Posted on 03/16/2015 7:36:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A conservative radio show host used the story of Black teenage girls viciously assaulting another girl at a Brooklyn McDonald’s as an opportunity to direct a stunningly inaccurate and racist diatribe against the entire Black race.
During a recent segment on his show, Texas-based host Michael Berry attempted to draw a comparison between the behavior of Black people and white people while attacking the girls involved in the McDonald’s beating.
“We have people living in our country who are savages. Absolutely, positively savages, to engage in this kind of behavior,” Berry said, making it clear he’s talking about Black people. “The whole McDonald’s is full, they’re loving it.”
Berry’s comments came as the girls who were allegedly involved in the beating and apparent robbery surrendered to authorities one-by-one over the weekend. New York police said yesterday only one of the six teenage girls who took part in the attack is still at large. The beating has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times after being posted to YouTube.
One of the girls, who is just 14, was removed from an airplane at an international terminal at Atlanta’s airport, reportedly on a plane bound for her native Jamaica. Bail for the purported leader of the attack, Aniah Ferguson, 16, who was arrested on Thursday on charges of robbery and assault in the second degree, was set at $500,000, according to local media.
With the regularity of a clock, you can predict that some white conservative will use the occasion of a Black person committing a crime against another Black person to loudly cry about Black-on-Black crime. They reach for it with obvious glee, claiming that it’s a more serious matter in America than crimes committed against Black people by white racists or white police officers targeting young Black males. This is a favorite tactic of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
When he engaged in a debate on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in November with scholar Michael Eric Dyson, Guiliani said Black people should be more concerned with the way Blacks are “killed by other Blacks.”
“I would like to see the attention paid to that, that you are paying to this,” the former mayor quipped.
But Dyson quickly explained that the comparison was null and void.
“First of all, most Black people who commit crimes against other Black people go to jail,” Dyson said. “Number two, they are not sworn by the police department as an agent of the state to uphold the law. So in both cases, that’s a false equivalency that the mayor has drawn, which has exacerbated tensions that are deeply embedded in American culture.”
Berry said during his radio show last week that white people “don’t need to say white lives matter because white people don’t walk up to white people, put a gun to their head and blow them away,” he said. “White people don’t drive past the home of other white people and shoot into the window, knowing there are children inside. White people don’t walk into McDonald’s and 4, 5, 6, 10 of them and beat the snot out of them for minutes on end while everyone cheers and films it, World Star. You know why white lives matter? Because that’s what white people believe. The dirty little secret is Black people don’t believe that Black lives matter.”
It was an astoundingly ignorant statement that was not only profoundly offensive but that also conveniently ignored recent events in America, as well as the nation’s violent history. Just in the past decade, there has been an exhaustingly long list of instances of white people stepping into elementary schools and movie theaters and blasting away at other white people, including small children, with guns.
Any attempt by a white person to assign violent tendencies to Black people while they are living in the most violent country in the world, one where white people have established centuries of mind-numbing violence committed against non-white peoples—in addition to each other—is ridiculously off-base and ignorant.
Moreover, it gets at the particularly pernicious tendency of white racists to ascribe the bad acts of a few to an entire race. If he was interested in using a similar logic applied to another big news story of the week, he might have concluded that every white male college student was a raving racist because of the actions of the Oklahoma fraternity.
But Berry knows the narrative of the savage Black criminal is so embedded into white American minds that when such ugliness spills out of his mouth, he will get knowing nods, rather than outrage, from his listeners.
“We can’t deny the influence that this subculture is having on our society. You can go and hide behind your gates. Y’all can hire a guard at night,” he continued. “But eventually, a Trayvon Martin’s going to come walking through your yard, at night, on suspension from school. Because his dad has a good job, and he lives there. And he lives in a world of thuggery, and his dad doesn’t. That’s actually — that was the case there. But he was a thug, who went to school with other thugs.”
Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network announced that its youth group, Youth Huddle, run by Sharpton’s daughter Dominique Sharpton, will hold a vigil on Monday night to offer prayers for the 15-year-old teen, Ariana Taylor, who was beaten in the McDonald’s and hospitalized for nonlife-threatening injuries. NAN’s leadership said some of the students involved in the fight are from a Brooklyn high school, Erasmus High.
While many critics will point angry fingers at the teenage girls, just a five-minute trip through reality TV shows like “Basketball Wives” and “Love & Hip Hop” will show grown women engaged in brawls nearly as bad as the one in McDonald’s. The only thing stopping the TV fights from going on longer is that the producers have security jump in and stop them—after enough blows are delivered to provide entertainment to viewers.
And before reality TV, let’s not forget the national craze that was the “Jerry Springer Show,” which for years displayed daily violence that mostly featured girls fighting each other.
It’s not hard to see where these girls get their cues about how they are supposed to behave—from the adults all around them.
Nick Chiles,
Are you blind and stupid? Do you not see that so many blacks aren’t acting civilized? Are you unaware of all the black violence? Do you not see the failures when it comes to their broken families and education?
Blaming whitey for the broken families and morals in the black community won’t make things better.
Nick Chiles is part of the problem because he’s either a liar or has his head up his rear.
Chisel it in stone, inlaid with pure gold and encircled with diamonds.
Place the monument at the corner of Texas and Fannin at the front of the Magnolia in the heart of Houston.
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Everywhere black persons reside the phenomenon is the same. Violence. The denial of a genetic link to violence is just the consequence of cultural acceptability of that explanation, not scientific method.
Clueless Race Hucksters Use Ferguson Shooting as Excuse to Say Mean Things About White People.
I agree with Berry. I don’t go anywhere near those ones.
Why is “Black” always capitalized and “white” almost never in the article?
Got Racist Much?
It would be easy to see the black population like the ME Muslims....just let them have at it toward one another and they’ll discover at what point, if ever, Black Lives Matter to them or not.
It is a violent culture that ‘protects’ it’s violent and criminal elements. I haven’t decided which is worse....the violent who commit the crimes, the violence of the victims themselves, the violence of the those standing by doing nothing to prevent it, or the mouths like Sharpton, Obama, Holder and Jackson who encourage and support the racial elements.
Not to mention those who brag they’re now respected because they do violence or stand up under it...as passage to the club of violence.
So where are the “actions” of all the blacks claiming it’s only a small portion of their communities doing this....there are only a few proving that blacks lives don’t matter to blacks.
Sounds like Michael Berry not only touched a nerve, but totally obliterated a nerve in some guilt-ridden white apologist liberal. Berry does that regularly and very much deliberately, and he is very skilled at what he does.
I see Muslims as intellectually committed to violence, murder and debauchery. Blacks are emotionally connected to it. IMO genetically.
And then there’s the fact that Berry adopted a black boy and married an Indian (maybe Pakistani?) woman... Who just recently finished her term as Comptroller for the great State of Texas.
It does look like that...and at best only a precious few doing anything closely resembling ‘effective’ results.
Might explain why Blacks aren't in abundance in positions of authority as well....blacks may very well be less inclined to “obey” another black individual....and with that “Play” them as whitey's friend.
It's a no win for the blacks until they “decide” to make a difference in their own life among their own people.
This is a bad analogy. Not all the victims were white in these events.
Did the mentally ill shooters have an entourage of white people cheering him on at schools? Did audience at movie theaters cheer on the sick twisted shooter and then video it?
Did the shooter going into the back door of the theater know only white people were in the audience? How could he know that?
What race of people commits an inordinately high percentage of violent crime when compared to the total number in their race?
Mentally ill people who go into a mall bent on killing have no idea what race of people might be or might not be in the mall, or theater?
The author is an idiot.
As my mother used to say, “ The bit dog always yelps the loudest.”
Sounds to me like Nick Chiles must have been bitten pretty deep.
Facts not in evidence, your honor. In places like Detroit the conviction rate for murder is probably 25-30%.
And then add the statistic that Ann Coulter likes to point out: that if you took white America as a country in itself, it would have a violent crime rate comparable to Luxembourg.
This nation began closing homes for the mentality handicapped and so they're on the street in droves today.
I recently saw this as a major problem in the prison populations...where they end up. Which are not designed to address their mental issues. It's an entire culture which fails often to see their problems and worse to even seek help other than handouts to become a healthier culture.
Attempted to camment, must sign up (no thanks):
“So ‘black’ gets capitalized when referring to people, but ‘white’ doesn’t in exactly the same usage, indeed in the same sentence, as in ‘...Michael Berry attempted to draw a comparison between the behavior of Black people and white people...’
“Nice.
“Nick Chiles, YOU are a racist.”
Nick Chiles? Seriously, Chiles? Related to Jackie maybe.
This article is disgusting, deplorable and downright indefensible.
No, the above is nonsense.
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