Race-Hustling Results: Part III
Initial
skirmishes in that race war have already begun, and have in fact been going on
for some years. But public officials pretend that it is not happening, and the
mainstream media seldom publish it at all, except in ways that conceal what is
really taking place.
For American
society, a dangerous polarization has set in. Signs of this polarization over
the years include opposite reactions between blacks and whites to verdicts in
the O.J. Simpson murder case, the "rape" charges against Duke
University students, and trials resulting from the beating of Rodney King and
the death of Trayvon Martin.
More dangerous
than these highly publicized episodes over the years are innumerable organized
and unprovoked physical attacks on whites by young black gangs in shopping
malls, on beaches and in other public places all across the country today.
While some of
these attacks make it into the media as isolated incidents, the nationwide
pattern of organized black on white attacks by thugs remains invisible in the
mainstream media, with the notable exception of Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News
Channel.
Even when these
attacks are accompanied by shouts of anti-white rhetoric and exultant laughter
at the carnage, the racial makeup of the attackers and their victims is usually
ignored by the media, and public officials often deny that race has anything to
do with what happened.
These attacks
have sent many people to the hospital, and some have died, but the attacks are
often carried out in a festive atmosphere. What are called "troubled
youths," in this and other contexts, are often in fact young people
enjoying themselves greatly by creating big trouble for others.
Some of these
many attacks are covered in detail in a book titled "White Girl Bleed A
Lot" by Colin Flaherty. It was a phrase that I recognized immediately,
from my own previous research.
That phrase was
uttered by one of a group of black attackers who descended on a group of whites
at a July 4th fireworks show in Milwaukee. But what happened there was not
unique, either in itself or in the efforts of police and political authorities
to play down what happened -- and to say that race had nothing to do with it.
When the
Chicago Tribune was criticized for editing out the race of the attackers in a
series of similar organized attacks in Chicago, it replied that race was
irrelevant. Yet race is not considered irrelevant when indignantly
editorializing on a disproportionate number of young black males arrested and
imprisoned.
Sadly, what
happened in Milwaukee and Chicago were not isolated incidents. They were part
of a pattern repeated in dozens of cities, located in every region of the
country. Colin Flaherty's book, which is subtitled "The Return of Racial
Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It," reveals this pattern in
painful detail.
Other books are
emerging that are more clearly a white backlash, in the sense that they attack
behavior patterns among contemporary blacks in general.
Perhaps the
most clearly backlash books are those written by Paul Kersey, whose central
theme is that whites have created thriving cities, which blacks subsequently
took over and ruined. Examples include his books about Birmingham ("The
Tragic City") and Detroit ("Escape from Detroit").
Kersey even
takes a swing at Rush Limbaugh (and at yours truly) for saying that liberal
policies destroyed these cities. He says that San Francisco and other cities
with liberal policies, but without black demographic and political takeovers,
have not been ruined. His books are poorly written, but raise tough questions.
It would be
easy to simply dismiss Kersey as a racist. But denouncing him or ignoring him
is not refuting him. Refuting requires thought, which has largely been replaced
by fashionable buzz words and catch phrases, when it comes to discussions of
race.
Thought is long
overdue. So is honesty.
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