'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

by Colin Flaherty

  No: I do not know why. But I do know no one was arrested. So much for the crime stats.

  Not all of the episodes of racial violence in Rochester involve large mobs. Smaller episodes of black mob violence on video are as prevalent in Rochester as anywhere. In this video, a white child is beaten and his bike is stolen by a group of black people. Then they came back and beat him some more.

  So there were at least six black people there watching and recording and laughing. But time after time police reports say only one person is guilty of a crime.[55] You tell me. How many are responsible?

  The Rochester City Newspaper does not like the mobs. Not at all. Though it is still working up the gumption to report on the central organizing feature of the people responsible for violence and mayhem downtown at the Liberty Pole.[56]

  The problem is bigger than a few rowdy youth congregating at the Liberty Pole. Ask members of the Red Shirts— retired police officers who patrol downtown— and they’ll tell you how they have to escort some downtown office workers outside because gangs of young people taunt and harass them as they leave their buildings.

  Out-of-control young people also shut down a carnival in Greece, delayed the opening of Seabreeze Amusement Park, and made for a scary and chaotic situation at the Lilac Festival.

  Part of me wonders if the Liberty Pole problem will improve once the new transit center, with its own security force, opens. But the area around the Liberty Pole resembles an armed encampment at different times during the day, and a new police substation just opened in the nearby Sibley building. None of that has stopped the Liberty Pole problems.

  Some involve even smaller groups, like the small gang of black people on video who were laughing and dancing as they talked about how they were going wait for an “old white lady” to leave a convenience store, then smash her in the face with a snow ball. And a fist.[57]

  Which they did. Police told the local paper it looks more like harassment than assault. Meanwhile, police are looking for the “old white lady.” Until they find her, she is just one more person who decided reporting violent crime is just more trouble than it is worth. Or more dangerous. Remember that the next time your local media reports crime is down in your town.

  We’ll get to that: Why black crime is way, way worse than even really, really bad crime statistics say it is.

  Bus Driver Organizes Mob Violence Against White Family

  Read it ten times.

  You still might not believe it.

  Some stories you have to read 10 times before deciding:‘Yes: What I thought was too crazy is really true.’ This is one of those stories. Here goes, believe it or not:

  A black bus driver organized a mob of 20 black people to assault a white family of three on her bus. Which they did with gusto and pepper spray. All while the other black passengers hooted and hollered in encouragement.

  All while the bus driver waited for the beating to finish so the attackers could get back on the bus. With her thanks.[58]

  The bus company didn’t give a darn. And it took Baltimore police two months before they even investigated it.

  If you want to re-read that another ten times, go ahead. I’ll wait.

  More details from WBAL TV that somehow escaped the attention of the Baltimore Sun. (Which means either this happens all the time and is not newsworthy. Or the paper has an embargo on news about large-scale black mob violence. Or both.)

  Whatever.

  It happened in June: A Baltimore couple was escorting their 9-year old son home from school on the city bus. The bus was crowded, so the driver asked the family to move to the back. They said they could not. There was no room. That is when the driver started yelling at them. From WBAL TV news:[59]

  “If you would have gotten your (expletive) off you wouldn't be having these problems,” the bus driver told the family. “You better watch the way you're talking to me.… Come up here and I'll show you what I'll do. You better get your ass way back there in the back.”

  Eventually, the driver confronted her white passengers, said the mother of the family:

  "She got out of her seat belt, stood up screaming in both of our faces, 'Don't tell me how to do my job. If you have a problem, come across this line and I'll knock you the F out.’”

  At that point, other black passengers started yelling for the bus driver to remove the white family from the bus. One of the passengers urged the bus driver to use her phone and “call them up.” The family would soon find out who “them” was:

  “Two bus stops later, (the victim) said a large number of Mergenthaler Vo-Tech and Academy for College and Career Exploration students boarded the bus.”

  The victims were standing next to the bus driver and they heard her tell the newly boarded students:“I don’t care where they get off. You handle that (Bleep) and I’ll take care of you. I’ll wait for you.”

  Soon after, the family of three left the bus, along with the 20 black students who had just boarded it.

  They beat and pepper-sprayed all three members of the family, choking and banging their heads on the ground —all while the bus driver waited and watched. All while some of the students got on and off the bus.

  “I was really scared," the 9-year-old victim told 11 News. He said he tried to defend his mother but couldn't. "I tried to get the girl that was beating her up off of her, and she turned around and pepper-sprayed me."

  Charging documents show the bus driver watched the assault and yelled several times, "Yeah, that's what you get." After the teens were finished with the beating, they got back on the bus, and the bus drove away, offering the victims no assistance, police said.

  Bus driver Karen Murphy is awaiting a November trial. Eight students were also arrested.

  The Baltimore Sun said this is the second recent example of a bus driver assisting people who assault riders.

  Now you can go back to your real life, where bus drivers do not organize black mob violence against white families. Except for when they do.

  Virginia Beach: Im’ma Start a Riot.

  And you can’t stop it, say partygoers.

  Places with racist faces

  Just an example of one of many cases

  The Greek weekend speech I speak

  From a lesson learned in Virginia (Beach)

  I don't smile in the line of fire

  I go wildin'

  Welcome to the Terrordome

  Public Enemy

  Fear of a Black Planet

  Reporters had trouble describing the epic racial violence and hostility that 40,000 black people brought to Virginia Beach in April of 2013. So let’s start here: Black College Beach Week was organized by black people, for black people, promoted by black people, on black radio stations, at black colleges.

  They sent buses to pick up members of black fraternities and sororities. And they brought them all to Virginia Beach. And they raised holy, violent, unapologetic, race-conscious, hell.

  Or as WTKR TV described the week: “Guns, knives, fights: Complete chaos.”[60] Much of it was on video. Even so, every step of the way, local politicos and media types tried to minimize and deny the violence. And who was responsible. Let’s get a snapshot of what this rolling race riot looked like.

  The family of Anas Harmache owns a restaurant in Virginia Beach. He posted a video on his Facebook page that captured some of black mob violence when dozens of people stormed his business.[61]

  “These guys destroyed my family's store, beat a kid senseless, and put my dad's life in danger,” said Harmache. “When I called the cops not one person showed up.”

  Note for the rest of the book: You have probably already figured this out, but “teens” equals black people of varying ages. Pre- and post-teen as well.

  Nancy Rodio owns the Upper Deck restaurant and lounge. They got her too. When the local news found Rodio, the black news anchor started the story by describing the hyper-violence as “rowdy,” then she tossed it to one of her field reporters, Anne McNamara who took it a bi
t more seriously.

  “The business owners found themselves held hostage in their own storefronts,” said McNamara. “And in some cases they actually got hurt.”

  Now we meet Rodio: “She was assaulted by an unruly group of girls,” said McNamara ever so carefully.[62]

  Putting aside the “complexities of race” that people in Rochester love to bleat about, here is a simple version of what happened: The black people did not want to leave. They did not want to pay. They did want to punch the 65-year old Rodio in the face.

  So that is what they did, giving her a black eye. On video.

  “When I turned, the girl spit in my face,” Rodio said. “She then threw her drink at me. Then she hit me upside the head” with a cell phone in her hand, she would later add. Only leaving when someone shouted the police are coming.

  When they were not.

  Rick Kowclewitch owns a surf shop in Virginia Beach. He told WAVY TV news that he saw things get “unbelievable” and “real ugly” around 10:00 p.m. He heard gunshots, saw violence, and commended the police for doing a great job in spite of being overwhelmed by this ocean of criminal activity. “I experienced this back in 1989 and this was the same magnitude.”

  This happened before? That was news to most people depending on local news for that information. More on the 1989 nightmare in a minute. Back to the current victims:

  “It was a nightmare, I’m surprised no one got killed down here,” said George Smith, another business owner. He said college-age kids were out of control.”[63]

  "It was just so crazy," said bar owner Baldwin to the local ABC affiliate. "We actually had a fight break out in front of my business at Sandbar that the crowd busted in and broke my front window. So that's a thousand dollars per window."

  How many stories of black mob violence do you want? Pick a number between 1 and 40,000: That’s how many there are:[64] “I was scared to death,” said Denise Gordon, a manager for 18th Street Seafood Bar and Grill.

  Though all those incidents happened late at night, Gordon said she’d noticed “rude, obnoxious” behavior around her restaurant much of the day. Fearful, she closed the restaurant at 8 p.m., two hours earlier than usual for a Saturday.

  Gordon then said she called for security to help employees get to their cars after closing. “It was so crazy, I don’t even know how to describe it,” she said. Without describing the violent visitors as black people, that is. Want to know how crazy it was? They closed the liquor stores.

  Kathy Grissom owns Pirate’s Paradise Mini Golf. She spent the riot fixing up the walking wounded that collapsed in front of her business. You can see it on video. The next day, she watched, speechless, as her security videos showed the same people breaking in and stealing more than a dozen bikes she rented to tourists. [65]

  On Fox43 news, a black woman said mayhem and lawlessness at Beach Week is nothing to worry about. "I think it's still fun," said Kharizma Jackson. "It happens when you get a lot of people together this stuff happens everywhere you go. It's like that."[66]

  Black mob violence is normal. Funny how often I hear that. Funny how often no one disagrees.

  Laurette LaLiberte, on Facebook, also said this kind of racial violence is becoming a regular feature of life in Virginia Beach: “My son was jumped a few months ago... 6 guys... right down the block from [this video] ... Robbed him and they kept kicking and beating him even after he was unconscious... he was in the hospital a week and had hemorrhaging on his brain... they haven't caught those punks either.”[67]

  City officials downplayed the violence for as long as they could, even after videos began flooding YouTube and Facebook. “The events that transpired Saturday evening into early Sunday morning at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront should in no way, shape or form be compared to Greekfest 1989,” said Mayor Will Sessoms. “The disruption at the Oceanfront was just that — a disruption.”[68]

  People from Greece were rioting in 1989?

  Uh no. More in a minute.

  The mayor even told one reporter that the victims of violence and visitors were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And the same thing happened to him once in Cancun. “That wasn’t the right time for me to be there,” said the mayor. [69]

  Perhaps future visitors to Virginia Beach should call ahead, presumably to see if any riots are on the schedule.

  Some local reporters pitched in, and did what they could to minimize the violence. While introducing a segment on the mayhem, black anchor Don Roberts of WAVY reminded everyone that they really had no idea whether the “students” were in fact responsible for the violence.

  Students equal black people. At least they did that weekend. You knew that Don. But you would not say it.

  This is favorite technique of the deniers: Ignore the evidence, then say the evidence does not exist.

  Reporters did their damnedest to pretend the crowd just “happened to be black.” And this kind of racial violence had never happened in their comfortable beach town before. Not even during the black college student riot called Greekfest in 1989.

  But the locals knew city officials and reporters were wrong on all counts. And readers were not buying it.

  Daniel Johnson was one of dozens eager to talk about the widespread chaos, danger, thefts and violence during College Beach Week -- which was supposed to be a time when black students could “blow off some steam” before final. [70]

  As the week after the riot wore on, more and more locals began to reveal how bad it really was. Far different than the “spot of bother” narrative the local media was spinning: Said Gigi at WND.com:

  I was in Virginia Beach that very night and I can tell you it was incredibly frightening. There was definitely a mob mentality. Kids were jumping on moving vehicles, walking through 4 lanes of traffic.

  You could just feel this building insanity. I had one car come flying at my vehicle, turn sideways and almost hit me. I'm not doing it justice.

  I felt VERY unsafe! I and my money will NEVER return to VA beach because of that craziness and the intimidating people.[71]

  Others took to Facebook and the local news sites to say what the local reporters could not. Or would not.

  “Because it was a group of young black college people, everyone is scared to say anything for fear of being called a racist,” Johnson said in a post to a news story at the Virginian-Pilot. [72]

  “It is what it is - these people come to the Beach and do everything in their power to intimidate the local and visiting white people at the Beach - rude - disrespectful - dirty and violent --- They come here and treat our beach like a toilet.”

  Police reported 900 emergency calls to 911 Saturday night -- not the 325 widely reported -- involving at least three shootings, three stabbings and three robberies. (I listened to six hours’ worth of them.)

  All during a six-hour period. That they know of. One reader at WND said there were many more:[73]

  The reported crimes of three shootings, stabbings, and robberies are just a sample size of what went on this weekend. The police were so overwhelmed, emergency calls were not getting through and even calls of "shots fired" were not responded to.

  The major artery to the resort area was even closed, as the interstate to there was shut down from miles away for hours.

  Conscious of the paper’s history of deleting comments that refer to race, Mark Morrell testified anyway:[74]

  “PSA: There were no persons of any other race on the videos perpetrating those crimes. None. Not stealing the bikes, or starting the brawls, or any other illegal, crazy action. Have I mentioned any race at all? Nope!!! Because you know exactly what I'm talking about, I most certainly don't have to. You can identify me all you want, I'm not scared, and I don't hide behind my screen - or my newspaper. There is an elephant in the room, Pilot. WHATCHAGONNADOOOOO ABOUT IT???”

  In a community meeting a week later, 700 locals let loose: They talked about:

  Unreported violence.

  Racial slurs.

  War zones.<
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  Guns shots.

  Hotel havoc.

  Boardwalk brawls.

  Cowardly media.

  Happening a long time.

  People dining and dashing. And laughing.

  Not just this weekend, other weekends too.

  White cops could not handle a black situation.

  People were beat and no one arrested.

  And dope, lots and lots of dope smoking.

  But above all: ‘How did we let this happen to us?’

  One after another, for hours. But they were mostly talking to themselves and reporters. The mayor and members of the city council were no-shows after trying to convince meeting organizers to cancel the event to avoid bad publicity.

  That is, anyone foolish enough to tell the truth. And the video is gone. Of the meeting that is. The riot videos are not.

  Kenneth Darden told the Virginian-Pilot that anyone who notices that all the lawbreakers were black is a racist:[75]

  “Being a black male, I am insulted reading your comments because they are very degrading and assumes that white kids are not capable of doing such things. Well let me tell you, all you have to do is come to Ocean View any day of the week and see for yourself how wrong you are!”

  Yeah: I get that a lot. But never with videos. Or links. Even one. I have a few we’ll see later. Spoiler alert: White riots are disappointingly tepid.

  This is not a book or history or sociology or Colin Flaherty’s patented instant solutions to the problem of racial violence. This is a record of what is happening now. Even so, some of the old-timers in Virginia Beach thought it was worth remembering the last time a large crowd of black college students came to town bent on mass destruction.

  It was 1989. Back then, they called it Greek Week. One of dozens of such gatherings of black college fraternities and sororities up and down the East Coast over a several year period. All leaving crime, trash, destruction, and excuses in their wake.