White Girl Bleed a Lot (45 page)

The victim told police five black men pulled a gun, robbed him, then fled in a silver SUV.

Minutes later, police spotted Moore and his friends in the silver SUV. After a high speed chase, the car crashed. Four of the men ran away. After a struggle, a policewoman shot Moore two times, killing him.

Hundreds of black people quickly showed up at the scene, yelling profanities at the police and complaining of police brutality. They threw “bottles, bricks and rocks,” said the
Chicago Tribune
.
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Several days after the riot,
Revolution News
reported that a flyer urging more violent action against the police was distributed in Chicago neighborhoods.

Moore had a long history of trouble with the law, including
a 2006 arrest and conviction for armed robbery, but
Revolution News
claims that Jamaal had “put aside all of his youthful habits and was getting things together so he could take care of his 4-month-old son.”
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They said that when Jamaal’s mother asked the police what was going on, one cop told her “Another n*gger dead.”
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“This, in a nutshell, is the racist and genocidal program these enforcers carry out for the system. The cops taunted the crowd with this shit and the people erupted with righteous anger right in the cops’ faces. People were shouting, “We’re tired of this. We’re tired of them shooting down our kids.” And “fuck the police!” In the face of the guns and clubs, the people defiantly fought back.
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Yes, people still talk like that.

Despite the dozens of cell phone cameras capturing the action, not one captured a recording of police using racial epithets.

Nevertheless,
Revolution News
said Moore was really a victim, not the violent predator police would have us believe he is.

“It is the workings of the capitalist-imperialist SYSTEM that produces killer cops and the mass incarceration of a whole generation of Black and Latino youth—over 2.4 million in prison,” said the paper. “We need a revolution to end once and for all the brutal, vicious oppression of Black people…”
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Sheniqua wanted an explanation. There it is.

Here is your law enforcement and media question of the day: Was the TV show
COPS
real or BS?

It might have been real incidents, but it wasn’t really all that real. They edited the episodes to make it appear as if black people were committing fewer crimes. That is what the show creator John Langley said in a 2009 interview in response to people who were unhappy his long-running reality show,
COPS
, was showing
too many black people getting arrested.

“What irritates me sometimes is critics still watch something and say, ‘Oh look, they misrepresent people of color.’ That’s absolutely not true,” said Langley, the show’s producer, in 2009.

To the contrary, “I show more white people than statistically what the truth is in terms of street crime. If you look at the prisons it’s 60-something percent people of color and 30-something percent white people. If you look at
COPS
it’s 60 percent white and 40 percent other. It’s just the reverse. And I do that intentionally, because I do not want to contribute to negative stereotypes.”
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It might be good to read that last one over again.

The folks at the Color of Change want more. They want
COPS
off the air. You remember the Color of Change, right? They are the group that was supposed to unify the conflicting agendas of the black and environmental wings of the Democratic Party.

It was started by the now infamous Van Jones prior to his brief tenure in the Obama White House.

Despite Langley’s best efforts to “color” the news, the Color of Change is not satisfied:

Media hound dogs at Color of Change say shows like
COPS
“over-represent whites as police officers and under-represent Blacks and Latinos as authority figures, while also under-representing whites and over-representing people of color as criminals.”
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Changing the image will change the reality of black crime, they say.

Taleeb Starkes says in his new book,
The Uncivil War
, that Color of Change has it backwards. If the reality of black crime changes, so will the perception. But changing the reality must come first. And that is not a particularly pleasant picture.
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“Color of Change is asking us one question,” says Starkes. “Who are we going to believe? Them? Or those lying videotapes we see on
COPS
?” Starkes says. “For people who do not like what
they see on the show
COPS
, I have a better idea: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”

Starkes wrote about Langley in his new book:

As long as a Black subculture continues to commit disproportionate amounts of crime, they will always have starring roles on crime-based reality shows; especially those based on violent crime or told from law enforcement’s vantage point.

Naturally, Black apologists believe that these shows perpetuate stereotypes, however, the cancellation of these shows still won’t cancel the statistical reality that Blacks are to violent crime what Mickey Mouse is to Disney World.

These shows don’t contribute to negative stereotypes … an African-American subculture does.
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Starkes says part of the problem is the result of black people blaming high rates of violent crime and high incarceration rates on racism instead of a streak of dysfunctional behavior that permeates black subculture.

“And this Color of Change crowd are the leaders in this intellectual hoax. Black crime is the elephant in the room in this country,” said Starkes. “Every day we talk about black caucuses, black teachers unions, black officers groups, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and other race-based notions. But to talk about black crime is somehow racist. So it gets worse.

“And now we learn that the producers of
COPS
have been intentionally distorting their program to misrepresent the racial makeup of people who commit crime in America by underreporting black crime? Maybe Color of Change is right but for the wrong reason.”

DENY THAT.

END

W
hen I first started writing about racial violence and its denial, I got most of my leads from the newspapers. Just scanning, keeping my eyes open. Some checked out. Some did not.

Then I set up some Google news alerts. But I had to use the euphemisms the reporters use, like “unruly teens” to get my leads. Some checked out. Some did not.

Then readers got into the act, sending me stories about large-scale black mob violence all over the country. Some e-mailed me. Some sent me tweets. Some messaged me on Facebook. Some made old-fashioned phone calls. Some checked out. Some did not.

In March of 2013 the floodgates opened. I added a new term to my Google Alerts and immediately wondered how I would ever find time to check out all the new stories. I did.

It turns out “large fights” is the newest euphemism for black mob violence. (I hope you add it to your Google Alerts and keep me posted about what is going on in your neck of the woods.)

For a one-month period, from March to April 2013, I found
racial violence busting out all over: Philadelphia, Chicago, Utica, Jacksonville, St. Louis, Wilmington (Delaware), Grand Rapids, Peoria, Newark, Boston, and Brooklyn.

Police often say they are baffled. Others say it is a regular meteorological event: “large crowds and fights are not uncommon in the city in the warm weather,” said the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia.
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In April 2013 in Philadelphia two hundred black people on the streets of the downtown financial district were fighting, vandalizing, rampaging, refusing to disburse, and tossing bottles at police. It began at 4 p.m. and took police ninety minutes to restore order.

At the epicenter of the violence, a Wendy’s employee said no one was surprised. “It usually happens when the weather breaks,” Lakia Garrick told the local Fox affiliate. “They come in here and go crazy. It was really expected.”
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Fourteen black people were arrested and charged with misdemeanors.

The riot came less than a month after the political and media establishment of Philadelphia rose up in outrage at an article in
Philadelphia Magazine
called “Being White in Philly.”

The article documented how racial violence was an everyday fact of life in the City of Brotherly Love, and how most white people were afraid to talk about it, because they were afraid of being called a racist.

Or as the
Philadelphia Inquirer
put it: The article was seen as “dwelling on negative experiences that whites had with blacks that often fit into racial stereotypes.”

I love that line.

Mayor Nutter asked the city’s Human Relations Commission to investigate the author and the magazine.

Perhaps they could call Brandon Jones as a witness. Jones is the guy Temple University hired to get to the bottom of these
large scale violent events in Philadelphia in 2011. He explained the widespread black mob violence in the area to Diverse Issues in Higher Education: “he understands the high energy level of youths and the need ‘to blow off some steam.’”
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Meanwhile, the television stations in Philadelphia are being extra vigilant to ban from their message boards any
Philadelphia Magazine
-style comments attributing the violence to race. That is why George says his comments were removed from the ABC news site:

I am honored that the uneducated censor that monitors this board removed my previous post. Since when is it against ‘Posting Policy’ to request people not jump to conclusions when there is a large fight in the city? Tsk Tsk, honesty certainly is not anything you are acquainted with. You must be a Philly School graduate. Anyway, I grew up in the city & there were MANY HOT days & nights and we NEVER started or were involved in fights with 200 people or 10 people. I imagine in the words of Michael Vick, ‘It is a cultural thing’.

Glenn noticed the same thing: “They wiped out pretty much the whole first wave of comments. No grace for stating the obvious.”

The rest of the country has been busy as well.

In St. Louis, sixty-five hours before the Philly financial district melee, police responded to reports of a mob of one to two hundred black people fighting and shooting guns at Leclede’s Landing, near the famous arch. Police refused to release an incident report on the violence, other than to say they thought it was a flash mob.

One man was shot. He was also the only one arrested after police found marijuana in his clothing at the hospital.
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Kevin McBryan, told KSDK-TV news that racial violence in
St. Louis is not hard to document: “I witnessed ‘flash mobs’ running thru VP fairs sucker punching white people on 3 different occasions.” The VP Fair is an annual St. Louis celebration held in the same area commemorating the “Veiled Prophet.”
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One week later it happened again. Same kind of crowd, but this time it happened in downtown St. Louis. The local Fox affiliate reported twenty-four people were arrested for the usual rampaging, fighting, vandalism, and lawlessness.

Curiously, the local reporter assured her viewers that people downtown were still “enjoying what this city has to offer” as they watched police haul members of the black mob away in “paddy” wagons.
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Anyone want to play the racial grievance game? Now would be a good time for you to get in on it. Just look up the meaning of “paddy wagon.” See you down at the Human Relations Commission.

Let’s move to Utica, New York. On April 7 more than one hundred black people were having a “riot.” Officers described the scene as “very chaotic with numerous fights breaking out,” said the local NBC affiliate. “Police say they were greatly outnumbered.” Six black people were arrested.
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A few hours before the Utica rioting, police had to fire pepper spray at “groups of people fighting in the East Bluff neighborhood in south Peoria, just minutes before a double shooting left one person dead.” All of the people were black.

No one was arrested.
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A few hours before that a mob of at least 15 black people attacked a man walking home from the grocery store in Jacksonville, Florida. Two Good Samaritans who came to his assistance saved him from further harm as the mob scattered at their approach.
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First Coast News was the only local media outlet to report the attack. Several residents of Jacksonville wondered about the
news blackout: “Have heard nothing about it here,” said one reader replying to a WND account of the mob violence. “I will ask the TV channels and the newspaper what gives?”