A Censored Race War? (Thomas Sowell)

Creators Syndicate ^ | May 15, 2012 | Thomas Sowell

[jazusamo]

When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work — that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn't. "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug. Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend to try to sweep these episodes under the rug as well. In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and bloody. But, when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet. One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood streaming down her face said: "About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn't listen to us, they wouldn't take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating." The police chief seemed determined to head off any suggestion that this was a racially motivated attack by saying that crime is colorblind. Other officials elsewhere have said similar things. A wave of such attacks in Chicago were reported, but not the race of the attackers or victims. Media outlets that do not report the race of people committing crimes nevertheless report racial disparities in imprisonment and write heated editorials blaming the criminal justice system. What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over. It may be understandable that some people want to head off such a catastrophe, either by not reporting the attacks in this race war, or not identifying the race of those attacking, or by insisting that the attacks were not racially motivated — even when the attackers themselves voice anti-white invective as they laugh at their bleeding victims. Trying to keep the lid on is understandable. But a lot of pressure can build up under that lid. If and when that pressure leads to an explosion of white backlash, things could be a lot worse than if the truth had come out earlier, and steps taken by both black and white leaders to deal with the hoodlums and with those who inflame the hoodlums. These latter would include not only race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson but also lesser known people in the media, in educational institutions and elsewhere who hype grievances and make all the problems of blacks the fault of whites. Some of these people may think that they are doing a favor to blacks. But it is no favor to anyone who lags behind to turn their energies from the task of improving and advancing themselves to the task of lashing out at others. These others extend beyond whites. Asian American school children in New York and Philadelphia have for years been beaten up by their black classmates. But people in the mainstream media who go ballistic if some kid says something unkind on the Internet about a homosexual classmate nevertheless hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil when Asian American youngsters are beaten up by their black classmates. Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty, discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

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[Beagle8U]

Could an article be more 100% correct, I doubt it!

[econjack]

If there are no consequences to one’s actions, why would anyone expect it to stop? Until the media, police, and black parents start taking on their attendant responsibilities, there is no reason to expect this to stop.

[crosshairs]

It’s like we have to handle muzzies and blacks with kid gloves because so many cowards are afraid of offending them or irritating them. When in fact, it makes no difference because they will be pissed and vengeful no matter what people do.

[MtBaldy]

As always, Thomas Sowell makes perfect sense. He is reviled by liberals for failing to tow their “black Amerika is oppressed by whitey” party line.

[dainbramaged]

Say hello to my little friend.

[Little Ray]

More like a one-way race war.

If the fighting was going both ways, it would be over already.

[jazusamo]

So true...The enemedia and majority of politicians at all levels treat both groups with kid gloves, it has to stop if we are survive as a country.

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[Candor7]

“One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood streaming down her face said: ‘About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn’t listen to us, they wouldn’t take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating.’ “ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is how fascism becomes institutionalized, through the social mechanism of institutional political correctness, defined by who? Barrak Hussein Obama, he began with the incident involving local Medford police and his former Harvard professor in 2008, which resulted in what later became known as the Beer Summit.

Good Read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

[Enten]

Another bull’s eye by Thomas Sowell....

The Denver Post is a prime example of color blind crime reporting......in an assault or robbery, the color of everything, the clothes of the perp, the color of his car and upholstery , everything except the color of the perp is reported.

Seems the unintended consequence of the Denver Post’s policy is that when the color of the perp is not reported, you will suspect that the perp is black.

[Gaffer]

And, this is the reason why so many whites are buying guns, applying for CCWs and carrying. When government and their lap-dog media refuses to act, people protect themselves.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“If there are no consequences to one’s actions, why would anyone expect it to stop? “

It just gets worse!

[THE_RAIDER]

This all started once they created Hate Crimes where only Caucasians or heterosexuals could be charged with this crime.
The media has been silencing the hoard of attacks against whites in this country for years now. The only way you can ever hear or see it is on the Internet.

The biggest slap in the face was the lack of the justice department to go after the new black panther party for voter intimidation in the last election cycle even though they were urged to by their own investigators.

[MrB]

when the color of the perp is not reported, you will suspect that the perp is black

When the race of the perp and the victim is conspicuously not reported, you can safely assume a black on white crime.

This is not a racist comment in the least, it is a comment on the reporting policy of the MSM.

[cyclotic]

I heard today that the Baltimore Daily Democratic Newsletter, otherwise known as the Sun, reported on two community groups that have a historic rivalry.

Guess you can’t call it a gang fight.

[yoe]

Electing Obama in the first place was just an emotional rush not an intellectual effort for the betterment of our country...Obama’s election became a cause rather than an election. We now have a cultural war thanks in part to our socialized institutions of learning and in particular because of Obama’s Marxist upbringing and his close ties to Americans who are Communist, anti-capitalistic, and anti American except for the life style America affords them...as long as the rest of the people pay for their freedom and allow them to take ours. Obama must not have another four years...this is experiment has failed.

[Uncle Ike]

” This is how fascism becomes institutionalized, through the social mechanism of institutional political correctness, defined by who? Barrak Hussein Obama, “

Sorry - O’Zero can’t claim credit for starting, or defining, the scourge of Political Correctness...

In fact, he is merely the most visible product and beneficiary of the PC foray into Orwellianism...

[DuncanWaring]

Let’s concede, for the sake of discussion, that these attacks by large numbers of barbarians of one demographic on small numbers of people of another demographic are not based on those demographic differences.

What is inarguable, though, is that there are many members of one demographic that consider it acceptable or even desirable to go out hunting for targets and attacking them.

That is not acceptable, and will not end well.