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

by Colin Flaherty

  At least they got one part right, calling it a “disturbing trend sweeping D.C.” All except the part where everyone was black. Except the victims.

  In November 2013, Phoebe Connolly was riding her bike through a Washington, D.C. neighborhood when she passed through a group of black people. CNN calls them “teenagers.”[197]

  Then one "reached out and punched me in the face," she told Anderson Cooper. "The whole group of kids laughed.” The day before the same thing happened to another woman in the same place, Connolly said.

  Anderson Cooper did his best ‘I have no idea what is really going on here’ impression. He has it down: That’s what a lot of practice will do.

  A few days later, a black person punched New York Congresswoman Grace Meng in the head and stole her purse. She now believes she could have been the victim of the Knockout Game. She doesn’t remember the laughing, or much else about the attack on the streets of Washington.[198]

  Racial violence is a regular and frequent part of life in the nation’s capital. So is black mob violence against Asians—all across the country.

  A few days before on Halloween, a “large group of assailants” beat and robbed a 50-year old teacher at the Metropolitan Branch Trail, a hiking and biking path from Union Station downtown to the suburbs in Maryland.[199]

  This was one of dozens of similar black mob attacks at the Metropolitan Branch Trail over the last three years against bikers and hikers and joggers, sometimes using weapons including stun guns and pipes. Other times, just fists and feet and taunting.

  In June 2013, the Washington Post sent two reporters to do a story on the ritual mayhem at the trail. Despite the added brainpower, they were not able to detect a central organizing feature of the violence: All the assailants were black. Most of the victims were not. More often than not, they were laughing.

  Almost as if it were some kind of game.

  The reporters may have missed it, but many of the 1200 readers who left comments did not. Said one: “Youth. Kids are just euphemisms for uncivilized violent animals like Trayvon Martin. They are racist to the core and want nothing more than "revenge" for the way their ancestors were treated 150 years ago.”

  There was even a comment from Reverend Bacon about some kind of game:

  “Yes, they usually remember to steal something, almost as an afterthought, so that their apologists can claim it was about robbery. In many recent examples of the knockout game, they have forgotten to do this.”

  This was months before the national media all of a sudden discovered the Knockout Game. Before suddenly wishing it away, again.

  As difficult as it is for writers for the Washington Post to discover a pattern in this avalanche of black on white violence, at least one Post scribe figured it out. The racial pattern part that is.

  In a November 2013 story, Washington Post columnist Mary Curtis declared that figuring out racist intent was easy: Just look at the pattern.

  For example, she says people who do not like Barack Obama are not going to come out and declare they are racist. Or leave a calling card. Or issue a press release.

  But if you look at the pattern, then it becomes “Race,” she said.[200]

  Mary Curtis deserves the Nobel and Pulitzer and lots of other awards for sneaking that one sentence into the Washington Post. When you consider the lengths that the Post has to go to disguise the pattern of racial violence in D.C., this has to be the most subversive sentence ever to appear in the Post.

  An increasing number of black reporters and government officials agree: They say white racism today is often sub-conscious. Including the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder.[201]

  Which is not quite the same as a pattern. This is the “assume a pattern” approach.

  Even so, racism is easy to detect once you know how, Curtis said.

  Mayor Bill de Blasio jumped on the pattern bandwagon as well in the fall of 2014. He said of course there was problem with police racism – bad enough that he had to warn his black son about it – because of the pattern of police killing unarmed black people in Ferguson, Staten Island and Cleveland. For No Reason What So Ever.

  If it is that easy to detect hidden racial animosity buried inside the minds that lurk behind the closed doors of Congress, how much simpler it has to be with hundreds and hundreds of examples of black mob violence in the streets. Out in the open. Many on video. With many of the predators bragging about it on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

  But the same people who look at Emmitt Till in 1955, Trayvon Martin in 2012 and Michael Brown of Ferguson in 2014 and declare this to be irrefutable proof of a pattern of racial violence also look at hundreds of cases of black mob violence and black on white crime and just shrug their shoulders. “We are color blind,” they say.

  No proof. That’s why people like Jon Stewart declared the Knockout Game to be a fear-based figment of white imaginations. The NBC News black web site The Grio could not have been happier: “Jon Stewart mocks media coverage of the Knockout Game.”[202]

  This is the same news organization that declared covering the Knockout Game was nothing more than “hysteria” that hurts black people.[203] Not a word about the victims. Funny how often that happens —like all the time.

  This figment also makes regular stops on the Washington Metro -- another site of frequent black mob violence. Most of which goes unnoticed by the Washington Post and now, denied by Jon Stewart. But at least one D.C. outlet thinks it is a story: The UnSuck DC Metro blog.

  This is a typical report from 2011: “Harrowing Account of Yet More Metro Violence.”[204]

  I have never been more disgusted or shocked by what I witnessed Saturday night at the Anacostia Metro. I went to pick up a family member at the Metro, and just as she was telling me about the fights (Yes, plural!) that happened on the Green Line train [between L'Enfant and Anacostia], we witnessed a group of 6 to 8 young black teenagers kick, stomp, punch and push a lone teenage girl.

  I could not believe my eyes! I also could not believe there was not an officer in sight.

  When the family member arrived, she had her own story as well:

  When she got on the train toward Anacostia, a group of teenagers proceeded to verbally and physically assault a group of young women. One of the boys threw a bottle and another threw the contents of a bottle in one of the women’s face. The assaults got so out of hand that some people landed on a woman and her baby.

  The attacking group had the doors to the train blocked so people couldn’t get off the train. My cousin told me she was so scared that she hid behind some seats and pulled out the box cutter she used for work.

  And every time the web site runs another story of racial violence, readers -- often dozens at a time -- post their most recent encounter with black mob violence in Washington.

  Some on video. Such as the two white women attacked by a black mob on the Red Line in Southeast Washington. No one knows what these two women were doing on that Metro in that part of Washington. On the video, they told their attackers they “did not want any trouble.”

  To the black mob that confronted them, threatened them, beat them and robbed them, it was no trouble at all. All the while one of the members of the crew was rolling video.[205]

  Did they call it the Knockout Game? Probably not. Did they laugh? Oh yes.

  Are more and more people in Washington coming to believe that non-black people are targets of black mob violence under whatever name reporters choose to ignore this month?

  Absolutely. Now that is a pattern.

  The Liberal Librarian

  This can’t be happening I like Obama.

  Before his encounter with the Knockout Game, Paul Lane was “a lefty. As left as you can get,” he said. He supported Obama. Intends to vote for Hillary. Or least he did.

  That was before November 7, 2013. The day everything changed for Paul. The day Kenneth Johnson walked into the Contra Costa library and played the Knockout Game [206] with the New York Times-reading
, liberal-loving, Obama-voting, brie-eating, white wine-drinking, Northern California librarian.

  “It was 2:49 in the afternoon,” said Lane. “And this black guy, I won’t say he was a kid, he was 21 years old, comes into the room in the library. I was helping a 67-year - old guy with history and old movies, because I know that stuff. He was smiling as if he knew the guy I was helping. Then he -- Johnson -- walks up to the patron and hits him on the side of the head as hard as he can.”

  Three weeks later, in court, when Lane told his story, Johnson’s lawyer objects: “The witness doesn’t know how hard my client can hit,” said the lawyer.

  Back at the library, Lane was about to find out. He yelled at Johnson to stop hitting the patron. He did. Then he jumped over Lane’s desk and starting hitting and kicking him. It got real bloody real fast.

  “So the guy jumps over the library desk and started beating me. And hits me about 20 or 25 times. I can't remember exactly cause I’m kinda blocked out a bit. Yeah he really whaled into me. He decked the patron with one punch. He hit me in the ear. In the side of the head. The top of the head. I was bleeding from the nose, eyes, mouth, ears.”

  Lane crawled into the other room and asked for help. Then it was over. Later, the newspapers would say the injuries were non-life threatening. Which of course depends on how you define life: The library walls were spattered with blood. Lane cannot pick up a book, let alone think about going back to work. He has headaches and “major concussion issues.”

  And other issues, maybe even bigger:

  “I'm a 58 - year - old white man who work(ed) as a "liberal Librarian" in Northern California,” he said. “Not your typical WND reader, but as a research Librarian I read a lot of news sources. And this attack was exactly the way you described in your book and articles. Exactly the same.”

  Lane was referring to White Girl Bleed a Lot.

  Johnson left the library the same way he arrived: His mother drove him. But in their rush to get away, first they could not start their car. Then Kenneth insisted on taking the wheel. His erratic driving made him easy to find. Within 30 minutes he was in police custody.

  Then the real games began. Ralph Malatesta knows them well. Two years ago, he was the victim of a similar attack 3000 miles away in Delaware. The police caught his attackers, bloodied and bruised at his hands, after Malatesta refused to turn over his money.

  “It turns out they had been on a robbery spree in that neighborhood for weeks,” said Malatesta. “And five people were willing to press charges. But every time it came up for a trial, we would all show up in court, but the robbers asked for a continuance. So the five other people got sick of the delay and stopped showing up. But I stuck with it and they were eventually convicted.”

  Kenneth Johnson and his lawyer are using the same playbook. So far, they have delayed the court proceedings at least twice. But that doesn’t matter to Lane. “They cancelled it to see if I would really show up the next time. I did. It’s very exhausting and I do not have any stamina as a result of the beating. But I’m not giving up.”

  Meanwhile, in the local papers, police say they want help with the case. Especially the motive. They just can’t figure out why Johnson did what he was alleged to have done. Why anyone would.

  Maybe they should call former Michigan prison psychologist Marlin Newburn. He spent 30 years in the criminal justice system learning about motives and racial violence. And hatred. Up close and personal. He has seen a lot of this: The violence is about hate. And the hate is about race. Let’s give Newburn a listen:

  To people who practice this type of racial violence, all non-blacks are the enemy since they were weaned on the idea that whites/Asians/Hispanics/Martians were "keeping my people down."

  They may be functionally illiterate, and I have yet to meet one that wasn't, but their older family members or people in their neighborhood along with the popular culture drove that early message into their skulls.

  They believe that they have some black toxic-tribal license to attack, and the more brutal, the more "down with the struggle" they are. The degree of viciousness also demonstrates just how manly (or womanly) they are. In other words, the more sadistic, the higher the social and personal power status.

  It's also great street cred for them, the sacred status for assaulting the all-pervasive and imaginary white power structure, and in regard to Asians and Hispanics, those people are just "takin' jobs" from them.

  The people who practice this kind of racial violence -- like the Knockout Game -- have imaginary, social injustice tags as legitimate reasons to assault all non-blacks.

  To say the black assaults on non-blacks aren’t racist is a blatant lie. Black predators are racist to the bone. Most all live the part in prison.

  As Lane’s case winds through the system, Lane is keeping an eye on all the media coverage the Knockout Game is receiving all over the country. He has a hard time believing what he is reading -- and hearing.

  “I listen to left wing radio,” he says. “And I could not believe it when I heard my favorite radio personality -- Stephanie Miller -- said the Knockout Game does not exist. That’s crazy.”

  Lane’s entire life is upside down. He and his wife are moving to a safer place. He probably won’t be able to return to work. At least for a while.

  “I can’t get beat again,” he says. “I’ll die. I'm a liberal Obama supporter but that didn't stop the violence on me. I have serious concussion issues and my trust for young African American men in particular is now less than zero.”

  Postscript: Knockout Game is a still a myth, says the New York Times.

  Post-Trayvon: The‘Nothing Much’ Riots.

  It seemed like a reasonable question: The AP reporter wanted to know if pundits and police over-reacted to the Trayvon verdict when they prepared for large-scale violence and chaos.

  I was supposed to know because I wrote a best-selling book on racial violence.

  MSNBC news analyst Toure said anyone who anticipated violence was a racist, blah, blah, blah. The other panelists mournfully nodded their heads in agreement as they always do when Toure makes one of his pronouncements on pervasive and permanent racism.[207]

  Which is pretty much all the time.

  Soon after, AP and Time magazine reported the same thing: Not much violence. Over-reaction. Now they are wondering if all the preparations for post-Trayvon violence were racist.

  This was not a hypothetical question. It is the exact question city leaders in Indianapolis had to answer as they prepared for the annual Indiana Black Expo. The largest black expo in the country.

  For the last ten years, Indiana Black Expo has been the scene of violence, shootings, looting, rampaging and mayhem after it released thousands of black people into the downtown.

  A lot of it on video. So much so that the Indianapolis Star said “violence was an inescapable part” of the gathering. Mob violence has also become a regular feature of life in downtown Indianapolis and in other neighborhoods.

  The year before, police were ready. In 2013, they doubled down and turned downtown into a police state complete with towers, high-powered weapons, dogs, SWAT, tactical vehicles, infrared binoculars, and a helicopter. There was lots of stopping, frisking and dispersing.

  After the Black Expo ended, city officials pronounced it a non-violent success. To many in attendance, it looked like racial profiling.

  Miami Beach was faced with the same choice over the 2013 Memorial Day weekend as they prepared for the 300,000 visitors in town for Black Beach Week.

  This event has a similar history, but bigger. Shootings. Lawlessness. Robberies. Assaults. Defiance. Property destruction. Vandalism. Drugs. And like Indianapolis, trash: Mountains and mountains of trash on the streets and beaches of this town that otherwise manages to stay pristine 51 weeks a year.

  City officials competed to come up for the worst word to describe it: The Mayor said it was “hell.” Others said Fallujah.

  Miami Beach used the same playbook: Towers.
Lights. Dogs. Guns. License plate scanners. Cops. Cops. And more cops everywhere. Stopping. Frisking. Checking. Dispersing.

  Maybe Toure was right. There was never any danger and all those folks in Indianapolis and Miami Beach and everyone else who prepared for Trayvon violence are just racists, guilty of the worst kind of racial profiling. And the potential for black rage and violence was just the delusional ramblings of a few pundits.

  That’s what the reporter for AP told me, anyway, when he was reporting his story. Or maybe Toure and his posse have it wrong: The low level of violence was because cops were ready for it. They stopped what Toure and his ilk thought was so justified: Outrage and violence at an outrageous verdict.

  So you make the call: Cops stopped riots. Or riot preparation is just another example of the over-policing that fills prisons with disproportionate amounts of black people.

  Easy enough to settle. Call Indy. Call Miami Beach. Ask the Mayors if they plan on going cop-less next year. Let me know. In the meantime, let’s look at what did happen post-Trayvon verdict. What the deniers call “not much.”

  So what did happen? Lots, especially in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. And what did local and national news say happened, even despite miles of videos to the contrary?

  Nothing.

  Fox News said the pro-Trayvon protests were peaceful “for the most part.”[208]So did Gannett, AP, the Los Angeles Times and tons of other outlets. So let’s take a look at what “mostly peaceful” looks like.

  Starting in Los Angeles. The night of Zimmerman’s acquittal, July 13, 2013, protestors turned Crenshaw Boulevard into a war zone. Though curiously, reporters at ABC kept insisting the protests in this black neighborhood were peaceful, even as rioting, looting, property damage and assaulting played out behind them on video:

  The hundreds of protestors beating up commuters, attacking cars, looting Wal-Mart, assaulting patrons at Taco Bell, pulling down fences, swarming streets, bashing buses and creating mayhem were just a “splinter group.” [209]