White Girl Bleed a Lot (15 page)

The NRA does not like me, and I’m okay with that!

Federal gun laws facilitate the flow of illegal firearms into our urban centers across this country are killing our black and brown children.

We’ve got to get the gun debate back to center with the recognition of who’s paying the price for the gun manufacturers being rich and living in gated communities.

I snapped on the TV to relax and what was on TV? Sarah Palin’s Alaska. And she was Caribou hunting and the right to bear arms. Why wasn’t she at the crime scene with me.
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Thank God for YouTube. It is there we can watch the Superintendent of Police in Chicago appearing in the church of race-baiter Father Pfleger, blaming Sarah Palin and institutional racism for black violence in America.

At least he talked about race.

Without YouTube, we would not have heard from Bobby Rush, the Chicago congressman with the distinction of being the only person to ever defeat Barack Obama in an election, and a onetime big dog in the Black Panthers. Rush put together a meeting to talk about crime. And of course they trotted out all the usual solutions: More jobs, more gyms, and more free stuff. If there is any place where they have tried these solutions nonstop for fifty years, it is Chicago. Even so, they pressed on undeterred for more, more, more of the same.

Rush said flash mobs have existed in Chicago for as long as he can remember. The only reason people are paying attention now is the criminals have left the ghetto for greener pastures.

“You know as well as I—shootings, killings, and flash mobs,” Rush said. “This is a new one now. Flash mobs, pepper spray assaults by young men have dominated this weekend’s news. I’m disturbed because it happens on the South Side on a regular basis. It seems as though when it happens on the North Side, then it’s newsworthy.
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I actually did not know that. Turns out everyone knew about the mob activity on the South Side except me. On June 8, 2011, black columnist Stella Foster let the cat out of the bag:

I heard from a reader who informed this columnist that the flash mob incidents have been going on for the longest time on the South Side with virtually no media mentions nor any real action on the part of our Chicago Police Department. The reader told me that certain drugstores and supermarkets
have been attacked by groups of young males, who would congregate in the parking lots of these businesses, walk into the stores, take what they wanted and then boldly walk out and jump on bikes for their getaway. When the reader asked why the store employees didn’t call the police, the response was, “We stop calling the police because it happens so frequently that the police stop responding.”

I know this is a big challenge for the Chicago Police Department, but more policemen will have to spread out and be more visible in patrolling the city, not just the Gold Coast and the Loop areas. And I am sure Mayor Rahm Emanuel will not play games with these thugs. And remember, decent law-abiding African Americans are victims, too.
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If you ever wondered where these crazy kids could ever get the idea that flash mobbing has no consequences, look no further than the South Side. Stella went on to say that we should be calling them “flash thugs” because flash mobs are “supposed to start dancing.”

In June 2012 it started up again. Black mobs were under investigation in at least five violent incidents in downtown Chicago in a two-week period. According to the award-winning police blog Second City Cop, there may be twenty-five more incidents of mob violence and lawlessness that weekend alone that were never reported.
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On June 9, 2012, shortly after the Chicago Blues Festival ended at 9:30 p.m., a mob attacked an out-of-town visitor and left him with a broken jaw. “Seven juveniles ranging in age from 13 to 16, were charged with felony mob action … in connection with an attack in downtown Chicago.”
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Thirty minutes later, another mob in a nearby subway attacked a man trying to protect his wife from theft and assault.
The Chicago Tribune
reported that the police said “the woman dropped her iPhone and one of the teens picked it up. The husband
told the teen to give it back and the group attacked him, pushing him to the ground and punching and kicking him.”
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The paper published pictures of the assailants. All of them were black and none of them have been arrested or identified.

The next night, June 10, a doctor at Chicago’s Northwestern hospital was beaten by a mob. It was the second attack on a doctor in that area in ten days. All the suspects were black, though the victim told the
Chicago Tribune
race had nothing to do with it.
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I only wish my doctor were a mind reader as well.

The Chicago New Report provides details_of similar assaults for the following weekend:

Saturday, Chicago police officers were kept busy trying to control huge crowds of unruly, young African Americans in the city’s increasingly violent downtown area. Separate groups, of nearly two hundred people, were responsible for several disturbances and at least one robbery in the area.
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The beat reporters are not connecting the dots, and three Chicago columnists are doing everything they can to deny the dots even exist. In June 2011
Tribune
columnist Mary Schmich, recounting the black mob violence at the time, said “there’s another fact that you also know, but it’s one you haven’t read in the
Tribune
or seen explicitly stated by most of the official media: The young men were black.” Which, of course, has nothing to do with anything, she said. And besides, she and her friends worry how reporting the race of the criminals “will reflect on all the good black kids.”
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A steady stream of headlines tell the rest of the story:

Random attacks cause concern in Chicago -
Chicago Tribune

Police Supt. Garry McCarthy vows to hunt down ‘flash mob’ suspects -
Chicago Sun-Times

Officials: Flash Mobs Already Plague South Side – CBS Chicago

Four robbed, attacked by mob of young men in Streeterville –
Chicago Sun-Times

Teen mobs suspected in downtown assaults –
Chicago Tribune

Boy mugged by group of teens near Ogilvie Transportation Center –
Chicago Sun-Times

The list goes on and on. So does the list of universities, sports teams, retail associations, hospitals, and others that have warned their employees and customers that downtown Chicago is now a dangerous place.

Columnist Mary Mitchell grudgingly acknowledges all the mob attackers are black. Mitchell doesn’t much like that, but she insists race has nothing to do with it. She says the attackers are from the suburbs, so don’t blame Chicago. Yet she openly worries that her grandchild goes to school with too many white children.
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While city officials and the Chicago media stumble over each other to deny the racial violence, at least one black Chicago alderman figures if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. In June, Alderman Anthony Beale said if METRA, the city transit agency, does not hire more minorities, “people are going to get hurt.” Even the
Sun-Times
could not ignore that: The headline said: “Beale predicts violence if METRA doesn’t hire more minorities for rail project.”
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A few days later, on July 5, people were enjoying the July 4th fireworks celebration when suddenly they were set upon by a mob of dozens of black people intent on violence. One man was taken to the hospital, but was in good condition. Eleven black
people were arrested and charged with assault.
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Police blamed the problems on teens without parents. As usual, the media did not report that the mob was black.

Local television reporters did remind people that it was the latest in a series of mob attacks in the downtown and upscale North Side area.

Two days later, talking about the fireworks mob, the CBS Chicago affiliate reported that “Sources told CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot that 17 other people were arrested overnight for other mob attacks across the city.”
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On July 6 Chicago police issued a warning to tourists and locals about the violence taking place downtown … by black people.

One year after the first edition of this book, and the police superintendent is at it again. This time, during a panel discussion on WCGI-FM radio in June 2012, he addressed the crowd and said he knew police had done a lot of “wrong.” He then blamed the “pilgrims” for the plight of African Americans, or something like that. If you can figure out what he is saying, let me know.

In November 2011 six black men kidnapped and raped a fourteen-year-old girl on her way to school. No Pilgrims are under investigation at this time. “Police said the assault happened a day before a separate assault on a 14-year-old girl, this time near President Barack Obama’s house in Hyde Park.”
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The crime happened two blocks away from the home of the President of the United States—an area where crime is rarely reported.

“If something happens near
Obama’s home, we rarely report,” said a member of the Chicago Police Department who patrols in that area. “We usually just call it vandalism. That is the way they want it.”

This Chicago cop seems to feel if he let me print his name he would get fired. Crazy huh?

When I visit Chicago they take me around town. They seem to think I need protection. Let’s see how I did at WVON, Chicago’s largest black radio station.

How to Get Kicked Off a Black Radio Station

H
ow do you get kicked off the air at a black talk radio station?

Just follow these directions.

Step One: write a book about race.

Step Two: write an article for World Net Daily about how Chicago is Ground Zero for this new epidemic of racial crime and violence.
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Document it with lots of links—especially to YouTube. Leave out the explanations, solutions and apologies. (The book is for people who simply deny these crimes take place, so explanations are not much good for people who don’t believe the problem exists in the first place. A lot do not.) I tried the “solution game” once. “Stop rioting?” I proffered. No one liked that.

Step Three: Send the story to the largest black talk station in Chicago. Would I be available to talk about the World Net Daily story on
The Perri Small Show
on WVON in Chicago?

Sure.

Soon after the show started, it was clear Perri had not read the WND article, which is understandable. Ninety-nine out of a hundred conversations in the media about race go through the same kabuki: Ignore the victims. Humanize the thugs. When it is over, congratulate each other for superior moral sensitivity.

But this conversation was part of the 1 percent, so I started in: “There are large groups of black people going through the streets of downtown and other parts of Chicago doing some really horrific things. Even crazier, reporters and newspapers ignore it. It has happened hundreds of times all over the country. And a lot of it is on YouTube. So it is hard to deny.”
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Perri tried to change the subject—first to me and my motives for writing it. Then to long exasperated explanations about why those criminals were creating dangerous mayhem.

I didn’t go there. Instead I played the Dr. Phil card. Liberals have been justifying this horrific behavior for fifty years. “How is that working out for you?”

Crickets.

I’ve been writing and reporting about race since the 1980s. First as a staffer for a Republican Hispanic elected official. Then as a ghost writer for the first black chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Later as a reporter, when I wrote several stories on fake hate crimes. I wrote a story that got a black man out of prison. That was a big deal on
Court TV
.