White Girl Bleed a Lot (32 page)

The local television stations and AJC were able to furnish a description of the color of the cars, the color of the gun, and the color of the suspects’ clothing.
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But once again it was up the Patch to let the students know what the criminals looked like.

Both suspects were described as black men in their late teens or early 20s. The man armed with the gun was described as wearing a white t-shirt and red basketball shorts. The other suspect had short dreadlocks, a black hat, khaki tan shorts and a black backpack.
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The same two men were suspected in several of the attacks.

As serious as black mob violence is in Atlanta, there is no escaping the fact that sometimes it seems more of a sport than a life-threatening activity. Just get a video camera, add some music, and enjoy: “Imma make you famous,” as they often say.

At some point in this discussion someone always wants to change the subject. The easiest way is to ask “Why is this happening?”

Let’s ask Nkosi Thandiwe. He says he learned to hate white people and turned to violence against them because of what he learned at the University of West Georgia.

He claims that is why he killed one woman and shot two more in Atlanta in 2011. At least that is what he said in hopes it would convince the judge he was crazy.

Crazy as batshit, like
Salon
calls people who notice racial violence is getting crazy.

In 2012 a jury found Thandiwe guilty of murder after the judge ruled he may have learned crazy things in school, but that did not make him too crazy to escape responsibility for murder.

According to the CBS affiliate in Atlanta:

Thandiwe said during his last few years in college, his history studies changed his thoughts about how some white people treated black people.

“In terms of slavery and race, it was something that needed to be answered for. I saw it as something that the black community hasn’t recovered from so my initial way to handle that was to spread information to help combat some of the ignorance that was in the black community about our history,” said Thandiwe.

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but you were trying to spread the message of making white people the enemy,” asked Assistant District Attorney Linda Dunikoski.

“Yes,” replied Thandiwe.
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Thandiwe was no stranger to racial violence. One month before, he assailed a visiting courier with racial epithets and had to be physically restrained from striking and causing harm to visitors at a parking garage where he worked, said WSB-TV News in Atlanta.
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Racial resentment is the new mother’s milk of education, said a prison psychologist who did not wish to be identified. Students, black and white, learn from their earliest days that blacks are victims and powerless to fight racism, he said.

Not just in school, but also in churches and from their parents, he said.

The attitude of victimization breeds resentment and violence. “But most dangerous of all, black students are taught they are not responsible for their behavior because they are the victims of white racism,” he said. “I see that every day in the prison where I work.”
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In Wilmington, North Carolina, Joshua Proutey was recently shot in the head and killed while being robbed by four black people who had targeted him because white people “were bound to have money.” One of the confessed killers, a seventeen year
old, said he did not like being “stereotyped as a tough guy.”
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In Chicago the city recently agreed to pay $22.5 million to the victim of black mob violence, because she was white and the city police released her into a “predominantly black” area, placing her in danger. A Harvard professor testified that because of what he called Routine Activities Theory (RAT) violence is an expected result in that situation.
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In Wilmington, Delaware, the pastor of one of the largest black congregations in the state said: “This violence in our community – you don’t think it has something to do with the last 400 years?” Rev. Lawrence M. Livingston told the News Journal, “We didn’t create this stuff – all this mess.”
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The comments came just a few days after a crowd of black people beat a white clergyman near Livingston’s church.

The flip side of the rising tide of black mob violence is what the prison psychologist calls “infantile omnipotence.” This is the feeling that because something has not happened to you directly, you can ignore it. Like an infant who thinks it is not vulnerable to any danger, because all it has ever known is the safety of the womb or the crib.

This is what accounts for widespread willingness to ignore the violence among members of the media and some members of the public, he said.

“Black people have been encouraged to hate whites and to discriminate against them from the so-called civil rights leaders,” said author and syndicated talk show host Jesse Lee Peterson: “And that is evil. The evil will get worse from generation to generation if you don’t deal with it.”
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Taleeb Starkes is a social worker, filmmaker, and author of the book called “The Un-Civil War.”

These schools are reinforcing the long-existing, deep-rooted, victimization gospel that’s religiously practiced in the African-American community. … Moreover, denunciation of this victimization gospel by any African-American is sacrilegious and leads to the questioning of ‘blackness.’ Even scarier is the fact that this ideology is spawning urban terrorists whose actions are always justified by another tenet of the victimization gospel called P.T.S.D (Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder)….

Combined with the race peddlers and the mainstream media’s intentional portrayal of African-Americans as permanent victims incapable of hate-crimes, this self-defeating ideology has become a societal toxin. Consequently, any Black-on-White crime, regardless of viciousness, is essentially interpreted as Black ‘payback’ instead of Black crime. Alternatively, had this urban terrorist been a bloodthirsty White supremacist who mercilessly killed two unsuspecting Black women, Negro-geddon would have commenced.
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Now aren’t you sorry you asked? You want more excuses? You got ’em.

P
eople buy this book to read it themselves but also to give it away—mostly to their liberal relatives at family gatherings with an admonition to “Read This!” as they slam the book on the table.

For all those readers out there on the wrong end of the holiday book slam, I feel for you. So this chapter is for you. It’s a handy guide for liberals in search of reasons to explain the epidemic of black mob violence all over the country.

We will even number them, so when people who read this book throw the information in your face at your next holiday party, all you have to do is call out a number: 17! 22! Or my favorite, number 100!

Of course we start in Chicago.

The
Chicago Sun-Times
is a national leader in two areas: 1) Denying that racial mob violence exists, and 2) Explaining why it does. When a mob of five hundred people stormed through downtown Chicago, beating and threatening and destroying property, do you know what the excuse was?

1) Warm weather.
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The
Sun-Times
excuses have an ad hoc quality to them that gives even the casual reader the impression they are making it up as they go along. Just a month ago, Chicago saw a wicked and violent black mob wreaking mayhem in the ice and snow.

So excuses do not have to be true, or relevant.

If you want to get all your excuses in one place—without worrying about anyone bringing up the R word—the
Huffington Post
is the champion of the world.
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This contest for best excuses was decided in early 2013 when Ahmed Shihab-Eldin hosted a live video stream featuring a psychologist, a criminologist, a small business owner, an FBI agent, and a state senator, all explaining mob violence. Everything they said is basically interchangeable. So let’s get to it:

Luke Cho owns a store that was recently hit with black mob theft. He started it off:

2–3) “They are not really bad kids; I think they just got caught up in the flash mob thing.”

4–6) “They get in trouble and I try to teach them the difference between right and wrong but things happen.”

As you can see, people often pack multiple excuses into one statement.

Next up, Jeffrey Ian Ross, a real-life criminologist from Baltimore:

7–11) “People in groups tend to let their guard down. They think they are oblivious to CTV. The reasons are ‘Boredom to wanting a new pair of jeans to wanting to express their discontent.’”

Of course then the host had to get in on it. He is, after all, not a potted plant:

12–15) “There’s power in numbers so they are more likely to act out. … The anonymity factor might be a contributing factor. … Does adrenaline play a factor?

Then they brought out the big guns, Dr. Jeff Gardere, a New York City psychologist:

16–22) “Anonymity reduces their sense of responsibility and accountability … They are not thinking about the consequences. There are a lot of teens looking for excitement. So it is the perfect breeding ground for some sort of trouble.”

23–25) “We find that normally good kids get caught up in the excitement of that group and do something that is very wrong. And when they are called upon individually, they have a lot of remorse.”

26–29) “But they have much less empathy in these groups because people don’t care. They are caught up in the moment. And one last thing: People need a family. And if they don’t have a family, that flash mob becomes the family at the moment.”

30) “My moral compass was skewed when I was in a group.” (This might be the host talking. At this point, what difference does it make?)

31–35) “I think adrenaline plays a role. We get into the fight or flight of the sympathetic system. We are geared to deal with battle to deal with excitement and we revert to that part of our functioning system.”

36–39) “Certainly the adrenaline does not allow us to think the way we should. Serotonin levels also drop and we need serotonin for more impulse control and to focus more and we see a lot of neurotransmitters are certainly affected.”

Playing the serotonin card. Sweet! That’ll get you invited back.

40–46) “It becomes something that is not just conscious thought. But it is almost a visceral thing. It is in many ways relating back to a very low level of behavior and evolution and we are letting that part of the brain – which is much more controlled by demand and impulse – take over.”

47–52) “We need to look at the reality. It is not just about income. It is not just about race. It’s about culture. We have a culture where getting involved with a mob seems to alleviate any kind of conscience that you have or taking individual responsibility.”