A Censored Race War?

[amigocabal]

A Censored Race War? by Thomas Sowell

When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks -- beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work -- that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn't.

"The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug.

Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend to try to sweep these episodes under the rug as well.

In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and bloody. But, when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet.

One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood streaming down her face said: "About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn't listen to us, they wouldn't take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating."

The police chief seemed determined to head off any suggestion that this was a racially motivated attack by saying that crime is colorblind. Other officials elsewhere have said similar things.

A wave of such attacks in Chicago were reported, but not the race of the attackers or victims. Media outlets that do not report the race of people committing crimes nevertheless report racial disparities in imprisonment and write heated editorials blaming the criminal justice system.

What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over.

It may be understandable that some people want to head off such a catastrophe, either by not reporting the attacks in this race war, or not identifying the race of those attacking, or by insisting that the attacks were not racially motivated -- even when the attackers themselves voice anti-white invective as they laugh at their bleeding victims.

Trying to keep the lid on is understandable. But a lot of pressure can build up under that lid. If and when that pressure leads to an explosion of white backlash, things could be a lot worse than if the truth had come out earlier, and steps taken by both black and white leaders to deal with the hoodlums and with those who inflame the hoodlums.

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[Simon_Jester]

Do you think gangs of black guys don't also beat the tar out of black people?

[amigocabal]

Do you think gangs of black guys don't also beat the tar out of black people?

They have.

Just as whites have also beaten the tar out of whites.

The problem, as Sowell points out, is that the authorities and media are sweeping some attacks under the rug. Indeed, he cited the following example.

In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and bloody. But, when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet.

One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood streaming down her face said: "About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn't listen to us, they wouldn't take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating."

The police chief seemed determined to head off any suggestion that this was a racially motivated attack by saying that crime is colorblind. Other officials elsewhere have said similar things.

Perhaps the attack in Milwaukee was colorblind. But then this begs the question of why the police were not listening to the victims, nor taking the names or statements.

[Thanas]

This sounds like a lot of bullcrap. Police refusing to take statements from victims?

Got any other source besides Sowell aka the guy from rightwingnut.com Townhall.com?

[ArmorPierce]

Yes cops are actually anti white despite common misconception.

That said I wouldn't be too surprised if cops acted the way described in the article. I believe in nyc there were cops pretty much doing the same thing making statemeents such as unless they got it on video they are going to be arrested.

[ArmorPierce]

And here it is http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 2&t=154122 . But saying has to do with trying to cover up a race war is pretty obscene.

[weemadando]

The fuck are you even talking about? My post there isn't related to racism, it is related to stat manipulation.

Trying to conflate that with "omg anti white po po" is ridiculous.

[ArmorPierce]

The fuck are you even talking about? My post there isn't related to racism, it is related to stat manipulation.

Trying to conflate that with "omg anti white po po" is ridiculous.

Whatv the fuck are you talking about?

Have you ever read any of my other posts. Or did you read tmy second post where I stated that trying to equate it to racism is ridiculous? Your sarcasm detector is broken. Please get it recallibrated

The entire point of the post was to show that while police have ignored victims trying to report crime in the past it had nothing to do with race.

Obviously cops are not anti white lol wtf?

[weemadando]

Right.Failure of sarcasm node noted.

[madd0ct0r]

who would be censoring 'a race war' and why? it's just silly.

[Zaune]

The thing about the race angle is, as always, correlation is not causation. Many of the perpetrators of these supposed "black-on-white racist" attacks might well have a chip on their shoulder about race relations, but ultimately I suspect they're primarily targeting white people because there simply aren't very many black people rich enough to be worth mugging or carjacking.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Considering Thomas Sowell has written a column comparing Obama to Adolf Hitler, I think unless some solid evidence of his claims is presented we can feel pretty comfortable dismissing it as a idiotic drivel.

[Thanas]

Considering Thomas Sowell has written a column comparing Obama to Adolf Hitler, I think unless some solid evidence of his claims is presented we can feel pretty comfortable dismissing it as a idiotic drivel.

Agreed.

[whackadoodle]

This article is Thomas Townhall free.
I think the brouhaha stems from the fact that though the victims were both reporters at the Pilot, nothing was reported of the incident, even on their crime blotter, until 3rd parties shamed them into it. Even then, they only wrote of it in an op-ed piece.

[Akhlut]

The thing about the race angle is, as always, correlation is not causation. Many of the perpetrators of these supposed "black-on-white racist" attacks might well have a chip on their shoulder about race relations, but ultimately I suspect they're primarily targeting white people because there simply aren't very many black people rich enough to be worth mugging or carjacking.

Also, in the US at least, white people outnumber black people by 6-to-1. So, black criminals are more likely to have white victims simply from the fact there are more potential white crime victims.

However, generally speaking, black people are more likely to be victims of crimes anyway, regardless of there being 6 times more white people.

[ChaserGrey]

Not much to add here, except that last summer in Philadelphia there was indeed a wave of black-on-white crime. Flash mobs would start in Northeast Philly composed of black teenagers and come downtown, beating and robbing people who looked like good targets. Victims were mostly white and I think there were some racial epithets involved, although robbery and kicks seemed to be the main motives.

So what happened? Contra Mr. Sowell, the local media was all over the story and did a good job reporting it, at least IMO. They talked about the profile of the perpetrators and victims, talked about black-on-white racial tension as one motive for what happened (among many, but this isn't the place for an essay), and covered the mayor's much-publicized guest sermon at a black church talking about the violence.

Damned peculiar form of censorship, if that's what it was.

[whackadoodle]

Not much to add here, except that last summer in Philadelphia there was indeed a wave of black-on-white crime. Flash mobs

Why don't we call them Flash robs, instead? To do otherwise confuses these technology-enabled events with technology-enabled hipster eruptions, which I think is unfair to the criminals.

[Sea Skimmer]

Well, at least around Phily I've never heard the term flash mob used for anything but criminals, first some cases several years ago in which gangs of teens ripped the cloths off teenage girls while trying to take pictures of them, and then the robbery stuff last year in the downtown area that led to a teen curfew for a large chunk of the city. Flash mobs being some hipster thing is news to me. Flash rob would be pointless anyway, it was very clear the point of the attacks was to beat up someone, and rob them, not just violently rob them.

[madd0ct0r]

really, you've never heard of flashmobs in the hipster sense?

back at university i did a few, including a 200 odd person 5 minute pillow fight in the city center. kinda fun.

[Sea Skimmer]

Well, maybe I heard and it just never registered the term for the meaning, but no. Mobs of kids almost beating a few people to death, that gets my attention when I live in the area.

[Simon_Jester]

A "flash mob" is one that gathers very quickly and seemingly spontaneously, because it's coordinated ahead of time using social networking and cell phones. The ones I first heard of were pretty innocuous, if weird: say, fifty people all assembling in a bookstore at once to hold a giant rock-paper-scissors contest.

The fact that a mob is wandering around does not make them a "flash mob;" what distinguishes the flash mob is that they assemble quickly, seemingly out of nowhere, because while they look spontaneous they're actually set up ahead of time.

Was that the case in the Philadelphia attacks?

[ChaserGrey]

Yep. Specifically, they took advantage of the fact that Philly PD (at the time) did a lousy job of monitoring social media. They'd coordinate using Twitter and some other tools, converge on a spot, and it'd be some time before the police got the word through conventional channels and responded. The original organizers were never IDd as far as I know, so we don't know if they were informal "parties" gone bad or intended all along as cover for somebody's crime spree, but regardless there'd be several robberies and assaults every time you had one. Only really stopped after they put a teenage curfew on downtown.

Supposedly the PPD is better prepared this summer. We'll see how they do, and you all get a frontline correspondent. Aren't you lucky?

[loomer]

who would be censoring 'a race war' and why? it's just silly.

Typically the devoted adherents to this idea are white supremacists and neo-nazis of various degrees, so take a guess.

Did you guess the Jews? Congratulations! You now know who is keeping the white man oppressed and secretly working to destroy him, according to the same people who spread this kind of bullshit online.

[FSTargetDrone]

A "flash mob" is one that gathers very quickly and seemingly spontaneously, because it's coordinated ahead of time using social networking and cell phones. The ones I first heard of were pretty innocuous, if weird: say, fifty people all assembling in a bookstore at once to hold a giant rock-paper-scissors contest.

The fact that a mob is wandering around does not make them a "flash mob;" what distinguishes the flash mob is that they assemble quickly, seemingly out of nowhere, because while they look spontaneous they're actually set up ahead of time.

For example...

Some are for commercials:



Others are just for fun: