Saturday, May 16, 2009

Obama Allocates Additional $1.25bn for Black Farmers Scam

President Barack Obama has repeatedly vowed to cut wasteful government spending, and his 2010 budged released earlier this month specifically cuts $17 billion from more than 120 programs. One item included in the 2010 budget is $1.250 billion in settlement funds to bring to a closure the long-standing black farmers' lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The black farmers' case began in December 1996, when President Clinton, after observing a handful of black farmers demonstrating in the park across from the White House, told his Agriculture Secretary, Dan Glickman, to "keep those people out of my back yard." The following month, Glickman announced, without any evidence to back up his charges, that racial discrimination was "rampant" in the USDA.

This "admission" of racism prompted the class action black farmers' lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman (a.k.a. the Pigford case), which the USDA decided to settle rather than fight. As part of the settlement, the government would pay $50,000 to any African-American who "farmed, or attempted to farm" and who alleged discrimination.

No documentation or proof of discrimination was required of claimants, and the judge acknowledged that most claimants "would have recovered nothing if they were required to prove their cases by the traditional preponderance of evidence standard." The settlement was an open invitation to fraud.

Indeed, numerous fraud rings were organized all over the country. It's said that most of the residents of one New York City housing project submitted claims. And in one confirmed case, the perpetrators of a fraud ring in Mississippi murdered a woman who was planning to testify against them.

The USDA spent $450,000 publicizing the settlement. Advertisements were placed in 100 black-oriented papers, and 44 commercials were run on BET. The advertisements generated 139,000 inquiries, and 111,000 people requested the forms necessary to file a claim.

90,000 people eventually filed claims. Since the USDA counts only 18,500 black farmers in the US, the number of people who attempted to collect was more than five times the number of black farmers in the entire country.

To date, 13,000 claimants have been paid roughly $1 billion. Over 70,000 of the claims received haven't been paid because they were filed after the deadline. In a vdare essay, March explains why so many of the claimants delayed submitting their claims:
Many of these tardy filers were afraid to file because they feared the whole process was a government "trap" to jail them for fraud. Only after they saw friends and neighbors actually receiving the $50,000 for claims they knew to be phony did their greed overcome their fear—but
by then the deadline had passed.
President Obama has long championed these cautious swindlers.

In 2007, then-Senator Obama charged that "thousands of black farmers who had valid claims were denied relief, mostly because they missed the cut-off date for claims."

Now that Obama has allocated $1.25bn in the 2010 budget to settle their claims, many of these 70,000 swindlers will receive their $50,000 windfall.



Most of the information in this article comes from Louis T. March's book "Harvest of Lies: The Black Farmer Lawsuit Against the U.S. Department of Agriculture." The book can be purchased from The Occidental Press.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Teenage Gang Terrorized Suburban Neighborhood

An article in the Cincinnati Enquirer tells that police in Westwood, Ohio, a suburban neighborhood of Cincinnati, have broken up a youth gang responsible for a slew of recent violent crimes. Although some of the members were as young as 12, the boys roamed in a pack, drawing power from their numbers. "It was mob mentality," is how one police lieutenant has described the gang's attacks.

According to police, the gang targeted white victims because they believed white people would be more compliant and less likely to retaliate than black people. One of the white victims was an 18-year-old deaf girl who was attacked by three gang members after being followed out of a library.

Another victim was Dennis Wall, a 53-year-old white man who was attacked as he came to the aid of yet another victim. Wall blacked out during his attack, and he slumped unconscious onto the pavement. He suffered a dislocated jaw, which his dentist estimates will cost $10,000 to repair. Since insurance won't pay and he can't afford to pay it himself, Wall says "I just live with it."

Police say the gang had a well-defined hierarchy, which consisted of baby gangster, gangster, old gangster, prince and finally, king. Anyone who wanted to advance through the ranks had to randomly attack a white person. Each member who participated in an attack was awarded one "point"; if the white victim was successfully robbed, six points were awarded. For every six points, a member would earn a "promotion" up the hierarchy.

Even though the gang's violence was racially motivated, police aren't using the term "hate crime" to describe the attacks. This isn't surprising; the black people who targeted whites for violence during the 2001 race riots in Cincinnati also weren't charged with hate crimes. Although it was largely ignored by the mainstream media, an article in the June 2001 issue of American Renaissance accurately described the widespread violence against whites that took place during the riot:
There is no doubt that once the rioting began, it became an excuse for anti-white violence. Blacks surrounded whites unlucky enough to be driving through black parts of town, pulled them from their vehicles and beat them. A white truck driver who was inside a store making a delivery, came out to find blacks trying to steal his truck. The crowd shouted “Kill him! Kill him!” as blacks took turns beating and kicking him. A black mob attacked an albino black woman, Roslyn Jones, throwing bricks at her car and shouting they would “get the white girl.” “The first piece of white skin they saw, they hit it,” says Miss Jones, whose attack did not stop until someone noticed she was black.
American Renaissance might be wrong when they say whites learned nothing from the 2001 riot. The nearly 500 comments left in response to the Cincinnati Enquirer article demonstrate that many whites are aware of the problems caused by forced integration.

One poster who cautioned against turning the gang violence into a racial issue made an unintentionally revealing comment when he wrote that the problems in Westwood stem from government vouchers which have allowed poor [black] residents to rent and purchase housing in thriving [white] neighborhoods.

For years the federal government has been tearing down public housing projects in inner cities and giving the displaced residents Section 8 vouchers which allow them to rent housing in suburban neighborhoods. According to an article last summer in The Atlantic, police have discovered there is a "near-perfect" match between Section 8 rentals and incidents of violent crime.

Increased levels of violent crime is no doubt one of the reasons that "all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings." This was the finding of Robert Putnam, a liberal Harvard University professor. In the largest ever study on civic engagement in America, Putnam found that "the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings."

Although all the research shows that forced integration has been harmful, diversity is still regarded as a civic strength. Treacly "fair housing" radio ads recently produced by the National Fair Housing Alliance tout racial and ethnic diversity as the key to happiness, success in the global marketplace and, not least, an interesting life.

And on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, The Oregonion's Betsy Hammond bemoaned the fact that Portland, Oregon is diversifying less quickly than the rest of the country and remains "
startlingly white." With 74% of the city's residents being white, Hammond wrote that Portland "is demographically out of step with 2009 America." It's Hammond's hope that the introduction of more public transportation and affordable housing will make the city "less white and more diverse."

Indeed, because of massive Third-World immigration and differing fertility rates, experts predict that Portland (and the rest of the country) will be increasingly diverse in the future. Whites are expected to comprise less than half the country's population by 2042.

By all indications, as America continues to diversify civic engagement will decline further and racially motivated violence directed at whites will become increasingly common. If this isn't the future white people want for themselves and their children, now is the time to do something about it. Whites who don't like the changes that are taking place in this country must become less compliant and start to retaliate.

Friday, May 1, 2009

LA's "largest ever" serial killer captured

According to the Associated Press, Los Angeles police believe John Floyd Thomas Jr., a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster arrested earlier this month, may be the most prolific serial killer in the city's history. Thomas, who is African-American, is suspected of sexually assaulting and murdering as many as 30 older white women in two waves of attacks that terrified the city decades ago.

Thomas may appear to be atypical of most serial killers, who are usually thought to be predominately, if not exclusively, white. Although it's often taken for granted that most, if not all, serial killers are white, repeated studies have shown this isn't the case.

According to a 2006 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, three different studies of serial murderers have found black offender proportions of 16, 20, and 20 percent. Since they make up less than 13% of the population, this means blacks, and not whites, are disproportionately represented among serial killers.

Indeed, Thomas is far from an atypical serial killer. There have been other black serial killers, including Carlton Gary, who have exclusively targeted older white women. Coral Eugene Watts also targeted white women. Despite having killed at least twelve white women, Watts was nearly released from prison in 2006. Responding to public outrage that Watts was to be released, authorities tried Watts for the unsolved killing of Gloria Steele, a black woman.

Killed in 1974, Steele was one of Watts' first victims. It's not surprising that Watts targeted black women before moving on to white women. In his award-winning book Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver wrote that he "started out practicing on black girls in the ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day. When I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically."

According to Cleaver, to rape a white woman was "an insurrectional act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man’s law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women . . . I felt that I was getting revenge."

It's likely that Watts, Gary, Thomas, and others, targeted white women for similar reasons. Just as tv shows and movies perpetuate the myth that psychotic killers and other sexually deviants are predominately white, they also regularly portray blacks as the helpless victims of white oppression. When they drive black men to seek revenge by committing "insurrectional" acts, these inaccurate portrayals can have deadly consequences for innocent white people.


John Floyd Thomas Jr., 72, who is suspected of having raped and killed as many as 30 older white women.