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

by Colin Flaherty

  In Portland, Oregon, a sales clerk for Nordstrom tells his Facebook friends black people should kill one white cop for every white cop who kills a black person.[302]

  In Philadelphia, a paramedic said the same thing but took it one step further: He posted a picture of two black people holding a gun to the head of a white police officer.

  Chris Rock told Alec Baldwin on NPR he instructed HBO to fill his audience only with black people. Shrug. Shrug. Shrug.

  In black churches across the country, Reverend Jeremiah Wright—the black minister who made a career out of preaching racial resentment for 20 years to the future President of the United States at his Chicago church—is received like a rock star. A messiah. A hero. And he’s very, very busy—saying the same thing that pretended to surprise our future President in 2008.

  Wright’s former parishioner goes to the United Nations to confess (the rest of) our sins about race. At home he talks about“the justice gap”that results in black people going to prison at a rate that is astronomically out of proportion because of troubled“police-community relations.”[303]

  Which is defined as too many white cops catching too many black people breaking the law. Shrug. Shrug. Shrug.

  Congressman John Conyers tells his colleagues that white people and black people commit the same amount of crime, but the only reason black people are caught 6, 8, 10, 50 times more is because white police pick on black people. Reporters bob their heads.

  How many recent examples do you want? Pick a number between one and 10,000. That’s a start.

  In Philadelphia, family court judge Wayne Bennett had a message for Thomas Sowell and me after Sowell wrote several articles about my book White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America. Bennett said he would explain to us why white people are victims of black violence: After 400 years of slavery, white people deserve it, he said.[304]Judge Bennett is not an outlier like Farrakhan and here’s why: They are both mainstream.

  On CNN, an entire panel on a news program raised their handsin surrender and chanted the new mantra of racial antipathy: 'Hands up. Don’t shoot.' When the blonde-haired descendent of a president of the United States joins in repeating a lie that encourages racial hostility, that is a sure fire sign how deeply ingrained it is.[305]

  On NPR, a black graduate of Yale law school tells the most popular podcast in America how she and another Yale law grad have fun cutting in line at movie theaters, then laughing at the white people too afraid to confront them.[306]

  A few minutes later, an African novelist details how she learned to become an American by becoming instantly and constantly angry with white people. Again in the Ivy League.

  On Bill Maher, the black parole officer from the hit TV show Ray Donovan breaks down the whole topic of black racial violence: “Violence in black folks comes from that long history the president was talking about,” said Wendell Pierce. “We have to remember we learned from some of the best. We had some white boys who came over here and did the first beheadings at the slave insurrection at Point Coupee in Louisiana where I’m from. And that was the way you dealt with it.”

  While he speaks, Joan Walsh the goddess of white guilt gazes at him and nods her head with reverence. He continued his tour of white racist violence at Tuskegee and infected Indian blankets to help white people steal Indian land. “So the violence in America comes from a very learned position that was brought here by some Caucasian folks,” he said to loud studio applause.

  All this to explain some event in the news where a white person was the victim of some pretty nasty violence. All to lots of approval.[307]

  Every black newspaper and website in America is full of one fairy tale after another of white privilege, white violence, white hatred. “Open season on black people,” anyone?

  Meanwhile in the real world, in places like Baltimore, black mayors tell black police departments not to arrest black people. Then they say crime is down. And in the courtroom, black juries are loath to convict black defendants. They.[308]

  Call it black privilege.

  The mayor of New York brags about giving his son “The Talk:” White racism is everywhere. White racism is permanent. White racism explains everything. He counsels his son to be careful for his life when dealing with what an NAACP leader calls the police: Klan members without sheets.

  Shrug.

  None of this is news to a cop. Many experience racial hostility every day: In Chicago, black people point their fingers as if to shoot and taunt them with these letters: CPK. Chicago Police Killer.

  Around the rest of the country, cops know the words by heart to the anthem for the new racial hostility: F* the Police. They hear it all the time.[309] They do not act surprised. Or shocked. After Brooklyn, neither should we.

  Why Trayvon’s Best Friend Seems Stupid

  It’s your problem. Not hers.

  The Critical Race practitioners were out in force following the disjointed testimony of Rachel Jeantel at the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of her friend Trayvon Martin.

  She is the one who was talking to St. Trayvon on the phone when he spotted George Zimmerman following him.

  In an article called Why Black People Understand Rachel Jeantel, Christina Coleman broke it down: “Any attorney, jury member, judge or white person in that courtroom is not going to understand Rachel Jeantel. And I don’t expect them to…In fact, I certainly understand why white people wouldn’t like Rachel.”[310]

  This could be any one of dozens of articles from MSNBC to NPR. Even Geraldo at Fox.

  Coleman talks about White Privilege and how it makes people blind to the differences between Jeantel and us. That is not to say black people are different. No, any Critical Race Theorist will tell you black people are normal. White people are different.

  After all, who said White People are the norm? White Supremacists, that’s who.

  Twitter was alive with thousands of people talking about how more white people should learn Critical Race Theory to understand Jeantel. And their own racism.

  Derrick Bell may have invented Critical Race Theory. But Glenn Singleton is the Pied Piper spreading it through schools. What we call achievement, he calls White Privilege.

  What we call dim-witted and angry —as we saw on the witness stand from Jeantel —Singleton would say is nothing more than the different learning and communication style of black people: “Non-verbal. Personal. Emotional. Process Oriented.”

  This is opposed to “White Talk: Verbal. Impersonal. Intellectual. Task-oriented.”

  Glenn Singleton is not just an obscure academic theoretician casting pearls before undergrad sociology students. He trains teachers at hundreds of school districts around the country in how to bring Critical Race Theory into the classroom so they can “overcome the deeply embedded institutional racism” that is the only reason for the achievement gap between black and white students.

  Critical Race Theory says three things: White racism is permanent, everywhere and explains everything.

  Singleton is its busiest practitioner in schools around the country. And if he is not there in person, his training and approach are there in spirit at the largest school districts and the largest states in the country.

  Critical Race explains it all: More blacks in prison? Racist cops. Black unemployment? Racist employers. Black drug use? Racist cops ignore white drug users. Black health, black crime, black poverty? Racism. Racism. Racism.

  Singleton likes to give the example of how black students only seem to misbehave in class because that is what they learned in black churches. One of his clients, California State Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, was so proud of this discovery he just had to tell the world:

  “Black children learn at church that it’s good to clap, speak loudly and be a bit raucous. But doing the same thing at school, where 72% of teachers are white and may be unfamiliar with such customs, will get them in trouble.”

  That did not turn out well.

  O’Conn
ell was immediately lashed for using stereotypes to make ridiculous generalizations. He apologized for repeating what Singleton is praised for saying. Call it Black Privilege.

  In Atlanta, Nkosi Thandiwe shot three white people in 2013, killing one, paralyzing the other, because he said he learned in school to be angry about slavery.

  He is not alone. If you read the regular reports on the epidemic of black mob violence and wonder why so many young black people are so angry, even to the point of violence, now you know where they learned it.

  A Sikh in Harlem

  Another good guy meets his match.

  He was supposed to be one of the good guys: A white doctor with black patients practicing in Harlem. Professor at Columbia. A national leader against white racism. Frequent guest on the Huffington Post, New York Times and other liberal outlets. Active in UN public health initiatives for poor people.

  He even lives in Harlem. So when Dr. Prabhjot Singh decided he would stroll through his neighborhood last Saturday night, he figured he was safe. [311]

  After all, he said to Huffington Post about his Harlem neighbors: “It’s one thing to be told in the news or in a book that a community is not as dangerous as you thought they were. But it’s completely another thing to know somebody personally. Understanding really comes from deeper engagement.” And no one was more deeply engaged that Dr. Singh.

  Then four blocks from Malcolm X Boulevard in September of 2013, Dr. Singh met up with 20 black people on bikes, also craving a deeper kind of engagement. A violent one:[312]

  “I heard ‘Get Osama’ and then ‘terrorists,’ and then the next thing I felt was someone moving past me, ripping at my beard and then hitting me in the chin.” He ran. They chased him and knocked him down and beat him some more.

  Singh said he thought he could have died if passersby had not intervened to help fight off the dozens of black men who jumped him.

  They broke his jaw. Kicked out a few of his teeth. And all that.

  Dr. Singh is a Sikh, a faith where members wear distinctive turbans and beards. But this mob thought he was a Moslem and taunted him for that. Not knowing that Moslems and Sikhs are rivals.

  Dr. Singh is also white. Caucasian. His family has been in the United States for generations. Though it is strange how many people who believe that being a Sikh makes him a member of a separate racial group.

  After the attack, Dr. Singh wondered why anyone would bother him: He is, after all, an American and resident of Harlem. He told professor Lamont Hill over at MSNBC:[313] “This is not the Harlem I know,” he said. “If anything, [this experience] makes me more committed to our community and the work we do there.”

  Singh wrote in 2012 an op-ed for the New York Times that the biggest danger of hate crimes to Sikhs was from white racism. He cited that six times in one article: “There is also the question of whether white supremacist groups have specifically targeted American Sikhs,” Singh said. His commentary was in response to the killing of six Sikhs in Wisconsin by a neo-Nazi. [314]

  But in Harlem that Saturday night, there was nary a white face to be found. Besides his, that is. Police released surveillance video that showed the attackers were black.[315]

  But the same man who relentlessly condemned white racism for violence against Sikhs all of a sudden became circumspect about the race of his attackers. And eager to explain it away.

  When Dr. Hill from the Huffington Post asked him to describe the assailants, Singh said:[316]

  They were young men. Probably from the neighborhood. Certainly not reflective of the neighborhood I’ve come to know and work in.

  It was dark. They seemed like they were young African American men. But again, it was dark.

  No one wants to blame the victim. But neither does it make sense to let the victim perpetuate the myths surrounding how safe non-black people are in black neighborhoods. As Ray Widstrand found out.

  Ray Widstrand Meets R.A.T.

  Finds out what it means to R.A.T.

  Black mob violence and denial have a new poster boy: Ray Widstrand of St. Paul, Minnesota.

  Widstrand moved into a black neighborhood in the summer of 2013. Soon after, he took an evening stroll and met some of his new neighbors, He then found himself in the hospital -- the victim of a vicious beating at the hands of a large black mob. Widstrand suffered broken bones, a fractured skull and permanent brain injuries.[317]

  His attackers were just some kids lashing out, Widstrand said later. And he was a kid once and he did the same thing, so let’s all just get along.

  And Widstrand doing the same thing? That part is not true.

  This same story of what white people can expect in a black neighborhood played out in 2012 in a Chicago courtroom. Only this time they broke out the big guns: A Harvard professor.

  Here’s what happened: A California college girl was arrested at the airport, then released into the deepest and most dangerous ghetto in Chicago.

  A black part of Chicago.

  Soon after her release, she was attacked and thrown out of a seven-story window. Her family sued. During the trial, a Harvard professor testified that if a white person walks through a black neighborhood, people could reasonably expect some very unreasonable violence to be visited on that person.

  The professor called it Routine Activities Theory: R.A.T.

  The judge explained R.A.T. by saying the victim “was a white female in a predominantly black, poor neighborhood (and) she had a much higher risk of predatory victimization.”[318]

  Judge Frank Easterbrook went on: “She was lost, unable to appreciate her danger and dressed in a manner to attract attention. She is white and well-off while the local population is predominantly black and not affluent, causing her to stand out as a person unfamiliar with the environment and, thus, a potential target for crime.”[319]

  The city said R.A.T. was thinly disguised racial profiling and had no business at trial. But at the trial, R.A.T and race were everywhere – no matter how hard the city worked to keep it out. No matter how dedicated local media were to ignoring it.

  Easterbrook said the situation was so transparently dangerous that Chicago police “might as well have released her into the lions’ den at the Brookfield Zoo.”[320]

  The City of Chicago settled for $22.5 million.

  Like Dr. Singh, Widstrand told local reporters he forgave his assailants. Though there is not one sign that any of his attackers is asking for it.

  Marlin Newburn says their forgiveness is really just a mask for denial. Newburn was a prison and law enforcement psychologist for more than 30 years. He says this fake forgiveness may be placing more people in danger because it allows the media to ignore racial violence. Says Newburn:

  When talking about crime victims who have been naïve or otherwise ignorant of dangerous environments, forgiveness also appears to be a knee-jerk response to not just the physical assault, but the traumatic destruction of an ideal the victim may have harbored regarding their assailants,” Newburn said.

  In the case of black mob assaults, victims often believed the supposed put-upon black race need only to be understood and seen as social victims, and a blanket acceptance of all blacks do in life is part of being a good person.

  Prior to being assaulted, many of the victims who I’ve talked with over the years had harbored a sense of nobility and even adolescent invincibility since they had convinced themselves that their“higher value system” exempted them from social dangers to include physical harm.

  After the assault, that belief is destroyed, and something has to replace it quickly for emotional stability, hence, instant forgiveness.

  Newburn says some people are too eager to be nice. There is a name for that:

  I just read this victim's comments to reporters and saw straightaway he is a classic "masochist altruist, non-psychotic".

  These people have a need to suffer or "be the victim" in order to assuage feelings of low self-worth, jealousy, envy, anger and/or overall feelings of inadequacy.“T
hey have a terrible time experiencing pleasure or joy of any kind.”

  Some say that attitude reflects a “blame the victim” mentality. Others say telling the truth may save the next victim.

  Widstrand requires assistance with every phase of his life now. He wears a helmet to protect his fractured skull. Singh is back at work as a doctor in Harlem. His wired jaw is now wire-free.

  The day after Widstrand told reporters he was forgiving his assailants, a car of at least four black people pulled up to a woman talking on her iPhone on a St. Paul street. KTSP picks up the story:[321]

  Three other men got out of the vehicle and one of them pulled her by the hair to the sidewalk, pushed her to the ground, pulled her pants down and then urinated on her, the criminal complaint states.

  The woman reported she thought she was going to get raped. She heard one man say,“Mitch you took that white bitch’s phone.”

  Continuing a long tradition, neither of major local papers identified the alleged urinating assailants as black. The only local TV or radio station to do so was KTSP.

  No word yet if the woman forgives her wig-wearing attackers for this public humiliation. Widstrand and Singh, however, said they plan to continue living in the neighborhoods where they were attacked, R.A.T., or no R.A.T..

  For every Ray Widstrand, the trolls like to mention Emmitt Till. “Or all the white guys who shoot up schools. Only white people do that.”

  Really? What about Lakim Faust?

  You know: Lakim Faust.

  Never heard of him?

  Exactly.

  Letter from a School Librarian

  Racial hostility as a summer reading list.

  Dear Mr. Flaherty:

  I recently listened to you as a guest on a radio show/podcast where you made a comment... about what upsets today's black children.

  The answer was slavery. Black kids in this 21st century were upset and worried about slavery. What!?!?!? How can this be?