Posted on 05/01/2015 9:20:01 PM PDT by dangus
A lot of elites are writing columns about how white people shouldn't disapprove of riots, because they have no interest and they can't understand. A one-word rebuttal: "Uptown."
You see, in most older, Eastern cities, "uptown" refers to neighborhoods with gorgeous, Victorian homes near city centers available at ridiculously low prices. Like Roxbury, Boston, MA or Harlem, NYC, NY, or Brightwood, Washington, DC. An 8-bedroom, 3,000-SQ ft home in Roxbury is available for $125,000. It's a quick trolley ride -- or long walk -- to downtown.
Or you could live in 1-bedroom, 600-sq ft condominium for $875,000. So why would anyone chose the latter? Because if you're white and they catch you in Roxbury after dark, you are dead. Yeah, a lot of urban black people live in squalid, cinder-block tenemant homes. But a lot don't.
So no, I can't understand what it's like to be black. And please understand that I'm not meaning to say, "poor li'l ol' white me, I'm the victim." But there's two sides to every coin. And I've had a low income; I've lived in small, group-home apartments with a suite-mate living in closet (literally), paying five times more in rent than co-workers who lived in mansions.
So when a neighborhood watchmen spots a serial burglar and wants to get a better view, he's a hero to me. And when that gang-banging, drug-dealing thug smashes the watchman's head on the concrete curb, I actually do consider it very unfortunate the thug gets killed, but very fortunate it was him and not the watchman. And when the news fills with reports that an unarmed black man was shot in the back, without bothering to find out that that man had wrestled the cop for his gun, and was not in fact shot in the back, yeah, I resent that a generation is being taught to hate whitey.
Police-state tactics are a problem. Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were killed by people acting in self-defense and in heroic defense of their community, but then there's the story of the flash bomb that was lobbed in the wrong window and landed in a baby's crib. Or the SWAT team that smashed in a veteran hero's door without proper warning, riddled him with bullets when he in his ignorance grabbed a gun to defend himself, and then left him to bleed for hours. (You probably never heard about those cases because they don't fit the media template.)
And while we don't yet know whether the Baltimore police had anything to do with Grey's death -- the city's State Attorney has charged the police without even advancing a theory of how the death has happened -- we do know that he was being arrested for LEGALLY carrying a weapon.
But the media-inflamed race-baiting are counter-productive to helping achieve effective, civil policing.
I think having police have cameras on them to record their interactions is a great idea. I think refusing to hire anyone who doesn't live in a given jurisdiction (a practice given the Orwellian term, "community policing") is a terrible idea. I think inferring bias from arrest rates without respect to rates of criminal behavior is a civilization-destroying idea.
To say that blacks have a right to riot because they are black is the same as saying white officers have a right to kill indescriminately because they are white. It is pure hypocricy to condone the first and condemn the second.
CNN has blood on its’ hands! They ramped this incident to a riot. They have to be called out on this in the future!
Really excellent essay. I agree on all counts, you covered the complexity of the interlocking issues with total efficiency.
CNN is what white people at home were watching but it was Twitter and texting that brought many of the protesters together.
Social media lowers the "barriers to entry" for large-scale civil unrest.
If he has prior felony convictions, how could he be legally carrying a weapon ?
It’s news to me if Maryland law restrict the rights of felons to carry folding knives.
White people have been the victims in at least 2/3 of these fiascos.
1) George Zimmerman /Trayvon Martin -
2) Michael Brown/Darren Wilson
In both cases the white men’s lives were ruined, they were run out of their homes and forced into hiding for misreported stories, even lies by black witnesses. Don’t believe those men heard so much as an apology from blacks when they were the victims or doesn’t white persecution concern whites either.
Just speculating.
Yep.
These black people were killed by cops obeying left wing racist orders, namely for selling cigs or carrying s knife.
This is A Few Good Men, but not plaid by Marine Officers, but by liberal feminist DAs and a President who talks of truth but who cannot handle the truth.
Good vanity.
I’m guessing if we started beating the crap out of the Uptowners, they’d show us greater respect. The point being, the Uptowners express outrage against those they trust not to harm them. The same goes for those who attack Christianity — they rarely confront Islam.
The media propaganda regarding the first couple of incidents, and Obama and Holder's complicity, has set the stage for mayhem that has caused police deaths and injuries, and lots of property destruction. Thank you, mainstream media!
Those trendy uptowners might want to consider their own safety after the birth of the monster they created. Imagine you are a white cop anywhere in America today. Will you intervene in ANY. Crime in progress by a black? I wouldn’t. Their alligator gonna eat them first!
You are a racist when you say blacks were rioting. They were having a big outdoor party in Baltimore.
My hometown paper is the Tallahassee Democrat. For years, until I started writing articles for the Homes section, I thought it was the Democratic Party’s newspaper. I assumed this from the name and the fact that there wasn’t a sliver of light between the paper’s stance and political endorsements and the Democratic Party’s stance and candidates. For many years they had a black, female managing editor. We’ll skip over their use of Blacklish in editorials and just call that cultural bias on my part.
What I found disturbing was the paper’s race baiting. Hardly a month went by without a multi-page spread on Rosewood, a Black Florida town wiped out by the KKK (which was the military arm of the Democratic Party) in the 1920’s. Almost every story had an anti-white component. I overheard or participated in workplace conversations where my liberal coworkers expressed their annoyance with the paper’s racial excesses. I dropped my subscription and many of my coworkers switched to the Wall Street Journal or other choices. The Democrat’s circulation plummeted and finally, way too late, they fired the editor. Suddenly the paper’s parent company, which had kept this racially biased and business destroying editor for years was being…racist! They didn’t fire her for driving away their readers. They fired her because she was black. Because of the community organizing and threats I thought they’d reverse themselves. But, no, the advertisers insisted.
Having annoyed their loyal base they lost them to other media. Now, they deliver thousands of papers with Thanksgiving and Christmas ads to people who do not take the paper. I called to complain as I was working in another town and the many papers in my driveway were an advertisement that I wasn’t home. I was told they couldn’t stop the deliveries as the drivers had orders to put out X papers for their advertisers and weren’t doing it based on who actually subscribed. The paper was sold multiple times after they fired that editor; each time for less money. Bias hurts.
I heard somebody on a show last night who said Freddie did not have a “switchblade”, but it was a spring-loaded knife or some such thing ..... and that knife IS illegal in the City of Baltimore.
It will also be interesting, since Freddie had such a long rap sheet, to see if he was on probation. Evidently, as terms of probation, the police can stop and search your person, your car, etc. at any time. Thus, since Freddie ran from them, if he was on probation, he could be arrested just for that.
All that we have heard to date is the mere tip of the iceberg. The AG is likely going to be very sorry she jumped the gun, not in charging the police with something, but with grossly overcharging them.
bfl
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