Neither did the Delaware mayhem compare to the huge fight at the black Livingston College in North Carolina in the Spring of 2013. There, local news stations report 300 black people fought and destroyed property at a campus party. Two people were arrested.[616]
Neither did the Delaware partygoers resemble the crowd at a University of Southern California party in the Spring of 2013. There, 400 black students did not like it when a police officer showed up at 2 a.m. to tell them their party had to end. Or least the music did.
They ignored the cop. Then started throwing bottles and rocks at him. Soon after 80 police were in the streets in riot gear. The party ended after a few people were forcibly detained. Six black people were arrested.
At USC, no one got banned. Instead, school officials held a community forum to hear students berate them for racial profiling. Makiah Green is a USC student who put it all in perspective in an article called the Plight of Black Students at USC. Spoiler alert: The school and police were picking on the blameless students.[617]
I had flashbacks to an era I wasn’t even alive to suffer through. I was too scared to go outside, legitimately fearing that an officer would see me and arrest me for being Black and inquisitive.
It is inexpressibly disheartening to hear fellow students recount horror stories of police brutality two weeks away from being among the first in my family to graduate from a four-year university. To know that my college degree holds no weight in the face of institutional racism and discrimination is sobering.
Today, despite the backbreaking, soul-sapping institutional racism at USC, Makiah managed to overcome: She is a graduate student in a professional writing program. At USC. I hope she survives.
In most of the examples of black mob violence documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot, it is rare when anyone gets arrested. At one Philadelphia high school, the principal said she did not report large scale black mob violence directed at Asian students over a several year period because she did not want to “criminalize” the students.
In Rochester, New York, they send buses to take the rioters home.
In Chicago 2013, nine black people were arrested for attacking two white people with a “sockful of locks” in a commuter train crowded with witnesses. A staffer for district attorney later dropped all charges.
In New Haven in October 2013, 500 black people attending an “All Black Affair” fought in and out of the party. And when they finished in front of one venue, they moved to another, where police had to stop the violence there. Then another, where police had to stop the violence there.[618]
No one was arrested. Police said they were focusing on crowd control instead.
At a Baltimore skating rink, a mob of as many as 900 black people fought and destroyed property in and out of the facility, including several nearby businesses. This was just one of the dozens of examples of black mob violence connected to that rink over the last year.
Sometimes words don’t do justice: Dozens of examples of large-scale black mob violence in one neighborhood.
The mayhem ranged from throwing bricks through police car windows to vandalizing the Denny’s restaurant next door. The violence includes beating clerks and stealing merchandise from a nearby convenience store, fighting with police, jumping on cars – breaking windows and ruining paint – and much, much more.
Two people were arrested during this episode of violence in August 2013. Even by Delaware standards this Blue Hen mob violence was pale. The year before, for the second year on a row, a black promoter sponsored a party for students from black colleges in the area. By 2 a.m. 800 black people were outside, many fighting. Guns were fired. Cars damaged. 300 state police responded.
A spokesman for the state police said not one of their officers at the scene noticed if the entire crowd was black. Pictures at Facebook answered that question.[619] No one was arrested.
Every one of those un-arrested miscreants can be thankful they did not run into the sheriff who runs the town in Newark: He has a posse out on a full-scale hunt to bring these lawbreakers to justice.
Already several students have been suspended or expelled. The rugby team was banned for five years -- a death penalty. Ten arrested. And shortly after the pillow fight, the Wilmington News Journal published a Most Wanted list with the photos of 44 more alleged student rioters, most pictured in full party mode with their mouths open in a party yell. The university wants to bring them to justice as well. White kids all.
Included in the Delaware 10 was a co-ed accused of disorderly conduct and jaywalking. In Delaware, they call that “walking along roadway where sidewalks are provided.” Her hometown paper in New Jersey dutifully reported the conduct and even printed her mug shot.
Very few people were crying “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.” Instead, many were irritated at the newspaper -- and the University -- for making such a big deal out of such a small thing. Including the girl’s father in the comments section of the local Patch:[620]
My daughter was one of 12 who got their picture taken out of 2400 students that attended this event. She was not charged with anything more than jay walking. She will be found innocent since a picture from a video cannot be enough evidence to convict.
She also turned herself in when she found out about it (You failed to mention that in your stellar investigation). BTW there is an old lady Jaywalking on Central. Go track her down.
So this part of the search for the Holy Grail of white racial violence ends in disappointment.
In Albany New York, reporter Carl Seiler still insists that it happens all the time, only white mob violence is often ignored. He gives as an example a white riot called "Kegs 'n' Eggs" from two years ago.[621]
One person said that riot was like watching his 9-year old brother get into a fight with his sister. The quest continues.
Just a few weeks after the White Riot at Newark, Delaware, homecoming festivities at a black college were marred by large scale mob violence and rioting. The second such incident at a black college in just a few weeks.
The episode began when a large group of people tried to “bum rush” a homecoming hip hop concert at Howard University in Washington, D.C., one of America’s oldest and largest black educational institutions.[622]
Nine people were taken to area hospitals, including two police officers, with injuries including a broken leg.
The annual concert is usually free. But this year, Howard charged $5 to see performances from one of the top names in hip-hop, 2Chainz.
You know 2Chainz, right? And his most famous hit: Im’ma Start a Riot. Of course you do. Or if you don’t, your kids probably do: Various versions of this hit have gathered more than 15 million hits on YouTube.
Despite the presence of a big shot like 2 Chainz, many Howard students resented having to pay. They took to local news stations and the Internet to say so. The ABC news affiliate picked up the story:[623]
There were sirens, fire alarms, and a mass of people running from Howard’s iconic yard, frightening images for a university steeped in tradition.
But Homecoming turned into a melee on Friday afternoon as a crush of attendees tried to get into the much-anticipated YardFest.
"We're all upset about having to pay," says Savannah Bowen.
They were also upset the concert was sold out, leaving many people outside the gates, wanting to get in. Including some with tickets.
After waiting 20 minutes, said one student, they decided they were probably not going to get in -- so they started climbing over a fence while people inside who paid took videos with their smart phones.
“They runnin. They hopping the fences,” said one student on video he posted Instagram. “Niggas can’t pay $5 for shit. Guess y’all want to go to the club tonite.”[624]
Police wrestled several students to the ground who tried to sneak in. Then came the stampede: People getting trampled. The concert suspended.
All the while hip-hop star 2Chainz performed. Though he did not do his most famous
song: Start a Riot.
The concert resumed 90 minutes later, with performances mostly about drugs and violence and murder. This is about the tamest lyric from one of the scheduled performers, A$AP Ferg: “run up on a killer then I put him in the dirt.”
The concert was cut short before A$AP Ferg and other headliners had a chance to glorify and encourage more violence. (A$AP was found dead in early 2015. No one knows why.)
Police have not released any further information on number of people arrested or the condition of those injured.
Let’s have this Howard student explain it all to us: His name -- or her, come to think of it -- is Shekinah Ealey[625]
I had to climb over that big black fence, (not the small one in the video, the bigger one beside the pillar) in order not to get freaking trampled over. And I thank God someone helped me down on the other side.
And NO I did not participate in pushing the gate down. Now why did this happen in the first place? I'll tell you why...this "group" of us were students who paid for our tickets to get into the Yardfest, we had to stand in the line to get wrist bands and then we would be let in to Yardfest.
Yes we got impatient because the process was stopped for who knows why? But after standing there for 20 minutes or so, people started to get mad and so they got closer to the entrance, the event staff began yelling at us to get back and that’s when everything basically broke loose. Yes the scene was horrific; I saw girls bending backwards and being overtaken by other students...
The truth is, you cannot stop a group of angry impatient crowd of mostly students from getting in to a renowned Howard event.
Besides this, I honestly don't know what else could have been different, maybe they wont charge us next year, or maybe students wont be held up for what it seemed like no reason to us.
Summing up: Wasn’t free. Took too long. So we had a riot.
More Iowa.
Yes, Iowa: Knockout Game at the University of Iowa.
People used to be surprised at racial violence in Iowa. Not anymore. Not since Beat Whitey Night at the Iowa State Fair.
Come to think of it, I still am. Surprised that is.
But others are not. Not since September 2013 when a black mob murdered a white father of six. Not since subsequent reports of several occasions of large scale black mob violence in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.
And now the Knockout Game. Police received two reports of assaults near Iowa State University in Ames. Both on the same night. Police are looking for a car full of black people as their prime suspects. Police are calling it the Knockout Game.
Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t.
Ames is not the kind of place where people look over their shoulders. Or even lock their doors. Didn’t used to be anyway. So when Tony Behnke noticed a car following him early one Sunday morning, he thought nothing of it, at first. Then he realized it wasn’t just a car, but also black man with dreadlocks walking in step very close behind him.
“I turned and looked at him to just kind of make eye contact,” Behnke told Makayla Tendall of the Iowa State Daily. “He stayed behind me pretty close but he never jogged in front of me. At one point in time I even stopped to let him pass and get in front of me, but he just stood there.”[626]
Then he punched Behnke in the face.
“After he hit me, him and his buddies just starting laughing and got in their car. They didn’t steal anything like that, but it seemed like a joke to them.” [627]
Behnke did not think enough of it to report it to the police. But the next day, a severe headache drove him to the emergency room, where he found he had a concussion. And he was not the only victim:
“I was in the ER and my nurse came in, and she had a puzzled face and she asked‘what exactly happened to you again? You’re not the only person here today that had the same thing happen,’” Behnke told the Iowa State Daily.“He had gotten punched 10 minutes before I had gotten hit. The guy that hit him got out of the back seat, came up and upper cut him. They didn’t follow him at all; he had a pretty nice gash on his jaw.”
Behnke got off easy: The other guy had a broken jaw.[628]
Iowa, welcome to the Knockout Game.
In Iowa, racial violence can even get fatal. In September 2013, Richard Daughenbaugh was taking an evening walk to a popular fishing spot in downtown Des Moines. Daughenbaugh, a father of six and construction worker, did not know his killers. But at 1 a.m., he found himself exchanging words with members of a black mob that numbered in the dozens.
That was his second mistake. His first was being under the influence of drugs.
The Des Moines Register picks up the narrative with a sterile account that understates the violence and ignores the race of the attackers:[629]
“The suspects allegedly beat Daughenbaugh using no weapons other than their own bodies while others in the group tried to stop anyone from helping, police said,” the paper reported. “A woman fishing nearby tried to step in and stop the assault and was struck, police said.
Her companion was attacked as he jumped in to defend her. And when the woman tried to call 911, two women from the group allegedly grabbed her phone and threw it. She eventually retrieved it and called 911.”
Translation: Dozens of black people beat Daughenbaugh. Several people beat the fishermen who tried to help. And several people beat the witnesses who tried to dial 911. And lots of others watched and cheered.
The Register picks it up again, quoting a police spokesman: “The phrase ‘mob mentality’ is probably accurate here. Once the assault began, acquaintances of the suspect jumped in.”
Richard Daughenbaugh died soon after.
Kent Tyler was found guilty of second-degree murder. Three of his accomplices await trial.
Let’s head over to Grinnell, 65 miles from Ames. “Police in Grinnell are investigating an attack on a teenager and the victim said it is part of the “knockout game”.”
Even in Grinnell, they know the playbook: The station did not report the race of the attackers because the victim “was only able to give a vague description to police.”
Amazing how fast that little sleight of hand is spreading.[630]
Taleeb Starkes, he of the Uncivil War fame, takes a larger lesson from the racial mayhem in Iowa: “If this is now happening in Iowa, the rest of the country has to be in trouble.”
Black Violence and the Black Media.
How to ignore racial violence.
Even NPR could not ignore the two cases of black on white violence in New York in September 2013. Neither could the New York Times. But some of the largest black websites in America did.
In the first attack, Lashawn Marten declared his hatred for white people then punched Jeffrey Babbitt in the face as he walked through a Manhattan park Wednesday afternoon. Babbitt died five days later.[631]
Two days after the Babbitt assault, a white man was riding a bus through Harlem when a black man called him a cracker and punched him in the head. The unidentified victim suffered several broken bones in his face. Police have released a photo of the suspect.
These are hardly the first cases of black on white violence in New York City. But it is unusual for the predators to announce their racial intentions so boldly beforehand. Rarer still for The Times and NPR to report them, however timidly. However briefly. But that is more than the biggest black web sites in America did. A sampling:
TheGrio.com -- at the time a division of MSNBC -- gets its name from the term for “African story teller.” But this place for “African American breaking news and opinion” had nothing on either hate crime.
The Grio, however, did run several recent stories about George Zimmerman, including one titled “We told you so.” Reporters at The Grio also found time for features on “fashion racism,” and how an Oklahoma school district is banning dreadlocks.[632]
Over at BET.com, the web site of Black Entertainment Television, the editors ran one story about George Zimmerman and his run-in with his wife, one story about b
lack women with unusually decorative dental worked called “girls with grillz,” and lots of advertisements for Chicken McNuggets from McDonald’s. But nothing on black on white violence in New York City.
The Huffington Post has a separate section for black people called “Black Voices.” Huffpo did run stories on the hate crimes in other sections, but nothing appeared in the pages of Black Voices.
Black Voices, however, did publish a full treatment on the “Tiana Parker” controversy. Parker was sent home from an Oklahoma school this week for violating district regulations against wearing dreadlocks. The Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus is conducting a full investigation of the matter. No word from Black Voices when or if Oklahoma black legislators will be looking into the killing of the white Australian student Chris Lane in Oklahoma last month at the hands of two black people.
One of Lane’s alleged killers proclaimed on Twitter that “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” The other had pictures on his Facebook page featuring a flag of Africa with the words “Black Power” on it.
TheRoot.com is the Washington Post’s black website. The Post claims it is “the premier news, opinion and culture site for African-American influencers.” It was founded in 2008 by Dr. Henry Gates – Skip, to President Obama – who became even more famous for complaining about racist treatment at the hands of Cambridge police. An incident that culminated in the “beer summit” at the White House.
The Root published nothing on either alleged New York hate crime. But it did run recent stories including “Will an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) Make My Kid too Black? No, and such assumptions about these schools suggest you might be the one who needs an education.”
The Root also published excerpts from a New York Times story advising its readers on “Racial Profiling and Surviving the ‘White Gaze.’”[633]
At least they covered something from New York.
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