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		<title>Mrs. Obama&#8217;s Tall Tales of Racialized Victimhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about the First Lady's alleged experience with "racism" at Target. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/michelle-obama-angry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247789" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/michelle-obama-angry-416x350.jpg" alt="michelle-obama-angry" width="349" height="294" /></a>Oh, woe is she. In an &#8220;exclusive&#8221; interview with People magazine this week, first lady Michelle Obama lamented the &#8220;sting&#8221; of &#8220;racist experiences&#8221; that she and her husband allegedly still suffer. My message for America&#8217;s Marie Antoinette? Cry me a river.</p>
<p>To show how she&#8217;s down with The Struggle of post-Ferguson agitators, Mrs. Obama cited a supposedly horrifying incident at a Target store where she was treated, in her paranoid mind, as a subservient. &#8220;Even as the first lady,&#8221; she bemoaned, &#8220;not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.&#8221;</p>
<p>A lowly peon asked her for an innocent favor? It&#8217;s Jim Crow all over again! ABC News reports that Mrs. Obama said such &#8220;incidents are &#8216;the regular course of life&#8217; for African-Americans and a &#8216;challenge&#8217; for the country to overcome.&#8221;</p>
<p>Newsflash: Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe that it is part of the &#8220;regular course of life&#8221; of tall people of all colors (Mrs. Obama is 5-foot-11) to be prevailed upon to reach high on behalf of those of us who are vertically challenged. These are not odious &#8220;incidents&#8221; of racism between slaves and masters. They&#8217;re matters of common courtesy between equals.</p>
<p>So overcome your ridiculously hypersensitive, privileged self and deal with it, girl! (And now don&#8217;t get all hot and bothered about the &#8220;girl&#8221; thing. Sheesh.)</p>
<p>There is, of course, a truly insidious &#8220;-ism&#8221; at work here: Cynicism. Mrs. Obama&#8217;s dissemination of her false racial narrative in a popular celebrity rag is cunningly calculated to pander to America&#8217;s aggrieved leftists. We know Mrs. Obama&#8217;s victim sob story is a steaming pile of rotten turnips because the last time she talked about The Incident, it was a feel-good late-night talk show anecdote devoid of discrimination.</p>
<p>On David Letterman&#8217;s show in 2012, the haute-couture-clad first lady recounted the same &#8220;incognito&#8221; Target visit to demonstrate her just-like-you bona fides. She chuckled as she shared how the shopper asked: &#8220;Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?&#8221; As the audience laughed with delight and Mrs.</p>
<p>Obama grinned from ear to ear, she told Letterman: &#8220;I reached up, &#8217;cause she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down — she said, &#8216;Well, you didn&#8217;t have to make it look so easy.&#8217; That was my interaction. I felt so good.&#8221;</p>
<p>From overjoyed Regular Mom to Oppressed Martyr, can Mrs. Obama&#8217;s shopping fable get any more absurd? To paraphrase a popular slogan of the social justice mob: Jig&#8217;s Up, Don&#8217;t Compute.</p>
<p>It just goes to show you: Once a race hustler, always a race hustler. The first lady demonstrated a willingness to employ accusations of racial oppression for political gain from the earliest days of her adult life. Take Mrs. Obama&#8217;s senior thesis at Princeton University, titled &#8220;Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.&#8221; Decrying her racial otherness, the Ivy Leaguer accused her university of pushing her down the dreaded path toward &#8220;further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet, while regaling campaign crowds with complaints about bias, burdensome education loans and the beastly lily-white corporate world, Mrs. Obama neglected to mention that it was a white male Princeton alum who went beyond the call of duty to bring her from her imagined &#8220;periphery&#8221; to the center of power.</p>
<p>As I recounted in my book &#8220;Culture of Corruption,&#8221; Sidley and Austin corporate law partner Stephen Carlson offered the elite student generous career guidance and mentoring while she was an undergrad and then reached out to her again when she was at Harvard Law. She secured a coveted job as a summer associate in 1987, accepted a full-time job upon graduation and never looked back. Mrs. Obama, perpetual victim, hopped from Princeton to Harvard to prestigious law firms, cushy nonprofit gigs, an exclusive Hyde Park manse and a crony corporate board appointment before landing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</p>
<p>Only in America is such upward mobility possible by a thin-skinned incessant whiner who has fabricated racial tall tales all the way to the tippy-top of the ladder of opportunity. God bless the U.S.A.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: Black Leader Al Sharpton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>In this special episode, our politically correct host, Andrew Klavan, takes a look at the disturbing history of the Reverend Al Sharpton &#8211; called reverend because he is revered, by Al Sharpton. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Everywhere you look these days, there’s Al Sharpton&#8230; it’s strange, even after you wake up screaming, he’s still there.  It’s like one of those Blumhouse movies.  If he’s not in some city calling for protests because a cop killed a thug who was resisting arrest, he’s in some other city calling for protests because another cop killed another thug who was also resisting arrest.  He’s even been meeting with Barack Obama as if the president of the United States were just some hapless loser who can’t find anyone else to talk to.  So it’s about time we asked ourselves:  who is Al Sharpton&#8230; and why?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Al Sharpton has dedicated his life to the improvement of the black man Al Sharpton.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">He first flushed himself to fame in 1987, when a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley concocted a lie about being raped by a group of white men. Reverend Al Sharpton — called Reverend Al Sharpton because he’s revered by Al Sharpton — became one of Tawana’s so-called advisors.  He falsely accused a young police officer of participating in the alleged rape, and after the already troubled officer committed suicide, Sharpton accused another man of murdering him to cover up the crime.  Sharpton and his cronies organized daily protests using viciously inflammatory language &#8211; even though one of Sharpton’s top aides says Sharpton suspected all along Tawana’s story was false. Finally a Grand Jury investigation exposed the girl’s hoax, leaving Sharpton looking almost exactly like a race baiting charlatan.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Unless you happened to be a leftist or a journalist or some other sort of gullible buffoon.  In that case, Al Sharpton was now a “black leader.”  And sure enough, wherever a tragedy could be misconstrued as a case of racism, black leader Al was there leading blacks to false conclusions and violence.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">There was Crown Heights Brooklyn for instance.  When a black child was accidentally killed by a car driven by a Hassidic Jew there in 1991, a small gang of local blacks responded by murdering  an innocent Jewish man. But that wasn’t good enough for Al. His furious rhetoric helped stir days of anti-Jewish riots in what’s been called one of the worst anti-semitic incidents in American history.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And Al wasn’t done.  In 1995, he helped incite a vicious name-calling boycott of a Jewish storeowner in Harlem — and inspire protests that only ended when one of the protestors shot four whites in the man’s store and set the place on fire, killing seven workers, most of them Hispanic.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">More recently, Sharpton has accused three white LaCrosse players from Duke University of raping a black girl, which they didn’t; made out that Trayvon Martin was the victim of a racist murder, which he wasn’t; and suggested Michael Brown was a gentle innocent shot dead by an evil cop — wrong again — and he managed to do it all while owing the government 4.5 million dollars in taxes.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Which brings us back to our original question:  Why do corrupt, opportunistic knuckleheads get elevated to black leadership?  Maybe that wasn’t our original question.  I can’t remember.  But I mean, you don’t see white people accepting leaders like this.  If someone like Hillary Clinton had been shown to lie outright again and again about everything from her husband’s infidelities to being shot at in a war zone to the reasons behind the terrorist attack in Benghazi, would white people accept her as a leader?  Okay, maybe that’s not a good example.  Well, then, if Teddy Kennedy left his mistress to drown so he could fashion an alibi&#8230;  Okay, wait.  If fools like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi&#8230;</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Okay.  Look, black people, the point is:  don’t elevate demagogic flim-flammers to leadership in your community.  Don’t be like white people.  You’re better than that.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: Obama&#8217;s Black Skin Privilege</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>Everyone knows it is true, and no one has the courage to say it. The American people are letting Barack Obama destroy this country through illegal executive orders for one reason and one reason only. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle has the courage to speak out and make the case that no one else will make. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">Well, Barack Obama has proclaimed amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Conservative pundits have called this act illegal, saying the President does not have the power to unilaterally circumvent Congress on any issue, let alone one of this magnitude. Senators and Representatives have called his act illegal. Saturday Night Live called it illegal, Jon Stewart on The Daily Show called it Illegal, and President Obama himself, on two dozen occasions, said he did not have the Constitutional authority to do this and was therefore illegal.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">He didn’t care. He did it anyway.</p>
<p>Many of us knew before his election what he really thought of the American people, but for those who didn’t we have Jonathan Gruber, one of the Chief Architects of Obamacare, saying repeatedly on camera that they had intentionally mislabeled what was obviously a bill-killing tax on the American people. He then told his elitist, left-wing audience that the entire sham depended on the stupidity of the American voter. Furthermore, Gruber has stated, on camera, that the President was not only well aware, from the beginning, that they were  lying to the American people – Obama actually led the discussion of how this could be done.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We will set aside, for a moment, the fact that Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote – so when Gruber and Obama say they are depending on the stupidity of the American voter, they are really saying they are depending on the stupidity of the half of the country that votes Democrat. The bottom line is that there can no longer be any question of the contempt in which this President holds the American people. Do we suddenly think that now, after dictating amnesty into law, this man is suddenly going to constrain himself out of respect for the American people and the Constitution?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Please. A few days before his election he said we were on the verge of fundamentally transforming the United States of America. He has fundamentally transformed it. When a man can dictate law…that’s a dictatorship. It’s pretty simple really. Any questions?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Both Gruber and Obama are wrong about the American people. We’re not stupid.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We’re scared. In fact, we’re not just scared – we’re scared senseless. We see the American nightmare of not just single-party rule but actual illegal dictatorship unfolding before our eyes, and we are as paralyzed as cavemen frozen in fear, eyes closed, as the leopard growls quietly, inside the fire and the sentry.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Many Americans think Obama is the problem. Obama is not the problem. Our Constitution was written for one purpose and one purpose only: to prevent the rise of a dictatorship. So what failed? How did we build this tyranny?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When the Progressive Left began their takeover of academia in the 1960’s, they began inculcating their radical worldview all across the spectrum – and we let them get away with it. Three generations later, journalism students are no longer encouraged to seek out the truth, whatever the cost – they are taught which stories to promote, and which to suppress, in order to advance the Larger Truth of left-wing utopian philosophy.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When a President that they despise – such as Richard Nixon – acted illegally they hounded him out of office. With a President they adore – like Barack Obama – they see to it that stories such as Gruber and his multiple on-camera admissions of deception never see the light of day.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Why? We know why. Everybody knows why.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We are allowing Barack Obama to get away with this because he is black. That’s it, and that’s all. To say if he were white he would have been impeached already is a non-sequitor; if he were white a man of his inexperience and radical background would never have been elected in the first place. America voted for him to prove they were not racist, and now we will let him destroy this government for the same reason.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s guilt that paralyzes us – this Progressive Obama dictatorship is built on guilt over the original sin of slavery.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s guilt – and also fear. That’s why Obama and Eric Holder have been encouraging the Ferguson protestors to stay the course. “We don’t give a fuck about your laws,” said one of them, and the President and the disgraceful Attorney General obviously don’t either. They need Ferguson to remind the American people of what will happen should they decide to hold the first black President accountable to the same rules as the previous forty-four.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Everyone knows it is true, and no one has the courage to say it.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As for me… I know what people have said, and will say about me, and I’d love to tell you that I don’t care but I do care. Charges of racism only work against people who are not racist. Real racists revel in the name.</p>
<p>((MARTIN LUTHER KING)))</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So I am going to stand with this man. I believe that Barack Obama and his multiple, flagrant and impeachable illegal actions should be judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.</p>
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		<title>Black Skin Privilege and Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation awaits the verdict in Ferguson and prepares for the vindictive retribution of the lynch mob.]]></description>
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<p><em>The nation awaits the verdict in Ferguson and prepares for the vindictive retribution of the lynch mob that has been tearing the city up for months, and thirsting for the blood of officer Darren Wilson not because he is guilty but because he is white. The chief encourager of the lynch mob is now the president of the United States, preceded by his former attorney general and his chief adviser on race relations who is also the nation’s leading racist, Al Sharpton. </em></p>
<p><em>That is the disturbing reality we face as a nation, and have been facing now for decades ever since the civil rights movement was itself transformed into a lynch mob under the leadership of Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. That is the stark truth around which there is a national silence because the racists and their mobs are largely black. </em></p>
<p><em>To focus attention on this national misery, we are reprinting part of a pamphlet we published about this travesty called “<a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/pamplets/products/black-skin-privilege">Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream</a>,” by David Horowitz and John Perazzo.-DH</em></p>
<p>When a Neighborhood Watch guard shot Trayvon Martin in February 2012, a chorus of civil rights activists concluded that he had been killed because of his race. Michael Skolnick, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, spoke for the consensus in an article he titled, “White People You Will Never Look Suspicious.”</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers on &#8230; I will never watch a taxicab pass me by to pick someone else up. I will never witness someone clutch their purse tightly against their body as they walk by me. I won’t have to worry about a police car following me for two miles, so they can ‘run my plates. I will never have to pay before I eat. And I certainly will never get ‘stopped and frisked.’ I will never look suspicious to you, because of one thing and one thing only. The color of my skin. I am white….<sup><strong><sup>[1]</sup></strong></sup></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Skolnick spoke for those who rushed to condemn the Watch Guard, George Zimmerman, calling him a racist and killer in advance of the evidence, and demanding his arrest. It was the pervasive theme of the outrage even though Zimmerman was of Peruvian descent and not “white.” To make the racial case, Zimmerman’s accusers labeled him a “<em>white</em> Hispanic,” and disregarded the fact that he was Latino with a great-grandfather who was black. Speaking for the many, Congressional Black Caucus member Hank Johnson claimed that Martin was “executed for WWB in a GC—Walking While Black in a Gated Community.”<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> It was the unmistakable implication of President Obama’s own statement on the case: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”<sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> For the already convinced, Trayvon Martin was killed not because of anything he had done, but because he was a black man in a racist culture, and therefore racial prey.</p>
<p>As it happens, the term “white skin privilege” was first popularized in the 1970s by the SDS radicals of “Weatherman,” who were carrying on a terrorist war against “Amerikkka,” a spelling designed to stigmatize the United States as a nation of Klansmen.<sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup> Led by presidential friends, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, the Weather terrorists called on other whites to renounce their privilege and join a global race war already in progress.</p>
<p>Although their methods and style kept the Weather radicals on the political fringe, their views on race reflected those held by the broad ranks of the political left. In the following years, the concept of “white</p>
<p>Skin privilege” continued to spread until it became an article of faith among all progressives, a concept that acc-ounted for everything that was racially wrong in America beginning with its constitutional founding. As Pax Christi USA, a Catholic organization, explained: “Law in the U.S. protects white skin privilege because white male landowners created the laws to protect their rights, their culture and their wealth.”<sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> This was the theme of <em>A People’s History of the United States</em>, the most popular book ever written on the subject, now part of university curricula across the nation.</p>
<p>Eventually, the concept of white skin privilege was embraced even by liberals who had initially resisted it as slander against a nation that had just concluded a historically unprecedented civil rights revolution. This was because the concept of white skin privilege provided an explanation for the fact that the recent Civil Rights Acts had not led to an equality of results, and that racial disparities persisted even as overt racists and institutional barriers were vanishing from public life.</p>
<p>The inconvenient triumph of American tolerance presented an existential problem for civil rights activists, whom it threatened to put out of work. “White skin privilege” offered a solution. As the Southern Poverty Law Center explained: “white skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose,” but is rather an unavoidable consequence of the “transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society.”<sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup> In other words, even if white Americans were no longer racists, they were.</p>
<p>A parallel concept favored by progressives was “institutional racism.” This was the idea that even in the absence of actual racists, the values and standards of American institutions by their very nature discriminated against non-whites. These two sophistries made possible new battles and continued the life of campaigns that annually lured millions of dollars into the deep pockets of “anti-racist” organizations and movements, even as racists were no longer detectable in the institutions themselves.</p>
<p><em>Lynching Whites</em></p>
<p>What reality is there to the claim that white skin is privileged and black is not? Is it really the case that non-whites are the exclusive targets of racial vendettas, while whites enjoy protection from racial prejudice and collective suspicion? No sober individual could possibly think so.</p>
<p>In fact, for decades, at the hands of progressives white males have been the prime villains in the nation’s classrooms, and the principal targets of disapprobation and presumptive guilt in the general political culture as well. Not that long ago, the nation witnessed a public scandal as racially charged as the Trayvon Martin case in the public lynching of three white male students at Duke University. Like other institutions of higher learning, Duke prides itself on its racial tolerance. There are no more sacred principles on campuses generally than racial tolerance, diversity and inclusion. As everyone knows, however, but few will take the risk to observe, these principles extend to every race but whites.</p>
<p>When an anonymous individual drew a noose on the office door of an African American faculty member at Columbia University the entire university community concluded that it was an act of racism, and the institution was virtually shut down to express collective horror that such an event might occur. This all took place before there was any indication that its message was racial or that its perpetrator was not the faculty member herself – which has been a not infrequent occurrence on campuses before.</p>
<p>When three white members of the Duke lacrosse team were accused of rape by a black prostitute, on no evidence whatsoever, the campus not only did not defend the presumption of their innocence, but rushed with intemperate haste to punish them as though they had already been tried and convicted. The university expelled them, the lacrosse coach was fired, the lacrosse season terminated, their names were published and 88 members of the Duke faculty signed an open letter condemning their racist deed.<sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></p>
<p>The cloud of suspicion and presumption of guilt that engulfed the students ruined their reputations and put their lives and careers on halt. It lasted for more than a year with no challenge from university officials or public authorities or the mainstream media. Yet it was entirely based on the false and malicious accusations of a local prostitute and drug addict, whose record of criminal behavior and absence of credibility were eagerly overlooked because she was black. While the faces of the innocent accused were plastered across the national media where they were portrayed as racists and rapists, the accuser herself was protected, and her name withheld throughout the case—even after her criminal libels were exposed.</p>
<p>The nameless accuser was a professional stripper who had been hired to entertain a fraternity party. A fellow stripper, who was also black and present at the event, denied the rape had ever taken place. One of the accused rapists proved that he was not even present when the attack was alleged to have taken place. Yet he was judged guilty all the same by the civil rights crusaders. Guilty because he was white. White skin was enough evidence to get all three students indicted by the local district attorney who was seeking votes in an election year among a constituency that was largely black and now racially inflamed (although the national press averted its eyes from this aspect of the case as well).</p>
<p>Leading the calls for punishment before trial were racial agitators Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Jackson was first out, attempting to secure a conviction by decrying the long “history of white men and black women and rape and assault,”<sup><sup>[8]</sup></sup> as though the criminal actions of a minority implicated every person of the same gender and color. Jackson also proposed to have his organization pay all tuition costs for the faceless criminal accuser should she want to attend college.<sup><sup>[9]</sup></sup> The clear implication was that unlike her rapists whose parents (being white) could afford a Duke education, the benighted woman was denied such an opportunity by a racist society. Not to be out mau-maued, Sharpton claimed, “this case parallels Abner Louima, who was raped and sodomized in a bathroom [by a New York City police officer] like this girl has alleged she was.”<sup><sup>[10]</sup></sup> The fantasizer of this ludicrous connection was a man practiced in the art of racial libels, including the infamous (and almost identical) accusations made by his infamous client Tawana Brawley who ruined the lives of six innocent white males by making false accusations of rape against them. After six years of inflicting hell on his victims, Sharpton eventually lost a libel suit brought by one of his victims. But even being a convicted liar failed to disqualify Sharpton as a civil rights “leader” since <em>his</em> victims were only white.</p>
<p>A professor of English named Houston Baker emerged as Duke’s homegrown racial arsonist, leading a posse of Duke faculty members in a public condemnation of the accused students in an ad that appeared in the <em>Duke Chronicle</em>. Baker charged that “white male privilege” had permitted the alleged perpetrators of “this horrific, racist incident” to remain “safe under the cover of silent whiteness.”<sup><sup>[11]</sup></sup> Whiteness had given them “license to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech and feel proud of themselves in the bargain.”<sup><sup>[12]</sup></sup></p>
<p>A year later, the three lacrosse players were exonerated, and the district attorney was sacked as conclusive evidence showed that there had been no rape and they were innocent of any crime. But the mob leaders Jackson, Sharpton and Baker, never had to face consequences for their maliciously, racially motivated deeds, never were made to apologize for their racism, or concede that that’s what it was. Call that immunity <em>black</em> skin privilege.</p>
<p>The Duke travesty has left the front pages and faded in memory, along with the many other episodes of racial injustice to whites, that were never openly acknowledged as such. Not only have we have reached a national moment when innocent whites are presumed guilty on the basis of their skin color, but blacks are often presumed innocent when the evidence points to their guilt. This is true whether the crime they commit is false witness, as at Duke, or a double homicide, as in O.J. Simpson’s murder of his wife and a stranger. Simpson was defended by a “dream team” of the nation’s best lawyers and the televised trial was closely watched by the entire nation. When a mostly black jury acquitted the murderer, the overwhelming majority of Americans who had watched the trial viewed the verdict with horror. But not black America, which cheered and celebrated this miscarriage of justice as a racial “payback.” No one called <em>that</em> racism. That’s another black skin privilege.</p>
<p>In America today, blacks generally can conduct racist assaults on whites and count on “civil rights” activists and the media not to notice. In the two months following Trayvon Martin’s death, black assailants carried out at least 14 fourteen known attacks against white victims with the idea of “avenging” the fallen youth.<sup><sup>[13]</sup></sup> In East Toledo, six juveniles beat a 78-year-old white man, shouting: “This is for Trayvon &#8230; Trayvon lives, white [man]. Kill that white [man]!”<sup><sup>[14]</sup></sup> In Gainesville, five blacks shouting “Trayvon!” beat a 27-year-old white man, leaving his face permanently disfigured. In another Gainesville incident, a black crowd shouting “Trayvon!” assaulted and stomped on a white man who was trying to recover his female companion’s purse from the hands of a black thief.<sup><sup>[15]</sup></sup> In Chicago, two black teenagers beat and robbed a 19-year-old white man because, as one of the attackers explained, they were angry about Trayvon Martin.<sup><sup>[16]</sup></sup> In Baltimore, a group of blacks beat and robbed a white man, stripping him naked, then posted a video of the assault online with the caption: “me an my boys helped get justice fore trayvon.”<sup><sup>[17]</sup></sup> In Mobile, a white man named Matthew Owens was brutalized by twenty African Americans armed with brass knuckles, bricks, chairs, bats and steel pipes after he asked them to stop playing basketball in the street directly in front of his home.<sup><sup>[18]</sup></sup> As the assailants left the scene, one of them looked back at the victim, who was bleeding profusely, and shouted,: “Now that’s justice for Trayvon!”<sup><sup>[19]</sup></sup> It is unlikely that many Americans have heard of these racial attacks, because the perpetrators are protected by a media that does not want to notice that the racists are black, and their victims are white.</p>
<p>Within weeks of the Trayvon Martin shooting, a parallel killing occurred with the skin colors reversed at a Taco Bell restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. A 22-year-old black motorist got into an altercation with Daniel Adkins, a 29-year-old, mentally disabled “white Hispanic” who was walking by. When the argument grew heated, the motorist drew a gun and killed Adkins. When police arrived at the scene, the black shooter claimed that Adkins had swung a bat or metal pipe at him, although no such items were found at the scene. Arizona, like Florida, has a “Stand Your Ground” law that allows a person to use deadly force to protect himself when faced with a life-or-death confrontation.<sup><sup>[20]</sup></sup> A protective media withheld the shooter’s name, and there was no racial mob calling for his head. Unlike George Zimmerman, the gunman was not arrested nor charged with a crime. Call that black skin privilege.</p>
<p>If you’re black and possibly guilty but a white person is involved, the media will actively volunteer to be your advocate. This was true in the Duke case, where the<em> New York Times</em> and other papers convicted the accused in advance of any legal proceeding. In the Trayvon Martin case, the media withheld details of the crime that were damaging to Trayvon in order to protect him and indict Zimmerman — that the mainly white community he had entered at night had been the target of a rash of recent break-ins and burglaries by young African-American men;<sup><sup>[21]</sup></sup> that the hoodie Trayvon wore was a uniform for burglars; and that Trayvon had been suspended from school after burglary tools were discovered on his person along with unaccounted-for jewelry.<sup><sup>[22]</sup></sup> At the same time, the press flooded the airwaves and front pages with sentimental photos of Trayvon as an innocent adolescent, while withholding others of the six-foot-two, 17-year-old who beat the smaller Zimmerman to the ground, smashing his head on the concrete and causing him to scream repeatedly for his life before he fired his gun in self-defense.</p>
<p>Looking at the Martin case, black skin privilege means you can form a lynch mob if the target is a “white” man and the press will overlook it; you can demand a judgment in advance of the facts, and can conclude his guilt in advance of a trial. You can even take “justice” into your own hands by threatening his life as the Black Panthers did, or twittering his home address like vigilante filmmaker Spike Lee and comedienne Roseanne Barr did in the hope that someone might go after him.<sup><sup>[23]</sup></sup> If this isn’t a rebirth of the cracker mentality of the segregated South, it is hard to know what would be.</p>
<p>But it is events under the national radar that take the biggest toll. Black skin privilege means the national media will fail to report an epidemic of black race riots that have targeted whites for beatings, shootings, stabbings and rapes in major American cities recently. A determined reporter, Colin Flaherty, broke ranks to document these rampages in a book titled, <em>White Girl Bleed A Lot</em>, after a statement made by one of the rioters.<sup><sup>[24]</sup></sup> As reported in Flaherty’s book, there have been hundreds of black race riots in more than fifty American cities in the last few years,<sup><sup>[25]</sup></sup> including more than a dozen each in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Denver. In July 2011, to cite an illustrative example, a mob of African Americans created what the local NBC affiliate called an “astonishing” amount of violence at downtown Philadelphia restaurants, hotels and bars.<sup><sup>[26]</sup></sup> Afterwards, the politically correct police chief said he feared for the safety of the <em>rioters</em>.<sup><sup>[27]</sup></sup> But after surveying the mayhem, the city’s black mayor made an unprecedented public statement. “You have damaged your own race,” he said to the culprits, and in a pointed reference to the Martin case, he added, “Take those God darn hoodies down.”<sup><sup>[28]</sup></sup></p>
<p><em>Crime Statistics</em></p>
<p>In the liberal culture, black skin privilege has created an optical illusion, persuading progressives that white-on-black attacks are commonplace events, rather than the other way around. In fact, there are five times as many black attacks on whites as the reverse. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which relies on crime victims to identify their assailants, 320,082 whites were victims of black violence in 2010, the latest year for which statistics are available, while 62,593 blacks were victims of white violence.<sup><sup>[29]</sup></sup> But these raw statistics understate the pattern. In 2010, the white and black populations in the United States were 197 million and 38 million, respectively.<sup><sup>[30]</sup></sup> In other words, blacks committed acts of interracial violence at a rate <em>25 times higher</em> than whites (849 per 100,000 versus 32 per 100,000).<sup><sup>[31]</sup></sup></p>
<p>This pattern has been among the most consistent findings of criminal-justice research for many years and for a wide variety of crimes. Nationwide there were an estimated 67,755 black-on-white aggravated assaults in 2010, as compared to with just 1,748 white-on-black crimes of the same description. In other words, blacks committed acts of interracial aggravated assault at a rate 200 times higher than whites (181 per 100,000 population versus 0.9 per 100,000).<sup><sup>[32]</sup></sup></p>
<p>The physical threat to African Americans from whites is actually minimal compared to the epidemic of black violence against whites. The National Crime Victimization Survey reported approximately 13,000 black-on-white rapes in the United States in 2010, and 39,000 black-on-white robberies, both violent crimes against persons. By contrast, the numbers of white-on-black rapes and robberies reported in the same surveys were so infinitesimal that whites were estimated to have accounted for 0% of all rapes and robberies committed against black victims in the United States.<sup><sup>[33]</sup></sup></p>
<p>To stoke the fires of racial grievance in the face of these contrary facts, civil rights advocates pretend that the statistics lie or that merely mentioning them is an act of racism. They tell us that black criminals aren’t actually criminals; the true culprit is the white “unjust justice system” that “profiles” blacks and creates this racist illusion. “Unjust justice system” is the term favored by Los Angeles congresswoman Maxine Waters, who explains, “the color of your skin dictates whether you will be arrested or not, prosecuted harshly or less harshly, receive a stiff sentence or gain probation or entry into treatment.”<sup><sup>[34]</sup></sup> Bill Quigley, legal director of the left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights, agrees with her conclusion: “The U.S. criminal-justice system is &#8230; a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.”<sup><sup>[35]</sup></sup></p>
<p>President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also agree. At a debate during the Democratic Party primaries in 2008, Obama ignored the facts and charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences” for “the same crime.”<sup><sup>[36]</sup></sup> Not to be outdone, Clinton denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African Americans proportionately than whites.”<sup><sup>[37]</sup></sup> No member of the press disturbed their duet by pointing out that African Americans commit many more crimes proportionally than whites. This is black skin privilege at work, and illustrates how prevalent anti-white racist attitudes have become in the political culture.</p>
<p>Through sheer repetition and lack of corrective information, the myths of white skin privilege have made a deep imprint on the culture generally and the culture of black Americans in particular. According to a recent <em>Washington Post</em>/ABC News poll, 84% of black Americans feel that the justice system treats them unfairly.<sup><sup>[38]</sup></sup> But while it is true that blacks are arrested in numbers greater than their representation in the population, it is it is also true that they commit crimes in far greater numbers than their representation would warrant. African Americans are 12.6% of the U.S. population,<sup><sup>[39]</sup></sup> but they account for 38.9% of all violent crime arrests—including 32.5% of all rapes, 55.5% of all robberies, and 33.9% of all aggravated assaults.<sup><sup>[40]</sup></sup> Is this because they are arrested for crimes they didn’t commit? Are they only “guilty of being black”?In fact, the statistics are compiled by interviewing the victims of these violent crimes, which in the case of crimes committed by blacks are mostly black themselves. In 2010, black perpetrators were responsible for 80% of all violence against blacks (including 94% of homicides), while white perpetrators accounted for just 9% of all violence against blacks.<sup><sup>[41]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Another inconvenient fact for the promoters of the racial “injustice system” myth is that numerous high-crime cities with majority-black populations and high black arrest rates are run by African American mayors and African American police chiefs. Among them are Detroit, Jackson, Birmingham, Memphis, Flint, Savannah, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. Cognizant of the methods that police use to fight crime and the disproportionate contribution of blacks to crime rates, the former black police chief of Los Angeles, Bernard Parks said: “It’s not the fault of the police when they stop minority males or put them in jail. It’s the fault of the minority males for committing the crime. In my mind, it is not a great revelation that if officers are looking for criminal activity, they’re going to look at the kind of people who are listed on crime reports.”<sup><sup>[42]</sup></sup> But this sensible attitude has not penetrated the leadership of the Democratic Party nor the nation’s morally degraded civil rights movement.</p>
<p><em>Affirming Racism </em></p>
<p>Crime is only one of the areas where black skin privilege fogs the nation’s brain on racial matters. Under the banner of “leveling the playing field,” the rules of the game have been systematically rigged—against whites and in favor of blacks. Speaking for the dominant culture in our universities, and for the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority, Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams, who is black, explains: “If the modern white man, innocently or not, is the inheritor of another’s due, then it must be returned.”<sup><sup>[43]</sup></sup> (Innocent or not!) Attorney General Eric Holder is of a similar mind. In February 2012, he expressed amazement over the fact that anyone could seriously think that racial preferences might be bad social policy: “The question is not when does [affirmative action] end, but when does it begin &#8230; When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”<sup><sup>[44]</sup></sup> Or, as the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall put it more candidly to his fellow justice William O. Douglas: “You [white] guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it’s our turn.”<sup><sup>[45]</sup></sup> The current Supreme Court majority is sympathetic to this view.</p>
<p>This collectivist view of guilt and debts that erases individuals and their accountability is now entrenched in America’s institutional framework. In the 1970s, affirmative action was successfully redefined to mean racial preferences for non-whites, and a new standard was set for admissions policies at universities across the United States. Though black students’ median SAT scores in any given year were at least 200 points lower than the median for white students,’ blacks were admitted to virtually all academically competitive schools at much higher rates.<sup><sup>[46]</sup></sup> The pattern of racial privilege for blacks persists to this day, not only in undergraduate colleges and universities, but also in professional training schools for aspiring doctors and lawyers. At the University of Michigan Medical School, for instance, the odds favoring the admission of black over white applicants with the same background and academic credentials have ranged between 21-to-1 and 38-to-1.<sup><sup>[47]</sup></sup>At the University of Nebraska College of Law in recent years, the black-over-white admission ratio was 442-to-1;<sup><sup>[48]</sup></sup> and at Arizona State University Law School, 1,115-to-1.<sup><sup>[49]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Inevitably, the racial bias does not stop with the admissions process. Once a university accepts black students, under-qualified for that school though they may be, it is imperative that they remain in school and eventually graduate, poor performance notwithstanding. This is because high minority dropout rates jeopardize not only a university’s reputation among advocates of racial preferences but also its formal accreditation. To reduce minority attrition and “level the playing field,” many professors evaluate the work of black students using a lower standard than they use for their white and Asian peers, a practice which the late sociologist David Riesman labeled “affirmative grading.”<sup><sup>[50]</sup></sup> A blunter characterization was made by a professor at one of California’s state universities, who observed: “We are just lying to these black students when we give them degrees.”<sup><sup>[51]</sup></sup> By lowering the standards for black students—without admitting that they are doing so—universities are also lying to their graduates’ future patients and clients, many of whom are likely to include large numbers of blacks themselves.</p>
<p>Because maintaining racially “diverse” student bodies is now a legal obligation, some schools have taken to providing monetary incentives to black students who meet normal standards, a privilege not offered to their white and Asian peers. At Penn State, beginning in the early 1990s, blacks were paid $580 if they were able to maintain a C average, while those with a B average or better were given twice that amount.<sup><sup>[52]</sup></sup> In 2011, Yale University announced that it would provide free tuition to black public high school graduates with a GPA of at least 3.0 and a good attendance record.<sup><sup>[53]</sup></sup> No white student with a 3.0 GPA need even apply to Yale. Monetary incentives have been implemented with younger students as well. In 2008, Harvard professor Roland Fryer spearheaded an initiative to pay underachieving black fourth-graders in New York up to $250 for improving their grades, and as much as $500 for seventh-graders.<sup><sup>[54]</sup></sup> The ugly racial condescension that goes with these reward systems (not to mention the incentives such advantages provide to students to be content with<br />
underperforming) attracts little or no notice. There are also thousands of college scholarships and fellowships earmarked exclusively for nonwhite students.<sup><sup>[55]</sup></sup> These are made available by private organizations, individual schools, publicly and privately held corporations, the federal government, and state governments.</p>
<p>These scholarships, grants and rewards are not made to students who first demonstrate that they are actually disadvantaged by race or any other factor. Many of the recipients come from quite privileged backgrounds. The benefits are granted to these students because of their race. No one would think of providing such scholarships to white students while excluding others. That would be racist. No one pays much attention to the gross injustices done to white students from all economic backgrounds, who are denied places because they “inherited” unspecified and undocumented advantages by virtue of their skin color.</p>
<p>Nor are racial privileges for blacks limited to educational institutions. Since the 1970s, most major corporations (and a host of smaller ones) have implemented wide-ranging race-specific strategies for recruiting minorities, sponsored scholarships for minority recipients, funded internship programs earmarked exclusively for nonwhite high school and college students, paid current and former employees a “reward” merely for identifying the names of potential “diversity candidates,” and given financial bonuses to managers for successfully recruiting and/or promoting a significant number of black employees.<sup><sup>[56]</sup></sup> In an effort to maintain their diversity profiles and to keep their coveted black workers from seeking greener career pastures, many companies have established minority employee organizations that sponsor mentorship and self-help programs, produce newsletters, organize fundraising activities, and provide forums in which nonwhites in the labor force can air their grievances.<sup><sup>[57]</sup></sup> And of course, all of these measures also serve to separate their workers on the basis of race.</p>
<p>Needless to say, since government is the real source of these segregated arrangements, racial privileges are ubiquitous in government hiring practices. Police and fire departments nationwide go to great lengths to recruit black applicants. Where those applicants have failed the qualifying examinations in disproportionately high numbers, departments have simply thrown out the results, lowered the standards, or created new definitions of what constitutes a passing grade. One of the most blatant manifestations of the obsession with diversity involved the Boston Fire Department. A pair of white identical twins, Philip and Paul Malone, both failed the department’s qualification test and consequently were dropped from the applicant pool. Two years later they took the test again, at a time when the department was under pressure from a court-ordered affirmative action plan to hire more minorities. In an attempt to exploit the judicial mandate, the Malones re-classified themselves as black, claiming to have recently discovered that their long-deceased great-grandmother was of African ancestry. Their exam scores this time around were 57% and 69%, respectively—far below the 82% cutoff point for white applicants, but more than sufficient for black applicants. The Boston Fire Department hired the “black” Malone twins.<sup><sup>[58]</sup></sup></p>
<p><em>Black Racism</em></p>
<p>Like the racial injustice against blacks that preceded it, the racial injustice enforced on behalf of blacks has damaged them as well as whites. It has empowered incompetence and sown resentment, and ensured that racial tensions persist nearly half a century after the Civil Rights Acts outlawed racial barriers. A 2009 Quinnipiac University poll asked respondents, “Do you think affirmative action programs that give preferences to blacks and other minorities in hiring, promotions and college admissions should be continued or … abolished?” Discriminated-against whites favored “abolished” by a margin of 64% to 27%, while the black beneficiaries, not surprisingly, favored “continued” by 78% to 14%.<sup><sup>[59]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Racial bias is now such an integral part of America’s political culture that in 2008 black skin privilege elected a president of the United States. Absent this privilege, is the career of our 44th president conceivable? What political novice, lacking notable legislative or professional achievements, having spent his entire career on the radical fringes of American politics, and having encumbered himself with an unrepentant terrorist and a racial bigot as his close political collaborators, could even think about winning a major party presidential nomination, let alone being elected? Absent black skin privilege, what candidate with such a checkered past could go virtually un-vetted by the national press, or receive a pass from his political opponent on matters that would sink the fortunes of a candidate of any other race?</p>
<p>Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet, but from moral standards as well. What white celebrity, having shot his brother as a juvenile, dealt cocaine as an adult, and stabbed a rival business executive with a five-inch blade could count an American president among his friends and be invited to host his political fund-raisers? But rapper Jay‑Z did exactly that during Obama’s 2012 re-election run, and both he and the president could remain confident that no one would suggest it was a problem.<sup><sup>[60]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Black skin privilege is a license not only to commit no-fault crimes, but to be openly racist without adverse consequences. White celebrity bigots, like Mel Gibson, are routinely condemned and shunned as pariahs, as they should be. It would be hard to imagine a white counterpart boasting that he had voted on the basis of skin color, characterizing non-whites as racists, and repeatedly using the word “nigger” to salt his wisdom. When this outrage was committed by black actor Samuel L. Jackson, however, nobody gave his racism a second thought. In February 2012, Jackson told <em>Ebony</em> magazine, “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people—because they look like them…. That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. When it comes down to it, [whites] wouldn’t have elected a nigger. Because, what’s a nigger? A nigger is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all&#8230;. I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”<sup><sup>[61]</sup></sup> This ignorant and repellent outburst (whites do vote for blacks) resulted in no consequences for Jackson; he didn’t even lose his job as spokesman for Apple’s popular iPhone.<sup><sup>[62]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Racist behavior isn’t even a disqualifier for civil rights leaders if they are black. Leader of a “civil rights movement” is how the media characterized Louis Farrakhan during his Million Man March, and Wikipedia still does today. What white racist could hold a march to protest black supremacy and air the grievances of white males, and expect to receive respectable press coverage let alone attract nearly a million whites to follow him? But Louis Farrakhan did just that with blacks.<sup><sup>[63]</sup></sup> A white racist of Farrakhan’s ilk couldn’t get 5,000 sympathizers to march on Washington, let alone 500,000. That’s a black skin privilege.</p>
<p>What white spiritual leader could support the torture-murders of South African blacks, compare Israel to Nazi Germany, and still be regarded as a moral icon? A black cleric like Bishop Desmond Tutu can.<sup><sup>[64]</sup></sup> What racial arsonist and convicted liar, whose incitements led directly to the incineration of seven individuals, could be regarded by the national media as a civil rights <em>spokesman</em>, and then hired as a TV anchor by NBC?<sup><sup>[65]</sup></sup> Only a blackdemagogue like Al Sharpton. Only a black racist like Sharpton could find himself lauded by an American president (as it happens, Barack Obama) as “a voice for the voiceless and &#8230; dispossessed.”<sup><sup>[66]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Nor have bigoted advocacies and anti-Semitic slurs cut short the career of America’s other celebrated race hustler. On the contrary, Jesse Jackson’s inflammatory rhetoric and racially motivated campaigns have endeared him to Democratic presidents and made him a millionaire many times over. Despite his success as a black man in America, he lectures Americans on how white racism is “the rot of our national character.”<sup><sup>[67]</sup></sup> That defamatory charge is the source of his impressive income. By threatening major corporations with racial boycotts that he alone can prevent, Jackson has been able to extort lucrative ransoms not only for the organizations he runs but for himself and his immediate family. In one celebrated case, he called off his threatened boycott of Anheuser-Busch after the company agreed to sell his sons one of its beer distributorships at a specially reduced price, making them millionaires in the bargain. <sup><sup>[68]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Despite the baggage he carries, Jackson has been able to make two high-profile runs for the presidency and remain a national civil rights figure. During his first presidential outing, he referred to Jews as “Hymies” and New York as “Hymietown,”<sup><sup>[69]</sup></sup> indiscretions that would have ruined other politicians but only caused a hiccup in his campaign. He received 3.5 million votes during the primaries—enough to earn him a keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic convention.<sup><sup>[70]</sup></sup> His anti-Semitism resurfaced in October 2008, when he predicted that an Obama presidency would provide a welcome counterbalance to the “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades.” <sup><sup>[71]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Black skin privilege has enabled Jackson to enjoy a career that would be denied to any non-black politician, while accumulating high-level honors along the way. He has been awarded more than forty honorary doctorates by American universities.<sup><sup>[72]</sup></sup> He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton, the highest award a civilian can receive,<sup><sup>[73]</sup></sup> while the U.S. Post Office put his likeness on a pictorial postal cancellation, making him only the second living person to receive such recognition.<sup><sup>[74]</sup></sup> He has used this undeserved respect, in conjunction with other black demagogues, to transform a civil rights movement that once stood for race-neutrality in the law, into a vigilante posse seeking one law for “people of color” and another for the rest of America.</p>
<p><em>Destroying the Diverse Union </em></p>
<p>Those who attempt to rationalize racial bigotry when it is bigotry on behalf of blacks usually claim that this injustice is designed to redress a historic one, correcting the results of previous discrimination. There is certainly a truth here. Even as black skin privilege has meant widespread injustice to others, it has also brought benefits to a historically discriminated-against group, although individual blacks today would be hard put to claim that racism has been an impediment to their own achievements and successes. Many beneficiaries of racial preferences may also have put the unfair advantages they received through racial preferences to good use. But perpetuating unfairness and inflicting injustice on others because of their skin color is a dangerous proposition, whatever the benefits that may accrue to some.</p>
<p>Racial privilege does more than merely damage the unlucky individuals who are its victims. When enforced by government and backed by law, it tears at the very fabric of the social order, regardless of whom it benefits. The wounds that the principle of separate-and-unequal inflicts on the community are incomparably greater than the damages incurred by individuals or the benefits that accrue to them. Building racial bias into the framework of the nation compromises the neutrality of the law that governs us all. It corrupts the standards that make a diverse community possible, and creates a racial spoils system that is the antithesis of the American dream, which was Martin Luther King’s dream as well. By corrupting the principle of neutrality, racial privilege breaks the common bond between America’s diverse communities and undermines the trust that makes the nation whole.</p>
<p>“All men are created equal” is the creed that makes a diverse nation possible. But a flaw was built into the original construction, which is open to multiple interpretations, including destructive ones. The most destructive of these is the idea that government can and should “level the playing field.” It is this idea that has given birth to the new racism. Obviously, all people are not created equal but are born with disparate abilities and characteristics. People are clearly unequal in beauty, intelligence, character, upbringing, and other vital aspects of personhood that lead directly to inequalities of celebrity, power, wealth and social standing. Because these inequalities are rooted in human nature, there can never be a level playing field. Moreover, the efforts to produce one must lead (and historically have led) to the loss of individual freedom. This is because the field can only be made equal—and then only superficially—by governmental force as an all-powerful state takes the earned fruits of one person’s labor, intelligence and talent and distributes it to those it prefers, and does so in the name of “social justice.”</p>
<p>The American Founders understood that there is an irreconcilable conflict between freedom and equality, between individual liberty and equal results. They understood that “social justice” in practice is just a rationale for the taking of one person’s achievements, and giving them to others who are favored by the party in power. What is justice to some is necessarily theft to others. It is an “injustice justice system.” In order to block such levelers, the founders created a Constitution that guaranteed property rights and instituted a system of checks and balances to frustrate their designs. The purpose of these constitutional checks, as their chief author James Madison wrote, was to thwart the “rage … for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project.”<sup><sup>[75]</sup></sup> History has proven the wisdom of the Founders’ concern.</p>
<p>In a free society composed of unequal individuals, the drive to level the playing field is a totalitarian desire and a threat to freedom because it empowers government to confiscate the talents and earnings of some for the benefits of those it favors. The expansion of governmental power into every individual sphere whatever its justification entails a loss of freedom for all. Since the targets of the levelers are the creators of society’s wealth, an inevitable result of social justice is generalized poverty and economic decline.</p>
<p>In a free society, composed of individuals who are unequal by nature, the highest government good is neutrality in the treatment of its citizens before the law. One standard and one justice for all. This is the only equality that is not at odds with individual freedom. It is the only equality that can make a diverse community one. A nation that respects individual rights and protects individual freedom cannot be sustained if there is one standard for black and another for white; one for rich and another for poor. It can only be sustained by a single standard &#8212; one law and one justice for all.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> http://globalgrind.com/news/michael-skolnik-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-race-sanford-florida-photos-pictures</p>
<p><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/032812-605931-left-bypasses-law-on-trayvon-martin-incident.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAPtUfOs7Gs</p>
<p><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808</p>
<p><sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> http://paxchristiusa.org/programs/brothers-and-sisters-all/anti-racism-training-for-white-activists/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup> http://www.tolerance.org/activity/racism-and-white-privilege</p>
<p><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265386,00.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[8]</sup></sup> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/is_the_duke_rape_story_unravel.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[9]</sup></sup>http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1091599/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[10]</sup></sup> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192277,00.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[11]</sup></sup> http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/09/018598.php</p>
<p><sup><sup>[12]</sup></sup> http://today.duke.edu/showcase/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/lange_baker.html; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/nyregion/15towns.html?_r=2&amp;</p>
<p><sup><sup>[13]</sup></sup> http://pjmedia.com/blog/justice-for-trayvon-15-whites-beaten-by-gangs-of-black-thugs-so-far/?singlepage=true</p>
<p><sup><sup>[14]</sup></sup> http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2012/04/03/Man-78-recounts-assault-by-6-youths-in-E-Toledo.html.</p>
<p><sup><sup>[15]</sup></sup> http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120412/ARTICLES/120419865/1002/news?Title=-8216-Trayvon-shouted-as-group-attacks-Good-Samaritan</p>
<p><sup><sup>[16]</sup></sup> http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/wave-of-black-mobs-brutalizing-whites/; http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/26/suspect-attacked-white-teen-because-am-angry-about-trayvon/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[17]</sup></sup> http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/wave-of-black-mobs-brutalizing-whites/; http://www.ironicsurrealism.com/2012/04/14/baltimore-aaron-parsons-charged-in-connection-to-videotaped-assault-of-tourist-held-on-at-1-million-bond/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[18]</sup></sup> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Oy5zEVJes; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134340/Thats-justice-Trayvon-Angry-mob-beats-man-telling-stop-playing-basketball—sister-claims-racist-revenge-attack-gunned-teen.html; http://www.theblaze.com/stories/justice-for-trayvon-alabama-man-in-critical-condition-after-mob-beating/; http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/mobile-man-clings-to-life-after-brutal-beating-by-black-mob-video/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[19]</sup></sup> http://www.examiner.com/article/mob-beats-man-on-his-own-front-porch-for-trayvon-press-ignores</p>
<p><sup><sup>[20]</sup></sup> http://www.chicagonewsreport.com/2012/04/daniel-adkins-killer-claims-self.html; http://nation.foxnews.com/daniel-adkins/2012/04/09/black-male-shoots-unarmed-hispanic-remains-free-media-mum</p>
<p><sup><sup>[21]</sup></sup> http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425</p>
<p><sup><sup>[22]</sup></sup> http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/26/10872124-trayvon-martin-was-suspended-three-times-from-school?lite</p>
<p><sup><sup>[23]</sup></sup> http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/03/30/celebs-speak-out-on-trayvon-martin-case-use-twitter-to-post-private-information-of-george-zimmerman-and-family/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[24]</sup></sup> http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/are-race-riots-news.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[25]</sup></sup> http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/?page_id=28</p>
<p><sup><sup>[26]</sup></sup> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Flash_Mob_Strikes_in_Philadelphia_Philadelphia-126468293.html; http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/355449/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[27]</sup></sup> http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/355449/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[28]</sup></sup> http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0815/Philadelphia-flash-mobs-black-mayor-takes-aim-at-black-community; http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/8/mayor-talks-tough-to-black-teens-after-flash-mobs/?page=all</p>
<p><sup><sup>[29]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[30]</sup></sup> http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[31]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[32]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[33]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[34]</sup></sup> lYC&amp;q=maxine+waters#v=snippet&amp;q=maxine%20waters&amp;f=false; “Race and Crime,” <em>Investor’s Business Daily </em>(February 21, 1996).</p>
<p><sup><sup>[35]</sup></sup> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/26-2</p>
<p><sup><sup>[36]</sup></sup> http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Barack_Obama_Crime.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[37]</sup></sup> http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_criminal_justice_system.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[38]</sup></sup> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/racial-divisions-define-opinions-on-the-trayvon-martin-shooting/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[39]</sup></sup> http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[40]</sup></sup> http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0325.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[41]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics; http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/05/23/should_black_people_tolerate_this/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[42]</sup></sup> http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/03/28/profiling/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[43]</sup></sup> http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/critical_race_theory_a_cult_of_anti-white_resentment.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[44]</sup></sup> http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/24/holder-talks-financial-crime-affirmative-action-low</p>
<p><sup><sup>[45]</sup></sup><sup>45 http://books.google.com/books?id=QNV3XwST4WIC&amp;q=our+turn#v=snippet&amp;q=our%20turn&amp;f=false</sup></p>
<p><sup><sup>[46]</sup></sup> http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_commentary-racial_prefs.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[47]</sup></sup> http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/543/UMichMed_final.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[48]</sup></sup> http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/544/NE_LAW.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[49]</sup></sup> http://www.academia.org/arizona-law-schools-discriminate/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[50]</sup></sup> http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/09/04/friends_of_blacks/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[51]</sup></sup> http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/09/04/friends_of_blacks/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[52]</sup></sup> Thomas DeLoughry, “At Penn State, Polarization of Campus Persists Amid Struggle to Ease Tensions,” T<em>he Chronicle of Higher Education </em>(April 26, 1989).</p>
<p><sup><sup>[53]</sup></sup> http://thegrio.com/2011/09/03/b-average-black-students-can-be-admitted-to-yale-for-free/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[54]</sup></sup> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2008/12/11/should-we-pay-kids-to-learn/; http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/06/09/paying-poor-kids-for-good-grades-appears-to-be-working/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[55]</sup></sup> http://www.ehow.com/info_7817859_uncf-scholarships-grants.html; http://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/minority-scholarships/african-american-scholarships/; http://www.amazon.com/Black-Students-Scholarships-Revised-Edition/dp/1568330790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1336761925&amp;sr=8-2</p>
<p><sup><sup>[56]</sup></sup> http://www.nasrecruitment.com/docs/white_papers/Diversity-Recruitment.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[57]</sup></sup> http://www.diversitycouncil.org/retaining_diverse_staff.shtml</p>
<p><sup><sup>[58]</sup></sup> Color Them Black,” <em>Time</em> (October 31, 1988), p. 19. Frederick Lynch,<em> Invisible Victims </em>(New York: Praeger Books, 1991), p. 28.</p>
<p><sup><sup>[59]</sup></sup> http://books.google.com/books/about/No_Matter_What_They_ll_Call_This_Book_Ra.html?id=oA7WhM38e9kC</p>
<p><sup><sup>[60]</sup></sup> http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/jay_the_gunslinger_1k7qCAFh7JiwwLVKWyCuuN; http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/beyonce_jay_host_ny_bam_ba_5wud17kNBMEiV8wim9YYJK</p>
<p><sup><sup>[61]</sup></sup> http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/11/barack-obama-samuel-l-jackson/?adid=hero2#.TzgdXiNqNWM</p>
<p><sup><sup>[62]</sup></sup> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/samuel-l-jackson-iphone-commercial-video_n_1430054.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[63]</sup></sup> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325</p>
<p><sup><sup>[64]</sup></sup> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2416</p>
<p><sup><sup>[65]</sup></sup> http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PAGE-ONE-8-Killed-In-Harlem-Arson-Gunman-3018812.php</p>
<p><sup><sup>[66]</sup></sup> http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/obamas-leftism/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[67]</sup></sup> Jesse Jackson et al., “The Continuing American Dilemma,” New Perspectives Quarterly (Summer 1991), p. 10.</p>
<p><sup><sup>[68]</sup></sup> Judicial Watch, “Jesse Jackson Exposed” (2006); http://solargeneral.com/jeffs-archive/black-civil-wrongs/jesse-shakedown-jackson-gets-beer-distributorship-for-son/; http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93897&amp;page=1#.UKaQkWByFWM</p>
<p><sup><sup>[69]</sup></sup> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[70]</sup></sup> http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/jesse-jackson</p>
<p><sup><sup>[71]</sup></sup>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_6OMiQxyZEhxOR6i0Hdag9O;jsessionid=A0CC62E7ECDA9F32AA4387697315F036</p>
<p><sup><sup>[72]</sup></sup> http://rainbowpush.org/pages/jackson_bio</p>
<p><sup><sup>[73]</sup></sup> http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/jackson_j.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[74]</sup></sup> http://www.wkan.com/programs/keep-hope-alive-with-jesse-jackson.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[75]</sup></sup> http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's war on discipline in education -- and who really suffers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2512878_orig.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245404" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2512878_orig-450x337.jpg" alt="2512878_orig" width="332" height="249" /></a>If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes.</p>
<p>Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to reduce what they call the &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; numbers of black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools.</p>
<p>Under an implicit threat of losing their federal subsidies, the Minneapolis Public Schools have agreed to reduce the disparity in punishment of black students by 25 percent by the end of this school year, and then by 50 percent, 75 percent and finally 100 percent in each of the following years. In other words, there are now racial quota limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools.</p>
<p>If we stop and think — as old-fashioned as that may seem — there is not the slightest reason to expect black males to commit the same number of offenses as Asian females or any other set of students.</p>
<p>When different groups of human beings have behaved differently in all sorts of ways, in countries around the world, for thousands of years of recorded history, why would we accept as dogma that the only reason one set of students gets punished more than others is because the people who are doing the punishing are picking on them?</p>
<p>Politically — which is the way the Obama administration looks at everything — any time they can depict blacks as victims, and depict themselves as their rescuers, that means an opportunity to get out the black vote for Democrats.</p>
<p>On the surface, this may look like a favor to blacks. But only on the surface.</p>
<p>Anyone with common sense knows that letting a kid get away with bad behavior is an open invitation to worse behavior in the future. Punishing a kid for misbehavior in school when he is 10 years old may reduce the chances that he will have to be sent to prison when he is 20 years old.</p>
<p>Other schools in other cities, which have also caved under pressure from the federal government, and agreed to lighten up on black kids who misbehave, have reported an increase in misbehavior, including violence.</p>
<p>Who would have thought otherwise?</p>
<p>Letting kids who are behavior problems in schools grow up to become hoodlums and then criminals is no favor to them or to the black community. Moreover, it takes no more than a small fraction of troublemakers in a class to make it impossible to give that class a decent education. And for many poor people, whether black or white, education is their one big chance to escape poverty.</p>
<p>The people in the Obama administration who are pushing this counterproductive policy are not stupid. They are political, which is worse. They know what they are doing and they are willing to sacrifice young blacks to do it.</p>
<p>This punishment issue made me think back to the 8th grade, when I was punished by being kept after school, more often than any other kid in the class — black, white, Hispanic or whatever. I was bored in school and did various pranks to liven things up.</p>
<p>One day, after school, as I sat alone among the empty chairs in the classroom, the teacher said, sarcastically: &#8220;Well, here we are again, Sowell, just the two of us!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Good grief, Miss Sharoff,&#8221; I said. &#8220;If we keep staying in after school together all the time, people will begin to talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We will just have to live with the scandal,&#8221; she said, without even looking up from the papers she was correcting.</p>
<p>Thank heaven there was no Obama administration to exempt me from punishment. Who knows how I might have ended up?</p>
<p>Years ago, there was a study of a working class community where there were black, Hispanic and Italian kids, and where many of the cops were Italian. When a black or Hispanic kid broke the law, the police took him down to the station and booked him. But, if an Italian kid did the same thing, they reacted differently.</p>
<p>The Italian cop would take the Italian kid out into an alley and rough him up. Then he would take him home to his family, tell them what had happened and leave him there — where the kid could expect another beating, instead of the wrist-slap punishment of the law. Those cops understood the realities of life that politicians ignore. And they were doing a favor to their own.</p>
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		<title>Judge Rejects the &#8216;Disparate Impact&#8217; Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/113_2014_thomas-perez8201_c0-112-3670-2251_s561x327.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-244578 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/113_2014_thomas-perez8201_c0-112-3670-2251_s561x327-450x262.jpg" alt="113_2014_thomas-perez8201_c0-112-3670-2251_s561x327" width="352" height="205" /></a>On Monday, one of the Obama administration’s foremost racial arsonists was given his comeuppance by a federal judge. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, who is on the American left’s short list for replacing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, was informed by Judge Richard J. Leon that his effort to find housing discrimination where none existed <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/222690-judge-tosses-hud-discrimination-rule"><span style="color: #1255cc;">amounted</span></a> to “wishful thinking on steroids.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez sought to apply the policy of “disparate impact” to housing. Judicial Watch <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/jw-sues-hud-for-records-of-obama-administration-involvement-in-controversial-minnesota-new-jersey-disparate-impact-discrimination-cases/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a> this contemptible concept. &#8220;Under the theory of &#8216;disparate impact,&#8217; a defendant can be held liable for discrimination for a race-neutral policy that <i>statistically</i> disadvantages a specific minority group even if that negative ‘impact&#8217; was neither foreseen nor intended,” they write. &#8220;In such cases, defendants can be forced to pay for harm caused not by their own actions, but by economic and statistical realities, even if beyond their control.” (italics original)</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Leon wasn’t buying it. He characterized the attempt to legitimize disparate impact as a vehicle to expand the possibility of filing discrimination cases as “hutzpah (sic) (bordering on desperation).” “This is yet another example of an administrative agency trying desperately to write into law that which Congress never intended to sanction,” he wrote, adding that the arguments made by Obama administration attorneys were “nothing less than an artful misinterpretation” of the law.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The law to which Leon referred is the <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/FHLaws/yourrights"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Fair Housing Act</span></a>, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In February 2013, HUD <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/281997-hud-finalizes-discriminatory-lending-rules-opposed-by-financial-industry"><span style="color: #1255cc;">made</span></a> disparate impact a policy tool, one the administration employed to build discriminatory cases against mortgage lending institutions that garnered them hundreds of millions of dollars.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In July of that year, Wells Fargo paid a $175 million settlement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused the bank of discriminating against thousands black and Hispanic borrowers—based on loan analyses made by the bank and its independent brokers from the years 2004 and 2009. Wells Fargo admitted no wrongdoing, claiming it was settling to avoid even costlier litigation expenses. That windfall was topped by a record-setting $335 million settlement made by Bank of America in 2011, following allegations of discrimination by Countrywide Lending, purchased by Bank of America in 2008. Once again the feds used disparate impact to allege that minority borrowers had received less favorable borrowing terms than whites.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez is an <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/051211-572091-holders-anti-bank-witch-hunt.htm?p=2"><span style="color: #1255cc;">old hand</span></a> at this shakedown racket. In 2011, the DOJ created the Fair Lending Unit staffed with more than 20 lawyers, economists and statisticians, determined to ferret out discriminatory lending practices at the more than 60 banks that were targeted at the time. The man in charge of that division was Special Counsel for Fair Lending Eric Halperin. Halperin ultimately answered to none other than Tom Perez, who headed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be the same Tom Perez who compared bankers to KKK Klansmen, insisting the only difference between the two groups was that bankers discriminate &#8220;with a smile&#8221; and &#8220;fine print,” but were nonetheless &#8220;every bit as destructive as the cross burned in a neighborhood.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would also be the same Tom Perez who in 2010 <a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/06/23/perez-calls-for-reining-in-wild-wild-west-in-lending/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">railed</span></a> against the housing meltdown &#8220;fueled in large part by risky and irresponsible lending practices that allowed too many Americans to get unsustainable or unaffordable home loans.” It was then he promised that once the Fair Housing Unit was up and running, it &#8220;will use every tool in our arsenal, including, but not limited to, disparate impact theory.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez is determined to protect disparate impact theory from being adjudicated by the Supreme Court. On Nov. 7, 2011 the Court agreed to hear <i>Magner</i> v. <i>Gallagher, </i>a case about racial discrimination in housing. As the Weekly Standard <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/thomas-perez-makes-deal_724692.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a>, a Supreme Court decision on the theory was utterly anathema to Perez, whose effort to make the case “go away” became his self-admitted “top priority.” The case was about several property owners who alleged that St. Paul, Minnesota’s ramped up enforcement of the city’s housing code for rental units reduced the availability of low-income rentals, creating a disparate impact affecting black Americans. The district court tossed the suit, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated it, complete with the concept of disparate impact. The city appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, which was poised to decide for the first time whether disparate impact cases pursued under the auspices of the Fair Housing Act can be brought before the courts.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez, who has referred to disparate impact as the “lynchpin” of his civil rights agenda, didn’t want to take that chance. He managed to get the city to drop its case from the Supreme Court docket. Judicial Watch provided some of the sordid details, noting they had obtained documents &#8220;under the Minnesota Data Practices Act, showing that St. Paul City Attorney Sara Grewing arranged a meeting between the then-chief of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, current Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, and Mayor Chris Coleman a week before the city’s withdrawal from the case, captioned <i>Magner v. Gallagher</i>. Following Perez’s visit, the city withdrew its case and thanked DOJ and officials at HUD for their involvement.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In June of 2013, the Supreme Court agreed to hear another case revolving around disparate impact. <i>Township of Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens</i> concerned the town’s efforts to redevelop a blighted neighborhood. A group of renters <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323566804578551270111594516"><span style="color: #1255cc;">filed suit</span></a> alleging the move violated the FHA because the majority of the renters were non-white and they were unable to afford the new mid-priced, single-family dwellings. The district court dismissed the argument ruling all the renters were equally affected. The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed that ruling, basing their decision on disparate impact.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Once again Perez prevailed, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mount-holly-settlement-spares-fair-housing-act-for-now"><span style="color: #1255cc;">getting</span></a> Mt. Holly to drop the case, and once again preventing the Supreme Court from issuing a ruling on disparate impact.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Judge Leon noticed. In a stunning rebuke of Perez himself, Leon accused the Labor Secretary of gaming the system, timing cases and arranging the aforementioned settlements he found “particularly troubling.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It ought to trouble every American that the Obama administration remains determined to codify racial discrimination based on the idea that statistics can be a viable substitute for actual intent. To image how absurd this theory truly is, one need only apply it to the National Basketball Association where a “disproportionate&#8221; number of black American athletes, relative to the percentage of the nations’s overall population, earn a living.  Should white college basketball players who weren’t drafted by the NBA be able to file a lawsuit alleging discrimination, based on nothing more than that statistical discrepancy? Absent the necessity of proving intent to discriminate, the power of the government to file discrimination charges become virtually unlimited.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Leon noted there was nothing in the wording of the FHA or anything he read regarding Congress’s intent when it passed the FHA that supported HUD’s interpretation of the law. He further noted that complying with disparate impact theories would force various entities to compile information on a number of factors, including race, religion, gender, etc., that those entities are often banned from obtaining under state law.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez may be forced to work overtime yet again. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear <i>Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project.</i> State officials have been <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/texas-housing-bias-case-gets-u-s-supreme-court-review.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sued</span></a> by the Inclusive Communities Project, a Dallas-based group advocating integrated housing. The ICP alleges the state allocated a disproportionate number of federal low-income housing tax credits to minority neighborhoods, a practice that “makes dwellings unavailable in particular areas, thereby perpetuating residential segregation in the Dallas area,” the group said in court papers. The federal appeals court that ruled in favor of the plaintiffs is one of 11 that have determined the Fair Housing Act allows disparate-impact claims. Texas officials, led by Attorney General Greg Abbott, are eager to have the Supreme Court hear the case. “The far-reaching scope of disparate-impact liability makes this a question of exceptional importance,” they said in their appeal.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Equal Credit Opportunity Act used to hammer Wells Fargo and Bank of America may also be affected by the ruling. Miami attorney Paul Hancock, who filed a brief backing the Lone Star state on behalf of business groups led by the American Bankers Association, illuminated the implications if the Court decides to leave the theory of disparate impact intact. “It really pushes more toward advancement of racial quotas as the only way to avoid legal claims,” he said in a phone interview.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Disparate impact may do <i>far</i> more than that. After the election, the Obama administration intends to push its “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” agenda. It requires HUD to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/08/obama-administration-using-housing-department-to-compel-diversity-in/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">gather data</span></a> on segregation and discrimination. That data that will be used to racially diversify every city and suburb in America, <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/26/obamas-plans-for-a-secret-radical-agenda-after-the-elections/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">superseding</span></a> all local zoning ordinances and forcing those cities and suburbs to accept subsidized housing. “Geospatial data” will pinpoint alleged segregation hotspots that will be forced to comply with HUD&#8217;s efforts to racially balance the entire nation. &#8220;Unfortunately, in too many of our hardest hit communities, no matter how hard a child or her parents work, the life chances of that child, even her lifespan, is determined by the zip code she grows up in. This is simply wrong,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan when he unveiled the federal rule at the NAACP convention in July.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That’s nothing less than an <i>exponential expansion</i> of the disparate impact theory.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">By the time you read this, it is likely we will know which party controls the Senate. If it is Republicans, one of the first orders of business should be making it clear that Tom Perez’s chance of succeeding Eric Holder are zero. It will send a clear message that racial huckstering based on dubious legal theories will no longer be tolerated. After that, pruning as many race-addled zealots from HUD as possible would be a nice follow up.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BN-ER866_ObamaU_G_20140924132401.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241786" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BN-ER866_ObamaU_G_20140924132401-450x300.jpg" alt="BN-ER866_ObamaU_G_20140924132401" width="311" height="207" /></a>President Obama used an opportunity on the world stage this week to encourage America&#8217;s enemies to continue promoting the tired old left-wing narrative that the U.S. is an irretrievably racist hotbed of injustice.</p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead of just focusing on the topic of the day, namely, what the U.S. government is planning to do to undermine </span><span class="zw-portion">the extraordinarily brutal </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS)</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> Obama suggested that his own country&#8217;s race relations problems are on par with leading world crises. And Islam is perfectly innocent. Only bad people who aren&#8217;t </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">real</span><span class="zw-portion"> Muslims are causing trouble in the world.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It&#8217;s bread and circuses, with America&#8217;s own Caesar running the show.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">According to Obama, the </span><span class="zw-portion">killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in itself is proof that race relations are poisonous in the United States. As the Left sees it, </span><span class="zw-portion">Brown was the latest in a long line of helpless black victims mowed down by racist cops who are part of America&#8217;s corrupt criminal justice system. It&#8217;s just more left-wing sloganeering, staples of which are k</span><span class="zw-portion">nee-jerk cop hatred and making excuses for black criminals.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Anti-American fanatics, such as the Iranians, </span><span class="zw-portion">have used the events in </span><span class="zw-portion">Ferguson as propaganda to defame</span><span class="zw-portion"> the United States. Obama is telegraphing to the Islamist totalitarians that they are on the right track and have entirely legitimate criticisms.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">I realize that America</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s critics will be quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our ideals; that America has plenty of problems within its own borders</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Obama told </span><span class="zw-portion">the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in a speech that focused on foreign policy and national security issues.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">This is true</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he told the gathering of delegates from nations that enslave people, chop off their hands and heads, mutilate their genitals, and sanction the gang rape of infidels, women, and youngsters. He continued:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri &#8212; where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So, yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Apart from the vile moral equivalency, that is, the implied comparison of the Brown shooting with Islamist atrocities, Obama never bothered to point out that </span><span class="zw-portion">there is still not even a scintilla of evidence that what transpired last month in Ferguson was in any way racially motivated. Investigators keep digging and coming up empty-handed.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Nor did he point out that his administration is leading the way, trying to inflame racial and ethnic tensions. </span><span class="zw-portion">Egged on by violent left-wing mobs and race-obsessed profiteers like Obama allies Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr., </span><span class="zw-portion">t</span><span class="zw-portion">he U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a race-baiting witch hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil rights investigation. </span><span class="zw-portion">Such hoaxes are the stock in trade of the radical community organizers who run the Obama White House.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">But it&#8217;s a costly hoax. </span><span class="zw-portion">At least 40 federal agents have reportedly been on the ground in the St. Louis area desperately searching for proof of racial animus on the </span><span class="zw-portion">part of Darren Wilson, the decorated Ferguson police officer who shot Brown Aug. 9 after the suspected gang member beat him and tried to take his handgun.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">That figure of two-score agents is apparently more than the Obama administration has assigned to all the other major scandals embroiling the administration combined. Those other scandals include Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Benghazi bungling, IRS persecution of conservative groups, New Black Panther Party voter intimidation charges, the Fast and Furious gun-running episode, and the NSA&#8217;s domestic spying.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The rest of Obama&#8217;s UN speech consisted of bromides and inane mantras about the Islamic world he holds so dear.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Although Islam has been generating terrorists and Islamic supremacists for over a millennium, Islam&#8217;s been done wrong by those who have hijacked it, Obama argued.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">more lethal and ideological brand of terrorists</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion"> have </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">perverted one of the world</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s great religions</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said. These terrorists are &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">employing the most brutal methods to intimidate people within their communities</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said, without mentioning that his allies in SEIU and Saul Alinsky-inspired activist groups do much the same to American communities.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama glossed over the centuries of Islamic irredentism and religious violence to claim that, notwithstanding the often-graphic verses of the Holy Koran, that &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">Islam teaches peace.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8221; In his view, &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said without mentioning that to many Mohammedans the world over justice consists of Jews&#8217; and Christians&#8217; severed heads on public display.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama even said that &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">we reject any suggestion of a clash of civilizations</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; even though a clash of civilizations is precisely what is taking place.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Now that Obama&#8217;s approval ratings on national security and terrorism have taken a beating, the president feels he needs to sound like an actual president who cares about the good of the nation and is willing to use the nation&#8217;s military might in a just cause.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">What ISIS is doing is outrageous, Obama complains. But his </span><span class="zw-portion">hatred of ISIS is conditional, based on polling. As long as voters are concerned about ISIS, he&#8217;ll pretend to be concerned about ISIS.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">No God condones this terror</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning &#8212; no negotiation &#8212; with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This is likely the same pep talk Obama gave to former IRS enforcer Lois Lerner as she geared up to harass and intimidate Tea Party nonprofits.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In Obama&#8217;s eyes, o</span><span class="zw-portion">nly American conservatives, not medieval Islamic savages, are permanent foes worthy of eternal enmity.</span></p>
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		<title>Stanford Prof Who Claimed Police Brutality Caused by Subliminal Monkeys Wins MacArthur &#8220;Genius&#8221; Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Genius doesn&#8217;t mean what it used to. The only genius in the MacArthur &#8220;Genius&#8221; Grant is in its branding and promotion. It usually goes to boring liberal hacks pushing the same boring predictable agenda.</p>
<p>Or in some cases it goes to groundbreaking geniuses like Stanford Social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt whose work is so ridiculous that it&#8217;s a sitcom punch line.</p>
<p>You already know that things are going to be bad because of the &#8220;social psychologist&#8221; part of the title. Social psychology is one of those fields that serves as a spawning ground for demented leftist ideas while producing nothing useful.</p>
<p>Jennifer Eberhardt&#8217;s <a href="http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-goff28-2009feb28-story.html">work is a case in point</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In one study, for example, we exposed some participants to words such as &#8220;chimp,&#8221; &#8220;gorilla&#8221; and &#8220;orangutan,&#8221; flashed on a computer screen at such a rapid rate that they could not be consciously detected. Next, we asked all the participants to watch a two-minute videotape of police officers who had surrounded a suspect and were violently subduing him. Some participants were led to believe that the suspect was white; others were led to believe he was black.</p>
<p>What did we find?</p>
<p>When the participants were led to believe that the suspect was white, exposing them to the ape words beforehand made no difference in their judgments about the use of force displayed in the video. However, when participants believed the suspect was black, those who were exposed to the words thought the police officers were more justified in the amount of force they used. They thought that the black suspect deserved the violence that was directed at him.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s assume that the results here weren&#8217;t manipulated, which they probably were, what exactly does it establish? That white people hate monkeys? That white people support police brutality because they think black people are chimpanzees?</p>
<p>The entire idea that people pick up subconsciously on words that they can&#8217;t see and that their behavior is then shaped by it is considered scientifically dubious.</p>
<p>This goes back to James Vicary who promoted himself with claims that he could get people to drink coca cola in theaters by flashing subliminal messages.</p>
<blockquote><p>“In 1957 Vicary conducted his research in to subliminal messaging. He used a movie theater in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and over a 6 week period he tested subliminal messaging on over 45,000 movie goers.</p>
<p>While the patrons watched a movie, Vicary displayed 2 subliminal messages – on stating “Eat Popcorn” and another stating “Drink Coca-Cola”. The messages were text based subliminal messages and were displayed much faster than the human eye can see – they flashed on the screen for 3/1000s of 1 second – and they were displayed once every 5 seconds.</p>
<p>Results were taken by comparing the current 6 weeks sales of Coca Cola and popcorn to sales figures from the previous 6 weeks. The difference was phenomenal:</p>
<p>Popcorn sales had risen by 57%<br />
Coca Cola sales rose by 18.1%</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://explorable.com/subliminal-messages">Except it was all a lie</a>. Vicary was a fraud. So is Eberhardt.</p>
<p>The difference is that Eberhardt probably knows a lot more ways to manipulate the outcome. It works better with people who are tired and people who have been set up to provide a particular response.</p>
<p>You can get people to more readily pick a word if they&#8217;ve been subliminally prompted for it and even that is debatable. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped a proliferation of &#8220;If you show people X and they process it subconsciously, they&#8217;ll be more likely to Y&#8221; studies out of the soft sciences.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s more Eberthardt</p>
<blockquote><p>We read every article published about these cases in the Philadelphia Inquirer, from the time the crime was first reported to the sentencing of those arrested, and we tallied the number of ape-related metaphors that appeared in print &#8212; things such as &#8220;an urban jungle&#8221; and &#8220;aping a victim&#8217;s screams.&#8221; Not only were black men and their crimes much more likely to be described in apelike terms, but the number of ape-related metaphors predicted the likelihood that a defendant would be sentenced to death.</p></blockquote>
<p>Once the jury is sequestered, they aren&#8217;t supposed to read the Inquirer. And cities have been called an urban jungle in numerous contexts. That&#8217;s a more likely description of a more brutal crime.</p>
<p>Jennifer Eberhardt has set up the outcome of her &#8220;research&#8221; by selecting the criteria. It&#8217;s a common problem in the soft sciences, which use ridiculous criteria to reach their premeditated conclusions.</p>
<p>She isn&#8217;t even particularly original. The left has been banging away at this for some time. I recall one survey which asked people if gorillas had black or white skin underneath their fur. If people answered black skin, it was assumed that they were racist.</p>
<p>I hope whoever came up with that one got a genius grant too.</p>
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		<title>Precious Parker Fights White People Moving into Building at Gunpoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/bk-women-force-tenants-gunpoint-squat-apartment-cops-article-1.1931834">Isn&#8217;t that just </a>p<a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/08/woman-allegedly-forces-tenants-out-of-apartment-at-gunpoint/">recious</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>Precious Parker, 30, and Sabrina James, 23, knocked on the door of an apartment building on Ocean Ave. near Newkirk Ave. in Flatbush at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday and held a 34-year-old man, a 37-year-old man, and a 25-year-old woman at gunpoint demanding they move out or be killed, police said.</p>
<p>The source added the trio may have been targeted because of their race, as one of the women said she didn’t like “that white people were moving into the area,” the police source said.</p>
<p>The women then stole $800, an iPhone and personal information from the tenants, police said.</p>
<p>Precious Parker, 30, allegedly forced the three roommates who lived in the Flatbush apartment to the floor at gunpoint on Sept. 4, and after robbing them said, “If you call the police or management company, I’ll pick five people of​f​ each of your phones and kill them and if you’re not out of here in 24 hours, five guys will come back and kill you all,” according to court papers.</p>
<p>“There was a dispute over who was supposed to be renting that apartment,” Parker defense attorney Danielle Korotzer said at the Brooklyn criminal court arraignment.</p>
<p>“My client did not believe the complainants should be in the apartment.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I assume Holder will be down shortly to protect her civil rights.</p>
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		<title>Holder Expands Ferguson Witch-Hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning a lynch mob into a taxpayer-funded Democratic voter registration drive.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eric-holder-finger-in-air.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240331" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eric-holder-finger-in-air.jpg" alt="eric-holder-finger-in-air" width="303" height="226" /></a>Despite the continuing absence of any evidence whatsoever that race was a factor in the police shooting of Michael Brown, the Department of Justice will be conducting a race-baiting witch-hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson, Mo., Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday.</p>
<p>The new investigation is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil rights investigation. Such hoaxes are the stock in trade of the radical community organizers who run the Obama White House. Statistics, by the way, suggest Ferguson is far from the hotbed of crime the media has <a href="http://localwiki.net/st-louis/Ferguson_Police">portrayed</a> it as. Ferguson reportedly has an average level of crime.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I visited Ferguson two weeks ago, I promised that the U.S. Department of Justice would continue to stand with the people there long after the national headlines had faded,&#8221; Holder said, <a href="http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2014/ag-speech-140904.html">according to</a> the text of prepared remarks. Egged on by violent left-wing mobs and racial tension profiteers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr., federal officials were already conducting what will almost certainly prove to be a fruitless civil rights-centered investigation of Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p><b>&#8220;</b>Today, with our investigation into the Ferguson Police Department and our reform efforts in St. Louis County, we’re taking significant steps to keep that promise,&#8221; Holder said. &#8220;As these efforts unfold, my colleagues and I will keep working with the people in Ferguson to ensure that a fair, thorough investigation occurs; to see that dialogue can be translated into concrete action; and to facilitate lasting, positive change – that brings together police officials, civil rights leaders, and members of the public – to bridge gaps and build understanding.&#8221;</p>
<p>Except perhaps for what some critics said was an initially heavy-handed and overly militaristic approach to crowd control used by Ferguson police, there is no evidence much, if any, change is actually needed in the St. Louis-area township.</p>
<p>To repeat, this expanded federal investigation of a local incident has absolutely nothing to do with justice and everything to do with electoral politics. Although at least 40 federal agents have reportedly been on the ground in the St. Louis area desperately searching for proof of racial animus on the part of Darren Wilson, a decorated Ferguson police officer who shot Brown Aug. 9 after the 18-year-old suspected gang member beat him and tried to take his handgun, such evidence remains elusive.</p>
<p>That figure of 40 agents is apparently more than the Obama administration has assigned to all the other major scandals embroiling the administration combined. Those other scandals include Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Benghazi bungling, IRS persecution of conservative groups, New Black Panther Party voter intimidation charges, the Fast and Furious gun-running episode, and the NSA&#8217;s domestic spying.</p>
<p>All the racial grievance-community organizing complex currently has to go on is the fact that the decedent was black and the policeman was white.</p>
<p>It is, of course, no coincidence that the investigation was announced as President Obama&#8217;s approval rating with the public <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx">dipped</a> to record lows. At an anemic 38 percent according to Gallup&#8217;s three-day rolling average, it is now descending into President Nixon territory. Obama is anxious to change the conversation to issues that don&#8217;t matter like raising the minimum wage and income inequality.</p>
<p>The announcement of an expanded federal investigation in Ferguson comes three weeks <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/214911-lawmakers-call-on-doj-to-expand-probe-of-slain-missouri-teen">after</a> the race-baiting members of the far-left Congressional Black Caucus demanded a federal lynch mob be assembled to put the mostly white Ferguson police department in its place.</p>
<p>In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), who heads the CBC, Reps. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), and John Conyers (D-Mich.) demanded the political persecution of Ferguson cops because in their view Brown&#8217;s killing &#8220;may be part of a continuing pattern of the use of deadly force by police against unarmed African-Americans.”</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s shooting raises “potentially serious concerns&#8221; about law enforcement in St. Louis, the lawmakers wrote. Holder&#8217;s Department of Justice should take over the probe because, they claim, the St. Louis County Police Department “may not be the most objective or credible body to investigate civil rights matters involving law enforcement given evidence of racial profiling by that department in the recent past.”</p>
<p>“Only the federal government has the resources, the experience, and the full independence to give this case the close scrutiny that the citizens of Ferguson and the greater St. Louis area deserve,” the letter said.</p>
<p>While Brown&#8217;s body was still warm, Democrats set up a voter registration booth where Brown died, as if the suspected gang member were some kind of martyr. They are now trying to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/getting-ferguson-majority-to-show-its-clout-at-polls.html?_r=0">leverage</a> his death nationally for partisan purposes.</p>
<p>“This is going to go past Ferguson,” said John Gaskin III, a spokesman for the St. Louis County, Mo., NAACP and a member of the group&#8217;s national board of directors.</p>
<p>“What I’ve told people is I want them to be aware that there’s a Ferguson near you, near every city,” he said. “I don’t think people will run out of steam on this one.”</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s announcement also <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/michael-brown-funeral-prelude-to-a-cop-lynching-1/">comes days after</a> Brown was laid to rest following a grotesque political rally led by the abominable racial arsonist Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>The politically correct lie that a helpless 6&#8217;4&#8243; 292-lbs. Brown was shot in cold blood, arms raised while attempting to surrender to white police officer Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was beating the cop while reaching for his gun, <span style="color: #222222;">refuses to die.</span></p>
<p>In the minutes before he attacked Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery, an act that some might consider a hate crime.</p>
<p>The image of a huge robber manhandling a much smaller victim won&#8217;t run out of steam anytime soon, either.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the Democrats be held accountable for alienating white voters?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/debbie.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-240152" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/debbie.jpg" alt="debbie" width="310" height="233" /></a>Hardly a week goes by without some Democratic Party hack putting finger to iPad and swiping out a screed about the Republican Party’s problem with women or minorities.</p>
<p>This week it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz with “The GOP’s Woman Problem.”</p>
<p>Schultz claims that the Republican Party was “rejected again by a bloc of voters that make up more than half of the electorate.” That claim is as real as Schultz’s hair color. The only bloc that rejected Romney was the same bloc that rejected Hillary; the bloc of minority voters who came out in force for Obama.</p>
<p>And unless Hillary Clinton also had a “woman problem” they didn’t do it over gender.</p>
<p>For example in the South Carolina Democratic primary, Obama beat Hillary among women by 54 to 30. That’s a much bigger split than the one between Obama and Romney among women. While Hillary Clinton beat Obama among white voters, Obama won 78 percent of the black vote.</p>
<p>There was no gender gap. There was a racial gap.</p>
<p>Throughout her campaign, Hillary Clinton consistently won the votes of white women in large numbers and lost the votes of women who said that their gender was not important. Obama won the female vote by his largest margins in southern states because he wasn’t really winning by gender, he was benefiting from a large turnout of black women.</p>
<p>Obama won the female vote in Georgia by 32%, but Hillary won 62% of the white female vote. Obama however had won 87% of the black female vote. In Ohio, Hillary and Obama had nearly the same split, but Hillary won the female vote in Ohio by 16% because the racial makeup of the voters was different.</p>
<p>In 2012, <a href="http://elections.nbcnews.com/ns/politics/2012/ohio/president/#.VAZIaPlr7J8">Romney won 53%</a> of the white female vote and 3% of the black female vote in Ohio. He didn’t lose women. He lost the same “bloc of voters” that had rejected Hillary, not over gender, but over race.</p>
<p>The Republican Party doesn’t have a “woman problem.” Romney won the votes of white women in every age group; including young women. And Obama lost white women as he did all white voters.</p>
<p>He <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-iraqization-of-america/">lost white voters</a> by 59% to 39%. He lost white voters of every age and gender. His loss among white voters was completely unprecedented for any winner of a presidential election.</p>
<p>The GOP doesn’t have a “woman problem”, but the Democrats have a “white woman problem” and a “white man problem.”</p>
<p>The articles about the GOP’s problem with minority voters blame the Republican Party for alienating minority voters. But shouldn’t the Democratic Party be held accountable for alienating white voters?</p>
<p>This is about more than just numbers.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party’s poor performance among white voters is leading it to engage in some very questionable behavior. If Obama and his party weren’t polling so poorly among white voters, it’s doubtful that the Democrats would be nakedly exploiting racial tensions in Ferguson in the hopes of turning out black voters for the midterm elections.</p>
<p>This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/dems-hoping-ferguson-anger-will-let-them-keep-the-senate/">a New York Times article</a> which describes how the Democrats are hoping to retain control of the Senate “as they urge black voters to channel their anger by voting Democratic in the midterm elections.”</p>
<p>A race riot at the polls isn’t the political strategy of a legitimate party, but the Democrats are legitimately panicking because they have lost white voters.</p>
<p>Obama’s approval rating among young white voters, a group that came out for him in 2008, was at 28 percent. <a href="http://www.iop.harvard.edu/approval-obama-both-parties-congress-slide-across-board-near-majority-would-support-recalling">58 percent of them</a> would like to recall him from office. His approval ratings among the white working class are so catastrophic that he might as well be Walter Mondale.</p>
<p>So Obama is hitting the Rust Belt even while Democrats running for reelection avoid him like the Ebola virus. His fallback strategy is racism and more racism. Everything from Ferguson to the border crisis was set up to push his minority voting base into voting in the midterm elections.</p>
<p>The migrants crowded into gyms and the burned out stores in Ferguson are both the products of a criminally corrupt and racially divisive election strategy. But no amount of race riots or refugee mobs can save the Democratic Party from dealing with its white voter problem.</p>
<p>Instead of the GOP being ordered to change its policies to appeal to minority voters, maybe it’s time that the Democrats changed their policies to appeal to white voters.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be that hard.</p>
<p>The Democrats have won white voters before. But then they got lazy and decided that it would be easier to depend on racial voting blocs. The blocs worked for Obama, but they didn’t work out too well for them in Congress. Now the Democrats are making a last ditch effort to hold on to the Senate using an insulting and racist campaign that has already cost both black and white lives.</p>
<p>To win over white voters, the Democrats have to stop freeing drug dealers while banning guns. Instead they have to stop fighting the 2<sup>nd</sup> Amendment and start arresting drug dealers. They have to stop pushing higher taxes and uncontrolled spending and start rebuilding the economy with jobs and tax cuts. They have to let go of ObamaCare and stop pushing socialized medicine and socialized everything.</p>
<p>White voters have less faith in government. They believe that the country is on the wrong track. They aren’t committed Republicans, but they are deeply skeptical of a deeply racist Democratic Party that no longer speaks to their needs and values.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party’s response to its loss of support among white voters has been to accuse them of racism. In the same <em>New Yorker</em> interview in which Obama claimed that ISIS was a JV team, he blamed racism for his poor approval ratings among white voters. Both claims were delusional and wrong.</p>
<p>White voters did not belatedly become racist. The Democratic Party stopped listening to them and went down a racist rabbit hole trying to defend an administration where Al Sharpton and Eric Holder are dictating a national conversation on race.</p>
<p>Debbie Wasserman Schultz is right. One party in 2012 was “rejected again by a bloc of voters that make up more than half of the electorate.”</p>
<p>That party was the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>It’s time to ask whether a party that has lost the support of the majority of the country has any place running the country.</p>
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		<title>Speed Kills Racial Profiling Study</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240230" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large.jpg" alt="radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large" width="328" height="250" /></a>In an article about police shootings in last Sunday&#8217;s New York Times (8/31), Michael Wines disputes the conventional wisdom about a disproportionate number of African-Americans being shot by police, saying there are no data one way or another. But Wines revives the canard about blacks being disproportionately targeted in traffic stops.</p>
<p>There actually is a study for that.</p>
<p>Throughout the 1990s, the nation was fixated on tales of jack-booted New Jersey state troopers who were stopping speeders on the turnpike just because they were black! In a 2000 primary debate, Vice President Al Gore sneered at then-New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, saying, &#8220;Racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.&#8221;</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder recently paid tribute to the myth, claiming that when he was in college, he had been stopped &#8220;driving from New York to Washington.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t mention how fast he was going.</p>
<p>The story never made sense. How could the troopers tell the race of drivers in speeding cars? Did they wait until the driver rolled down his window and, if he was white, say, &#8220;Oh, sorry &#8212; have a nice day!&#8221;</p>
<p>But the Clinton administration was slapping consent decrees for racial profiling on police departments across the country, and the N.J. highway patrol was its prime evidence, based on a study that a child wouldn&#8217;t believe.</p>
<p>As is usually the case with bogus race studies, the pivotal 1993 survey compared speed stops on the New Jersey turnpike to the population of all drivers on the turnpike &#8212; not with the population of all speeders on the turnpike.</p>
<p>Such meaningless studies are popular on the left, where it is assumed that people of different races, genders and ethnicities will always behave identically in all respects.</p>
<p>If fewer women pass the physical test to become firefighters, that can only be because of sexism. If fewer blacks pass the written test &#8212; that&#8217;s racism. If fewer whites play professional basketball &#8212; no, forget that one. Sports are important. (Unlike arson or vehicular homicide.)</p>
<p>Nonetheless, based on the assumption that blacks speed just as much as whites &#8212; because to believe otherwise would be racist! &#8212; Temple University&#8217;s John Lamberth announced that while only 13.5 percent of drivers along a particular stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike were black, 46 percent of those stopped for speeding were black.</p>
<p>Racial profiling, Q.E.D.</p>
<p>The New York Times ran a dozen articles trumpeting the nonsense study, proclaiming it &#8220;the most thorough documentation of the contention that the police regularly pulled over black drivers.&#8221; Lamberth himself praised his research for ruling out the possibility of coincidence &#8212; and if you can&#8217;t trust Lamberth on his own study, who can you trust?</p>
<p>Largely on the basis of that investigation, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert E. Francis threw out the contraband evidence seized from 19 African-American men in traffic stops on the turnpike. New Jersey&#8217;s ninny governor, Christie Todd Whitman, pronounced her state&#8217;s troopers guilty of racial profiling and agreed to a consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that basically prohibited the troopers from doing their jobs.</p>
<p>Statisticians, and other people with common sense, tried to explain to liberals that human beings are not identical. Any study purporting to show that too many blacks are stopped for speeding must first determine how many speeders are black.</p>
<p>Being denounced as virtual Klansmen, the state troopers demanded a real study.</p>
<p>Confident that any new study would merely serve to confirm the troopers&#8217; racism, the DOJ and the New Jersey attorney general commissioned a statistical investigation from the Public Services Research Institute in Maryland.</p>
<p>The institute&#8217;s study was a spectacular thing. Using expensive monitors with high-speed cameras and radar detectors, they clocked the speeds of nearly 40,000 drivers on the relevant section of the turnpike. Three researchers then examined the photos to determine the race of the driver &#8212; without knowing whether the driver was speeding, which was defined as going more than 80 mph in 65 mph zones.</p>
<p>The result: No racial profiling.</p>
<p>Blacks constituted 25 percent of all speeders and they were 23 percent of drivers stopped for speeding. Controlling for age and gender, blacks sped at about twice the rate of whites. The racial disparity was even greater for drivers exceeding 90 mph.</p>
<p>Inasmuch as the study was irrefutable, Mark Posner, a lefty Clinton holdover in the Bush Justice Department, tried to block it from being released, continuously demanding more information.</p>
<p>But no matter how statisticians fiddled with the data, the results were identical: Blacks were twice as likely to speed as whites &#8212; and at much higher speeds. The troopers were completely vindicated.</p>
<p>When the study finally leaked &#8212; over Posner&#8217;s objections &#8212; he informed the press it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;valid&#8221; without articulating any actual problems with it. The attorney general of New Jersey, David Samson, nonsensically said the results didn&#8217;t matter because New Jersey had already admitted its troopers were engaging in racial profiling.</p>
<p>Perhaps the Times is right and there is no comprehensive study of police shootings by race. But it&#8217;s also possible that there is one, it didn&#8217;t come out as planned, so it has never seen the light of day.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Joins the Ferguson Lynch Mob</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/clinton1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239842" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/clinton1-450x300.jpg" alt="Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton participates in &quot;A Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton&quot; in Manhattan, New York" width="282" height="188" /></a>Breaking her calculated silence on the issue, Hillary Clinton said young Michael Brown was a victim of police brutality in Ferguson, Mo., the latest in a long line of helpless black victims mowed down by racist cops who are part of America&#8217;s corrupt criminal justice system.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just more left-wing sloganeering, staples of which are knee-jerk cop hatred and making excuses for black criminals.</p>
<p>Clinton, wife of the man some used to call America&#8217;s &#8220;first black president,&#8221; has a long history of race-baiting and race-based pandering. She patronized black Americans in her insultingly awful mock African-American accent when <a href="http://www.creators.com/conservative/walter-williams/insulting-blacks.html">she gave</a> her infamous &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel no ways tired&#8221; speech.</p>
<p>The all-but-declared candidate for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president&#8217;s media-hyped public epiphany about Ferguson and Michael Brown <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/michael-brown-funeral-prelude-to-a-cop-lynching-1/">comes days after</a> 18-year-old Brown was laid to rest following a grotesque political rally led by the abominable racial arsonist Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>The former U.S. secretary of state embraces the politically correct lie that a helpless 6&#8217;4&#8243; 292-lbs. Brown was shot in cold blood, arms raised while attempting to surrender to white police officer Darren Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was trying to crush the decorated cop&#8217;s skull with his bare hands and reaching for the man&#8217;s handgun. Left-wingers like Clinton also prefer to ignore that fact that minutes before he attacked Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery, an act that some might consider a hate crime. And the public is still waiting for Brown&#8217;s not-yet-released postmortem toxicology report.</p>
<p>The myth that Brown was a gentle giant won&#8217;t die. The racial-grievance industry, egged on by President Obama and his fellow radicals, won&#8217;t let it go. They need rampant racial tension and cop-hatred to persist in order to motivate their political base if Democrats are to have any hope of maintaining control of the U.S. Senate after the November congressional elections.</p>
<p>Clinton, the Benghazi bungler whose studied nonfeasance on Sept. 11, 2012, got four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, killed by Muslim terrorists, told a San Francisco audience:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;This summer, the eyes of our country and indeed the world have been focused on one community in the middle of the American heartland, Ferguson, Missouri. Watching the recent funeral for Michael Brown, as a mother, as a human being, my heart just broke for his family, because losing a child is every parent&#8217;s greatest fear and an unimaginable loss.</p>
<p>But I also grieve for that community and for many like it across our country. Behind the dramatic, terrible pictures on television, are deep challenges that will be with them and with us long after the cameras move on. This is what happens when the bonds of trust and respect that hold any community together fray. Nobody wants to see our streets look like a war zone, not in America. We are better than that.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although black violence is a persistent problem in America, Clinton, as always, has nothing to say about anything that might actually help black communities. They are always victims in the leftist narrative. She and her comrades have done everything in their power for the last half century since the War on Poverty was launched to weaken black families, yet they are always calling for more government programs and social engineering to cure the problems that they themselves have created.</p>
<p>Clinton spoke of the violence in Ferguson as if it had materialized in response to some kind of injustice, ignoring the role of what police called &#8220;outside agitators&#8221; played in driving the nightly street battles with police. She continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We saw our country&#8217;s true character in the community leaders that came out to protest peacefully and worked to restrain violence. The young people who insisted on having their voices heard and in the many decent and respectful law enforcement officers who showed what quality law enforcement looks like. Men and women who serve and protect their communities with courage and professionalism, who inspire trust, rather than fear. We need more of that, because we can do better.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Apart from her perfunctory praise of law enforcement officials and denunciation of violence, Clinton&#8217;s wording implies that Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, who shot Brown in self-defense, is not one of the &#8220;many decent and respectful law enforcement officers.&#8221; According to Clinton&#8217;s reasoning, Wilson must be a racist villain who is part of the problem.</p>
<p>Then Clinton began to sound like Barack Obama and other believers in the kooky legal philosophy known as Critical Race Theory, pretending that violent crimes in this country are not disproportionately committed by blacks. She ignores the fact that in some communities blacks receive heightened scrutiny from police because they seem to fit the profile of wanted suspects. If black crime were not prevalent in a specific area, chances are blacks would not receive much attention from police. But logic is not something left-wingers are often blessed with. They prefer to explain social ills by blaming white people.</p>
<p>Clinton continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t ignore the inequities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality. Imagine what we would feel and what we would do if white drivers were three times as likely to be searched by police during a traffic stop as black drivers. Instead of the other way around; if white offenders received prison sentences 10 percent longer than black offenders for the same crimes; if a third of all white men, just look at this room and take one-third, went to prison during their lifetime. Imagine that. That is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans and so many of the communities in which they live.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Whether the specific statistics Clinton cites are valid is an arguable point, but what is not arguable is that violent black crime in America is far more prevalent that violent crime committed by whites. The statistics for young black males are particularly horrifying.</p>
<p>As liberal Democrat academic John McWhorter, a black American, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/race-riot-romance-1/">wrote</a> last year:</p>
<blockquote><p>“[Y]oung black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S. &#8230; Hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying “You get what you deserve, white boy’ (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch ‘for Trayvon’ (Mobile, Ala.) &#8230; [I]t’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But Hillary Clinton would never beat up a key political constituency. She&#8217;s too busy inflaming black voters, making them feel good about their dysfunctional communities, and reinforcing the worst pathologies of inner cities.</p>
<p>Of course Clinton is completely supportive of Eric Holder&#8217;s witch hunt in Ferguson, where Justice Department and FBI officials have been busy gathering evidence to use in what promises to be a high-profile trumped-up civil rights prosecution against Officer Wilson. Clinton said:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I applaud President Obama for sending the attorney general to Ferguson and demanding a thorough and speedy investigation, to find out what happened, to see that justice is done, to help this community begin healing itself. We should all add our voices to those that have come together in recent days to work for peace, justice and reconciliation in Ferguson, and beyond, to stand against violence and for the values that we cherish. We can do better.</p>
<p>We can work to rebuild the bonds of trust from the ground up. It starts within families and communities. It was 51 years ago today that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr called us to live out true meaning of our creed, to make the dream real for all Americans. That mission is as fiercely urgent today as when he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the hot August sun all those years ago.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Except that Clinton, a Saul Alinsky adherent just like Barack Obama, has no interest in rebuilding bonds of trust. Like Obama, she wants to tear down America in order to rebuild it and replace it with a socialist state. Talk of &#8220;equality&#8221; and &#8220;healing&#8221; are merely arrows in her rhetorical quiver.</p>
<p>Clinton&#8217;s attempt to stoke the flames of racial resentment came as up-and-coming independent investigative journalist Charles C. Johnson announced he <a href="http://gotnews.com/media-covers-reacts-got-news-lawsuit-michaelbrown-juvie-records/">has filed</a> a lawsuit after two law enforcement sources told him Michael Brown&#8217;s juvenile criminal record is under seal in a St. Louis court. Johnson also wonders why the so-called gentle giant <a href="http://gotnews.com/michaelbrown-choose-attend-st-louiss-violent-school-ferguson/">opted to attend</a> the most violent high school in the St. Louis area when he could have easily gone elsewhere.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, black leftists <a href="http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2014/08/28/we-need-to-get-ungovernable-dc-townhall-on-ferguson-gets-heated-n1884394">are plotting</a> further unrest to ensure the survival and flourishing of their narrative of cop-hatred.</p>
<p>At a Washington, D.C. branch of Busboys and Poets, owned by celebrated radical leftist Andy Shallal, an NAACP official and other neo-communist radicals like Hugo Chavez-loving actor Danny Glover vowed to escalate their activities.</p>
<p>The town hall-style meeting was titled, &#8220;Ferguson and Beyond – The Way Forward: A Town Hall Meeting on Police Killings of Black Men.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr. Ron Daniels, former executive director of the Marxist public interest law firm, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has been essential in the Left&#8217;s long-running drive to dismantle the Global War on Terror, seemed to sum up the feelings of participants.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to get ungovernable,&#8221; Daniels said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been too tame.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton, who is determined to carry on Barack Obama&#8217;s agenda of racial antagonism, wholeheartedly agrees.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-masked-protesters-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239249" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-masked-protesters-AP-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-masked-protesters-AP" width="320" height="240" /></a>For the past several days I have been watching news reports on the mayhem that is happening in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>Personally, I have tried to ignore the events going on there since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson.  Michael Brown was shot after he robbed a convenience store on August 9<sup>th </sup>2014.  Officer Wilson shot Brown after Brown assaulted Wilson subsequent to the officer approaching the suspect while responding to the robbery call via emergency communication.</p>
<p>The reason I attempted to ignore the situation is that it reminds me of my days when I was working as a community organizer for the ACLU in Buffalo, New York.  It is a period in my life that I would rather forget.</p>
<p>I had the task of working on cases of police brutality.  When an incident would happen between the police and a suspect or group of suspects, protests would invariably begin.  The protesters would allege police brutality or misconduct.  The media would get involved and many “leaders” and “activists” would make wild and irresponsible charges against anyone who did not fall in line with the radical ideology of the organizers of the protests.</p>
<p>Does any of this sound familiar?</p>
<p>However, I did not expect the situation in Ferguson to spiral out of control like it has.</p>
<p>Why are black Americans reacting to this incident with so much anger and violence?  Michael Brown was obviously a dangerous young criminal who assaulted both a store clerk and a police officer.</p>
<p>The distress of so many black people goes beyond who Michael Brown was or what he was doing at the time of his death.</p>
<p>What everyone seems to be missing is that after 6 years of the historic election of the first African-American to the office of the President of the United States, many young black people still have a highly adversarial relationship with sources of civil authority and American society.</p>
<p>I vividly remember the emotional feeling that was present in the atmosphere right after President Obama won the election in November of 2008.  I was one of the few people in my community who did not support Barack Obama when he was running for President.  Furthermore, I was the <i>only</i> black person that I knew who favored Senator McCain over Senator Obama.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, when I stepped out of the door of my apartment building on the morning of November 5, 2008 I immediately sensed that the world was somehow different.  I could <i>literally see</i> the pride and happiness in the faces of other black people that I came across that day.</p>
<p>When I visited a coffee shop that morning for my daily caffeine fix, there was a white woman who was sitting at one of the café tables talking to another white woman about the historic significance of what happened the night before.  One of the women was <i>crying tears of joy</i>.</p>
<p>President-elect Barack Obama had so enthralled a segment of citizens with his message of hope and change that many people actually believed in the prospective future of our country and anticipated that many positive changes were soon to come.</p>
<p>I remember thinking to myself: <i>“Maybe I am wrong about Barack Obama and what I think he represents.”</i></p>
<p>Fast forward 6 years to August 2014.</p>
<p>The almost universal African-American support for Senator Barack Obama in 2008 has dissipated to a degree. It is important to note this phenomenon because the black leadership class of the country from <i>both sides</i> of the political spectrum &#8212; not just the right wing &#8212; are questioning the impact and legacy of Barack Obama’s presidency.</p>
<p>Many black citizens think that the President is indifferent to the plight of poor people in the United States. President Obama is silent on the breakdown of family values and civil society in the black community until an incident like the shooting death of Michael Brown forces him to focus on the decline of community standards and moral behavior.</p>
<p>It is under the tenure of the first black President that poor black families are seeing their chances of moving up the income ladder into the middle class disappear before their eyes.  Black parents are observing that their children are being born into poverty and realizing that they are likely to die in poverty.  African-American families are not living the American Dream.  Generation after generation are stuck in a practical social nightmare.</p>
<p>This is the political and social environment that manifests itself in our country after six years of President Obama’s administration.  It is this environment that creates fertile ground for race-baiting organizations like the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam to plant seeds of hate among the other rabble rousers showing up in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>In light of what is happening on the ground in Missouri we have to wonder how many of the people who are causing the problems in the region bought into the President’s message of hope and change back in 2008.</p>
<p>Now some of those self-same individuals are fueling what investigative reporter Matthew Vadum called “a vicious war against civil society in Ferguson.”</p>
<p>It is without doubt that many of the troublemakers in Ferguson today supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and not only because he was black.  They also genuinely believed that he would develop legislative policies and social programs that would help African-American communities and the poor people of this nation.</p>
<p>Now, that hope and belief has transformed into racially motivated violence and anger.</p>
<p>The President has not only failed the black community.  He has unwittingly pitted black and Hispanic poor and disenfranchised communities against one another through his inaction on the illegal immigration issue.  He has attempted to out-flank congressional Republicans in the realm of public opinion by using the Hispanic community as a political wedge.</p>
<p>There is something about the philosophical makeup and social structure of American black communities that makes young black men like Michael Brown choose the route of criminal activity and social exclusion over integration into the mainstream of our society.</p>
<p>There is no one in the urban communities to warn young people like Mr. Brown of the consequences of behaving like a felon.  Someone should have told him that the gangster rap music that he loved so much is full of messages that either has no basis in objective reality or will bring direct problems to the individuals who choose to believe in those ideas.</p>
<p>If you choose to behave like a criminal you are subject to being detained, arrested, assailed or killed by members of the police department.</p>
<p>This is a most basic fact of living in a civil society that anyone with a head on his shoulders should be able to understand.  Yet many African-American men make the choice to believe that the rules of society do not apply to them.</p>
<p>If there is any group of people that the President should have been desperately trying to reach with his message of hope and change it is young men like Michael Brown.</p>
<p>Instead, many of them are currently in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri engaging in violence and causing mischief and mayhem.</p>
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		<title>Fix Ferguson by Getting Rid of the Media</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239190" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson-450x252.png" alt="Ferguson" width="282" height="158" /></a>If there’s a problem in America or anywhere in the world, inflicting the media on it can only make it worse. By some accounts there are more reporters in Ferguson than there are protesters. That may be why the protesters ran for cover behind the media after throwing bottles of urine at the police.</p>
<p>There are so many reporters in Ferguson that the rioters and looters can use them as human shields. You just wouldn’t know it because they don’t take pictures of each other. The occasional photos of media scrums around a crying woman in the Middle East or an angry protester in Ferguson reveal the artificiality of the event. It’s okay to have one reporter in front of a camera, but when there are so many reporters at an event that they outnumber everyone else, the whole thing starts looking like a movie set on which events are staged for the entertainment and profit of the producers.</p>
<p>Remember that every time you see a masked protester caught in the act of throwing a rock or a loving couple huddled in fear of dark masked shapes in riot gear, these images are as artificial and posed as anything in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog.</p>
<p>They show you what is in front of the camera, not what is behind it.</p>
<p>Look through the news reports of riots anywhere and you’ll see the same poses repeat across continents and generations. The rioters are different people with different causes and agendas, but the photos of them are being taken and selected by the same people from the same news agencies.</p>
<p>There is never anything new on the news because the media has a pre-existing formula for handling any event. What we think of as the newspaper or the evening news just plugs actual news into its formula and turns it into propaganda.</p>
<p>The national news network and the newspaper of record tell the same few stories just like Hollywood makes the same movies, even if they seem to feature different characters and places. That’s because the formula doesn’t change. The formula is what we are getting from Ferguson’s mob of professional and amateur reporters each fighting for the chance to retell the same story to the same audience.</p>
<p>Calling the packed masses of angry leftists in Ferguson “reporters” is a little unfair. Even the term media is mostly meaningless. Ferguson is packed with reporters from national and local news networks. Alongside them are crews from enemy state propaganda outlets like Al Jazeera and RT. And they’re the cream of the crop compared to Vice, Infowars and activists with digital cameras selling what they shoot to anyone who will buy it.</p>
<p>Every young leftist who is afraid of going Syria or Gaza has come down to Ferguson to pad his Instagram with something besides photos of last night’s dinner. Activism is to today’s privileged liberal youth what taking a year off to tour Europe used to be to their parents and grandparents. Instead of backpacking through France, they pop some camera gear into their messenger bags and head down to Ferguson to link hands with another Evergreen or Vassar grad while shouting about justice before posing for selfies.</p>
<p>This groundbreaking activism will be a jumping off point for their actual careers in the media where all the Evergreen and Vassar grads will meet once again, except they’ll be wearing suits or power suits and reading from a prepared script and reminiscing about the good times shouting at the cops back in 2014.</p>
<p>The problem in Ferguson revolves around the media the way that the earth revolves around the sun.</p>
<p>There’s no point in marching around and shaking your fists if no one is paying attention to you. The riots and looting will continue for as long as there are correspondents there to shove cameras into angry faces while asking them what it is that they are so angry about. And if they aren’t angry yet, they’ll find something to be angry about if they want to be on the evening news.</p>
<p>Your evening news is no different than reality television. The impromptu performers know what is expected of them and the producers and writers know the story that they want to tell. The rest is improvisation which will be polished and assembled into a more coherent story in post-production.</p>
<p>Most in this media savvy age already know what is expected of them. If they meet Jay Leno with a camera, they know that giving the dumbest possible answer to his questions about history is the way to get on television. If they’re cast on a reality show, they know that behaving like unhinged lunatics will keep the camera on them as long as possible. And if they’re in Ferguson, they know to shout about justice and peace while making death threats because that’s what will get them on television.</p>
<p>Whether it’s reporting on race riots or mass killings, the media perpetuates the behavior that it’s decrying because it delivers ratings and serves its political agenda. Most of the time its talking heads denounce a problem that has always existed and then move on to the next topic. That’s destructive because we are constantly “rediscovering” problems that have never gone away. But it’s even worse when the media camps out and refuses to go away.</p>
<p>Just ask the Israelis.</p>
<p>Thirty years ago international correspondents were paying small boys to throw rocks at Israeli tanks. These days the rocks have been replaced by rockets and the media carefully edits the footage to show the Israeli response not the Hamas attack. The ratings go through the roof and so do the rockets.</p>
<p>The conflict is an open wound because, like Ferguson, it attracted every reporter, stringer and random activist with a camera and a sociology degree to chronicle it. And if there’s no violence, then there’s nothing to chronicle. When terrorists attack Israel, they know that a media army will be there to tell the world their side of the story giving them every possible reason to use violence to control world opinion.</p>
<p>When the media colonizes a conflict, it turns into an open wound that can never heal because healing is a nice short term story, but conflict is an even better long term story. That’s what it is doing in Ferguson.</p>
<p>If Ferguson had never become a national story, the violence would already be over and the kids would be headed to school. But the violence can’t end as long as the media keeps rewarding the violent with attention and encouragement. The very presence of the media encourages protests by promising that an extra-legal option to shortcut the process will give them what they want. And Governor Nixon has already all but promised it to them. And that too is just another way of perpetuating the violence.</p>
<p>The media can be defeated. Its mass of scribblers, photographers and teleprompter readers follows the smell of blood. If a wound is open, they will tear it open and keep it from closing. But if the wound is closed, they have to pack up their tents and go find another bloody mess to feast on.</p>
<p>Don’t reason with them. Making the mistake of trying to win the media over is even more useless. All you can do is cut off their supply by shutting down the conflict as hard and fast as possible. The short term publicity will be ugly, but an ugly media day is better than a bad media month or year.</p>
<p>Conflict is the vital fluid of any narrative. Take away the conflict and there is no longer a story. Without a bleeding wound, the swarming media mobs toting cameras, microphones and iPads will follow the trail of blood to their next story.</p>
<p>And then they will become someone else’s problem.</p>
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		<title>Sharpton Is Right: Racism Is Rampant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some astounding numbers regarding interracial crime in America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sharpton1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239041" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sharpton1-437x350.jpg" alt="The Rev. Al Sharpton-  Washington, DC" width="295" height="236" /></a>Perhaps it&#8217;s time to finally concede that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and their fellow civil-rights crusaders have apparently been correct all along: <em>There is indeed a whole lot of racism in America</em> that just won&#8217;t go away. It may be time to admit that Sharpton is justified in so passionately condemning the recent police “execution” of Michael Brown in Missouri—calling it a “<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-on-ferguson-protests">defining moment</a>” for our country, a moment where the nation itself, with all its weighty, racist baggage, “is on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-on-ferguson-protests">trial</a>.”</p>
<p>The numbers, after all, don&#8217;t lie. During the most recent five-year period for which single-offender, interracial crime statistics are available, whites committed, on average, 65,923 assaults annually against black victims.[1] To frame it another way, 33.5 of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. assaulted a black victim at some point during each of those five years.</p>
<p>Oh, sure, the nitpickers will point out that during the same five-year period, blacks in the U.S. committed, on average, some 327,900 assaults annually against whites—meaning that about 898 of every 100,000 blacks nationwide assaulted a white victim at some point each year. In other words, statistically the average black was nearly 27 times more likely to assault a white, than vice versa—898 versus 33.5 (out of every 100,000).</p>
<p>But <em>therein</em> is the heart of the problem, though you may have missed it: The white-on-black assault rate may be low, but it isn&#8217;t absolute zero. And as our modern-day civil rights leaders dutifully teach us, anything more than zero means, ultimately, that &#8220;we still have a long way to go&#8221; before we can finally get past our country&#8217;s &#8220;troubled racial past.&#8221; Any white-on-black incident—however rare it may be—automatically becomes the exception that proves the rule. Get it?</p>
<p>We find similar bountiful evidence of white racism in other statistics as well. During the same five-year period, whites committed, on average, 2,738 robberies annually against black victims. In other words, about 1.4 out of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. robbed a black victim each year.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 70,302 blacks annually robbed white victims—a rate of 192.4 per 100,000. Statistically the average black was 137 times more likely to rob interracially than the average white—192.4 versus 1.4 (out of every 100,000).[2]</p>
<p>Once again, we must bear in mind that any white-on-black crime total exceeding zero means that the hearts of too many whites still percolate with secret, racist longings to return to &#8220;the good-ol&#8217; days&#8221; of lynchings and Jim Crow. Make sense?</p>
<p>But if you really want your blood to boil, consider the stats on interracial sex crimes. During the same five-year period, black offenders were responsible for about 22,980 actual and threatened sexual assaults annually against white victims. By contrast, the number of white-on-black incidents of the same description were so infinitesimal that, in each of those five years, whites were estimated to have accounted for 0.0% of all sexual assaults—actual or threatened—against black victims in the United States.</p>
<p>Such a statistic, of course, runs the dangerous risk of persuading shallow thinkers to wrongly conclude that maybe America&#8217;s streets and alleyways <em>aren&#8217;t</em> filled with hordes of white racists poised to abuse black women whenever they get an opportunity. But thankfully, we have <em>deep</em> thinkers and keen-eyed social critics like Al Sharpton to shine the light of truth on white sex offenders, even where a white-dominated criminal-justice apparatus turns a blind eye.</p>
<p>Remember, for instance, how Sharpton helped us all become aware of Tawana Brawley&#8217;s brutal gang-rape at the hands of white supremacists in 1987? Oh sure, the nitpickers again will moan that the whole thing was one big lie. But don&#8217;t ever forget: The only thing that prevented young Tawana from actually being raped by a pack of Klansmen was the fact that … well, no one raped her or even attempted to. But apart from that, everything Sharpton said about the case was true.</p>
<p>We must also thank Mr. Sharpton for having alerted us all to the horrors of the “rich white boys” on the Duke University lacrosse team who gang-raped a black stripper in 2006. Sure, it turned out to be another hoax that dragged several innocent young men through a cesspool of pain and public humiliation—but hey, the noble quest for racial justice is bound to spit out a few collateral victims every now and then. No omelet can be made without breaking an egg or two.</p>
<p>Murder stats likewise bring into stark relief the white racism that continues to infest our nation. In 2012, for example, <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_1_murder_victims_by_race_and_sex_2012.xls">6,454</a> blacks in the U.S. were victims of homicide. Some <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2012.xls">91%</a> of those were killed by other blacks, and 9% were killed by everybody else, including whites. It&#8217;s unlikely that whites were responsible for any more than about 3% of all black deaths by homicide. But these were the most significant and troubling 3%, don&#8217;t ya know? The other 97% of victims can all rot in their graves, but these—ah, these—were the cream of the crop, just like Michael Brown.</p>
<p>In light of the numbers cited above, perhaps you can find it in your heart to be sympathetic to Al, Jesse, and similar proverbial skunks who are forever seeking out the next picnic where they can show up and spray the potato salad. They have to make the most of Ferguson, you see, because golden opportunities like that just don&#8217;t come around very often.</p>
<p><strong>FOOTNOTES:</strong></p>
<p>[1] All statistics are from <em>Criminal Victimization in the United States</em>, published annually by the Department of Justice Statistics.</p>
<p>[2] These assault and robbery statistics do not necessarily prove that black offenders are specifically targeting white victims. One reason why the multiples are so high (27:1 and 137:1) is because there are 5.4 times as many whites as blacks in the U.S. In other words, blacks, in course of their daily travels, are 5.4 times more likely to encounter whites—and thus, potential white vicims—than to encounter other blacks (and potential black victims). To correct for this difference in the respective sizes of America&#8217;s white and black populations, we must divide each of the multiples by 5.4. In the case of assaults, the 27:1 ratio becomes 5:1, meaning that the average black offender is 5 times more likely to <em>choose</em> a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim. And in the case of robbery, the 137:1 ratio becomes 25.4:1, meaning that the average black offender is 25.4 times more likely to <em>choose</em> a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The irrelevance of "white racism" to the chaos in Missouri. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/riot.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238928" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/riot-360x350.jpg" alt="riot" width="276" height="268" /></a>The Big Fat Ferguson Lie has come undone.</p>
<p>First they told us Michael Brown was a gentle giant. That wasn’t true. He was a thug, high on pot, fresh from a robbery a few minutes before a police officer killed him on the troubled streets of Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>Then they told us this 18-year old, 6’4, 280-pounder was shot in the back, trying to get away. That’s not true either.</p>
<p>Then they told us the militarized police caused the days and nights of rioting. Not true. Or the curfew did. Not true. Or the lack of diversity on the police department was to blame. Not true either.</p>
<p>They said police had no reason to unleash a cloud of pepper spray and tear gas on the demonstrators. False as well, as dozens of rocks and bottles and bricks and molotov cocktails and burning storefronts and bullets testify.</p>
<p>This is a long list of things that were supposed to be true one day but were false the next.  But by far, the biggest and the fattest lie to come out of Ferguson is the idea repeated from every news channel that somehow black people are victims of relentless violence at the hands of white people.</p>
<p>And that explains everything.</p>
<p>That is a Big, Fat falsehood.</p>
<p>And here is its corollary: The only reason reason black people are in prison in numbers three to four times greater than their percentage in the population is because of white racism that leads to over-policing in black neighborhoods.</p>
<p>That sentiment is easy enough to find on MSNBC and all the major black news sites. A few weeks ago, Congressman John Conyers of Detroit said the same thing during a committee meeting. “With enough time and officers in a certain location, it is only a matter of time before they find reasonable suspicion to stop, detain and arrest someone &#8212; or many people.”</p>
<p>This is a linchpin of Critical Race Theory: White racism is permanent. White racism is everywhere.  And it explains everything. Only its not just a theory any more: Today it is reality in schools, churches, homes, black web sites, black journalism groups and the streets of Ferguson.</p>
<p>But while CNN’s Don Lemon and his journalistic cohorts try to figure out just how bad white and Asian people are for creating all this racism that led to the violence and looting and shooting, more black mob violence and black-on-white crime proceeded apace in Ferguson and around the country. Largely unnoticed. A smattering:</p>
<p><span style="color: #011a99;"><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/coronated-st-mike-ferguson-black-mob-violence-continued-rest-country/">Starting in Ferguson</a></span>: On Wednesday of riot week, <span style="color: #272727;">a man of unidentified race was attacked and sent to the hospital by a mob of unidentified race. </span>Then we learned the victim was white. And the perpetrators were black. Though that has done nothing to disturb the narrative of relentless victimization of black people passed around like popcorn in front of TV cameras.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Please do not confuse this story with the four black people in Ferguson who beat a Home Depot vendor with a hammer. That was last summer.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Chances are, you never heard about either.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In Detroit, a crowd of black people attacked police after they shot a man who tried to run over them. They were trying to arrest him on gun charges.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #011a99;"><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/coronated-st-mike-ferguson-black-mob-violence-continued-rest-country/">In Philadelphia, a group of black people</a></span> attacked and knocked out a white man who intervened when the black people were saying rude things to a group of women.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In Chicago, a group of black people rampaged, beat, and destroyed their way through an upscale neighborhood. A reporter said the violence wasn’t much. Cops said it was. And oh yeah, it happens a lot there.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Also in Chicago, repeated large fights and shootings caused several black night clubs downtown to close.  On Wednesday of riot week at Hearts Night Club, four men were shot. Lamented one club owner: “All the events were shut down yesterday. There was not one African-American event in the downtown area,” says Teddy Gilmore, club manager.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In Minneapolis, an NFL player was one of nine wounded when they were caught in the cross fire at a large fight at a black club.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Of course, black mob violence came to at least one mall in St. Louis, outside of Ferguson, forcing it to close early. Officials say it had nothing to do with the Ferguson disturbances.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">They may be right: Black mob violence was a regular featured of life in St. Louis long before Michael Brown learned how to use Swisher Sweets to smoke marijuana.</p>
<p>And let’s not forget to give St. Louis its props as the epicenter of the Knockout Game.  A judge says one black person alone is responsible for more than 300 cases of this racial violence.</p>
<p>Lots of locals in St. Louis thought it was strange that anyone would try to plant the flag of racial victimization anywhere near there. From the Del Mar loop to downtown, St. Louis is the site of frequent and intense black mob violence. A lot of it documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence-ebook/dp/B00E8NCA7G/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=8-1&amp;qid=1408399844"><span style="color: #011a99;">White Girl Bleed a Lot</span></a><span style="color: #011a99;">: The return of racial violence</span> to America and how the media ignore it.</p>
<p>Before Michael Brown started stealing cigars and shoving Asian shopkeepers, this was <a href="http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Video-of-brutal-attack-in-Delmar-Loop-posted-online-269881511.html"><span style="color: #011a99;">the most popular viral video in the Ferguson area that week</span></a>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #3e7985;">“</span><span style="color: #272727;">Video of a violent, unprovoked attack in St. Louis&#8217; Delmar Loop is spreading on social media sites,” said KMOV TV news. </span>“The video, which was taken Sunday near the Pageant, shows a group of people punching and kicking a man who was walking on Delmar Boulevard on his way to the Metro stop.”</p>
<p>A black St. Louis talk show host said black people create regular and large-scale violence in this upscale entertainment district because the merchants and club owners do not “reach out” and make black people feel welcome.</p>
<p>The victim in this video was black. So were the attackers. Whatever that means.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcpU7TSMqfA"><span style="color: #011a99;">Washington, D.C. a news crew was robbed</span></a> when they were doing a story on a “racist” app that showed people how to avoid high crime areas in largely black neighborhoods. Like the one they were in.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In Kansas City, a large group of black people fought and destroyed property and defied police at Lake Jacomo. A local TV reporter was kind enough to remind us how unusual it was that large groups of black people would gather at this recreational spot.</p>
<p style="color: #011a99;"><a href="http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/teen-brawl-stabbing-reported-at-lake-jacomo">They usually riot at the Country Club Plaza, she said</a><span style="color: #272727;">.</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In the Bedford-Stuyvestant neighborhood of Brooklyn, at least one black person played the Knockout Game with a pregnant woman, leaving her on the street unconscious.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In Manhattan, the grainy video shows a black man with his arms folded waiting as a 72-year old man walks toward him. He then turns and delivers a Knockout Game punch to the head of the old man.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #011a99;"><a href="http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/crime/2014/08/17/breaking-shots-fired-in-ne-charlotte/14201307/">In the Charlotte area</a></span>, a black man shot two police officers and a ten-year-old girl. He lived.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Over at CNN, Don Lemon and others say they understand the black rage and anger that created the violence in Ferguson. But there was no discussion of any rage the black mob violence may produce in or out of Ferguson. However silent.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">For all the prevarications, one piece of truth came out in Ferguson: “The African-American community — youth in the African-American community in particular — has something against law enforcement in many ways. They don’t like law enforcement, and they don’t think law enforcement likes them.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: #011a99;"><a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/13/ferguson-mayor-the-african-american-community-has-something-against-law-enforcement-in-many-ways/">That came early on from James Knowles</a></span>, the Mayor of Ferguson. But no one paid attention or repeated it.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Racism for Fun and Profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Obama-Ferguson.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238811" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Obama-Ferguson-450x252.jpg" alt="Obama-Ferguson" width="280" height="157" /></a>Ferguson happens a few times every month. More often in the summer when tempers are hot and crowds of bored men and women fill the streets looking for something to do. Teenagers ransack stores. Small cities stretch their budgets in a bad economy to put as many cops as they can on the street.</p>
<p>And then somewhere between the open fire hydrants, the stores that do most of their business in EBT cards and lottery tickets, the check cashing places and furniture rental outlets, something happens.</p>
<p>And it happens a lot more often than you think.</p>
<p>A crowd gathers. Fists rise in the air. The police deploy. The EBT stores, check cashing places and furniture rental outlets roll down their shutters. A tense hour passes before the scene fades away leaving behind a crude graffiti scrawl of a wannabe gangsta and his favorite pit bull, a few faded color photos and some purple candles guttering in the night underneath his portrait.</p>
<p>Not the full scale rioting, looting and curfews. That’s the sort of thing that doesn’t happen on its own.</p>
<p>It has to be community organized into being.</p>
<p>Fergusons usually happen locally, but when it’s convenient then the looting and car stomping go national. The Trayvon Martin case happened in an election year. So did the Michael Brown case.</p>
<p>Maybe we can look forward to another Ferguson in 2016 and every two years after that.</p>
<p>There’s no need to belabor how Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson profit from the racism industry. Even the crowds booing them in Ferguson know that by now. Both men became irrelevant dinosaurs in 2008.</p>
<p>Obama’s election marginalized Jesse and Al. Jesse Jackson was shoved aside, muttering something about cutting off a part of Obama’s anatomy on FOX News. Sharpton became Obama’s messenger boy to the black community while scoring a teleprompter reading gig on a liberal cable news network.</p>
<p>Jackson and Sharpton were displaced and made irrelevant by Obama. Their old way of monetizing racism through protests and private organizations is as out of date as pay phones and cassette tapes.</p>
<p>Obama’s way of monetizing racism for fun and profit is infinitely more sophisticated. Where Sharpton and Jackson pretended to be community advocates collecting tribute from white politicians and companies in exchange for “controlling the anger” of the black community (a community that usually consisted of a few dozen outside thugs that they had imported), Obama plays both sides.</p>
<p>The old community agitators “negotiated” racial tensions with white liberals. The agitators and liberals profited while the working class populations of both races that they exploited lost out. Obama however negotiates these tensions on his own, playing both the agitator and the liberal at the same time.</p>
<p>The new community organizers work for the Justice Department. The agitators shouting through bullhorns are dinosaurs. The government now has a monopoly on racial agitation and racial violence. Obama can use the DOJ, its teams, its investigations and the media to turn the tension on or off.</p>
<p>Sharpton looks unimaginably crude compared to Holder. Wright sounds like a clown compared to Obama. Their empty posturing and hysterical displays of racism have been replaced by actual power. Obama can do what Sharpton and Wright couldn’t; he can merge political power and symbolic power, law and outrage, together into an arsenal of votes, violence and guilt.</p>
<p>Obama sends racial and post-racial signals. He flips from sounding like a JFK liberal envisioning the day when all American children can live together to a Chicago community organizer who uses justice to mean resentment. He tends to avoid explicitly racist rhetoric. Instead he empowers those who do. From Jeremiah Wright to Sharpton and Holder, he surrounds himself with race-baiters on the nastier edge of the spectrum. And while it’s easy to mistake them for the Ferguson looters, that would be a mistake.</p>
<p>Wright is a wealthy man from an upscale family. Holder’s father was a real estate broker. Sharpton’s father was a slumlord who drove a new Cadillac every year. Despite exploiting the resentment of poor blacks in places like Ferguson or Crown Heights, they don’t have much in common with them.</p>
<p>The same is true of Obama.</p>
<p>The race-baiters exist in a different world than the EBT stores, open fire hydrants and tense summer streets. They live in a world of limousines, private organizations and private jets.</p>
<p>And they use places like Ferguson to stay in power.</p>
<p>They don’t need to loot stores. They loot countries. They aren’t the defenders of the black community. They are its destroyers.</p>
<p>Black families have vanished. The kinds of jobs that the black residents of Ferguson might have once held also vanished. All that remains are the EBT stores, the open fire hydrants and the angry crowds.</p>
<p>The black community has been divided between a small elite that runs things, a shaky middle class clinging to government jobs and a vast army of the poor. Everyone who can leaves. Everyone who can’t pays taxes so that the police can buy bigger guns until the money runs out and they’re left with Detroit.</p>
<p>This is the Great Society that the Democratic Party has given us. The Hope and Change that Obama offered was for a privileged club of black limousine liberals. For everyone else there are government cell phones, government food, government housing and government community organizers who will tell them when they need to riot to protect all of these commodities from the government plantation.</p>
<p>Obama abandoned the black working class as much as he abandoned the white working class. He used their dreams and left behind broken communities sweating through the summer and waiting for the next explosion when another wannabe gangsta gets shot in another swing state.</p>
<p>And out of that rioting, the bosses he really represents, the billionaires with a big stake in everything from big banks to subsidized solar power, hope to retain their lucrative grip on the Senate.</p>
<p>The real issue isn’t the militarization of the police. It’s the militarization of racism. Violence doesn’t come from police officers decked out in military gear. It comes from the toxic mingling of entitlement, anger and hopelessness that is the hallmark of failed states and failed communities. The odor isn’t new.</p>
<p>The SWAT team emerged from race riots. The <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HmkzAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=ZTIHAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=5934%2C636142">War on Drugs</a> was <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=27478">actually declared by LBJ</a>, not Nixon, and was a spinoff of the racial failures of the Great Society. Ferguson will come again. The riots, the tear gas and the clenched fists are a familiar script that will only stop when we start telling the truth about it.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 04:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting the Attorney General on the defensive.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/eric-holder1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236473" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/eric-holder1-450x350.jpg" alt="eric-holder" width="271" height="211" /></a>While being interviewed recently by ABC News’ Pierre Thomas, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed his belief that he and Barack Obama have been subjected to a measure of “vehemence” unlike that with which other public figures have had to reckon.</p>
<p>Anyone who’s been alive for more than a few years doesn’t need this spelled out for them, but Holder couldn’t resist the impulse to make explicit the point at which he’s always driving: For Obama’s and Holder’s critics who are always “talking about taking their country back,” there is “a certain racial component,” “a racial animus,” that animates them.</p>
<p>To put it more bluntly, Holder is accusing his opponents of being a bunch of “<i>racists.</i>”<i> </i></p>
<p>Of course, no one should be in the least bit surprised by this.  Holder, like his boss, has always been a “Johnny One-Note” when it comes to the issue of race.  But rather than go on the defensive, as whites generally and white conservatives always do, let us instead pose some questions to the AG.</p>
<p>First, by “racial animus” you presumably mean “racism.” But what does <i>this </i>mean, Mr. Holder?  In spite of—or maybe because of—the ease with this term is hurled about, “racism” has come to mean all things to all people: Adolph Hitler, Nazis, Klansmen, Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, John Wayne, Southerners, Germans, American police officers and military personnel, slave masters and abolitionists, the Union and the Confederacy, America’s Founders, elderly whites, middle class whites, our judicial system, our political arrangements, academia, Hollywood, “the media,” and so forth and so on, have all been accused of “racism.”</p>
<p>However, as we say, if everyone is “racist,” then no one is “racist.” Or, if you will, if “racism” means anything and everything, then it means nothing.</p>
<p>Yet maybe, Mr. Holder, by “racist” you have in mind simply someone who dislikes black people, like yourself and the President, simply and solely because they are black. Given the context of your comments, I suspect that this is probably your meaning.</p>
<p>The unanimously acknowledged “father” of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes, identified as an axiom of reason the proposition that “something can’t come from nothing.” And since, sir, you and those of your ilk are forever looking for “root causes” whenever it comes to accounting for the dysfunctional conduct of which America’s “ghettoes” are ridden, I am inclined to think that you too believe it is self-evident that from nothing, nothing comes.</p>
<p>So, <i>if, </i>as you’re so certain, your critics dislike you and Mr. Obama only because you both are black, answer me this: From whence springs this sentiment of theirs?  Why would anyone, white or otherwise, dislike black people?  In other words, what are the “root causes” of white “racism?”</p>
<p>Bear in mind, sir, that the stock replies—“That’s just how white ‘racists’ were raised;” “Whites entertain ‘racist’ stereotypes about blacks,” etc.—are alike viciously question-begging (to say nothing of sounding “stereotypical” themselves).  Each in its own way simply rephrases the claim that whites are “racist.”</p>
<p>And if you resolve, Mr. Attorney General, to concede that some of these negative “stereotypes” about blacks do indeed have a basis in reality but are nevertheless a “legacy” of white “racism,” please note that, once more, you beg the question by restating your original assertion: whites are/were “racist.”</p>
<p>It’s ok, though, if you can’t answer this query Mr. Holder.  If I was a betting man I’d bet my house that never, ever have you had to give it any thought at all.   Of real logical axioms like that identified by Descartes’ I’m sure you couldn’t care less.  What you <i>do </i>care about, however, and care about more than anything else, is the proposition that whites are “racists” and blacks are unqualified victims.  <i>This </i>you treat as a first principle of reason.</p>
<p>And this brings me to my next question: It’s true, isn’t it Mr. Holder, that you <i>like </i>crying “racism” precisely <i>because </i>blacks are widely portrayed (by people like yourself) as victims?</p>
<p>Contrary to what many of your critics claim, I for one most definitely do <i>not </i>believe that you charge them with “racism” simply and solely for the purpose of immunizing yourself and the President against criticism (though this certainly is <i>a </i>consideration some of the time).  I believe that you work long and hard at convincing <i>yourself</i> that the two of you—the two most powerful human beings on the planet, mind you—really <i>are</i> victims of “racism.”</p>
<p>To put it another way, your charges of “racism” are not just politically motivated, are they?  Ideologically and even psychologically, you and Mr. Obama—children of “privilege,” the two of you—<i>need </i>to believe that you are both “authentically black”—i.e. “oppressed”—and “down with the struggle”—i.e. “oppressed.”</p>
<p>Your interests are served well by the perception that you and Mr. Obama are unpopular because of your skin pigmentation, aren’t they Mr. Holder?</p>
<p>The problem, however, is that this lie in which you and Obama have invested your whole being is a great <i>disservice</i> to the interests of the rest of us—regardless of our skin color.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/article-2690696-1F9D532800000578-182_634x377.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236284" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/article-2690696-1F9D532800000578-182_634x377-435x350.jpg" alt="article-2690696-1F9D532800000578-182_634x377" width="286" height="230" /></a>In his Sunday interview on ABC’s <i>This Week</i>, Attorney General Eric Holder <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212082-holder-sees-racial-animus-in-opposition"><span style="color: #011480;">showed</span></a> with crystal clarity that he is an ugly, contemptible demagogue. “There&#8217;s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that&#8217;s directed at me [and] directed at the president,” he said. “You know, people talking about taking their country back&#8230;. There&#8217;s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there&#8217;s a racial animus.” So, since Mr. Holder insists on pretending that he&#8217;s too stupid to understand the very simple fact that <i>every single one</i> of his critics can quite easily cite a lengthy list of very legitimate<i> </i>reasons to denounce him in the strongest possible terms, let&#8217;s play along, shall we? Let&#8217;s explain to the poor, bewildered Attorney General why—for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with race—many Americans say they wish to “take their country back.”</p>
<p>First, a few words about Holder&#8217;s disgraceful track record in the years before he joined the Obama administration: For example, he was a key figure entrusted with the task of vetting the Clinton administration’s 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. The beneficiaries of those pardons included former <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808"><span style="color: #011480;">Weather Underground</span></a> members <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1806"><span style="color: #011480;">Susan Rosenberg</span></a> (involved in a deadly 1981 armed robbery) and Linda Evans (who was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite at the time of her arrest in 1985).</p>
<p>Holder played a particularly significant role in Clinton&#8217;s infamous pardon of the billionaire financier Marc Rich, a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4FF4B454-D5C0-4941-B357-19C6C96E6F5C"><span style="color: #011480;">fugitive oil broker</span></a> who had illegally purchased oil from Iran during the American trade embargo, and had then proceeded to hide more than $100 million in profits via dummy transactions with off-shore corporations. Rich later renounced his American citizenship and fled to Switzerland to <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&amp;STORY=/www/story/06-18-2008/0004834952&amp;EDATE="><span style="color: #011480;">avoid prosecution</span></a> for <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/morris/Eric_Holder_obama/2008/06/05/101922.html"><span style="color: #011480;">51 counts</span></a> of <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/holder_gun_control/2008/11/21/153808.html"><span style="color: #011480;">racketeering</span></a>, wire fraud, tax fraud, tax evasion, and the illegal oil transactions with Iran.</p>
<p>Holder was also intimately involved in President Clinton’s August 11, 1999 pardon of 16 members of the FALN—a Marxist-Leninist Puerto Rican terror group that was active in the U.S. during the 1970s and &#8217;80s, when it detonated nearly 130 bombs in military and government buildings, financial institutions, and corporate headquarters located mainly in big U.S. cities.</p>
<p>In 2004 Holder <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266657/holder-vs-holder-andrew-c-mccarthy"><span style="color: #011480;">filed</span></a> an amicus brief on behalf of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211"><span style="color: #011480;">al Qaeda</span></a> terrorist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=703"><span style="color: #011480;">Jose Padilla</span></a>, who had been dispatched to the United States by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=690"><span style="color: #011480;">Osama bin Laden</span></a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=745"><span style="color: #011480;">Khalid Shaikh Mohammed</span></a> to carry out a post-9/11, second wave of terrorist attacks. By Holder’s reckoning, Islamic terrorists like Padilla have a right to be <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266657/holder-vs-holder-andrew-c-mccarthy"><span style="color: #011480;">treated as criminal defendants</span></a>, not enemy combatants, if they are not captured on a traditional battlefield.</p>
<p>When Barack Obama in 2007 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eric-holder/gIQAF5RR9O_topic.html"><span style="color: #011480;">asked</span></a> Holder to join his presidential campaign as a legal adviser and strategist, Holder&#8217;s law firm was, at that very moment, representing 18 Islamic terrorists who were being detained in <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=135&amp;type=issue"><span style="color: #011480;">Guantanamo Bay</span></a>.</p>
<p>In 2008, Holder <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33694"><span style="color: #011480;">argued</span></a> that “the Second Amendment did not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms,” but only protected government militias’ rights to guns.</p>
<p>Holder has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/20/obama-try-terror-suspect-nyc-gitmo-detainee-brought/"><span style="color: #011480;">repeatedly</span></a> maintained that the world&#8217;s most dangerous terrorists should be tried in <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/13/khalid.sheikh.mohammed/index.html"><span style="color: #011480;">civilian courts</span></a> rather than in military tribunals that permit prosecutors to bring more evidence to bear.</p>
<p>In December 2009, Holder&#8217;s Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20965"><span style="color: #011480;">elected to Mirandize</span></a> the so-called “Christmas bomber,” a Nigerian-born <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211"><span style="color: #011480;">al Qaeda</span></a> operative who had tried to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines jet with explosives hidden inside his underwear. Informed of his right to remain silent, Abdulmutallab promptly <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/jlaksin/defending-the-indefensible/"><span style="color: #011480;">chose</span></a> to exercise it.</p>
<p>When testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in May 2010, Holder <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026287.php"><span style="color: #011480;">refused</span></a> to acknowledge that radical Islamic beliefs might have played a role in motivating several recently attempted terrorist attacks against U.S. interests: (a) the aforementioned “underwear” bombing aboard a plane; (b) Major <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2433"><span style="color: #011480;">Nidal Malik Hasan</span></a>&#8216;s November 2009 shooting of 13 fellow U.S. soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas; and (c) Faisal Shahzad&#8217;s attempted car bombing in New York&#8217;s Times Square on May 1, 2010.</p>
<p>When Arizona enacted a 2010 law deputizing state police to check the immigration status of criminal suspects, Holder, <i>without even having </i><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0510/Holder_hasnt_read_Ariz_immigration_bill.html"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>read</i></span></a><i> the bill</i>, spoke forcefully against it and indicated that the federal government might challenge it. Eventually, Holder&#8217;s Justice Department filed suit against Arizona to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/22/eric-holders-lawlessness/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">block key portions</span></a> of the law from taking effect. By November 2011, the DOJ would file <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/22/eric-holders-lawlessness/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">similar suits</span></a> against <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/14/eric-holders-corrupt-agenda/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">three</span></a> additional states that likewise had passed laws designed to stem the flow of illegal immigration.</p>
<p>On Election Day of 2008, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/tag/jerry-jackson-jr/"><span style="color: #011480;">two</span></a> <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/04/meet-phillys-new-black-panther-party-leader/"><span style="color: #011480;">members</span></a> of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7556"><span style="color: #011480;">New Black Panther Party</span></a> menaced white voters with racial slurs and threats of violence at a Philadelphia polling place. Bartle Bull, a former civil rights attorney and campaign aide to the late Robert F. Kennedy, <a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0909/ferris.php3"><span style="color: #011480;">called</span></a> it “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he had ever seen. In 2009 the Obama administration inherited a lawsuit that the outgoing Bush administration had brought against the perpetrators, and when the defendants failed to answer the suit, a federal court in Philadelphia entered a default judgment against them. But the Holder Justice Department <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295919/new-black-panthers-unpunished-threats-john-fund?pg=2"><span style="color: #011480;">responded</span></a> by suddenly dropping the charges.</p>
<p>In July 2010, Holder&#8217;s DOJ released the former Marxist terrorist Marilyn Buck from prison, where she was serving an 80-year sentence that began in the 1980s. Buck had: <a href="http://biggovernment.com/jcadams/2011/08/04/leftist-activists-convince-eric-holders-doj-to-set-violent-marxist-free/"><span style="color: #011480;">helped</span></a> the <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Black_Liberation_Army"><span style="color: #011480;">Black Liberation Army</span></a> member and convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur escape from prison in 1979; helped the BLA acquire weapons and ammunition; <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Marilyn_Buck"><span style="color: #011480;">participated</span></a> in the deadly 1981 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink's_robbery_(1981)"><span style="color: #011480;">Brink&#8217;s armored-car robbery</span></a>; and played a role in a number of big-city <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Marilyn_Buck"><span style="color: #011480;">bombings</span></a>. Explaining the rationale for Buck&#8217;s release, Justice Department officials said that Buck had “<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/01/shocking-new-documents-detail-dojs-reasons-for-releasing-marxist-bomber/"><span style="color: #011480;">expressed a dramatic change</span></a> from her previous political philosophy.”</p>
<p>In an October 2010 meeting that was arranged by the chief of the Justice Department&#8217;s Public Integrity Section, Holder&#8217;s DOJ <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-justice-department-pushed-lois-lerner-to-help-build-criminal-case-against-nonprofits/article/2548787"><span style="color: #011480;">asked</span></a> IRS official Lois Lerner to help the Department build criminal cases against conservative nonprofit groups that were conducting political activity. This was part of the massive <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1935"><span style="color: #011480;">IRS political-targeting scandal</span></a> that eventually began to make headlines in May 2013. When news of the scandal broke, the DOJ <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/8/feds-pick-obama-supporter-lead-irs-tea-party-probe/"><span style="color: #011480;">selected</span></a> an avowed political and financial supporter of President Obama to head a criminal probe into the matter.</p>
<p>In 2011 Holder&#8217;s Justice Department <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/12/01/president-obamas-justice-depar"><span style="color: #011480;">pushed</span></a> to maximize Democratic voter turnout for the 2012 elections by filing <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/12/01/president-obamas-justice-depar"><span style="color: #011480;">“motor voter” suits</span></a> across the country, complaining that state agencies had not been circulating voter-registration forms in welfare offices. By contrast, the DOJ made <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/12/01/president-obamas-justice-depar"><span style="color: #011480;">no effort to enforce</span></a> another section of the law requiring states to purge voter rolls of dead persons and ineligible felons. In fact, the Department demanded that Florida discontinue a purge it had already begun. When the state refused to comply, the DOJ filed a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/14/eric-holders-corrupt-agenda/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">lawsuit</span></a>.</p>
<p>Holder has consistently <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/young-white-activist-proves-that-without-voter-id-law-ag-eric-holders-ballot-easy-to-obtain/"><span style="color: #011480;">opposed</span></a> efforts to pass voter-ID laws designed to combat voter fraud. Asserting that such laws have the effect of disenfranchising nonwhite minorities, whom Holder obviously views as too feeble-minded to do something as simple and as inexpensive (actually, it&#8217;s free) as procuring a government-issued ID card, the Attorney General once <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70400.html"><span style="color: #011480;">asked</span></a>: “Are we willing to allow this era—our era—to be remembered as the age when our nation’s proud tradition of expanding the franchise ended?”</p>
<p>An exhaustive <i>PJ Media</i> <a href="http://pjmedia.com/every-single-one-pj-medias-investigation-of-justice-department-hiring-practices/"><span style="color: #011480;">report</span></a> reveals that, without exception, every attorney hired by the Civil Rights Division of Holder&#8217;s DOJ has a leftist or Democrat activist pedigree. Similarly, the <i>American Spectator</i> <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/12/thomas-perez-should-be-blocked"><span style="color: #011480;">notes</span></a> “the unprecedentedly naked politicization of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division,” as evidenced by the fact that “every one” of the 100+ people the Division has hired for supposedly non-political civil-service positions are “demonstrably liberal activists.”</p>
<p>In the fall of 2011, controversy arose over Holder&#8217;s role in endorsing “Fast and Furious,” a program which the <a href="http://www.atf.gov/"><span style="color: #011480;">Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, &amp; Firearms</span></a> (ATF) had administered during 2009-10. In <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45398"><span style="color: #011480;">that initiative</span></a>, the ATF sold some 2,500 guns to “straw purchasers” in the U.S. who agreed to subsequently smuggle them into Mexico and put them in the hands of cartel leaders, who supposedly were to be arrested at some subsequent point. The entire “Fast and Furious” operation ended with <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/ben-shapiro/does-fast-and-furious-put-impeachment-table"><span style="color: #011480;">only 20 indictments</span></a> of straw purchasers—all of whom were already familiar to U.S. authorities from the outset. Moreover, the program was linked directly to two weapons <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/08/atf-shake-up-comes-fast-and-furious/"><span style="color: #011480;">found on the scene</span></a> where U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered in Arizona in December 2010. By the fall of 2011, the weapons that had been transferred as part of “Fast and Furious” had been used in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279176/fast-furious-and-loose-facts-editors"><span style="color: #011480;">at least 200 murders</span></a> in Mexico. They also had been identified at <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/ben-shapiro/does-fast-and-furious-put-impeachment-table"><span style="color: #011480;">11 additional crime scenes</span></a> in the United States.</p>
<p>When questioned <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/"><span style="color: #011480;">under oath</span></a> during a Judiciary Committee hearing on May 3, 2011, Holder indicated that he had known nothing about “Fast and Furious&#8217; until about April 2011. But soon thereafter, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/"><span style="color: #011480;">evidence</span></a> surfaced demonstrating conclusively that Holder had been aware of the operation since at least <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/"><span style="color: #011480;">July 2010</span></a>.</p>
<p>In 2011 the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/20/house-committee-votes-to-hold-attorney-general-eric-holder-in-contempt.html"><span style="color: #011480;">subpoena</span></a> instructing Holder to turn over all internal Justice Department documents related to the “Fast and Furious” program. As of late June, 2012, DOJ had supplied <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/06/27/team_obamas_brother_sharpton_moment"><span style="color: #011480;">fewer than 8%</span></a> of the 80,000 documents the congressional investigators sought, and had <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/06/27/team_obamas_brother_sharpton_moment"><span style="color: #011480;">blocked</span></a> 48 of the 70 Justice Department officials who were involved in “Fast and Furious” from testifying. House Republicans continued to pressure Holder to turn over the remaining documents, but he refused. Eventually he became the first U.S. Attorney General had ever been held in contempt by a chamber of Congress, when the House of Representatives <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/house-eric-holder-contempt-vote-fast-furious-probe/?page=all"><span style="color: #011480;">voted</span></a> overwhelmingly to hold him in both criminal and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/house-eric-holder-contempt-vote-fast-furious-probe/?page=all"><span style="color: #011480;">civil</span></a> contempt.</p>
<p>Detecting racism virtually <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/27/holder-targets-school-discipline-practices-unacceptable-destructive/"><span style="color: #011480;">everywhere</span></a>, Holder laments that “students of color” are “disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled” from school—a state of affairs that “is, quite simply, unacceptable.” “These unnecessary and destructive policies must be changed,” he demands. It doesn&#8217;t occur to Holder that disparities in school expulsion rates could possibly be due to something other than subliminal racism.</p>
<p>Similarly, Holder has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/28/holder-announces-nationwide-study-of-race-based-arrests/"><span style="color: #011480;">announced</span></a> that the Justice Department, in an effort to reduce racial bias in the criminal-justice system, will begin collecting racial data about stops, searches, and arrests made by police. “[The] overrepresentation of young men of color in our criminal justice system is a problem we must confront,” says Holder. “&#8230; Racial disparities contribute to tension in our nation generally and within communities of color specifically, and tend to breed resentment towards law enforcement that is counterproductive to the goal of reducing crime.” Clearly, Holder has chosen to ignore the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1627">mountains of evidence</a> demolishing the notion that America&#8217;s criminal-justice system is racist.</p>
<p>In April 2012, Holder delivered a speech at the 14th annual convention of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #011480;">Al Sharpton</span></a>&#8216;s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7642"><span style="color: #011480;">National Action Network</span></a>. In the course of his remarks, he <a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/04/11/prepared-remarks-of-attorney-general-eric-holder-at-the-national-action-network-convention/"><span style="color: #011480;">thanked</span></a> Sharpton—one of the most dishonorable racists in living memory—“for your partnership, your friendship, and your tireless efforts to speak out for the voiceless, to stand up for the powerless, and to shine a light on the problems we must solve.” Stating that he felt “honored to be included” in Sharpton&#8217;s gathering, Holder praised those in attendance for having “been on the front lines of our nation&#8217;s fight to secure security, opportunity, and justice for all.”</p>
<p>In May 2013, it was <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130513/DA68MMQ82.html"><span style="color: #011480;">learned</span></a> that Holder&#8217;s DOJ—in blatant violation of its own rules—had secretly obtained the records of all calls which had been routed through some 20 separate Associated Press (AP) telephone lines in April and May of the previous year. Moreover, even some <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130513/DA68MMQ82.html"><span style="color: #011480;">personal</span></a> phone lines belonging to AP staff were subjected to DOJ surveillance.</p>
<p>A week later, it was revealed that the DOJ<i> </i>had also: <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obamas-war-on-fox-news-reporters/"><span style="color: #011480;">seized</span></a> the phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen; used Rosen&#8217;s security badge to access records tracking his movements at the State Department; obtained a search warrant to access Rosen&#8217;s personal emails; seized the phone records of Rosen&#8217;s <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/05/23/nbc-eric-holder-signed-off-on-criminal-investigation-of-fox-news-james-rosen/"><span style="color: #011480;">parents</span></a>; and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obamas-war-on-fox-news-reporters/"><span style="color: #011480;">targeted</span></a> two more Fox News staffers—reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine.</p>
<p>And all this is really just the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>So rest easy, Mr. Attorney General, your critics&#8217; displeasure with you has nothing at all to do with your being an African American. It&#8217;s entirely due to the easily demonstrable fact that you are a certifiable menace to our country. Doesn&#8217;t that make you feel better?</p>
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