Posted on 06/18/2014 6:57:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A remarkable thing happened in Cincinnati on Thursday. WKRC-TV, which has taken to calling itself “Local 12 [1],” did a story on the growing problem of black-on-white teen mob violence — and called it black-on-white teen mob violence.
The event where the violence occurred took place two weeks earlier during Memorial Day weekend at the city’s Taste of Cincinnati event [2] downtown.
As has been the case since even before the city’s 2001 race riots [3], the Cincinnati Enquirer, the town’s only daily newspaper, was late to the story with a woefully inadequate, truth-dodging dispatch [4].
Reporter Adam Kiefaber spent the first half of his coverage on an unrelated shooting incident in the vicinity of the Taste event which he should have handled in a separate story. When he finally got to addressing the “multiple people reported being attacked” at the event, he describe how one victim, Jon Deters, the son of Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters, was “approached by five or six people.” Separately, he noted that two other men, both in their 40s, were assaulted “by a group of people.” In his report’s final sentence, Kiefaber finally acknowledged that the pair “were targeted for being white.”
Most of Local 12′s original story [5] on May 27, the Taste event’s final night, fell into the same predictable traps so often seen as the press dances around the ugly reality of these incidents.
Co-anchors Rob Braun and Cammy Dierking introduced the segment as being about “groups of teenagers” committing acts of “random violence — people jumped, punched, and kicked” by “thugs who seemed to enjoy hurting them.”
As on-scene reporter Deborah Dixon described some of what had happened, the station’s video caption read, “RANDOM ASSAULTS.” One man, said to have been “victimized by 20 boys and girls, all teenagers,” said that “it was almost as if it was fun to them, like it was a game, like they found enjoyment out of it.”
But then Dixon’s reporting took a brief and surprising “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more” turn.
Tripping over her words in a clearly unscripted moment, Dixon said, “How angry does that make you — this makes me so angry to think about that thuggish, rude hateful behavior.” She then went back to describing the assault on Jon Deters, speculated that it might have been part of the “knockout game” craze [6] — the phenomenon which much of the press has spent as much time ridiculing [7] and denying [8] as reporting — and openly noted that the city was trying to “figure out what to do before Oktoberfest,” the nation’s largest such event [9].
Maybe it was the fact that the county prosecutor’s son was among those assaulted. Or perhaps it was the perceived threat to the city’s most beloved fall event. Whatever the cause, Local 12 followed through on Dixon’s original outrage. The station didn’t sweep the larger story under the rug. It even introduced a word — “black” — into its June 12 video [10] and print story [11] which wasn’t in its or the Enquirer’s original reports.
Among the refreshing truths told — refreshing because, despite their ugliness, they represent the truth:
Local 12 Cincinnati Report on Black Teen Violence [10]
(about the incidents at the Taste event)
11 victims filed reports saying they were kicked, punched or stomped by a group of black teenagers or young adults, boys and girls. Ten of the victims were white, one was Asian. Two reported racial slurs. Noelle Findlay was so certain the assault (on her and her husband while they were in their car) was racially motivated; the police report says “hate crime” … because she believes there was no other motive.
(on the general problem of black teen violence targeting non-blacks)
… Dr. John Wright, a criminal justice professor at UC (University of Cincinnati), said, “I think it is racist behavior, racist behavior when you target a group based on their race, sexual orientation, it’s the very nature of a hate crime.”
… “We are unwilling to speak about race when it comes to crime because it is a sensitive matter,” said Wright. “Allegations of racism ruins careers, ruin lives. The media remains silent or targets the people who bring up the issue.”
… Pastor Peterson Mingo of Evanston (a Cincinnati neighborhood) said, “Not too many ways to explain that behavior, have to condemn it, can’t be tolerated.”
Sociologists weighing in suggest high unemployment and resentment fueled by segregation are possible causes.
Mingo says there is something else, “There is a thing about loyalty. You with me or you ain’t. If you with me I’m getting ready to knock dude up side head lets go. It’s not where you can say I’m not going to. You’re either with me or you’re not.”
The station also has additional video [12] of its interview with Dr. Wright, who minced no words:
Partial transcript:
If groups of white students, white kids, were running around, violating blacks, beating up black fathers, beating up 13-year-old black girls, there would be the hue and cry sounded. We would take it as seriously as we take anything else. Time magazine, the New York Times, everybody would cover this. Everybody.
… But if it’s turned the other way around, everybody is so afraid to speak about race and crime that they are silent. That silence is killing people. That silence allows this to continue.
But there can be no acceptable excuse for mob violence. None.
… The attorney general said that we’re “a nation of cowards” when it comes to speaking about race. At one level he’s right, but there’s a reason why people are uncomfortable talking about race and are uncomfortable talking about the dynamics of black behavior. Not all black behavior. Let’s be very clear about this. The vast majority of African-Americans are law-abiding people. … They deserve our support and encouragement. They deserve our protection.
… It’s better to be honest, even if the honesty is dirty, than to live a lie that is clean.
Author Colin Flaherty has been looking at black teen crimes targeting whites for some time. He has compiled a list of incidents “in more than a dozen cities around the country. Some fatal” — just this past Memorial Day weekend [13]. His latest book [14] ”documents more than 500 cases of black mob violence in more than 100 cities around the country.” The vast majority have barely made a media ripple — and when they do, the obvious racial element is deliberately ignored.
Local 12′s and Flaherty’s efforts at shining the light of truth are praiseworthy and important, but still far from complete. Two larger questions loom.
The first: What can be done to reverse the shocking growth in race-based hatred among blacks?
The second: Why have the nation’s first black president and his “nation of cowards” attorney general made virtually no attempt to attack this problem head-on?
Liberals betrayed us to the underworld of satan before they betrayed us to foreigners. The black anger is this same sentiment of wish to betray... but with little avenues other than satan himself and dark voodoo magic. No wonder they turn to Islam. Obama’s daddy dream was for Africa to overrun America etc...
If your aunt or uncle had pulled weapons out as the crowd formed, they would have quickly dissipated in all likelihood.
A lot of the younger FReepers won't get the significance of that one!
“We all have choices to make.” Indeed we do. Were I a cabbie, I would NEVER pick up one of Obama’s shock troops. The risk of the animal killing me himself, or somebody or somebodies lurking in his drop-off location and killing me, would simply be too great. Heck, there are huge swaths of St. Louis (where I live) that are 24/7 ‘Do Not Enter: EVER’ zones for whites. Third World stuff. Enemy-occupied territory. Couldn’t imagine delivering pizza or driving a cab there.
It is what is, my friend.
Survival instincts being what they are, we need to pay attention to them.
“The vast majority of African-Americans are law-abiding people. They deserve our support and encouragement. They deserve our protection.”
Are you including people like Obama and Holder and Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett as part of this vast majority of law abiding people.
And I read the Colin Flaherty links and they’re scary.
How can this stuff continue to go unreported upon?!
“Fight back” is a good philosophy to have but there’s a race war going on and no war is ever won by just being on defense all the time. Wars are won by having an offensive as well as defensive posture.
“...no war is ever won by just being on defense all the time...”
No argument from me there, Greybeard.
But stepping outside your doorway and going into Condition Orange is just common sense. Having situational awareness is a key part of keeping yourself safe.
And until people wake up to the fact you mentioned, nothing will change. You’re responsible for your own safety.
Anybody making this idiotic statement needs to explain the lack of comparable black-on-white violence during the 1930's, when we had the Depression and far more segregation.
The truth is politically incorrect.
Now libs are afraid to face the reality of a gigantic population of violent, feral, black males who have turned numerous American cities into battle zones and places where good people fear to tread. Until feral, black males are severely punished or separated from the general population, these kinds of assaults on innocent people will continue far into the future.
You know the answer as well as I do. Lib Media refuses to notice. That's why the Martin-Zimmerman case was a such a big deal. Big Lib Media thought they finally had a cut and dried case of an evil white man hunting down and murdering an innocent black child. That's the lying narrative Big Lib Media has been propagating for more than fifty years: innocent blacks being victimized by evil whites.
There are so many instances of blacks assaulting whites and so few instances of whites assaulting blacks that BLM has a difficult time promoting their lying narrative of black victimhood. They've built the whole affirmative action agenda on the myth of black victimhood. Black Americans are victims...of themselves.
He was shot in the back of the head by his passenger. I don’t know anyone that would have much chance in that situation. Cabbie is a dangerous and scary job. I feel for them. Their job shouldn’t be dangerous.
Btw, what is their ranking in the most dangerous job category? I don’t know how it isn’t #1.
How long til the FCC launches an investigation into this rogue TV station?
RE cabbies:
I hear you, brother. Not a job I’d ever want.
But, as I said with another poster, maybe the exercise of discretion in who you pick up would contribute to longevity.
If some one screams “racist” and “discrimination”, hey, whatever... You’ll be ALIVE to hear them screaming.
From reading the Colin Flaherty links, it sounds like a race war has already begun and is just being ignored by the MSM.
But I assume that “things” will just continue to get worse and will be harder to ignore. But that’s what I thought would happen with Obama (that things would get so bad that they couldn’t be ignored) and, as is so obvious, I was really wrong the about how dishonest and corrupt the MSM is.
Because of their inaction and dereliction of duty, a race war is possible. It will all be on the heads of the craven libs who've blamed whites for black problems for the last fifty years.
I think that the black drop-out rate is at least 50%. And the rest who do “graduate”, how many of them are still, nevertheless, functional illiterates? I’m thinking alot of them. And so, with so many black youths having so little to offer society, I have a hard time thinking that major racial strife is not almost inevitable.
Because of their inaction and dereliction of duty, a race war is possible. It will all be on the heads of the craven libs who've blamed whites for black problems for the last fifty years.
I guess that I just am totally flummoxed by how readily the “other than black America” continues to knuckle under to giving all the bad things going on in the black community a total pass.
And that’ll probably make it that much worse when things inevitably come to a head, as they must when we run out of money to keep paying “appeasement” payments
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