RHT. . .
May 5, 2015
As a certified member of the curmudgeon’s tribe, practicing our dismal and lonely trade, I am delighted by the events in Baltimore. Among curmudgeons, almost our only joy is the gratification of confirmation of our dark expectionions of humanity. In the case of Ballmer, a particular source of somber joy is the gap separating the Talking-Heads Chorale and reality. Wanton foolishness is ever a curmudgeonly delight.
The Talking-Heads Chorale will see the riots, are seeing the riots, not as an intensification of the undeclared racial war, but as a protest against racist police or the racism of whites. Oh, quite. Never mind that Ballmer’s black government sets standards for the hiring, training, and behavior of its police, and half of the accused cops are black. But the conduct of their police cannot be the fault of blacks, because nothing is.
Ominous for the future, though, is the solidarity of blacks in favor of the looters and arsonists. Our black president Obama, protecting his people, attributes the riots to racism and Republicans. Black leaders, e.g. Al Sharpton, see the villainy of whites as the cause. (I am inclined to agree that the riots involved racism, considering that black rioters reportedly burned chiefly Asian businesses.) The city’s black mayor first said “give them space” to loot. Later she told the police to stand down and let the rioters loot and burn. She has the intelligence of a raisin, but she knows whose side she is on. She isn’t alone. Supportive riots and attacks on whites, e.g. in Charleston have occurred.
Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore state’s attorney, pauses while speaking during a media availability, Friday, May 1, 2015 in Baltimore. Mosby announced criminal charges against all six officers suspended after Freddie Gray suffered a fatal spinal injury while in police custody. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The fundamentally racial attitudes of blacks from Obama on down appear in the one-sided approach to racial violence. Our black president and black attorney general express sympathy for any black who runs afoul of the police, but none at all for the victims of the unending, undeniable, multitudinous, vicious racial attacks on whites by blacks: The Knockout Game. Obama and Holder cannot possibly be unaware of these attacks. Obama and his tribe are not neutral.
The Chorale says that the Knockout Game is a “myth,” but it demonstrably is not. For any who have the slightest doubt, I recommend Colin Flaherty’s latest, Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry, documenting, in Kindle format with countless clickable links to original sources, attacks on whites. “Low-intensity race war” is not wild exaggeration, and summer comes.
Several effects will follow on the riots. First, whites will buy guns when they realize that it can happen to them, that a howling mob desirous of kicking them to death and burning their homes really can appear at any moment. Fear of blacks is a major, major sub-text in debate of the Second Amendment. We must not say it, though. The Chorale, safe in high-rise condos with security desks, will call the buyers Gun Nuts and say that they are over-reacting. There is nothing like a complete misunderstanding of motivations to make for good journalism.
Second, whites will sensibly move out of Ballmer, leaving it blacker and poorer and of less interest to anyone but its black residents. The Chorale will sing of White Flight and Abandonment, instead of common sense and self-preservation. (Note that when whites move into a black city, blacks complain of colonization, and when they move out, of abandonment. It’s like a toggle switch.)
Third, burned-out business will not return to be burned again. The city will thus have fewer jobs, fewer amenities, and no pharmacy, as they sacked and torched their CVS outlet. The Chorale will attribute this withdrawal to racism, slavery, oppression, White Privilege, and microaggressions. What else could account for not wanting one’s store burned?
In particular, blacks, having burned their pharmacy, will complain that it isn’t there. They will not see a connection between its burning it and its not-thereness. The Chorale will not see in this behavior low intelligence, short time-horizons, and inability to control impulses or to foresee consequences. No. It is the ineradicable racism of whites that makes a burned pharmacy not be there.
Two hundred businesses destroyed in Baltimore: Breitbart: . This makes sense. When something happens that I don’t like, I usually go to the local Walmart, steal everything I can carry, and then burn the store. Don’t you? What is really comic though is from Larry Hogan, the governor of Maryland: It “will take a little while to get back to normal, but let’s get people back to normal, get people back in the city to visit devastated shops.” Since many of those shps didn’t have barbaric-population insurance, they will not reopn, and if they do, it won’t be in black Ballmer.Which is what the city deserves.
It is the weird emotionalism and what appears to be utter brainlessness that grabs attention. Let us assume that, as may be the case, the police (hired and trained by a black government) did indeed do the things of which they are accused. This might reasonably explain attacks on the police. How does it explain burning a pharmacy? Or businesses that had nothing to do with the police? The phrase “thieving moronic savages” would not be politically correct and so, hewing as I do to the standards of society, I won’t use it. It may flash across my mind, though.
What we see, methinks, is a hunter-gatherer society, in which blacks hunt whites and gather expensive tennis shoes. In the absence of yams and kudus, this I suppose is understandable. Gather ye yams while ye may….
Where does this lead? The Chorale will speak in unison, with the rhythmic thump-thump-thump of a migraine, of White Privilege, Jim Crow, racism, institutional racism, White Supremacy, and so on. (Funny: I do not think I have ever met a White Supremacist. I have met a very great many white people who want to be allowed to live where they want with whom they want, among people who share their values and do not engage in crime, looting, arson, and the Knockoutt Game.)
What we have are irreconcilably different peoples. The looting classes are not going to turn into whites, not going to become academically diligent, speak normal English, give up crime and illegitimacy. If they were going to, they would have. There is no sign of change, and no sign that there ever will be change. We have what we are going to have. And yes, as many will point out, there are large numbers of blacks, indeed most blacks, who do not do these disagrteeable things. But that has been true of every city which has ever rioted, and it did not prevent the riots.
Not too brightly, the rioters seem to be looking for a race war. The Black Panthers say that they are “willing to kill.” We hear “No justice, no peace.” Calls resound to kill the police, to kill whites. This is not smart, considering that whites and Hispanics, who do not like blacks, vastly outnumber them, and out-gun them, and food does not come from burned-out Safeways but from distant farms owned by whites. But they are used to being allowed to burn and lootl as they think interesting. They seem to have little idea of the future, and what will happen if the Chorale loses its grip and whites say, as many privately do, “Let’s get it on.”
If you find this warlike behavior inexplicable, remember that the rioters live in a head-space entirely different from that of people who read on-line columns. Most can’t read, or barely can and so don’t. Most probably can’t spell “slavery,” don’t know the dates of the Civil War, and have only the pathetic and distorted notions of history that the Chorale allows them to be taught. Nothing can be done about this. We have what we are going to have.
So what to do? Separate the races. Stop trying to push together peoples that have nothing in common. End “Fair” Housing Laws. Write laws that encourage whites to get out of Dodge. Let black suburbs be black by their own choice, and white, white. Allow historically-white colleges to be white if they choose. Let white regions escape what they do not want, and let blacks have what they do want. In particular, if blacks have only black police forces, and whites have white (conservation of parity) then greater racial peace will follow.
This is not an ideal solution, there being no ideal solution. It is obvious that blacks, or at least the urban underclass, cannot on average support themselves in a modern technological civilization. We are not supposed to say this but, I suspect, most of us know it. Fine. Keep the welfare flowing. Regard it as equivalent to a golf handicap. (The other day I saw that some city is going to make both breakfast and lunch free in schools. This is better than letting them go hungry. It is also a step toward an undisguised custodial state.) But if the riots go on, and spread more widely as they seem likely to do, and the attacks on whites continue, the danger is that one day whites will shoot back. The country would never recover.
Fred Reed: “Funny: I do not think I have ever met a White Supremacist.”
I can only assume this man has never looked into a mirror.
“So what to do? Separate the races. Stop trying to push together peoples that have nothing in common.”
This is prima facie racist, and well below the standards of this blog, as well as basic decency.
Look, I am open to hearing the argument that institutional racism is not as big a problem as liberals make it out to be. I am not open to hearing that argument being made by unapologetic racists who deny their own racism while at the same time openly acknowledging that “fear of black people” is a major motivating factor in their decision to buy a gun.
If you were trying to use this man’s hateful words to support the idea that racism against blacks isn’t as widespread as some believe, then: Mission. Failed.
And then we have our first black First Lady living in the White House who says this.
http://allenbwest.com/2015/05/michelle-obama-tries-giving-unifying-speech-about-race-relations-epic-fail/
I had to read this over several times to realize how poignant this was. Racist? Hardly. Realistic, yes.
And then we have proud Americans.
USA.. USA.. USA!!
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It’s important to remember that Marxist are in power and influence positions all across America and they encourage and promote the idea that most whites are racist and blacks can’t get a break and will always be kept down by “white privilege.” These promoters shamelessly stir up racial strife for political gain rather than any real concern for the black community.
(Funny, “white privilege” has not kept the Mexicans, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indians, Pakistani’s, etc. from prospering in America)
Marxist ideology permeates Black Liberation Theology which guided both Michelle and Barack Obama in Jeremiah Wright’s church for twenty+ years. Michelle’s prejudices and attitudes were recently on display in a speech she gave at Tuskegee University last Saturday. After indicating that whites were “oblivious” to slights and indignities she made sure the message for young blacks was that they are somehow less in America and therefore should expect to be treated as lesser. Racism and prejudice, as they said in the sixties, must be “carefully taught!” Here’s M. Obama:
Unfortunately our first lady is the one who is “oblivious.” She is oblivious to the slights and indignities that all human beings experience. She is oblivious to the challenges that ANYONE not born to wealth must face and overcome. She is oblivious to the lies she spews with such heartfelt grandeur…yes, I said grandeur…she wears “the struggle” like a mink coat of privilege as she delivers her message of unfairness and entitlement from her own privileged place. Imagine! Her own family managed to thrive and provide her with incredible opportunity and this after the civil rights fight of the sixties she describes as an America that still keeps blacks down. She has held this prejudice for some time, recall she couldn’t be “proud of America” until Barack was given the chance to become president.
Blacks are not free and will never be free because of this “power and control” privilege dogma. Too many American blacks have been kept in the dark and fed this BS. The effect of that careful teaching has reared it’s ugly head in the form of militant rioting, targeting, cruelty, murder, and mayhem.
I hold the radical left, both black and white, responsible for this injustice. They have through their rhetoric, control of the narrative in schools and media, and constant community organizing denied many blacks the experience of being free men. Men are only free when they participate as free men and become contributing members of society who realize fully that the laws of the nation, as well as the fallen nature of man, apply to them. Leftist’s have blocked many blacks from experiencing their shared humanity, a humanity where they are subject to the same experiences of inequality, prejudice, and unfairness that every other human experiences, a humanity in which responsibility is a requirement. The black community will never experience citizenship, a sense of belonging, or freedom until they let go of the past and realize happiness must be pursued.
Enjoyed your article RHT. It certainly motivated a similar need in me to speak out!
Re: #5 Tina
“Enjoyed your article RHT. It certainly motivated a similar need in me to speak out!”
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it. Just to be clear, it is not “my” article. I originally posted it here as a copy-and-paste in comment #10 under “Baltimore is a Symptom of a Larger Problem”, along with the link. Here is the link again so you don’t have to dig for it—
http://fredoneverything.net/Ballmer.shtml
Lots of other good reads there. For those who have served in the military and had occasion to read ‘Soldier of Fortune’ magazine, the following linked article is hilarious, and explains a lot.
http://fredoneverything.net/PlayboySOF.shtml
I am curious. Since no one has yet objected to the portion of this article I quoted, and many have heaped praise, I can only assume you all agree with the part where the author says:
“Separate the races. Stop trying to push together peoples that have nothing in common.”
Is this true? Do the conservatives here agree with this recommendation?
Tina, do you believe that following this advice will help undo the damage to race relations you believe leftists have wrought?
Tina, quoting Michelle Obama:
““We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives. The folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety, the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores. The people at formal events who assumed we were the help,” Obama said. “And those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country, and I know that these little indignities are obviously nothing compared to what folks across the country are dealing with every single day. Those nagging worries about whether you’re going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason. The fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds.”
I don’t see how a white person could object to anything said here, unless they are bound and determined to be oblivious to the black experience in America. This is what happens. These are facts. There are even studies proving that employers judge similar resumes less favorably if it has a black-sounding name.
Bringing up these indignities isn’t racism. Telling black people to shut about them, because you’re tired of hearing about it and you can’t believe it happens because it doesn’t happen to you, is.
Chris asks if folks (i.e. “conservatives”) agree with “Separate the races. Stop trying to push together peoples that have nothing in common.”
No.
Firstly that is a ridiculously impossible task and is no solution.
Secondly, separation completely unnecessary. The solution is to do what America already does so well in so many ways, mix, share, enjoy.
Just thinking about it makes me hungry for a bowl of black eyed peas, greens, and ham hocks and a plate of salsa, beans, and corn tortillas.
Add to the above some Mirugai and Phở and now were talkin’ real harmony.
Irreconcilably different people? I think not. But mobs of black thugs rioting, looting, burning, attacking police, and destroying property is something that I do find a bit disturbing. It is as if it is a cultural prerogative.
But not always —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAB7zJlbVE4
I am glad to see you don’t agree with the solution proposed by this article, Pie, but then I’m confused as to why you first said the article was “poignant” and “realistic.” Did you simply miss the part where the author called for segregation?
What about the others here? Jack, Tina? RHT447? Did you all miss the blatant call for segregation in this article?
The proposed solution, ““Separate the races,” is absurd!
However the advice that follows is not: “Stop trying to push together peoples that have nothing in common.”
In other words let the people (of any race or culture) decide for themselves freely! Some people prefer to mix it up and other prefer to live and work with others that share their heritage. Over time, as we have seen in the past, differences melt away.
If we push anything it should be a common heritage in being American!
We should also push to require assimilation for anyone who wishes to migrate to America.
It might surprise Chris to know that there are blacks who prefer segregation…it was an opinion held by some blacks in the sixties.
Freedom, Chris! Freedom to choose should be the bottom line…and personal responsibility should be the driving force in any life. Dependence on government to solve problems has failed miserably!
Government mandates and subsidies have created opportunities and problems that undermine civility and shared heritage…it just doesn’t work! For instance, the entitlement industry is a political machine that does nothing to improve race relations, just the opposite! Preferences based on race, over qualifications and merit, have created resentments and division and in at least some cases undermined the better path for those not qualified based on merit. Section eight housing is transporting slum-like conditions to the burbs along with gangs and crime. Better the people in poor neighborhoods have the opportunity to “move on up” by their own efforts! Our colleges have focused on race and gender to the point that graduates rack up a lot of debt with nothing of value, in terms of making a living, to show for it when they graduate! In fact I would suggest these classes turn out militant angry agitators that have a distorted world view and only add to division and resentment.
As I’ve said before, take a look at the crowds at any sporting event. People of all races sit together, interact with each other and have a great time whether or not they came together. This provides a perfect snapshot of American race relations.
We do NOT have a systemic race problem in America as the current administration has indicated. It’s time to stop forcing the issue, distorting the issue, and tolerating politicians that pander to the races. It’s time to expose race baiting (racists) who use politics and the law as a bludgeon for power and personal enrichment.
Well said Tina, you mirror my own thoughts. Forcing people together is as bad as forcing them apart. Key word is force…and in a free country force is something that should apply to our collective defense and not to our citizens otherwise free choice.
Absurd
Tina: “The proposed solution, ““Separate the races,” is absurd!”
I’m glad you think so, though I’m still baffled as to how no one objected to this part of the article earlier. It’s his entire call to action, but everyone kept praising the article as if they didn’t see it.
“However the advice that follows is not: “Stop trying to push together peoples that have nothing in common.”
In other words let the people (of any race or culture) decide for themselves freely! Some people prefer to mix it up and other prefer to live and work with others that share their heritage. Over time, as we have seen in the past, differences melt away.”
I’m sorry, but I really have no idea what you could be referring to by this. In what way are people of different races being forced together? Are you talking about laws prohibiting racial discrimination in housing? Surely you can’t be opposed to that? If not, what are you talking about?
“It might surprise Chris to know that there are blacks who prefer segregation…it was an opinion held by some blacks in the sixties.”
Thanks, I’m well aware of that, as are most educated people. But blacks are not the ones driving segegation today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-fair-housing-acts-disparate-impact-standard-remains-important/2015/01/22/922e424a-a25c-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/11/modern-day-segregation-in-public-schools/382846/
“As I’ve said before, take a look at the crowds at any sporting event. People of all races sit together, interact with each other and have a great time whether or not they came together. This provides a perfect snapshot of American race relations.”
And we all know that if there’s one thing that absolutely never happens at sporting events, it’s riots.
http://mic.com/articles/116680/11-stunning-images-highlight-the-double-standard-of-reactions-to-riots-like-baltimore