NBC News: Whitey Responsible for Chicago Teen's Murder

The videotaped beating death of a high school student in Chicago has made national headlines this week. Even the White House has chimed in, with spokesman Robert Gibbs calling the attack "among the most shocking that you can ever see." Gibbs offered no explanation for the Chicago killing, saying, "in many ways a lot of these crimes are amazingly hard to explain."

TheGrio, an African-American news site launched in June by NBC News, has an explanation for the murder: Whitey is responsible. In an op-ed posted this morning on the TheGrio (and linked to on the MSNBC front page), Dr. John D. Márquez writes that black-on-black youth violence is caused by the "long history of systemic and structural anti-black racism."

Even when there is some visibility towards that bloodshed, it tends to be characterized as a product of poor choices, lack of discipline, lack of morals, uncensored popular culture, and a lack of family values within our inner city communities. Rarely is a long history of systemic and structural anti-black or anti-Latino racism considered. This is due, in part, to the fact that the hyper-visibility of our Obamas and Winfreys drastically reduces the significance of that history. Even when grassroots activists from the very communities stricken with rampant violence protest against youth violence, they tend to blame it on their neighbors more than they do on the despair that they face in communities where jobs, adequate schools, affordable housing, and even environmentally healthy living conditions are scarce.

We deserve a more critical perspective. There has never been a moment in U.S. history when black or Latino communities have not been stricken by these social ills. Such a fact does not derive from any primordial characteristic of blacks or Latinos. This is a reflection of the fact that those two ethnic groups in particular (with apologies to Native Americans) have been constructed as the most direct anti-thesis of the morally sound and ethical self image that whites have created for themselves as representatives of this nation.

Race-based Student Discipline Introduced In American Schools

The Tucson Unified School District in Tucson, AZ has developed a 52-page plan called "Restorative School Culture and Climate" which establishes a race-based system of student discipline (see the II. Discipline heading on page 25 of the document).

According to the plan, the "Department of Student Equity" will work to "minimize referrals and suspensions, especially those of African-American and Hispanic students," by implementing disciplinary policies that demonstrate a "commitment to social justice."

The Department of Student Equity will review monthly suspension/expulsion data by school and investigate disparities among black and white students. Where disparities are found, the school district will "take immediate action... to correct them."

Schools will be directed to use "restorative practices" to reduce racial disciplinary disparities, and every year the Department of Student Equity will offer professional development training to school staff on how to implement such practices.

I wasn't familiar with "restorative" practices, so I looked it up on Wikipedia:

"Restorative justice is a broad term which encompasses a growing social movement to institutionalize peaceful approaches to harm, problem-solving and violations of legal and human rights.. Restorative resolutions engage those who are harmed, wrongdoers and their affected communities in search of solutions that promote repair, reconciliation and the rebuilding of relationships. Restorative justice seeks to build partnerships to reestablish mutual responsibility for constructive responses to wrongdoing... Restorative approaches seek a balanced approach to the needs of the victim, wrongdoer and community through processes that preserve the safety and dignity of all."

In other words, when a black student viciously beats a white classmate on a school bus he won't be punished. Instead, the two will take part in a mediated dialogue to examine the root cause of the conflict and establish mutual responsibility. The mediator will conclude the black student lashed out in response to racism, and the white student will be told that if he agrees to be less racist maybe the black student will keep his hands to himself in the future.

Washington Post: White Women Who Prefer To Date White Men Are "Racist"

White women who don't date black men are "racist" and "morally repugnant." That's what Washington Post Style Columnist Carolyn Hax wrote in response to a letter from a young white woman who has no problems with interracial relationships in general, but feels they just aren't for her.

Although Hax wrote it was "horrifying" the young woman had no interest in dating black men, the truth is the questioner was expressing the prevailing view of interracial dating among white women.

While most whites express approval of black-white marriages in general (78% in 2007, up from 4% in 1958), studies have shown that white women still display strong personal preferences for a white partner. One study found that, after controlling for all other attributes (height, weight, attractiveness, etc.), a black man would need to earn $216,500 to be as appealing to a white woman as would a white man earning $62,500.

By depicting interracial relationships as normal and inevitable, and branding any individuals who don't date interracially as racist, people like Hax are trying to abolish the white race by changing the racial dating preferences of young white women. Unfortunately, Hax has a large audience. Her column is carried in more than 100 newspapers and is geared toward people under the age of 30.

ABC News Alleges Band Of White "People Hunters" Killed Innocent Blacks Following Hurricane Katrina

ABC News is using the four year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to spread the rumor that vigilante bands of white "people hunters" roamed the streets of Algiers Point ("a historically white enclave") in the days after the hurricane hit looking for innocent black people to kill*. Although the white residents of Algiers Point likely did arm up and wall off neighborhoods to prevent black evacuees from looting, anything beyond that is wild speculation.

The allegation that white residents of Algiers Point murdered black evacuees is just the latest in a number of baseless rumors that black activists and white liberals have spread in the four years since Hurricane Katrina. Most of these allegations have been disproven, such as the claim that blacks were less prepared to evacuate New Orleans than whites and therefore had a higher death rate.

In September 2005, Barack Obama said that Hurricane Katrina showed "how little inner-city African Americans have to fall back on. They could not load up their families in a van, fill it up with $100 of gasoline, throw some bottled water in the back and check into a hotel with a credit card." Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean took it a step further, declaring, "Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina... We must come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color... played a deadly role in who survived and who did not."

In reality, blacks were underrepresented among the dead. While the population of the disaster area was 61% black and 36% white, blacks only accounted for 51% of the deaths. 44% of those killed were white.

The fact is, it was whites who were especially in danger of being victimized in the hurricane's aftermath. When a group of nine white Australian tourists sought refuge in the Superdome, the white women were repeatedly pestered and grabbed by black men. Other whites, including an English girl who had been nearly raped in a bathroom but managed to escape, joined the Aussies. The small group of white people sat huddled on the concourse, with the women in the middle and the men around the outside.

One of the men described the group's palpable sense of fear, telling Australian media that, "The girls were in real danger. We knew we had to stick together. We were a minority group inside a stadium with 25,000 people."

In light of this first-hand testimony of the savagery of many of the Katrina survivors, it would be wrong to condemn the white citizens of Algiers Point who took precautions to prevent Katrina evacuees from entering their neighborhoods. After welcoming thousands of Katrina refugees, Houston, TX experienced a spike in violent crime including murder. By taking up arms and defending themselves, the people of Algiers Point may have avoided a similar fate from befalling their community.


* The allegation that racially-motivated murders took place in Algiers Point is being publicized by A.C. Thompson, a reporter with ProPublica. Although ProPublica is ostensibly a non-partisan investigative journalism organization, it was founded by, and continues to be primarily funded by, Herb and Marion Sandler, who also fund a number of left-wing organizations such as ACORN and MoveOn. Click here to watch an unedited version of the infamous SNL bailout skit from last fall where the Sandlers appear above the caption "People who should be shot"; the Sandlers appear at the 5 minute mark.

Hate Crime Recording: The Deck Is Stacked Against Whites

The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating a string of recent anti-Mexican bias attacks in the Bronx. Over a three-day period, five Mexican immigrants have been attacked. Four of the victims were beaten; one was stabbed. Anti-Mexican epithets were used during the attacks.

So who is committing these heinous assaults? White people?

No. And yes.

The suspects in all of the attacks are believed to be Dominican, making these hate crimes Hispanic-on-Hispanic. But since the FBI doesn't track Hispanic hate crime suspects, these attacks in the Bronx are all recorded as white-on-Hispanic.

Don't believe me? Here's a link to the FBI's Hate Crime Incident Report. In the 'Bias Motivation' section, 'Anti-Hispanic' is listed. Yet in the 'Suspected Offender's Race' section, Hispanic is not listed. Hispanic suspects are recorded as 'White.'

This asymmetrical reporting has important implications when it comes to hate crimes involving Hispanics and whites.

'White' is a Suspect category and 'Anti-Hispanic' is a Bias category, so white-on-Hispanic hate crimes are recorded as such. But because Hispanics aren't a Suspect category, the only way to record a Hispanic-on-white hate crime is as a White-on-White hate crime. Since this is rather illogical, it's common for prosecutors to simply not pursue hate crimes charges in Hispanic-on-white attacks.

(As an aside, it should be pointed out that even though Anti-White is a Bias category on the FBI's Hate Crime Incident Report, many prosecutors don't consider whites to be a 'protected class' and they are therefore reluctant to treat any anti-White crimes as hate crimes. When Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the Senate in June, he repeatedly claimed that hate crime laws are not designed to protect whites.)

For example, last month in Denver a 49-year-old white woman was killed when she was intentionally run-over by a Mexican driver. A witness told police that immediately before the hit-and-run the suspects shouted, "We're Mexicans! We'll kill you white bitches!"

Rather than prosecute the murder as a White-on-White hate crime, the prosecutors went to great lengths to sanitize the witness's statement of any evidence of anti-White bias. The word "white" was removed from the indictment, and "white bitches" was shortened to just "bitches."

Anti-white violence is rarely treated as bias crime, while internecine violence between Hispanics is recorded as white-on-Hispanic bias crime. When it comes to hate crime recording, the deck is clearly stacked against whites.

As a result, in the fewer than 10,000 hate crimes recorded each year, more than half the suspects are white. At the same time, there are 650,000 total interracial violent crimes committed in this country each year, and 90% of them are black-on-white.

By devoting an inordinate amount of attention to flawed hate crime statistics and ignoring overall violent crime patterns, the media gives an inaccurate portrayal of violent crime in America.

"You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"

The Obama administration is planning a major revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement. Obama's 2010 budget included an 18% increase in funding for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Additional lawyers will be hired to file civil rights charges in employment, housing, bank lending, and voting rights cases.

The Justice Department's renewed interest in voting rights cases is conspicuous.

In May, Eric Holder's Justice Department announced it was dropping voter intimidation charges against three members of the New Black Panthers Party. The three black men had brandished nightsticks and threatened white voters outside a polling station in Philadelphia last election day. One of the Panthers yelled, "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"

Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and the publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, called the incident "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Eric Holder disagreed.

In the Attorney General's mind, requiring all voters to furnish proper identification is racist, but yelling racial slurs and threatening white voters with violence is perfectly acceptable.

How's it feel to be ruled by the black man, cracker?


Eric Holder's Justice Department, which recently dropped voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panthers Party who threatened white voters during the 2008 election, just announced they will be hiring additional civil rights lawyers to file voting rights complaints on behalf of African-Americans.