Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about Race

American Thinker ^ | June 2, 2011 | John T. Bennett

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Yes, November 2012. Over a year from now.

I guess I did skip ahead a little but what is a year or two among friends? At my age it will seem like tomorrow.

[GOPJ]

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.

Liberals will respond to these horrors by running more stories about the few whites who commit crimes.

[GOPJ]

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?

Some double standards are just offensive - this on is scary...

[MrB]

Your quoted paragraph is so stark in its truth, yet so unPC that it will never make its way into mainstream news.

We must continue to re-assert in our understanding that the left uses PC to advance Marxism (its original name WAS “Cultural Marxism”), and that this type of racist violence plays right into their plans.

[Maverick68]

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[Smokin' Joe]

What do we do we let Charlie slide and we postpone the trial for Maxine until she dies of old age.

"We" don't let Charlie slide, the voters in his district keep re-electing him because he represents what they think is in their best interests. If that be corruption, looting, and thievery, so be it. That speaks volumes about the voters.

[sickoflibs]

RE :"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......Liberals will respond to these horrors by running more stories about the few whites who commit crimes."

In Maryland the liberal Baltimore Sun publishes editorials complaining that the quality (more expensive) stores like Macy's and JC Penney's fled those areas and left discount stores like Walmarts behind, Likewise the grocery stores fled and left fast food restaurants left like McDonalds behind(that is why the poor have weight problems.) . It is all the racists business's fault for redlining.

At our local Walmarts I notice a camera every 10 feet from another one in each direction on the ceiling as well as a number mounted outside, there must be a over 100 of them overhead, each cashier checker has one directly over their heads looking down being watched, that HAS to be institutional racism.

[MrB]

Those cameras aren’t free, and Walmart isn’t just going to absorb the cost from their bottom line,

so the cost has to be passed on to the customers, both in that location and across the country.

So, once more, the rest of us have to pay for the consequences of a certain subculture’s inability to act like civilized people.

Also, Walter Williams, a certified black man, wrote a piece a while back called “Why the Poor Pay More” explaining just what you see in that Walmart - it costs more to do business in a feral neighborhood.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Those cameras aren’t free, and Walmart isn’t just going to absorb the cost from their bottom line,so the cost has to be passed on to the customers, both in that location and across the country.So, once more, the rest of us have to pay for the consequences of a certain subculture’s inability to act like civilized people.”

Don't exactly ‘have to’ since we don't ‘have to’ shop at Walmarts, but I get your point.

They have automated checkers like the nearby stores but had to shut them down because of theft, and they cant even trust their own employees to watch them. I would always have someone get stuck in front of me with the red light on (red 'help is on the way' light) and myself would go around to find someone to get them unstuck, no-one was watching them.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

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.

Suppose someone in the MSM did choose to cover it in an objective way. Guess what would happen:

Juan Willians was a beloved liberal employee of NPR until he admitted that sometimes he felt nervous around Muslims (and also felt uncomfortable around blacks in certain situations), Not only was he fired, but the NPR CEO figuratively tarred and feathered him. whatever feelings Williams has about Muslims should be between him and “his psychiatrist or his publicist - take your pick.”

[MrB]

If the “significant social problem” is not addressed by the authorities,

those being victimized still outnumber those doing the victimizing by about 12 to 1.

[GOPJ]

If enough people stand up to the totalitarians of the MSM, they will yield.

Juan recovered.

The woman at NPR resigned.

It's our time. It's our battle, take your place.

[wardaddy]

I amuses me in a sad way when northerners with little black experience have a eureka moment about something those of us who lived with this”different”group culture have understood for centuries

Granted...it’s far worse now
And feral white underbelly has followed suit but black culture is the most lost...no question

And it’s more or less a worldwide issue

[wardaddy]

What u are saying but notice only 50 replies and our social lib south bashers of free republic missing in action of course

Most freepers are like beltway GOP when it comes to race candor...they are not up to the task

I feel for some here...i won’t pander to them...smart blacks know whites dont control theirdestiny

Threads like these I feel the loss of bnblflag

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

If enough people stand up to the totalitarians of the MSM, they will yield

I agree. I was describing a mechanism by which the MSM quashes independent (let alone conservative) thinking among its own members. Juan williams is not an independent thinker in every case, but he is enough of an individual to recognize some forms of leftist group-think (although he does not recognize it when he practices it). Other libs in his position would have been destroyed, but he landed on his feet.

[lentulusgracchus]

Threads like these I feel the loss of bnblflag

What, he got banned? Why?

[lentulusgracchus]

Not only was he fired, but the NPR CEO figuratively tarred and feathered him. whatever feelings Williams has about Muslims should be between him and “his psychiatrist or his publicist - take your pick.”

I can't get worked up into a lather of sympathy for Juan Williams (having listened to him enough for a lifetime already), but there's no doubt about it, that crack was totally unfair and furthermore intended to end his career. It's justice that that woman is out of a job herself now.

[kalee]

Au contraire, she’s working for NBC.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/nbc-names-schiller-as-chief-digital-officer/?ref=technology

[thecodont]

“They organize using social media, and their goal is mayhem.”

It is interesting, isn’t it, how some people use technology for productive ends, and others use it for criminal ends: e-mail used for e-mail scams, social media used for flash mobs.

“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.”

Some people in one of those leadership groups mentioned (the third one) are apparently ACTIVELY promoting racial division and ignoring the flash mob phenomenon.

Read the San Francisco Chronicle or Oakland Tribune and see how jaded reporters have become at reporting black-on-black crime. Chauncey Bailey was a martyr for real journalism and no one cares.