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

by Colin Flaherty

  The large-scale mayhem began when hundreds of “teenagers” tried to rush -- without paying -- into local showings of Tyler Perry’s A Medea Christmas and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. When security put an end to that, the mob took their mayhem outside. After lots of pepper spraying, police brought the crowd under control in 90 minutes and arrested five.

  If Pulliam thought it was significant that everyone involved in the mayhem was black, he did not say. Instead, he said he just could not figure out what these “teenagers” were up to. Neither could the anchor of the Channel 4 news: It looked as if there were “dozens of people” there,” she said, missing the real number by 700 or so.[496]

  “I am baffled,” Pulliam said. “I have never seen anything like this before.” Had Pulliam read WND or American Thinker or used Google, he would have found out right away how easy it is to find stories about recent large scale black mob violence at malls and movie theaters all around the country. Including places like Rochester, Kansas City, Norfolk, Austin, Des Moines, Chicago, Brooklyn, San Antonio, Schenectady, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Bradenton, Atlanta and yes, Jacksonville.

  And one year later it happened again during a two-week period surrounding Christmas in 2014. Here’s a whole flock of them collected in one place on YouTube.[497]

  And that does not count the large-scale black mob violence in the streets, stores, roller rinks, bowling alleys, boardwalks, college campuses, restaurants, buses, trains, schools, beaches, weddings, graduations, funerals, stores, stadiums, arenas, downtowns, uptowns, suburbs, lingerie shops, mobile beer bicycles, Fourth of July parties, Memorial Day ceremonies, frat houses, and nightclubs in hundreds of cities big and small around the country.[498]

  They are easy enough to find in Jacksonville. Does Wal-Mart ring a bell? It should: People around the world saw hundreds of black people rampage and riot through a Wal-Mart one year before.[499] But Pulliam pretended these two incidents have no similarities.

  Three months later after the Christmas Day riot, it happened again: Large-scale black mob violence at a Jacksonville mall. More than 100 black people were waiting to see a movie when fighting and chaos began. After security disbursed the crowd, 40-50 of them went to a nearby Chick-Fil-A restaurant, where they broke a glass door, overturned furniture and even fired a gun. A 14-year old boy was arrested.

  Once again, Channel 4 did not report the crowd was black. Or that the violence was part of a pattern. But viewers had no problem figuring out on their own that their town was, once again, under siege from unacknowledged racial violence. One viewer made a list:[500]

  “Let's see, July 17 2012 -Northside Walmart,” he said, beginning his list of recent black mob violence in Jacksonville.“Memorial Day 2013 - Jacksonville Beach. Christmas Day 2013 - Northside Towne Center. Now Orange Park Mall. Mobs all, thuggish behavior with no accurate reporting of participants. Media bias OR fear of admitting reality?”

  At least two Jacksonville reporters had no trouble putting the violence in context: “Black mob violence is no different in Jacksonville than most other places in America: but that is the point — it happens a lot, the local media refuses to report it, and lots of people try to wish it away,” said Chuck White, who hosts a local talk radio show with his wife Colleen at AM 1600 the Beach. “This is the third time, in recent memory, that black youths have staged short term uprisings and there is barely a word from the local press.”

  Three? At least. In 2010, 27 black people were taken to the emergency room after large-scale violence at a local high school had to be quelled with copious amounts of tear gas. And this was not the first problem inside Palatka High school that week, said Channel 4.

  If all Pulliam knew about black mob violence is what he learned at local and national meetings of the National Association of Black Journalists, then it is easy to understand why he is so confused: NABJ does not focus on black mob violence or black on white crime.

  Instead, the group and its members concentrate on how black people are victims of relentless white racism. And how black people such as Trayvon Martin are under the constant threat of white violence. At the 2013 NABJ convention, Trayvon’s parents were featured speakers in front of a standing room only crowd, where they were received as celebrities, if not heroes.

  NABJ luminary Brittney Cooper recently wrote an article for Salon whose title says it all: “Open season on black teenagers: The onslaught of white murder.”[501] O.K.

  But black on white crime? Black mob violence? The Knockout Game? All of which exist exponentially out of proportion? Not so much: Many NABJ members say those stories are part of a hoax. Others grudgingly admit what thousands of videos show, but say it is justified. Or, like in Jacksonville or Louisville, where white people did something to cause it.

  A few days after the Christmas riot, another NABJ bigwig Tonyaa Weathersbee -- writing in the Florida Times -Union -- was happy the judge allowed several of the violent offenders to take an anger management course or enlist in the army in lieu of jail time:[502]

  “I didn’t want to see another African-American male thrust into a system that may or may not take into account all of the events that precipitated this,” the Rev. John Guns, told Weathersbee.“My fear was that they needed to be given a voice, because the system may not hear them.”

  Weathersbee never really got around to telling us what “precipitated” the violence and the attack on the white female officer. Or what the rioters wanted to say that, not being heard, sparked the violence. Other reporters were not quite as squeamish:

  “One of the young suspects refused orders to leave and began to incite the crowd yelling,“— — you, crackers, I ain’t going nowhere,” according to her arrest report. Most of the crowd was black, while several officers were white.”

  For at least one resident, this latest example of black mob violence was the final straw: “It has gotten pretty bad here in the Jacksonville area,” said one long-time Jacksonville resident. “Over the last few years it has gotten to where we don’t really want to go anywhere where there will be a large crowd of people at night anymore. The beach incident over last Memorial Day and the riot on Christmas night have just about sealed my decision to leave this area once my kids are finished with school.”

  Let’s finish up in Baltimore: August 2014 a group of black people attacked a white college kid living in a gentrified neighborhood that everyone there thought was safe. Including the victim. When the black mob attacked him, the local TV station sent Bill Simms, a card-carrying member of the NABJ, to the scene. He identified the thugs as teens.

  Someone else at the station identified them as black people in the web text that accompanied the article.[503]

  One way or another, someone is off the reservation.

  Macon: A Violent Night in Georgia

  30 black people give a white family a lesson in statistics

  John J. Owens is absolutely sure race had nothing to do with the reason why 30 black people punched, kicked and spit at five white people, including a mom and a baby.

  The attack took place during a rare snowy day in Macon in February 2014.

  The alleged assailants and victims could have been any race. “Color doesn’t matter, only the “idiot factor” matters,” opined Mr. Owens. That means the rest is random.[504]

  Anyone who ever took — and passed — a course in elementary statistics might wonder how Mr. Owens can so easily dismiss the non-random nature of the race of the victims and predators.

  Let’s do a little math: The odds of 30 black people randomly attacking five white people are about the same as the odds of a fully loaded jet liner crashing on your front lawn. Twice. On the same day. With your mom in the first plane. And your long lost brother in the second, who looks just like you. And accidentally married your sister.

  That is not to say it is impossible. Just not likely. About as likely as ... OK, you get it.

  The ‘fight that was not a fight’ started out with 30 black people at the Warner Robins High School
throwing snowballs at some white families. The Telegraph in Macon breaks it down, beginning with the woman who confronted the black people:

  “At that point someone hit her with a snowball, and part of the snowball landed on the baby. The woman’s husband then approached, asked the group to stop and was attacked,” he said. He and two other men in the sledding group who came to his aid were assaulted.

  “The victim said three of them, including himself, suffered concussions, and one had two cracked ribs. Members of the sledding group were white, and those involved in the snowball fight were black. He said the attackers yelled racial comments at them during the assault.”

  Of course there was laughing. And pictures: A group of black people kicking some white guy on the ground. Others standing around smiling. WGAX TV news called it “a fight.”[505]

  Which is a peculiar way to describe a mob assault.

  The pictures made their way to Facebook and Twitter, with the alleged assailants bragging and having a good old time recounting their snowy victory.

  Since we have pictures, it is not really alleged anymore, is it?

  That is how the police cracked the case and arrested Shymalik Raekwon Mitchell and Terrell Antonio Boyd. Both 17-years old. They were charged with a variety of crimes including assault.

  The victims are asking their names be withheld because they fear retaliation for themselves and their children, who still attend the school.

  As police search for others in the photos who are kicking, stomping, punching and beating the five white people, some of the residents want to let us know what the real problem and real solutions are.

  “People get jumped everyday,” said Jon’Shea JS Jenkins on his Facebook page.“The fact that there white means nothing. It could’ve been a black guy an it would have been the same outcome some people need to get out of there feelings and mind there business this attack happened because somebody wasn’t minding there business if the police ask me to stop doing something guess what I do.”

  “But if Tom Dick or Harry ask me I’m gonna look at him like he smoking rocks. It wasn’t right what they did at all but you gotta learn to mind ya business sometimes!!”

  And to all the white people in Macon who said were a racially motivated case of black mob violence, Rogue Carlos R Leader has a reminder and a rejoinder: “The biggest group of terrorist on this planet is white people.”[506]

  It was then I realized two huge mistakes I had made in writing White Girl Bleed a Lot. Both having to do with statistics. If only I had known then what I know -- and what you know from a previous chapter -- now: “Statistics are like bikinis: They reveal a lot, but cover up the most interesting parts.”

  July 4, 2013: It’s Independence Day:

  The Riots are cancelled.

  The article was seen as “dwelling on negative experiences that whites had with blacks that often fit into racial stereotypes.”[507]

  -- Philadelphia Inquirer.

  By 2013, dozens of cities had cancelled their Fourth of July fireworks over the previous several years because of black mob violence.

  The threat of a repeat[508] of black mob violence in 2013 caused at least three more to join them.

  By 2014, that number would grow.

  With lots of other cities wishing they had. First the cancellations. Then the violence.

  Black mob violence has marred for several years the annual holiday celebrations in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford. Almost none of which made its way to the local media. But city council heard an earful from local residents following 2012’s holiday violence.

  They reported that 50 to 80 black people were hitting people in the face and disrupting the festival and surrounding areas. “Police officers used pepper ball pellets and a taser,” said city council minutes from a Special Meeting in August 2012. “Even the Wal-Mart and Get-Go store had to be closed for three hours.”

  Closing the Wal-Mart is DefCon 5.

  “The Mayor was shocked by what he had witnessed,” said the minutes. The Mayor assured the audience that Bedford was “not the only city that had these types of problems.” People were “traveling from city to city just causing problems.”[509]

  It was no problem for the local press: They ignored it.

  Lots of those cities are documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot.

  Because Bedford no longer has a daily newspaper, the city sent out a “Code Red” message warning residents of the violence and lawlessness that was “out of control” at their event. Three surrounding police agencies were called in to quell the violence.

  The fire chief said his people were not armed or trained for this kind of activity.

  Some of the residents complained of “political correctness” that prevented them from talking about what really happened. City manager Henry Angelo did not deny that black mobs were responsible for the violence. But he did say it was contemptuous that anyone would notice.

  Such as your humble correspondent. I get that a lot. I do not care.

  In 2009, Bedford went through the same public examination after similar violence the year before: Said one local columnist at Cleveland.com: [510]

  But there was an elephant in the room that was only barely acknowledged and it had nothing to do with money, nor the reticence of Bedford Heights.

  Following the fireworks display in 2008, groups of teenagers, many from Maple Heights, Warrensville Heights and Cleveland, started fights in incidents that some who were there said was tantamount to a riot.

  Teenagers are the elephant?

  Uh, no.

  Bedford is known as the home of Archibald MacNeal Willard, the artist who created the iconic fife and drum painting, “Spirit of ’76.” But in the end, even Willard could not save the fireworks of Bedford and the city council cancelled it after deciding it was just too dangerous from too much black mob violence.

  Another Cleveland suburb, Shaker Heights, also cancelled the Fourth of July fireworks: "There have been problems in maintaining order and dealing with huge numbers of young people who have shown up through social media at the fireworks and who have been disruptive,” said Mayor Earl Leiken to the Shaker Heights Patch. [511]

  Derek Abbot lives near the Shaker Heights trouble. He told the Patch:

  “The last 2 years, the streets have been littered with trash. A ton of teenagers have been acting unruly, and I've heard stories of fighting in people's yards. I think the problem is that every other community cancelled their fireworks while we kept ours.”

  And oh yeah, that has been happening here a long time.

  In one news story at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a reader was frustrated that the paper had not reported the riot.

  My daughter and I will NOT be back next year. "Daddy why are all those kids screaming, swearing and fighting?" "Because their parents didn't raise them any better honey.“

  Nothing better to see police in riot gear riding on the outside of a SWAT van as the fireworks celebrating our freedom from the English rule rush toward a crowd of idiots, Then police officers telling people that are there to watch the fireworks that THEY have to leave.

  But I thought that the police would put an end to that. I was wrong.

  Lots of others had a similar experience. “It's not fear-mongering to say that these people created a real, dangerous environment.”

  Why is it that people who see this hyper-violence apologize for noticing, but the people who commit it never do? Get back to me on that, will ya?

  Linda Jenkins told the Patch: “We were patient and scared. It was so sad to see families sitting along the sidewalks trying to have a wonderful and traditional outing for most of us to be placed in the middle of madness, that's what it felt like for me.”

  The year before, Shaker Heights had a similar experience. A few weeks after that event, a columnist for the Plain Dealer got around to writing:

  We were watching fireworks on July 4th in Shaker Heights. The only fireworks we saw were in the sky, but in another area, kids went wild. Some
500 to 1,000 showed up in a flash mob.

  Harmless fun? Not to the teen who ended up with a broken jaw.

  On Twitter, a black woman from Cleveland who goes by the handle @Coke216, had another perspective on Shaker Heights 2012:

  “Yo, I got attacked by racist cops and attack dogs yesterday, cuz niggas wanted to start a riot at the fireworks. Lol.”

  In a story five months after the riot, David Moore told the Plain Dealer: “what was once a pleasant event has now become a pitched battle at the west end of the show. The point is that the 2012 fireworks were a disaster, and we can’t do much more to enhance security."[512]

  Bedford and Shaker Heights were not the first cities in Ohio to cancel their fireworks because of racial violence. Just the latest. Prior to this year, Euclid and Warrensville Heights also cancelled their celebrations after extended experiences with violence.[513]

  Shaker Heights had enough. By 2013, they said no more.

  So did the residents of the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield. Black mob violence has plagued that city’s Independence Day party since 2006, said police chief Todd Sandell. According to mssun.com:[514]

  “Police responded to significant gang activity the night of July 4 at Veterans Park, the site of the carnival. According to the memo, nine street gangs were identified in the park, as Richfield Police responded to 19“calls for service” that included disorderly conduct, assault and weapons violations.”

  Reported the Sun Current:

  “In my experience it was like a bug light,” said Councilmember Tom Fitzhenry, who has worked the carnival as a Richfield Police officer.

  “When that thing was running at night, that was the focus of all the police attention. And from the perspective of a resident here, my kids wouldn’t go down there, our neighbors’ kids wouldn’t go down there and a lot of people wouldn’t go near the carnival because it really got scary. And we were putting it lightly when we said that.”