Blacks ruin Fourth of July in Baltimore; media censor race

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Since late last night (July 4), another unremarkable story with no race angle at all has been floating around the Internet. The Baltimore Sun has one of the earliest reports: “Man stabbed to death, child shot in Inner Harbor after fireworks.”

Violence erupted in separate locations of the Inner Harbor Monday night despite a heavy police presence for the holiday, with a child shot in the leg and a man fatally stabbed shortly after the fireworks ended.

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Earlier in the day, a man in his 20s was shot twice inside a parking garage around 2 a.m. after a long-running feud was reignited. He survived the attack.

This violence was “a significant disappointment” for Baltimore police, whose “elaborate July Fourth safety plan… involved several hundred state and city officers patrolling Baltimore’s streets, monitoring surveillance cameras and tracking one another via GPS signals.” In fact, Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III was so confident in his planning,

[he] held a news conference Monday evening to quell fears that the downtown area was dangerous, telling reporters that arrests were imminent in the morning incident and that he believed there were “sufficient resources” in place to secure the Inner Harbor for the Independence Day celebration.

Oops.

The story does not mention race, so for example, the stabbing victim was an “adult male,” who got into a confrontation with a “group of individuals”; two more “individuals” fell into the water and were rescued by the BPD Marine Unit; “several juveniles” were arrested for carrying knives; and police enforced the curfew by clearing “young people” off the streets after 11 pm.

Tonight (July 5), WRBL News reports that “a photo of the suspect in the killing was taken by cellphone” and “city officials were hoping to quickly capture the suspect,” yet the photo is neither shown nor described. In particular, the story does not mention race. The Baltimore Business Journal is similarly uninformative.

The Baltimore Sun’s follow-up includes a video in which Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (who is black) condemns “these people who engage in these terrible and senseless acts of violence” as cowards whose behavior will not be tolerated. Neither the story nor the video mentions race. However, the video does briefly display a photo of the suspect. WBAL has more photos (below), plus a video of a large number of African Americans “celebrating” the Fourth of July in a not-unthreatening manner.

Suspected of stabbing a man to death with a broken bottle on the Fourth of July. Source: WBAL.

One witness reports a “moving mob” (or something kind of like it).

Jean Holzhueter, who lives within walking distance of the Inner Harbor, has attended the New Year’s and Independence Day fireworks for many years, but she said that Monday was the first time she felt unsafe during the festivities. … “It was kind of like a moving mob,” Holzhueter said. Although police responded quickly, she said, Holzhueter was afraid she would be pushed into the water by the expanding crowd. “It was just scary how fast it grew.”

Fortunately, a man who gets paid to make Baltimore look good sets us straight.

Added Bill Gilmore of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts: “You need to march along. You can’t let an incident like this deter your Independence Day celebrations. You can’t let the actions of a few people affect the good work and entertainment of the public at large.”

Reporting is sooooo much work

Let us apply our usual racist trick: search Twitter for “harbor, black” and other interesting combinations of words (e.g. “somebody got stabbed at the harbor”) to see what the mainstream media could not be bothered to report.

Here are just a few of the hundreds of relevant tweets I found from the night in question, not including re-tweets. I’ll keep it simple: name, race, time, and tweet. Notice how early people (well, black people) detected trouble (from black people). For comparison, the stabbing occurred shortly after 10 pm (ABC2) and first aired on the 11 pm news.

• _ViolaLoves, black, 8:57 pm: “At the harbor too many black ppl lls”
• dbeats11, black, 9:24 pm: “Never again will I bring my black ass down the harbor on 4th of july”
• TeamWonnyBitch, black, 10:02 pm: “Dannng! Black ppl never cant do/get nothing right… On my way up the Harbor turning all the way around because they shut it down. *Shrugs”
• Marleyy_, black, 10:03 pm: “Shit got wild down da harbor black people is wild cant have alotta dem inda same place“
• AyyLera, black, 10:06 pm: “The harbor is a coon fest…what is with this black mob stuff its crazy.”
• OozieBangz, black, 10:10 pm: “Damn, Somebody Got Stabbed At The Harbor Already ?! Smh [Shaking my head] Black People <<<"
• Duh_Toy, black, 10:13 pm: “Somebody got stabbed at the innor harbor! #notsuprised“
• dozens of tweets (and retweets) almost identical to Duh_Toy’s, all by black people, such as TinyyTerror at 10:23 pm: “So somebody got stabbed at the harbor? Idk [I don’t know] why people acting so surprised.“
• x__JuicyShaa, black, 10:23 pm: “Wow someone got stabbed at the harbor , too many black ppl there at once .”
• _SunnyMonroee, black, 10:25 pm: “somebody got stabbed at the Harbor , we cant have NO type of fun nowadays without someone dying“
• bubblecheekz614, black, 10:26 pm: “Seen 6 fights so far at the harbor wtf is wrong with black people“
• Scuda3, black, 10:29 pm: “I hate black people dey dont never know how to get along ppl tryna have a good time at the harbor and you wanna jump and stab dem #smh”
• JetTrippyMane, black, 10:35 pm: “kill somebody got stabbed and shot at the Harbor tho….lol NIGGAS smh“
• LoveIsDeadXo, black, 10:40 pm: “That’s so fckn sad , ppl getting shot up & stabed at the harbor that’s the result of too many black ppl in a restricted area -______-“
• MallyRe, black, 10:57 pm: “You cant do SHIT with black people young… niggaz gettin stabbed at the harbor and shit”
• FreedomWars, black, 10:58 pm: “Somebody Got Stabbed At The Harbor -____- Black People ! Smh”
• Yeahh_ItsMia, black, 10:58 pm (right on time for the 11 o’clock news): “@_LoveeBuqq its on the newss . . And someotha people got shot and stabbed black people for you“
• Kyraa_Sasha (black), 10:59 pm: “See First The Zoo,Then The Carribean Festival,& Now The Harbor. Why Y’all Black Kids Gotta Be So Ignorant! Smhh” (re-tweeted by 14 other black people, mostly women)
• LoveMee_HateMe, black, 11:01 pm : “Heard shit went down , down the Harbor . smfh Thats exaclty why iStayed my black ass here in BelAir . Shiiddd”
• YouWitTheFace, black, 11:02 pm: “I’m LMAO At My TL Because Every Year Somebody Got Beat Up Or Stabbed Down The Harbor For Like 5 Years In A Row.”
• inked_skin_tone, black, 11:02 pm: “Smfh I knew a damn 4 year old shoot wtf #black people don’t know how to act“
• Weeenta, black, 11:04 pm: “Woah buddddy. There is black people everywhere at the harbor!”
• ForeverrSimone, black, 11:26 pm: “ah 4 yr old boy got shot & somebody was severly stabbed at the harbor ? this is fucking ridiculous ! i hateeee black people ,” (immediately re-tweeted by three other black women)
• NaeJackCity, black, 11:34 pm: “Yo its still hella niggas dwn the harbor !”
• PieVSTheWorld, black, 11:34 pm: “Somebody got stabbed n killed, someone else shot, and my SON was down there smh. Baltimore can’t have shit w/o niggers fuckin it up“
• therealMikeyLo, black, 11:36 pm: “niggas got stabbed to death and a 4 year old got shot and killed down da harbor ! #shitreal”
• meechie222, black, 11:37 pm: “@_Veeeeeee check fb [Facebook] about alll the “black ppl” saying yea I was holding my own down the harbor ..fightin and all dat stuff”
• IKeepAMistress, black, 12:14 am: “I see why white people think so low of blacks. Like seriously black people can’t just go to a nice place like the harbor and act right”

There are hundreds more like this from the same night, all saying basically the same thing:

1. the Inner Harbor was full of black people last night
2. the black people started fighting, one of them stabbed someone to death, and one of them shot a child
3. point 2 is disappointing, but not surprising, given point 1

In a way, this is good news. Many ordinary black people — unlike their leaders and unlike most white people — are willing to say what we should all be thinking: black people, compared to white people, are innately violent and criminal, and you can’t put too many of them in the same place without someone getting killed. Harsh, I know, but this is the only theory that fits the data.

When the media won’t tell you the facts about black crime, go straight to the source: black people who are fed up with it themselves.

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Cop-killer’s mother: he didn’t mean to shoot, the gun just fired… five times (Florida, part 3)

St. Petersburg, Florida: where a model cop was investigated for allegedly citing crime stats to the father of an armed-robbery victim, and the property crime rate is over 50 percent in at least one downtown neighborhood. Could it get any worse?

Yes. Yes it could.

February 21, 2011: 16-year-old sophomore Nicholas Lindsey (allegedly) pops the lock on a white Dodge Neon, breaks the steering column with a brick, but can’t get it started. A witness calls 911, and Lindsey flees. Officer David Crawford (46, married with one daughter), a 25-year veteran of the SPPD, responds to the call and spots Lindsey half a block away from the scene of the crime. Crawford calls out to him.

David Crawford.

Lindsey (allegedly) immediately turns and shoots Crawford four times in the chest (missing once) with a .380 pistol, killing him. He then runs to his mother’s apartment, where he is arrested the next day on a first-degree murder charge (Tampa Bay Online, February 24; ODMP).

Cop-killer Nicholas Lindsey.

Lindsey has already confessed to the murder, and is scheduled to stand trial on December 12 (Bay News 9, March 7, June 28). The justice system may consider him innocent until proven guilty, but the day after the murder, Lindsey’s guilt “almost seemed like an open secret” in the community, according to tampabay.com (April 12):

One witness heard two women talking about it in a crab shop on 16th Street S. Another woman heard two drug dealers talking about it. But people are scared and don’t want to be seen talking to police.

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One neighbor sidled up to one of the backup officers to say they had the right man. Lindsey ran through his back yard the night before as helicopters flew overhead. But don’t question me here, the witness said, not in front of people.

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Some witnesses who came forward did so fearing retaliation. Others said they felt uneasy after word of their cooperation quickly spread.

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The day after the teen’s arrest… an upset high school student told his teacher he saw Lindsey return to Citrus Grove the night of the shooting with a gun.

The witness said he knew “someone took care” of the gun and no one will ever find it. But he refused to say more.

The student said he “had to take the secret to the grave,” telling the officer:

“In my neighborhood you don’t snitch.”

According to WTSP, the cop-killer’s (single) mother, Deneen Sweat, blames the gun (February 23):

“[The officer] said, ‘Take your hands out of your pockets,’ and he said he knew he had gun on them. [Nicholas said,] ‘I just tried to break into this car. I took my hands out of my pockets and the gun came out with it.’ He thought the safety was on. It fired and it kept firing and it was jerking. He did not mean to shoot the officer,” she explained.

He didn’t mean to shoot Officer Crawford. He just heard him call out, turned around, stepped forward, reached from his waistband, and upon pointing his hand at the police officer with the notepad, was surprised to find a gun had somehow come out with it. Then the .380 just went ahead and fired, and it kept firing until Crawford had four bullets in his chest (tampabay.com, April 12).

Crawford was the third St. Petersburg cop shot to death in less than a month, and at least the seventh in Florida since June 2010. Here’s a game you can play at home: guess the races of the six other cops, and the three other cop killers. Answers later today.

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Mayor: for victims’ sake, cops must not give victims advice (Florida, part 2)

Investigating a model cop for telling the truth about crime: insane? Yes, says Bob Esposito, father of a (white, female) victim of armed robbery:

“I’m shocked,” Esposito said. “His job is to serve and protect, and as far as I’m concerned, he gave me information. I think he did his job. I think he did it very well.”

No, says the (white) mayor of St. Petersburg (WTSP, July 1):

Mayor Bill Foster acknowledged the incident and said he holds SPPD to the highest standard.

“I always want to know my officers are representing this city in a very positive light,” Foster said.

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“(SPPD) is performing at a very high level,” Foster said. “Do I tout statistics when I’m out in the public? No, because we have too many victims.”

The logic will be familiar to those who followed our coverage of media censorship in the wake of recent black mob violence in Chicago. If white people knew just how likely they were to be attacked by blacks, they might start to worry about being attacked by blacks, which would be racist, which would be the worst thing in the world. So you cops better keep your damn mouths shut! Lie, if you have to. Just make sure no one ever sees the color of crime —

— until it’s too late.

Downtown St. Pete’s property crime rate is 55 percent

One month before Officer Crisco’s run-in with the Mayor’s office, a study based on FBI crime statistics ranked downtown St. Petersburg (guess who lives there) as the eighth most dangerous neighborhood in the nation for property crime (WTSP, June 1). At a rate of 55.4 percent, most neighborhood residents are expected to become victims of property crime over the next year. How do you think the city government reacted to the news, given their policy of “representing this city in a very positive light”?

City officials say they question the studies credibility and are researching how the survey came up with their results.

Two weeks later, City Councilman Karl Nurse, County Commissioner Ken Welch, and State Rep. Darryl Rouson (three of St. Pete’s most powerful leaders) called Mayor Foster and Police Chief Chuck Harmon to “a secret meeting” to discuss “the city’s perceived crime problem” (WTSP, June 15):

Rouson [a former crackhead who wants white people out of city hall — more on that later] said either the city’s improving crime stats were wrong or Harmon needed to do a better job of handling the negative perception.

What prompted the summit? The city’s 11th murder of 2011, matching the total number of murders in 2010, and including three (white) SPPD cops killed in the line of duty. To his credit, Police Chief Harmon did not skip their funerals, unlike (black) former Police Chief Goliath Davis III, Ph.D., who nevertheless found time to pay his respects to the family of one of their (black) killers — more on that later.

Which brings us back to Officer Crisco’s “fallen partner.”

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Veteran cop under investigation for allegedly citing crime stats (Florida, part 1)

Today, WTSP News in Tampa Bay reported that “[a] veteran officer with a clean record is being investigated by the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) after he warned the father of a robbery victim about a dangerous part of town” (WTSP, July 1).

Officer Thad “Stu” Crisco, who was recently in headlines for honoring his fallen partner David Crawford [more on that later], allegedly warned St. Petersburg father Bob Esposito about letting his 16-year-old daughter hang around the Northshore Pool at night. Esposito’s daughter was one of five teens robbed by a group of armed men there about 10:30 p.m. on a recent weeknight.

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Esposito said Crisco cited the city’s violent crime stats — the worst in the state. He faces a possible suspension, even if his comments were true, although his exemplary record with SPPD could help him avoid serious discipline.

Indeed, the table following the article shows that the violent crime rate in St. Petersburg was 1.13 per 100 residents in 2010, higher than Miami (1.11), Orlando (1.07), and Tallahassee (1.03). At that rate, roughly 1 in 88 St. Petersburg residents will be a victim of violent crime each year.

For those of you who don’t get the joke — found in every story like this — I’ll spell it out: from the few facts the article reported, and the many facts they didn’t, we can safely conclude that the armed robbers who attacked Mr. Esposito’s 16-year-old daughter were all black. Their five victims were probably all white. Mr. Esposito certainly is.

Officer Crisco (also white) will be punished because his advice was based on a simple truth the police are not allowed to acknowledge, even obliquely: statistically speaking, the violent crime rate in St. Petersburg is high because of blacks.

Not poverty. Not unemployment. Not the schools. Simply, demonstrably blacks. And white people are starting to notice that the “dangerous part of town” is wherever the blacks live, and a dangerous city* is one that’s full of black people.

Simply put, “[w]hen blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears” (Jared Taylor).

* Recall the four most violent cities in Florida: St. Petersburg is 22.4 percent black; Miami, 22.3 percent; Orlando, 26.9 percent; Tallahassee, 34.2 percent; and the state of Florida as a whole, 14.6 percent.

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Hope for Chicago: Furious White People

This is an unusual post, in that I’m going to let readers do most of the talking. To be precise: readers of NBC Chicago’s local news.

Recently, I covered Chicago’s wave of Black mob violence in early June, and how the media tried to justify censoring race. Mainly by shaming Whites for daring to notice Black people behaving badly, as it turns out. Yesterday, I thought it was safe to move on to Black mob violence in another city.

Apparently I was wrong.

Today (Tuesday, June 28), NBC Chicago ran a story with the intriguing title “Woman Believes Beach Violence Covered Up” (with video). It’s awfully popular for local news. The day’s second most-read local story, “Lura Lynn Died With Ryan By Her Side,” currently boasts 16 comments and 111 Facebook recommendations, but 0 Tweets. “Woman Believes Beach Violence Covered Up,” on the other hand, has 80 comments, 350 recommendations, and 103 Tweets, and those numbers are steadily rising. According to NBC’s clever little emotional response meter, 92 percent of readers are “furious.”

Gee guys, what’s all the fuss about?

The complaint

On Memorial Day Weekend (May 28–29), Chicago resident Amy Schwartz called 911 with this complaint:

There’s a fight breaking out on the beach because there’s nothing but animals covering this beach today. What the hell is going on?

So what the hell was going on? According to NBC Chicago,

Schwartz said she was walking from Oak Street Beach toward North Avenue Beach on Memorial Day when she witnessed a woman being beaten by a gang of people on the beach.

“They were being rude and abusive and throwing trash around and defecating,” Schwartz said. “The crowd became very animated. They were cheering on the beating and more people joined in, so I kept walking forward. I was afraid I could be next.” [NBC, June 28.]

Confirmed cases of attacking packs of Blacks were reported just a few days later. It raises an interesting question: did police close the beach because of yet another Black mob?

No. They did it because it was sooooooo hot.

Both [Police Superintendent] Garry McCarthy and [Mayor] Rahm Emanuel have said the people suffering from heat exhaustion was the only reason for closing the beach. A city spokesman says the violence calls were handled promptly, and deny there’s any attempt to spin the facts.

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“There were other calls that I heard on the tapes reporting the same incident I saw,” Schwartz said. …

Police presence has been boosted significantly at the beach since Memorial Day. [NBC, June 28.]

Here’s a map of the walk Ms. Schwarz was taking when she witnessed the alleged violence. Not far from her starting point, to the south and southeast, you’ll find the 300 block of East Chicago Avenue, the 700 block of North Lake Shore Drive, and the bike path just south of Chicago Avenue. Why are these locations of interest? Because that’s where a mob of 15–20 Black teenagers beat up and robbed a 33-year-old White insurance salesman; a 68-year-old oncologist, Dr. Jack Singer (race censored); a 42-year-old Japanese oncologist; 20-year-old bicyclist Ryan Dacumos (race censored); and one more victim about whom little has been reported (CBS, June 5; Chicago Tribune, June 6).

The reaction

The comments section is interesting, to say the least. Am I crazy, or are these real people logged in to their real Facebook accounts, saying things like this, from Joe Flynn:

The City of Chicago has a long standing policy of covering up hate crimes commited on Whites. The City is terrified that if the Whites ever knew how much they were being attacked due to there race that they would flee the City leaving Chicago Like Detroit, Michigan or Gary, Indianna. Lets all not forget all the white kids getting attacked at Kennedy high school & during one of the mini riots that the black kids tried to take a police officers fire arm when he was wrestling a kid down. Why has the media been so gun shy over the last twenty years and will not say the color of a criminal that is being sought after. Wake up. …

Monroe Anderson (who is Black) objects:

Where are you coming uo with this idiotic dribble? As a result of high unemployment [false], bad schools [false] and the War on Drugs [???], crime is rappant in far too many parts of the black community. When it spills over into areas where whites are, or should whites happen to wander into the middle of it, it’s not a hate crime, it’s a crime of opportunity [false, false]. More than 90 percent of the victims of black crime are black people [false; 54–55 percent of the victims of violent Black crime, not including murder, are White (no one seems to know this)]. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you’re writing out of ignorance [lol] and not racism.

Oh no! A race denialist rears its hideous head! Unamusement Park leaps into the fray to smite the — hey, wait a minute. Somebody already smote the shit out of that guy. Several somebodies, in fact.

Joe Morris, for instance, seems to think the word “racism” is meaningless:

Here we go again, if a white guy calls out a black man re violence — it’s Racism! Heard it before…

Maurice Moshe Eisenstein, Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University Calumet, has clearly been following the news with a critical eye:

Whites are not going over to beat whites; but blacks are out to beat up and kill whites. It is the new summer entertainment.

Peter York of California State University latches on to one detail in particular:

Defecating? Blacks are defecating in their neighborhoods? It’s obviously a ‘Lord of the Flies’ kind of tribal psychosis…see, every child is a barbaric savage who must be civilized. They scream, they grab food off others’ plates, they won’t bathe, etc. Thanks to fatherless parenting, we’re up to our armpits in savages who were never civilized. That goes for all people, of course, but do you really want to defend the flash mobs in Philly, Chi, etc, the sideshows in Oakland?

Joe Ferra of Tampa, Florida doesn’t buy the “crimes of opportunity” narrative:

Sorry, as much as I wish it were true that this was a crime of opportunity rather than black on white racism the facts just don’t reflect that opinion. When racial epithets are thrown at the victims and the mob of one race attack individuals of another race you have to be either very naive or an apologist for the racism of your preference. …

Carla Rogers Williams, account manager at “Mindshare Group,” won’t stand for victim blaming:

i love how Monroe blames everything but the people actually committing the crimes even blaming those ‘whites who happen to wander into the middle of it’, yeah because a public lakefront is no place for whites to be hanging out on a sunny weekend o.O

Jeffrey Shultz, a “Top Commenter” (whatever that means), has an interesting question I myself may have posed once or twice before:

Hey, Monroe… Why is it that “as a result of high unemployment, bad schools and the War on Drugs, crime is rampant in far too many parts of the black community” and not the “white community” or the “Asian community” or the “Jewish community”? Now THAT’S the question you should be asking yourself and those trolls who run Chicago/Detroit/Philadelphia?FlashMobCityofChoice — assuming you really want the answer.

Jeff Stanch, a realtor, has a parsimonious explanation for Black failure:

@Monroe, why are the schools bad? Crime rate high? High drug use? High unemployment? Because the residents are lazy and ignorant.

Harry Bertram, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Union Local 370, is treading dangerously close to White racial consciousness territory:

@Monroe Anderson: I agree with Joe Flynn. These are not crimes of “opportunity”… These are crimes that target White folks. You just can’t admit racism. You are the one in denial. Millions of Whites suffer high unemployment, bad education and schools, and the drug epidemic. You don’t see Blacks becoming victims of crimes of “opportunity.” And where are these thug’s parents? They probably think like you do.

That is why I agree with the American Third Position political party.

James Benoit, another “Top Commenter,” blames society, but with a new twist:

Ya sure. Black “urban yute” gangs are roaming the streets of Chicago beating and stealing from innocent citizens and you serve up the usual foolish pap – “War on Drugs,” poverty, poor education – blah, blah, blah…

Yo buddy – B.S. – these animals act like ANIMALS – no, worse than animals – because they are socialized to act like savages. Poverty? Other people’s tax money FLOWS into the Hood – Sec.8, free food, free money – and the results are MORE “poverty” and depravity – albeit wearing $150 basketball shoes, sporting gold teeth and driving cars with $2000 24″ rims.

There are little or no consequenses when these fools are teens – unless they shoot each other DEAD – the ultimate consequense. Crawl back into your Ivory Tower echo chamber.

Cynthia Campbell is also sick of the “ignorance” and “racism” accusation:

GIve me a BREAK with the ‘ignorance, not racism’ crap! Admit it! Blacks are a violent, barbaric race and that is a FACT . . . it is not racism when it can be proven over and over again to be accurate. Many many people are hurting economically but unlike the BLACKS they don’t use it as an excuse to attack ‘whitey’ who gets the blame for their own laziness, incompetence, ungodliness and lack of class and civility. Don’t you DARE call us racists when it is your own RACE that has caused all of the problems!

Christopher McCabe, like me, dislikes censorship:

This sounds like a gross distortion and convenient white wash (no pun intended)… What do bad schools and the war on drugs have to do with a woman getting beaten up on a beach? give us all a break.

Daniel Eppolito identifies the most racist race in America:

there are a select few white people that are racist, and they usually are the boisterous ones about it. The real reason racism is still prevalent is because Black people keep pulling the race card. Are they jobless because theyre black? No, they lack ambition and education. Take the OJ Simpson trial for instance. 98% of the blacks thought he was innocent and even if he wasn’t they were still on his side. Who’s racist?! The black people are the most racist people I have ever seen. They feel like they are entitled to something. Wake up and realise that you have to earn your way in life. Not steal and sell drugs. Here, back in the 60’s/70’s they were GIVEN multi-million dollar highrises in Cabrini Green, the Taylor Homes etc. These building were once in pristine condition. Look what happened. People couldnt and wouldnt take care of them. The blacks ruined those buildings and subsequently they had to be demolished. The point I’m trying to make is please, can’t we all get along without crying racism?! Can’t we all earn our ways through life through dedication and hard work? C’mon people!!

Donald Joy, a third “Top Commenter,” doesn’t buy the radical left’s fairy tale stories:

There were NUMEROUS 911 calls about the violence by blacks on the beach that day, but Rahm [Emanuel] and the rest of the PC “authorities” insist it was closed because of heat-related illness. We all know why the establishment left covers up black crime, it’s because to tell the truth would undermine the diversity myth, and would undermine political correctness, and would hamper their anti-white agenda.

The New Black Panther Party are the ones who are helping to incite all of this, on a nationwide scale. Have people not paid attention to the sequential “Days of Rage” that the NBPP [New Black Panther Party] have organized and promulgated lately?

This is all part of a systematic campaign of terror being waged by blacks against whites and asians across the U.S., and the NBPP has announced it all openly in propaganda campaigns back in April and this month of June. The p…ack wildings and violent assaults by blacks have increased in frequency and severity as the weeks go by.

Obama, Holder, Napolitano, the media, et. al. are silent, because it is the Left’s agenda to create and perpetuate fear in the minds of whites; fear of attacks, fear of being called “racists” if we object or call attention to it all, fear of riots and burning entire cities if Obama is declared ineligible for office and removed, etc., fear of endless pogroms against the responsible, civilized producers of society by the rampaging welfare mobs as part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis. It’s all what Obama has taught and organized his African “communty” to do ever since he fell in with ACORN, Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, the NBPP, [Louis] Farrakhan [leader of the Nation of Islam, which is based in Chicago], and so on.

Michael Connerth has noticed something about race in the media:

AGAIN, race is not mentioned so now we know that a white female was beaten by a group of blacks.

These are not anonymous neo-Nazis posting on Stormfront or the Vanguard News Network (no offense to the anonymous neo-Nazis). These appear to be ordinary people who have simply had enough of Black-Run America.

Is this one of those “good news” things I’ve heard so much about?

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Black Flash Mob in Cleveland Heights; cleveland.com Refuses to Report Race

At cleveland.com (via Stuff Black People Don’t Like), we find a curiously undescriptive story: “Reports mixed on extent of unrest Sunday at Cleveland Heights street fair.”

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — About 40 Cleveland Heights police officers had to control a crowd of unruly teenagers in the last hour of the Coventry Street Arts Fair Sunday [June 26, 2011], an event [that] closes Coventry Road every summer from Mayfield Road to Euclid Heights Boulevard.

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The teens, who other kids said were from “all over the place — Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights — were starting fights, screaming and throwing punches in the crowded streets, according to witnesses and shop owners.

Sarah Corcoran, 21, of Cleveland Heights, said she saw about 75 people run through the street, some yelling, just before the fair was scheduled to end at 6 p.m. Police showed up shortly after to clear the streets.

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There is no mention of race anywhere in the article. Later, the story was updated to include “[s]ocial network reactions.”

The comments below, mostly from Twitter.com, are only a portion of the chatter over about 7 hours Sunday evening — many others were left off the list because of offensive language.

The tweets start at 7:44 pm on Sunday with WFNYCraig asking:

What happened at the Coventry street fair? I was there earlier in the day, but I see it trending. What did I miss?

Someone give this man a job with the Chicago Tribune! He is on the ball. Anyway, the tweets continued until 9:09 am today (Monday June 27), when Its_ChrisSteez got the last word:

Coventry Shook Too Hard Yesterday.

None of these tweets mention race.

Join me, won’t you, for a fascinating exercise in media studies: log in to Twitter (I used TweetDeck) and search for “coventry, black.” Let us see what, exactly, was “left off the list because of offensive language.”

I know, I know: it’s racist. Indulge me.

(I’m not suggesting any of these people were actually involved in the mob.)

Saturday: Preparations

As early as 4:09 pm on Saturday (June 25) — the day before the “unrest” — Thick_ASS_Jass (who happens to be African-American) complained:

I wanna go to coventry but NIGGAS black ass NIGGAS on that embarassing ghetto dont know how to act ,dont got no home training type shit.

“NIGGAS,” she says, “black ass NIGGAS.” Could be a coincidence. Interestingly enough, her message was promptly re-tweeted by three other people: _SammiJay, Bj_Mariee, and apryl_alone, who all happen to be African-American, as well.

At 7:51 pm, Look_ItsTreMilz promised the following, which was re-tweeted by uniquebre17:

Everybody is gonna be at Coventry tomorrow huh?…. You wont see my black ass up there.

“Everybody” is going to be there — except their “black [asses].” Yes, once again, both happen to be African-American. Actually, from now on, everyone mentioned is African-American unless I specifically state otherwise.

At 10:09 pm, My_FreshAss issued the following stern directive, re-tweeted by IAm_Dnell and CheeksONTresure (all of whom, if you’ve been paying attention, are implicitly African-American):

Coventry gone [going to] be full of FIGHTS, RIOTS, BLACK PEOPLE, DRUGS, ND ——>POLICE SOOOOOO YALL BETTA ACT CIVILIZED!!!

Fascinating: “Coventry,” he noted, is going to be “full of FIGHTS, RIOTS, BLACK PEOPLE, DRUGS,” and that implies a “POLICE” presence, so “YALL BETTA ACT CIVILIZED!!!” But did they heed his warning?

At 11:01 pm, JaeCudi joked with JovTheGreat:

I thought they stopped black people from hanging on Coventry. Lol. JK

At 11:37 pm, masonry fan SaleBrixSckTits speculated:

Coventry gone [going to] pull out them pattywagons [paddy wagons] again on you black fuckers lol

At 11:42 pm, the hypothermic DaniDhaColdest wondered (as did re-tweeter JustFollowHere):

Man why tf [the fuck] y’all gotta always wanna fight &nd start problems on coventry , that’s why BLACK PPL not wanted in a lot of places now GROWUP .

At 12:31 am, which I’m going to go ahead and call Saturday night, LilRedHead_Jada pleaded, along with DeonteeWasThere, _BlowTrees, and Bobby_SickKicks:

Dear Black , Please Don’t Fight On Coventry Like Some Dumbasses ^_^ Love, Jada . . . .

Sunday: Flash Mob

At 8:32 am on Sunday (the day of the “unrest”), MauriceAmir vowed:

Im Not Going To The Coventry Feat. Black People Always Make Some Shit Ghetto Af. Plus I Gotta Work :)

At 9:18 am, the possibly self-hating quezzy_quell discriminated:

If I go to coventry I’m goin early so I dnt have to put up wit black ppl…

At 10:55 am, the celestial PaintTheCosmos (real name “Dionna Sherice,” race technically unknown) cursed:

Did want to go to Coventry, but black people like to fuck shit up.

At 11:24 am, the educated HoesTaughtMe (reinforced by the equally learned ToneJetTaughtMe) ordered:

NO SHOOTING, Coventry The Last Place Black People Got!

At 11:27 am, the similarly erudite _TONYtaughtme (supported by Drea_CreatedYou) equated:

coventry = fighting . yu cant put a bunch of black people in one area cuz they dk [don’t know] how to act .

At 11:41 am, Pauly_Frm_Phs predicted:

Today gone [going to] be black tennagers last time on Coventry

Weedy_TheOG and PeeGee_17 concurred.

At 12:06 pm, iStriptor_Nike prayed:

Dear lord, don’t let these black rambunctious kids ruin the Coventry fest this time … Sincerely, Kasey Moreland

At 12:22 pm, Lanky_Ralf begged:

Dear black people, please dont embarass us today on coventry. Sincerely, Ralf .

At 1:04 pm, SincerelyKELLEY asserted:

All these black people at coventry today . i just KNOW its gonee [going to] be some drama .. smhh [shaking her head] !

At 2:57 pm, leahbonnielove lamented:

I enjoyed coventry this afternoon. Had to go before it got “all black” lmao.

At 4:55 pm, McTeddy13_, too, lamented (followed by I_amFatdaddy):

I really wanted to go to the Coventry Festival but it’s just too many black people going so I don’t wanna go anymore -___-

At 5:14 pm, shortly before the flash mob, Yesjessicaa, who is White (and kinda cute), noted:

Nora and I are at the Coventry fair and we walked past a group of black girls and one of them goes ” EWWW, I hate white girls”

Just before 6 pm, the Blacks rioted. At 6:26 pm, 81smallz suggested:

Young black kids of cleveland… Smarten up.. Ur looking goofy out here.. #coventry

This was re-tweeted by fourteen people, nearly all of them clearly African-American.

Alright, I think you get the point. From now on, I’m only going to show you a few interesting tweets. There are plenty more out there, all saying pretty much the same thing.

At 7:45 pm, Murda_Moosh wrote:

coventry fest….never again! a damn mess! black kids dunno how to act !

At 12:04 am, which I’m going to go ahead and call Sunday night, BoY_SaNiTy (race ambiguous) wrote:

Coventry was just a bunch of over dressed black people looking for trouble i swear on it

Monday: Aftermath

At 6:44 am, teeelash wrote:

Some shooting in Coventry sha, black boys as usual RT@yourmbour: AH!!! Wetin happen … RT @teeelash: The black race is cursed.

At 12:09 pm, BadAssNmd_Ticia wrote:

Coventry was nothing but a bunch of black highschool kids running wild. Waste of time #yessssss

At 2:04 pm, KraftyWurker, who is apparently a donkey, wrote:

Newspapers persist in calling black bastards who rioted at Coventry Art Fair “teens” or “kids”. Let’s see how many adults were arrested?

Finally, at 10:08 pm, IndiaAlanna inverted Doctor Strangelove with this tweet:

black ppl fucking up the coventry fest…fighting at the peace park. smh [shaking her head]

Conclusion

Phew. Reporting is hard work.

Well, there you have it: what cleveland.com couldn’t be bothered to report. The “unrest” at the Coventry Street Arts Fair on Sunday was yet another Black flash mob. Once again, Blacks are running wild in the streets, and the mainstream media simply refuse to report it. Don’t believe me? Watch Fox8’s video and ask yourself: is there any adjective that could be used to describe these “unruly teenagers”?

Wondering how the mainstream media will manage to justify this bit of censorship? Well, they won’t have to, unless you — the readers and viewers and listeners — complain about it.

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Black Mobs Hit Chicago; Tribune: Why Aren’t You Worried About Seventh Day Adventists?

Chicago is under attack by “packs” (source) of “wild” (source) Blacks, and the Chicago Tribune thinks you’re racist for noticing. This will be my sixth and final post on the subject. Previously:

1. Chicago Under Attack by Packs of Wild Blacks; Tribune: You’re Racist for Noticing (introduction)
2. Black Mobs Attack White People; Tribune Editor: Race Is Not a Factor (race denialist article 1)
3. Mobs Are All-Black; Tribune: We Won’t Report Race Until All Blacks Are in Mobs (race denialist article 2)
4. Tribune: “Black” Is to “Criminal” As “Muslim” Is to “Terrorist” (race denialist article 3)
5. One Week in Chicago (all the crimes, in detail)

I’ve saved the best — by which I mean worst — race denialist article for last. Steve Chapman’s “Race and the ‘flash mob’ attacks” (rating: 1.5 stars) is fully dedicated to shaming White readers for noticing Black criminality. It is almost beyond parody.

Almost.

Here’s my question about the teenagers who have been attacking and robbing people on North Michigan Avenue in recent days: Were they Christians? And if so, what denomination? Baptist? Catholic? Seventh Day Adventist?

Those may sound like ridiculous questions. But so is the question raised by many Tribune readers about our coverage: Why aren’t we mentioning that the culprits are black?

Mm. Let us delve into the thought process at work here.

• Proposition 1: Black people, and only Black people, are responsible for the assaults and robberies.
• Proposition 2: They target White people.
• Proposition 3: The attacks are characterized by extreme, senseless violence.
• Proposition 4: None of Propositions 1–3 are true if you replace “Black” by “Christian” — let alone “Baptist,” “Catholic,” or “Seventh Day Adventist” — or replace “White” by anything but “White.” They are evidently not targeting the old or the young, men or women, the rich or the poor; they’re not attacking whoever happens to be close by (no “crimes of opportunity” here); and they’re sure as hell not coming after some other racial or ethnic group.
• Proposition 5: Propositions 1–4 are further strong evidence for an ongoing epidemic of racially motivated Black-on-White violence.
• Proposition 6: Tribune readers want to be safe from violence, racially motivated or otherwise.
• Proposition 7: Being aware of Propositions 1–4 would help White readers avoid racially motivated violence (by Proposition 5).
• Proposition 8: The Tribune refuses to report Propositions 1–4.

Given Propositions 6 and 7, Mr. Chapman is astonished to discover that White readers are complaining about Proposition 8. Why aren’t they complaining about Seventh Day Adventist mobs, a problem which clearly doesn’t exist (by Proposition 4), rather than a problem which clearly does exist (by Propositions 1–3)? “Ridiculous,” he says.

Chapman is full of it: you can’t be a reporter and be stupid enough to believe the parable of the Seventh Day Adventist mobs. (Not unless you’re an affirmative action hire.) The real reason the news media refuse to report Propositions 1–4 is that they inevitably lead to Proposition 5: the recognition of an epidemic of racially motivated Black-on-White violence. Now why would that recognition that be a bad thing? Well, here for comparison is the Tribune’s argument:

• Proposition 1: Black people, and only Black people, are responsible for the assaults and robberies.
• Proposition 2: They target White people.
• Proposition 3: The attacks are characterized by extreme, senseless violence.
• Proposition 4: None of Propositions 1–3 are true if you replace “Black” by “Christian” or replace “White” by anything but “White.”
• Proposition 5: Propositions 1–4 are further strong evidence for an ongoing epidemic of racially motivated Black-on-White violence.
• Assumption X: Black people couldn’t possibly be more criminal/more racist/less intelligent/etc. than White people.
• Assumption Y: Racism against Black people is the worst thing in the whole world.
• Proposition 6b: If the Tribune reports Propositions 1–4, readers will believe there is an ongoing epidemic of racially motivated Black-on-White violence (by Proposition 5).
• Proposition 7b: Believing negative things about Black people is racism, because it can’t possible be true (by Assumption X).
• Proposition 8b: The Tribune must not report Propositions 1–4 (by Propositions 6b and 7b, and Assumption Y).

The rest of Chapman’s article may now be efficiently rebutted.

There are good reasons not to identify the attackers by race. It’s the newspaper’s sound general policy not to mention race in a story, whether about crime or anything else, unless it has some clear relevance to the topic.

My rebuttal: Propositions 6 and 7.

If a reporter goes out and interviews people about the weather, would it make sense for the story to say, “Joe Smith, who is black, is hoping for a cool front”? If a pedestrian gets run over by a bicyclist, should the story mention that the rider was white?

My rebuttal: Proposition 5.

In the attack coverage, what difference does race make, unless police are putting out descriptions or sketches in hopes of getting tips from witnesses? Getting beat up for your iPad, I suspect, feels about the same regardless of the color of the thieves. Police don’t seem to think victims were targeted because of their race.

My rebuttal: Propositions 5, 6, and 7, plus the following maps, showing how far some of these “thieves” — these senselessly violent packs of up to 20 “thieves” — had to travel to find their victims: map 1 (five mob attacks, by 15–20, around Streeterville; felony robbery and mob action), map 2 (two mob attacks, by 15–20, downtown; felony aggravated battery in a public place and mob action), map 3 (same).

Also, how surprising that in a city where asking why the newspapers won’t report the race of Black criminals is considered racist, the police aren’t saying that Blacks might be targeting Whites because of their race. Who could have predicted such a thing.

And what good would it do to trumpet the skin color of the thugs? So pedestrians on Michigan Avenue can run away when they see two or more African-Americans? Lots of black adolescents and young adults can be found on the Magnificent Mile on any given day. I’d guess at least 95 percent of them are harmless.

My response: Propositions 6 and 7. Also, mentioning race is not the same as trumpeting it.

My question to readers accusing us of political correctness is: Why do you care so much about the attackers’ race? If you fear or dislike blacks, I suppose it would confirm your prejudice. But otherwise, it tells you nothing useful.

My response: go fuck yourself, Steve Chapman (by Propositions 7 and 8).

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One Week in Chicago

If anyone knows any additional information about these attacks, or has a correction to my report, please leave a comment or email me.

Chicago is under attack by “packs” (source) of “wild” Blacks (source), and the Chicago Tribune thinks you’re racist for noticing. Before I get to my final critique of the Tribune’s strict policy of not reporting facts when they make Black people look bad, I think it would be wise to review those facts. I don’t want you to think I’m exaggerating the problem, or over-reacting to the violence.

According to the available evidence (which is scarce, because the mainstream media suppress it), the following attacks were all committed by young Blacks (mostly male) in Chicago between the mornings of Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 9 (I know, it’s eight days, not one week — psh) and every victim was White or (rarely) Asian.

Wednesday–Sunday: Five pepper spray attacks in Lakeview

According to CBS, a “group of robbers” (operating mostly in pairs) in the “trendy Lakeview neighborhood” are using pepper spray to disable their victims (mostly young women) before robbing them. Four such robberies occurred in just two days — 27-year-old woman, a 21-year-old woman, a 19-year-old woman, and a 25-year-old man — followed shortly by a fifth attack, on a 61-year-old woman. They were all “knocked to the ground and personal property was forcibly removed.”

Newspapers will not report the races of the victims, but interestingly enough, the Lakeview neighborhood is 79.5 percent White and 4.4 percent Black.

On June 3, CBS Chicago reported that

[t]he robbers are described as African-American men between the ages of 18 and 30, standing 5 feet 5 to 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing between 150 to 200 pounds. They all have black hair and a dark complexion, and were seen wearing T-shirts and blue jeans.

Strangely enough, by June 5, the newspaper had forgotten their race:

[t]he suspects were described as being males between the ages of 18 and 30, about 175 pounds, and are 5-foot-5 to 6-foot-3 in height. They have dark complexions, black hair and were wearing t-shirts and blue jeans, according to the alert.

Sources: CBS Chicago (June 3, June 5).

Saturday: Four mob attacks around Streeterville

A mob of 15 to 20 “young men” traveled up to 13 miles at least to attack and rob five people in an area of town once considered completely safe. Note that a gang of fifteen teenagers, or for that matter five teenagers, does not need to beat up a 68-year-old oncologist to convince him to hand over his wallet and phone. Nor did they need to beat up a 42-year-old oncologist moments later. This truly is senseless violence. As the Tribune puts it:

Saturday night’s attacks were senseless and over the top. How many young men does it take to relieve a single unsuspecting citizen of his iPod? The victims all were punched and beaten repeatedly; one was hit in the face with a baseball. The take: a handful of electronic toys, a bicycle, a wallet.

Newspapers will not report the races of the victims. One was definitely White, one was Japanese, and I have a hunch that if any of them were Black, we’d be hearing all about it, and how these mobs couldn’t possibly be targeting White people.

According to CBS Chicago, Northwestern University’s alert described the perpetrators as “a group of 15 to 20 men, all approximately 16 to 20 years old and black.” And here are three of the six “young men” charged in connection with the attacks; in their case, charged as adults with felony robbery and mob action.

Sources: CBS Chicago (June 5, June 6), NBC Chicago (June 6), and the Chicago Tribune (June 6, June 6, June 6).

Sunday: Two mob attacks on city buses

“In two separate incidents, as many as 15 teens have stormed Chicago Transit Authority buses, attacked their victims and darted off with cell phones and other electronic devices,” according to NBC.

In the first attack… a victim was struck multiple times before the thieves ran off with his cell phone. About 25 minutes later, near South Racine Avenue and West 13th Street, a student said he was sitting on a No. 12 bus when as many as 15 black boys and young men boarded the bus without paying. The student was hit in the back of his head with a glass bottle and was robbed of his iPod, said UIC [University of Illinois at Chicago] police.

Again, 15 teens do not need to strike their victim multiple times to obtain his cell phone. They don’t need to hit a student in the back of the head with a glass bottle to get a hold of his iPod. Senseless violence.

Newspapers will not report the races of the victims.

Here are two of the three “teens” charged in connection with the second attack. The “teen” on the left is charged with aggravated battery in a public place, armed robbery, felony unlawful use of a weapon, and two misdemeanors; the “teen” on the right is charged with aggravated battery in a public place and armed robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Sources: NBC Chicago (June 8, June 8).

Tuesday: Two mob attacks downtown

“A mob of about 15 to 20 youths reportedly beat and robbed two people downtown,” according to NBC. According to a witness: “We get there, [the victim was] coughing up blood, his face is like really bloody and he’s all, ‘Oh, they just stole $350 from me.'”

Newspapers will not report the races of the victims, but one commenter thinks he has identified the real problem: “People need to put their cell phones and ipods/ipads away while walking down the street. This will continue to happen until people pay attention.”

Here are two of the three “youths” charged in connection with the attacks: Marcus Clark (left) lives 7 miles away from the scene of the crime, and Keith Alexander (right) lives 11 miles away. Both “face charges of felony aggravated battery in a public place and mob action.”

Sources: NBC Chicago (June 7, June 10).

Wednesday: Five-on-three attack on train

“A man was assaulted and robbed of his iPhone and wallet aboard a CTA train on the Near North Side Wednesday afternoon,” according to NBC.

“People were screaming for help,” said witness Andrew Webb. “One of the guys was bleeding, another looked like he had a black eye.”

Webb said he was on the Brown Line train when he noticed the five males approached three victims.

This attack came hours after Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy “addressed the media about a crime wave affecting downtown Chicago”:

He said the wild teens that have been running rampant through the Streeterville and Gold Coast neighborhoods are more complex than originally reported.

“There’s a number of different categories that we’re talking about,” McCarthy said. “We’re talking about shoplifting, we’re talking about robbery incidents … but they’re getting lumped in to one category.”

… McCarthy said the department made more than 29 arrests since last weekend. …

Newspapers will not report the races of the victims or suspects.

Sources: NBC Chicago (June 8, June 8).

Thursday: Five people attack… Billy Corgan’s brother?

“The brother of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan was attacked and robbed of his iPod on his way to work early Thursday morning,” according to NBC.

Jesse Anderson, 35, of Evanston, was leaving the Chicago Red Line station on his way to work when five people punched him and took his iPod and cash, Chicago police said.

A woman in the group grabbed his iPod, he told police, and when he tried to get it back, a man punched him in the face. Members of the group are estimated to be between 15 and 25 years old.

Jesse Anderson is, of course, White. Newspapers will not report the races of the perpetrators.

Source: NBC Chicago (June 8).

Appendix: Hey, look — another mob of “teens”

The violence hasn’t stopped, and it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the “race angle.” Reporting on a mob of 50 “teens” attacking a Michigan Avenue Walgreen’s Tuesday (June 21), the Chicago News Report tells us what no major newspaper will — in the headline, even: “Black mob attacks Michigan Avenue Walgreens” (June 23).

Another black mob attack recently hit Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011, an estimated 50 teens, described by one source as an African-American mob, robbed the Walgreens at 757 North Michigan Avenue.

How awful, how raciss of them to report this fact. This obvious fact. This fact that demands an explanation — and no, speculating about “White racism” doesn’t count. This fact that could save lives if more people knew it and — oh, sorry. That would be racial profiling.

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Tribune: “Black” Is to “Criminal” As “Muslim” Is to “Terrorist”

Chicago is under attack by packs of wild Blacks (that’s “groups of people who are (a) wild and (b) Black”), and Dawn Turner Trice of the Tribune is worried about racism. No, not Black criminals targeting White people. In “Mob attacks: Fear, too, is often skin deep” (rating: 1.5 stars) she disregards that inconvenient fact, just like she disregards the victims — the actual victims of actual crimes — so she can devote 450 words to condemning future potential racial profiling (which is justified) and Chicago residents’ fear of Black thugs (which is also justified).

I am the mother of a 16-year-old daughter. But if I had a 16-year-old son instead, I wouldn’t want him to hang out downtown with his buds this summer. I’d be afraid the group would be racially profiled.

Yes, Ms. Trice is Black, and she’s terribly frightened her hypothetical son would be subject to greater police scrutiny — that’s suspicious looks — and maybe even questioning (the horror!), just because he (hypothetically) happens to be a member of a visually distinguishable population with an outrageously high crime rate compared to non-members (even after controlling for poverty, unemployment, and lack of education — you know, all those bullshit liberal excuses for Black thugs). Sort of like how men have a high crime rate compared to women, which of course is exactly why Ms. Trice isn’t concerned about her (actual) daughter suffering racial profiling.

Logic, Ms. Trice: try it sometime.

Last weekend, a mob of youths attacked people in Streeterville and along the Gold Coast and the lakefront. The group’s activities have sparked an array of emotions and a whole lot of conversation, at the core of which is: How does a person become part of a marauding band that attacks a 68-year-old?

Speak for yourself. The core of my conversation is: When are the Chicago police going to realize that they’ll get accused of “racism” no matter what they do, so they might as well be proactive and treat Blacks the way they claim they’re being treated now, for instance by questioning every young Black man found wandering around a White part of town at night. Now that might actually prevent crime.

Whatever the explanation, we won’t find the answer in their race. And yet, that’s exactly where some people have been searching. And though the phrase “flash mob” has been used for attacks like this — creating an aura of something that happened quickly — the ramifications are complex and anything but cut and dried.

We won’t find the answer in their race? Well, that settles that. By the way, according to the 2000 census, Chicago is 36.77 percent Black, 4.35 percent Asian, and 41.97 percent White (including some Hispanics). Northwestern University estimates there were 15–20 attackers (CBS Chicago), and at least 5 attacks occurred over the weekend in question (Chicago Tribune). If a randomly-selected mob of 15 people attacked 5 random victims every day in Chicago, then by chance the attackers would all be Black and their victims White or Asian* an average of once every 423,000 years.

* As far as I can tell, four of the victims were White (one confirmed) and one of them was Japanese — he was one of the two visiting oncologists (Chicago Tribune). The media will not report the victims’ races, but I’m positive they would if they could show that Black thugs were attacking other Blacks. (Can there really be any doubt about this?)

There’s nothing about being black that makes a person inherently predatory. The same is true of being a young black male. It’s too bad that young black men have become the poster children for so many of society’s ills.

Really? There’s nothing about being Black that makes a person inherently** predatory? On what evidence do you base that conclusion, Ms. Trice? You’re obviously wrong about young Black males (testosterone, anyone?). As for Black people in general, please note the following.

1. race is genetic (sources here)
2. all human behavioral traits are heritable (source)
3. criminality is a human behavioral trait (duh)
4. Blacks are more criminal than Whites — more likely to commit crime, especially violent crime, multiple-offender crime, and inter-racial crime (data and sources here)
5. race differences in criminality persist after controlling for socioeconomic status (source, p. 66)
6. there is an 81 percent correlation between the level of violent crime in an area and the proportion of Blacks and Hispanics; this correlation only drops to 78 percent after controlling for poverty, unemployment, and lack of education (source)

** Remember: we at Unamusement Park always speak in probabilities (as in “Blacks are inherently — meaning genetically — more likely to commit crime”), not absolutes (as in “all Blacks are criminals, grrrr I hate them SO MUCH”), because — well, because we’re not idiots, and we understand means and correlations and other such things.

What happened over the weekend appears to have been vicious crimes of opportunity — totally senseless acts carried out by totally senseless people.

Let’s review some of the details of these “crimes of opportunity,” which occurred in Streeterville, about 6 to 13 miles from the homes of the three Blacks charged as adults with felony robbery and mob action. From the Tribune:

The first victim, insurance salesman Krzysztof Wilkowski, 34, said he was sitting on his motor scooter checking his cellphone around 8:30 p.m. when he was hit in the head with a baseball, which knocked his helmet off.

“The next thing I know is I’m being hit by the helmet, then being dragged into the street,” Wilkowski said. “I couldn’t believe it. It was broad daylight outside, there were people around, and this happened.”

Moments later, Singer, who was sitting on a park bench smoking a cigar and typing an email, was attacked by members of the same group. The teens then ran east to Lake Shore Drive, where they allegedly attacked the doctor from Japan and two other people along the bike path just south of Chicago Avenue.

Well, those sure sound like “crimes of opportunity” to me! You were saying, Ms. Trice?

Still, race has been and will be front and center. Going forward this summer, some gatherings of black kids will almost certainly be singled out. We’ve heard of “driving while black.” Well, we can prepare for “walking while black” or “sitting on a bench while black.”

Thank God!

I don’t envy the police who have to balance keeping downtown safe for the city’s residents and tourists while remaining racially sensitive. It’s as difficult a task as trying to predict who’s going to slip a bomb into his or her shoe and get on an airplane.

No comment necessary.

It’s too bad that the young black guys who are strivers and law-abiding continue to be rendered invisible by the bad guys.

“Black thugs are attacking White people? Oh, won’t someone please think of the poor striving Black men, and how those awful White people keep rendering them invisible by forcing the bad — I’m sorry, morally disadvantaged Black men to roam around their neighborhoods, beating and robbing them. I mean, what were they thinking? Flaunting their Blackberries and iPads and oncology conventions, and just a twenty-minute drive from the ghetto!”

Obvious racial bias: Black thugs target White people. Less obvious racial bias: Black reporter cares more about “young black guys who are strivers” being “rendered invisible” by (White) racists than she does about actual victims of actual crimes.

And yet, I know fear is real. And mobs in general, and mobs of young black men in particular, spark fear. I have felt it.

We all are hardwired for survival mode. We want to categorize and try to figure out who the bad guys are. We look for cues and clues, and race just happens to be an easy one. But our answer to why a terrible crime was committed can’t be distilled down to race alone.

Ms. Trice? I’m Doctor Unamused. I’m afraid you have a bad case of the SLAWBs — that’s Stupid, Liberal, Anti-White Bigotry. It’s common among African-Americans. Symptoms include:

• inability to think clearly when it comes to Blacks
• repetitive chanting (“racism… racism… racism…”)
• writing for the Tribune

What’s that? A cure? Well… it’s risky, very risky, but many patients respond positively to prolonged exposure to inner-city youths.

The ones that survive the treatment, that is.

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Mobs Are All-Black; Tribune: We Won’t Report Race Until All Blacks Are in Mobs

Chicago is under attack by packs of wild Blacks (that’s “groups of people who are (a) wild and (b) Black”), and the Chicago Tribune thinks you’re racist for noticing. Reporter Mary Schmich wonders, “When a news story omits race, do we really know any less?” (June 8). If you think the answer is “yes, obviously,” you’re not alone: readers gave her a one-star rating, just like they did her editor.

You probably know the basic facts.

It happened Saturday night.

A dozen or so teenage males went on the prowl near North Michigan Avenue in Chicago’s toniest shopping district. They attacked five people, ages 20 to 68. Their loot included a backpack, a wallet, a bike, an iPad, a BlackBerry and an iPod Touch. The cops quickly arrested five alleged assailants, at least three of them from the South Side, and vowed to find the rest.

Right. A dozen — or was it 15 to 20? — young Black people went “on the prowl” for “loot” (accurate and obnoxiously unserious phrasing) and attacked five people, four apparently White (so difficult to find out, when reporters like Ms. Schmich won’t do their job) and one visiting Japanese oncologist (CBS Chicago, June 5 and June 6; Chicago Tribune, June 6). The police have charged five Blacks for the attacks; a sixth has been charged with mob action, and at least 20 arrested, in connection with the attacks.

Well done, Ms. Schmich. You got the “basic facts” — well, not right, but close.

If you’ve followed the story — and who hasn’t? — there’s another fact that you also know, but it’s one you haven’t read in the Tribune or seen explicitly stated by most of the official media: The young men were black.

Quelle surprise.

The reader response gives me some hope for the future of America:

“Shame on you and the Chicago Tribune for your politically correct crap when doing these type of stories,” one reader emailed several Tribune writers. “This is a diverse city and when you don’t physically describe them, we don’t know who to protect ourselves from.”

I’ve omitted the portion of his note that referred to “them” in ugly language.

God forbid someone should use “ugly language” to refer to these savages! (That’s “people who are savage.”) Why, that could hurt — no, not someone’s face, that’s what baseballs and fists do — no, not Chicago’s economy, that’s what packs of wild Blacks “prowling” around robbing people in rich neighborhoods do — but it could definitely probably hurt someone’s feelings!

Another reader wrote: “I can’t imagine that if a gang of white teenagers went to the South Side of Chicago and began attacking African-Americans including a 68-year-old that the race card would be left out of your coverage. … I see a media double standard here.”

You are absolutely correct, anonymous reader: the news media are thoroughly biased in favor of Black people.

So why would a news organization avoid a fact? This fact?

It’s a reasonable question, even if many of the people asking it on Internet comment boards have wrapped it up in irrational, irresponsible venom.

You mean they dared to notice the Black crime epidemic destroying American cities — destroying their city — and reacted like rational, responsible people should react (namely, with venom)?

I’m ambivalent about the omission of the attackers’ race in the news accounts, but I think I would have decided to leave it out too.

As an editor pointed out when I asked about it, the crimes don’t appear to be racially motivated. There’s no sign the criminals picked victims because they were of a certain race. They picked them because they had certain stuff.

Well, sure. No racial motivation here. It’s just gangs of Blacks, and only Blacks, crossing the city to attack Whites and Asians, and only Whites and Asians — well, as far as I can tell. It’s not like reporters in Chicago are actually reporting this story.

“People see it as a media conspiracy,” he said of the decision to leave out their race. “It’s a media quandary.”

How could anyone be so irrational and irresponsible as to see this universal media censorship of the race angle as a “conspiracy”? Why, that’s no different from believing the government is controlled by lizard men from the center of the Earth!

Here’s the quandary, for editors, for cops, for all of us:

Race alone doesn’t predict or explain behavior. Just because this mob was young and black hardly means that all young, black people in groups are a violent mob. Knowing the race of these attackers is no form of protection.

Wrong, Ms. Schmich. You moron. First, race alone does predict and explain behavior. It doesn’t predict or explain it perfectly, but it’s better than nothing. Knowing that the animal outside your front door is a tiger doesn’t predict or explain its behavior perfectly either, but it’s useful information if your objective is to not get eaten. That’s why stereotyping is justified. The potential benefits of learning, from further contact with the tiger, that this particular tiger is not dangerous (e.g., the benefit of leaving through the front door of the house, rather than the back) are outweighed by the potential costs of learning that it is, in fact, dangerous (e.g., the cost of getting eaten).

Now how can skin color predict and explain behavior? Trick question. Race isn’t just skin color; it’s in your blood, it’s in your bones, and it’s in your DNA. You see, race is genetic, and every human behavioral trait is heritable (Eric Turkheimer’s First Law of Behavior Genetics). That’s why there are innate race differences in intelligence and criminality.

Second, everyone knows that not all groups of young Blacks are violent mobs. You moron. On the other hand, a lot of them are. The same cannot be said, at this time and in this place, of groups of young Whites or young Chinese or young Eskimos. Do you see any reason for reporting the race of these mobs yet?

Third, knowing the race of these attackers is absolutely a form of protection. You moron. (See my example of the tiger, above.) We get it, Black-apologist cretins: not every group of two or more Blacks is a violent mob. How about groups of two or more Blacks at night, in a (formerly) safe — meaning White (and/or Asian) — part of town, dressed like — well, like ghetto Black thugs? How about then, when race is part of a more complete profile? Oh, wait, the cretins demand that race alone predict criminality with 100 percent accuracy. Otherwise they won’t report it. And you’re racist for noticing it.

Unless of course the races are reversed.

And yet race is an aspect of what happened Saturday night.

This oughta be good.

It’s a piece of the story simply because we notice. Young men from poor black neighborhoods create mayhem in a wealthy, predominantly white, touristed neighborhood? In the image capital of this historically segregated city? Of course we notice. By “we,” I mean everybody.

Yes, certainly, the real problems here are historical segregation and people noticing Black crime.

A friend recounts talking about the attacks with two of her friends. All three are black. One of their first thoughts was: “Oh my God, are they black kids?”

My friend wondered about their race because she worried about how their acts will reflect on all the good black kids.

Oh, those poor good Black kids (wherever they may be). They’re being reflected upon by Black criminals! That must be… agonizing.

The mother of one of the accused attackers noticed the racial aspect too. The Sun-Times quoted her as saying bails would have been lower if the crimes were on the South or West sides.

“If it’s black-on-black crime,” she said, “nobody cares.”

Look at that, we’ve identified another real problem: racism in the justice system! Except there isn’t any (Unamusement Park’s First Law of Race and Crime). Still, it’s good we brought it up. It distracted everyone from Black criminals, preventing any horrific, disfiguring reflections on “good black kids.”

So, yes, the attackers were black. We notice. But how to measure the relevance of the fact?

Here’s a thought, Ms. Schmich: measure it in White victims.

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