The Riot Ideology, Reborn: Baltimore, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the new racial politics

City Journal ^ | Autumn 2015 | Fred Siegel

[2ndDivisionVet]

In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in “30 or 40” American cities if Congress didn’t pass President Lyndon Johnson’s Model Cities antipoverty legislation. In the late 1960s, New York mayor John Lindsay used the fear of such rioting to expand welfare rolls dramatically at a time when the black male unemployment rate was about 4 percent. And in the 1980s, Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry articulated an explicitly racial version of collective bargaining—a threat that, without ample federal funds, urban activists would unleash wave after wave of racial violence. “I know for a fact,” Barry explained, “that white people get scared of the [Black] Panthers, and they might give money to somebody a little more moderate.”

This brand of thinking, which I have called the riot ideology, influenced urban politics for a generation, from the 1960s through the 1980s. Perhaps its model city was Baltimore, which, in 1968, was consumed by race riots so intense that the Baltimore police, 500 Maryland state troopers, and 6,000 National Guardsmen were unable to quell them. The “insurrection” was halted only when nearly 5,000 federal troops requested by Maryland governor Spiro Agnew arrived....

[PJBankard]

‘68 Riots = Rioters arrested and prosecuted.
‘15 Riots = Few arrested and almost none prosecuted.

[Twinkie]

Lyndon Johnson got what he wanted and the Great Society
was born. He was quoted as cynically remarking that the
Democrats would have the n***** vote from now on; and it
would appear he was correct. - It has been downhill all
the way since he started that mess. - It has been such
a horrible thing for black families; with abortions,
gangs, violence and the black man being relegated to the
curb while the government took over his place in the
family. - I can remember when the designation “Negro”
was one of respect and pride. - I’m white; but there are
some “whites” who think I’m not in their league. That’s
just life. - An older black man once stepped all the way
off the sidewalk to allow me to pass. I was about 21 yrs.
old and didn’t really know why he was doing that. I
certainly would not have expected him to do that.

[Ray76]

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[okie01]

[LBJ's Great Society] has been such a horrible thing for black families; with abortions, gangs, violence and the black man being relegated to the curb while the government took over his place in the family. - I can remember when the designation “Negro” was one of respect and pride.

Many Southern cities had a second downtown -- the one-time black business district. A hotel or two, a dozen or more retail stores, a professional building for the black doctors, dentists and lawyers, plus a printing plant for the black newspaper. This business district was populated and operated by a thriving black middle class.

With integration, most blacks preferred to shop at the "other downtown" -- where the stores offered a larger selection and, perhaps, a lower price. The "black business district'...went out of business.

Many folks lost their job, some lost their businesses...and their nest egg.

But I wonder...were blacks better off then than they are now? Black families were intact. There was no widespread dependency. There were jobs, a growing middle class and a number of black capitalists had emerged. The children were generally receiving a decent education.

But Brown v BOE, bussing, the Great Society and its War on Poverty changed all that. Jim Crow was dead and gone. Voting Rights were gained. Blacks could ride in the front of the bus but, in the process, the social structure of the black community was utterly destroyed.

In hindsight, the bargain doesn't appear to have been a particularly good one...

[Tax-chick]

"Bureaucrats lived well off the anti-poverty programs," explains Baltimore writer Van Smith, "without enhancing the lives of the poor."

This could be a template sentence. "Bureaucrats lived well off the [ ] programs without enhancing the lives of the [ ]."

[kearnyirish2]

“were blacks better off then than they are now?”

Of course they were; their drug addiction rate, the percentage of children born out of wedlock, and the literacy rate were all better. Now so many have no job skills - or even language skills. Blacks fifty years ago were much closer to whites in terms of education and job skills, and in showed in their unemployment levels compared to today. Planned Parenthood is in business because we have no role for unemployable ghetto folk.

[Excellence]

“For Coates, blacks can only be freed from racism after whites have been emancipated from capitalism.”

And that’s it in a nutshell.

[armydawg505]

Maybe they could warn of mall riots if nubians dont get their way? Nah, that would never happen!

[armydawg505]

they could ride in the front of the bus but then their children turned around and destroyed the bus.

[Old Sarge]

As I posted earlier here:

...we need to recognize one salient socio-political fact: the current administration has succeeded in weaponizing one-eighth of the population. The merest hint of their boiling out of the urban kraals has changed the course of national elections, and had gotten inside the decision loop (of the opposition party).

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Time to break out the "SOUL BROTHER" sign! Oh wait, that don't work anymore!

Which reminds me of an old 48 year old cartoon. A fat white man is cleaning his shotgun. The wife says.."For Heaven's sake George! Why don't we just put a SOUL BROTHER sign in the window like everyone else!"

[JimRed]

In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in "30 or 40"  American cities if Congress didn't pass President Lyndon Johnson's Model Cities antipoverty legislation. In the late 1960s, New York mayor John Lindsay used the fear of such rioting to expand welfare rolls dramatically at a time when the black male unemployment rate was about 4 percent.

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference."—LBJ

"I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." —Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One –

Hey, LBJ (D-HELL), It's working.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I find the whole idea of people keeping Blacks government-dependent disgusting.

Frederick Douglass once said something to the effect that if Black people couldn’t stand on their own two feet, then let them fall. I think that Mr. Douglass would have cheerfully shot some of these evil liberals.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!