00:50:44]  Again, so 26 paragraphs in, they finally come clean and at least hint in a roundabout way that these teens are blacks.
[00:50:54]  Yes.
[00:50:54]  So again, immediately you talk about burying the most important aspect of the story because I'm sure if any of our listeners have been on social media, you've seen stories going from carnivals in New Jersey to Six Flags over St. Louis, uh, having to shut down early or cancel their festivities because of these black teen takeovers, the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., all across the nation.
[00:51:22]  The common denominator, the common factor is something that our late.
[00:51:27]  Great friend Colin Flaherty would say, Hey, you know, it's don't make the black kids angry.
[00:51:33]  And he also used to say, They never let you down.
[00:51:37]  They never let you down.
[00:51:38]  Well, here's just the first couple paragraphs, and then you can go and read the rest.
[00:51:43]  But just do Control F in the story, 26th, 27th paragraph, you actually get to the meat of the story.
[00:51:50]  As the school year draws to a close, the perennial worry about teenage misbehavior and how to keep youth occupied in the summer has a new name with ominous undertones.
[00:52:00]  Teen takeovers.
[00:52:02]  In Detroit, Chicago, and Atlanta, huh, the nation's capital and elsewhere, large, quickly organized gatherings of youths have popped up in downtowns, parks, and leafy neighborhoods.
[00:52:12]  They can be noisy, boisterous, and at times violent, their impact often amplified on television, especially in conservative media outlets like Fox News.
[00:52:21]  And city leaders have begun to pay attention more.
[00:52:25]  It's gotten worse when it comes to the bad behavior, Larry Snelling, the superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, said in an interview.
[00:52:32]  Kids just start to fight, so they get increasingly more violent.
[00:52:36]  Again, you got to.
[00:52:38]  It's just kids, just kids.
[00:52:40]  You know, these are probably, they go to Hotchkiss School and they go to the French School in Washington, D.C., but they get bored and they just start fighting, these kids, poor kids.
[00:52:51]  Yeah.
[00:52:51]  And again, there's an effort to, someone wrote this, one of the paragraphs.
[00:52:58]  Black and Latino youth gatherings are more likely to be assumed as criminal, said.
[00:53:02]  Kristen Hinnig, a Georgetown University law professor who specializes in juvenile justice.
[00:53:08]  White children in skate parks in the 1980s and 1990s did not generate nearly the same level of surveillance and arrest as black gatherings, she said.
[00:53:17]  Well, that's because those white juveniles who were skating in skateboard parks in the 1980s and 1990s weren't engaging in crime and shooting one another spontaneously.
[00:53:26]  So.
[00:53:27]  Ah, that's your editorializing.
[00:53:31]  That is.
[00:53:31]  You can't expect the New York Times to say anything as sensible as that.
[00:53:37]  Oh, boy.
[00:53:40]  Eventually, I think even New York Times readers.
[00:53:42]  Well, did you manage to look through the comments?
[00:53:46]  Because sometimes, if you see a Times story and you drop down to the comments, their readers are more on the ball than their writers.
[00:53:55]  Unfortunately, to read comments nowadays, you have to be a subscriber.
[00:54:00]  I actually had to go to removepaywall.com to be able to even access the entire article.
[00:54:06]  And there is one more funny paragraph I'll read here.
[00:54:08]  Yes, yes, please.
[00:54:10]  Doesn't mean concerns over rowdy teen gatherings are confided to white people or conservative media outlets.
[00:54:16]  Small business owners and neighbors of all kinds are vexed.
[00:54:24]  Oh my goodness.
[00:54:25]  They're vexed.
[00:54:27]  Oh, those awful people.
[00:54:28]  They're vexed.
[00:54:30]  I almost misread that as vax.
[00:54:32]  But, anyways, quote, of course, by the way, there is an inoculation for all small businesses and neighbors to not have to worry about this.
[00:54:40]  And that's being honest about who's doing this and put in measures to.
[00:54:43]  Preclude these types of black engagements to take place by simply saying, We're not going to let these people in here.
[00:54:51]  But, anyways.
[00:54:52]  The other thing, apparently, is just put on classical music, and that scares my way.
[00:54:56]  As loud as it can be.
[00:54:58]  Quote, every bar and every restaurant, corner store, or hamburger shop, or pizza slice place, they want customers, and customers don't come back when there are kids jumping up on top of hoods of cars, running down the street, knocking people over, threatening people, said Chuck Thies, a political consultant in Washington, D.C., who advised a former mayor, Vincent Gray.
[00:55:19]  Again, then it talks about how D.C. has been undeceived by these.
[00:55:24]  Black teen takeovers, largely in the gentrified Navy Yard area around where the Nationals play and where there's a lot of nice outdoor restaurants and music venues that have popped up because the city started gentrifying.
[00:55:40]  But again, America has, as McDonald's found out and as Walgreens in Chicago found out, changing consumer habits basically create food deserts and restaurant deserts and entertainment deserts for us all because we can't be honest about who's doing these teen takeovers.
[00:55:56]  Hint at blacks.

=== Social Constructs and Behavior (04:13) ===

[00:55:57]  Yes, changing teen habits too.
[00:56:01]  Even blacks, of course, they didn't behave like this 20, 30 years ago.
[00:56:05]  This is kind of a new thing.
[00:56:06]  I think it has to do with social media.
[00:56:09]  This way, you can whip up a flash mob much more easily.
[00:56:13]  If you had to get on the phone and call your pals and wait in line because your sister was on the phone with her boyfriend, you just couldn't get 500 people all of a sudden in downtown Baltimore.
[00:56:23]  But this way, it's easy.
[00:56:25]  It's easy.
[00:56:26]  They can go on a rampage just at a moment's notice.
[00:56:29]  Well, I mean, again, in the 1990s, I guess that's when Midnight Basketball popped up.
[00:56:32]  So this was going on at that time, but you're right.
[00:56:35]  There wasn't the extent of Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram to be able to create these spontaneous episodes of blackness.
[00:56:47]  The fundamental fact is you get enough black people, really of any age, but you get enough black people, and there's going to be trouble.
[00:56:56]  That's the long and the short of it.
[00:56:57]  The police know this.
[00:56:59]  The police.
[00:57:00]  I remember reading some confidential internal document of some police department.
[00:57:04]  It said, at a rap concert, you've got to have five times the number of police officers as you would have at a country and western concert.
[00:57:12]  They know.
[00:57:13]  They know.
[00:57:14]  And even, let's face it, even the people who write for the New York Times know.
[00:57:20]  But they just can't bear to do anything but tiptoe around the truth.
[00:57:24]  It's just so pathetic and pitiful.
[00:57:25]  Anyway, let's see.
[00:57:29]  It ends with a very funny anecdote from Atlanta.
[00:57:32]  And there are these two.
[00:57:33]  These two black teens who were interviewed, Hallie Irvine, 17, and Devin Mitchell, 16, delivered a speech in March to the Atlanta City Council titled Reimagining Third Spaces at a conference for the city's public school students.
[00:57:46]  In front of school members, school board members, superintendent, and aides for Mayor Andre Dickens, Ms. Irving and Mr. Mitchell argued that teenagers needed their own spaces modeled after co working spots downtown to do homework and art projects, host charity events, and hold pop up shops to sell goods and services.
[00:58:03]  What?
[00:58:04]  I guess she didn't mention the fact that they're going to sell goods that have already been stolen from other places.
[00:58:09]  I don't know.
[00:58:09]  But and charity events.
[00:58:11]  I mean, what?
[00:58:12]  Anyways, the mayor's chief of staff awarded the black duo a $50,000 grant to help make this concept happen.
[00:58:19]  Oh, for heaven's sake.
[00:58:23]  Well, they'll be selling goods all right.
[00:58:25]  I can see just where they're going to make some kills.
[00:58:27]  You know, they're going to be selling goods $50,000.
[00:58:30]  That's a nice start in business.
[00:58:33]  Here's the ultimate quote, though, to finish the story.
[00:58:35]  Yes.
[00:58:37]  The black teen, Hallie Irving, says the issue is having to deal with being seen as a criminal when you're trying to access fun as a kid.
[00:58:45]  There are issues with safety when safety isn't adequately built for you.
[00:58:53]  You know, that reminds me of this was after some riot in Baltimore.
[00:59:00]  And I believe it was the New York Times, the Washington Post, I can't remember which.
[00:59:04]  It interviews some guy, and he's looking around at these blasted neighborhoods and he says, Is this all we get?
[00:59:11]  Is this all we get?
[00:59:13]  No wonder, no wonder we're rioting, no wonder we're angry.
[00:59:18]  Yeah, as if, yeah, somebody built those wonderful houses, black people moved in, tore them down, and then now he's asking, is this all we get?
[00:59:28]  And this guy's saying, there's a problem when safety isn't built in.
[00:59:33]  Well, safety comes from people behaving themselves, including teenagers.
[00:59:40]  It actually is a social construct.
[00:59:43]  Yes, yes.
[00:59:44]  Good behavior is a social construct.
[00:59:46]  That's right.
[00:59:47]  But it doesn't work for them.
[00:59:49]  Well, boy, that's a great story.
[00:59:51]  I may have to find that article and track down the comments.
[00:59:56]  But we have come to the end of our time, Mr. Curz.
[00:59:59]  This is almost perfect timing.
[01:00:00]  And, ladies and gentlemen, we really do consider this a joy, a pleasure, and an honor to spend this time with you.
[01:00:06]  And we look forward to doing the same next week.
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[01:00:09]  Thank you so much for your attention.