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

by Colin Flaherty

  Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott “pledged to flush out the cowards perpetrating these acts and make examples of them without delay.”

  Which is pretty much what he must have said, a few months before, a black person “sucker-punched” his daughter on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University during a Haunted House promotion.[732]

  Danger Zone: The American Tobacco Trail

  You thought Tobacco was dangerous? Try hiking and biking.

  Black mob violence and black on white crime has not destroyed the entire American Tobacco Trail for bikers and hikers.

  Only the small chunk that goes through Durham, North Carolina.

  The high crime part. The gang-infested part. The poor part. The urban part. The sketchy part. The part that local media calls every name imaginable except one: The black part.

  Otherwise, most of the 22.5 miles of this trail is a safe, sometimes bucolic experience for runners, bikers, strollers and even equestrians. As long as they stay away from the trail near Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.

  Since 2011, dozens of people have been beaten, robbed, pushed off bikes and threatened in that part of the trail. All of the suspects in this violence and mayhem are black.[733]Though most of the time the local media is loathe to say so. In the most recent assault, WRAL TV described one of the assailants as having a “dark complexion.”

  This assault happened in 2013: An unknown number of black people sent a 53-year old man to the hospital after robbing him and beating him with a big stick. Other than saying the crime took place on the part of the trail about a mile north of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, police are not giving out much more information.[734]

  But there is not much to say that police haven’t said more than 40 times since 2011:

  In July 2013, a roller blader and a jogger were robbed by a man holding a gun. There are lots more both here and on other hiking and biking trails around the country. Let’s take a look.

  Starting in Baltimore. And let’s go to a local biking web site: Bikemore.com:[735]

  “You may remember last April,” said the editor in 2014, “there were a number of assaults on cyclists around the Copycat Building on Guilford Ave.” Actually I do not remember reading how black people were victimizing white bikers because no one ever wrote a story on it.[736]

  He reminds us he was a victim. And so were lots of other people. In April 2014, he told us the assailants were black. He actually captured his assault on his helmet-cam: Here’s how the April 2014 attack looked on YouTube and sounded on Facebook.[737]

  Attacked by a group of teenagers on the bike route on the 1600-1700 block of Guilford Ave. You can hear when they threw a bottle at me from behind and then see when I try to grab my lock as a last resort as they started to attack, but dropped it.

  Grabbed it before they did. Only damage was to my thumb when they stomped it. Took punches, but they must have hit my helmet, because I don't have any marks. Camera cuts out at the end around this time. On the ground I started yelling, "help help help.”

  In the comments to the article, other bikers chipped in with their experiences on the same trail: Oh yeah, that’s been happening a long time.

  In early 2014, I was summoned to New York City to meet with the crime reporter for the Grey Lady herself. The New York Times. While we waited for our corned beef and cabbage sandwiches, he told me about how he and his wife took a bike trip on their honeymoon.

  “Wow, lots of black mob violence directed at people on bike trails and people riding bikes,” quoth I. I looked over. Crickets.

  So I reeled off a few incidents, including a phone call I received a few weeks earlier about a guy who was attacked several times riding back to his Brooklyn home from Manhattan. Once a large group of black people threw rocks from high-rise public housing. And most recently, a group of black people knocked him off his bike and beat him.

  Still nada.

  Here’s another one from New York, from the Fox affiliate: “A man riding his bike down a Long Island road was attacked by a gang of young men.”

  They punched and kicked him in the face then stole his bike. “Police did not have a very good description of any of the attackers. They were described as black males around 19 to 20 years old.”

  Newsday reported the same crime, absent the description.[738]

  Whatever: It’s something. The corned beef was cold. And nothing ever appeared in the New York Times.

  In Minneapolis, members of the Midtown Greenway Coalition were suffering so many attacks while on bikes, they decided to start posting them, at least for a while.[739]

  They stopped in April 2013, after two black people threw a Molotov cocktail from a bridge, nearly hitting a bicyclist. They caught them. Then the real story begins. Let’s go the Star Tribune: The bomb throwers[740]

  may be too young to charge with a crime, a police spokesman said Thursday.“They’re at a real sensitive age,” said Sgt. Steve McCarty, who could only say the two suspects are not yet teenagers.

  And thus did the Star-Tribune preserve its unblemished record of ignoring, condoning, minimizing and denying racial violence in Minneapolis. (That is documented you know where.) Even so, the whole “sensitive age” thing? That’s taking it to a new level: Both for the police PR dude and the paper.

  And add one more chapter to your file on why black mob violence and black on white crime is under reported.

  The Coalition stopped posting attacks after that. And the biker? No word about how the Molotov cocktail appealed to his sensitivities.

  In Greenville, South Carolina, in August 2013, a large group of black people knocked Gideon Hackett off his bike while on the Swamp Rabbit Trail.

  “The men taunted him throughout the attack and laughed as they walked away with his bike and other belongings,” said the local paper.“One of the men also pointed a gun at Hackett and, according to the teen, tried shooting him but the gun misfired.”[741]

  It took a few months, but they finally caught them: [742]

  Police say these “incidents” happens in the “city portion” of the trail. A reader filled in the blanks: “I don't think the trail is safe being it runs through crackville and crime infested areas.”

  Police did not release the report of Hackett’s assault to the public for four days. They said it was an isolated event. Which, of course, was not close to being true. By September the attacks had become so frequent, lots of people had a meeting where they all bragged about being upset and promised never to let it happen again. Until it did. And does.

  Down in Florida, the Tampa Bay Times reported in February 2014 that “Two cyclists and a pedestrian were robbed at gunpoint Saturday on a St. Petersburg section of the Pinellas Trail, police said.”[743]

  These were at least two separate attacks.

  The paper that likes to show off its Ten Pulitzers said that “teens” did it. But the readers dug a little deeper. Said Chris Pedersen:

  The article fell a bit short in serving the community. There was no mention that crime on this stretch of the Pinellas Trail has sadly become a common occurrence.

  Anyone that is familiar with this portion of the trail will usually use an alternate route instead. The "Just keep calm and carry on" response by the SPPD makes me wonder if they have accepted criminal activity as a fact of life on this stretch.

  If this is true, warning signs should be posted for the sake of the uninformed residents or tourist that happen to blunder into this stretch of the trail.

  Perhaps we should give Pulitzers to readers as well.

  By July, the police confessed: There had been 17 robberies and assaults on the trail in the last two years. They announced plans for 25 cameras on the trail.[744]

  The move was prompted by a spate of robberies in February including one attack where a woman was pistol-whipped in the face causing her to lose several teeth.

  Another reader reminded the geographically challenged among us what the trail really is: “That trail is a mess and a horrible ride through the
worse neighborhoods!!”

  The police had some advice for bikers and hikers: Avoid “suspicious people.”[745] Also avoid mentioning the central organizing feature of the violence. The attackers are black.

  In August 2014, one woman either did not get the advice, or did not take it. They found her naked body in the bushes a few days later. A black man is under arrest for the murder.

  The headline tells the story: “Murder victim's brother questions safety of Pinellas Trail.”[746]

  Eight weeks before the murder, a WND reader issued a warning:

  “We have a 30 mile bike path here in Pinellas county Fl. Most of it is great, but several sections that go through black areas are bad news. Young thugs hide in the bushes and run out and knock people off their bikes, beat them to a pulp and steal everything they have.”[747]

  Everything.

  In April 2014, the NBC affiliate in Washington reported three sexual assaults on a walking and biking trail in Maryland: “The assault follows a string of other local sexual assaults on jogging trails including the assault of two women in Frederick County and another near Rosslyn.”[748]

  The reporter dutifully noted that police only had a vague description of the man. But she neglected to mention the part of the description they did have. Which the new site’s web page reported: He was black.

  Academic Reports Are In: You Are a Racist.

  And disagreeing is proof positive.

  Behind every denier of racial violence is a bogus academic report that shows white racism is big, getting bigger, is everywhere, all the time. And causing all the violence that on alternate days they say does not exist.

  And a lot of this research is bogus. It is so bogus, I had to repeat the word bogus.

  We already started on some of this: The chapter on John Conyers and the made up studies about white people and black people using dope in the same amount. Let’s look at a few more.

  How about this fairy tale from Science Daily from 2013, and picked up by editors all across the country: “Smart enough to know better: Intelligence is not a remedy for racism.”

  Or how another magazine put it: “How Smart People Hide Their Racism.” [749]

  Let’s get to the conclusions first, then work backward. You know, just the way the “researcher” did: [750]

  Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers -- they're just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study.

  "High-ability whites are less likely to report prejudiced attitudes and more likely to say they support racial integration in principle," said Geoffrey Wodtke, a doctoral candidate in sociology. "But they are no more likely than lower-ability whites to support open housing laws and are less likely to support school busing and affirmative action programs."

  So if you do not support mandatory racial quotas and race-based busing, you are a racist.

  Got it?

  And as for racism from Eskimos or black people or Asians, we’ll stick to don’t ask don’t tell.

  Here’s another: NYmag.com loved this one: In a lab they showed some people some words, then pictures, then they correlated them: [751]

  “Together, our results provide strong converging evidence for the role of perceptual bias as a mechanism through which economic scarcity enhances discrimination and contributes to racial disparities.”

  Perceptual bias? Of course! I smell a Critical Race Theory Fellowship in Hawaii.

  Now go back and read the last two paragraphs and instead of the word perceptual, insert the word perpetual, as my computer just tried to do. Weird how it does not change the meaning. Onward.

  Ann Coulter has her own favorite bogus study on race: One that shows that the jackboots in our highway patrols are systematically stopping and harassing black drivers For No Reason What So Ever.

  Including, famously, former Attorney General Eric Holder. Let’s cut to Coulter[752]:

  As is usually the case with bogus race studies, the pivotal 1993 survey compared speed stops on the New Jersey turnpike to the population of all drivers on the turnpike – not with the population of all speeders on the turnpike.

  Such meaningless studies are popular on the left, where it is assumed that people of different races, genders, and ethnicities will always behave identically in all respects.

  If fewer women pass the physical test to become firefighters, that can only be because of sexism. If fewer blacks pass the written test— that’s racism. If fewer whites play professional basketball— no, forget that one. Sports are important. (Unlike arson or vehicular homicide.)

  Nonetheless, based on the assumption that blacks speed just as much as whites— because to believe otherwise would be racist!— Temple University’s John Lamberth announced that while only 13.5 percent of drivers along a particular stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike were black, 46 percent of those stopped for speeding were black.

  And over at FrontPageMag.com, Daniel Greenfield has his own favorite nominee for worst performance in a study that is supposed to show something meaningful: Racism makes people fat.[753]

  Racist microaggressions cause black people to eat fast food and avoid exercise. If you say so, Rutgers.

  In Chicago, the Amalgamated Transit Union was trumpeting a University of Chicago report called: “Density for All: Linking Urban Form to Social Equity.” The money quote:

  The disparity in commute times for low wage African-Americans workers in Chicago as compared to others is the product of a country with a huge and growing urban population, yet no serious urban transportation agenda except to benefit the rich, say union leaders.

  No discussion of goofy academic research would be complete without featuring some news from the National Education Association -- which is to racial education what roller derby is to ice-skating. Let’s check in with them to see what they are telling their members to take to the classroom.

  Here’s the lead sentence from a 2013 article in the NEA journal called “Is Higher Education Propping Up White Privilege?”[754]

  White racial privilege still exists in America—did you doubt it? The latest proof is an extensive study from Georgetown University.

  It shows that black students are under represented in the “most selective schools” and are more likely to go to “open access schools.” Here’s the money quote: “the report’s authors acknowledge that their findings do serve as justification for race-based admissions in colleges.”

  To its credit, the NEA story did acknowledge one curious fact: The teachers at these crappy public schools who are short changing our underserved, underprivileged, under-everything black students? They are NEA members.

  Here’s my favorite one that got tons of attention from around the country: “Study Links White Racism with Opposition to Gun Control.”

  These researchers say white people who hold “implicitly anti-black attitudes” are more likely to support that crazy ass second amendment.

  But whoa! What are these implicit (!) anti-black attitudes?

  Most articles did not really answer that question. So you have to go to the source and dig down past the conclusions, past the urgent calls for more race-based solutions, past the demands for more free stuff and find out.

  So is it membership in the Klan? No.

  Support for segregation in schools and housing? No.

  None of that.

  These poindexters found “racist attitudes that are not overt, but nevertheless color one’s view of the world.”

  They call it “symbolic racism.”

  Or in technical terms: ‘We just made this silly stuff up.’

  And here is how they figured that out: “Participants answered four questions taken from the Symbolic Racism Scale. Specifically, they expressed their level of agreement or disagreement (on a one-to-five scale) with statements such as: [755]

  It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites.

  Irish, It
alian, Jewish and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same.

  How much discrimination against blacks do you feel there is in the United States today, limiting their chances to get ahead?

  Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.

  Over the past few years, blacks have gotten less than they deserve.

  Answer these the wrong way and -- like getting your AARP membership on your 52nd birthday, like it or not -- you’ll be receiving your honorary Klan membership in the mail.

  Try this test: What will happen if you do these five things:

  Stay out of jail.

  Graduate from high school.

  Don’t have a child unless you are married.

  Stay off drugs, and

  Get a job, any job.

  Give up? Answer: You will not be poor.

  The New Crime:

  Being a victim of a black mob.

  Five stories, each crazier than the next. Starting in Savannah.

  “Every cop is a criminal. And all the sinners, saints.”

  Mick Jagger.

  The mayor and tourist bureau have finally figured out what is behind a case of black mob violence against two white families with small children in Savannah during the Mother’s Day weekend 2014.

  The visiting white families provoked it.

  Apparently there is a lot of that going around. As we shall see:[756]

  “Metro police believe a fight on River Street was not a random attack,” said the black reporter on WTOC. “Police believe the family from the Atlanta Metro area provoked the men” who beat them. “Jim Thomas has spread his story all over Facebook, saying a man bumped into him on the sidewalk then suddenly attacked him.

  Thomas claims he didn’t say anything to the man that would provoke him. But police say the surveillance footage tells a slightly different story.”