Baltimore: Truths. Half-truths. Lies.

I am reluctant to start this article now since so much of the Baltimore disaster is still unfolding. But I will try to document some of the facts, as far we know them, before they get swept under the rug of even more crucial events.

The Baltimore riots are a serious problem. That much we do know. Would I be too politically incorrect to call them race riots? Probably, although from what we have seen on TV, virtually all the participants are African-Americans. But one would assume that in order to be considered a race riot, there would have to be one race pitted against another. That does not seem to be the case here, since the rioters are presumably protesting against the political power structure, which is almost entirely made up of liberal, Democrat, African-Americans — and has been for decades.

To that point, the mayor of the City of Baltimore is an African-American, the Baltimore Chief of Police is an African-American– as are the majority of the police officers. The entire Baltimore City Council is African-American. So is the Maryland state attorney, the US Congressman representing Baltimore, plus the newly elected US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, who is conducting her own investigation into alleged perpetrator Freddie Gray’s death. And, of course, there is the President himself.

There has only been one Republican mayor (two terms) of the City of Baltimore since 1934, and the list includes both the father and brother of former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Her brother, Thomas Ludwig John D’Alesandro III, also presided over the city during the last Baltimore uprising in 1968. So there has been no shortage of liberal Democrat leadership.

It is interesting to note that every elected government official, even those only remotely involved in this incident, has...

"The answer? Quit making it too comfortable to just lie around doing drugs and complaining because some of the other folks they see on TV are doing better. Of course there is poverty, relatively speaking, in the ghetto. Yet, I didn’t see many malnourished demonstrators the other night. Even the yellow-shirted “Mother of the Year,” looked pretty well fed to me!"

Correct and every mumbeling POS on the news that probably cant spell justice had a cigi-butt in the mouth or hand. Last I looked a pack of smokes was 8.00 bucks.What a load of crap

The Revered Al Sharpton chimed in with a need for a national police force, and Filmmaker Michael Moore demanded that America’s police officers be disarmed, and all African-Americans imprisoned for non-violent crimes be released. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton seemed to agree, with her own plan to put an “end to the era of mass incarceration.”

How about listening to someone with more experience in these matters.

The quote below has been in FR several times with sources. Has anyone stats that show St. Louis is alone in this? That no other city with numbers like those?

Would the Huffington Post allow this if there was some way to refute it?

President Obama's Elevator (Update)

Here's what Dr. King had to say about crime within the black community in 1961, and the general situation is still true today:
Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58 percent of its crimes? We've got to face that. And we've got to do something about our moral standards. We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can't keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.

I didn't find the quote on my own. Jason L. Riley at the Wall Street Journal found it for his excellent July 15 article: "Race, Politics and the Zimmerman Trial." After he published, he was accused of making it up.
Riley wrote a follow-up on July 18 citing the quote's source: "A James Baldwin profile of King that appeared in a 1961 issue of Harper's Magazine. I was a little taken aback by the accusation, and not just because the Harper's piece can be located and read without too much effort via Google."
Riley's accusers "apparently just couldn't believe that the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders used to speak this way about problems in the black community and the role of personal responsibility."

That 1.8 billion stimulus was distributed about as efficiently as Clinton Foundation grant money. It was dissipated in useful, wasteful, crony-directed ways.

For example, 206 million went to “the environment.” In Baltimore?

Something like 400 or 500 million went to “education,” meaning unionized, administrator-heavy education departments. Doesn’t Baltimore already have one of the highest per pupil expenditures in the country?

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