The True Plight of Black Americans
Walter E. Williams
While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the
recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing
to do with the police or what has been called "systemic racism."
Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big
cities.
Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis,
Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark,
Buffalo and Philadelphia. The most common characteristic of these cities is
that for decades, all of them have been run by liberal Democrats. Some cities
-- such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphia -- haven't elected a
Republican mayor for more than a half-century. On top of this, in many of these
cities, blacks are mayors, often they dominate city councils, and they are
chiefs of police and superintendents of schools.
In 1965, there were no blacks in the U.S. Senate, nor were
there any black governors. And only six members of the House of Representatives
were black. As of 2019, there is far greater representation in some areas -- 52
House members are black. Nine black Americans have served in the Senate,
including Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, Carol Moseley Braun and Barack
Obama of Illinois, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and
Kamala Harris of California. In recent times, there have been three black state
governors. The bottom line is that today's black Americans have significant
political power at all levels of government. Yet, what has that meant for a
large segment of the black population?
Democratic-controlled cities have the
poorest-quality public education despite their large, and growing, school
budgets.
Consider Baltimore,
Maryland. In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore's 39 high schools, not a single student
scored proficient on the state's math exam. In six other high schools, only 1%
tested proficient in math. Only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state's
English test. That same year in Philadelphia only 19% of eighth-graders scored
proficient in math, and 16% were proficient in reading. In Detroit, only 4% of
its eighth-graders scored proficient in math, and 7% were proficient in
reading. It's the same story of academic disaster in other cities run by
Democrats.
Violent crime and poor education is not the only problem for
Democratic-controlled cities. Because of high crime, poor schools and a less
pleasant environment, cities are losing their economic base and their most
productive people in droves. When World War II ended, the population of
Washington, D.C., was about 800,000; today, it's about 700,000. In 1950,
Baltimore's population was almost 950,000; today, it's around 590,000.
Detroit's 1950 population was close to 1.85 million; today, it's down to
673,000. The population of Camden, New Jersey, in 1950 was nearly 125,000;
today it has fallen to 74,000. St. Louis' 1950 population was more than
856,000; today, it's less than 294,000. A similar story of population decline can
be found in most of our formerly large and prosperous cities. In some cities,
the population decline since 1950 is well over 50%, and that includes Detroit,
St. Louis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Academic liberals, civil rights advocates and others blamed the
exodus on racism -- "white flight" to the suburbs to avoid blacks.
But blacks have been fleeing some cities at higher rates than whites. The five
cities whose suburbs have the fastest-growing black populations are Miami,
Dallas, Washington, Houston and Atlanta. It turns out that blacks, like whites,
want better and safer schools for their kids and don't like to be mugged or
have their property vandalized. And like white people, if they have the means,
black people cannot wait to leave troubled cities.
White liberals and black politicians focus most of their
attention on what the police do, but how relevant is that to the overall
tragedy? According to Statista, this year, 172 whites and 88 blacks have died
at the hands of police. To put police shootings in a bit of perspective, in
Chicago alone in 2020 there have been 1,260 shootings and 256 homicides with
blacks being the primary victims. That comes to one shooting victim every three
hours and one homicide victim every 15 hours. Three people in Chicago have been
killed by police. If one is truly concerned about black deaths, shootings by
police should figure way down on one's list -- which is not to excuse bad
behavior by some police officers.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George
Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features
by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators
Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
NO ONE WORKED HARDER FOR NAFTA THAN JOE BIDEN! IT IS THE
BASIS OF THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S PLATFORM OR BILLIONAIRES AND BANKSTERS.
THAT IS THE REASON WE HAVE OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX.
LOOK AT THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN ALL DEMOCRAT PARTY-CONTROLLED
LA RAZA SANCTUARY CITIES ALL OF WHICH ARE IN MELTDOWN!
A Deliberately Bankrupted
America
Why
are the cities burning? African Americans have been a part of our history since
our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence. They are found on
the Supreme Court, in military leadership, as
prominent mayors, Members of Congress, academics, authors, cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, police chiefs, surgeons, business owners, entertainers, athletes, astronauts, and CEOs. A 75% white America
even voted twice to choose an African American leader. If so much progress has
been made, why are the nation’s cities -- some led by African American mayors,
with a diverse police force often led by non-white police chiefs -- burning?
Could
this be the end result of choices made over time by some of our leaders to
bankrupt America and African-Americans economically, morally, educationally,
and spiritually?
The
Free Trade Agreements from ‘94 to ‘01, with NAFTA, and then with China,
bankrupted the nation economically. The ‘sucking sound’ of factories closing and millions of jobs
disappearing hit both sides of the border. Millions of Mexican family farmers
could not compete with American agribusiness, lost their farms .and began the trek
northward. Those men (in the words of the times) worked ‘twice as hard as black
men, for half the pay’. Systemic unemployment enabled by free trade and open
borders was made worse by floods of drugs brought by the Colombian and Mexican
Cartels, and synthetic drugs manufactured in Chinese factories. Addicted men engaged in
petty theft to support their habits or became part of the predatory gangs
profiting off the addicts. The explosion in crime, starting with the crack wars
of the late 80s, resulted in the imprisoning of many young African American
men. In 1990, one of every three African-American
men under 29 were in prison or on parole.
Already
stressed family bonds broke under this strain. Currently 77% percent of African
Americans are born into unmarried families. The family pictures of son, father,
and grandson is almost unknown in our poorest communities. The anger and pain
of sons abandoned by their fathers is a lifelong wound. The consequences of
numerous short-term disposable relationships is abusive stepparents and the loss of
positive male role models. When the patriarchy is smashed, there are no fathers
to guide boys to manhood, and the masculinity that remains is too often toxic.
If
the family is a broken reed, what of the schools? In our poorest schools,
the lowest achieving students, mostly young men with attention and behavior problems, leave elementary school
without learning to read or mastering arithmetic, only to fall behind further
each year. In our nation’s capital, one-third of the adults
cannot read. Our lowest-performing students learn from school that no matter
how disruptively and disrespectfully you behave, no matter how little you work
or how low your test scores, you will pass on to the next grade.
When 2/3rds of students are not at grade
level, maintaining standards is impossible
without drastic reform.
Our
schools and our culture do not support societal stability. They are creating a
nation of moral and spiritual midgets. With the Biblical Ten Commandments
ridiculed for a generation, looters of every background across the nation defy
the unknown command “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Rather than heed Jesus’ example of
forgiveness, grievance is nurtured and encouraged. In expelling those old white
men, the Greek philosophers, from our humanities, we do not teach Aristotle’s
virtue of moderation in a democratic society. In schools today, the focus is
not on the virtues or genius of our founding generation. There is little talk of innovators, entrepreneurs, explorers, soldiers, scientists, pioneers, architects, or engineers. Instead, a cartoon
version of only protestors and oppressors becomes our national story. America is portrayed as a shameful, oppressive country, one that deserves
little loyalty or protection from
the mob. The social compact has been deliberately frayed.
For
a generation, the complaint has been of wealth inequality -- some people
are too rich. An entire race
has been labeled with #Whiteprivilege. We have become a nation singularly focused on
the color of our skin, while blindly ignoring the content of our individual
character. Suddenly America is not the place where an African immigrant genius
can lead our national return to space, but an oppressive land where the fabulously
rich Elon Musk is just another rich white man benefiting from his privilege.
The nuance and truths behind the theories of income inequality and white
privilege are lost on the rioting mobs. Instead it is the sin of envy
personified, and the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.” Or as Karl Marx so eloquently put it:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Our
nation’s political class is deeply divided. Many Democrat politicians cannot
bring themselves to openly side with law and order against their allies and so
remain silent to the hijacking of legitimate protests. To a socialist ‘you
didn’t build that’ -- what the entrepreneur spent a lifetime building up -- is
actually the property of the voters, who have decided to redistribute the
wealth. Thus, hundreds of Minneapolis police stood by, at the mayor’s command,
while businesses were looted across
the street. They were defending the police precinct -- government property. And
even then, they were ordered to give that up to the mob. After all, the city
can just take your money in taxes to rebuild after it’s over. In Minneapolis,
under the leadership of Mayor Jacob Frey, the police are there to keep your
nonessential business shut down because of COVID-19, but not to protect your
life’s work from the anarchists. In Washington D.C., the mayor at first refused
to use city police to protect the White House and our nation’s monuments.
Arlington county withdrew its police from D.C., when
they saw their officers help the President cross the street during the
protests. To some, the real problem is the political opposition, not the
rioting. After all, if Trump succeeds in bringing back American manufacturing,
and if his actions raise American wages by lowering taxes and regulations while
decreasing illegal immigration, then Democratic
politicians might lose a few elections. Better to burn America down, than to
MAGA.
And
therein lies a clue to the problems of our deeply divided country. Our country
is deeply divided and hurting economically, educationally, morally, and
spiritually. But division is in the interests of some of our political leaders.
Why unify, when division makes your supporters more passionate? Why build, when
it is much easier to tear down? The key to our political paradox lies in the
virtues expounded by the world’s first democrats, the Greeks: wisdom, justice, moderation, and
courage.
May we have the wisdom to sit in moderate dialogue with our fellow citizens,
and the courage to seek liberty and justice for all.
The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
Debunking the Left's pernicious
lies.
Thu Jun 4, 2020
Instead it is the sin of envy personified, and
the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.”
A Deliberately Bankrupted America
Why
are the cities burning? African Americans have been a part of our history since
our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence. They are found on
the Supreme Court, in military leadership, as
prominent mayors, Members of Congress, academics, authors, cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, police chiefs, surgeons, business owners, entertainers, athletes, astronauts, and CEOs. A 75% white America
even voted twice to choose an African American leader. If so much progress has
been made, why are the nation’s cities -- some led by African American mayors,
with a diverse police force often led by non-white police chiefs -- burning?
Could
this be the end result of choices made over time by some of our leaders to
bankrupt America and African-Americans economically, morally, educationally,
and spiritually?
The
Free Trade Agreements from ‘94 to ‘01, with NAFTA, and then with China,
bankrupted the nation economically. The ‘sucking sound’ of factories closing and millions of jobs
disappearing hit both sides of the border.
BLOG
EDITOR: FOR 8 YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DID NADA FOR BLACK AMERICA AS
THEY SURRENDERED OUR BORDERS TO MEXICO!
Millions
of Mexican family farmers could not compete with American agribusiness, lost their farms .and began the trek
northward.
Those men (in the words of the times) worked ‘twice as hard as black men, for
half the pay’. Systemic unemployment enabled by free trade and open borders
was made worse by floods of drugs brought by the Colombian and Mexican Cartels,
and synthetic drugs manufactured in Chinese factories. Addicted men engaged in
petty theft to support their habits or became part of the predatory gangs
profiting off the addicts. The explosion in crime, starting with the crack wars
of the late 80s, resulted in the imprisoning of many young African American
men. In 1990, one of every three African-American
men under 29 were in prison or on parole.
Already
stressed family bonds broke under this strain. Currently 77% percent of African
Americans are born into unmarried families. The family pictures of son, father,
and grandson is almost unknown in our poorest communities. The anger and pain
of sons abandoned by their fathers is a lifelong wound. The consequences of
numerous short-term disposable relationships is abusive stepparents and the loss of
positive male role models. When the patriarchy is smashed, there are no
fathers to guide boys to manhood, and the masculinity that remains is too often
toxic.
If
the family is a broken reed, what of the schools? In our poorest schools, the lowest achieving
students, mostly young men with attention and behavior problems, leave elementary school
without learning to read or mastering arithmetic, only to fall behind further
each year. In our nation’s capital, one-third of the adults
cannot read. Our lowest-performing students learn from school that no matter
how disruptively and disrespectfully you behave, no matter how little you work
or how low your test scores, you will pass on to the next
grade.
When 2/3rds of students are not at grade
level, maintaining standards is impossible
without drastic reform.
Our
schools and our culture do not support societal stability. They are creating a
nation of moral and spiritual midgets. With the Biblical Ten Commandments
ridiculed for a generation, looters of every background across the nation defy
the unknown command “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Rather than heed Jesus’ example of
forgiveness, grievance is nurtured and encouraged. In expelling those old white
men, the Greek philosophers, from our humanities, we do not teach Aristotle’s
virtue of moderation in a democratic society. In schools today, the focus is
not on the virtues or genius of our founding generation. There is little talk of innovators, entrepreneurs, explorers, soldiers, scientists, pioneers, architects, or engineers. Instead, a cartoon
version of only protestors and oppressors becomes our national story. America is portrayed as a shameful, oppressive country, one that deserves
little loyalty or protection from
the mob. The social compact has been deliberately frayed.
For
a generation, the complaint has been of wealth inequality -- some people
are too rich. An entire race
has been labeled with #Whiteprivilege. We have become a nation singularly focused on
the color of our skin, while blindly ignoring the content of our individual
character. Suddenly America is not the place where an African immigrant genius
can lead our national return to space, but an oppressive land where the fabulously
rich Elon Musk is just another rich white man benefiting from his privilege.
The nuance and truths behind the theories of income inequality and white
privilege are lost on the rioting mobs. Instead it is the sin of envy
personified, and the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.” Or as Karl Marx so eloquently put it: “From each
according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Our
nation’s political class is deeply divided. Many Democrat politicians cannot
bring themselves to openly side with law and order against their allies and so
remain silent to the hijacking of legitimate protests. To a socialist ‘you
didn’t build that’ -- what the entrepreneur spent a lifetime building up -- is
actually the property of the voters, who have decided to redistribute the
wealth. Thus, hundreds of Minneapolis police stood by, at the mayor’s
command, while businesses were looted across the street. They were defending the
police precinct -- government property. And even then, they were ordered to
give that up to the mob. After all, the city can just take your money in taxes
to rebuild after it’s over. In Minneapolis, under the leadership of Mayor Jacob
Frey, the police are there to keep your nonessential business shut down because
of COVID-19, but not to protect your life’s work from the anarchists. In
Washington D.C., the mayor at first refused to use city police to protect the
White House and our nation’s monuments. Arlington county withdrew its police from D.C., when
they saw their officers help the President cross the street during the
protests. To some, the real problem is the political opposition, not the
rioting. After all, if Trump succeeds in bringing back American manufacturing,
and if his actions raise American wages by lowering taxes and regulations while
decreasing illegal immigration, then Democratic
politicians might lose a few elections. Better to burn America down, than to
MAGA.
And
therein lies a clue to the problems of our deeply divided country. Our country
is deeply divided and hurting economically, educationally, morally, and spiritually.
But division is in the interests of some of our political leaders. Why unify,
when division makes your supporters more passionate? Why build, when it is much
easier to tear down? The key to our political paradox lies in the virtues
expounded by the world’s first democrats, the Greeks: wisdom, justice, moderation, and
courage.
May we have the wisdom to sit in moderate dialogue with our fellow citizens,
and the courage to seek liberty and justice for all.
The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
Debunking the Left's pernicious
lies.
Thu Jun 4, 2020
Prior to
the May 25th death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a major focus of the media
during the preceding two weeks had been a video showing an incident where a
young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot by
two white men in Glynn County, Georgia. The killers say that they pursued
Arbery, whom they suspected of having been involved in some recent local
burglaries, when they spotted him running through their neighborhood – though
some accounts claim that he was merely out for a jog. Eventually a fight broke
out, and Arbery was shot and killed. After a video of the deadly altercation
went public in early May, there were massive protests in
Arbery's behalf. On May 8 – which would have been Arbery's 26th birthday –
activist Al Sharpton used the Internet to lead a “virtual
rally” in the young man's memory, drawing some 105,000 participants.
In an
interview four days later, Sharpton, exhorting members
of the black community to “sustain” their “indignation” vis-a-vis the Arbery
case for as long as possible, portrayed the Georgia killing as an extension of
racist American violence dating back to the epoch of slavery: “It was expected
that if you saw a black, that you would suspect that he was a runaway slave,
and you had the runaway slave laws that … they would use that to hunt down
blacks for vigilante groups, the KKK and others, all the way up until the
modern era.”
Television personality Oprah Winfrey likewise characterized Arbery's
death as a consequence of intransigent white racism: “He went out for a jog
while being Black. I wonder what was he thinking in those last seconds of his
life? Unimaginable to go for a run in 2020 and end up dead because of the color
of your skin.”
Notably, there is no record of either Sharpton or Winfrey uttering even a
single public word in memory of 34-year-old Zackary Randalls, 37-year-old Mark Gassett,
or 58-year-old David Jackson. You've never heard of these individuals, of
course, because they were merely three white men who were murdered three
years ago in Fresno, California by Kori Ali Muhammad, a black racist who
candidly sought “to kill as many white males as possible” – killings for which
the perpetrator was convicted just six weeks ago. Regarding the Zackary
Randalls murder, Mr. Muhammad has since explained: “When I
walked up to the truck, I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy. I didn’t want
to target the driver because he was Mexican, so I shot the white dude.” The
media, for some mysterious reason, didn't find the story compelling enough to
cover.
Neither is there any record of Sharpton or Winfrey lamenting the
deaths of 86-year-old Paul Marino and his 85-year-old wife, Lidia, both of whom
were murdered in cold blood by a black gunman on May 8 – the very day of
Sharpton's “virtual rally” in honor of Ahmaud Arbery – while they visited the
gravesite of their late son, Anthony, in a Delaware cemetery. To borrow Oprah's
pithy maxim, we might say that Mr. and Mrs. Marino were just “visiting their
son's grave while being white.”
Other victims whose recent murders were ignored by media outlets and camera
hogs like Sharpton and Winfrey include:
· Joyce
Whaley, Patricia Nibbe, and Nettie Spencer – three middle-aged
white women who were brutally stabbed to death by a black killer at a
Tennessee truck
stop in early April;
· Heather
Perry, a 21-year-old white woman who was shot to
death in a Denver alleyway on May 9 by Cornelius Haney, a
convicted armed robber who had just been released from prison in order to
protect him from contracting the coronavirus;
· Logan Allen
Stacks, a 17-year-old white boy who was gunned
down by two black teens on March 27 in Lancaster County, South
Carolina;
· Dr. Beth
Potter, a 52-year-old white physician who dedicated her career to helping
“underserved communities,” and her husband, educational consultant Robin Carre,
who were shot execution-style by a
pair of black teens on March 30 in Madison, Wisconsin; and
· Kristopher
Dacus, a 33-year-old white man who on February 26 was shot multiple times
and killed by
four black teens in the North Little Rock, Arkansas cemetery where he worked.
Let us
assume for a moment that Ahmaud Arbery – who quite obviously was a volatile and menacing character with
a criminal
history – was in fact the innocent victim of a horrific, wholly
unjustifiable murder. Even if that were the case, why should his death garner
more attention from American media outlets and civil rights activists, than,
say, the deaths of the 13 aforementioned whites whose lives were mercilessly
snuffed out by black killers in 6 different states? Perhaps a case could be
made in favor of such a double standard if white-on-black killings were
commonplace in American society – on the theory that the condemnation of such
occurrences might help raise people's collective consciousness about the deadly
ramifications of white racism. But in fact, white-on-black homicides in the
U.S. have been exceedingly rare for many decades.
Conventional “wisdom” maintains that violent crime tends largely to be an intra-racial affair, where
whites target mostly whites, and blacks target mostly blacks. This is certainly
true for homicide, but much
less true for other crimes of violence such as assault, rape,
and robbery.
Let us look first at homicides that involved whites and blacks during 2012 and 2013. During
those years, white killers nationwide chose to target white victims
approximately 93 percent of the time, and black victims 7 percent of the time.
Meanwhile, black killers targeted black victims 84.7 percent of the time, and
white victims 15.3 percent of the time.
But violence in America crosses racial lines much more frequently when the
crimes in question are rape, robbery, and assault. In 2012 and 2013, for
instance, blacks in the U.S. committed an annual average of 560,600 violent
crimes (excluding homicide) against whites, while whites committed a yearly
average of 99,403 violent crimes against blacks. In other words, blacks were
the attackers in about 85 percent of all violent crimes involving blacks and
whites, while whites were the attackers in 15 percent.[1]
Those broad figures, however, do not even begin to tell the full story about
interracial crime. To get a complete picture, we must also look at crime
statistics from the
perspective of the offender. That is, when a given violent offender
chooses a victim to target for a crime, does he tend to target a victim who is
a fellow member of his own racial group, or does he tend to go after a victim
from another racial group? Here are the facts:
· When white
offenders committed crimes of violence (excluding homicide) against either
whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims 95.8 percent of the
time, and they went after black victims a mere 4.1 percent of the time.
· By
contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either
whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims a whopping 48.5
percent of the time, and they went after black victims 51.4 percent of the
time.[2]
If we
factor into the equation the relative sizes of America's white and black
populations, we find that, statistically, any given
black person in 2012-13 was about 27 times more likely to attack a white, than
vice versa.
In more recent years, the disproportionate prevalence of black-on-white crime
has only gotten worse. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2018 there
were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between
blacks and whites in the United States. Blacks committed 537,204 of those
interracial felonies, or 90.4 percent, while whites committed 56,394 of them,
or about 9.5 percent. Moreover:
· When white
offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks in 2018,
they targeted white victims 97.3 percent of the time, and they went after black
victims 2.6 percent of the time.
· By
contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either
whites or blacks during that same year, they targeted white victims 58 percent
of the time, and they went after black victims 42 percent of the time.[3]
City
Journal also reports that
according to Justice Department data, blacks in 2018 were overrepresented among
the perpetrators of offenses classified as “hate crimes” by a whopping 50
percent—while whites were underrepresented by 24 percent.
These
numbers are staggering.
If America were teeming with white racism, those guilty of interracial crime
would be disproportionately white. But instead, the exact opposite is
the case. Thus, the enormous amount of attention given to white-on-black
attacks – which are statistically rare in the United States – is an obscene and
senseless absurdity. The notion of ubiquitous white racism manifesting itself
in unacceptably high levels of white violence against blacks, is one of the
most destructive and monstrously evil lies of our time, creating levels of
racial mistrust and animosity that are wholly unwarranted.
NOTES
[1] Bureau of Justice Statistics, National
Crime Victimization Survey, 2012-13, Special Tabulation, Table 10.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal
Victimization, 2018, Table 14.
Nolte:
Democrat-Run Cities Are Doomed
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Images/Jason Redmond
10 Jun 202028
4:55
Things will
someday get better. This left-wing moral panic will pass. Just not anytime soon. And not before things get worse —
most especially in Democrat-run cities.
Please do not fool yourself into believing the rioting and mayhem
and blacklisting and canceling will quickly burn itself out. It won’t. The
radical left is emboldened, and when the radical left is emboldened, cities
burn, violent crime explodes, good men die, people and content are disappeared and blacklisted, and human
rights are violated — all as the corporate media propagandize these obscenities
as progress and virtuous.
And they are just getting started…
But it is in the Democrat-run cities where things are going to
get especially awful.
We are already seeing this play out
in Seattle, where the left-wing terrorist group Black Lives Matter have
established their own caliphate or
confederacy.
With the help of a city council
member, Black Lives Matter briefly took over Seattle’s City Hall and have now
created a permanent Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), a six-block zone
blocked off by barricades and signs that read, “You are now leaving the USA.”
The police are banned from this zone and have, at least for now,
agreed to abandon the area to armed protesters and terrorists.
Within this six block area are 500 residential homes.
It will only be a matter of time before criminals prey on these
helpless residents.
Freedom is dead in this zone. Just
try wearing a MAGA hat or hanging a Confederate flag or watching The Jeffersons where
everyone can see you. Just try questioning or challenging your new overseers…
This is a caliphate.
So how was this allowed to happen…?
In a word: Weakness.
Few mayors have sought to appease the left-wing terrorists in
Antifa and Black Lives Matter more than Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. Weakness
not only invites aggression, it also increases demands for fealty. The
terrorists who took over city hall and those six blocks are holding Durkan’s
resignation as a form of ransom.
Whatever her shortcomings, she was legally elected by the people
of Seattle. But the Woke Taliban want her gone, and now they have essentially recalled
her by creating their caliphate.
As we have seen over the past two weeks, weakness is a problem
in all of these Democrat-run cities. Another problem is that Democrat
politicians cannot defy the monsters they created without being devoured by
them. The bind they are in, and by extension the bind they have put their city
residents in, is that if you defy the Woke Taliban, you will be attacked as a
racist and find yourself under fire by a corporate media that has also been
taken over by the Woke Taliban.
In other words, you can either abolish, defund, and otherwise
weaken police protections, or you will be voted out of office, recalled,
or worse… Your city will be relentlessly besieged with disruptive protests and
riots: blocked traffic, damaged property — the extortion of chaos and mayhem.
Of course, these Democrats will give in and are already giving
in. Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, and a host of Democrat-run cities have
already agreed to abolish, defund, or otherwise weaken the police — even though
there is no question this will lead to a dramatic increase in every imaginable
crime, including rape, murder, armed robbery… Street gangs and cartels will
again own streets.
There is no way out for Democrats.
And there is no way out for the idiots who live in these cities
and vote for Democrats.
You can either weaken the police and suffer through the increase
in violent crime and lawlessness that will follow, or you can subject your city
to the unceasing disruption of protests and riots.
Of course, Democrat politicians could do the right thing and
uphold the law, but they are not capable of that… They are almost all radicals
themselves, and they want to remain in power…
So what does this mean for the average citizen in Democrat-run
cities…?
In a word: blight.
The return of urban blight.
Dirty streets. Crime. Collapsing property rates. Boarded up
storefronts. High taxes. Homeless. Terrible schools. Living in fear. Bars on
windows.
We tried to warn you.
But you idiot Democrats still voted to make a communist the
mayor of New York, an appeaser the mayor of Seattle, and an open Antifa
supporter the attorney general of Minnesota.
You get what you vote for, and Democrats are about to get
exactly what they deserve…
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June 8, 2020
Lies and Sacraments: The story of the Democratic Party
We
are being fed an unending stream of lies by the media/academia/Democrat
complex. The party of segregation and Jim Crow now claims to be the
one true friend of African-Americans and people of color. In fact,
according to its current presidential nominee, "you
ain't black" if you vote for the other
guy. Does that not mean that "you ain't white" if you vote
for Biden? Maybe by Biden's "logic." But
conservatives don't think that way.
The
ugly truth is that slavery and abortion have been the two sacraments of the
Democratic Party. The first, since its inception, the latter in more
modern times. Slavery was a monstrous evil as practiced then and is
a monstrous evil as practiced now. Stray too far from the Democratic
plantation, and they try to strip you of your dignity. Erase your
identity. Call you names. Say you aren't actually
black. They actively foment race and class warfare to further
their own cause, their own power. Screw the country. This
is the mother of all evils.
Speaking
of mothers, while those aborted don't have to be provided for, they aren't
worth mentioning to Democrats since they can't vote. Because they're
dead. That's the difference. Abortions are effectively partly
subsidized by our tax dollars. What does one say about a party that
advocates confiscating people's money to fund
Planned Parenthood (or pay for union dues,
for that matter) without their consent, or even in direct opposition to their
beliefs? Is that not another form of slavery? It
certainly is taxation without representation at a minimum. The
Founders rebelled against a three-pence tax on tea. Isn't this
worse?
We
are being lied to continually. Very few people in the media, such as
Tucker Carlson, are brave enough to speak truth to power, whoever that
power may be, wherever it may lie. Democrats are gifted liars,
preternatural prevaricators. (See also the Clintons.) They
will tell you Republicans are racist. They will
tell you that President Trump colluded with the Russians, might even be a
Russian asset. They tell us that global warming is an existential
crisis and that the Earth will be toast in ten years. Of course,
they also told us that ten
years ago. They told us that COVID-19
would likely kill countless millions, maybe 2.2
million in this country alone, so we should
stay inside. We couldn't have graduation ceremonies, get married,
attend funerals, or get a haircut. For our own good. Those
few of us who eventually dared to leave our homes and peacefully protest this
usurpation of our constitutional rights were labeled as selfish, hateful,
bigots — terrorists, in fact — who were going to be responsible for a
surge in coronavirus infections and resultant deaths.
And
now they tell us that certain protests, even violent ones, are a public
health good, even a
necessity. That isn't "their truth." It's a
lie. There's no such thing as my truth, your truth, his truth,
or her truth. There is only the truth.
The
truth is: the truth is.
It
is up to us to recognize it. Embrace it. Cherish
it. Protect it. And tell it.
Democrats - Like the Mensheviks - Will
Go Into the Dustbin of History
How history is repeating itself.
June 8, 2020
Phil Orenstein
All it took was a spark, the tragic police killing of George Floyd
in Minneapolis, to trigger the explosion of anger and frustration that the
radical left exploited to orchestrate the violent insurrection across America
they had been planning for months.
The radicals strike when then see weakness, and that is what they
saw in the largely Democrat run cities where the major riots broke out. These
professional agitators have a well-planned strategy for the violent takeover of
America which they can never accomplish peacefully through elections.
Hours after the video of Floyd began circulating the internet, militant Antifa,
Black Lives Matters cells and other radical socialist groups began deploying to
Minnesota to riot, according to Andy Ngo, an American conservative journalist
who studies the revolutionary tactics of the radical left. The
anarchist-communist group, Antifa has perfected the art of rioting and chaos,
first breaking store windows, calling in the looters, and then burning the
place down. It is encouraging news that Antifa, whose stated goals are to
abolish capitalism and law enforcement in America, will be designated as a
terrorist organization as President Trump announced on Sunday May 31st.
Antifa and an amalgam of radical leftist movements in America
including Black Lives Matter (BLM), Democratic Socialists of America
(DSA), Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the Bernie Bros, have
taken a page from Lenin’s playbook of the Bolshevik Revolution. They follow in
the footsteps of murderous dictators such as Lenin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, and
Maduro, who exploited the poverty, chaos and turmoil of their societies to take
over through violent insurrections, since they could never achieve power
through a peaceful election process.
History is repeating itself now as we are witnessing the battle of
the moderates versus the radical left within the Democrat Party. Lenin’s
totalitarian Bolsheviks split from the more moderate democratic Mensheviks, who
were the popular establishment party, violently seized power, overthrew the
Tsarist regime, and ultimately established the Soviet Union. Lenin hated the Mensheviks more
than the Tsar, whom he had executed along with his entire family. Along with
capitalism and democracy, Lenin annihilated the Mensheviks and sent them, as
Trotsky chided “… into the dustbin of history!”
These radical socialist movements, all enthusiastic supporters of
socialist Bernie Sanders during the Presidential Primaries, will not be
supporting Joe Biden, as DSA and others stated. Similar to Lenin and the
Mensheviks, the radical socialists hate the establishment Democrats more than
the president. The political war the establishment Democrat-media complex waged
against the Sanders presidential campaign and the system rigged against him to
defeat him the second time, pushed them over the boiling point to set off “the
powder keg that is growing all over this country,” in the words of Nina Turner,
former top aide for Sander’s presidential campaign, inciting the flames of riot
and revolt across the nation.
It’s ironic that the rioters attacked CNN Headquarters in Atlanta,
since CNN promoted the righteousness of the riots. But CNN, the media arm of
the Democrat establishment, played a major role in the defeat of Sanders. After
his Nevada victory, Sanders was poised to sweep the nation and win the
Democratic nomination. Biden was dead in the water. This frightened the
Democrat-media establishment, and CNN conspired with them to undermine the
Sanders campaign, blasting his age, his health after a heart attack, his way
too expensive Medicare and tuition reforms, his far leftist leanings, and
alleging “sexism” at the CNN debate. It was a full court press to defeat
Sanders as Super Tuesday was approaching. So former rivals united around Biden
who all exited the race giving their endorsement, as the fear and trembling of
a Sanders victory took hold. The leftists vowed that if the nomination was
stolen, wait for the riots to start.
Most of the rioting is happening now in Democratic strongholds, as
payback for their offences against the left. Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore,
Minneapolis, St Louis, Washington DC, Cleveland, some of the most dangerous
cites in America, now hotbeds of rioting and unrest have been totally
controlled by the Democrat Party for 50 years or more. The radical socialists
doing the looting, burning, and causing chaos, do not care about the poverty,
unemployment, the failing schools, the crumbling infrastructure, over-regulated
businesses, or the black, the poor or minority populations living there. Their
aim is to create chaos and take over when the people are sufficiently cowed and
afraid. Democrat mayors and governors are giving them carte blanche to create
havoc and destroy property and human life, as did leftwing Minneapolis Mayor
Jacob Frey who surrendered the Third Police Precinct to the rioters. On top of
that, the son of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, and City Council member,
officially declared his support for Antifa. Voters throughout America need to
rise up and kick out these soft-on-crime political has-beens.
Democratic governors and mayors have been weak and spineless as
the riots have consumed their cities and the people were left terrified and
hopeless. The riot at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was a well-organized
attack orchestrated by radical socialist groups throwing bottles, bricks,
Molotov cocktails and other debris at police. Police were injured, some almost
killed, but that didn’t prevent Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio as well as
other elected officials from taking the side of the rioters and calling for an
investigation into police responses, and Senator Gounares (D-Brooklyn) blaming
the police when they were trying to defend themselves. Senator Michael Gianaris
(D-Astoria) and many other New York City Democrat elected officials, said they
will no longer accept campaign contributions from police unions and declared,
“we deserve a police force that is held accountable for racist behavior.” Setting
the stage for lawlessness and mayhem, New York City with its bail reform laws
releasing criminals to the streets and emptying city jails, welcomes the
professional agitators expediting their plunder.
In contrast, the mayors and governors of Republican cities and
Trump strongholds, who refuse to placate the rioters, who are not afraid to
stand up to the criminals and thugs looting and rioting in the streets of their
cities, have set curfews and declared state of emergency orders early on and
rioting has been curtailed. While Democrats have failed to protect American
lives or property, Republicans have protected this country from foreign
adversaries and domestic foes since 1861, when Abraham Lincoln, the first
Republican president emancipated the slaves and won the Civil War. In 1864 he
defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George McClellan who wanted to
make peace with the South and discard the victory that Lincoln and the Union
was about to achieve. Teddy Roosevelt saved this country with “big stick” diplomacy,
built up our military, and made America a superpower. Eisenhower defeated the
Nazis and stood up to the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan defeated communism and
the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.
The Republican Party is historically the Party of law and order
and strong defense. They have always championed the protection of the people
and always will. In 1968, the chaos and storming of the Democrat National
Convention and the riots that shook the nation, paved the way for the victory
of Richard Nixon who ran for president on a law and order platform. History is
now repeating itself. On Monday June 1st, President Trump called himself “the
president of law and order” and promised to restore security and safety and
mobilize the United States military to American cities to stop the rioting and
looting and protect the rights of Americans. When chaos happens, people seek
law and order, and will vote for Republicans. Rudy Giuliani recently said:
“Don’t elect progressive Democrats if you want to be safe.” Just like the
Mensheviks, the Democrat Party is headed for the dustbin of history.
Phil Orenstein is the president of the Queens Village Republican
Club. Established in 1875, it is America’s oldest Republican Club. Historian,
Jerry Matacotta was the advisor for this article.