By now many of you are familiar with the brutal racially motivated mob attack on two Virginia-Pilot reporters in Norfolk, Virgina. The pair was attacked by a mob of up to thirty young blacks down the street from the offices of the Virginia-Pilot.
The newspaper news staff refused to report the story. Two weeks later, a writer for the opinion page blew the whistle on her own newspapers' censorship. She also reported on a twitter message from one of the perps. The message boasted that the attack was revenge for Trayvon Martin. She said the police had been reluctant to do anything about the attack.
However, media censorship of black crime continues unabated. Over the weekend, the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. About 20,000 fans packed the arena.
Sounds like the attacks were racially motivated hate crimes right? Well the Newark Star-Ledger only describes the attackers as "teenagers." Any details that would clue the reader as too the race of the attackers appears to be intentionally omitted.
I called the Star-Ledger and asked if they had a policy of omitting the race of at large crime suspects. The first woman I talked to went to ask her superiors. She came back and told me that there is no formal policy, "but we generally do not publish race."
I then asked to speak to crime reporter James Queally who wrote Star-Ledgers' two articles on the attacks.
Queally told me that the police report did list the race of the perpetrators and that he censored this information in his two articles on purpose. He also stated that it was the newspapers' policy to censor race in crime stories.
Then the conversation took a comedic turn. I asked Queally what race was listed in the police report and he refused to tell me. He also said he interviewed three of the victims, but refused to tell me what race they were. Queally did however volunteer that "it's an 80% black area and the concert was full of white rock and roll fans."
Queally denied that the attacks were racially motivated. He said that if it was blacks attacking whites, then that was just a factor of probability. Keep in mind that Queally admits knowing the race of the perps and refuses to say.
I told Queally about numerous other black on white mob attacks all over the nation and explained to him this was part of a trend of racially motivated hate crimes. At this point Queally went from a friendly demeanor to a very arrogant sounding tone. He replied "well somehow myself and everyone else in the media have missed all of these." I told Queally I have been documenting these hate crime mob attacks and would be happy to e-mail him lots of information. Queally then hung up the phone without a reply.
During the conversation Queally hinted at his reasoning for wanting to censor the race of the perpetrators. He asked "if all the attackers were black fifteen year-olds, would you avoid all black fifteen year-olds in Newark?" I told him I would, especially a group of black fifteen year-olds. I told him that avoiding a specific demographic known for brutally attacking my demographic at random was "common sense." Queally replied, "that's your opinion."
Recently I called WYFF Greenville, an NBC affiliate. I found two articles on their website about attempted burglaries, where a home owner scared the suspect off. One of the stories has detailed information about the perps' clothing, but omits his race. The other story lists the perp as white. I asked why one was censored and not the other. The woman who answers their main phone said that employees of the studio have staff meetings and decide which stories to censor race and which ones not to censor race. She said she wouldn't characterize it as "censorship," but as "making a decision."
She said she didn't know why race would be stated in one attempted burglary story and not the other. I think it is pretty self-evident.
My conversation with Queally reminded me of a funny comedy bit by comedian Patrice O'Neal. He lampooned the agony that a white liberal must feel when they see a dangerous looking black male coming down the street. He said they want to flee, but are afraid of being "racist." His advice was to run away and be safe, and feel guilty later.
I recently had a black man from Columbus, Ohio tell me about being mugged by two young black perps. He said he suspected the men were dangerous and could have gotten away in time. He didn't take evasive action because he decided that he shouldn't "racially profile." He felt pretty foolish afterward.
Even left-wing icon Rev. Jessie Jackson believes race is a very important piece of information to know when it comes to crime. At a 1993 conference for the Rainbow/PUSH coalition in Chicago, Jessie Jackson said "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved…. After all we have been through. Just to think we can’t walk down our own streets, how humiliating."
A group of three young men is seen walking ahead of the soldier. Police say one of the men in the group doubled back and asked to soldier to borrow a dollar. When the soldier reached for his wallet, the first punch flew
Mostly I find it sad. On a number of levels. There is seething sea of repressed rage and raw unreasoning hatred roiling about in the black underclass. However, I look at it and ask: Why?
If one eliminates Darwinistic Matierialism as a cause then you have to look for other factors that figure into the equation.
First we can just observe the obvious. These types of violent animalistic attacks are not being perpetrated by ALL blacks but just a subset. Uniformly, and correct me if I am wrong, these acts are being committed primarily by black teen males, largely in the underclass of professional mendicants subsisting on government assistance, raised in largely, if not exclusively, in black ghettoes, where the rot festers and feeds on itself. Throw in that the subject population in question is subjected to a variety of negative cultural influences - Rap Music, Tee Bee, and group agreements which act as an incubator for this violence.
We can also observe who are not committing these types of crimes e.g., educated blacks in the working and lower middle class.
So, superficially it first appears as a matter of race since the perpetrators are almost 100% black. Yet, that is a superficial analysis since we can see that there are other factors driving the rage which drives the violence and they are:
Ignorance (you do not find this kind of behavior among well educated blacks). Conversely most of those who commit these kinds of crimes are semi-literate or outright illiterate (this is backed up by studies done on prison populations which have consistently found that prison inmates rank in the bottom of the literacy scale). This is fueled further by a culture, in the ghetto, that treats trying to become educated as "actin' white" and is discouraged by a savage groupthink that punishes those trying to rise from ignorance.
Poverty (you do not, largely, find this kind of behavior among blacks who are earning a decent living).
Culture: Segregated, whether by law or simply de facto by economic circumstance, a culture has developed (since the 1960's) which is one of increasing dependence on government subsidy via welfare in its different facets of cash, food, and shelter, and has created a culture of family dysfunction. Marriage is punished economically by making it harder to get welfare and in turn the ease of getting welfare by unwed mothers discourages marriage by rewarding the negative behavior. Black males brag about the numbers of little bastards they've created while black females grow up wanting their own welfare check and see having a baby out of wedlock as a meal ticket. And in crushing poverty many young black males see crime as their only source of income.
Prejudice: This cannot be ignored even though it is not the only driver in the situation. However, prejudice based on skin color alone drives many of the other ills which create the stew which creates the cauldron of violence.
I could go on with the analysis quite a bit further, but my point really is that race is the seeming characteristic common to these crimes and so it is, but that does not mean that race, as in genetics, is what creates the situation which creates the violence. To fall into the trap of thinking it is based on a deterministic cause of racial type alone is to fall into the trap of analyzing the situation based only on a few facts gleaned from the surface apparency of the problem.
That also should not be presumed to imply that I think the little thugs should be coddled or allowed to get away with it either. I don't give a damn what stew they come from when they violate the rights of another then they in turn have earned their comeuppance.
However, a real solution in the long run has to address the causes of the culture which promotes the violent behavior.