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Thomas Sowell: Somebody Finally Said It
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 16, 2011 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 08/16/2011 2:45:07 PM PDT by neverdem

Someone at long last has had the courage to tell the plain, honest truth about race.

After mobs of young blacks rampaged through Philadelphia committing violence -- as similar mobs have rampaged through Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee and other places -- Philadelphia's black mayor, Michael A. Nutter, ordered a police crackdown and lashed out at the whole lifestyle of those who did such things.

"Pull up your pants and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt," he said. "If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy," the mayor said. He added: "You have damaged your own race."

While this might seem like it is just plain common sense, what Mayor Nutter said undermines a whole vision of the world that has brought fame, fortune and power to race hustlers in politics, the media...

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All around the country, people in politics and the media have been tip-toeing around the fact that violent attacks by blacks on whites in public places are racially motivated, even when the attackers themselves use anti-white invective and mock the victims they leave lying on the streets bleeding.

This is not something to ignore or excuse. It is something to be stopped. Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia seems to be the first to openly recognize this.

This needs to be done for the sake of both black and white Americans -- and even for the sake of the hoodlums. They have set out on a path that leads only downward for themselves.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: flashmobs; michaelnutter; nutter
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1 posted on 08/16/2011 2:45:12 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

May it be repeated many times, in a manor that will be heeded.


2 posted on 08/16/2011 2:47:57 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Be strong in truth!)
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To: jazusamo

TS Ping


3 posted on 08/16/2011 2:48:56 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem
After mobs of young blacks rampaged through Philadelphia committing violence -- as similar mobs have rampaged through Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee and other places --

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4 posted on 08/16/2011 2:50:20 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Why don’t we have Obama repeat it from his Martha’s Vineyard manor?


5 posted on 08/16/2011 2:53:34 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: EGPWS

You notice these crimes happen in cities where citizens are not allowed to have guns to defend themselves. Shoot a few of these thugs, and they won’t think it’s so much fun any more.


6 posted on 08/16/2011 2:53:49 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: neverdem
God Bless Mayor Nutter, finally they get it.
7 posted on 08/16/2011 2:54:44 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: foundedonpurpose

I always like repeating in my manor.


8 posted on 08/16/2011 2:58:10 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: foundedonpurpose

We bent over backwards in PC race relations, and it seems now we are being bent over a barrel. It’s the fruits of tolerance based on skin color instead of behavior.

Now if there were justice in the land this would not be running rampant. But it seems that the Black Cheif of Justice and the Black President are turning a blind eye.

Guess we are going to have to defend ourselves against the small minority that have chosen their skin color over their country. Sigh, I like America better when it was in God we trusted instead of man.


9 posted on 08/16/2011 3:01:20 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: fishtank
I always like repeating in my manor.

...as in Stately Wayne. :-)

10 posted on 08/16/2011 3:02:58 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: neverdem
LOL, like these are just some high-energy good boys who went bad.

Nutter's foolish, feminized bleatings will be worse than useless.

What turns boys into responsible men is, foremost among other things, growing up while submitting to the authority of a father. And while he may use sound logic and loving concern to help his son navigate boyhood, what really carries the weight of authority is the implicit threat that if you screw up too much, he'll beat the crap out of you.

Nutter and Bill Cosby can't replicate that. that horse has left the barn for at least two generations.

11 posted on 08/16/2011 3:08:57 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: neverdem

Watch for the usual suspects to excommunicate Mayor Nutter from their race and to denounce him as an Oreao and an Uncle Tom in order to evade facing the painful facts that this brave man has dared to speak aloud.


12 posted on 08/16/2011 3:10:02 PM PDT by MeganC (Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: neverdem

Although it’s great that he’s possibly awakened, I’m afraid Mayor Nutter has probably facilitated this worldview throughout his entire life. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been elected Mayor in this hellhole.


13 posted on 08/16/2011 3:10:02 PM PDT by fwdude ("When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ...")
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To: American in Israel
I like America better when it was in God we trusted instead of man.

Amen.

14 posted on 08/16/2011 3:10:56 PM PDT by b9
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To: Pining_4_TX
You notice these crimes happen in cities where citizens are not allowed to have guns to defend themselves. Shoot a few of these thugs, and they won’t think it’s so much fun any more.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there has not yet been a flash mob here in Texas. They make the news almost daily in places like Philadelphia, Maryland's Montgomery County and Milwaukee. Unless I've overlooked an occurrence here, Texas has been thankfully missing from that dubious distinction.

If I'm right, just why has Texas been exempt?

1). Our urban yutes are less savage (or maybe don't know how to use social media to form a feral group of goons).
2). The weather is just too atrociously hot for even criminals to form a flash mob.
3). Texans (of all races) are just plain better people.
4). CHL.

15 posted on 08/16/2011 3:12:04 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: neverdem
You won't see this in the New York Times.

I hope Sowell is right and that these attacks stop.

I mentioned these flash mob attacks to a relative who reads the New York Times and listens to MSM and she was completely unaware of what is going on. She asked me if I got the info from Fox News or some right wing website. When I forwarded her the information from the Philadelphia Mayor Nutter, she was flabbergasted that she didn't know anything about this story. I guess if it's not in the New York Times or on CBS/NBC/ABC/PBS then it didn't happen.

At some point the News Media (MSM) will have to start covering these attacks and then all hell is gonna break loose. Right now most of the population is unaware of what is going on but they won't be much longer and eventually people are gonna react.

And the reservoir of white guilt is emptying very quickly.
16 posted on 08/16/2011 3:13:54 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: neverdem
This needs to be done for the sake of both black and white Americans -- and even for the sake of the hoodlums. They have set out on a path that leads only downward for themselves.

It's too late. Just try to find a white person who cares any more about fixing Black America. The only concern at this point is adequate self-defense.

17 posted on 08/16/2011 3:16:15 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: neverdem

If Blacks are hell-bent on inciting a race war, they should bear in mind that it will be pretty easy for non-Blacks to identify the enemy.


18 posted on 08/16/2011 3:20:35 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: neverdem

I am in the burbs of Philly...and have watched the city suffer under a slew of crappy mayors..Goode and Street primarily. I give Michael Nutter a standing ovation, he really has a crap sandwich of a corrupt city to deal with. I don’t agree with him on a lot of things but he is absi=olutely doing the right thing here..and I wish him well. The NAACP local chapter even backed him up.


19 posted on 08/16/2011 3:23:29 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“It’s too late. Just try to find a white person who cares any more about fixing Black America. The only concern at this point is adequate self-defense.”

Once it became legal (almost mandatory) to take a less-qualified black candidate for a job, promotion or college seat over myself or my sons because we are “white” males, you can imagine how we (and many others) view this problem. I guess the white liberals will handle it with their condoms, saline and partial-birth abortions, sterilization abuse, and finally the open borders that have allowed the Bronze Horde to completely displace blacks in our everyday lives. Rather than being on rural reservations, they’re contained in urban ones while their relative position in this country continues to diminish. The few successful ones in no way compensate for the millions lost; they’re losing ground no matter how you cut it.


20 posted on 08/16/2011 3:25:52 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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