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

by Colin Flaherty

  Note to The Times: If you are having trouble with that, just Google the term “minstrel show.” That ought to do it.

  You are welcome.

  For all the attention The Times devotes to the author of this “defining document,” Chief Keef’s own words do not appear in the article.

  You won’t be seeing them here either. That is because the fuddy duddies who publish this book don’t like using words that if you said them on radio, you would get fined $500,000.

  That’s pretty much every line. Drugs. Violence. Guns. More drugs. More violence. Sex. Drugs. Sexual Violence. Guns. Guns. Guns. Over and over and over. Did I mention the guns?

  The Times thought it strange that Chief Keef was not preoccupied with success. He and his buddies are too stoned to be preoccupied with much of anything except drugs and violence. And guns.

  Those same hopeless squares also do not think too highly of layering those lines over a video of several 17-year olds smoking reefer while … well, this old fuddy duddy doesn’t even know how to describe what is going on in a way that fits a family-style book.

  Unless of course you are a member of the Manson family.

  And besides, I don’t need another reason for Google and YouTube to try and 86 my material.

  If you cannot wait for the verdict of future hip hop historians to learn about the birth of The Next Big Thing; or if you want to see a video of how The Times sees black people in their pre-whitewashed condition, you might want to check this for yourself.

  First read the review. Then check this out to see what they are talking about.[470]

  Here’s a link to a video of his big hit “I Don’t Like” with lyrics.[471] Let me know what you think.

  And the next time you wonder about how a culture becomes coarse and vile and despicable and violent, or where teenagers get the idea that coarse and vile and despicable and violent are OK, normal, even admirable, don’t ask Chief Keef.

  Ask The Times. And could someone tell me one more time why The Times does not cover black mob violence.

  Cumia and Bergin

  Fired for telling the truth

  “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize,” said some guy named Voltaire.

  Anthony Cumia and Sean Bergin learned easily enough. The national talk show host and New York area television reporter both got fired in July 2014 for telling the truth about racial violence. And how reporters ignore and condone it.

  Cumia first.

  The black woman in high heels and mini-skirt who punched Cumia in the face in Times Square in Manhattan after midnight and called him a “white motherfucker” did not know he was the big time radio guy of Opie & Anthony on SiriusXM.

  To her, “Ant” was just a white photographer taking her picture. She did not like that.

  Cumia liked being attacked even less. He called her lots of names -- the kind that would have gotten him fined had he said them on the air during his stint as a terrestrial radio star. But no N-bombs. As if somehow dropping an N-bomb after midnight, on the streets of New York, where you are being threatened with violence, justifies any violence that comes your way.

  Anyway, that is all he did. Cumia is licensed to carry a handgun. He was in possession of it that night, never considered drawing it. “I knew not to put my hands on her,” he tweeted. “Never felt my life was threatened. Was ultra pissed. Called her bad words. Then she punched me 5 more times. Then five blacks started giving me shit!”

  All the while taking more pictures of his street-walking assailant.

  Soon the late-night violence was over, but the real attacks were just beginning.

  The Daily News, The Washington Post and The Daily Mail of London and others pronounced Cumia a racist because he said the woman who savagely attacked him was a “savage.”[472]

  “It's really open season on white people,” Cumia tweeted. “No recourse. Fight back and you're a racist. The predators know this.”

  Truth is the new hate speech: “There’s a deep seeded problem with violence in the black community,” Cumia said. “Try to address it and you’ll be exiled to racistville. But it’s real.”

  Not to the Washington Post: “Whether or not Cumia was assaulted is not actually the point,” pronounced the Post house liberal, Alyssa Rosenberg. She did not like the fact that Cumia did not like someone punching him and calling him nasty racial names.[473]

  Her advice on reacting to assault: Lie back and enjoy it.

  The New York Daily News said it was surprised that Cumia would try to claim a black woman would use racially antagonistic language.[474](Guess they don’t have a YouTube account over there.)

  In London, the Daily Mail blasted Cumia as well, but some of its readers were not convinced: “From what I can gather from the asterisks, nothing he said was racist,” said one. “Sure, this fellow wasn't exactly acting with perfect decorum. But that said, darned if he wasn't spot on!,” said another.[475]

  From his perch at his new podcast, Cumia now has more time to contemplate how to become a proper victim of racial violence -- one who does not complain about it. Or notice the race of his attackers. Or notice that lots of people are victims of assault from the same group of people. Or notice they too are silent about the violence directed at them.

  Perhaps Mr. Cumia could take a lesson from his competition over at National Public Radio. Admittedly, Ira Glass of This American Life was not being punched in the face at the time, but he had no problems keeping his cool when a black female graduate of Yale Law School told her story about how she -- and her friend -- routinely bullied white people. [476]

  Before and after law school. And it was great fun:

  “I was going to the movies with another black friend, she was also from Yale,” said Jenna McDonald.“And there was a long line. We were like‘let’s jump the line, these white people, they are going to be scared of us.’ So we went to the front of the line. It was like‘yeah, you want to try me? I’m black.’ That usually works in New York. But these people were ready to rip our hair out and they were white. I couldn’t believe it.”

  “I was shocked,” she said.“These were white people? And they’re not scared of us?”

  “It was humiliating because we were supposed to be the scary ones.”

  It worked on the folks at Sirius: Someone got real scared real fast. Now Cumia is gone. Though his partner, “Opie” Anderson remains.

  Former prison psychologist Marlin Newburn has been on the front lines of this kind of racial violence for 30 years. Usually the victims do not speak out because they are afraid of becoming victims a second time -- exactly like Cumia.

  “Anthony Cumia experienced an assault from one of America's most protected classes of people, the black street predator,” Newburn said.“The latter has the impulse control and emotional maturity level of a preadolescent, and animal instincts that react violently to any trivial imposition or insult - real or imagined. The MSM quickly comes to its defense without thought to its non-black victims. Predator-enabling at its worst.”

  But the enabling was just beginning.

  Sean Bergin’s moment of truth came when he was interviewing the wife of a New Jersey cop killer. She said she had only one regret: That her now-dead husband killed only one cop.[477]

  “He should have taken more with him,” said Angelique Campbell, the killer’s wife. “If they were going to stand over my husband and shoot him like a fucking dog, he should have taken all those motherfuckers out.”

  Campbell made the remarks outside of a makeshift memorial to her husband near the scene of the cop killing in Jersey City, New Jersey. The memorial was full of candles, balloons and gang paraphernalia, urging Lawrence Campbell to “Thug in Peace.”

  Police say Lawrence Campbell ambushed and killed rookie officer Melvin Santiago early Sunday morning at a Walgreen’s drug store. Campbell did not rob the store, but assaulted the security guard, stole his gun, then waited for police to arrive.

  An ambush.
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br />   News reports say before the shooting, Campbell bragged he was “going to be famous.”

  That was all a bit much for New Jersey Channel 12 reporter Bergin, whose calm and professional demeanor disappeared on the air after he reported her “shocking” remarks.[478]

  Angelique Campbell said repeatedly that her husband didn’t go far enough in the shooting death of rookie cop Melvin Santiago,” said Bergin, in a voice over of the scene.“Standing next to an impromptu street memorial for the father of her six-year old daughter, she expressed little sympathy for the officer or his grieving family.

  Miss Campbell echoed the anti-cop mentality of many we spoke to in the crime ridden neighborhood.

  The cop-killer comments shredded Bergin’s usually calm facade as he wrapped up the report.

  “It is worth noting that we were besieged, flooded with calls from police officers furious that we would give media coverage to the wife of a cop killer,” Bergin said. “We decided to air it because it is important to shine a light on the anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities. This same, sick, perverse line of thinking is evident from Jersey City to Newark and Paterson to Trenton. It has made the police officer’s job impossible and it has got to stop.”

  “The underlying cause for all of this, of course: Young black men growing up without fathers.”

  “Unfortunately, no one in the news media has the courage to touch that subject.” (We’ll let it slide that he was not familiar with the #1 Best Selling Civil Rights Book on Amazon for a good chunk of 2013 and 2014.)

  Within a few hours, Bergin was suspended, then fired. Like Cumia, he’ll apologize just as soon as someone shows him what he said that was wrong:

  "It is depraved to place hurt feelings over the lives of young black men,” he said.“There is way too much emphasis on guarding peoples feelings rather than pointing at the blindingly obvious and saying there's a reason young black men are slaughtering one another in the fucking streets. Why are THEY doing it? And the Korean kids aren't?”

  “I live in a section of North West Queens in NYC. There are 170 different languages spoken here. Most of these people are non-white and non-English speaking how come they are not engaged in the gangbanger lifestyle?”

  I’ll have to get back to you on that one, Sean.

  No one at Channel 12 is talking, but Bergin’s Facebook page is full of new friends and laudatory comments, especially from cops.

  “I retired as a police officer after 27 1/2 years on the job,” said Camille Mile. “I just wanted to say thank you for speaking what is in your heart. Thank you for saying what so many of my brothers and sisters in blue have thought for years, but you had the courage to say!”

  That did not deter the President of the National Association of Black Journalists from taking Bergin to task for saying the blacks feel animosity toward cops.

  “Are there problems in the inner city with kids without fathers?,” asked Bob Butler.“Yes. But does that make kids violent? No. There are a lot of kids without fathers who go to college, graduate and become upstanding citizens. He’s talking about a social phenomenon where there’s lack of opportunity in communities.”

  People have been talking that way for 50 years. And where has it gotten us? We now build memorials to cop killers. And wish they had killed more. While black journalists follow behind, like a cartoon character brooming up after a parade.

  One thing Bergin mentioned that even Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly would not touch, but what every cop knows every day is true: The level of animosity that police get in black neighborhoods is enormous.

  In June of 2014, I did a podcast about it: Fuck the Police: The anthem of racial hostility. I showed a video of hundreds of black people confronting police, flipping them the bird, and singing Fuck The Police. All together.[479]

  And I talked to a Chicago cop: “When we pull up in South Chicago, we hear that song a lot,” he said. “And they sometimes point their index finger at us as if they are shooting.”

  In Ferguson, the mayor sheepishly tried to convince reporters of what it was really like for the cops: “The African-American community —youth in the African-American community in particular —has something against law enforcement in many ways,” said Mayor James Knowles. “They don’t like law enforcement, and they don’t think law enforcement likes them.”

  [480]

  Need more: Then travel down to Virginia State University -- via video -- and watch this teacher talk about how he and his friends would play that Fuck the Police to deliberately provoke the police -- and “dare the police to pull us over.”

  “Those who were not selling drugs, not getting in trouble, always antagonized the police so that the ones who were getting the hustle on, could,” said Fat Thomi, a Minister of Information.

  All told in a college classroom.

  Another question: Would you believe this insane story could be told in a college classroom if there were not a video of it?

  I would not.[481] And no one fired that dude.

  Gentrification: Why Good Stuff Is Bad.

  The first draft of Black History.

  “Many Americans think that new residents of color willingly allowed the neighborhood to deteriorate after they moved in. What might be more accurate is that our entire society contributed to the devaluation and eventual demise of communities of color by assigning and perpetuating a cultural belief that great value is attached to Whiteness.”

  -- Glenn Singleton

  Courageous Conversations

  Black people in Portland, Oregon kicked off their celebration of Black History Month 2014 by kicking a major grocery store chain out of a black neighborhood. [482]

  City officials had been working with Trader Joe’s for more than a year to convince the store to invest $8 million in a “historically African-American neighborhood.” A high crime neighborhood. The kind of place that First Lady Michelle Obama calls a “food desert” because large grocery stories will not open there.

  All the time, not one reporter asking: “Why won’t they open there?”

  So hooking Trader Joe’s in that neighborhood was supposed to be a big deal.

  But Trader Joe’s pulled out, said the Associated Press, after The Portland African American Leadership Forum said it would "remain opposed to any development in N/NE Portland that does not primarily benefit the Black community." It said the grocery-store development would "increase the desirability of the neighborhood," for "non-oppressed populations."[483]

  Translation: White women love Trader Joe’s. They are not welcome there.

  Welcome to gentrification: The respectable sounding word that black people and their enablers use to describe the racial hostility, resentment and envy that characterizes the opposition to non-black people moving into black neighborhoods.

  Members of the black group said they would rather have other kinds of free stuff -- like public housing -- instead of more white and Asian people. They say whoever builds that should be forced to sign a contract making sure black people get preferential treatment for building it, operating it and using it. Because white and Asian people ruin neighborhoods.

  Filmmaker Spike Lee took the whole ‘racial animosity disguised as a fight against gentrification’ thing to a new level in 2014. He was speaking before a crowd in New York City when he was asked if there is a positive side to gentrification.

  Like the fact that the brownstone his family bought for $40,000 in the 1960’s is now worth $3 million. Let’s hear from Spike:[484]

  I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. It’s changed. And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?

  The garbage wasn’t picked up every motherfuckin’ day when I was living in 165 Washington Park.

  The police weren’t around. When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o’clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you som
ething.

  Then comes the motherfuckin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here.

  You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfuckin’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud.

  My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not— he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic!

  We bought the motherfuckin’ house in nineteen-sixty-motherfuckin’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the fuck outta here!

  Nah. You can’t do that. You can’t just come in the neighborhood and start bogarting and say, like you’re motherfuckin’ Columbus and kill off the Native Americans.

  Or what they do in Brazil, what they did to the indigenous people. You have to come with respect. There’s a code.

  Here’s the code: White and Asian people suck. And it is quite respectable to say that over and over and over in a public forum, especially if you are able to pull off that angry black person act.

  Especially if the prevailing reaction is like something out of a GEICO commercial: Everybody knows that.

  People always ask me why the black mob violence and black on white crime is out of whack. I tell them I do not know. But I do point out occasions of racial hostility -- undisguised, like this -- and say that must have something to do with it.

  This conversation happens in every big city in America. There’s always some Spike Lee wannabe rampaging through an older neighborhood with the liberal media spreading the alarm: ‘The white people are coming. The white people are coming.’

  Like Oakland.

  The San Francisco Chronicle published in October 2013 the news about troublesome white people in Oakland who wanted to move into a black neighborhood and start a business or fix up a house or even plant a garden.