If you think that racism is a thing of the past in the United States, think again. The people on the left who are constantly accusing America of being a racist country have a point. It still exists in the USA. Friday night in Milwaukee, dozens, if not hundreds of racists went on a rampage at and around the Wisconsin State Fair attacking people for one reason; the color of their skin.
We thought that after the Civil Rights era and the election of a black president that we had gotten beyond race. The beatings and the lynchings in the South were a thing of the past. People being turned away from voting places because they were the wrong color was ancient history. So we thought until 2008 when voters arriving at a polling station in Philadelphia (Mississippi?) were intimidated by club wielding racists in paramilitary garb.
And yes, just as so many people in the South back in the pre-1960s were all too willing to look the other way, many now will not report the facts openly of what happened Friday night in Milwaukee. Here is how local Fox 6 News reported it.
Below is a slightly more complete report.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/126828998.html
Incredibly, there is nothing about this on the websites of ABC, CBS and NBC News.
Can you imagine if the colors had been reversed? The entire country would be upside down today. Every other news story would be pushed onto the back pages.
What I expect to now see is for the NAACP, the Black Congressional Caucus, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to step up to the plate. There must be marches and demonstrations in Milwaukee against this outrageous display of racism. Eric Holder's Justice Department must immeditely step in and investigate this most obvious of racial hate crimes. It is also time for President Obama to show leadership and speak out to the nation, appeal for tolerance and understanding while condemning this incident in the strongest terms. This type of racial division must be addressed by the very man who was elected to bring us together.
And yes, let cooler heads prevail and remember that we do have friends of other races who are prepared to work and get along with us just fine. After all, even in the darkest days of Jim Crow not all white people were racists. Nor are we now.
We have been hearing for years now that what America needs is an open, civilized, and frank discussion of race. I agree. Friday night could be the event that brings it about.
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These incidents will continue until someone who is packing shoots one of these idiots.
Then expect to see "Rev" Sharpton and/or "Rev" Jackson descend upon the city and cry racism till the cows come home.
Yes, and they will be right. It was pure racism.
Just what is Obama going to do about that when everyone in his right mind knows that the white boy republicans hate him just because he is black. Who are you kidding?
And just Findalis' comment tells me just how racist this country still is.
It's a local incident Gary. It ain't national news. I heard about it from a woman who is considerably darker that I am, as we spent the day helping impoverished youth do something more constructive -- vote in the upcoming recall election.
I wouldn't mind, and the young man who graduated from Alabama State who plays the keyboard at a Pentecostal church I often visit wouldn't mind, if some of these thugs were summarily shot. (The brother I'm talking about would rather make them walk barefoot on hot coals or ground glass first.)
But, your parallel is a LITTLE BIT off. There is no history in this country of rampaging mobs, made up of people of African descent, receiving overt police protection, or a significant number of the mob BEING police officers themselves. In fact, the African Americans on our local police force are models of dispassionate professionality.
By the way, a similar rampage through a riverside park and a local convenience store a few weeks ago ended with a response that would warm the cockles of your conservative little heart:
1) The boys parents brought them to the police station and turned them in.
2) A much larger crowd of equally dark skinned young people marched to the site to offer support to the store owner.
@ Ingrid
The first time a citizen (regardless of color) shoots one of these gang-bangers you will see Sharpton, Jackson, or any other of the so-called "Black Leaders" descend upon the town/city and cry for the youngster who was so innocent that he should be considered a saint.
Happens every time a Black youth is accused of a crime that could be racially motivated. Think of a school in Arkansas and the tree in their front yard.
With all due respect, Ingrid, that is an absurd statement. Perhaps you did not catch my satire.
Republicans nor anyone else except a few on the fringe are not against Obama because he is black. It is because he is destroying our country.
Siarlys,
My God! Are you safe?
Another tempest in a teapot according to Siarlys. A local incident. What's the use arguing with you?
Siarlys,
Do you remember the "Jena 6" (or whatever the number was)? That was also a "local incident" that was blown out of proportion. Who ever heard of Jena, La. unless you live or have lived in Central Louisiana? Now people know of the place. I lived not far from there in another life and am familiar with it and it is not much more than an isolated typical small southern town.
The point is that "reverse racism" is often "understood" but not "condoned" by so called "leaders" of the minority communities.
The Jena "incident" took place in the middle of nowhere and made national news. This "Milwaukee incident" took place in a major American city and is ignored by these so called "professional" journalists.
That is pretty typical though.
Don't mess with Milwaukee, Gary. I know it better than you do. Yes, I'm safe, even though I routinely ride my bike to the farmer's market past the spot where ten youths ages 10-15 beat Charlie Young to death after pelting him with an egg in 2002. Oh, but he was black, like his assailants, so I guess that doesn't count. The perpetrators are all doing long prison terms, by the way.
Here is the latest facts on the ground. Eleven people were injured, thirty-one were arrested. There are no announced plans for "defense committees" to protest arrest or trial. There were two different incidents. One was a bunch of thugs who were all of one color fighting each other. The other was a mob ejected from the fair grounds who started in on passing motorists.
Yes, a large portion of the thugs in Milwaukee right now are of African descent. They are, in general, perfectly willing to beat up or rob anyone of any color. When the available victim is "black," they make comments like "You ain't nothing, nigger." When the available victim is "white," they make comments like "White girl bleed a lot." BOTH, are racist. Findalis on self-hating Jews has NOTHING on the young men who believed it when their father told them "You ain't going to be nothing but another nigger." That is significantly different than people banding together for the purpose of subjugating an entire community of people based on race.
Moving on to Cabbie, who, as usual, has come up with a cogent example worth talking about. In fact, the brother who wants these thugs to be walked across hot coals barefoot and I were just discussing the Jena 6 recently.
The "defense" and the designation "Jena 6" was misplaced. Yes, SOMEONE did hang an effigy from a tree. That was in bad taste, and depending on the intent and what else might have followed up, it could have been a crime. But it was a far cry from the day when a dentist could be kidnapped by a mob while someone went for some gasoline, as a moderator announced "you will soon be treated to the smell of burning nigger." Americans of African descent, as much as Gary Fouse, Findalis, and many other people of various descriptions, can get into a mode of blowing up a relatively minor incident because they haven't personally EXPERIENCED the very real atrocities of a couple of generations ago. The vicarious martyr complex is rampant in our comfortable society.
The so-called Jena 6 targeted and beat up an individual who had nothing to do with the effigy. If they had targeted someone KNOWN to have been the perpetrator, that would have been a significant mitigating circumstance -- like, if you punch and kick me after I announced that your wife is a whore and I've bought her several times, you get a MUCH lighter sentence, possibly probation, compared to if you did that for no known reason, or because you didn't like the bumper sticker on my car. "Fighting words" is the judicial term.
But, they had no such mitigating circumstances. There was no excuse. And as I said, there is NO movement in Milwaukee to form defense committees or call these thugs "the Milwaukee 31." None at all. They were the subject of sermons in Baptist and Pentecostal churches all over Milwaukee. The next festival to tighten security to prevent this happening again is Afro Fest. The organizers know perfectly well that thugs have no respect, period.
Findalis, the last time a thug got shot to death in the act of holding up a motorist at a gas station, the intended victim was as dark as the perpetrator, and there wasn't a peep out of Jesse Jackson. He's a little busy paying child support right now anyway.
But when a black thug named Williams killed a couple of Asians in a hold up and was executed, guess who was in front of San Quentin protesting-Jesse Jackson.
As for waht happened in Milwaukee, I'm glad you were not assaulted, but if you had been, maybe you'd be singing a different tune.
I can't take responsibility for Jackson, Gary. And frankly, studying why he protested that particular execution is not a high priority for my limited time.
In 2004, when I heard an announcement that Jesse Jackson was going to visit Gwen Moore's campaign office the next day, I spontaneously remarked "That's a great honor for Jesse Jackson." The announcer, without missing a beat, responded "Yes it is, but I didn't say that." If it is any comfort, I read somewhere that one of the more embarrassing moments in Jackson's life was when he heard sudden footsteps behind him, turned around, and felt a sense of relief when he saw that the people behind him were "white."
As a matter of fact, there was an article in the local paper by someone driving by who got their face punched then made it to the freeway. He was saying much more sympathetic things than I ever would.
I'm all for making sure kids have enough nutrition their first five years so they get fully developed human brains, and small classes to give plenty of individual attention during their formative years, but when they grow tall and start throwing punches, they need a brick to the head.
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