Posted on 06/09/2015 1:57:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As Black Lives Matter protesters descended on McKinney, Texas, to make the town their latest cause célèbre, one black resident spoke out to squash the racial division rhetoric.
And activists want him fired for it — even after another video surfaced showing the party crashers “aren’t so innocent” after all.
Benet Embry, who hosts an Internet radio show on “Deep Ellum on Air,” appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity” Monday night to double down on Facebook comments he made earlier in the day in the aftermath of a viral video showing a police officer slamming a bikini-clad black teenage girl to the ground.
The Daily Caller reported that the CEO of Deep Ellum confirmed the company had received at least 25 phone calls demanding Embry be fired after he posted the following message on Facebook.
Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! MediaTakeout.com posts a story showing only 7 minutes of a 30 minute ordeal, makes it racial and all the activist come a running. Look, I LIVE in this community and this ENTIRE incident is NOT racial at all. A few THUGS spoiled a COMMUNITY event by fighting, jumping over fences into a PRIVATE pool, harassing and damaging property. Not EVERYTHING is about RACE. WE have other issuses [sic] that NEED our attention other flights of made up make believe causes.
Embry told host Sean Hannity that he was disturbed by how the officer treated the girl, but emphasized that the Craig Ranch section of McKinney where the incident took place is “not a racist community.”
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“It is a diverse subdivision,” he said. “Black, white, Hispanic, East Indian, American Indian, all living together — in friendship basically.”
He added that a handful of unruly — and uninvited — kids ruined the party for the more than 100 teenagers who were there having a good time. No one called the police because the kids were black, he said.
“Only seven of those 130 kids — only seven — caused a whole bunch of confusion and ruined it for everybody,” he said.
“When this party was going on, the people that were in the pool — they were the ones that were supposed to be there — but when the flier went viral everybody from outside of our community started coming in,” he said.
Embry said police were called after security tried to stop the outsiders from trying to jump the fence and crash the party.
“The story that came out on this sub-social media website that they don’t want black kids in the pool is totally preposterous,” he said.
“No neighbor called the cops because there was a black pool party. The cops were called because after the people start jumping in, the fights start breaking out, so then there became a disturbance.”
Embry said the community was being misrepresented as a racist area.
“This is a great community,” he said. “No one is walking around with hooded sheet or burning crosses. We are just a normal, average, everyday suburb in America.”
But now there will be people walking around with hoodies burning everything in sight.
I think this will be fully exploited to move the protests into “white” areas.
everything is about ‘race’ if one is a communist or a moslem ... truth is truth.
Not a good idea at all.
believe this ... they go there at their own risk for the police will back away and say ‘go at it’ and ‘it’ will be gone ‘at’ ... ‘no innocence’ if that is their plan
Unlike St. Louis (Ferguson) or Baltimore, people are HEAVILY armed here in Texas. I mean heavily armed. They might want to re-think that.
One of the problems with “cops as thugs” narrative being pushed by #BlackLivesMatter, is that WAY too much of the activity is now being recorded as it happens, which just does not jibe with the story line.
This may be even more difficult to spin into a police brutality story as more and more policemen take on the obligation to wear a body camera. People who choose to become cops have a Type A personality to begin with, and their very aggressiveness in wading into a confrontation makes accurate recollections of the order of events a little hard to sort out without some objective recording to either confirm or deny allegations put forth.
My North Fort Worth community pool had their spring pool/block party this past Saturday night. They also hired a DJ but as far as I know there was no trouble. The flier stated that it was for residents only which I understood to mean NO GUESTS!
good one! thanks!
The “armed” part has less to do with it than a “jury of your peers.” Many property owners in Ferguson were armed but would have been crucified by a zealous rat DA and a jury full of black bigots. In Collin county I doubt the peaceable residents have to fear such government persecution.
Barricades and volunteers with ARs.
Every case is different. Baltimore was different from Ferguson was different from Staten Island was different from North Charleston is different from McKinney. This last one is nothing compared to the others and shouldn’t be built up into more than it is — by either side.
it’s funny how ‘life just happens’ ... Thank You Lord for the truth and firearms! One Sunday morning says it all! Am stubborn in my soul and God made America be stubborn too! Thank You Lord ... Say When Lord!
Who builds a nice house and fills it with nice things, but doesn’t put a locking door on it? And maybe an alarm system?
Similarly, if people pay extra to move into a pleasant, “private neighborhood” (aka, HOA), and they want it to remain that way, they’re going to have to foot the bill for a wall and a gate, and maybe a guardhouse and a guard at the gate. That’s just how it is in America nowadays.
It’s like building a fort in Apache country, or a defensible embassy in the Middle East.
One of the problems with “cops as thugs” narrative being pushed by #BlackLivesMatter,
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There’s a few on FR who have been pushing the same narrative long before #BlackLivesMatter.
What this is is blockbusting:
This is all part of a coordinated plan.
The City of McKinney was sued by “The Inclusive Communities Project”.
http://www.inclusivecommunities.net/
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/here%E2%80%99s-housing-discrimination-suit-city-mckinney-settled
What is going on with this manufactured Soros astroturf is an updated version of old-style block busting.
The “inclusive communities project” wasn’t interested in providing affordable housing in McKinney, they specifically wanted Section 8 housing in the predominately white, higher income, west side of McKinney.
http://www.danielbesharalawfirm.com/Documents/complaint%20filed.pdf
The “inclusiveness project” specifically seeks to “working with families to seek and obtain housing in predominately non-minority areas of the Dallas metropolitan area”.
This incident with the pool and who should have access to private amenities is being created before the “inclusive” low income housing is completed and the first tenants move in.
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