<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; White</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/tag/white/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:20:06 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
		<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
		<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	
	<item>
		<title>Police Shootings &amp; Race, in an Age of Lies</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/john-perazzo/police-shootings-race-in-an-age-of-lies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=police-shootings-race-in-an-age-of-lies</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/john-perazzo/police-shootings-race-in-an-age-of-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hispanic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=247054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What the statistics really say. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/police-badge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247055" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/police-badge-263x350.jpg" alt="police-badge" width="234" height="311" /></a>In an era where public debate is replete with Big Lies, we are routinely treated to examples of shallow, insipid journalism dedicated to propping up the most nonsensical fictions imaginable. A case in point is a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">piece</span></a> that appeared in the far-left periodical <i>Mother Jones</i>, titled “Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?” Purporting to explain the root causes of the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the article&#8217;s author, <i>Mother Jones</i> editorial coordinator Jaeah Lee, presents a smattering of statistics—utterly devoid of context or analysis—as evidence that “the killing of Michael Brown by police … was no anomaly.”</p>
<p>For instance, Lee cites a 2007 <a href="http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2007/11/killed_by_the_cops.html"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a><i> </i>which found that in ten major cities “there were a disproportionately high number of African Americans among police shooting victims,” and <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&amp;tid=703"><span style="color: #011480;">another</span></a> which concluded that “black people are more likely than whites or Hispanics to experience a police officer&#8217;s threat or use of force.” To buttress these allegations, the author <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">quotes</span></a> Missouri ACLU official Jeffrey Mittman&#8217;s lamentation that “unarmed African-American men are shot and killed by police at an alarming rate,” and NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks&#8217; claim that a destructive “culture of policing” is “rubbing salt into longstanding racial wounds” by targeting black people with “overwhelmingly major, often lethal &#8230; force.”</p>
<p>Apparently it never occurred to Ms. Lee, or to these other voices in her echo chamber, that there might be some significance in the fact that blacks, who are 13% of the U.S. population, themselves <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">commit</span></a> many more homicides than white and Hispanic perpetrators—<i>combined</i>. Young black males in particular commit homicide at nearly <i>ten times</i> the combined rate of their white and Hispanic counterparts. As Manhattan Institute scholar <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">Heather Mac Donald</span></a> explains, “That astronomically higher homicide-commission rate means that police officers are going to be disproportionately in black neighborhoods to fight crime, where they will more likely encounter armed shooting suspects.” Blacks nationwide are also dramatically <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43"><span style="color: #011480;">overrepresented</span></a> in the commission of other serious crimes such as rape, robbery, and assault—precisely the types of offenses most likely to trigger a confrontation with police that could result in a fatality.</p>
<p>In her <i>Mother Jones</i> piece, Ms. Lee devotes considerable attention to New York City, where “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">more</span></a> black people have been shot by NYPD officers &#8230; than have Hispanics or whites.” But this begs an obvious question: “So what?” The same principle that applies to the United States as a whole, applies also to New York: W<span style="color: #272727;">hile blacks constitute 23% of the city&#8217;s population, they <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0514hm.html">commit</a> </span>two-thirds of all its violent crimes, including nearly 70% of all robberies and 80% of all shootings. And whites, who are 35% of the city’s population, commit just 5% of its violent crimes and a mere 1.8% of its shootings. Thus, blacks are statistically far more likely to be involved in volatile situations demanding police intervention. It&#8217;s really not very complicated.</p>
<p>The <i>Mother Jones</i> article also presents a chart with a racial breakdown of those who were shot and killed by New York City police between 2000 and 2011. Yet remarkably, the author makes no mention of the glaring <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">fact</span></a> that instances of police-on-Asian shootings are nearly invisible in this chart—indeed, <i>blacks, Hispanics, and whites alike</i> are far more likely than Asians to be shot in police encounters. What could explain this? If we were to apply Ms. Lee&#8217;s line of reasoning, we&#8217;d have no choice but to conclude that New York police officers, for some reason, feel less racial animus against Asians than they feel against everyone else. A more realistic explanation is that Asians in the city have very low crime rates and thus have comparatively little contact with police.</p>
<p>The most comprehensive information we have on the issue of police shootings and race in recent years comes from a 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a> that covers the period from 2003 to 2009. Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by law-enforcement officers during that time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic. Also during that period, blacks accounted for about 38.5% of all arrests for violent crimes—i.e., the types of crimes most likely to lead to a potentially fatal confrontation with police. These numbers do not in any way suggest a lack of restraint by police in their dealings with black suspects. On the contrary, they suggest the exact opposite.</p>
<p>Funny how the real world rarely conforms to the certainties of the race-obsessed Left, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/john-perazzo/police-shootings-race-in-an-age-of-lies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Vanishing of White Working-Class Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ian-smith/the-vanishing-of-white-working-class-democrats/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-vanishing-of-white-working-class-democrats</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ian-smith/the-vanishing-of-white-working-class-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Smith]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working class]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=247019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The left's hatred for the working class backfires. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/construction-worker-at-construction-site-with-hard-hat_123251.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247027" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/construction-worker-at-construction-site-with-hard-hat_123251-450x337.jpg" alt="construction-worker-at-construction-site-with-hard-hat_123251" width="336" height="252" /></a>In the National Journal Daily this week, liberal elections analyst Charlie Cook of the Cook Report penned a <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/off-to-the-races/democrats-paved-the-way-for-their-own-decline-20141201"><span style="color: #1255cc;">rejoinder</span></a> to his fellow Democrats accusing the party of having a race problem. In his piece, subtitled “Democrats have subordinated their traditional focus on helping the working class,” Cook notes it’s been “increasingly hard” for the party to attract <i>white</i> working class voters in particular. Because inside-the-Beltway types usually take years to notice things us regular outsiders have been seeing for decades, Cook&#8217;s commentary is refreshing stuff.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Noting the media’s mantra Republicans face about their poor polling returns among blacks, Hispanics and single women, Cook takes a swipe at his own, saying that a “parallel problem” exists among Dems, namely the whittling away of their white working class vote, once the core constituency of ‘the modern, post-New Deal Democratic Party.’</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Turning to his always good demographic analysis, Cook notes that along with urban areas and college towns, Democratic strength is increasingly concentrated in “narrow bands along the West Coast (but only the first 50-100 miles from the beaches) and the East Coast (but only from New York City northward).” By contrast he notes, “few Democrats represent small-town and rural areas”, areas which are rapidly becoming “no-fly zones for Democrats.” <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/179753/obama-approval-drops-among-working-class-whites.aspx"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Citing</span></a> recent polls taken among white working voters, Cook says Obama’s job approval rating is a mere 27 percent, his lowest ever. Meanwhile, in these past midterms, Democratic House candidates lost this demographic by 30 points.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This isn’t exactly surprising, but it’s refreshing given the source. Cook is a regular at liberal speaking events around the Beltway area. In the rare time the white working class vote is discussed at such dos, whether at Brookings, the Center for American Progress or the Carnegie Endowment, the tone is usually derisive and frequently hateful.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Cook’s description of the isolated Democratic strongholds is very revealing and aligns well with Charles Murray’s 2012 ‘<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/charles-murray-examines-the-white-working-class-in-coming-apart.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Coming Apart</span></a>’ survey of White America. The gaping division Cook describes between the fenced-in white enclaves of the West and Northeast coasts and the great white expanse everywhere in-between should, he says, “underscore the magnitude of the Democratic Party’s problem” today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The class division among whites is wider than ever due to our immigration policy, an area that’s been increasingly disastrous for the lower classes and which is finally making headlines in the mainstream media, not occasionally, but daily – Cook doesn’t mention immigration as a source of class tension; the topic is apparently still a verboten one for contemporary Dems, even the ones that profess to be sympathetic to the working class – The historic party of working people have become the chief importers of scab labor, all for the elite’s personal short-term gain. Being of the company exec/shareholding class, these elites siphon off the outsized corporate profits caused by suppressed labor costs and personally benefit from cheap maids, cooks and nannies all the while pushing the diffuse costs onto the general taxpaying public. While white working people in the hinterland are cleaning their <i>own</i> houses, the coastal Democrat elite are holding feel-good fundraisers and sipping champagne poured by the non-white help.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">During a 2008 fundraiser in San Francisco, an area well within one of Cook’s “narrow bands,” Obama demeaned his party’s traditional white working class base when he said they “<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/11/snob-ama-disses-pro-gun-religious-anti-illegal-immigration-activists-in-penn/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cling to guns or religion</span></a>” out of a sense of bitterness. But when one’s livelihood is given away, what else are they expected to cling to?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There’s one thing Democrats should remember about the heartlanders living between New York and LA. Although they’re some of the nicest people in the world, they have a strong sense of injustice and do not respond well to unfairness. If <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-problem-i-m-not-emperor-united-states_701295.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Emperor Obama</span></a> and the Democratic elite want to avoid another electoral defeat, they should take Cook’s advice and revisit the Party’s traditional focus on helping, not hindering, its traditional base.</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ian-smith/the-vanishing-of-white-working-class-democrats/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Who&#8217;s Really Responsible for Violent Crime in St. Louis?</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/colin-flaherty/whos-really-responsible-for-violent-crime-in-st-louis/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=whos-really-responsible-for-violent-crime-in-st-louis</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/colin-flaherty/whos-really-responsible-for-violent-crime-in-st-louis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beaten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hammers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zemir Begic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=246716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Denying the reality can be fatal.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/crime.jpeg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246795" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/crime-450x253.jpeg" alt="crime" width="270" height="152" /></a>Violent crime in St. Louis is a black thing. And like the t-shirt says, we wouldn’t understand it.</p>
<p>But we can observe it.</p>
<p>And this much we know: The level of black violent crime is astronomically out of proportion. So is the denial. Not just in St. Louis, but also in Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland: This is a very long list of cities big and small across the country.</p>
<p>Pick a crime: Black violent crime is 6, 10, 30, 50, 100 times greater than white crime. And if you want to throw Asians into the mix, multiply that by 10 times.</p>
<p>This is hardly a surprise to readers of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">FrontPageMag.com</span></a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1938067061/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1938067061&amp;adid=1CSGX3303WSHKNEXMZXN&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2Fasians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing%2F"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>White Girl Bleed a Lot:</i></span></a><i> The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it</i>.</p>
<p>But as we saw in Ferguson, talking heads insist the opposite is true: That black people are the victims of racial violence, not the perpetrators.</p>
<p>“Open season on black people,” anyone?</p>
<p>The recent murder of the immigrant from Bosnia by a group of hammer-wielding black people is just the latest example.</p>
<p>When the mayor and police chief of St. Louis rushed to tell us the killing of Zemir Begic was “not racially motivated,” they meant the killers were not carrying signs that said “Down with Whitey.”  Nor did they issue a press release. Or start quoting Louis Farrakhan during interrogation.</p>
<p>Absent that, public officials insist, there is no evidence of this thing they call “racial motivation.” (Even that is not true, more on that in a minute.)</p>
<p>And besides, they say, crime is color blind, blah, blah, blah.</p>
<p>This is how mayors, police chiefs and editors around the country alternately deny, then explain, the elevated levels of black mob violence and black criminality: They ignore the evidence. Then say the evidence does not exist.</p>
<p>And there is no stronger piece of evidence than the pattern. Recent immigrants are especially vulnerable to this pattern of black violence, though some may not realize it.</p>
<p>If all they knew about racial violence in America came from local or European media, then they would know that black people are constant victims of relentless white racism and violence.</p>
<p>But even a stream of stories and videos showing black mob violence (though not acknowledging it) does not prevent the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC from constantly repeating this false claim.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">Oh yeah, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/asians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing/">that is called lying</a>.</span></p>
<p>In Rochester, New York, earlier this year, the local media broke a five-year embargo to report that <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/asians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recent Asian refugees were victims of more than 1000 cases of black mob</span></a> violence and black on Asian crime.</p>
<p>The black former police chief said that was no big deal: All new immigrants experience violence. A black community activist agreed, saying the “naivete” of the newcomers explained how they could become victims of so much black crime.</p>
<p>In San Francisco, <em>The Chronicle</em> called a wave of black-on-Asian violence that town’s “dirty little secret.”</p>
<p>In New Jersey and New York, police say illegal aliens are the victims of hundreds of such attacks on day laborers, who do not report the violence because they fear deportation.</p>
<p>In St. Louis, local media refuses to connect the dots and report on dozens and dozens of examples of black mob violence and black crime directed at immigrants from Bosnia.</p>
<p>A few minutes before the group of black people surrounded the car of Zemir Begic, another immigrant from Bosnia was sent to the hospital after suffering a similar hammer attack.</p>
<p>St. Louis police may be mystified, but Bosnians say black crime is a regular feature of life in their neighborhoods. Reporters and mayors want us to believe it is random.</p>
<p>“In the last few weeks, there were several crimes against Bosnians,” said <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/hammer-attack-not-1st-violence-against-st-louis-bosnians/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Sadik Kukic, a Bosnian business leader, to WND</span></a>. “All the crimes were by the black community.”</p>
<p>Curiously missing from most of the local coverage was a video account of the aftermath, showing the dead man being wheeled away on a gurney and loaded into an ambulance.</p>
<p>Prior to the attack, said the person making the video, large groups of black people had been rampaging up and down that street, <a href="http://youtu.be/fqTRV-z5J68?list=UUkffs7dlQWuM3HKUM4LeMVA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">saying, “F* the white people, kill the white people.”</span></a></p>
<p>In St. Louis, black mob violence happens regularly in the downtown, it happens near the arch and near the Delmar Loop entertainment district. It even happened the other night in a cop bar when three black people tried to rob it. Six people were shot and one is dead.</p>
<p>Random?</p>
<p>You might want to ask a mathematician about that. Or any high school student of statistics.</p>
<p>One last thing about St. Louis: Racial violence has been happening there a long time. You don’t have to understand it. But denying it can be downright fatal.</p>
<p><strong>Colin Flaherty is the author of the top selling civil rights book in America, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1938067061/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1938067061&amp;adid=1CSGX3303WSHKNEXMZXN&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/asians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">White Girl Bleed a Lot.</span></a> For a FREE video and preview chapter from <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/ebook3november202104"><span style="color: #0433ff;">his next book, click here</span></a>.</strong></p>
<p>*</p>
<p><em>Don’t miss <strong>Colin Flaherty</strong> on the <strong>Glazov Gang’s</strong> discuss <strong>White Girl Bleed a Lot</strong>: </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xbE4MLnAIeQ" width="460" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/colin-flaherty/whos-really-responsible-for-violent-crime-in-st-louis/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>When Leftist Race Hatred Meets Islamism</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/when-leftist-race-hatred-meets-islamism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-leftist-race-hatred-meets-islamism</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/when-leftist-race-hatred-meets-islamism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatchet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zale Thompson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=243997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ax-wielding NYC jihadist a "crusader seeking justice" for the New Black Panthers -- and ISIS. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BN-FF082_NYOFFI_WN_20141024180755.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243998" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BN-FF082_NYOFFI_WN_20141024180755-450x253.jpg" alt="BN-FF082_NYOFFI_WN_20141024180755" width="318" height="179" /></a>Apparently the hatchet-wielding maniac who assaulted two New York City policemen in Queens had ambitions in addition to his twisted jihadist sympathies. Attacker Zale Thompson’s father <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/25/pro-jihadi-ax-attacker-wanted-white-people-to-pay-for-slavery/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the <i>New York Post</i> that killing white people was also on would-be murderer’s agenda.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“He wanted white people to pay for all that slavery and all that racism,” said father Ralph Thompson. “I think he committed suicide — and he was taking one of y’all with him.” Asked if “one of y’all&#8221; referred to whites, Thompson answered in the affirmative. “He just said, ‘They have to pay for all their unfairness,’” the father explained. “Unfairness for the way they treat black people.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Zale Thompson assaulted three white and one light-skinned Hispanic police officers while they posed for a photograph on Jamaica Avenue in Queens. White officers Kenneth Healey, 25, and Joseph Meeker, 24, were struck by the hatchet. Meeker was cut on the arm, and rookie cop Healey was struck on the back of his skull, nearly killing him. The other two officers on the scene <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/23/man-shot-dead-after-striking-cop-in-the-head-with-ax/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">shot</span></a> Thompson dead. Sadly, innocent bystander LaToya Jones, 29, was also shot and <a href="http://www.news.com.au/world/axe-attack-on-new-york-police-officers-was-a-terrorist-act-carried-out-by-selfradicalized-muslim-convert-zale-thompson/story-fndir2ev-1227101917370"><span style="color: #0433ff;">might be</span></a> paralyzed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thompson’s 2013 comment on Google+ <a href="https://plus.google.com/106459523311239638618/posts"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> the animus to which his father referred. &#8220;It&#8217;s ok for white people to draw pictures of a white jesus, and then colonize Africa, and enslave the negro in America, wipe out the native American, and invade the middle east,” he wrote. &#8220;They call black people racist for rejecting the oppression they suffered from whites. Listen, when black people have colonized the entire continent of Europe, enslaved its people, and sold them into bondage to foreign lands, then you can call them racist.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Additional comments were uncovered by the <a href="http://ent.siteintelgroup.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">SITE Intelligence Group</span></a>, an entity that monitors extremist activity. On Facebook and YouTube, Thompson <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/nyregion/man-who-attacked-police-with-hatchet-ranted-about-us-officials-say.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">characterized </span></a> Christians as “aggressive and violent” and chastised the “Christianized Negro” for adhering to the faith “his slave master gave him.” He was apparently the commenter named Zale Thompson who also offered his opinion on a YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=pA5CExFcTP4&amp;lc=6oB6OnCVZGQmZla5LZk6bb9DFcIYTqmQHb-a8_Tv6CUhttp://"><span style="color: #1255cc;">video</span></a> entitled, “Uprise of the Khilafah (Caliphate) World Wide&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">If you’re looking for “perfect” muslims who never make any mistakes in their Jihad, then you will be looking in vain! If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah (for allah’s sake)!</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">There were additional <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2806731/Was-terror-attack-Police-probe-extremist-links-online-rants-New-York-hatchet-attacker-emerge-shot-dead-attack-group-cops-Queens.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">comments</span></a> on his Facebook page, one that that featured a man dressed as a Muslim warrior taken from the cover of a book <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/24/man-who-struck-cop-with-ax-supported-isis/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">entitled</span></a> “Golden Age of the Moor,” and contained Arabic writing from the Quran that spoke to following “the straight path” through Allah.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">They were equally incendiary. &#8220;The solution is to fight. Armed struggle. Simple,” he wrote, before advocating all-out guerrilla warfare on the streets of America. &#8220;America&#8217;s military is strong abroad, but they have never faced an internal mass revolt. … They are weaker at home. We are scattered and decentralized, we can use this as an advantage. They will not be able to defeat our people if we use guerilla warfare. Attack their weak flanks&#8230; If you get wounded who cares. If you die who cares. Eventually they will surrender and then the war will be over.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">After Thompson was identified as the attacker last Friday, the page was taken down.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If Thompson’s rant sounds familiar, perhaps it’s because it is a virtual echo of two Islamic extremist statements published on September 16 and 21. The first statement, entitled “To 2.6M Muslims in USA: A Call to Arms to Defend Islam and Avenge the Slaughter of Muslims” called for the killing of law enforcement officials. “Knocking off a police, military or any other law-enforcement officer sends a chilling message to the so-called ‘civilians’ and fills their hearts with consternation,” it declares.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The second statement is by ISIS spokesman Aub Mohammad al-Adnani. “Strike their police, security and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents,” he urges. “If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him or poison him.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Police have been searching back as far as five years to determine if anyone Thompson communicated with was a threat. A law enforcement source explained why. “This guy spent every waking moment on the Internet,” the source stated. Subsequent reports revealed much of that Internet time was spent watching ISIS beheading videos, along with propaganda and recruitment videos from terrorist groups ISIS, al Qaeda and al-Shabaab.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thompson had no criminal record in New York, but was arrested six times in the city of Oxnard, CA, and pleaded guilty for leaving the scene of an accident in 2003. That was the same year Thompson was involuntarily discharged after serving two years in the Navy, possibly because of drug use, according to investigation leader Chief Robert K. Boyce. He spent the last decade “adrift” according to the <i>New York Times</i>, and after he was evicted from his East New York, Brooklyn apartment in January, he alternated crashing with his mother and father, who lived a short distance from each other in Queens.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unsurprisingly, his attack was <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/new-black-panther-group-hails-ax-attacker/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">supported</span></a> by head of the local New Black Panther Party (NBPP) where Thompson attended meetings. Queens chapter leader Frank Sha Francois referred to Thompson as “a crusader seeking justice,” and he warned of additional attacks that are likely to arise. “It probably won’t be the last [attack on police] because you have a lot of frustrated people out here,” he told the <i>Post</i>. He revealed that Thompson wasn’t an official member of the group, but nonetheless attended meetings where they talked about “police brutality” cases that have yet to be officially designated as police brutality cases.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“I don’t condone violence, but something needs to be done,” Francois said. “We need to have some type of deterrent and real oversight to deter the police from violating the laws and to know they are not above the laws.” He added that he didn’t agree with Thompson’s methods. “I tell people that to go up against law enforcement in this country is suicide,” Francois explained. “Our main way to deal with it is to rally and boycotting.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not exactly. When racial animosity was fomented by the usual suspects after Trayvon Martin was killed, the NBPP put a <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/03/25/new-black-panther-party-offers-10000-bounty-for-george-zimmerman/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">$10,000 bounty</span></a> on the head of George Zimmerman, with NBPP party leader Mikhail Muhammad warning that he should be &#8220;fearful for his life.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Family and friends described Thompson as an all-around hater, in sympathy with jihadists, and directing his animus towards cops in particular and white people in general. That animus aligns itself with the racist and conspiratorial theory of &#8220;<a href="http://www.tolerance.org/article/racism-and-white-privilege"><span style="color: #1255cc;">white privilege</span></a>” and its laundry list of perceived grievances, all based on the wearisome victimist mentality cultivated among black Americans by the American left for more than a half-century. Hence a hater becomes a crusader with only the method for expressing that hatred &#8212; wielding an ax, for example &#8212; at issue. And as the ongoing mayhem in Ferguson, MO so amply indicates, it is a victimist mentality unresponsive to logic and lawfulness, or waiting for the facts to emerge before reaching conclusions about what “really” happened.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That’s because the unbroken narrative of “unfairness” justifies anything and everything.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is a narrative egged on by an Obama administration that has granted an unseemly and wholly unwarranted level of credence to racial arsonists like Al Sharpton, with both Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/04/12/obama-praises-sharpton-amid-mob-snitch-revelations/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">attending</span></a> Sharpton’s annual National Action Network galas, and heaping <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/eric-holder-praises-left-wing-activist-al-sharpton-says-facts-law-will-guide-trayvon"><span style="color: #1255cc;">praise</span></a> on the tax-evading, hoax-perpetrating rabble-rouser.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Couple this reality with the administration’s flaccid and largely <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-searching-credible-allies-syria-26251422"><span style="color: #1255cc;">incoherent</span></a> response to ISIS—a response necessitated by the president’s premature withdrawal of troops from Iraq in 2011, based on the campaign-fueled <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/us/politics/a-president-whose-assurances-have-come-back-to-haunt-him.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">lie</span></a> that “the tide of war is receding”—and the nation is facing a perfect storm. One of the administration’s own making, and one that <i>facilitates</i> the cultivation of domestic jihadists and racist thugs. The longer ISIS remains a threat, the greater the chance of more “lone wolves” being enchanted by its resiliency. The more this administration gins up racial animosity in a pathetic attempt to get out the minority vote in the short term, and keep black Americans on the Democrat plantation over the long haul, the more likely “crusading” cop-killer, jihadist wannabes will take their best shot.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thompson &#8220;Googled the words ‘jihad against police,’ ” said the <i>Post’s</i> law enforcement source. ISIS is extremely well-versed on how to “hit a lot of different kinds of people’s buttons,” explained David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center of Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University. “I didn’t know it would get that serious,” said Thompson’s father. “I didn’t know he was going to carry on a mission on his own.” Thompson was hardly alone. He had plenty of enablers, both foreign and domestic.</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/when-leftist-race-hatred-meets-islamism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Teen Caught on Video in Black Mob Beating of White Student &#8212;- Acquitted</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/colin-flaherty/teen-caught-on-video-in-black-mob-beating-of-white-student-acquitted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=teen-caught-on-video-in-black-mob-beating-of-white-student-acquitted</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/colin-flaherty/teen-caught-on-video-in-black-mob-beating-of-white-student-acquitted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alec Guessford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=240615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not enough evidence to convict the assailant? The film says otherwise. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-09-at-3.04.39-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240618" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-09-at-3.04.39-PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-09-09 at 3.04.39 PM" width="327" height="295" /></a>Tuesday in court was supposed to be a pretty straight forward day for Alec Guessford: Let the family court commissioner watch, on video, as five of his black classmates taunt, harass and beat him on a school bus in April. Watch his classmate promise to never, ever do it again.</p>
<p>Make a victim’s statement. Then get on with his life as a Dover, Delaware junior high student.</p>
<p>Four of the assailants had already pled guilty to various charges of misdemeanor assault and conspiracy — including the person who took the video and posted it.</p>
<p>But it got complicated when the fifth assailant, Tracy Matthews, decided to take his chances with a trial before the commissioner. Matthews said no matter what it seemed like on the video — he’s the one with the hoodie — he was not beating anyone. He was just looking for his headphones. The four assailants testified on behalf of their friend/accomplice.</p>
<p>Before the trial, members of the Guessford family sat in the same witness room as the four people who pled guilty to beating their son. “They were laughing and taunting us,” said Dale Guessford, Alec’s dad. “Trying to intimidate us. Finally the court officials moved us into another room.”</p>
<p>The four assailants were on better behavior in court. Good enough to persuade Commissioner Angela Fowler to let their friend go free with a finding of not guilty.  Fowler, a former public defender and “child advocate” for State Attorney General Beau Biden, said she could not see the accused person actually assault Alec.</p>
<p>“Guess she doesn’t have a slow motion switch on whatever she uses to watch videos,” Guessford said. “But even without it, it is easy to see Matthews participating in the assault. And easy to see other children watch him do it. Though they were never called as witnesses.”</p>
<p>You can see the beating below, in slow motion:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Tp5vA0NQBSs" width="460" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>After the beating, the school was reluctant to take action. “They tried to tell me Alex provoked the assault,” said Guessford. “But this was the second time it had happened. And it was five on one.”</p>
<p>When the video came out, that seemed to settle the questions of who was taunting whom, who was harassing whom, and who was beating on whom.</p>
<p>The 30-second video went viral shortly after the beating. Soon after Alec’s father posted it on his Facebook page, the video received 125,000 shares. After I posted it on YouTube, the video received 60,000 views in the first few hours before YouTube removed it, saying the film violated its terms of service that prohibit anyone from glorifying racial violence.</p>
<p>When this intrepid correspondent pointed out that the video was exposing racial violence, not glorifying it, YouTube put it back up — several weeks later.</p>
<p>But even a video record of the assault was not enough to convince commissioner Fowler. “Whatever this was, it can hardly be called a trial,” Dale Guessford said. “The very first question the defense lawyer asked my son was not even a real question. He said ‘you really don’t like black people very much do you, Alex?’”</p>
<p>The judge ruled the question out of order.  A better question might have been addressed to the judge: ‘Who are you going to believe, my clients and his thuggish friends, or that lying videotape?’</p>
<p>Of the 20 or so students on the bus, only the friends of the Matthews were called to testify. The same one who had already pleaded guilty. And the prosecutor did not ask Alex any questions.</p>
<p>“Even without slow motion, you can see Tracy Matthews lean over and punch Alec,” Guessford said.  “Lots of people saw it without slow motion.”</p>
<p>After about an hour, the judge heard what she needed to hear and issued the not guilty ruling.</p>
<p>“What a message,” said Dale Guessford. “Telling that child it is OK to beat another child. Telling my son it is OK to try to portray him as a bad person because he was the victim of a racial assault and he had the nerve not to like it.”</p>
<p>And one last thing, said Guessford: “There were no headphones.”</p>
<p><b>*</b><br />
<b></b></p>
<p><em>Don’t miss the <strong>Glazov Gang’s</strong> special episode featuring<strong> Colin Flaherty</strong>, discussing the epidemic of black mob violence all over the country and the media’s cover-up:</em></p>
<blockquote><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xbE4MLnAIeQ" width="460" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank"><strong>Click here</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/colin-flaherty/teen-caught-on-video-in-black-mob-beating-of-white-student-acquitted/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>91</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why &#8216;Diversity&#8217; Means Quotas</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ben-cohen/why-diversity-means-quotas/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-diversity-means-quotas</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ben-cohen/why-diversity-means-quotas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=239667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The truth about racial preferences in higher education. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239669" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity-442x350.jpg" alt="diversity" width="327" height="259" /></a>Earlier this year, Sonia Sotomayor appeared on ABC’s the week to plug her new book, <em>My Beloved World</em>. ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos declared that the Supreme Court Justice “knows that affirmative action made a difference in her life, and believes it’s still necessary.”</p>
<p>Stephanopoulos continued,</p>
<blockquote><p>“There’s been a lot of scholarly work that says it’s not the best way to insure diversity in schools, and maybe if you focus on where people live, and how much money they make, you can get the same results, in a way that is less fractious.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To which the Justice responded,</p>
<blockquote><p>“…the problem with that answer is that it doesn’t work….it’s not that I don’t believe that it doesn’t work, it’s that the statistics show it doesn’t work.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Sotomayor, as you may recall, read a lengthy dissent in Schuette v. Coalition, the case which determined that states may ban racial preferences in higher education – a conclusion Sotomayor vehemently disagreed with.</p>
<p>Unmentioned in this discussion were the words &#8220;quotas&#8221; or &#8220;Bakke.&#8221; After being twice rejected by UC Davis medical school, Allen Bakke sued. His suit alleged that UC Davis’s two tiered admissions process, for whites and non-whites, violated his rights under both the fourteenth amendment and the civil rights act.</p>
<p>UC Davis medical school had two separate admissions programs: a regular program, and a special program intended to help disadvantaged students. Applicants to the special program would compete against each other, and would not be compared to regular applicants.  Importantly, the special program accepted applicants with college GPA’s below 2.5.</p>
<p>Ostensibly intended for the disadvantaged of all races, the special program had never accepted a white applicant, although many had applied. Also, racial minorities composed a majority of the committee members who determined admission to the special program. UC Davis also denied that the special admissions program operated as a quota; the Supreme Court disagreed.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court found UC Davis’s admissions scheme to be unconstitutional, and ordered UC Davis to admit Allen Bakke to medical school. The court’s ruling explicitly stated that both quotas and two-tiered systems were unconstitutional &#8212; something confirmed by future Supreme Court rulings.</p>
<p>The court did allow an exception to this general prohibition on the use of race or ethnicity. Colleges could consider race as a factor, if they used it in the same manner as they did other factors. Colleges could not reserve spots for different ethnic or racial groups, but they could consider the value that a student from an under-represented group would bring. This would be the fig leaf that allowed colleges to pursue their racial and ethnic balancing schemes.</p>
<p>At the 2013 University of Michigan “Future of Campus Diversity Symposium,” the fig leaf came right off. Attorney Mark Rosenbaum – fresh from convincing the Sixth Circuit court of appeals that Michigan’s ban on racial preferences violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment – delivered the <i>second </i>keynote address.<i> </i></p>
<p>After telling his audience that “diversity is about how one lives a life,” and “is about respecting the dignity of every single person,” he got down to brass tacks. Bans on racial and gender preferences in higher education had reduced the enrollment numbers of some ethnic and racial groups. According to Rosenbaum, Michigan’s ban on racial preferences in admissions caused African American freshman enrollment to decline from 8.1% to 5.2% at the University of Michigan. “In a state where the number of African American’s are between fifteen and twenty percent,” Rosenbaum informed his audience.</p>
<p>And this isn’t just talk. Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radcliffe studied admissions preferences at both public and private institutions. Although they wouldn’t characterize it this way, their data clearly shows that both public and private institutions employ admissions preferences for the purpose of balancing their racial and ethnic demographics.</p>
<p>When comparing similar applicants to highly selective private schools, being black instead of white is worth the equivalent of 310 extra SAT points, being Hispanic instead of “non-Hispanic white” is worth the equivalent of 130 SAT points, and being Asian instead of white costs you the equivalent of 140 SAT points.</p>
<p>At public institutions, being Hispanic instead of non-Hispanic white doesn’t help your odds much, the equivalent of .3 ACT points. But at these same institutions, being black instead of white increases your odds of acceptance by the equivalent 3.8 ACT points, and being Asian instead of white decreases the odds of acceptance by the equivalent of 3.4 ACT points.</p>
<p>These statistics can only be explained as deliberate efforts at demographic balancing.</p>
<p>The numbers become even more disturbing when one considers social class. At public institutions, socio-economic factors play little role in admissions, but the same cannot be said for private ones. Non-white applicants from lower class backgrounds enjoy considerable class-based affirmative action; not so for whites. Whites are the only group where lower class applicants have less chance at being admitted than middle class applicants; in this case, the numbers are 8% and 28% respectively. For comparisons sake, 81% of lower class, and 50% of middle class, black applicants are accepted.</p>
<p>Elite private institutions, all of which receive federal and state money, offer class-based admissions preferences to every group except one: whites. While offering financial aid and admissions preferences to low-income people of other races, these institutions treat poor white kids as an unwanted financial burden. Imagine the outrage if government benefits granted to everyone else were denied to any other group aside for whites. In his Bakke opinion, Justice Powell specifically cited the denial of surplus food stuffs to African Americans as an example of unequal treatment.</p>
<p>When we debate race-conscious admissions, we have to debate such programs as they exist, not as we would like them to be. When a college administrator says that it is unacceptable for the proportion of under-represented groups to fall below a certain threshold, for all intents and purposes, he is calling for a quota. To those who support these programs, do you support quotas?</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ben-cohen/why-diversity-means-quotas/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Great Racial Disconnect on Police</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ben-shapiro/the-great-racial-disconnect-on-police-1-1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-great-racial-disconnect-on-police-1-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ben-shapiro/the-great-racial-disconnect-on-police-1-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferguson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=239086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The black community's distorted view of Ferguson — and how to fix it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239024" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg" alt="MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257" width="284" height="229" /></a>On Monday, Rasmussen released a poll of Americans regarding the guilt or innocence of Officer Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot unarmed 18-year-old black man Michael Brown six times in Ferguson, Missouri. Those polls show that 57 percent of black adults think that Wilson should be found guilty of murder; 56 percent of whites, by contrast, are undecided on the matter.</p>
<p>The latter position is the correct one. Witnesses, including one Dorian Johnson, claim that Brown was pulled over by Wilson, attacked by him and pulled into the car, ran, stopped when told to freeze by Wilson, held up his hands, and was then shot. Other witnesses — more than a dozen of them, according to local media — say that Brown attacked Wilson, went for Wilson&#8217;s gun, fled before being told to stop, then charged Wilson before being shot.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what we do know: Despite original media reports labeling Brown a &#8220;gentle giant,&#8221; Brown and shooting witness Dorian Johnson did participate in a strong-arm robbery of a local convenience store. We know that despite original witness reports suggesting that Brown was shot in the back, he was not. We know that contemporaneous witness accounts caught on tape suggest that Brown charged at Wilson. And we know that a young black man is dead with six bullets in him at the hands of a white cop.</p>
<p>And to huge segments of the black community, that last fact is the only one that matters. The full facts do not matter to extremists in the black community and to their white leftist enablers, particularly in the media. A full 41 percent of black Americans believe that riots and looting represent &#8220;legitimate outrage.&#8221; Not protesting — riots and looting. Just 35 percent of blacks think that looters and rioters are criminals taking advantage of the situation.</p>
<p>There is a pattern here: a widespread belief in the black community that the justice system is rigged against them. That belief is not without basis — there is no question that America has a history of racism within the criminal justice community. By the same token, there is also no question that American law enforcement is the least racist it has ever been, by a long shot, and that racism within the law enforcement community is broadly considered unacceptable and vile.</p>
<p>But the belief in a racist justice system seems to have maintained its stranglehold inside the black community. That belief, taken to its extreme, means support for black criminality. It is no coincidence that during the O.J. Simpson trial, 60 percent of black Americans did not believe O.J. was guilty. It is also no coincidence that many white Americans perceive black support for murderers like O.J. Simpson and riots in Ferguson as support for lawlessness, and therefore pooh-pooh charges of police racism. When crying racism becomes crying wolf, it is hard to take such charges seriously.</p>
<p>The solution, however, lays neither in knee-jerk accusations of racism from the black community nor in immediate dismissals of individual accusations by the white community. It lies in continued targeting and prosecution of individual racists in the police community, of course — and far more importantly, it lies in less criminality within the black community. The high levels of crime in the black community contribute to heavier policing, which in turn reinforces perceptions of racial targeting; those perceptions then create resentment against police than ends too often in violent encounters and failure to report crime. And so the cycle starts anew.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to break the cycle. The only way to do that is to focus on the fact that police have no excuse to shoot anyone unless those people are committing criminal acts. On that we can all agree. Yes, we must arduously insist that police hold to that standard, and we must prosecute those who do not to the fullest extent of the law. But by the same token, we must insist that criminal acts stop — and to do that, we must move beyond simple anti-police sentiment.</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf" target="_blank"><b>Subscribe</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Frontpage&#8217;s TV show, <i>The Glazov Gang</i>, and </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>LIKE</b></a><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it on </strong><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang" target="_blank"><b>Facebook.</b></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ben-shapiro/the-great-racial-disconnect-on-police-1-1/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Jerry Seinfeld, the Racist?</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-bawer/jerry-seinfeld-the-racist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jerry-seinfeld-the-racist</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-bawer/jerry-seinfeld-the-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Male]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=218376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An anti-PC thought-criminal is on the loose! ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218377" alt="121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top-450x336.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>How refreshing the sound of a top-flight celebrity fearlessly shrugging off the idiocy of political correctness! The other day, on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">CBS This Morning, </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">an interviewer</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">pointed out to Jerry Seinfeld that most of the guests he&#8217;s had on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">his online series on which he has automotive tête-à-têtes with fellow practitioners of the stand-up art (and the occasional just-plain-funny person), have been white males. “Oh, this really pisses me off,” replied a bracingly honest Seinfeld, who plainly saw where his fatuous interlocutor was headed. After a bit of back and forth, the comic spelled out just how he feels about the application of this kind of absurd bean-counting to matters of entertainment: “People think it&#8217;s the census or something. Its got to represent the actual pie chart of America. Who cares?&#8230;I have no interest in gender or race&#8230;.It&#8217;s anti-comedy&#8230;It&#8217;s PC nonsense.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The attacks on Seinfeld for these purportedly insensitive remarks began materializing almost at once. A contributor to the Gawker website, who </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://gawker.com/who-cares-about-diversity-in-comedy-says-jerry-seinf-1515412052">sneeringly</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> called Seinfeld a “maker of comedy for and about white people,” represented him as having indicated that he “isn&#8217;t interested in trying to include non-white anything in his work” and that in his view “any comedian who is not a white male is also not funny.” Having read the entire Gawker article, I strongly suspect that this characterization of Seinfeld, far from being deliberately deceitful, was in fact an honest reflection of the author&#8217;s utter inability to grasp the concept of colorblindedness. Charging Seinfeld with “downplaying the work” of all nonwhite comics, the man from Gawker made a point of demonstrating his own PC purity: comedy, he proclaimed, “should represent the entire pie chart of America, and the glorious, multicolored diversity pie should be thrown directly at Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s face.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The funnyman also came under fire for a Canadian woman named Maya Roy, who, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/maya-roy/seinfeld-diversity-comments_b_4733365.html">writing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in the Huffington Post under the headline “Seinfeld&#8217;s Racist Comments Make Him the Joke,” accused him of “whitewashing New York” in his 1990s sitcom – only to chide him, in her next breath, for featuring on various episodes of that show “heavily accented Chinese food delivery boys” and an “inept Pakistani entrepreneur, Babu Bhatt,” among others. To nonwhite viewers like herself, railed Roy, these nonwhite characters “only existed to make &#8216;whitey&#8217; feel superior.” She contrasted the nonwhites on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Seinfeld </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">with Indian-Canadian comic Russell Peters and Korean-American comic Margaret Cho, both of whom, exulted Roy, “use humour to mock racists and homophobes, and make life just a little more bearable for the rest of us.” (Yes, indeed, they are moral scolds, which is surely part of the reason why I, for one, find both of them excruciatingly unfunny.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Half a century ago, an America in which people don&#8217;t have an interest in gender or race was Martin Luther King&#8217;s dream – the vision around which Americans of every color, eager to see their country live out the meaning of its creed, rallied enthusiastically. Today that kind of thinking is condemned as bigotry. Today a sitcom that doesn&#8217;t seek to mirror the population pie chart risks being called out for racism or sexism. Today a show that permits itself to include black or Chinese or Pakistani characters who, far from being role models and pillars of virtue prove to be every bit as hapless, goofy, mendacious, and/or self-absorbed as the white characters is by definition guilty of hate speech. Today, according to the PC sentries at the gates of American culture, comedy should exist not to amuse us by (among other things) treating received opinions with indifference and even irreverence but, on the contrary, to promote The Proper Values, as determined by, well, people like Maya Roy and the man from Gawker. Its focus should be on chiding the evil souls who harbor prejudice and providing comfort and affirmation to the virtuous innocents who are the objects of that prejudice. In other words, comedy, in this age of victimhood, of group identity, and of ubiquitous therapy, should succor the victims, go out of its way to affirm the unconditionally positive contribution of minority groups (especially those favored by multicultural dogma) to the wonderful mosaic of American society; it should serve, without exception, a psychically healthful, wholesome, and therapeutic purpose, while of course never doing anything that might stand the remotest chance of hurting or offending those who have already (in the PC view) been hurt or offended too mightily.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Time Magazine – </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">yes, it still exists – piled onto Seinfeld after his comments on CBS, running a piece in which one Lily Rothman (a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.lilyrothman.com/">self-identified</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> playwright and backpacker who studied at Yale and the Columbia School of Journalism) did her share of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/04/jerry-seinfeld-diversity/">tsk-tsking</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about “the homogeneity of [the] guests” on Jerry&#8217;s webseries – guests, mind you, who have ranged from Jay Leno to Howard Stern, from Carl Reiner to Colin Quinn. Ms. Rothman&#8217;s inability to view these performers as a remarkably diverse crew only serves as a salutary reminder that for some people, melanin would appear to be the only</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">measure of difference. Color, in short, is all. It&#8217;s this kind of illiberal thinking that once was recognized as a genuinely serious threat to true liberal values, and that today, in the corridors of American cultural power – including those at </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Time – </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">is, perversely, the very essence of what goes by the name of liberalism. Ms. Rothman concluded her harangue by expressing the hope that “public pressure” would force Seinfeld to enhance his show&#8217;s “diversity.” Not so many years ago such a sentiment would have been widely recognized as ignoble, despicable – indeed, totalitarian. No more.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If anything is striking about this incident, it&#8217;s not the attacks on Seinfeld – who only a few months ago, by the way, said on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">that his “Mount Rushmore” of stand-ups would consist of Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and Don Rickles (two blacks, two whites). No, the attacks are just the usual multicultural claptrap. What was striking – and gratifying, and heartening – were Seinfeld&#8217;s original remarks about “PC nonsense” – which, considering that they came from a man who is still the top-earning comedian in the U.S., raised expectations that the growing impatience of influential cultural figures with the poisonous influence of political correctness may yet help bring an end to the madness.</span></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-bawer/jerry-seinfeld-the-racist/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>62</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Santa&#8217;s White Privilege</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/santas-white-privilege/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=santas-white-privilege</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/santas-white-privilege/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=213113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The left’s race-baiters never take a day off.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ar135430707292573.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-213114" alt="ar135430707292573" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ar135430707292573.jpg" width="305" height="224" /></a>The left accuses capitalism of commercializing holidays. Meanwhile the left politicizes holidays.</p>
<p>Thanksgiving and Columbus Day are celebrations of genocide. The Fourth of July is a reminder that America was founded by rich white men who didn&#8217;t want to pay taxes. Memorial Day is perfect for anti-war statements and Mother&#8217;s Day is for denouncing the heteronormative family. Valentine&#8217;s Day is an occasion to protest rape and the patriarchy and Halloween is a time to lecture students about cultural appropriation and politically incorrect costumes that offend minorities.</p>
<p>The optimist would hope that the left would take a month or two off toward the end of the year. But every Chanukah brings with it articles about how the holiday is really a nationalistic campaign against multiculturalism and no Christmas would be complete without a national conversation about Santa&#8217;s whiteness.</p>
<p>Over at Slate, Aisha Harris, its resident expert on being offended by racist things in pop culture, suggested replacing old white Santa with a penguin of no specific color. Replacing Santa with a beady-eyed penguin would remove the need to have Santas of every race, color and creed, not to mention gender identity and sexual orientation.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easier than finding a Maori transgender gay Santa in a wheelchair to really terrify the kids.</p>
<p>The penguin solution won&#8217;t work for all holidays. Replacing Jesus with a penguin will raise all sorts of theological issues and turning George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King into penguins will add a whole new twist to history.</p>
<p>But if we&#8217;re going to &#8220;penguinify&#8221; our way out of every holiday to avoid excluding anyone&#8230; we might as well start breaking out the penguin masks.</p>
<p>What is the charge against Santa? He&#8217;s a white male. He&#8217;s not a member of some KKK lodge in the North Pole and doesn&#8217;t burn frozen crosses on tundra. It is his whiteness that is offensive.</p>
<p>As Aisha Harris tells it, she grew up feeling hurt and ashamed because her father dressing up as Santa didn&#8217;t match the white store Santas. And so her solution is to eliminate fathers being able to dress up as Santas at all; unless they shrink to a few inches tall and learn to squawk.</p>
<p>In Aisha&#8217;s world, everyone has to be part of one big whole without excluding anyone in any way. There is nothing diverse about a diversity that collectivizes the experience of every individual to ensure mass conformity even in the industrialization of celebration.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not diversity. It&#8217;s conformity.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the trouble with endless inclusiveness. To include everyone in a holiday, you have to erode its meaning so thoroughly that it no longer means anything. The only way to achieve total inclusiveness is to eliminate as much specificity as possible until the very existence of a specific identity becomes a crime.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t really about Santa. It&#8217;s about the criminalization of whiteness under the label of White Privilege. It&#8217;s about making race into an implicit offense by arguing that any norm that reflects whiteness in a country with a white majority is racist.</p>
<p>The best evidence that we have long ago left behind actual discrimination that can be objectively shown is the descent of civil rights efforts first into outcome-based discrimination in which there need not be any intent to discriminate as long as there is an outcome unfavorable to an official minority and then into the emotional experience of otherness entirely apart from any actual acts.</p>
<p>Aisha Harris&#8217;s call for the penguinization of Santa is backed only by her temporary sense of alienation as a little girl. There isn&#8217;t even a complaint that black men are less likely to be hired as store Santas or that black children who aren&#8217;t exposed to black Santas have lower test scores. And all that is left is the original doll experiment in which the Clarks proved the psychological effects of racism to the Supreme Court by showing that black children chose white dolls over black dolls. Despite everything, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/13/doll.study/">the doll experiment hasn&#8217;t changed</a>.</p>
<p>The penguinization of Santa is one of the nicer progressive responses to these lingering self-esteem issues. The nastier ones counter negative perception of blackness by pushing negative perception of whiteness. The lead practitioners of white racism have become white liberals who hope that hating and degrading white people will improve black self-esteem.</p>
<p>In this warped world, the only way to save black self-esteem is by attacking any area where &#8220;white&#8221; is normative. Even if it&#8217;s a white Santa Claus. If black people feel self-conscious of their differences, then white people must be constantly made to feel self-conscious of the guilt they ought to feel in making everyone else feel self-conscious with their normative supremacism.</p>
<p>Whiteness isn&#8217;t the problem. The obsession with race is. The left has turned a social construct into the definitive lens for viewing all human relationships. And it&#8217;s that lens that causes the misery. The more you look through it, the more bitter and insecure you become.</p>
<p>Santa isn&#8217;t guilty of white privilege. The racialists are guilty of an obsessive resentment that expresses itself in the need to contest everything on racial grounds. Changing Santa&#8217;s race or species won&#8217;t fix anything because that isn&#8217;t the source of the problem. Any number of white characters, from Spider-Man to Kojak, Ironside and even Murder She Wrote&#8217;s Jessica Fletcher, have been turned black without making a dent.</p>
<p>Insecurity isn&#8217;t external. It&#8217;s internal. And it can&#8217;t be fixed externally. The insecure can&#8217;t be reassured into being comfortable with the world around them. Every well-meaning act of reassurance is met with a defensive reaction that is meant to reassert their neurotic status quo because that unpleasant state is the one that they know and are familiar with. It may not be a pleasant way to live, but it&#8217;s their identity and it&#8217;s all that they know how to do.</p>
<p>Racial insecurity is an internal problem. It isn&#8217;t caused by Santa. It&#8217;s caused by a racialized identity which thrives on paranoia and insecurity while lashing out at black figures who aren&#8217;t insecure, like Robert Griffin III or Don Lemon, for the crime of being comfortable.</p>
<p>America isn&#8217;t a racist country. It&#8217;s a racially insecure country where the races are taught to be self-conscious and insecure. Out of that insanity, transforming Santa Claus into a penguin begins to seem like a sensible solution. And until the day when America becomes a white minority nation, maybe we can all don our penguin masks and celebrate the arrival of a post-racial society in which we will no longer be black or white, but instead black and white all over.</p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/santas-white-privilege/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Liberals Talk Race and Crime &#8212; And Hilarity Ensues!</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/liberals-talk-race-and-crime-and-hilarity-ensues/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=liberals-talk-race-and-crime-and-hilarity-ensues</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/liberals-talk-race-and-crime-and-hilarity-ensues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knockout game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.frontpagemag.com/?p=212393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Left's answer to the "Knockout Game." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/knockout-Game.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212394" alt="knockout-Game" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/knockout-Game.jpg" width="279" height="202" /></a>On a break from pretending to believe they live in a country bristling with violent white racists, the Non-Fox Media have been trying to debunk stories about the &#8220;Knockout Game,&#8221; in which young black males approach random strangers and try to knock them out with one punch.</p>
<p>The left&#8217;s leading line of defense against the Knockout Game is to argue that young black males have always been violent, so, hey, this is nothing new.</p>
<p><i>You&#8217;re welcome, black America!</i></p>
<p>In Slate, Emma Roller wearily recounted other episodes of black-on-white violence in order to announce: &#8220;The &#8216;Knockout Game&#8217; is a myth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reminiscing about the flash mobs that shook many parts of the country a few years ago, Roller wrote: &#8220;I remember the summer of 2011, a story about a crowd of (black) teenagers at the Wisconsin State Fair randomly attacking fairgoers went viral as a sign of a burgeoning race war.&#8221;</p>
<p>So you see, stupid right-wingers, young black males have <i>always</i> been violent, so what&#8217;s the big deal about the Knockout Game?<i>Your honor, my client&#8217;s not a killer; he&#8217;s a serial killer.</i></p>
<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes reached for a different example of monstrous black-on-white violence in order to dispute that the Knockout Game is anything new.</p>
<p>Looking like a translator for the deaf with all the air quotes he had to make for &#8220;supposed&#8221; &#8220;trend&#8221; and &#8220;Knockout Game,&#8221; Hayes compared it to what he called the fake trend of &#8220;wilding&#8221; after a mob of black youths violently attacked and raped a white woman jogging in New York&#8217;s Central Park in 1989. According to Hayes, &#8220;there never was such a thing&#8221; as wilding.</p>
<p>Whether the boys who were convicted of the crime did it or, as liberals now claim, a man already sentenced to life in prison did it, the Central Park jogger was brutally raped and nearly murdered by either one or several young black men. (They all did it &#8212; see Chapter 13 of my book &#8220;Demonic.&#8221;)</p>
<p>The following year, 1990, blacks committed 57 percent of all the violent crime against whites, while whites committed only 2 percent of the violent crime against blacks, according to the Department of Justice&#8217;s annual Victimization Report.</p>
<p>Thanks for the memories, Chris!</p>
<p>Oh, and contrary to Hayes&#8217; proclamation, black men raping white women is something of a &#8220;trend&#8221; &#8212; at least according to FBI crime statistics. At least since 1997 (I got bored and stopped looking any farther back) blacks have raped several thousand white women every year, while white-on-black rapes have numbered between &#8220;0.0&#8243; and &#8220;Sample based on 10 or fewer.&#8221; (See Chapter 11 of &#8220;Mugged.&#8221;)</p>
<p>In a particularly incomprehensible defense of black America in Mediaite, Tommy Christopher denounced the &#8220;sketchy&#8221; news reports of &#8220;the so-called &#8216;Knockout Game&#8217;&#8221; by citing the video of a group of black teenagers walking past teacher Jim Addlespurger, when one of the black teens steps from the group and knocks the teacher out cold, and then they all laugh about the assault as they continue walking.</p>
<p>But Christopher helpfully notes that a cop said this &#8220;was just a random act of violence.&#8221; So don&#8217;t worry about the Knockout Game, white people &#8212; this is mostly just ordinary, everyday black-on-white violence.</p>
<p>Flash mobs, wilding, day-to-day black violence &#8212; talk about damning with faint praise!</p>
<p>Liberals have to work so hard to avoid noticing the astronomical crime rate among young black males that their brains freeze.</p>
<p>Roller attributed public interest in a story about mobs of young black males attacking families at a state fair to white people&#8217;s need to validate their &#8220;fear&#8221; that black people are dangerous. (Milwaukeeans hardly even notice when mobs of whites surround their families at a state fair, punch them, kick them and smash their cars, while shouting racial slurs.)</p>
<p>But Roller implied that blacks engaging in violence is wildly unusual: &#8220;When a few YouTube videos are able to convince terrified white folks that young black people are dangerous, they may as well assume that all cats can play the keyboard.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is a disproportionate amount of keyboard playing in the country being done by cats?</p>
<p>According to the FBI, between 1976 and 2005, blacks, who are about 12 percent of the population, committed 53 percent of all felony murders and 56 percent of non-felony murders. The Centers for Disease Control recently reported that young black men are 14 times more likely to commit murder than young white men.</p>
<p>White liberals know this. Blacks certainly know it. Despite the hoo-ha over George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin, most black people&#8217;s experience is not that white vigilantes are shooting them. For every one of those, there are 1,000 black teens killing other black people.</p>
<p>But if liberals took the first step toward sanity and admitted that young black men commit an awful lot of violent crime, they might have to ask why that is.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a dangerous question for people who refuse to acknowledge the devastation of fatherless boys caused by liberal welfare policies. (See Chapter 6 of &#8220;Never Trust a Liberal Over 3&#8243; to see how the British welfare system has created the same social disaster among hordes of white people.)</p>
<p>Unable to consider the obvious explanation &#8212; single-motherhood &#8212; liberals are left with nothing but genetic determinism.</p>
<p>So liberals defend young black males from the charge of playing a Knockout Game by telling us young black men are always violent.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry, black America. White liberals have your back.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov</strong>&#8216;s video interview with <strong>Colin Flaherty</strong> about &#8220;White Girl Bleed A Lot&#8221;:</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xbE4MLnAIeQ" height="315" width="420" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/liberals-talk-race-and-crime-and-hilarity-ensues/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Media Blackout of the &#8216;Knockout Game&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/david-paulin/media-blackout-of-the-knockout-game/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=media-blackout-of-the-knockout-game</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/david-paulin/media-blackout-of-the-knockout-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Paulin]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knockout game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=211296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As evidence of hate crimes mounts. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/hqdefault2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211346" alt="hqdefault" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/hqdefault2-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>It&#8217;s an infuriating example of political correctness: Most of New York City&#8217;s media outlets have sanitized the nature of a spate of unprovoked attacks upon hapless pedestrians &#8212; all recent victims of the so-called &#8220;knockout game.&#8221; There have been injuries and several deaths among men, women, and youngsters, as they suffered walloping “sucker punches” by roving black youths in New York City and elsewhere.</p>
<p>The knockout game involves an unmentionable subject for most in the mainstream media: black-on-white violence. To a lesser extent, Asians and Hispanics have been targeted as well. They&#8217;re white enough, it seems, for black youths playing the knockout game.</p>
<p>For those unfamiliar with the knockout game, it&#8217;s how some black youths amuse themselves, especially in urban settings. The goal: use a single devastating punch to knock a victim unconscious. And when they succeed, they invariably react with merriment and laughter, as videos capturing the mayhem have revealed. Could racism be motivating these black youths? Nobody in the mainstream media dares suggest that this might be fueling the black mob violence in what President Obama said would be a post-racial era.</p>
<p>The knockout game, to be sure, has been around a few years. It has been mostly ignored by the mainstream media, which generally airbrushes out the black-on-white nature of the mayhem. The knockout game, however, was the subject of a lengthy <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/the_knockout_game_racial_violence_and_the_conspicuous_silence_of_the_media.html">American Thinker article </a>by John T. Bennett way back on July 14, 2011. Now, in light of the spate of recent attacks in New York City and nearby cities, some media outlets are belatedly acknowledging that the knockout game is indeed a growing trend – though they still tiptoe around the fact that the attackers are black.</p>
<p>In Brooklyn, some recent victims of the knockout game were Jews, which is finally prompting New York City police officials to state that &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2505319/Brooklyn-teen-gang-playing-knock-Jew-attack-man-shocking-video.html">hate crimes</a>&#8221; may have occurred.</p>
<p>Hate crimes? That must have shocked some at the New York Daily News, which on Monday ran an <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/teen-knockout-game-continues-harm-innocent-people-article-1.1521185">article</a> that failed to note the generally black-on-white nature of the knockout game. Reporter <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/wordsofwalsh">Michael Walsh </a>merely wrote that, &#8220;This disturbing game is a hit with goons&#8221; and is an &#8220;emerging trend among unhinged teens.&#8221;</p>
<p>And on Fox&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/11/19/horrifying-new-knockout-trend-responsible-7-deaths">The Real Story</a>&#8221; on Tuesday, two “experts” opined during a panel discussion that the black youths playing the knockout game were possibly influenced by violent video games or raised in troubled homes. &#8220;This is about parenting at the core,&#8221; chimed in blond-haired moderator Gretchen Carlson.</p>
<p>All about parenting, huh? Fair enough. But that also raises the question of just what some black parents are teaching their little darlings, given that they prefer to attack mostly whites. It’s safe to say that the media would readily cry &#8220;racism&#8221; if the knockout game involved roving gangs of <i>white</i> youths attacking blacks and to a lesser extent Asians and Hispanics.</p>
<p>Fox&#8217;s Greta Van Susteren, for her part, gets it, unlike some of her colleagues at Fox News, which is the news channel that I usually watch. In her &#8220;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2013/11/19/greta-knockout-game-no-laughing-matter-must-be-koed">On the Record</a>&#8221; segment, Susteren raised alarm bells about the knockout game.</p>
<p>&#8220;Take a close look,&#8221; she said, referring to a video clip showing black youths playing the knockout game. &#8220;Do you know what is going on? That is young African-American teenagers viciously and gratuitously attacking a random victim, a teacher, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This knockout game crime is a trend,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had two incidents in the last few days right here in D.C. I know this is a very touchy topic because the game is regrettably popular amongst unsupervised African-American teens. No one wants to get near the topic of race. We also can&#8217;t run from this one.&#8221;</p>
<p>She concluded: &#8220;I beg of Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton and even President Obama to step up right now and speak out. Your silence will speak volumes, but your voice could make a big difference. Don&#8217;t wait. Be leaders, they need you. We need you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it would be out of character for these black leaders to speak out against the knockout game. They prefer to shame whites &#8212; not blacks &#8212; in order to achieve their left-leaning visions of social justice and score political points.</p>
<p>To its credit, the New York Post did run a piece on Tuesday exposing the unpleasant truths about the knockout game &#8212; and how the recent incidents in New York City and elsewhere underscore the pathologies of black thug culture. But that no-holds-barred <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/11/19/thugs-target-jews-in-sick-knockout-game/">article</a> (&#8220;Thugs Target Jews in Sick Knockout Game&#8221;) wasn&#8217;t written by a New York Post reporter but by Thomas Sowell, an African-American and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the conservative think tank.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know if the knockout game is being played in cities and states with high numbers of concealed carry permits. But the answer to that might not square with the mainstream media&#8217;s anti-gun agenda.</p>
<p>As New York&#8217;s newspapers and <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/19/police-examples-of-troubling-knockout-game-popping-up-all-over/">online sites </a>tiptoe around race in their coverage of the knockout game, news channels are presenting a more honest picture of what&#8217;s happening due to the visual nature of their medium &#8211; as is underscored by this segment from a New York news channel.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/u_PEBsEyYHQ" height="315" width="420" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>*</p>
<p><em>Don’t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov</strong>’s video interview with <strong>Colin Flaherty</strong> on the epidemic of black mob violence — and the media’s cover-up:</em></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xbE4MLnAIeQ" height="315" width="420" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a><b>. </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/david-paulin/media-blackout-of-the-knockout-game/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>161</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>White Hipsters in Austin: What Black Mob Violence?</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/colin-flaherty/white-hipsters-in-austin-what-black-mob-violence/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=white-hipsters-in-austin-what-black-mob-violence</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/colin-flaherty/white-hipsters-in-austin-what-black-mob-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 04:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[highland mall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hipster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=209522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[White people do it all the time. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/four_14045.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209530" alt="four_14045" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/four_14045.jpg" width="270" height="151" /></a>The white hipsters of Austin want us to know that race had nothing to do with the 200 black people who fought, destroyed property and threw rocks at police a few days before Halloween.</span></p>
<p>White people do it all the time, said Katie Friel, who writes for <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-at-austin-happy-halloween/">Culture Map in Austin</a>. But the only time anyone calls it a riot is if it involves a large number of black people, she says. She pointed to a 2011 punk rock concert where mostly white fans tried to tear down the chain link fence. Police sprayed pepper gas. No one said that was a riot, she said.</p>
<p>“If Austin wants to grow into the creative, supportive, progressive community we claim to want to be, we need to stop thinking, seeing and reporting in black and white,” she said.</p>
<p>Which is strange because none of the local media reported what witnesses, Twitter, Facebook, night-vision videos and other Internet sources revealed: Everyone involved in the Austin mayhem was black.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-at-austin-happy-halloween/">Austin Statesman was merely following the advice of a recent article </a>in the monthly magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists. The topic was how to cover racial violence. The advice? Don’t.</p>
<p>The riot that was not a riot began the Saturday night before Halloween at the annual House of Torment in the parking lot of the Highland Mall. Police arrived to find 200 “unruly” teenagers roaming the area, fighting in at least five different places.</p>
<p>When police ordered them to break it up, they threw rocks instead. Several rioters urged fellow miscreants to preform bigger and greater acts of violence. It took every officer on duty in Austin more than two hours to bring the violence under control. Not before dispensing generous amounts of pepper spray. Four black people were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from rioting to using a fake ID.</p>
<p>Seven people were treated at the scene for riot-related injuries. Much of the violence took place under a grainy black and white, night-vision police video from a helicopter that monitored the violence.</p>
<p>Police said they did not know why so many black people were rioting. One spokesman said the rioters were “silly.”</p>
<p>That is a different excuse than what we heard from a similar episode of black mob violence at a recent showing of a scary movie in a suburb of Rochester. There, a police spokeswoman explained <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-at-austin-happy-halloween/">why 500 black people were fighting in and outside of a </a>scary movie:</p>
<p>“They have pent up energy from being scared in the movie theater and they come out and they don’t know what to do with that energy,” said Lt. Jonna Izzo to Rochester News 8.</p>
<p>So they riot.</p>
<p>Local police did not offer up that explanation here. Perhaps because promoters of the haunted house said none of the rioters were customers of the House of Torment, where ticket prices begin at $25.</p>
<p>Or maybe the ticket price is what scared them. If we depend on the sketchy local media, we may never know.</p>
<p>The Austin Statesman and other local media dutifully neglected to report that everyone arrested and everyone involved in the mayhem was black. Many commenters to local news sites pointed that out, but most of these remarks were removed minutes after going up.</p>
<p>The comments blasting the censored remarks as being racist were allowed to remain.</p>
<p>But at least the brave hipsters at <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-at-austin-happy-halloween/">Culture Map opened it up for some straight talk</a>. Said one reader:</p>
<blockquote><p>Serious question: how you gonna write about this story and leave out the fact that Highland Mall has previously called police to disperse large, mostly black crowds? Were you not here during Texas Relays a few years back?</p></blockquote>
<p>For non-Austinites, here is what he is talking about: In 2009, the Highland Mall and several other local businesses closed in advance of the Texas Relays &#8212; a state-wide track and field event at the nearby University of Texas.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-at-austin-happy-halloween/">Austin Chronicle said the Texas Relays</a> caused “flares of uptight resistance to the annual influx of thousands of mostly African-American visitors. The sparks raised questions – again – about the city&#8217;s too often less-than-progressive track record on race.”</p>
<p>The president of the local NAACP weighed in, accusing the mall owners of racism. And accusing the city of not living up to the standards for black people it created in the city council’s African American Quality of Life Initiative from 2005.</p>
<p>Others pointed to the track record of racial violence surrounding the Relays and compared it to the rolling racial violence of Freaknik in Atlanta &#8212; another annual gathering of black college students that the black mayor, black police and black city leaders ran out of town 13 years ago because of the large-scale violence, destruction and fights with police.</p>
<p>This mayhem at the Texas Relays and the House of Torment is part of a pattern of black mob violence documented in <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-at-austin-happy-halloween/">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-at-austin-happy-halloween/">One security guard told wrote about racial violence at the Highlands Mall</a>: “I worked as a security guard last year during the relays and there were fights verbal and physical between rival schools, numerous instances of racial discrimination against whites,theft, police officers assaulted, Then someone shot off a gun in there and the police finally shut down the mall early. Why are these not mentioned or addressed by the NAACP or Austin City Council?”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Richard Boland of the Peaceful Streets Project is urging anyone who feels police were too rough with the rioters to file a complaint with the NAACP or the Austin Chapter of the ACLU.</p>
<p>As for the mall, racial violence will soon be a thing of the past there. All the anchor tenants left long ago. One of the owners filed bankruptcy. And it was recently sold to a Austin Community College for office space and classrooms.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Colin Flaherty</strong> on the epidemic of black mob violence &#8212; and the media&#8217;s cover-up:</em></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xbE4MLnAIeQ" height="315" width="420" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/colin-flaherty/white-hipsters-in-austin-what-black-mob-violence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why the Left Hates the Old</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dennis-prager/why-the-left-hates-the-old/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-the-left-hates-the-old</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dennis-prager/why-the-left-hates-the-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Prager]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HATE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=206625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The defining ethos of the progressive mind. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/rachel-maddow-msnbc.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206627" alt="rachel-maddow-msnbc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/rachel-maddow-msnbc-450x343.jpg" width="315" height="240" /></a>The latest left-wing tactic to discredit conservative views is to dismiss the age and race of conservatives. &#8220;Old white males&#8221; and &#8220;old white people&#8221; are the left&#8217;s latest favored negative epithets for those holding conservative views.</p>
<p>Chris Matthews of MSNBC, Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman of the New York Times, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (&#8220;angry old white men&#8221;) are among the many on the left who have used this epithet.</p>
<p>Last week, on her nightly MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow showed a picture of an ad for Washington, D.C. talk radio station WRC that featured the station&#8217;s talk show hosts. You will notice, she said, that they are all &#8220;old white Republican males.&#8221; It was brought to my attention because I am one of those talk show hosts (and, it should be noted, nearly all of my colleagues and I are younger than her colleague, Chris Matthews, an old white Democratic male.)</p>
<p>What is going on here?</p>
<p>The answer is: quite a bit. The left&#8217;s dismissal of old people is much more than another left-wing ad hominem attack. Therefore, to understand it is to understand much of what animates leftism.</p>
<p>As a rule, the left rejects the old.</p>
<p>The left&#8217;s attack on teaching the works of &#8220;Dead White European Males&#8221; was one such example. It infuriated the left that Shakespeare was studied so much more than, let us say, living Guatemalan playwrights. As a result, one can now obtain a college degree in English — let alone every other liberal arts department — without having taken a course in Shakespeare.</p>
<p>So, too, in art and music, the new is almost always favored over the old. New composers and artists — no matter how untalented — are studied as much as or more than the great masters of old. And the old standards of excellence are neglected in favor of the latest avant-garde experimentation.</p>
<p>Rejection of the old is a reason the left has contempt for the Bible. To progressives, the idea of having 2,000 and 3,000-year-old texts guide a person&#8217;s behavior today is ludicrous.</p>
<p>Low regard for the old is also a major factor in the left&#8217;s dismissal of the Founders and of the original intent of the Constitution. Talk about &#8220;old white males,&#8221; the Founders are white males who are now over 200-years-old.</p>
<p>What could they possibly have known or understood that a progressive living today does not know more about or understand better?</p>
<p>What, then, is at the core of the left&#8217;s contempt for the old, and its celebration of the new and of change?</p>
<p>There are two primary answers.</p>
<p>One is the yearning for utopia. Since Marx, the left has sought utopia in this world. And that means constantly transforming every aspect of society. As then-Senator Barack Obama said prior to the 2008 election: &#8220;We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.&#8221;</p>
<p>By definition, those who seek to transform consider the old essentially worthless.</p>
<p>The other answer is self-esteem. The left began the self-esteem movement in large measure because of its own high self-esteem. Those on the left are certain that they are smarter, kinder, more moral and more compassionate than — in every way superior to — their opponents.</p>
<p>That is a major reason for the left&#8217;s problem with the old: If the old is great, then they and their new ideas are probably not that great.</p>
<p>Just about everyone who is not on the cultural left knows that all the great masters were incomparably superior to Jackson Pollock and other 20th-centuries artists who produced meaningless and talentless art. And because there are so few artists at any time who measure up to the old standards (standards that are synonymous with standards of excellence), the old standards have simply been abandoned.</p>
<p>This applies equally to morality. The left doesn&#8217;t want to be bound or answerable to a higher moral authority. Rather, one&#8217;s heart and reason are the best moral guides. Here, too, the old codes, especially as embodied in traditional religion, must be overthrown.</p>
<p>Prior to the ascendance of the left, it was assumed that the old had more wisdom than the young. Indeed, even every leftist I have asked, &#8220;Are you wiser today than 20 years ago?&#8221; has answered in the affirmative.</p>
<p>Nevertheless the left has transformed &#8220;old&#8221; — a title that commanded respect in every civilization prior to the pre-1960s West — into a pejorative.</p>
<p>As a result we live in the age of new music, new art, new families, new morality, new education, and now new marriage. If you think all these are good, then &#8220;old white males,&#8221; like almost everything else old, do indeed constitute a threat. If you think the left&#8217;s belief in &#8220;new&#8221; and &#8220;change&#8221; hurts society, &#8220;old&#8221; sounds good.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dennis-prager/why-the-left-hates-the-old/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>86</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Black-on-White Violence: Why It Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/jack-kerwick/black-on-white-violence-why-it-matters/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=black-on-white-violence-why-it-matters</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/jack-kerwick/black-on-white-violence-why-it-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Kerwick]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Channon Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Newsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Babbitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LaShawn Marten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A point-by-point counter-argument to the Left. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/attack2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204073" alt="attack2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/attack2-338x350.jpg" width="237" height="245" /></a>Last week, while walking through Union Square in Manhattan, 62-year-old Jeffrey Babbitt, a retired train conductor who was the caretaker for his 94-year-old mother, was killed by Lashawn Marten, a black man over 20 years his junior who declared his intention just seconds before he punched Babbitt in the head to hurt the first white person he encountered.</p>
<p>Two days later, a white passenger on a bus passing through Harlem was assaulted by another passenger for being a “cracker.” The 31-year-old assailant struck his victim so hard that, according to the <i>New York Post, </i>“he smashed the bones in his face,” “breaking his nose and eye socket.”</p>
<p>Both the rate and ferocity of black-on-white violence is nothing short of a national scandal.  All decent Americans, and certainly all those who claim to care about race relations, should be as attentive to and concerned about this phenomenon as they are attentive to and concerned about anything else.</p>
<p>Not everyone sees it this way.  Below are three objections that are commonly stated.</p>
<p><b>Objection #1: </b>Blacks don’t have a monopoly on violence and whites don’t have a monopoly on being the victims of violence.  Violence is part of the human condition.  So, why should we attach more importance to <i>this kind </i>of violence than we attach to all sorts of other kinds?</p>
<p><b>Reply: </b>Of course, what is said here is true.  Still, that blacks constitute a small minority of America and yet comprise, overwhelmingly, the majority of perpetrators of interracial crime is, or should be, more than enough to convince the thoughtful that black-on-white violence is a very real problem.</p>
<p>Moreover, it isn’t <i>just </i>the interracial violence here itself that is a grave cause of concern, but the especially savage character that this violence all too often assumes.  Just a cursory perusal of any random selection of black-on-white attacks readily reveals the mercilessness that an alarming number of black predators show toward their white prey.</p>
<p><b>Objection #2: </b>Granted, black-on-white violence is a reality, but it is a reality begotten by a legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.  If there are blacks who hate whites, it is because there were first whites who hated blacks.  As the title of a 1960s television broadcast on The Nation of Islam put it, black animus toward whites is “the hate that hate produced.”</p>
<p><b>Reply: </b>As scholars black, white, and other have repeatedly demonstrated, the dysfunction that marks the black underclass today was either non-existent or far less pronounced in years past—i.e. at times not as far removed from slavery and during which racial discrimination against blacks was both more ubiquitous and more overt.</p>
<p>This consideration aside, if the proponents of this objection were made to say aloud the implications of their position, the shame and ridicule that it invites just might force them to abandon it.</p>
<p>According to this line of reasoning, the following victims of black-on-white violence would still be alive and unharmed had it not been for a history of racial oppression:</p>
<p>-Jeffrey Babbitt;</p>
<p>-Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a young white couple that had been abducted, repeatedly raped, tortured, and murdered by five blacks;</p>
<p>-Brad Heyka, Jason Befort, Aaron Sander, and Heather Muller, four whites who were robbed, beaten, sexual humiliated, raped, and murdered by two black brothers;</p>
<p>-Kristen Huggins, a 22-year-old college graduate and aspiring artist who was carjacked, sodomized, robbed, and killed by a bullet to her head fired by a black career criminal;</p>
<p>-Antonio Santiago, a 17-<i>month</i>-old baby shot dead in the face by two black thugs;</p>
<p>-Jonathan Foster, a 12-year-old white boy taken from his home and killed by a blowtorch wielding black woman;</p>
<p>-Delbert Benton, an 89-year-old WWII veteran beaten to death by two black teenagers; and</p>
<p>-Fannie Gumbinger, a 99-year-old woman beaten to death by a 20-year-old black man who burglarized her home.</p>
<p>It is with the greatest of ease that to this list, scores of other names could be added. But the point is this: If “the legacy of slavery and discrimination” argument is to be believed, then we are expected to believe that in the absence of this “legacy,” legions of innocent white children, white women, and the elderly who have been brutalized by black thugs would be with us today.</p>
<p><b>Objection #3: </b>The race of the perpetrators and victims of these horrible crimes is irrelevant. <b> </b></p>
<p><b>Reply: </b>If this is true, then so too is race irrelevant while discussing America’s past. After all, if it is slavery that is immoral, then the races of master and slave are immaterial. And if it is immoral to segregate people along the lines of race, then it is irrelevant whether the segregationists are white or non-white.</p>
<p>There is no point mentioning that the Ku Klux Klan consisted of white<i> </i>supremacists who sought to torment blacks<i>.  </i>Deserving of condemnation is not <i>white</i> supremacy, but any sort of supremacy, not the tormenting of <i>blacks, </i>but the tormenting of anyone.</p>
<p>But if race <i>is</i> relevant to discussions of American slavery and segregation, then it most certainly is relevant to speak of race in connection with most interracial violence in America at present.</p>
<p>And it most certainly is mandatory that all morally committed people start assigning this issue the priority that it deserves.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank">Click here</a>.  </strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/jack-kerwick/black-on-white-violence-why-it-matters/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>112</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Violence We Don’t See</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-violence-we-dont-see/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-violence-we-dont-see</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-violence-we-dont-see/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HATE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LaShawn Marten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pattern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=203726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberal propaganda and our willful blindness to evil. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Untitled2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203727" alt="Untitled2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Untitled2-420x350.jpg" width="294" height="245" /></a>Lashawn Marten was playing chess when he announced, &#8220;I hate white people.&#8221; Then he began hitting random white people who were walking by. By the time he was done, several were wounded and one lay dead.</p>
<p>I have walked by countless times and seen the chess players sitting near the overhang of the Union Square subway entrance; mostly black men daring white passerby into a money game. At the fountain to the left, Moonies squat on a blanket and sing their sonorous chants. To the right, the remnants of Occupy Wall Street set up tables to collect money and dispense buttons.</p>
<p>In warmer weather, break dancers perform on the stairs and office workers sit beneath the statue of George Washington expelling the British and eat lunch. Elderly Puerto Rican men push makeshift wooden carts piled with unlabeled bottles of homebrewed soda pop.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Babbitt, the man Lashawn beat to death, looks familiar to me because he has that type of New York face that you pass on the street. You see it worn by plumbers and high school teachers. It&#8217;s the badge of the vanishing New York City working class.</p>
<p>No conclusions will be drawn from the murder. Lashawn Marten was obviously mentally ill. And if his mental illness took the form of violent racism toward white people, that is an incidental fact. The murder is an incident. The details are incidental. No conclusions will be drawn from what happened between the chess tables.</p>
<p>Incidents take place all around us, but patterns have to be articulated. The incident is insignificant. It&#8217;s the pattern that counts.</p>
<p>The incident is something we have to learn to get over so we can get back to shopping in downtown Manhattan or walking through Union Square. The pattern is a social problem that we must dedicate ourselves to fighting. The incident isn&#8217;t supposed to define our lives. The pattern is.</p>
<p>The murder of Chris Lane was an incident. The murder of Jeffrey Babbitt was an incident.</p>
<p>The Boston Marathon bombing was an incident. So was the Fort Hood Massacre. So was 9/11. No conclusions can be drawn from them and no pattern can be used to tie them together. They are to be processed separately and discarded as having no further meaning than the private pain of their victims.</p>
<p>The media is not that concerned with suppressing incidents. It is concerned with suppressing pattern awareness. No one can deny that the occasional racial murder takes place and that the perpetrators look like Obama&#8217;s sons. And no one can deny that Muslims sometimes set off bombs or fly planes into buildings. They deny only that these incidents form a pattern.</p>
<p>Every Muslim terrorist attack is met with media chatter about an Islamophobic backlash. The backlash never materializes, but it doesn&#8217;t need to. The mere repetition of it does the trick and sets the pattern. It tells readers that the attack is the incident, but the backlash is the pattern.</p>
<p>The attack is only an incident and not characteristic of Muslims while the backlash is a pattern and characteristic of our bigotry and intolerance.</p>
<p>White racism is a pattern. Black racism is an incident. Racism is characteristic of white people, but not of black people. The crowds passing through Union Square are subdivided into the oppressors and the oppressed. Their lives are color coded for morality and justice. Jeffrey Babbitt, who dreamed of being a motorman, loved comics and took care of his elderly mother, was an oppressor. His death is an incident that in no way detracts from the pervasive pattern of white racism.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Babbitt was an oppressor and Lashawn Marten was one of the oppressed. This social dynamic was imposed on them at birth. The occasional death of an oppressor in no way alters the fixed pattern of the oppressors and the oppressed.</p>
<p>The pattern of American intolerance is likewise unmoved by September 11 or by two Chechens who set off a bomb near an 8-year-old. The blood and ashes of 3,000 dead is nothing but a stain on the liberal pattern. More people die of cancer or in car accidents, the liberal can always answer. Numbers alone do not make a pattern. And if the pattern is not recognized, then it does not exist.</p>
<p>We live in this world of unreal patterns and real lives where inexplicable things happen all the time.</p>
<p>Overhead, I see two beams of pale light piercing the sky and reflecting at an angle. The towers of light remind us of an incident. Not a pattern. After over a decade of war, no one in authority will admit what we are fighting or why. All that ash and rubble, the twisted steel and the falling bodies, are not part of a pattern. But when a Muslim cabbie is stabbed by a drunk, that is a pattern.</p>
<p>Most of us see the real patterns, even if only hazily, like the beams of light cutting across the sky. And we see that the unreal patterns, the obsessions with Muslim backlashes and the martyrdom of Trayvon Martin, are unreal things. Not true patterns, but false patterns that reflect at an angle from the true light.</p>
<p>We do not speak of these true patterns. But we know them. They stir in us when the right moment appears. They keep us alive.</p>
<p>Millions walk through life with this double vision, the lenses of their minds blurring the real and the unreal, paying lip service to the grave threat that someone will spray paint a mosque while nervously studying the Muslim sitting in the seat in front of them or voting for Obama but moving out to the suburbs.</p>
<p>Patterns are power. The pattern-makers and pattern-dealers derive theirs from being able to dictate the problem and the solution. They are determined to understand things for us so that we will see the same patterns that they do. They know all too well that if we stop seeing their patterns, their cause and their power will die.</p>
<p>For now it is men like Jeffrey Babbitt or the spectators in the Boston Marathon and the soldiers at Fort Hood who die. They die caught in an invisible pattern that they cannot see.</p>
<p>We live in a world of phony patterns, of global environmental apocalypses made to order, of shadows and illusions, of phantom fears, panics and doubts. But even in the liberal world of ghosts and shadows, where rogue air conditioners and cow flatulence are a greater threat to the planet than the nuclear bomb, where Lashawn Marten was oppressed by the unconscious white privilege of Jeffrey Babbitt who died for what he did not even know he had and where Muslim terrorism is a phantom fear of bigots, these true patterns intrude.</p>
<p>Terrible acts of violence momentarily tear apart the illusory false patterns with blood and fire and reveal the terrible truth.</p>
<p>On September 11, thousands of New Yorkers standing at Union Square looked downtown to see a plume of smoke rising over Broadway. I was one of them. Some fell to making anti-war posters on the spot. Others enlisted in a long war. On another distant September, some New Yorkers came to the defense of a 62-year-old man being beaten to death for the color of his skin. Others walked on to the farmers&#8217; market, bought their organic peaches while the liberal memes in their heads told them to see no evil.</p>
<p>Our lives are sharpest and clearest when we see the pattern. In moments of revelation, the comforting illusions are torn away and the true pattern of our world stands revealed.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-violence-we-dont-see/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Obama: Back to the Racist Future</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obama-back-to-the-future/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obama-back-to-the-future</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obama-back-to-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=202244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The president and Democrats take us back to the race hatred and violence of 60 years ago. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/obama-angry1-600x350.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-202253 alignleft" alt="obama-angry1-600x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/obama-angry1-600x350-450x329.jpg" width="270" height="197" /></a>America is enduring an ever-increasing spiral of heinous black-on-white violence. Less than a week after 22-year-old Australian baseball player Christopher Lane was allegedly executed by three &#8220;bored&#8221; wannabe gang-bangers, 88-year-old World War II veteran Delbert “Shorty” Belton was allegedly <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/23/world-war-ii-veteran-beaten-to-death-by-2-teenagers-in-washington-parking-lot/">beaten</a> to death by two 16-year-old black American teens, Demetrius Glenn and Kenan D. Adams-Kinard, both of whom have <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/aug/23/police-arrest-one-suspect-wwii-vet-beating-death/">histories</a> of violent crime. In Poughkeepsie, NY, 20-year-old Javon Tyrek Rogers has been <a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20130826/NEWS05/308260013/Murder-suspect-face-court?gcheck=1&amp;nclick_check=1">charged</a> with first degree murder and first degree burglary in the killing of 99-year-old Fannie Gumbinger. On August 13, two black male youths and their female accomplice were <a href="http://downtown.wmctv.com/news/news/185832-three-suspects-charged-deadly-shooting-south-main">charged</a> with robbing and killing 27-year-old David Santucci in Memphis, TN. Despite these and other incidents, President Obama, Democrats, and the usual gaggle of racial arsonists remain conspicuously silent. That is no accident. All of them have a vested interest in turning back the clock on race relations and they have all played a role in where we are today.</p>
<p>Despite their selective caution in bringing race politics into cases such as those mentioned above, President Obama and his race agitator allies have no problem whatsoever with rushing to judgment and rashly injecting themselves into highly sensitive and controversial situations. Recall when Cambridge police arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Obama said it was self-evident that the department &#8220;acted stupidly&#8221; for arresting someone at their own house, ceding to the narrative that the police likely only arrested Gates because he was black and therefore suspicious. In fact, the police only arrested Gates because he embarked on an enraged tirade and became belligerent and disorderly.</p>
<p>In the Trayvon Martin case, Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/19/remarks-president-trayvon-martin">contended</a> a son of his would look like Martin, or that he himself could have been Martin &#8220;35 years ago.&#8221; In his second speech regarding Martin, Obama did comment on the reality of runaway violence committed overwhelmingly by black American males, but then excused the behavior because &#8220;some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the president&#8217;s solutions for stemming the violence implied that &#8220;the system&#8221; was to blame and that it needed to be fixed. Obama urged his followers to &#8220;work with law enforcement about training at the state and local levels in order to reduce the kind of mistrust in the system that sometimes currently exists&#8221; and &#8220;to examine some state and local laws to see if it&#8211;if they are designed in such a way that they may encourage the kinds of altercations and confrontations and tragedies that we saw in the Florida case, rather than diffuse potential altercations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps the president could explain how &#8220;mistrust in the system&#8221; caused two black 16-year-olds to douse a 13-year-old white boy with gasoline and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teenagers-poured-gasoline-boy-walking-home-school-set-fire-cops-article-1.1033062">set</a> him on fire in Kansas City in March of 2012. Or why a group of black neighbors brutally <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/26/victims-sister-mobile-ala-black-on-white-beating-sparked-by-theft-not-basketball/">assaulted</a> Matthew Owen with with bats, brass knuckles, a chair, a paint can and other objects &#8220;for Trayvon&#8221; in Mobile, AL in April of 2012. Or why six &#8220;bored&#8221; black youths <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ohio-man-beaten-teens-year-dies-article-1.1399794">beat</a> a 46-year-old white Ohio man so savagely last August that they may face additional charges in the man&#8217;s death this past July. Or why 18-year-old De’Marquise Elkins allegedly <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-21/national/41433562_1_karimah-elkins-sherry-west-killed-baby">murdered</a> 13-month-old Antonio Santiago. Or why three 15-year-old black teens brutally <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/08/05/disturbing-video-13-year-old-florida-boy-brutally-beaten-school-bus-driver-refuses">beat up</a> a 13-year-old white teen on a Florida school bus earlier this month.</p>
<p>None of those incidents, or the disturbing phenomenon of black flash mob <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/082213-668481-oklahoma-shooting-blacks-white-victim-obama-trayvon.htm?p=2">attacks</a> on whites that regularly occur in cities such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, or Washington, D.C. had anything to do with the &#8220;system,&#8221; nor did they merit a single word of condemnation from the president, or any other the demagogues who usually seek to turn any incident of white on black crime into a national conversation &#8212; a one-sided conversation that is invariably an indictment of an irredeemably racist America itself.</p>
<p>These race agitators, however, never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to put the blame exactly where it belongs, namely, on the legions of violent thugs who commit murder and mayhem without the slightest hint of remorse. As for the poverty and dysfunction that allegedly underpins this mayhem, it&#8217;s about time the Democratic Party owned up to the reality that no one has facilitated that history more than Democrats themselves, courtesy of Great Society programs that incentivized the destruction of the nuclear family, and an out-of-wedlock birth rate in the black American community that has now <a href="http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/07/27/3605554/bill-oreilly-address-out-of-wedlock.html">reached</a> 73 percent.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Democrats can&#8217;t plead ignorance about those consequences. They were <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/229730/moynihan-report-and-ongoing-family-breakdown/rich-lowry">warned</a> by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who wrote &#8220;The Negro Family: The Case for National Action&#8221; in 1965<i>.</i> “There is one unmistakable lesson in American history,” Moynihan said, “a community that allows a large number of men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring rational expectations about the future&#8211;that community asks for and gets chaos.” Naturally, Moynihan was excoriated and his report was <a href="http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia_1810.htm">dismissed</a> as &#8220;racist propaganda.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nearly 50 years later, nothing in that regard has changed. Even as the chaos and social disintegration occurring on a routine basis in many black American communities continues, anyone who challenges the Democratic contention that black Americans are largely victims of forces beyond their control &#8212; all of which require big-government solutions implemented by Democrats &#8212; is branded a racist. But few things are more racist, hypocritical and immoral than the political party that founded the KKK espousing a mode of governance that has robbed millions of black American youths of their dignity, integrity and, ultimately, their decency, while they themselves look the other way and lead lynch mobs against racial scapegoats.</p>
<p>Yet for the self-anointed &#8220;civil rights&#8221; leaders such a status quo is something to be encouraged, not disbanded. Perpetual dependency is good for the party that promotes dependency, and perpetual race conflict is good for the party that purports to be devoted to &#8220;addressing&#8221; race conflicts. Nurturing the racial divide is a core component of the Democratic Party&#8217;s political strategy. As long as the perception of white mistreatment of blacks is alive, the left&#8217;s race-hatred industry will always be relevant. The more distorted and exaggerated the fear, the more power flows to those who would exploit it. The more it is exploited, the more we are divided.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has been at the forefront of this exploitation. Eric Holder, who spoke out against voter ID laws and the Supreme Court decision overturning Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act at the Washington rally, continues to perpetrate the racial polarization that has become the hallmark of his tenure as head of the Justice Department. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sebelius-obamacare-opponents-are-those-who-opposed-civil-rights">compared</a> opponents of ObamaCare to those who resisted the civil rights reforms of the 1960s. Former Assistant Attorney General and current Labor Secretary Thomas Perez has <a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/speeches/2010/crt-speech-100420.html">promoted</a> hate crimes prosecution <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7dOvFzQSnk">insisting</a>, despite <a href="http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.html">overwhelming evidence</a> to the contrary, that such crimes remain a mostly white-on-black problem.</p>
<p>And then there is Ayo Kimathi. The acquisitions officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8211;in charge of buying weapons and ammunition for the government&#8211;was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/24/dhs-employee-behind-website-promoting-race-war-on-paid-leave/">put</a> on <i>paid leave</i> by the DHS, for running a website on which he warned Americans about the coming race war. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the website declares, “in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites&#8211;more than our Christian hearts can possibly count.” One of his former supervisors was &#8220;astounded he&#8217;s employed by the federal government, let alone Homeland Security.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sadly, it isn&#8217;t astounding, any more than the deafening silence of a president who is in the unprecedented position of being the one leader who could speak to black America with the kind of credibility no one else can match. But as long as Obama, Democrats, the racial agitators and their media enablers can exploit the carnage, turning back the clock on race relations is a winning scenario. For the rest of the nation, it is an unmitigated tragedy.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obama-back-to-the-future/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>67</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Debunking HuffPo&#8217;s Chris Lane Killing Narrative</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/jack-kerwick/debunking-huffpos-chris-lane-killing-narrative/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=debunking-huffpos-chris-lane-killing-narrative</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/jack-kerwick/debunking-huffpos-chris-lane-killing-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Kerwick]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Lane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=201718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The "myth" of black-on-white crime?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/e40ff790a23a2edfd04f4bb6412cdefb.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201722 alignleft" alt="e40ff790a23a2edfd04f4bb6412cdefb" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/e40ff790a23a2edfd04f4bb6412cdefb-450x327.jpg" width="270" height="196" /></a>In “Reinforcing the Self-Serving Myth that Blacks Kill Whites Because They’re White,” Earl Ofari Hutchinson—Huffington Post writer, MSNBC contributor, and a co-host for Al Sharpton’s radio show—addresses the cold-blooded murder of white Australian Christopher Lane by black teenagers in Oklahoma.</span></b></p>
<p>Although “there is not a shred of evidence or even the hint that [the] killing of Lane was racially motivated,” Hutchinson asserts, right-wingers imply otherwise.  Theirs is a “false, self-serving,” and “cheap ploy” to marginalize “civil rights leaders” while promoting the “myth” of a national press determined to conceal an “epidemic” of black-on-white killing.</p>
<p>In reality, the “miniscule” number of whites murdered by blacks each year consists of victims of “garden-variety street crime” who are “perceived to have valuables…that poor blacks aren’t likely to have.”</p>
<p>To Hutchinson’s analysis several replies are in order.</p>
<p>First, contrary to his assertion, there most certainly <i>is </i>evidence that the punks that murdered Lane were motivated, at least in part, by animus toward whites.  According to <i>The Daily Caller, </i>one of the suspects, James Edwards, had tweeted the following just a few months ago: “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” Shortly after George Zimmerman was acquitted of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Edwards tweeted that he had “knocked out 5 woods”—i.e. “peckerwoods,” a derogatory term for whites.</p>
<p>Second, Ilana Mercer, the daughter of a South African rabbi and former anti-apartheid activist, is also a World Net Daily writer who recently established beyond doubt that, sadly, the “epidemic” of black-on-white violence is anything but a myth.</p>
<p>In “Who’s Killing Whom? Speak Up, O’Reilly!” Mercer commends Bill O’Reilly for noting that blacks, at just 13 percent of the population, constitute nearly 40 percent of those convicted of violent crimes and 36 percent of all murderers in America.  However, she is quick to castigate the Fox News star for failing to comment on the color of interracial crime, of “deflect[ing] from the white-hot issue of black-on-white violence.”</p>
<p>“You see,” Mercer remarks, “blacks are also more likely”—far more likely—“to murder whites than the reverse.”  Citing Bureau of Justice Statistics data, she concedes Hutchinson’s point that whites and blacks both are much more likely to be murdered by members of their respective races than by those of another race.  Yet she immediately observes that “a hell of a lot of whites are killed by blacks, while few blacks are offed by whites.”</p>
<p>Regarding “stranger homicide”—you know, the kind of killing to which Chris Lane succumbed—Mercer draws our attention to the fact that “blacks murder whites four times more often than whites murder blacks.” The real white-on-black murder rate is most definitely even lower than statistics suggest, for <i>Hispanics </i>are identified as “white” when they are <i>perpetrators.  </i>However, when they are the <i>victims </i>of interracial violence, Hispanics are treated separately from whites.</p>
<p>The phenomenon of black-on-white murder is no myth. It is a reality as pronounced as it is hideous.  Doubtless, the Hutchinsons of the world identify it as “myth” because it fails to accommodate <i>their</i> self-serving myth, the fiction that always and forever blacks are the prey, not the predators, of whites.</p>
<p>This brings us to the next point.</p>
<p>Even in conceding that blacks do indeed murder whites more often than the reverse, Hutchinson still can’t resist interpreting this fact in the light of his myth of perpetual black suffering: Whites “are perceived to have valuables… that poor blacks aren’t likely to have.”</p>
<p>Notice, Hutchinson is hereby legitimizing what he in other contexts he would surely decry as “racial profiling.” He tells us that black criminals seek out white victims because they “perceive”—they <i>assume—</i>that, because the latter are <i>white</i>, they will also have “valuables.”</p>
<p>So, without realizing it, Hutchinson undermines his own argument and inadvertently acknowledges that, after all, there <i>is </i>a racial angle to black-on-white murder.</p>
<p>Hutchinson’s analysis is also wide of the mark in his predictably leftist compulsion to identify criminality, including the most cold-blooded and horrific of murderous activity, as a function of poverty<i>. </i>But while poverty can account for why a poor man would <i>rob </i>another, it emphatically does <i>not </i>account for why one would <i>murder </i>another.</p>
<p>Nor, for that matter, does it account for other species of black-on-white violence—like rape.</p>
<p>In her World Net Daily article, Mercer reiterates some telling figures that she first visited in her book, <i>Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa.  </i>According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2005, blacks “were responsible for 36 percent of the 111,490 incidents in which whites were raped.” At the same time, “not one black woman or man—0.0 percent—was ravished by a Caucasian.”</p>
<p>If only Mr. Hutchinson was right, if only the black-on-white violence of which the poor, unsuspecting Chris Lane was the most recent victim, was a myth.  It is not. It is an evil of the first order that all decent people, and God-fearing folks especially, must repudiate unequivocally.</p>
<p>And we must be just as resolved to repudiate Hutchinson and his fellow ideologues—people like Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and, yes, Oprah Winfrey<i>—</i>who, in spite of being well positioned to decry this wickedness, have actually sought to fuel the flames.</p>
<p>Dripping from their hands is the blood of many innocents.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/jack-kerwick/debunking-huffpos-chris-lane-killing-narrative/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>122</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Oprah: Just Because You’re Not Racist Doesn’t Mean You’re Not a Racist</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/oprah-just-because-youre-not-racist-doesnt-mean-youre-not-a-racist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oprah-just-because-youre-not-racist-doesnt-mean-youre-not-a-racist</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/oprah-just-because-youre-not-racist-doesnt-mean-youre-not-a-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oprah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the butler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=201350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Left's emotional blackmail.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/oprah-butler-premiere.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201397 alignleft" alt="oprah-butler-premiere" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/oprah-butler-premiere-414x350.jpg" width="248" height="210" /></a>Oprah Winfrey is a cultural mover and shaker. That much is clear after her historically inaccurate film <i>The Butler</i>, which portrays Ronald Reagan as a doddering racist and ignores the legacy of bigotry of Southern Democrats, finished first last week at the box office. Seventy-two percent of those who went to see the film cited Oprah’s participation as a factor in favor of their buying a ticket. Sadly, Oprah has used that power to push a false racial narrative directly at odds with the racial narrative pushed by <i>The Butler</i>.</p>
<p>First, <i>The Butler</i>’s racial narrative. The movie, as Oprah has said, begins with a lynching in 1926 and ends with President Barack Obama in the White House. The notion is that Obama marks the culmination of a centuries-long movement toward equality for blacks in America, a popular perspective that largely explains Obama’s election in 2008.</p>
<p>Then there’s Oprah’s <i>actual</i> racial narrative. In her view, President Obama remains an exception to a broader racist rule. Trayvon Martin, Oprah says, is just today’s Emmitt Till, murdered in 1955 by the Ku Klux Klan. So what if racism in America is at an all-time low? So what if the vast majority of Americans are not only not racist, but actively anti-racist? That’s not enough for Oprah. “A lot of people think if they think they’re not using the n-word themselves, they physically aren’t using the n-word themselves, and do not harbor ill will towards black people that it’s not racist,” she said in a comment that is as challenged syntactically as it is intellectually.</p>
<p>This is paranoia of the highest sort. And it is absolutely crippling to America’s future. If a huge number of Americans believe that racism that is not present in action nonetheless lurks beneath the surface of our life, waiting to burst forth in a conflagration of hate such as that which allegedly claimed Trayvon, there can be no shared future.</p>
<p>But many on the left, including Oprah, apparently don’t want a shared future. They want emotional blackmail. The corollary to the belief that racism hides in the nooks and crannies of the white personality is the belief that the only way to expunge such racism by embracing the philosophy of people like Oprah. If you see <i>The Butler</i>, you’re buying a racial indulgence; if you vote Obama, you’re buying a racial indulgence. Lee Daniels, director of <i>The Butler</i>, told CBS News that white extras cried during the filming of the movie. Presumably, in his view, that meant they were not racist. But what about all the Americans who will never shed tears over <i>The Butler</i>? How will they demonstrate their non-racism, even if there has never been a shred of evidence that they are in fact racist?</p>
<p>That seems to be the perspective not just of many black Americans like Oprah and Daniels, but the perspective of many in various minority communities. For example, in California, Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a law declaring that transgender children must be allowed to enter bathrooms of their choice and join sports teams of their choice. The idea here is that this will minimize bullying, as though most Americans bear children with gender identity issues some sort of ill will. The truth is far simpler: Americans have a right to worry that their children will feel uncomfortable in a bathroom next to someone of the opposite sex, no matter what that person believes him or herself to be. That’s not wrong. That’s normal. But the onus has now been placed on children without gender identity issues to explain <i>why</i> they feel uncomfortable at the urinal next to a girl, even if they’ve never bullied a transgender child.</p>
<p>That’s nasty. More than that, it’s an attempt to shape values by implying that everyone is in need of having their fundamental racism, sexism, homophobia overcome by government action.  Americans have nothing left to discuss. America is now a country where whites are often perceived as racist until proven innocent. And the only way to prove yourself innocent is to perform acts approved by the leftist establishment.</p>
<p>None of this helps black Americans. All it does is perpetuate power for those who divide us in pursuit of political gain. Hillary Clinton, who has begun touring the country invoking the supposed racism of voter ID supporters, is merely the latest race hustler to attempt this pernicious trick. Unfortunately, it seems to work. And that means that Oprah’s racial narrative is far more influential than <i>The Butler</i>’s.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank">Click here</a>.  </strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/oprah-just-because-youre-not-racist-doesnt-mean-youre-not-a-racist/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>214</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How Obama Poisoned Race Relations in America</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/how-obama-poisoned-race-relations-in-america/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-obama-poisoned-race-relations-in-america</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/how-obama-poisoned-race-relations-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al sharpton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[negative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=198280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A legacy of race hatred.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/barack-obama-race304.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198293" alt="barack obama race*304" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/barack-obama-race304.jpg" width="243" height="187" /></a>A new <a href="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/130724-July-NBC-WSJ-poll.pdf">poll</a> by NBC News and the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reveals that public perceptions about race relations in America have taken a devastating <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/race-relations-have-plummeted-since-obama-took-office-according-to-poll/">hit</a> since the election of Barack Obama. At the beginning of the president&#8217;s first term, 79 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks had a positive view of American race relations. Those numbers have plummeted to 52 percent and 38 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, 45 percent of whites now consider race relations fairly or very bad, compared with 20 percent in 2009, and the negative views held by black Americans has jumped from 30 percent to 58 percent. Thus, the idea that the election of Barack Obama would usher in a golden age of so-called post-racial relations has exploded. And the president and his administration bear the lion&#8217;s share of the responsibility for lighting the fuse.</p>
<p>The poll, conducted in mid-July by Hart Research Associations and Public Opinion Strategies, has tracked Americans&#8217; attitudes about race since 1994. And despite only a single poll question regarding the Zimmerman trial, which asked whether the outcome increased, decreased, or didn&#8217;t affect one&#8217;s confidence in the legal system, the steepest decline in positive views, and greatest increase in negative views, occurred in the last two years. That the timeframe largely coincides with the Trayvon Martin shooting controversy is likely no coincidence.</p>
<p>The Trayvon Martin case is one of the most visible examples of the Obama administration&#8217;s deliberate poisoning of race relations; all in coordination with the NAACP, the racial grievance industry and the corrupt leftist media. We now know that the administration had direct involvement in fanning the flames of racial discord that brought the case to the national stage. The Eric Holder-led Justice Department&#8217;s Community Relations Service (CRA) was sent to Sanford, FL to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/21/former-doj-official-civil-rights-unit-sent-to-mediate-anti-zimmerman-protests-has-history-of-advocacy/">help</a> set up meetings and organize protests. Among other services, the administration <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/10/did-justice-department-support-anti-zimmerman-protests-after-trayvon-shooting/">arranged</a> an escort for college students participating in a 40-mile march to &#8220;demand justice&#8221; for Trayvon. When the situation erupted, Obama then famously took the racial motif national, saying, &#8220;If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even after the jury rendered its not guilty verdict in the Zimmerman trial, Obama, once again, <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2013/07/19/obama-speaks-trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-35-years-ago/">injected</a> himself into the case, this time noting that &#8220;Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,&#8221; and launching into a lecture on race &#8212; despite the fact that a Martin family <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trayvon-martin-trial-prosecution-star-witness-grilled-article-1.1384074">lawyer</a>, Trayvon&#8217;s <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/06/29/Trayvon-Martins-STEPMOTHER-I-Dont-Think-Zimmerman-Picked-Him-Out-Because-He-Was-Black">stepmother</a>, the Sanford <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/rights_rap_unlikely_OC3TAXeSdC80gDuo7dkm1I">police</a>, and an investigation <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/12/155918/more-evidence-released-in-trayvon.html#.UeXrLWQkE5W">conducted</a> by the FBI all concluded the case had nothing to do with race.</p>
<p>However, well before the Trayvon Martin shooting, Obama made clear he would use the presidency to provide a platform for the race agitation industry. Prior to his election in 2008, the president sought to <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/11/obama-on-small-town-voters-bitter-xenophobic-religious/">belittle</a> small town &#8220;bitter clingers&#8221; who demonstrate &#8220;antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment[.]&#8221; In July 2009, when black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8148986&amp;page=1">arrested</a> in front of his Cambridge home after antagonizing police, Obama, despite admitting that he had not seen &#8220;all the facts,&#8221; still came to the conclusion that &#8220;the Cambridge police acted stupidly.&#8221; In a radio interview that aired on Univision in 2010, the president <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/25/obamas-turnout-pitch-to-latinos-get-out-there-and-punish-your-enemies/">urged</a> his Latino supporters to &#8220;punish our enemies and reward our friends,&#8221; in the upcoming election. That was the same year he made an unsubtle reference to Rosa Parks and segregation in order to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/25/obama-tells-republicans-sit/">belittle</a> Republicans. &#8220;We don&#8217;t mind the Republicans joining us,&#8221; the president told supporters in Rhode Island. &#8220;They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.&#8221;</p>
<p>At a January 2012 Washington fundraiser, the president made <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/01/10/obama-plays-race-card/">subtle references</a> to the idea that if he weren&#8217;t reelected, minorities would be denied opportunities to pursue the American dream, while he implied Republicans would be the ones do the denying. &#8220;The notion that we’re all in this together, that we look out for one another&#8211;that’s at stake in this election,&#8221; he warned. &#8220;Don’t take my word for it. Watch some of these [Republican] debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.&#8221; The following August in Colorado, Obama kept that meme alive, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/08/obama-romney-would-take-health-care-back-to-150s/">insisting</a> that Republicans, &#8220;want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.&#8221;</p>
<p>If such a divisive attitude were limited to the president himself, maybe race relations might not have soured as much as they have. Unfortunately, many members of his administration have also been more than willing to fan the flames of racial discord. Former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, who <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/03/raw-data-van-jones-words/">referred</a> to Republicans as &#8220;assholes,&#8221; insisted that &#8220;white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities.&#8221; Addressing the annual NAACP convention in Orlando, FL on July 17, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sebelius-obamacare-opponents-are-those-who-opposed-civil-rights">likened</a> those who oppose ObamaCare to those who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s, comparing the fight against them to “the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation.” On August 14, 2012, Vice President Joe Biden <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/vp-biden-says-republicans-are-going-to-put-yall-back-in-chains/">told</a> a largely black audience in Danville, Virginia, that Republicans wanted to &#8220;put y’all back in chains.” Former Assistant Attorney General and current Labor Secretary Thomas Perez viewed virtually every aspect of his former job through a racialist lens, from <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/052013-656882-proof-obama-cabinet-nominee-perez-framed-banks.htm?p=full">prosecuting</a> banks for lending discrimination based on dubious &#8220;disparate  impact&#8221; studies, to <a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/speeches/2010/crt-speech-100420.html">promoting</a> the expansion of hate crimes prosecution, which he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7dOvFzQSnk">insisted </a>was a largely white-on-black problem.</p>
<p>And then there is Eric Holder. Holder, who runs the most racially polarized Justice Department in modern history, wasted no time burnishing his racialist credentials, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/holder.race.relations/">telling</a> Americans soon after he was confirmed in 2009 that &#8220;in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.&#8221; In 2010, after being stonewalled by his own department, Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, testified that Holder&#8217;s decision to drop an already-won voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party was due to &#8220;pressure&#8221; from the NAACP. Furthermore, he corroborated earlier testimony by J. Christian Adams, a former DOJ attorney, revealing that the DOJ cultivates a &#8220;hostile atmosphere&#8221; against &#8220;race-neutral enforcement&#8221; of the Voting Rights Act.</p>
<p>Holder also turned a blind eye when the Panthers <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/black-panthers-10000-bounty-to-capture-george-zimmerman-dead-or-alive-was-from-2012-video-100428/">offered</a> a $10,000 bounty to capture George Zimmerman &#8220;dead or alive.&#8221; As for race-neutral enforcement of the the Voting Rights Act, as recently as yesterday Holder <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578627692123727574.html">vowed</a> to continue insisting that states &#8220;pre-clear&#8221; with the DOJ any changes to their voting laws. This represents nothing less than a determination to defy a recent Supreme Court ruling that effectively nullified his ability to do so. Texas is his current focus, but in a speech in Philadelphia, he promised that the decision to target the Lone Star State &#8220;will not be our last.&#8221; The motivation of this effort is clear: to portray red states and whites in general as abusive toward minority voters &#8212; as seeking to reinstitute &#8220;Jim Crow&#8221; through commonsense voter ID laws, as the Democratic Party propaganda goes.</p>
<p>This follows Holder&#8217;s decision to continue pursuing the possibility of civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, without a shred of evidence for doing so, making good on a promise he first made during an appearance at racial arsonist Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network on April 11, 2012. After praising Sharpton “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, and the promises we must fulfill,&#8221; Holder made his intentions clear. “If we find evidence of a potential federal criminal civil rights crime, we will take appropriate action,” he warned. To that end, Holder has <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/os-george-zimmerman-doj-investigation,0,4338518.story">set up</a> &#8220;tip lines&#8221; trolling for information he can use to prosecute Zimmerman. The &#8220;investigation&#8221; has now been ongoing for over a year.</p>
<p>The reason for fomenting this sort of racial animosity is transparently political. Just like in 2010, and 2012, Obama is determined to agitate and mobilize voters for the 2014 election and beyond and to weaken the Republicans with racial innuendo and accusations. He has tainted Democrats by presiding over the weakest recovery on record, one which is currently losing even more steam, with growth rates being revised downward, and one of the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/here_prince_of_an_idea_VbPT2NNp29fkf1Arrl6eRM">worst</a> corporate revenue performances on record. The same is true of ObamaCare, which will be so damaging to Democrats that the administration unilaterally decided to postpone the employer mandate until 2015, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/congress-debates-if-obama-could-unilaterally-delay-employer-mandate">usurping</a> congressional authority in the process. This is to say nothing of Democrat-led foreign policy, with Egypt and Syria in free fall, Iraq and Afghanistan on the verge of reverting back to the failed states they were, Iran pursuing nuclear weapons absent any fear whatsoever, and both China and Russia signaling their intentions to fill the leadership vacuum the president’s &#8220;leading from behind&#8221; approach has produced.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, minority populations continue to suffer and grow disaffected under the reign of liberal policies. Majority-black Detroit is bankrupt. Chicago seethes with black-on-black gun crime, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/chicago-shootings_n_3561407.html?view=print&amp;comm_ref=false">including</a> 62 people wounded and 12 killed during the Fourth of July holiday weekend alone. Black <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/black-unemployment_n_3624725.html">unemployment</a> is 13.7 percent, compared to 6.7 percent for the nation as a whole. The black American illegitimacy rate, one of the surest predictors of poverty, is <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324281004578356422222235976.html">approaching</a> 75 percent.</p>
<p>Yet in his most recent <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2013/07/25/economic-malpractice-and-polit">speech</a> on economics, Obama addresses none of these realities, preferring to blame the lot on Republicans (who have only ever controlled the House since 2010) and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-remarks-on-the-economy-at-knox-college-as-prepared-for-delivery/2013/07/24/fd580f6a-f47f-11e2-a2f1-a7acf9bd5d3a_story_4.html">warning</a> that if America fails to embrace his policies, &#8220;[S]ocial tensions will rise as various groups fight to hold on to what they have, or start blaming somebody else for why their position isn&#8217;t improving.&#8221; In the Obama era, this should be interpreted as an ultimatum.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s going to be a long, divisive slog to the 2014 elections, and racial division continually promoted by the Obama administration is guaranteed to be an integral part of the mix. The fact that Americans view race relations as far worse than they&#8217;ve been in years should surely be an embarrassment for the first elected president of African descent. Odds are, however, he views it as an electoral boon for his party.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/how-obama-poisoned-race-relations-in-america/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>405</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>George Zimmerman Wasn’t on Trial &#8212;- We Were</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/george-zimmerman-wasnt-on-trial-we-were/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=george-zimmerman-wasnt-on-trial-we-were</link>
		<comments>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/george-zimmerman-wasnt-on-trial-we-were/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acquitted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Zimmerman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=196841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What the race-baiting Left really wanted to achieve with the Trayvon Martin shooting case.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/neighborhood-watch_carb.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196849" alt="George Zimmerman, Mark O'Mara, Don West, Lorna Truett" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/neighborhood-watch_carb-450x311.jpg" width="315" height="218" /></a>The media indictment of George Zimmerman had little to do with the Latino Obama supporter or with the man he shot. These two men, one in life and one in death, were exploited to tell a story about racism; even though the one thing that both the Zimmerman and the Martin families managed to agree on was that race was not the issue.</p>
<p>Race was not the issue when George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin, but race was the story that the media insisted on telling. It was the story that everyone from Obama on down told and retold. And so the story stopped being about the need to determine what actually took place using eyewitnesses and forensic evidence, and instead became a toxic sinkhole of politically correct outrage and racial guilt.</p>
<p>The one thing that everyone knows about Martin and Zimmerman is the thing that matters least. Race. Based on George Zimmerman’s history, which included defending a black homeless man who had been a victim of police brutality, Trayvon Martin’s race would not have been a factor in his calculations. But the media was not interested in any of those things. The liberal narrative consists of a box labeled “white racism” that its activists have to fill from time to time. George Zimmerman was put into that box, not because of who he was or what motivated him, but because it was time to put someone in that box.</p>
<p>The race-baiting left had to tell its familiar story and they weren’t going to let anything get in the way of telling that story. They have to tell and retell that story because it establishes their moral authority to run our society and our lives.</p>
<p>The story is black and white with no room for ambiguities or gray areas. It’s about race as martyrdom. It’s about white guilt. The story is already written and the left is always looking to stick someone’s name in the empty space between “White racist” and “Minority victim.” The head of Stalin’s secret police once said, “Show me the man and I&#8217;ll find you the crime.” The American left reverses that equation. They already know the crime. All they need is the man.</p>
<p>The goal of the rally organizers, the reporters putting their best face forward at the teleprompter and of Obama, rediscovering the son he never had, was not to indict or imprison George Zimmerman. That was a secondary or tertiary goal. It wasn’t George Zimmerman’s freedom that they wanted to take away. It was our freedom.</p>
<p>The left does not indict or convict individuals. It indicts and convicts entire groups. Their show trials indict individuals for the crime of being a member of a class and then convict the entire class based on the trials of those individuals.</p>
<p>Zimmerman wasn’t being indicted as one man, but as a representative of a group. It didn’t matter that his appearance, his background and his motives did not fit the profile. He was indicted as a white racist. And by indicting him, the media was actually indicting the ordinary American for being part of a racist system that murders black youth. The system that they call America.</p>
<p>Trayvon Martin became every black teenager everywhere. George Zimmerman became every white man everywhere. The simplified portraits of both men transcended their identities and defined them solely by the media’s construct of their races. They stopped being individuals and became characters in a familiar media story; “White” and “Black,” “White Racist” and “Minority Victim.”</p>
<p>Within the unreal world of the left’s race-baiting narrative, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin were stripped of their identities and transformed into iconic figures in a crude story of America as a country where a white man can murder a black man and get away with it. This is the story that the left needs to constantly retell because it justifies their overreach of government power.</p>
<p>The Zimmerman verdict gives the left its final dramatic conclusion to the race-baiting narrative by establishing the guilt of the system and by extension the society that is run by that system. And that is what it had sought to accomplish all along.</p>
<p>The left isn’t just out to indict George Zimmerman. It’s out to indict all of us. It isn’t just out to lock up George Zimmerman. It’s out to lock up all of us. The prison in which it intends to lock us up is big. It’s a 3.794 million square-mile prison for 314 million prisoners. The prison that they are building is meant to cover a country that used to be known as the United States.</p>
<p>The first goal of the Zimmerman case was to deepen racial divisions. That mission was undeniably accomplished. African-Americans walk away from the trial more certain than ever that the country is racist and that white people can get away with murder. There may be no race riots arising out of the verdict and even the hate crimes will likely be limited to a dozen violent attacks, but the deeper impact will be on a black community more resentful and more certain that the only thing standing between it and slavery is maintaining the absolute power of the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>It is no coincidence that the shooting of Trayvon Martin was elevated to prominence while both parties were preparing for a national election. The political work of the shooting was already done last year and the verdict won’t reverse that. The Trayvon Martin shooting was used to fuel outrage and boost voter turnout in the black community.</p>
<p>The second goal was to give the Justice Department more leeway for intervening in local cases and to put local authorities on notice that such interventions can and will happen at any time. After intimidating local authorities into an arrest, an indictment and a trial, not to mention replacing their police chief, Holder’s DOJ has already accomplished its goal which was to treat every local police department like a subsidiary of federal law enforcement whose decisions can be overruled at any time.</p>
<p>Liberal race-baiting isn’t about race in the same way that rape isn’t about sex. It’s about power.</p>
<p>The story of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was just the story that the left told millions of Americans to make their power grab possible. Any day now, they will find another way of telling the same story. The names will be different. The place may be thousands of miles away. But the story will be the same because the media will have found two more people to fit into its familiar race-baiting narrative.</p>
<p>George Zimmerman will have gone back to living his life, but we as Americans will be on trial once again.</p>
<p>And the story will begin again.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/george-zimmerman-wasnt-on-trial-we-were/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>262</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

Object Caching 1505/1612 objects using disk
Content Delivery Network via cdn.frontpagemag.com

 Served from: www.frontpagemag.com @ 2014-12-31 11:38:06 by W3 Total Cache -->