Posted on 06/02/2011 1:07:47 AM PDT by neverdem
If we're going to have a conversation about race, we should include violent black mobs in the list of conversation topics. After all, recent mob violence is the closest our nation has come to widespread racial strife in over 50 years.
If mobs of white youths were going about chanting the phrase "white boys," beating mostly on blacks and attacking black-owned businesses, then the nation would pay attention. Academic, media, political, and legal elites would be calling for symposia, expanded reporting, legislation, and lawsuits.
In fact, a mob of black youths in Philadelphia went about chanting the phrase "black boys," beating mostly on whites, and attacking businesses. The same kind of racial mob violence has occurred in Las Vegas, and just last week in New York City. Few are paying attention, and liberal elites are largely silent.
Of course, liberal elites are quick to associate white violence with right-wing politics or white supremacy. But what happens when mob violence is carried out by favored minority groups or liberal constituents?
Time and again over the last few years, mobs of black youths attacked mostly white victims in Philadelphia. There were at least 6 such mob scenes in Philadelphia during 2009 and 2010.[1] These black mob attacks, euphemistically named "flash mobs," have not received anything close to the attention they deserve. In one attack, a mob of blacks beat a young white woman senseless -- a mob that had chanted "black boys" and "burn the city," according to the New York Times.[2] The 27-year-old woman, Anna Taylor, was attacked viciously last March. According to local news reports, "a large group of male and female juveniles ganged up on her, kicking and punching her until she fell to the ground, where they continued to kick her in the face and head."[3] Someone in the mob punched her so hard, the punch "split her upper lip so severely that much of it was hanging from her face and she was unable to speak." Some reporting has, amazingly, made the simple observation about the racial make-up of these mobs: that they are "mostly African American."
These horrible mob attacks must be viewed in the larger context of interracial violence in America. Department of Justice statistics show that 33% of white murder victims are killed by a non-white while only 8% of black murder victims are killed by a non-black.[4] Even greater disparities exist in violent crime and robbery.[5] The disparity in interracial crime is certainly indicative of some form of extremism, racial hostility, or selective targeting. The mobs reflect something worse: organized and widespread anti-white ethnic violence.
Mobs of black youths have taken to randomly attacking pedestrians and businesses. This problem is nightmarish in its implications: a subset of the population has no self-control, was not raised to control violent impulses, and evidently gets pleasure out of hurting other people -- particularly people of other races. This type of person usually has done nothing to create anything of value, but rather destroys for pleasure. They organize using social media, and their goal is mayhem. They have been coddled and socialized by the welfare state and public education system. With an aggressive sense of entitlement, and no regard for others, they will predictably become more violent. The mobs reflect an undesirable character type, and the vast majority of those in "flash mobs" are of the same race.
Now, the cultural enrichment of "flash mobs" is spreading to New York City. In Greenwich Village last week, security video captured "a group of youths climbing on counters, throwing chairs and throwing tables in a violent attack on workers" at a Dunkin' Donuts. This was the second such attack on Greenwich Village businesses in a week. Watching the video, one is struck by the extraordinarily callous behavior of the teens, who were all black -- a fact not mentioned in any of the reporting about that attack. Unlike the case with many acts of violence, certain youths are evidently becoming more and more comfortable with public, organized group violence. When we see behavior this terrible, political elites often ask about root causes: What kind of environment did the attackers come from? What kind of politics or ideology did they have?
Examples are numerous: Before having any facts, liberal elites like Paul Krugman blamed the Arizona shootings on "toxic rhetoric" and the "climate of hate" created by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and conservatives. When lone extremists commit violence against abortion doctors, organizations like NOW blame the "pro-life" movement. When there is some fanciful, theoretical possibility that returning veterans could be recruited by extremist organizations, the Department of Homeland Security takes note. In 2009, the DHS released a report claiming that "the return of military veterans" could expand the pool of extremists.[6] DHS was so eager to make connections between politics and violence they concluded that "white supremacist lone wolves pose the most significant domestic terrorist threat."[7] If this is the way liberal elites make connections between politics and violence, then shouldn't they respond to black "flash mobs" in a similar manner?
Yet, the racial aspect of the "flash mob" phenomenon is not seriously covered in the mainstream media. This is proof of systematic racial bias in reporting, and a failure of leadership across the board in our society. The mainstream media is in effect using a filtering process that downplays violence by blacks against whites. The result is that a significant social problem is not being addressed.
The media filtering process undermines society's interest in safety. When the majority ethnic group is being attacked in potentially catastrophic racial group violence, the press has a duty to report the underlying facts. Flash mobs are the closest our nation has come to widespread racial strife in over 50 years. Flash mobs, if unaddressed, will evolve into further racist attacks against whites. By failing to report acts of ethnic violence, by any race, the press fails part of its role in our democracy. Moreover, if our legal, political, and academic leadership had more intellectual and moral integrity, the "flash mob" would be taken as seriously as "hate speech," racial profiling, and other non-violent offenses against minority feelings.
Notes
[1] Kitty Caparella and Stephanie Farr, Another Flash Mob Rocks South Street; In the 'Tsunami,' Chants of 'Burn the City!', Philadelphia Daily News, Mar 22, 2010. 8.
[2] That reporting is corroborated. See Kitty Caparella and Stephanie Farr, Another Flash Mob Rocks South Street; In the 'Tsunami,' Chants of 'Burn the City!', Philadelphia Daily News, Mar 22, 2010. 8.
[3] Ibid., 8.
[4] Violent State Prisoners and Their Victims, Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics 5, July 1990 quoted in James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter, Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics 17 (1998).
[5] Ibid., 17.
[6] Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. Office of Intelligence and Analysis Assessment. U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. Apr. 7, 2009. 2.
[7]Ibid., 7.
Ever wonder why these “flash mobs” never or rarely appear in Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Idaho and etc.?
I’ve told everyone in my family, stay out of urban areas. Its going to be a long hot summer. This is only going to get worse.
The MSM, IMHO, is a co-conspirator, in that, they will NOT report truthfully on these events.
It’s getting so bad, when I hear of these attacks, I automatically think “blacks”.
Am I becoming racist or just realistic?
A perfect description of "Progressives."
Elections will be in November. Obama is crashing and burning. Will the cities erupt in violence as a reason to declare Martial Law and cancel elections? Don't dismiss that too readily.
Realistic.
I assume that as well and I rarely if ever have been wrong on that score. I’m actually not happy about that. What makes me even more sad is that no one in the MSM wants to admit that there’s an ENORMOUS problem with Black violence.
Because that would be racist!
Sad but true.
“Am I becoming racist or just realistic”
Realistic! As the author states, if it were groups of violent whites, the msm and libs would be all over it like white on rice. But, since it’s Holders people, it is swept under the rug—social justice and all that crap.
“Ever wonder why these “flash mobs” never or rarely appear in Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Idaho and etc.?”
30-round magazines.
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Nope..... We know why. Albeit in big cities, in those states they experience some of the rat crap that made Detroit a poster city for the socialist democrats.
Small towns an low population counties don’t tolerate such from any person. Be they of any race creed or origin.
One of the things I have learned from my experiences in life is that skin-coloration makes absolutely no difference nor causes any problem.
It is attitude. That makes all the difference in how people treat you.
Because folks in those states have GUNS.
....Or are they the “seeds” for a new American revolution?
This isn't news. The data's been there since the late 80's; big-city police officials have been covering it up.
During the big crack-related crime wave of the 80's and 90's, young black men were responsible for more than 70% of all murders. They killed 91% of all black victims (who were half of the total -- the "black-on-black crime" phenomenon) and half of all non-black victims: but officialdom covered that up, claiming that up to 25% of the killers of non-blacks were of "unknown" ethnicity. Criminologists even invented a new category of murder, "stranger murders" (written up in Scientific American in 1994), and clung with a straight face to the assertion that "we don't know, can't know, who is doing this". Riiiiight.
Cynthia Tucker, editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, still wants to talk about the 4700 black people lynched between 1866 and 1962. But she won't talk about the 5000-6000 non-black people that her bro's murder every year.
Oh, and the Establishment tells us that when blacks murder, it's always for "economic" reasons. Bull.
Here I thought it was the Amish that caused all the problems!
It is everything but blacks themselves that is the problem. It is culture, poverty, education. It is racist, race card players or Democrats that are at the root but never blacks themselves that are responsible.
Yet, the racial aspect of the "flash mob" phenomenon is not seriously covered in the mainstream media. This is proof of systematic racial bias in reporting, and a failure of leadership across the board in our society. The mainstream media is in effect using a filtering process that downplays violence by blacks against whites. The result is that a significant social problem is not being addressed.
Whites have been kowtowed so bad to just accept this crap. It will continue and it will get much worse unless or until whites stand up. The government will NEVER do anything nor will anything change as long as whites are on their knees.
Black violence against non-blacks (including Asians and Hispanics) has long been a problem, but it was usually black individuals or small groups of blacks attacking individual non-blacks. This bizarre phenomenon of mobs of young blacks just sweeping into a business or along streets attacking non-blacks is something relatively new and I wonder what originated it.
I do recall that New York (and probably other cities) had problems with this in the 1980s (the so-caled “wilding” attacks) but even these were generally attacks by fairly small groups of teenage males and were not on the scale of this current problem.
To some extent, I think it’s because they’ve gotten the hate-whitey message from the WH, mixed with an anti-middle class leftist/anarchist subtext that makes them feel that they are justified and are just taking what is theirs and exacting justice on the evil world of the non-black middle class. The Communists in the early 20th century were always able to stir up mobs to attack Russia’s version of the middle class, the land-owning peasant, and the Chinese also focused their hatred on the middle class. While the racial aspect was absent, the left-wing hatred of a successful, stable society and the individuals making it such was clearly visible.
Saul Bellow, in The Dean’s December, long ago described these angry, chaos-driven black teenagers as being “insides without outsides.” That is, all they are is a storm of emotion and self-obsession, without any exterior “shell” (such as religion or even secular morality) to contain it. They come from a culture that has been indulged and supported by the rest of our society and whose members have lived in passivity and resentment for generations, and now they have a sense that they are justified in doing whatever they want and that their actions have the tacit approval of forces in our own government, particularly the Hater in Chief. Remember, the whole secret of victory for the left is to pit people against each other and fundamentally destabilize society.
Speaking of which, have any of these thugs ever been prosecuted? They’re obviously not worried about having their photos taken or being identified, so I’d say they’re not worried about being punished in any way.
It will be a fond memory I take to my grave...
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