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A Censored Race War? (Thomas Sowell)
Creators Syndicate ^ | May 15, 2012 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 05/14/2012 8:55:30 AM PDT by 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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To: jazusamo
The same PRAVDA media that cheerleads for 0bama is the same PRAVDA media that buries the truth about black-on-white crime.

If it doesn't fit the narrative, it didn't happen. They're so far gone that they don't even want to report it when it happens to their own. These people cherish their own fantasies and self-infatuation as much as they hate reality. They have a death wish for themselves that they can't acknowledge, and a death wish for America that they openly celebrate.

The PRAVDA media has moved beyond a mere annoyance; they are a cancer on this great republic.

81 posted on 05/16/2012 8:39:13 AM PDT by mojito
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To: Eaker; afnamvet; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; APatientMan; ApesForEvolution; ...
(PS, I don’t have the CW2 ping list on this machine, but this thread could use a CW2 ping.)

A little late, but pinged and tagged!

82 posted on 05/16/2012 12:20:10 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: archy

Thanks, archy.


83 posted on 05/16/2012 12:24:24 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: archy

Thanks archy

FReegards


84 posted on 05/16/2012 12:28:11 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: unkus; MileHi
Thanks, archy.

Anytime! Cheers, mates!

85 posted on 05/16/2012 12:32:36 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: archy

The revolution is not being televised.


86 posted on 05/16/2012 12:33:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: archy; Jack Black; Travis McGee; Chode

Indeed, this thread could use a CW2 ping.


87 posted on 05/16/2012 12:41:33 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: jazusamo; rawcatslyentist

And fatherlessness is now invading the white middle class suburban homes due to the fact that the courts incentivize divorce for the biomoms. The same way as the government incentivized welfare checks for the minority community to replace the biodad as provider.

There’s a “Child SUPPORT Enforcement Unit” which gets federal matching funds for the highest amount of support the locals can collect but no “SHARED PARENTING Enforcement Unit.”

Biomom exercises her parental sovereignty as a “single mom” by blocking access to dad and putting Junior on ADHD/anxiety meds as a poor substitute for father’s authoritarian role. Any white male knows this who has ever been through divorce/family court. She may then hook up with a “yes man” or more accurately “yes MA’AM” that will eventually become “daddy” aka the stepdad.

Children either become sniveling, dare I say it, sissies, or feral young felons when “parented” or shall I say “free ranged” under mommykins alone.


88 posted on 05/16/2012 12:48:27 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

All policies of the left are intentionally detrimental to the core, traditional, nuclear family.


89 posted on 05/16/2012 12:50:10 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: THE_RAIDER

“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.”

Not so.

Since the early 1990’s there was at least one publication that dealt openly and “incorrectly” regarding race relations and culture. Long before you could read about such things here (and by “here”, it’s worth noting that the postings regarding same on this particular site have become more frank within the past couple of years), such incidents were reported there. They no longer publish a print edition (ended this January), but the entire content of their past issues is available for all to see.

I won’t name the publication, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mr. Sowell’s article appear there too, if Jared. Taylor takes notice of it....


90 posted on 05/16/2012 1:53:18 PM PDT by Road Glide
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To: jazusamo

I’d vote for this man for President. But his talent is better used as an author. He’s too honest for politics.


91 posted on 05/16/2012 2:10:15 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: archy
i have a feeling it's gonna be a looong summer...
92 posted on 05/16/2012 3:06:52 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: DTogo
Pistol... DON'T leave home without it!!!
93 posted on 05/16/2012 3:08:31 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: jazusamo

Very good data analisys here:
http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.html


94 posted on 05/16/2012 3:12:07 PM PDT by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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To: archy

Thanx, Sir.


95 posted on 05/16/2012 3:28:50 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: archy; netmilsmom; tomdavidd; Freeper; Gvl_M3; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; ...
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. . . . Catching up again ping.

Thanks, archy.

96 posted on 05/16/2012 4:23:48 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: jazusamo

One thing to take comfort when seeing news like this is the fact that such events are only possible so long as big brother is there to protect the perps.

That protection won’t last forever, and I think we all know what will happen on that day.


97 posted on 05/16/2012 4:35:19 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: BigDaddyTX
Thanks for the link, it speaks volumes in a few words.
98 posted on 05/16/2012 4:47:24 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: archy

If you do set up one, could you please add me?


99 posted on 05/16/2012 4:54:59 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: LucyT; jazusamo

Dr. Sowell is DaManDotCom!

Thanks!

(Get a copy of the Thomas Sowell Reader, if you don’t already have one)


100 posted on 05/16/2012 6:29:02 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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