Rochester Residents Again Responsible for Violence at Suburban Mall

Back in early June I wrote about an incident in suburban Rochester, NY in which several hundred youths from the city of Rochester converged at the Greece Festival for Youth, a yearly charity event held at The Mall at Greece Ridge in the west-side suburb of Greece, and started a melee. I wrote that, in response to the violence, the 20-year-old event was closed down a week ahead of schedule, and its future was in jeopardy.

Patrick Cleburne later reported on the VDARE Blog that the festival had indeed been canceled for good. A VDARE reader who lives in Greece and patronizes The Mall at Greece Ridge chimed in to confirm that there was a noticeable uptick in the mid/late 2000s of anti-social behavior among black youths from Rochester at the mall. This corroborates accounts I've heard from friends about the deteriorating conditions of certain parts of Greece over the past decade.

Earlier this week, The Mall at Greece Ridge was again the scene of a scuffle, and once again the violence was plotted over the Internet. According to witnesses, roughly six girls fought in a fountain while others stood around it pushing, shoving, screaming, and cussing. One of the women pulled out a sharp instrument during the fight and began flailing it, but no one was stabbed. There was one arrest: Rochester resident Tamiya Jackson (pictured) was charged with menacing. Said one Greece police captain of the fight, "I could put 50 cops in the mall and I couldn't prevent [the fight]... The mall is safe."

A Christmas Card from the MSM

The #2 "headline" on msnbc.com mobile this Christmas was an AP article titled "Haitian orphans settling in with adoptive families" that profiled some of the American couples that adopted Haitian orphans this past year.

One of the couples was Tim Franklin and his wife, Annette, of Bridport, VT, who adopted an HIV-positive Haitian girl in 2007. After the girl died the following year, the Franklins apparently decided to try their luck again. While on a brief visit to Haiti in mid-2009 they met a second HIV-positive girl and decided to adopt her.

Another couple profiled was Brian and Emily Fletcher (pictured left) of Penfield, NY, who adopted a toddler with cerebral palsy. Like the Franklins, the Fletchers are devout Christians who live in an overwhelmingly white community. Both couples already had more than one biological child of their own when they decided to take on a special needs Haitian orphan.

I recognized the Fletcher family from the picture accompanying the article, having seen them at an outdoor festival in suburban Rochester this past June. A few weeks before then, over Memorial Day weekend, several hundred youths from the city of Rochester had started a melee at another outdoor festival in the suburb of Greece, so on this occasion I paid even more attention than I usual do to the racial makeup of the crowd.

To my surprise, the crowd must have been at least 90% white, and nearly all the non-whites in attendance were Asian. The only black person I saw all evening was a very young boy who was strapped into a baby carrier that a young white woman was wearing. Standing next to the woman were a young white man and two white children, presumably her husband and biological children. The very dark-skinned child stuck out like a sore thumb and was obviously adopted. The mother was showing off her new African fashion accessory to the world, just as Sandra Bullock had done just a couple of months earlier.