Constance Every and a student of Austin-East Magnet High School protest the police shooting of Anthony J. Thompson Jr. (Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times)
The Black community that surrounds Austin-East Magnet High School was still mourning its dead — four students gunned down this year — when the news broke.
Another shooting, this one inside the school.
With Austin-East in lockdown and police with rifles patrolling the halls, it was hours before officials announced that a fifth student had been fatally shot.
For many, this killing was the hardest to take: The shooter was a police officer, and he was Black.
The extraordinary streak of violence has spurred both anger and reflection as parents, teachers and students at Knoxville's only predominantly Black high school — long a source of pride and affection in the community — contemplate how to stop the killing and what role the police should play in any solution.
A woman expresses her anger at the scene of a shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School on April 12. (Wade Payne / Associated Press)
“We have a threat inside the school, we have a threat on the streets, and then we’ve got a police department we can't trust,” said Clifford Bishop, 59, whose grandnephew, Stanley Freeman Jr., was the second student killed.
“We are not just blaming the system,” he added. “We're saying all hands on deck. It’s going to take a whole village of people.”
The killings occurred as much of the nation was focused on police brutality and racism highlighted by the prosecution of Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering an unarmed Black man.
But the deaths in Knoxville — not even the police shooting — don't yield to the familiar narratives of white versus Black, cop versus community, the armed versus the unarmed. The reality in many places is that the causes of violence are often grimly unknowable.
The killings of the high school students have two things in common: All involved guns, and all the victims and all the known suspects were Black.
Much of the rest remains a mystery, leaving residents to speculate about gangs or revenge or mistaken identities or stray bullets.
The killings began Jan. 27, when Justin Taylor, 15, was found unconscious and bleeding in a car. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, and the next day a 17-year-old — his friend — was charged with criminally negligent homicide. The shooting is believed to be an accident.
On Feb. 12, Stanley, a 16-year-old junior, was gunned down as he left the school in his car to go to work. Surveillance videos showed that multiple Austin-East students witnessed the shooting, but few came forward. Even so, a month later a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old — both already in custody after firing multiple rounds at a vehicle in January — were charged with first-degree murder.
Stanley's grandmother, who had custody, said she believes it was a case of mistaken identity: He was not affiliated with any gang, but he looked like a boy targeted by gang members.
On Feb. 16, Janaria "Nana" Muhammad, a 15-year-old co-captain of the school’s dance team, was killed by gunfire outside her home. No one has been charged, and no witnesses have come forward.
In response to the deaths, the City Council approved a $1-million proposal to fund programs to stem gun violence.
The Knoxville Police Department increased patrols around Austin-East, allocated three officers to the area when school dismissed and activated a team to reduce violent crime, sending uniformed and plainclothes officers to areas of East Knoxville, the Black side of town.
Some students, parents and teachers said it was too much. Some worried it wasn’t enough.
On March 9, Jamarion "Lil Dada" Gillette, a 15-year-old aspiring rapper and runaway who had not attended classes since the fall, died after showing up at a hospital with gunshot wounds. No one has been charged.
Then on April 12, a mother called 911 to report that her daughter's ex-boyfriend, Anthony J. Thompson Jr., 17, had pushed her daughter and pulled her hair. Sometimes he carried a gun, she said.
Three police officers arrived at the school to look for Anthony, joining a resource officer assigned there. Body camera videos show them finding Anthony in a bathroom stall and ordering him to show his hands. As Anthony stood up, saying, "My bad, my bad," one officer grabbed and cuffed his left hand while another struggled to pull his right hand from inside his hoodie pocket.
“Wait! Wait!” a voice cried.
Suddenly, the officers reached for their guns and several shots went off. When it was over, one officer was wounded and Anthony was dead.
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Like much of the U.S., this Southern Appalachian city has experienced a sharp rise in violent crime during the pandemic. There were 37 homicides last year — up from 22 in 2019 — and five months into this year, the total is already 16.
Black neighborhoods have felt the toll most acutely. Roughly 17% of the city's 188,000 residents are Black, but since 2019 they have accounted for 63% of the homicide victims and 65% of the known suspects.
The violence is widely viewed as a legacy of systemic racism — including the segregation of Jim Crow and redlining — that is reflected today in a Black poverty rate of 42%. That is significantly higher than in many other Southern cities.
Relations between Black residents and the Police Department have long been tense. Of Knoxville's 374 sworn officers, 20 are Black, and from 2005-19, Black men accounted for 6 of 18 people shot dead by police.
Throughout the hardships of poverty, racism and violence, Austin-East High School has been a source of community for East Knoxville.
It was founded in 1968 when two segregated schools — one Black, the other white — merged and quickly became segregated itself after many white parents began pulling out their children.
A memorial to Anthony J. Thompson Jr. outside Austin-East Magnet High School, where he was fatally shot. (Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times)
While the school has struggled — more than a decade ago, it failed to meet performance benchmarks in math and reading under the No Child Left Behind Act — teachers, parents and alumni are proud of its cultural legacy and tout its strong dance and music programs that emphasize African traditions.
“We send our kids there because we feel that they cannot get this same cultural experience, the same love and the same community feel anywhere else,” said Breyauna Holloway, a 36-year-old alumna who graduated in 2003 and owns a vintage thrift store a mile from the school.
Holloway fondly recalled the Black teachers who instilled her with pride in herself and her community.
No other school had such a huge, joyous homecoming parade. No other marching band would let her dance and twirl to old school Isley Brothers hits and Lil Jon and Atlanta trap music.
Knoxville arrive at Austin-East Magnet High School after the April 12 shooting of Anthony J. Thompson Jr. (Wade Payne / Associated Press)
“It just gives you chills to see Black positivity when so much that is being presented is negativity and violence,” she said. “There was this common bond that we have by being looked down upon as if we should be ashamed to be at that school. We held each other up in a way that I think only we could understand.”
The spate of killings has made Holloway question whether she should continue to keep sending her son and daughter to Austin-East.
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On April 21, Charme P. Allen, the Knox County district attorney general, announced that criminal charges would not be brought against the officer who shot Anthony.
She said Anthony had a gun in his hoodie pocket that went off as he struggled with police — and that the officer, Jonathan Clabough, had seen the barrel peeking out. The bullet from Anthony's gun hit a trash can, ande the bullet that struck an officer had been fired by another officer.
Her announcement — a day after a jury found Chauvin guilty of killing George Floyd — met a swell of outrage across East Knoxville.
More than a hundred Austin-East students, parents, teachers and alumni took to the downtown streets, chanting "Black Youth Matter," pumping their fists in the air and calling for the arrest of the officer who shot Anthony.
“Indict! Convict! Put that killer cop in jail!” they shouted. “The whole damn system is guilty as hell!”
Some protesters said they felt particularly aggrieved that two of the officers — Clabough and Lt. Stanley Cash — were Black.
“Stanley Cash is a disgrace because he was born and raised over here; he played basketball with us,” said Constance Every, a 35-year-old U.S. Army veteran, activist and founder of a nonprofit, Black Coffee Justice. “You turned back on your people!”
Even as the protests focused on Anthony's death at the hands of the police, many demonstrators said that the challenge facing Black communities extended beyond law enforcement to deeply entrenched poverty, growing community trauma and a proliferation of guns.
Dominique Cade, who graduated from Austin-East in 2016, said the officer who shot Anthony overreacted and should have used de-escalation techniques. But Cade, 22, she also said gang violence was rife in East Knoxville and teens were increasingly out of control.
“We are the problem too,” she said softly amid Black Lives Matter chants. “It's not just the police. It’s us as Black people. We all just have to try to come together and stop fighting each other.”
Cade said students today seemed much more exposed to criminal behavior and weapons.
“They want to be in gangs, have guns,” she said. “They’re growing up too much and seeing too much.”
Less than four months before Stanley was gunned down on his way to work, his grandmother, Darlene Ngom, 56, watched from her porch as a teen drove by and shot her 12-year-old grandson in the leg as he played basketball on the street.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested.
“I got to get away from here,” said Ngom, who is trying to raise funds to leave the neighborhood. “We bury our children and the next day, or next week, it’s on again."
Since the police killing of Anthony, other high schools have stopped sending teams to Austin-East to compete.
“They refuse to play us at our home field, because they label our school as unsafe,” said Sheenan Lundy, 36, whose daughter, Shaniya Cherry, a 15-year-old freshman, is on the softball team.
The girls, she said, now have to travel a mile and a half to compete in a park closer to downtown.
“Our kids feel like criminals,” she said.
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After police killed Anthony, Austin-East shut down for the next week and a half.
When classes resumed April 22, a pair of armed police officers guarded the entrance of the sprawling brick campus as students lined up. More officers searched their backpacks and scanned hand-held metal detector wands over their bodies.
“I don’t trust the cops,” said D. Ogle, a 16-year-old sophomore. “It’s not really because I’m scared of them. It’s because they’re scared of me. I’m scared of that. I don’t know what the hell they’re fixin’ to do…. Why are they in a school full of kids?”
Inside the school, the hallways felt more hushed than usual. More than a third of the school’s 459 in-person students did not show up. Another 180 students were already attending remotely because of the pandemic.
“I’m afraid for my child,” said C. Walker, 33, a stay-at-home mom who had walked to Austin-East with her son, a 15-year-old freshman, to ask about state tests — and then headed back home with him.
“They’ve got all those police in there checking those babies — after you’re the ones who shot the babies," she said. "What the hell!”
Other parents and teachers said they were relieved the school system was introducing extra security measures.
“That’s what we pay our taxes for — to keep our kids safe,” Jerrick Jones, a 39-year-old graduate who operates the Just Blaze hot dog stand outside Austin-East. His daughter, Justice, is a 15-year-old freshman cheerleader.
After school was out, hundreds of students, parents, teachers and alumni took to the streets again to protest the killing of Anthony. It was the night before prom, but valedictorian Ahya Moreno, 17, said she felt compelled to make her voice heard.
“They murdered him, and it killed me,” she said.
They marched for miles, from the police station to downtown and the University of Tennessee campus. Just before 11 p.m., the protesters formed a circle around the students.
“Don’t believe the hype! Austin-East kids are amazing," a teacher shouted into a bullhorn. “We have got to band together to keep Austin-East alive."
The students started swaying and clapping their hands.
“I’m so glad I go to A. E. I’m so glad I go to A. E. ,” they sang.
“I’m so, so glad that I go to A. E. Singing glory Hallelujah — wooh! — I’m so glad.”
They jumped and whooped and cheered. Then they kept on marching, back to the police station.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times .
Diamond Life: BLM founder dropped $26,000 at luxury Malibu resort, Daily Caller reports
Looks as if it's not just mansions for smooth operator Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded Black Lives Matter.
She's also into stretches at luxury resorts, with some very curious accounting.
According to an investigative report from the Daily Caller :
Los Angeles-based jail reform group led by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent nearly $26,000 for "meetings" at a luxury Malibu beach resort in 2019, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Reform LA Jails dropped $10,179 for "meetings and appearances" at the Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club in Malibu, California, and another $15,593 at the Malibu Conference Center, a corporate conference facility owned by the resort, according to the records , which covered the time period between July and September 2019. Guests at the 200-acre resort, where rooms start at $600 a night, have exclusive access to a private five-acre strip of the Malibu coast.
The records show that the payments were made on behalf of the jail reform group by a consulting firm owned by Asha Bandele, a longtime mentor of Cullors and co-author of her 2018 biography, "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir."
That's all fine and dandy, but the records of the groups involved don't show any such "meetings," the Caller reported.
A review of Reform LA Jails' social media records shows that the group organized multiple events in the Los Angeles area in the second half of 2019, including a party at actress Jane Fonda's house and a "day party + summit " in Pasadena featuring live music and local artists.
But the DCNF was unable to locate any public records of the group holding an event at the Malibu beach resort.
That might mean that the "meeting" involved a lot of lounging around. Some of it, yes, was for conference space, so some kind of meeting may have happened. But a lot of it was not, and it was done in a three-month window in 2019. Self-described "trained Marxist" Cullors elsewhere has dropped a cool $3.2 million on four houses and mansions, at least two of them in the Los Angeles area. She couldn't hold these off-the-record "meetings" in one of those places? Sounds a little funny.
The resort, in fact, is a pretty tony affair. Rooms start at $669 a night for the cheapies ($839 with taxes and fees) and go up to $795 ($992 with taxes and fees) for the luxe ones, according to Expedia . Membership rates may be lower, if she's a repeat-customer member there, but either way, costs can pile up fast. Amenities include a private beach, lake tours , pool, spa, air-conditioning, free wi-fi, and pet-friendly.
And this is the only resort visit that we know about. There could be others.
The Caller continued :
"Reform LA Jails' filings raise a number of questions," said Peter Flaherty, the chairman of the conservative watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center. "An audit would establish whether any campaign funds were used for personal purposes."
BLM, in fact, has taken in tremendous corporate donations. Following its trashing of American cities, leaving black shop-owners weeping in the ruins after losing all they had worked for in the BLM arson attacks, lootings, or lost business, corporate America lined up to donate to these trashers, in hopes the crocodile would eat them last.
Cullors, as noted earlier, is a "trained Marxist" and, through her co-founder, Opal Tometi , seems to learned her wokester shtick at the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez's knee — the nomenklatura part in particular, as if all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. If the Caller could find this resort activity on someone claiming to fight for "the people," it's probable that a lot more of this stuff is going on. Diamond life, as they say. And sure enough, a smooth operator.
According to Justice Department statistics, there are over half a million violent interracial crimes involving blacks and whites in the course of a year. According to those same statistics, 90 percent of those crimes are committed by blacks against whites. Common sense should tell us that as long as black racism cannot be discussed, Americans cannot possibly advance the cause of racial justice, racial equality or racial peace.
Black Supremacy The hate that dare not speak its name.
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When a white police officer in Ohio shot and killed Ma’Khia Bryant, stopping her from plunging a butcher knife into the chest of an unarmed black teenager, the racial melodrama that is destroying the very fabric of American society reached what the “woke” refer to as an “inflection point.” At that moment, the narrative of the national lynch mob – verdict first, due process be damned – collided with an impossible reality: a white cop saving the life of a black child. Unable to resolve this dilemma, the woke mob simply refused to see it.
It was left to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors to formulate their denial bluntly:
The verdict of George Floyd’s murder was a victory in accountability but not a victory towards abolition [of the police]. While we watched Derek Chauvin be convicted for murder, a Black child named Ma’Khia Bryant was murdered by police, proving there is no justice.
Patrisse Cullors is a racist whose sociopathic premise is: all cops are guilty and all black criminals are innocent . This is also the premise and rationale of all the riots and protests of the year just passed: White cops are racists, and blacks their innocent targets, even if they happen to be armed criminals resisting arrest. Through these ideological blinders, the Ohio event - a white cop rescuing an unarmed black teen about to be murdered by a knife-wielding black teen – was simply impossible. The fact that the knife-wielding black teen was shouting “I’m going to stab the fuck out of you, bitch” as she thrust a butcher knife towards her intended victim’ s chest was just inconceivable. If white cops protected black victims from black criminals, the goal of abolishing the police could not be justified.
It is a truism that equality and justice require a single standard by which everyone is judged. There can be no justice if black people are innocent regardless of the facts, and whites are guilty despite them. This is a simple truth that everyone recognizes - except when it comes to race. Universally absent from such discussions, therefore, is a taboo subject: black racism . Yet, it is an incontrovertible fact that the overwhelming majority of homicides against blacks are committed by blacks. Moreover, the largest overtly racist organization in America today is black. The Nation of Islam is a racist religion, headed by America’s most virulent, anti-Semitic, anti-white, anti-gay bigot, who is also black: Louis Farrakhan . According to Wikipedia, the Nation of Islam has an estimated 50,000 members; currently, according to the same source, the Ku Klux Klan has 3,000 .
In the theology of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, the white race was created 4,000 years ago by a mad scientist named Yakub. White people were created when Yakub extracted the “brown germ” from the “black germ,” diluting black blood and bringing into being a morally inferior strain of humanity — “white blue-eyed devils,” - who became the scourge of humanity. “The whole Caucasian race,” proclaimed Farrakhan’s predecessor and mentor, Elijah Muhammad, is an “evil and murderous race” of “devils .” Like KKK grand dragons of old, but with the colors reversed, Farrakhan has called the white man both the “anti-Christ ” and subhuman .
In a sermon delivered in 2011, Farrakhan said : “There is no human being on earth that has murdered more living things than the Caucasian. He is a murderer and a liar.” “White folks … cannot be reformed [because] you cannot reform a devil…. You have to kill the devil.” In a sermon delivered in July 2015 Farrakhan said:
I’m looking for 10,000 … fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under [white] tyranny…. [I]f the federal government won’t intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!
Despite – or maybe because of – these views, Farrakhan is arguably one of the most influential black voices in politics today. One of his disciples is Al Sharpton , the MSNBC host, racial arsonist, and principal eulogist at the black martyr George Floyd’s memorial. In a notable speech in 1994 at Kean College, Sharpton boasted ,
White folks was in the cave while we [blacks] was building empires … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
In the same speech, Sharpton claimed that America’s founders consisted of “the worst criminals, the rejects they sent from Europe … to the colonies.” “So [if] some cracker,” he continued, “come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold you pocket. That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.”
Despite these views, every Democrat presidential candidate in the 2020 primaries sought Sharpton’s endorsement and vouched for him as a “civil rights leader.” They did so in part because he was President Barack Obama’s “point man” on “civil rights.” In August 2014, Politico.com published a feature story titled, “How Al Sharpton Became Obama’s Go-To Man on Race .” The piece stated that “Sharpton not only visits the White House frequently, he often texts or emails with senior Obama officials such as [Valerie] Jarrett and Attorney General Eric Holder .” From January 2009 through December 2014, Sharpton visited the Obama White House on 72 separate occasions, including five one-on-one meetings with the president and 20 meetings with staff members or senior advisers.
In 1994, Malik Zulu Shabazz , now the National President of Black Lawyers for Justice, praised Farrakhan, his mentor Elijah Muhamad, and “the Black revolution.” At a “Black African Holocaust Nationhood Conference” which was held as a prelude to Farrakhan’s Million Man March in October 1995, Shabazz stated that “America should be glad that every black man is not on a killing spree for all the suffering they [white Americans] have done.” He then introduced the conference’s keynote speaker, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, infamous for saying “[t]here is a little bit of Hitler in all white people,” and for advising blacks that “[t]here are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.” Shabazz described Muhammad as “a man who gives the white man nightmares,” “a man who makes the Jews pee in they [sic] pants at night,” and a man who was “like black Raid on white roaches.”
Fourteen-term Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is on record saying, “All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing, uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the Tea Party.” In July 2005, Jackson Lee was one of numerous Congressional Black Caucus members who met with Farrakhan and took photographs with him. Jackson Lee also introduced a 2006 Farrakhan sermon at a Houston mosque, where she praised the Nation of Islam for having “always been on the forefront of leadership without apologies.”
One of Farrakhan’s more notorious leadership forefonts has been his hate America foreign policy. In November 2018, he traveled to Iran to chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel. In 2013 Congressman Andre Carson joined New York Rep. Gregory Meeks and then-Minnesota Rep. (and later DNC chairman) Keith Ellison to attend a dinner hosted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, where Farrakhan was also on hand.
In 2011, current House Majority Whip James T. Clyburn , the kingmaker who clinched Joe Biden’s nomination for president, shared a stage with Farrakhan who discussed the notorious anti-Semitic screed of the Nation of Islam called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews . The book claims that there is “irrefutable evidence” that Jews “kidnapped Black Africans disproportionately more than any other ethnic or religious group in New World History.” After Farrakhan spoke about the need for blacks to pool their resources and work together, Clyburn said : “I want to thank Minister Farrakhan for offering up a number of precepts that we ought to adhere to.” When Jewish organizations criticized Clyburn for having appeared at the event, the congressman said he was “not bothered in the least bit” by the criticisms.
In a February 2018 interview, Congressman Danny Davis , who had obtained the permit for Farrakhan’s Million Man March, attended by hundreds of thousands of blacks, heralded Farrakhan as “an outstanding human being who commands a following of individuals who are learned and articulate, and [who] plays a big role in the lives of thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people.”
In 2018, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Ayanna Pressley held a campaign event with Nation of Islam members outside the Muhammad Mosque No. 11 in Boston. Two years later, she went to the House floor and said : “Centuries of institutionalized oppression will not be undone overnight, for racism in America is as structural as the marble pillars of this very institution.”
In 2013, current Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock , who at the time was the senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta , declared : “It was the Black Muslims who challenged Black preachers and said, ‘you’re promulgating … the White man’s religion. And that’s a slave religion…. We’ve needed the witness of the Nation of Islam … to put a fire under us and keep us honest.” In an October 2016 speech , Warnock said: “America needs to repent for its worship of whiteness.” In June 2017 he said : “Racism is America’s preexisting condition.”
Warnock’s religious “mentor ” was the late James Cone , the Black Liberation Theology founder who argued that “the goal of black theology is the destruction of everything white.”
In 2002, 15-term Congresswoman Maxine Waters attended a Nation of Islam convention at which Louis Farrakhan stated that because the United States was supplying Israel with military equipment and weaponry, Palestinians had no choice but to engage in suicide bombings. At one point during the proceedings, Farrakhan told the audience: “We have Maxine Waters here, our great congresswoman from this area.”
In early 2006, Waters and at least three fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus — Barbara Lee , Al Green , and William Jefferson — met with Farrakhan to discuss how the U.S. government should respond to the devastation that Hurricane Katrina had inflicted on the Gulf Coast a few months earlier. Farrakhan praised Waters and the other CBC members for the statements they had made on that crisis at a recent House Financial Services Subcommittee meeting and asked them to “tell me how I can be of service.”
During a Martin Luther King Day event at Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network in January 2019, House Democratic Caucus chairman Hakeem Jeffries likened President Trump to a Ku Klux Klan leader, calling him “a hater in the White House” and “the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
In a June 2020 interview , former Black Panther leader and current congressman Bobby Rush told Politico that, “The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police is the most rabid, racist body of criminal lawlessness by police in the land. It stands shoulder to shoulder with the Ku Klux Klan then, and the Ku Klux Klan now.” When the Daily Caller contacted Rush and a number of his fellow Congressional Black Caucus members to ask if they would be willing to publicly denounce Louis Farrakhan, Rush and 19 others declined not only to denounce him, but also to issue any comment at all regarding his infamous anti-Semitic, anti-white ravings.
Tamika Mallory , a leader of Black Lives Matter and the Women’s March, claims that “white Jews, as white people, uphold white supremacy.” In May 2017, Mallory posted a photograph of herself with Farrakhan on Instagram, describing him as “the GOAT,” an acronym for “the Greatest Of All Time.”
Reverend Jeremiah Wright was Barack Obama’s political advisor, spiritual mentor and personal confidant for twenty years. In a sermon at Howard University, Wright said : “Racism is still alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run.” Condemning “the milky white way of life,” Wright has attributed black-on-black crime to a racist white culture that gets “white racist DNA running through the synapses of [black people’s] brain tissue.”
An unapologetic admirer of Farrakhan, Wright regards him as “one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century.” Wright accompanied Farrakhan on a 1984 trip to meet with Farrakhan’s friend, the Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi. He helped organize Farrakhan’s Million Man March and later described it as “a once in a lifetime, amazing experience .” When a number of prominent African Americans counseled fellow blacks to boycott the demonstration because of Farrakhan’s history of hateful rhetoric, Wright derided those critics as “‘Negro’ leaders,” “colored’ leaders,” “Oreos,” “house niggras,” and “darkies” who were guilty of “Uncle Tomism.”
In 2007, Wright said : “Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African American religious experience. His integrity and honesty have secured him a place in history as one of the nation’s most powerful critics.” On October 10, 2015 — the 20th anniversary of Farrakhan’s Million Man March — Wright spoke at a Nation of Islam event in Washington titled “Justice or Else!” — the precise rationale for the Black Lives Matter riots: “No Justice, no peace.”
Harvard University professor Cornel West has branded the U.S. a “racist patriarchal” nation where “white supremacy” continues to define everyday life. “White America,” he writes, “has been historically weak-willed in ensuring racial justice and has continued to resist fully accepting the humanity of blacks.” West is a close personal friend of Farrakhan’s, whom he refers to as “my dear brother .” West served as an advisor and organizer for Farrakhan’s Million Man March and passionately defends him, lamenting that Farrakhan has been “demonized by the mainstream.”
The late Derrick Bell was the founder of Critical Race Theory , which the Biden White House is currently foisting on America’s school children. Bell was an acolyte of Farrakhan, describing him as “smart and super articulate,” and calling him, “perhaps the best living example of a black man ready, willing and able to ‘tell it like it is’ regarding who is responsible for racism in this country.” Among Farrakhan’s telling-it-like-it-is statements, is this : “I wonder, will you recognize Satan. I wonder if you will see the satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan...because Satan has deceived the whole world.” In a 1992 interview, Bell summed up his feelings: “I see Louis Farrakhan as a great hero for the people.”
It is safe to say that no white supremacist in America today wields a modicum of the influence that Louis Farrakhan and his noxious racism exert on the Democrat Party, Black Lives Matter, and black America generally. No white supremacist organization could mobilize a Million Man March as a manifestation of its strength, or call on such an array of congressional leaders for moral and political support. No Republican members of Congress hold such rabidly racist views as Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Ayana Pressley, Hakeem Jeffries, James Clyburn and other prominent Democrats too numerous to mention in a relatively short article. Yet a wall of silence hides this disturbing reality from view.
Consequently, there is no discussion of the influence of black supremacists and black racists on the violent actions of Black Lives Matter, criminal interactions with the police, or the obvious anti-white racism of the Democrat Party and the Critical Race Theory doctrines it is promoting in America’s schools. According to Justice Department statistics, there are over half a million violent interracial crimes involving blacks and whites in the course of a year. According to those same statistics, 90 percent of those crimes are committed by blacks against whites. Common sense should tell us that as long as black racism cannot be discussed, Americans cannot possibly advance the cause of racial justice, racial equality or racial peace.
David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the author of the newly published book, The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America .
John Perazzo is the editor of DiscoverTheNetworks.org —an encyclopedic guide to the political Left and a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author of Black Lives Matter: Marxist Hate Dressed Up As Racial Justice .
Michigan State Rep’s Attorney Accuses State Police of Racism After Drunk Driving Arrest Michigan State Police 3:41
The attorney for Michigan state Rep. Jewell Jones (D) alleged racism was behind his client’s arrest after witnesses say they observed the politician driving erratically and crashing.
Ali Hammoud, the lawyer for Jones, told the Detroit News on Sunday that Michigan State Police used “excessive force” when arresting his client and there was “no proof” Jones was intoxicated.
“We believe the police used excessive force and Mr. Jones was mistreated in this incident,” Hammoud said.
“If this was not a Black man in Livingston County, he would have been in that ambulance and on his way to the hospital,” the attorney claimed.
The population of Livingston County is 96.7 percent white and .4 percent black. Jones was arrested on I-96, an interstate highway that traverses the county between Detroit and Lansing.
Video showed Jones refusing to comply with officers and was ultimately taken to the ground for arrest by a black trooper:
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The News reported other drivers called 911 prior to the incident to report the vehicle — with an “ELECTED” vanity plate — “was drifting in and out of lanes and along the rumble strip.” Soon after, he “rolled into the ditch” after nearly hitting a bridge.
During his roadside altercation with police — which was captured on dashcam video — Jones invoked Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) by name and demanded he be allowed to get her on the phone.
“I’ll call Gov. Whitmer right now,” Jones allegedly threatened. He continued, “When I call Gretchen, I need y’alls’ IDs and badges.”
Jones also demanded to speak to Whitmer’s director of the Michigan State Police, Joe Gasper.
“Tell Joe who you got, and call fucking Joe. I’m not sure he’s up or not. If he’s not up, wake him up. Tell Joe who you have, tell Joe who you have handcuffed,” Jones ordered.
“Let him know I’d like to go home. After that, let me go fucking home,” he said.
“You all don’t know who you all are dealing with, bro,” Jones could allegedly be heard saying when he was in the back of the patrol vehicle.
Jones attempted to threaten the troopers arresting him with their pay and agency’s funding.
“It’s not going to be good for you, I run y’all budget, bro,” Jones said, according to the video.
A spokeswoman for the Michigan State Police told Breitbart News the incident report and dashcam video speak for themselves.
“We’ll leave further comment to the Prosecutor’s Office who will respond to any allegations from Mr. Hammoud and his client as this case progresses in court,” Michigan State Police Public Affairs Director Shanon Banner said.
A spokesman for House Speaker Jason Wentworth (R) said little on Monday about how the legislature would handle Jones’s apparent attempt at abusing his power.
“The details of this situation continue to be very disappointing for an elected community leader. The speaker is speaking to Leader (Donna) Lasinski (D) and working with her on how to handle the situation as it moves forward,” Gideon D’Assandro, communications director for Wentworth, told Breitbart News.
Whitmer’s office would not defend the State Police against Hammoud’s allegation of racism. She also would not say if she thought the troopers used “excessive force” in dealing with her fellow Democrat.
Kyle Olson is a reporter for Breitbart News. He is also host of “The Kyle Olson Show,” syndicated on Michigan radio stations on Saturdays–download full podcast episodes . Follow him on Parler .
Top Ten Most Racist Colleges and Universities: #2 Smith College Promoting racist lies to justify indoctrination.
Fri Apr 30, 2021
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is exposing prestigious American campuses as the “Top Ten Most Racist Colleges and Universities” for enacting policies and programs that are allegedly “anti-racist” but which in reality promote racial discrimination and a return to Jim Crow.
A report and video on the Smith College, #2 on our list, follows below.
The full report on the Top Ten Most Racist Colleges and Universities may be read at https://toptenracistuniversities.org/ .
#2: Smith College
Smith College proudly portrays itself as a progressive haven. Slogans featured on the university website urge students to “be prepared to push boundaries” and tout “an education as distinctive as you are.” But Smith’s commitment to “anti-racism” failed a crucial test. When an African-American student falsely accused several white working-class staff members of racial discrimination, the college blindly accepted her racially-tinged narrative, even in the face of much evidence proving the opposite.
The triggering incident occurred during the summer of 2018. A black student, Oumou Kanoute, reported that she had been harassed by white employees of Smith College while she was merely eating her lunch in a campus dormitory lounge.
“I am blown away at the fact that I cannot even sit down and eat lunch peacefully,” she wrote in a social media post that went viral. “Today someone felt the need to call the police on me while I was sitting down reading, and eating in a common room at Smith College. This person didn’t try to bring their concerns forward to me, but instead decided to call the police. I did nothing wrong, I wasn’t making any noise or bothering anyone. All I did was be black.”
Kanoute went on to generalize her experience into a larger narrative about being black at an elite college: “It’s outrageous that some people question my being at Smith College, and my existence overall as a woman of color.”
The problem with her narrative? It’s not remotely true.
As an independent investigation funded by the college revealed, and as even the New York Times has acknowledged , Kanoute’s version of events was blatantly false.
A recent article by Boston University associate professor Matthew Stewart succinctly sums up her false claims:
It turns out that she was eating in a cafeteria that was expressly reserved for children attending a summer camp. She then took her meal to an area that was also closed off for the summer. The cafeteria worker politely reminded her of these restrictions; Kanoute continued nonetheless, but the cafeteria worker did not insist she move and did not report her.
A janitor, whom Kanoute later accused of being a racist, was not actually on campus when the incident occurred. Another janitor, who called security when he saw her, was only following the policy he had been given in the case of trespass. The transcript of his call to security reveals that he made no remarks about her race, as she was dimly visible.
The campus security officer who then attended was not armed. No campus security personnel carry firearms. The officer in fact recognised Kanoute and apologised for bothering her, even though she was in an off-limits area. Kanoute recorded this encounter herself. Other claims made by her, and widely publicised in the aftermath of the incident, also proved to be false, including that the reporting janitor ‘misgendered’ her.
“In short,” Stewart concludes, “it looks as if Kanoute was determined to find slights where none existed, and to respond not only with exaggeration, but also without scruples.”
Despite the myriad holes in Kanoute’s account of “eating while black,” Smith College sided with her, allowing her malicious and vindictive narrative to take center stage. Smith College president Kathleen McCartney issued an immediate apology to Kanoute, telling the media “I begin by offering the student involved my deepest apology that this incident occurred…And to assure her that she belongs in all Smith places.” Meanwhile, the white workers who were merely doing their jobs, were put on paid leave and/or pressured to attend “mediation” with Kanoute.
Perhaps feeling that these workers weren’t being sufficiently punished, Kanoute took it upon herself to dox the allegedly racist Smith employees who were involved in the incident. She uploaded photos, email addresses and other personal information of a cafeteria worker who was working at the time of the incident and a janitor who in fact had not even been on duty at the time, labeling them “racist.” The workers received hate mail and death threats. Kanoute also claimed that the Smith administration was “essentially enabling racist, cowardly acts.”
Even after the law firm’s investigation revealed no evidence of racism, Smith pushed forward with mandatory anti-racism training for all its faculty and staff and pushed for them to attend “White Accountability” groups on zoom where they might discuss their racial biases.
For supporting the egregiously false and harmful racist narrative put forth by a black student, Smith College deserves its place on the list of the Most Racist Colleges and Universities.
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A man accused of rape is behind bars, thanks to help from vigilant shoppers at a Kroger store in east Georgia, police say.
Gregory Hathorne, 25, was arrested on a felony rape charge Tuesday after he was accused of attacking a woman he followed into a restroom at the supermarket in Berwick, about 15 miles south of Savannah, according to Chatham County police.
Witnesses reported hearing the woman’s screams, authorities said.
A group of shoppers chased Hathorne as he tried to flee and held him down until officers arrived.
“Generically, I would always advise to call us ... because I would hate to see someone get injured,” Police Chief Jeff Hadley said, WSAV reported. “But it worked out. We’re very thankful for those citizens — it was very brave of them to do that. Oftentimes we see a lot of people standing around with a phone and film something, but they won’t intervene.”
Hathorne is also charged with felony kidnapping and misdemeanor battery, the department said in a news release.
As of Wednesday afternoon, he remains at the Chatham County Jail without bond.
Authorities said the woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Suspect in Fatal Hit-and-Run of Cop Gave Anti-Police Rant Hours Before Jessica Beauvais during her Monday night livestream / Facebook Karl Salzmann • April 28, 2021 1:15 pmHours before Jessica Beauvais allegedly killed a New York police officer, she livestreamed a profane rant in which she repeated the words "f— the police" and compared cops to vermin.
Beauvais, 32, apologized in tears Wednesday for the fatal hit-and-run of highway officer Anastasios Tsakos the day before, saying, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I hit him and now he's dead."
Beauvais's tearful apology strikes a different note from the Facebook livestream she posted hours before allegedly killing the officer, however. In the video , in which she drank from a plastic cup, she said, "We're not scared of the police. Like these songs, f— the police. We want you to know we don't give a f— about you, your mama, your children, your wife. You're nothing. You're nothing to us—bug spray, roaches, infestation."
Beauvais told police that she had been drinking vodka during the livestream. According to the New York Post , when police arrested her she had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit.
Officer Tsakos leaves behind his wife, his six-year-old daughter, and his three-year-old son, according to New York police commissioner Dermot Shea. Beauvais will be arraigned Wednesday on multiple charges, including two counts of vehicular manslaughter.
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