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

by Colin Flaherty

  In 2010, Blackmon did a blow by blow account of internal strife at the Tea Party that included the obligatory denial: “I am not a racist,” one of the Tea Party leaders was forced to admit to the Journal in October 29, 2010. [870]

  This came just nine days after another Blackmon story about racism in the Tea Party. This one ginned up by the NAACP which issued a report claiming that people in the Tea Party were … racist.[871]

  The editors at the Journal might have been fine with it, but at least one reader figured it out:

  “The Journal needs to print a retraction,” said James Bucholtz.“The article states that when the Congressman walked into the Tea Party crowd some spewed racial epithets and spit on a black Congressman.

  This was not caught on tape as the article states. In fact, Breitbart offered $100,000 to anyone who could produce evidence on tape and no one ever responded. In addition the black Congressman later admitted that the man may not have been spitting but it may have occurred as he was yelling. Big difference between yelling and spitting. Please print a retraction. It appears that author has believed the left wing lies.”

  Even Dave Wiegel at Slate saw through that piece: "What's the point of even highlighting the fringe racist elements of a movement if not to discredit the whole?”[872]

  When Slate busts you for overdoing the racial pandering, you know you got trouble. With a Capital T.

  By the 2010 elections, Blackmon was something of a golden boy at the Journal. His 2009 book which revealed how black people were really slaves for 50 years -- or more -- after the Emancipation Proclamation won a Pulitzer Prize. Soon after, he became a regular on the civil rights rubber-chicken and lecture circuit.

  Today, Blackmon tends to his television duties producing a documentary on his book, reminding black people they were even bigger victims of white racism than they had imagined.

  And how it continues today. Barely abated. If at all. If not worse.

  That is how Blackmon found himself to be the only white person in the room at the national gathering of black legislators. All televised on CPSAN and still available on-line.[873]

  The group was talking about a “states agenda” for civil rights when the topic of voter repression came up -- known outside the room as voter ID -- when Blackmon issued his clinical diagnosis on the mental health of Tea Party activists.

  Of the dozen or so panelists and elected officials in the audience who would soon speak, no one took up his point or acknowledged there might be something non-racist in conservative American activists worth defending.

  But they did have plenty of time to talk about how white liberals make terrible political allies. About Trayvon Martin, and the foundation that bears his name.

  About how “Stand Your Ground Laws” pose an enormous threat to black people -- almost as much as charter schools and anything else the teachers’ unions do not like.

  A common theme among these legislators is echoed in school boards around the country: White teachers need special training to teach black children. White teachers are racist, immersed in white privilege, and that is what accounts for the dismal performance of so many black students in American schools today.

  The most popular version of that training is called Courageous Conversations, and can be found in more than 200 school districts across the country. The basis of Courageous Conversations is Critical Race Theory, which says three simple things:

  1) White racism is everywhere. 2) White Racism is permanent. 3) White Racism explains everything.

  Cue Marietta English, president of the Baltimore teachers union and vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, whom we already met:

  “We can’t just give them six weeks of training and think they are able to educate our children. There’s (sic) a lot of cultural differences that they don’t understand. If you don’t grow up in the neighborhood, you don’t understand it when we say“WASSUP.” They don’t understand that.”

  From the podium, Blackmon sat in silence as one elected official after another talked about racial preferences, racism, and who is REALLY responsible for so many black people being in prison. White people.

  Blackmon may have had his crazy meter turned off, but Marlin Newburn did not: And for nearly one hour and forty minutes, it was humming on high:

  “This was one fascinating trip down insane memory lane,” said Newburn. The black "caucus" just voiced re-tread, retro-sixties complaints about the difficult world they live in.

  “The video is a great learning experienced for those who have never witnessed a unique pathological trait of the so-called "black community"; one that has been distorting their thinking for decades, and inhibiting their growth. The sick trait is that they have no problem publicly complaining about life conditions they have created for themselves. Maladapted adolescents do this often.

  “As well, they sanctify the most pathological people and conditions, i.e., "The Trayvon Martin Foundation." That would be like white people setting up a scholarship program in memory of John Dillinger.”

  “At least they had a few hours to play dress-up, and praise each other as they engaged their fantasies of torment and abuse by the massive white hoards who they imagine seek their destruction.”

  If you want to take Newburn’s advice and watch the video, it is easy to find: CSPAN Video: State Agenda on Civil Rights.

  Just remember to turn your crazy meter off.

  The New Civil Rights Anthem: Fight For Your Right To Party.

  Peter Seeger out. Beastie Boys In.

  Pete Seeger is out. Civil Rights has a new troubadour: The Beastie Boys. Gone are the pastors and protestors holding hands and singing We Shall Overcome. Sometimes at the business end of a fire hose.

  In its place is a new spiritual: You Have To Fight For Your Right To Party. Usually accompanied by a cloud of marijuana smoke and whatever kinds of vodka Puff Diddy and 50 Cent are selling these days.

  The new Selma is Troy, New York. Just outside of Albany. Listen to the first sentence from the Troy Record about this new battle from early 2014:[874]

  “Just days after the nation celebrated the ground covered in the civil rights movement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a chaotic incident at Kokopellis club on Fourth Street resurrected issues of injustice against minority groups.”

  Now that is a clarion call.

  The first shot in this new front in the new war for civil rights was fired early Saturday morning. Not with a bullet, but with a 911 call from a nightclub called Kokopellis.

  “We need the Troy police at Kokopellis,” said the unidentified caller. “We got a bar fight goin’ on here. It’s inside movin’ out. Someone got hit with a bottle.”

  How many people are fighting? asked the operator.

  “About a hundred.” That was around 2:30 a.m., just a few days after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, as a local paper reminded us. So the stakes were high. We were at the beginning of “a chaotic incident that resurrected issues of injustice against minority groups,” said the Troy Record.

  Though few knew it then. It seemed like a bunch of drunk and high and violent people out of control. On video. All black.[875]

  Then a bartender called 911 as well: “I’m a bartender at Kokopellis, we need a few cops down here. We got like a ton of people fighting right now and our bouncers are getting punched in the face and everything.”

  The “and everything” included getting hit with bottles and sprayed with pepper spray because the bouncers were trying to eject people from the club for smoking pot on the dance floor. But they did not want to go.

  The videos show the crowd was black. And they did not like it when police arrived to the riot. The local paper called it a “scuffle.” Some scuffle.

  Police have since released the calls for help from the first responders: “They are throwing bottles at us,” said one cop. “Whoever is on their way better step it up.”

  They did. Videos show when cops arrived in bigger numbers soon after, they w
ere met with defiance, physical resistance, pepper spray and someone even discharged a fire extinguisher at them.

  Outside, it wasn’t going any better. “Two of our officers were struck in the head by bottles,” said police captain John Cooney told News 10 in Albany. “One suffering a laceration with bruising to the head. A garbage can was thrown at one of our officers. And after glancing off him, went through the back window of one of our patrol cars.”

  Before it was over, six people -- all black -- were arrested. Eight cops were injured, six went to the hospital.

  Soon after the real riot ended, the virtual riot began. This was the riot that black ministers insisted had really happened: Cops were beating black people for No Reason What So Ever. Other than they could. And, oh yeah, they were a bunch of racists, the cops, that is.

  Cue the Al Sharpton wannabe, Pastor Willie Bacote, backed up by members of the Troy African American Pastoral Alliance. At a community meeting soon after, Bacote was upset at how the police were using excessive force to deny the black people of Troy their right to party. And he was not going to let that happen. Not on his watch.

  The Albany Times Union recorded Pastor Bacote’s insights for the record: "Race has to be on the table. We've got a lot of problems to deal with in our city," said Bacote of the Missing Link AME Zion Church.[876]

  The Troy Record could not get enough of Bacote either. “We have had enough of these incidents here in the city of Troy that keep wanting us to meet like this,” said Pastor Willie Bacote. “We will not tolerate this any longer.”

  Bacote was referring to the police responding to several emergency calls involving large scale violence. Not the drunk, high people who attacked the police when they showed up to restore order.

  On second thought, maybe he was.

  The Troy Record did not point this out, but as police riots go, this was pretty tame stuff: No fractured skulls. No broken arms. No dog bites. No billy club bruises. No bullet holes. No one died. Not like the old days.

  One of the black people allegedly involved in the brawl and who was later arrested for resisting arrest had a black eye.

  The Troy police hauled some drunk and high people off to jail who did not want to go. For Bacote, that meant it was time for the poor and oppressed black people of Troy, New York to go to the mattresses: “We will fight them on the battlefield of justice,” Bacote said.

  By now it is a familiar act. But fewer and fewer people seem to be buying it, if reader comments are any judge:

  “Oh god. I wondered how long it would be before Bacote got his mug in the news demanding police leave black folks alone,” said one reader. “The bar owners were trying to shut the bar down because stupid idiots decided they were going to smoke pot inside.

  The unruly patrons didn't like being told to leave so they beat up a bouncer. The cops had to be called and the rest is history. Bacote, isn't it time for you to head down south like you've been promising for years? Troy doesn't need you here pulling your race card at every possible opportunity. We're sick of it.”

  Even the usually most dependable allies in this civil rights struggle had their doubts about this one: “Incident At Kokopellis,” began the headline of an NPR story. “Finding Racism Where Some Say There Is None?” [877]

  First a writer for Salon calls BS on the Wall Street Journal story about Tea Party racism.

  And now NPR does the same?

  Are these folks trying to put me out of business?

  Black History Month 2014 -- The Sequel.

  Please ignore the crime and violence. Part 2.

  Black History Month in Delaware began with all the usual suspects – including a U.S. Senator -- presenting all the usual indictments of racism. All at a Lutheran church

  If there was any mention of black mob violence or black on white crime in this city that is regularly listed as one of the most dangerous in America, it was only in passing. And only to represent the perpetrators as the real victims.

  Black teenagers, for example, who were kicked out of high school for violence and truancy were said to be victims of uncaring counselors who threw them into a life of crime by suggesting they go to night school. There was a lot of that: More than 60 percent of black students in Wilmington, Delaware drop out of high school.

  As for the real victims, black and white, of the school violence and behavior that disrupted their learning, there was not a word. That includes teachers and even school bus drivers.

  Nor did anyone mention how two of the panel members voted for a local city council resolution a few weeks before that declared Wilmington’s black criminals were the real victims: They were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by slavery.

  And the city councilmember who proposed the ordinance knew that because she had just seen the movie 12 Years a Slave.

  Nor did anyone talk about how, just a few days before, a member of the Nation of Islam bearing a message from Louis Farrakhan, told a roomful of the top elected and political officials in the area, that anyone who talked about crime in Wilmington was doing the work of “the enemy.” And they were trying to discredit the re-election efforts of the city’s black mayor.

  Don’t look for a footnote, I was in the audience. (And yes, I was waiting for the men in white coats to rush the room.)

  Meanwhile black mob violence and black on white crime and black racial resentment grows and grows and grows. All around the country.

  All during Black History Month.

  Especially during Black History Month. So let’s take a look at even more black mob violence from Black History Month 2014.

  Starting in Chickasaw, Alabama.

  Carroll Jordan might be dead by the time you read this -- a victim of black mob violence.

  Jordan is an 86-year old white man who kept his door unlocked so that his neighbors could check in on him. One of his neighbors -- a black woman -- was doing just that. But when she knocked, an unfamiliar face answered the door. She pushed her way in.

  “I walked in and saw Mr. Jordan laying on the other side of his chair,” said the neighbor her.” He was bloody in his face and he was gasping for air. I turned around to the young man and asked him“What have you done?”[878]

  They did not stick around to answer. And now police are looking for “three teenage suspects -- all black men around the ages of 18 and 19 years old,” said the WKRG TV news.

  Black suspects are often not identified by race in local news reports -- although race is almost always listed in police reports. Many news directors say just naming the race of the suspects does not add much to the description. So using it can only inflame racial tensions.

  But in this case, the TV reporter identified the race of the suspects. And today, three of the alleged assailants are in custody. Turns out, race was the only part of the description that was completely accurate: They were not all teenagers. And not all guys. But they were all back.

  Police say Jordan was stabbed five or six times in the back. His face was swollen and cut as well from an extensive beating about the head. He is on and off a ventilator and WKRG says his family and friends are “hoping for the best but prepared for the worst.”

  He died.

  In a story about black crime in Tuskegee, Alabama during Black History Month, the former mayor, Omar Neal, says black crime and violence will exist as long as leaders ignore the real cause: “The displaced anger" of black males who have been relegated to the margins of society. That is what he told the Ledger-Inquirer, anyway.[879]

  I’m not sure, but I think that means a long time.

  We already met, in San Antonio, Cory Robinson who woke up with fractured skull after a black mob beat him and yelled, “get the white boy” and “knockout.”[880]

  He will live. Police are still looking for the 6 to 10 black people responsible. Actually the crowd was much larger. All during Black History Month 2014.

  Indianapolis started Black History Month with large-scale black mob violence downtown during the first two wee
kends of the month. In the latest episode, police and hundreds of people were fighting, and three officers were injured.[881]

  Indianapolis – especially downtown – is the scene of frequent and intense black mob violence, including dozens of episodes from the annual Black Expo, the largest gathering of its kind in America.[882]

  There are examples from Austin, Norfolk, College Park (Pennsylvania), and other spots. But let’s get to the one area that many people still say is causing this violence and mayhem: Jobs.

  If there is one thing that solves crime -- everyone at the Black History Forum agreed -- it is jobs.

  So you might think that many people in Wilmington would welcome a new company that wanted to spend $250 million to rebuild the Port of Wilmington.

  Not so. Black city officials and black labor union leaders killed the deal last year after convincing people that the plans for a new port would somehow jeopardize jobs. There was not a word about that from the podium.

  But they were in unanimous agreement that the government did need to offer more programs and more free stuff.

  The featured speaker at this forum was U.S. Senator Chris Coons. He concluded his remarks by asking the mixed race audience to pray for Republicans because they are trying to take away the right to vote from black people.

  All the earnest white people nodded their heads in agreement.

  Amen.

  The Right to Riot.

  Told you should have paid attention in class.

  Some people are not into history, black or white. That’s cool. So some people might not be aware of what an Atlanta newspaper columnist said is an important part of black history: The Right to Riot.

  Large gatherings of black people are “extensions of the civil rights movement.” And it is not fair that so many towns, like Miami Beach, “despise the ground we walk on,” said Jineea Butler of Atlanta Word Daily. [883]