Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about Race

[Danno 1,228]

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Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about Race

By John T. Bennett

If we're going to have a conversation about race, we should include violent black mobs in the list of conversation topics. After all, recent mob violence is the closest our nation has come to widespread racial strife in over 50 years.

If mobs of white youths were going about chanting the phrase "white boys," beating mostly on blacks and attacking black-owned businesses, then the nation would pay attention. Academic, media, political, and legal elites would be calling for symposia, expanded reporting, legislation, and lawsuits.

In fact, a mob of black youths in Philadelphia went about chanting the phrase "black boys," beating mostly on whites, and attacking businesses. The same kind of racial mob violence has occurred in Las Vegas, and just last week in New York City. Few are paying attention, and liberal elites are largely silent.

Of course, liberal elites are quick to associate white violence with right-wing politics or white supremacy. But what happens when mob violence is carried out by favored minority groups or liberal constituents?

Time and again over the last few years, mobs of black youths attacked mostly white victims in Philadelphia. There were at least 6 such mob scenes in Philadelphia during 2009 and 2010.[1] These black mob attacks, euphemistically named "flash mobs," have not received anything close to the attention they deserve. In one attack, a mob of blacks beat a young white woman senseless -- a mob that had chanted "black boys" and "burn the city," according to the New York Times.[2] The 27-year-old woman, Anna Taylor, was attacked viciously last March. According to local news reports, "a large group of male and female juveniles ganged up on her, kicking and punching her until she fell to the ground, where they continued to kick her in the face and head."[3] Someone in the mob punched her so hard, the punch "split her upper lip so severely that much of it was hanging from her face and she was unable to speak." Some reporting has, amazingly, made the simple observation about the racial make-up of these mobs: that they are "mostly African American."

These horrible mob attacks must be viewed in the larger context of interracial violence in America. Department of Justice statistics show that 33% of white murder victims are killed by a non-white while only 8% of black murder victims are killed by a non-black.[4] Even greater disparities exist in violent crime and robbery.[5] The disparity in interracial crime is certainly indicative of some form of extremism, racial hostility, or selective targeting. The mobs reflect something worse: organized and widespread anti-white ethnic violence.

Mobs of black youths have taken to randomly attacking pedestrians and businesses. This problem is nightmarish in its implications: a subset of the population has no self-control, was not raised to control violent impulses, and evidently gets pleasure out of hurting other people -- particularly people of other races. This type of person usually has done nothing to create anything of value, but rather destroys for pleasure. They organize using social media, and their goal is mayhem. They have been coddled and socialized by the welfare state and public education system. With an aggressive sense of entitlement, and no regard for others, they will predictably become more violent. The mobs reflect an undesirable character type, and the vast majority of those in "flash mobs" are of the same race.

Now, the cultural enrichment of "flash mobs" is spreading to New York City. In Greenwich Village last week, security video captured "a group of youths climbing on counters, throwing chairs and throwing tables in a violent attack on workers" at a Dunkin' Donuts. This was the second such attack on Greenwich Village businesses in a week. Watching the video, one is struck by the extraordinarily callous behavior of the teens, who were all black -- a fact not mentioned in any of the reporting about that attack. Unlike the case with many acts of violence, certain youths are evidently becoming more and more comfortable with public, organized group violence. When we see behavior this terrible, political elites often ask about root causes: What kind of environment did the attackers come from? What kind of politics or ideology did they have? <snip>

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/racial_violence_has_not_made_it_into_the_conversation_about_race.html

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

So what's the point of this article?

[southcalhog 43]

I ask that too! Whats the point of the Article????

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

By John T. Bennett

Is that John Tuson Bennett?

[Danno 1,228]

So what's the point of this article?

Perhaps the font wasn't big enough, I apologize.

'Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about Race"

[Golden Gate 530]

Perhaps the font wasn't big enough, I apologize.

'Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about Race"

Maybe because it is about something else:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/us/25mobs.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1305803445-HoTO+CiFGn0jcCfuSD46aQ

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Perhaps the font wasn't big enough, I apologize.

'Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about Race"

Says who? More to the point what is this "conversation about race"? Who is having it?

You know... just once you should try to respond to a post without this apparently ever present need you have to air your personal dislikes. Only a few posts in and already you're trying to personalise things. Tsk tsk tsk.

Edited June 5, 2011 by fishdude

[Danno 1,228]

Says who? More to the point what is this "conversation about race"? Who is having it?

You know... just once you should try to respond to a post without this apparently ever present need you have to air your personal dislikes. Only a few posts in and already you're trying to personalise things. Tsk tsk tsk.

If you can't address the subject matter, thats fine just move on but to question the "existence" of it is kinda lame.

The Attorney General Eric "my people" holder... suggested we need a national conversation on race.... before (or was it after?) he claimed we are a nation of cowards on the subject.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

If you can't address the subject matter, thats fine just move on but to question the "existence" of it is kinda lame.

The Attorney General Eric "my people" holder... suggested we need a national conversation on race.... before (or was it after?) he claimed we are a nation of cowards on the subject.

I was quite clear in my point Danno - the article relies on the assumption that there is a conversation about race and another assumption that something is missing from it.

That begs the (quite reasonable) question - what is the nature of this conversation and who is having it?

Quite simply, if you can't answer that question - that raises a new question: why did you post something you don't understand? You make vague references to Eric Holder, but that doesn't really address the question - furthermore it rather suggests that you posted it for partisan reasons (much the same reason behind most of your threads)

Edited June 5, 2011 by fishdude

[Danno 1,228]

I was quite clear in my point Danno - the article relies on the assumption that there is a conversation about race and another assumption that something is missing from it.

That begs the (quite reasonable) question - what is the nature of this conversation and who is having it?

Quite simply, if you can't answer that question - that raises a new question: why did you post something you don't understand? You make vague references to Eric Holder, but that doesn't really address the question - furthermore it rather suggests that you posted it for partisan reasons (much the same reason behind most of your threads)

While the conversation about race is not Official it's ongoing in classes at dinner tables and on message boards.

This article suggests one aspect of that conversation might be missing.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

While the conversation about race is not Official it's ongoing in classes at dinner tables and on message boards.

This article suggests one aspect of that conversation might be missing.

So... what specifically is the nature of this conversation (in real terms) and who is having it?

Edited June 5, 2011 by fishdude

[Danno 1,228]

So... what specifically is the nature of this conversation (in real terms) and who is having it?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I realise it's a difficult question for you to answer (because the entire conception seems to rely on empty rhetoric), but you could at least try.

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[Danno 1,228]

And here's a fresh story today of Black mobs targeting people at random for attack.

Flash Mobs Attack 2 Men In Streeterville

June 5, 2011 11:10 AM

CHICAGO (WBBM) – Police said at least two people were attacked by “flash mobs” in the Streeterville neighborhood on Saturday night.

The first attack happened around 8:25 p.m. Saturday when a man was attacked after parking his motor scooter near the Northwestern University campus in Streeterville.

The man had parked on the 300 block of East Chicago Avenue across the street from Wieboldt Hall when a group of 15 to 20 men, all approximately 16 to 20 years old and black, approached him, according to an alert from the university.

One of them threw a baseball at the victim’s face and knocked him to the ground, the alert said. Several others from the group punched and hit him several times. The victim tried to protect himself and fought back.

The group eventually fled eastbound toward the lake. Chicago Police and Northwestern University Police responded, and Chicago Police later arrested three members believed to be part of the group on mob action charges, the alert said.

The victim was treated on the scene by Chicago Fire Department paramedics.

The school has issued an alert for student and staff and Chicago Police later arrested three members believed to be part of the group on mob action charges, according to the alert.

Police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan said the investigation is ongoing as of Sunday morning and no charges have been filed.

A few minutes after that attack, man riding his bicycle on the lakefront path at 701 N. Lake Shore Dr. was attacked by a group of teenagers, who punched and kicked him and stole his cell phone, sources told WBBM Newsradio 780.

Belmont Area detectives are investigating.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/05/man-beaten-by-mob-of-young-men-in-streeterville/