Austin's white leaders shouldn't turn way from this tragedy

statesman.com ^ | 6.25.05 | alberta philips

[ken21]

another day on the democrat plantation....

she's got a point many of the white elected leaders were no shows. i heard some of it on klbj. it was hysterical. one woman called the austin police kkk. but "tio taco" and "uncle tom" reflect badly on the activists.

the city manager toby futrell has worsened race relations in austin by first offering a "forgiveable loan" to the black community, but then secondly, rescinding the offer. each time the temperature went up in the city.

[TADSLOS]

Austin's liberal collar has slipped, exposing a red neck.

No, it means that there's still some people in Austin with enough common sense to see this situation for what it is.

[ken21]

yeah, well, there's no common sense on this matter.

and, i doubt that you'll see any.

the "progressives" are going to keep this very emotional, if not hysterical.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

My brother-in-law is a (white) Austin cop. I have listened to him, and his friends, complain for years about the corruption at the top of the department and how reporting about it will end your career.

[TADSLOS]

the "progressives" are going to keep this very emotional, if not hysterical.

Just living up to the image...

[WOSG]

ping for an Austin story.

Albertta Phillips is the resident racial agitator on the Austin Spaceman staff. Rather than pointing out how unfair it was for the council members who *were* there to be insulted, she fans flames of racial resentment ...

For example: "It was a tough meeting, and emotions ran high as people still grieving tried to make sense of police actions that ended in the death of one of their own."

Let's translate ... "tough meeting, and emotions ran high" means that many people showed up merely to jeer and throw epithets at the city leadership (they deserve jeers but not "Unlce Tom"). ... "tried to make sense of police actions" they want to accuse the police before the facts are in, so they spew allegations ... " the death of one of their own" racialist ethnic-group thinking, that all the ethnic group are 'bros' and whites are outsiders.

Alberta Phillips is there, like a journalistic Jesse Jackson, to keep hype alive.

[ken21]

i believe that. i think there's something very wrong at the top.

for example, how the city manager toby futrell gets off scott free, i don't understand. no one has criticized her.

yet, her actions have created a lot of animosity in the community. first, she suggested that the black owner of burned bar get a "forgiveable loan". this increased the heat.

then, when that appeared stupid, she reversed herself and took back the loan. this only intensified the heat in the black activist community.

but she has not been criticized to my knowledge. in fact, she gets a positive rating in the article above.

[ken21]

yes.

we call the paper the austin unamerican stateswoman because it's radical feminist and "progressive". and i got attacked by a freeperette who supposedly is conservative.

the paper is hostile to president of the united states.

the paper editorialized that ann coulter's presentation at the lbj library was "hate speech".

[CBart95]

Alberta? Do you kiss your mama with those racist lips?

[TXnMA]

More "longhorn deposits" from The Peoples' Republik of Austin -- that lone blue blot in the middle of our red State.

[Reactionary]

Why should white leaders bother to show up when the racialists do nothing but insist they're to blame for everything?

Let them have it. If they want help, perhaps they should accept some responsibility for themselves and stop using whitey as a political punching bag.

[dfwgator]

The only tragedy awaiting Austin this weekend is what the Gators are going to do to the Longhorns in Omaha.

[sam_paine]

I laugh at the idiots on the drag selling these "Keep Austin Wierd" t-shirts....show them the tag that says "Made in China" or "Made in Bangladesh" and it's like liberal Kryptonite! LOL.

'Smart Growth' Killed 'Austin Wierd'

[Vince Ferrer]

Austin's white leaders

As a white person, I am offended that someone thinks my skin needs "leaders". I've got my elected representatives and my Pope, and that's about all the leadership that I have agreed to.

[af_vet_rr]

There are some things being left out (besides the fact that these are all really separate issues).

1)Both officers' in-car cameras were turned off (I believe one was even missing a video tape). APD put these in so that it would remove doubt in cases like this, and of course they happened to be turned off *sigh*

2)The person that was shot and killed had her Sergeant down on the ground at one point (although that's still up in the air, but indications are that this person was basically fighting off two cops).

You mention that Austin's city manager tried to offer a "forgiveable loan", but you missed one important aspect - the city started to offer this to buy the nightclub owners off and then retracted it after other business and homeowners asked why they should get special preferences (especially since the nightclub owners were wealthy and had full insurance and were going to make plenty of money from the insurance).

Oh yeah, why did they offer the "forgiveable loan"???

When the nightclub was burning down, there were messages flying back and forth across the police car/dispatcher computers (parked near the nightclub as it was burning) that said things like "Burn, baby, burn" and "want me to bring gasoline". IN FRONT OF A NEWS CREW WHO GOT THE WHOLE THING ON TAPE.

What we have is idiots on both sides of an issue (nightclub burning) with other people dragging that issue into yet another issue (typical liberals - obfuscate one issue with another).

I was one of many who was furious over the nightclub loan offers, and I had my say (private citizens can get three minutes in front of the city council during various meetings). I didn't get a chance to tape it, or I would post it, but the gist of my statement was, was that I have a private business, and if it burned down, if I had a police car parked in front with messages on its computer like "burn, baby, burn" and "want me to bring gasoline", would I get a forgiveable loan as well?

[DoSomethingAboutIt]

Just curious...a austin freeper meeting would probably be fun. Any interest? There might be 3 of us.

[jordan8]

I long to see the day when whites not only boycott these events but openly denounce them as the ritual anti-white racism that they are.

Austin's liberal collar has slipped, exposing a red neck.

Right, whites not showing up for this mini racist show trial are rednecks but those in the audience who call out "Uncle Tom" or "Tico Taco" aren't so bad.

This was the third fatal shooting of a minority resident in as many years, and the community is entitled to answers about whether police are too quick to use force when it involves African Americans or Latinos.

The community is also entitled to an open discussion of the scale of black and brown violence and answers on what part this propensity for violence plays in violent confrontations with police, and what part racism of African Americans and Latinos plays in those confrontations.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Some residents who witnessed the incident say she shot Rocha in the back as he lay defenseless on the ground.

Do these "witnesses" have names?

[ken21]

why is it that toby futrell has not been criticized nor asked to resign?

her stupidity brought austin to near-riots.