I got one traffic ticket in my whole life. It was two years after this incident, and the same cop that drew down on "tire iron man" was the one who gave me that ticket. (Shouldn't have run that red light.)
In the winter of 1975, I was walking behind that same Erdman shopping center. I was coming back from a girlfriend's house. It was late at night and I was alone. I heard a car coming up behind me and slowing down. I turned around, a car full of black guys. One leaned out the window and said, " Give us all your money white boy."
I knew it was on, grabbed my crotch and said, "Take all this Mother Fucker!" The driver floored it and tried to run me over. When I jumped out of the way I side kicked the car as it went past.
Weird, I had lots of black friends in high school. Loved my black friends on the football team.
In the winter of 1977, I was walking to my girlfriend's house on Frankford Ave. It had been snowing and traffic was affected. As I approached an intersection on Sinclair Lane, I saw a car stuck in a left turn lane. A group of approximately 8 or 10 black guys approached the car. While I was getting closer, I heard one say that they would push him out for money. He was scared and they knew it. They began threatening to take his money. I walked up to the window and told him that I'd push him loose. "Stand back for the bad white boy!" one of them said. I ignored them and went to the rear bumper and began pushing.
The racial taunts and threats by the group intensified, as I couldn't push the car loose. I saw a white guy walking nearby and called for him to help me. He did, and we broke the car loose. The insults and threats continued, and I turned towards them. I said my first words to this group of thugs,
"Fuck every one of you black bastards, who wants to fight?" The entire group turned away en masse and walked away.
Sometimes a creepy ass cracker gets lucky in spite of himself.
When I first entered the State Police academy, my roommate was black. Kevin Gray, we were buds. You had to have a cumulative 70 average to stay in and graduate. Lots of quizzes and tests. Kevin was always failing them. Every night, instead of studying, he was in the gym shooting hoops or goofing off.
I kept telling Kevin to study with me, or he'd get the boot. Kevin wouldn't listen. He should have never been hired, he should never have graduated. I finished valedictorian, he was pushed through. I retired Trooper first Class, he retired a Major.
The cream does not always rise to the top.
During the competitive promotion process, some of us simply became so discouraged that we stopped trying. Some people can only be passed over so many times with lower qualified candidates before they quit trying.
That's the biggest regret of my law enforcement career, that I quit trying to get promoted.
I admire the guys that didn't quit trying.
The worst that happened to Obama was he got stared at, or followed in a store. And he reaped all the benefits of affirmative action.
Wow, I really feel his pain.
I think it was June 2nd, a Sunday, of 2013. Myself, wife and our 26-year old autistic son took the metro to Washington D.C. We got off at the Smithsonian platform. We visited the U.S. History museum there and ate lunch.
Later we walked to the World War Two and Vietnam memorials. At the end of the day we got back on the Metro to head home. It was crowded; we were seated near each other but apart.
After the metro took off, I was looking around and noticed a woman to my rear standing in the aisle. I motioned for her to come forward and take my seat. A few minutes later after another stop, a seat opened up near the sliding door.
I looked around, no women or kids standing in the aisle, so I took the seat. To my left was a young black male seated. I said a friendly hello, and he looked at me angrily without saying anything. Not much later he said something, I'm not sure what, but I thought he was asking me a question.
I looked to my left and said "excuse me?," or "what?" In a raised and angry voice he said he wasn't talking to me. This drew the attention of everyone, and I said "sorry", and turned away. Moments later out of my peripheral vision I saw him putting on some ear buds.
Very loudly he began singing "Mother Fucker I take my gun and shoot you in your fucking head" mimicking a handgun with his index finger and thumb pointed at me.
I said, "What did you say?"
Him, "You heard me mother fucker, I take my gun and shoot you in your fucking head."
Everybody nearby was aghast, by their expressions. I said "Quit cussing in front of all these ladies."
Him, "fuck you."
I said "I'm serious, quit cussing in front of all these ladies."
Him, " Mother fucker I take my knife and stick you nigger."
I said, "What did you say you're going to do with your knife?"
Him, "You heard me nigger, I stick you. "
I stood up and said, "Let's see how bad you are with that knife."
Him, "Fuck you, you just don't like me because I'm black." (Funny how that works)
After he realized he couldn't intimidate me, and his friend and another passenger called for calm, the racist shut up.
Two women, including the one I gave my seat to earlier, walked up to me upon exiting, and said thank you.
I don't think he liked that, he glared at them.
Since he'd threatened to kill me, I did not keep my eyes off him until he and his friend exited at the Rockville platform.
Later, I thought if things had escalated I would be the next George Zimmerman. Obama would have said that I was racist and had caused the problem.
Just like the Cambridge police when they arrested Professor Gates, as he was yelling discrimination. But then Obama might have changed his tune after the true facts came out. Then he could have declared it a "teachable moment" over suds.
I think I would have declined the invitation, and told him to give himself an enema with my pint. I don't like having beers with racists, or being taught by them.
Anyway, I will be recommending your book to the max, and I thank you for it.
Sincerely,
Ed Humphries
[email protected]
When I asked Ed if I could use his name, he said, predictably: “Go ahead, it would be cowardly not to.”
Let’s leave the heroic and find the comic.
White Teachers Thought They Were the Solution.
Turns out they are the problem. And the victims.
The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is “racist.”
-- Portland school principal Verenice Gutierrez
After doing a gajllion interviews on racial violence, I have been asked this question a gajllion times: ‘Colin, what’s the cause?’
“That’s above my pay grade,” I say. And besides, much of this volume is aimed at the deniers of racial violence. And they are legion. It just does not make much sense to try and solve a problem for people who deny the problem exists.
When I tried that line on the lovely Robin Abcarian from the Los Angeles Times, she said I was being “irresponsible.” But it is the truth: I have no idea about the cause.
But here is what I do know: Black children are learning about racial hostility and resentment at home, in church, in popular culture and above all, in school. At a very early age.
And what they are learning can be a surprise even to the people who are supposed to be teaching it.
Nobody works harder or spends more money to elect liberal school board members than teachers and their labor unions. Largely white chicks. But these same elected officials are now asking these same teachers the one question they never thought they would hear: “Why are you so racist?”
The question was posed in 2013 after a Department of Education study about the educational and disciplinary differences between white and black students. [248]
"This critical report shows that racial disparities in school discipline policies are not only well documented among older students, but actually begin during preschool," said Attorney General Eric Holder. "This Administration is mov
ing aggressively to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in order to ensure that all of our young people have equal educational opportunities."
The Department of Education has held since 2009 that any disparity in discipline or education achievement between white and black students is the result of racial discrimination in schools.
Lots and lots of studies all show the same thing: Relentless white racism.
The President often refers to this racial disparity in schools. He even made it the subject of an Executive Order in 2012:[249]
“African Americans lack equal access to highly effective teachers and principals, safe schools, and challenging college-preparatory classes, and they disproportionately experience school discipline,” said the order, titled “White House Initiative On Educational Excellence.”
You can read more about it at this White House Blog Post: White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans[250]
The solution: Black students need more black teachers. And less discipline. More on that in a minute.
But here’s the catch: Most teachers are white, female, liberal and supporters of President Obama. They thought they were the solution. Turns out they were the problem.
Glenn Singleton is one of the people in charge of solving the problem of racial disparity, i.e. convincing us that black children misbehaving in school is really a problem of white perception. Not black behavior.
In hundreds of school districts around the country, Singleton’s company has been hired to show this cohort of young, white, liberal and female teachers how they are racist; how their racism is responsible for the achievement gap; and how they have to admit their own racism in a series of “Courageous Conversations” if they ever want to be successful educating black students.
Or if they want to keep their jobs.
This is Critical Race Theory in action: White racism is everywhere. White racism is permanent. White racism explains everything.
Except it is not a theory any more. It is an industry.
Oh by the way, I said hundreds of school districts. Do the math, that is hundreds of thousands of students. If not millions.
To his credit, Singleton is not shy about identifying the problems or solutions: “Racism.”
And for all the well meaning folks who insist on explaining racial differences in education with all the usual socio-economic blah, blah, blah -- such as income, family structure, school finance, class size, black culture or the current favorite, fatherlessness-- Singleton has a message: Forget it. [251]
“We have found this kind of blaming to be insufficient at best and destructive at worst when trying to address racial achievement disparity. The racial achievement gap exists and persists because fundamentally, schools are not designed to educate people of color.”
If you take nothing else from this book, take that last line: “The racial achievement gap exists and persists because fundamentally, schools are not designed to educate people of color.”
Singleton’s book is full of 300 more pages of that. And so are dozens of other books on similar ways to eliminate white racism as the cause of black disparity. These books act as manuals for consultants in hundreds of school districts across the country.
Your child or grandchild is probably learning about it now.
Racism in schools is big business, complete with videos, textbooks, consultants and conferences, conferences and more conferences.
In San Leandro, California, the “progressive principal” made racial education her top priority. She and her teachers bragged about it on YouTube: How they are teaching white and black students about white racism. And how racism is holding black people back. [252]
In Portland, Oregon, the teachers and principal on video admit the white students might have a hard time with courses on Critical Race Theory, racial identity models, the dominant white culture, and institutionalized racism, but the other students like it just fine.
One solution: “Move the curriculum to younger members of the student population. We both believe firmly that if we can start younger it just opens so many more doors.[253]
They are talking about teaching children Critical Race Theory at even younger ages.
In lots of places they already do. Just ask Saturday Night Live’s Pat Sweeney and her daughter Mulan.
Here’s how one teacher described this race-based curriculum to the Portland Tribune:[254]
“The white kid, he’s got carte blanche. A black kid, it’s a totally different reality,”he says. Then he launches into what he calls‘the big picture.’
“Most white politicians want to be in political office for life,” he says.“Who’s going to vote against you?
People of color. It’s in your best favor to get as many people of color convicted as felons, so they never have the privilege of voting again. That’s a win-win situation for you.
“Plus, police get to liquidate your assets after you’re locked up. It’s like hitting a home run for them. There are just so many weapons used against people of color, particularly children of color, that they’re not aware of and most adults are not aware of.”
The teacher, who is part Brazilian, part Choctaw Indian, from post-Katrina New Orleans, says anyone who sees his message as racist just doesn’t understand.
“I’m not racist,” he says.“How can I possibly be racist when racism was created against me? The need is for children who constantly get dumped on. The playing field is not level. These kids need to get caught up.”
Thanks for clearing that up.
Singleton says we have to recognize that black people and white people are different, especially in the way we talk and learn and listen.
Singleton says "white talk" is "verbal," "intellectual" and "task-oriented," while "color commentary" is "emotional" and "personal." Different races have different learning styles, he says.
Singleton says white teachers have a hard time reaching black students because black people talk about “racial matters daily, if only among themselves.” But white people “are conditioned not to do that.”
True that, anyway.
In Lawrence, Kansas, the school district paid $217,000 from 2009 to 2013 to learn how “embedded” white racism is hurting black people. In Minneapolis, 16 school districts paid $2 million to learn about white privilege in 2012. [255]
In Evanston, Illinois, parents started noticing their kids were talking funny. Talking about something called “institutional racism.” They did not like it, though most were too cowed to say so.
In Seattle, “under Singleton's influence, the Seattle schools defined ‘individualism’ as a form of ‘cultural racism’ and said that only whites can be racist, and claimed that planning ahead ("future time orientation”) is a white characteristic that it is racist to expect minorities to exhibit.”[256]
Huh?
The site goes on to say, "Emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" is another form of "racism." [257]
Breitbart has been all over this: “It basically says white people are at fault,” said one parent. “My husband and I are the racist ones, didn’t you know?"
From Bakersfield to Baltimore, Denver to Des Moines and hundreds of places in between, Singleton and his pied pipers of racial resentment are regarded as heroes. At least among the black people and other deniers.
In Washington, D.C. in December 2013, an official of a teachers’ union tried to explain to a national gathering of black elected officials why white teachers are so problematic for black students:[258]
“We can’t just give them six weeks of training and think they are able to educate our children,” said Marietta English, president of the Baltimore teachers union and vice president of the American Federation of Teachers. “There are a lot of cultural differences that they don’t understand. If you don’t grow up in the neighborhood, you don’t understand it when we say ‘WASSUP.’ They don’t understand that.”
Remember the WASSUP lady. We’ll see her again
, soon.
In Chicago, the head of the teachers’ union will see that WASSUP and go all in on rich white people.
“This city belongs to black people not white people,”said Karen Lewis in the Washington Times: [259]
“When will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism and inequality that hinders the delivery of an education product in our school system? When will we address the effect that rich white people think they know what’s in the best interest of children of African Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents’income or education level?”
“And when did all these venture capitalists become so interested in the lives of minority students in the first place?” Lewisasked.“There’s something about these folks who love the kids but hate their parents. There’s something about these folks who use little black and brown children as stage props at one press conference while announcing they want to fire, layoff or lock up their parents at another press conference.”
All this from people who think Rahm Emmanuel is not liberal enough.
When Eric Holder became Attorney General in 2009, he famously said that Americans were cowards about race. Many people did not really know what he meant. But Glenn Singleton did: White people have to be courageous enough to admit they are racists. And their racism has ruined black people by giving them an inferior education.
Thus the title of his book: Courageous Conversations.
Singleton might be braver than he is well known. Some of the school board members and parents where he plies his trade were not even aware he was there.
In Evanston, Illinois, two school board employees and other district staffers say they were not aware of the details of Courageous Conversations training.
In San Diego, school board member Scott Barnett can be counted to pretty much know everything about everything. But on the topic of Courageous Conversations, Barnett did something that no one in San Diego had ever heard him do before: He said he did not know about it. Although they were using it in his district.
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