Git Whitey!
You think that's something, just wait until Obama loses in 2012.
CWII will officially begin.
Posted on 08/24/2011 8:42:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We cannot police hopelessness and despair!
There are those who are angered and surprised by the violence of urban “Flash Mobs” (quickly forming groups of young people using technology to organize), especially crowds of young Black men, descending on mostly White, affluent downtown American cities. However, if we analyze this phenomenon, it is not so surprising. In fact, it is highly predictable. While there is no justification for young Black men to rob and beat people of any race, the activities of flash mobs are easily understandable in the context of recent social history and current economic conditions.
Most of these young men are poor, desperate and hopeless. They come from broken families and broken communities. They have been failed by their schools and by social and faith organizations in their communities. They don’t have jobs and many of them will never have jobs. They live at the bottom rung of society. The kind of havoc they wreak among us through “flash mobbing” is the kind of havoc they have lived with their entire young lives. For them, there is a perverse kind of justice and sense of fairness in their ability to create flash mobs that breathe terror into the hearts of other Americans.
Predictive factors for young Black males participating in the activities of violent flash mobs in Chicago are shown by recent data:
■This summer, 90% of young Black men in Chicago between 16 and 19 years old are unemployed. ■Only 44% of Black males graduate with a high school diploma from Chicago public schools. ■Only three out of 100 Black boys who start kindergarten in the Chicago Public Schools earn a bachelors degree by age 25. ■70% of Black children in America are born into and live in single, female-headed households that are usually impoverished. ■Black males are 6% of Illinois’ population but they represent 60% of the state’s prison population.
The power and strength of a flash mob are in its large number of congregants and in its ability to assemble quickly and to disband equally as fast. The word “flash” is an allusion to social media — texting, smart phones Twitter and Facebook. Flash media, an effective tool for organizing a social cause, is the same media that brought down the government of Egypt. Now inner-city youth are using this same media, but instead of toppling governments, they “topple” Macy’s, Neiman Marcus and Old Navy, and they steal IPads and IPhones from defenseless citizens.
The message from the flash mob to us is even more threatening than the mob itself. That message is, “You can’t control us! You don’t scare us! Your police don’t scare us! Your prisons don’t scare us! We are mightier than you! We will take what you have because you have given us few other options in life for earning similar things. And most importantly, we will take your peace of mind. Just as we in our communities cannot ever feel secure, now neither can you! We are more afraid of continuing to live our lives as they are than we are of you locking us up. What do we have to lose? For once, we are more powerful than you!”
Flash mobs are not new. In Black communities across America for the past 30 years, large groups of Black males have attacked others. In the past few years, jobless, desperate, hopeless youth have rioted in France, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Tunisia, and Egypt in efforts eerily similar to America’s flash mobs, but on a much larger scale and with politically clear motives and demands. These youth have taken over business districts, cities and countries and they have destroyed billions of dollars in property while toppling governments. The same root causes for these youth riots and disturbances in Europe and Northern Africa are producing similar actions, and possibly similar politically conscious attitudes, in the youth of Chicago, New York City, Charlotte, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia and other American cities.
Politicians and the police are working under the false and dangerous assumption that hopelessness and despair can be policed. The police are out-numbered and out-maneuvered in this battle of minds, spirits, bodies and technology. Even as thirty-three flash mobbers were arrested in Chicago this past week, the communities in Chicago were producing a thousand more potential flash mobbers to replace them. When Black boys are not reading at grade level by the third grade, we are creating conditions for a flash mob. When Black teenagers cannot find meaningful work, we are creating conditions for a flash mob. When young Black boys do not have suitable role models and mentors, we are creating conditions for a flash mob.
The best way to deter a violent flash mob is to stop it from forming. The best time to stop it from forming is when the potential congregants are 2 and 3 years old, not when they are 16, 20 and 30 years old. The best weapons against flash mobs are jobs, not police with guns; education, not incarceration; and positive guidance and direction, not threats or curses. Can flash mobs be stopped? Absolutely. Is America working properly to stop them? Absolutely not.
Welcome to the year 2011 where ethics, sociology, economics, criminology, politics and technology cross! The flash mobbers are trying to tell us, “You can’t stop us, but with your help, we can stop ourselves!”
Dallas59, you know who else your comments remind me of? The Palestinians. They are the underclass of the Arab world, filled with hate and completely unable to do one constructive thing.
The only thing that will stop these flash mobs is to shoot 'em first when they come running toward you. And hope that Eric Holder & 0dumb0's racist Justice Dept is no longer in charge of Amerika's justice system.
I think there is a race war coming and it won't be pretty but it can be won if we fight back hard. The liberals by default will cower in fear and hope to placate & appease the very mobs that are trying to kill them. Maybe we should put the white, guilt-ridden liberals in the front lines....
It looks to me like the main problem here is a lack of morality on the MEN and WOMEN'S side of the issue. Black (and some of all races but mostly black) women seem to think nothing whatsoever of sleeping with their "man", using NO birth control and having their baby outside of wedlock. They do not think a THING is wrong with it, even the staunchest "Christians". Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a Bible-thumper, I just see things somewhat differently since I was raised in a Christian home & would never even considered doing that when I was young & single! Yes, times have changed, but it's no excuse to jump in the bed with any "Tom, Dick or Harry". IMO that's the main problem in black America.
well then.......... I've got news for them. You don't scare me, either. CCW, trained, disciplined and dare I say.... eager to meet a challenge.
In fact I'd encourage that overconfident attitude. I'll just be a meek,nobody...just walking along.
Don't come to my home, my place of business or my neighborhood. Cause you won't find a victim. You'll find a free man and there we'll be face to face.
I'm betting on me, cause you're already a loser, POS.
And just who's fault is all that? It certainly isn't the fault of white folks. We're not holding them back in school, or discouraging them from graduating high school or attending college. These young men have inculcated an attitude that says education isn't 'keeping it real', or it's a 'white thing'. Too many black people discourage their young people who truly would love to get ahead by calling them names, and saying they're not 'black enough', simply because they want to stay in school and make something of themselves
Until there is a black leader who is willing to stand up and tell black folks the TRUTH about the source of their problems, and somehow make them LISTEN, too many of them will simply continue to wallow in poverty.
You are completely awesome oldenuff2no; I’m joining your fan club! I am grateful for your service and wish I was your next door neighb out in the stix. Sacramento will be ugly when tshtf.
I will know type what I read on a Yahoo board. If you are easily offended, please look away from your monitor.
When you go Black, you're a single Mother.
Just a little humor O’Reilly. Don't get your panties in a bunch. There are Black FReepers you know, really. You never know Bill, I might be a Black FReeper as well.
I second your Post.
OMG - I will NOW type! I hate Spell Check!
“They are the underclass of the Arab world, filled with hate and completely unable to do one constructive thing.”
WRONG ! ! ! Wrong on two points, in particular.
First, for a minor typo - the more descriptive term is Palisimian, nor Palistinian.
A startling, and deeply depressing factoid is that the Palisimians are the best educated of the Arabs.
Yuppers, them things are better educated that the rest of MadMo’s followers in the Mid East.
I think you’re reading too much into the writer’s choice of words. Whenever people congregate (in my mind, other than church), they are congregants. In church, they form the congregation. I don’t believe he was conflating flash mobs with church attendance.
You think that's something, just wait until Obama loses in 2012.
CWII will officially begin.
I upgraded my daily carry peice after reading about flash mobs.
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That's because they are educated by Israel, ironically
Take, give, ..... Until they learn to EARN, there will be no respect. Neither of property, or themselves.
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