When two white newspaper reporters for the
Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set
upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that
they had to take a week off from work — that might seem to have
been news that should have been reported, at least by their own
newspaper. But it wasn’t.
“The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel was the first major
television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not
just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media
and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug.
Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs
against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls
or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York,
Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other
places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend
to try to sweep these episodes under the rug as well.
In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park
a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and
bloody. But, when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear
that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet.
One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and
debit card, and had blood streaming down her face said: “About 20
of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was
accounted for. The police wouldn’t listen to us, they wouldn’t take
our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely
infuriating.”
The police chief seemed determined to head off any suggestion
that this was a racially motivated attack by saying that crime is
colorblind. Other officials elsewhere have said similar things.
A wave of such attacks in Chicago were reported, but not the
race of the attackers or victims. Media outlets that do not report
the race of people committing crimes nevertheless report racial
disparities in imprisonment and write heated editorials blaming the
criminal justice system.
What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress
is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated
attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than
a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when
one of the races outnumbers the other several times over.
It may be understandable that some people want to head off such
a catastrophe, either by not reporting the attacks in this race
war, or not identifying the race of those attacking, or by
insisting that the attacks were not racially motivated — even when
the attackers themselves voice anti-white invective as they laugh
at their bleeding victims.
Trying to keep the lid on is understandable. But a lot of
pressure can build up under that lid. If and when that pressure
leads to an explosion of white backlash, things could be a lot
worse than if the truth had come out earlier, and steps taken by
both black and white leaders to deal with the hoodlums and with
those who inflame the hoodlums.
These latter would include not only race hustlers like Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson but also lesser known people in the
media, in educational institutions and elsewhere who hype
grievances and make all the problems of blacks the fault of whites.
Some of these people may think that they are doing a favor to
blacks. But it is no favor to anyone who lags behind to turn their
energies from the task of improving and advancing themselves to the
task of lashing out at others.
These others extend beyond whites. Asian American school
children in New York and Philadelphia have for years been beaten up
by their black classmates. But people in the mainstream media who
go ballistic if some kid says something unkind on the Internet
about a homosexual classmate nevertheless hear no evil, see no evil
and speak no evil when Asian American youngsters are beaten up by
their black classmates.
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the
ghetto is due to poverty, discrimination and the like cannot
explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s,
when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not
nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.
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