Cincinnati boycott hits blacks hardest

Washington Times ^ | January 28, 2003 | Steve Miller

[Stand Watch Listen]

Cincinnati's vice mayor yesterday said a boycott of businesses by blacks who believe the city has inadequately addressed minority needs is causing black unemployment and crippling economic growth.

"It is absolutely disproportionately affecting the city's African-American population," said Vice Mayor Alicia Reece, the city's highest-ranking black official.

[JustAnAmerican]

As the old saying goes, "You reap what you sow.".

[junta]

To hell with the rest though.

[BluH2o]

Well, let's see, on a more positive note Bengals owner Mike Brown hired a new black coach, Marvin Lewis. Lewis is tasked with turning around the most dismal football franchise in the NFL. Not an easy task but one I'm confident he will succeed at ... Mike Brown is being pressured to relinguish day to day control of the team and turn the reins over to those more competent than he ... Marvin Lewis is that man.

[Caliban]

Looks like all the "whities" are sitting back and screaming..."OHHHHH please don't throw me in the briar patch!"

[stlrocket]

Boy, (oops!) We Really Showed Dem! (sarcasm)

[Quaker]

I just moved from Cincinnati to the TAmpa Bay area.

The Bengals are the laughingstock of all the fans there, including the announcers for their games.

Brown needs to be gone from anything to do with coaching decisions. Mike Brown is a disaster for that franchise.

[sinclair]

What does one have to do to get posting privileges here?

[KellyAdmirer]

"If he is really interested in helping the black community

It's not about that at all, it's about making "statements" and doing things that make you look good.

[Kenton]

OK, this has a very confusing dynamic to it. Cincinnati blacks nearly destroyed the city with a race riot, ensuring that whites wouldn't want to move in. Then they level a boycott at the city in which black entertainers don't come to the city to entertain largely black audiences at black cultural events. OK, that makes sense. Then they finally figure out that costing the city all that boycotted income is really hurting themselves.

I see. This must all be whitey's fault. [sarcasm off]

[trebb]

As Homer Simpson is wont to say:

DOH!!!

[FreedomPoster]

>>Cincinnati blacks nearly destroyed the city with a race riot,

That event is what got me really hooked on FreeRepublic. These was just SO MUCH information coming across, and none of it available through the lamestream national media. Here you had parts of a city in flames, and it barely rated a mention in the national news.

Here's a huge list of links from that time:

Links of Interest on the Cincinnati Riots

Far from a complete list. It's possible more than Thread 8 has been deleted.

Free Republic "15 black men killed since 1995" Cincy Post

Read this so you understand what fine citizens the police have been shooting in Cincy. This summarizes the cases of the men shot over the last several years.

While this latest case is very questionable and deserves a serious investigation, most of these are pretty open-and-shut: Perp actively commits mayham, is challenged by the police, ignores police, perhaps actively assaulting them, perp takes the eternal celestial dirt nap via police action.

And, Oh!, Yeah! - Barry Horstman of the Cincy Post doesn't want you to know this (see the item two lines down).

Free Republic Thread #1 "Fresh Rioting Erupts in Cincinnati" UPI
I think this one started it all off

Free Republic "Cincinnati Post's Barry Horstman Blows Smoke on The Factor"
My first originating Free Republic post!

Free Republic Thread #2 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #3 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #4 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #5 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #5a on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #6 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #7 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #8 on the Cincinnati Riots
(Yanked due to content unacceptable to Jim Robinson. His playground, he makes the rules. Deal with it.)

Free Republic Thread #9 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #10 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #11 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #12 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #13 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #14 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #15 on the Cincinnati Riots

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Free Republic Thread #18 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #19 on the Cincinnati Riots

Free Republic Thread #20 on the Cincinnati Riots

Cincinnati Police 'fed up,' union chief says - Cincy Enquirer
I found this revealing.

Free Republic "15 black men killed since 1995" Cincy Post

Free Republic "Protest erupts in day of rage" Cincy Post

Free Republic "Fresh rioting erupts in Cincinnati" UPI

WCPO "Days of Distress"

Free Republic "Police Officer Shot in Cincinnati Rioting" Yahoo/Reuters

Cincinnati Mayor Declares Emergency

Cincy Police Scanner

Where's the outrage for black racists? Free Republic/Houston Chronicle

The way out of the ghetto

Cincinnati Burning

Cincinnati: Recipe for a Riot

Post Script:
The above links were collected contemporaneously with the events of April 2001. The following links are follow-ups on this story later in time.

Cincinnati Riot Cover-up

The Society of the Cincinnati

Cincinnati: Return of the Lynch Mob

Cincinnati: Recipe for a Riot

A Search for Truth in the Cincinnati Riot

I'll add this thread to the links.

[pabianice]

"Cincinnatti: Not Detroit yet, but we're working on it!"

[AppyPappy]

Continue the boycott until Cincinatti gives in.

[xzins]

There are 2 comments I have on this.

1. The boycotting group has no basis for the boycott in the police shootings over the last few years. In almost all cases the policeman doing the shooting was being attacked or threated with a deadly weapon at the time of the attack. The most recent shooting involved a suspect who, after a chase, made a movement to his waistband in a dark alley. Although he might well have been pulling at his "sagged" pants, it was not the time or place to make a policeman nervous.

2. Cincinnati does have a problem of racial discrimination. Except for my college time and military career, I've lived in this region. It has always been bitterly divided, racist, and segregated, AND there is a huge base of the black population that appears to have little mobility out of that inner city culture that is predominantly black.

3. I wish I knew what the answer was, but I have no idea. My best guess is that the racist attitudes are stubborn across neighborhoods and school systems. To change the future requires really solid education, and MORAL education that emphasizes that all are endowed by their Creator with rights, and that this demands respect for every living soul. The answer might well lie in the churches.

[Lee Heggy]

Reminds me of the scene in 'Blazing Saddles' where the new black Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) is holding his gun to his own head threatening to shoot.

[cdefreese]

And they say the South is where all the racisim, intolerance, and segregation is at. Many friends of mine from up North says that it is at least as bad if not worse up there then down here.

[HELLRAISER II]

First off if memory serves me right, the man shot & killed was shot because he had shot at the police and not only that wasn't he shot by a minority cop? Second, I find it amusing that the Blacks in Cincinatti first burn down their own community with riots and then boycott local businesses in their own community therefore getting their own people laid off. I can't speak for every supposed Oppressing White person but I can say personally that these people need to look in the mirror for their own problems. Then they need to call Bill Cosby, Mr. Dumb@ss Spike Lee and all those who boycotted their city to set some dates for being there instead of boycotting. All I can say is that alot of times people get what they deserve and in this case it couldn't be more true.

[Polybius]

....— the 15th black suspect killed by police since 1995. Police and city officials pointed out that most of those killed had been carrying weapons.

There is no excuse for such statistics. We, as a society, must do something to ensure that the numbers are representative of the demographics of society as a whole.

The obvious solution to is to urge whites to commit more armed crime.

I would bet that every single one of those 15 people killed in shootouts with Police was a male. Women, both black and white, need to do their share and start committing more armed crime too.

[BluH2o]

This mentality seems pervasive ... as evidenced by this riot participants remark made in Oakland Sunday evening after the Raiders Super Bowl loss to Tampa Bay ...

"It's the Raiders' fault -- blame it on the Raiders," Akela Thomas, 19, shouted.
"If they would've won, we wouldn't be doing this."