Monday, December 29, 2014

An Advocate of All Things Black Compares his Community to the Flintstones and the White Community to the Jetsons... Without Getting the Joke

The black newspaper, The St. Louis American, published an article containing perhaps the greatest quote you'll ever, ever read.

Ever.
The world of the Flintstones, the Jetsons or the community blacks have created in North St. Louis...

Courtesy of Families Advocating Safe Streets (one of those uniquely black organizations found in any urban area of America with a high percentage of violent blacks engaging in behavior contrary to the #BlackLivesMatter meme), we get the absolute best quote ever on the inherent reality of the Bell Curve. 

Good luck finding it! [23rd annual prayer vigil for victims, St. Louis American, 12-24-14]:
African Americans in St. Louis do not mourn only victims of police violence, as critics of the Ferguson protest movement frequently claim. In fact, this New Year’s Eve will mark the 23rd annual prayer vigil for victims of violence organized by Families Advocating for Safe Streets.
“It’s for people who lost their lives to violence in the past year,” said St. Louis Alderman Sam Moore, vice president of the organization.
The 23rd annual prayer vigil will be held 4 p.m. New Year Eve’s at William’s Temple Church of God in Christ, 1500 Union Blvd. at Martin Luther King Boulevard.
“We commemorate those who lost their lives,” Moore said. “We light candles, read the names of all the victims and release 149 balloons – hopefully it’s still at 149, but however many.”
When Moore was interviewed on December 18, and still at press time, there were 149 homicides in St. Louis in 2014. Of those 149 people killed in the city, two – Kajieme Powell and VonDerrit Myers Jr. – were killed by police officers.
“It’s a travesty and a shame,” Moore said. “We’re continually trying to bring to the forefront that our problem is not just with police killing people.”

But Moore and his organization, which was founded and is still led by Jeanette Culpepper, also work with police to solve homicides in the city.
“We go to the site where a murder occurred and pass out flyers asking people to give information about the murders,” Moore said. “We tell them how to remain anonymous and ask people to come forward.”
It is not easy, Moore said, because many people distrust the police – and fear criminals.
“People don’t want to cooperate because there are repercussions,” Moore said. “Witnesses get hurt and killed. But we hand out flyers telling them they can remain anonymous.”

“If anyone lost a loved one, you’d want that same information about your loved one,” Moore said. “We need to come together, come to a consensus and get these people off the street so we can have a safe environment.”
The enemy on the street is formidable, Moore said, as he sees street criminals adapting to police better than the cops sleuth them.
“Criminals in my ward know the police patterns,” Moore said. “They’ve gone wild. The mean streets of St. Louis have not been taken care of.”
One crime story Moore does not buy is the reported racial tensions between blacks and Bosnians following the street murder of a young Bosnian man, allegedly by a group of black and Hispanic teens.
“I am sickened by what happened to the young man, the Bosnian man beat to death with hammers on the South Side,” Moore said. “But to say blacks don’t like Bosnians is a diversionary tactic. How do I know who a Bosnian is? We don’t know who Bosnians are. It was an isolated incident.”
Moore is focused on his North Side 4th Ward, which badly needs redevelopment.
There are seven empty lots on the very block where he lives. He offered pop cultural comparisons to describe North City’s underdevelopment.
“We live like Flintstones compared to the Jetsons,” Moore said. “The Jetsons go, ‘Zip!’ and are off into space, while we are still running with our feet on the ground holding up a log.”
But even he was caught up in the excitement that swept the world, starting with protests in Ferguson and St. Louis. He said, “A lot of people never knew that black people in St. Louis had this kind of spirit bottled inside of them.”
 Did you find it?

It might just be me, but I'd say Moore denigrated Fred Flintstone and the good citizens of Bedrock by comparing their harmonious community to the undeniably primitive conditions of heavily black North St. Louis -- conditions that are merely a reflection of the type of community the individual black people there can collectively create.

One fact can be sure: Bedrock didn't need a Families Advocating Safe Streets organization, even though dinosaurs roamed them...

Sunday, December 28, 2014

"White line's in the middle of the road, that's the worst place to drive."

So a memorial to a dead black male is sitting in the middle of Canfield Drive in Ferguson.

The middle of the road.
A relic fit only for the age of Black-Run America (BRA): the shrine to the Michael Brown in Ferguson is - seriously - in the middle of the road on Canfield Drive.

On the white line.

Where people drive cars.

As Roddy Piper's character in They Live! said, "White line's in the middle of the road, that's the worst place to drive." [Ferguson officer placed on leave over remarks about damaged memorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-28-14]:
A Ferguson police spokesman was placed on unpaid leave after acknowledging remarks to a Washington Post blogger in which he called the Michael Brown memorial a “pile of trash,” city officials said Saturday.
One day earlier, the city stood behind the spokesman, Officer Timothy Zoll — claiming he had been misquoted — after an inquiry into the damaged memorial in the middle of Canfield Drive. But officials retreated in a one-page statement issued Saturday.
Zoll was “confronted with the results” of a department investigation into the remarks attributed to him, city officials said.
The officer “admitted to department investigators” that he made the statement attributed to him” and had “misled” superiors about the interview.
The unpaid leave is effective immediately while disciplinary proceedings begin, according to the statement.
City officials emphasized that Zoll’s remarks “do not reflect the feelings” of the Ferguson Police Department.
What happened on August 9th in 67 percent black Ferguson has launched a revolution; I'm still not quite sure people understand just who will ultimately benefit from the actions of these revolutionaries...

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Through the years we'll always be together. If the fates allow...

In early December, three black males tried to rob Pooh's Corner in St. Louis. The bar in south citywas a popular hangout for cops, a fact the three black males who tried to rob Pooh's Corner probably weren't aware of...
Violence breaks out in 82 percent black Berkeley, Missouri on Christmas Eve after a white officer dared shot a black male (who had a long arrest history at the ripe old age of 18) who pointed a gun at him...

The tragedy is 63-year-old Diana Lawrence is dead because of the actions of these three black males; luckily multiple patrons at the bar were armed, ensuring a greater tragedy was avoided. [Ex-St. Louis cop who opened fire on robbers at Pooh's Corner bar says 'instincts kicked in', St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-20-14]:
The former police officer was standing toward the back of the bar, nursing a can of Natural Light, when the crack of gunfire shattered the vibe. 
Three armed men barged into Pooh’s Corner about 11 p.m. Dec. 2 and ordered everyone to the floor. At least one fired a shot into the ceiling. 
The former police officer at the bar shot his .357 Magnum snubnose at one of the robbers standing nearby, hitting him in the eye. The retired cop said the gunman collapsed, and he kicked a pistol away before emptying his cylinder at the muzzle flashes near the front door. 
“Instincts kicked in,” said the former city officer, 65, of St. Louis. “All of that so-called training kind of evaporates, so I won’t attribute it to training. I just attribute it to survival instincts.” 
One of the armed robbers escaped the shootout and is still on the loose. The former officer, who served in the St. Louis Police Department for eight years in the 1970s, asked not to be identified because he fears retaliation against him or his family. 
It was the second time since 2008 that the ex-cop who tends bar part-time at the Carondelet neighborhood tavern opened fire to fight off would-be robbers. Five people were wounded in the latest gunfight at Pooh’s Corner, at 6023 Virginia Avenue, including the ex-cop and two of the robbers. A bar patron, Diana Lawrence, 63, of St. Louis, died the next day from a shot to the back of her head. It is not clear who shot her, but witnesses have said Lawrence was sitting at a table with her back to the robbers when she was shot. Autopsy results are not yet available. 
“I lost a dear friend,” the former officer said. “I believe those men had murder on their minds.”
"The former officer... asked not to be identified because he fears retaliation against him or his family."

This comment is a reminder the black community of St. Louis immediately sides with those who break the law and will strive for retribution against those who dare impede their comrades ability to rob businesses like Pooh's Corner. 
Keep this fact in mind when we consider the next "Justice for Michael Brown" mob target; those now agitating for violence against the cops in 82 percent black Berkeley (just another formerly all-white suburb blighted by now majority demographic) have 18-year-old Antonio Martin. [Berkeley officer kills suspect who pulled gun; police say victim was 'known' to police, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-24-14]:
A Berkeley police officer fired at least three shots at a suspect who pulled a gun on him, the St. Louis County Police chief said at a Wednesday morning news conference. 
Police Chief Jon Belmar said the officer was doing a business check at a Mobil on the run station about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday when the shooting happened. 
The officer saw two people on the parking lot in the 6800 block of North Hanley Road and began talking with them. 
Belmar said one of the people approached the driver's side of the vehicle.One of the individuals "produced a pistol with his arm straight out, pointing it straight at the officer kind of from across the hood," Belmar said. 
At that point, the chief said, the officer got his service revolver "and fired what we think is three shots." 
The officer, who is 34 and white, is a 6-year veteran of the department, Belmar said. He was placed on investigative leave, which is standard.  
Belmar said one round struck the suspect, an 18-year-old black male, and one struck a tire of the police car. Police said they did not immediately know where the third round went. 
From the videotape released by St. Louis County Police and Belmar's description, the officer was near the front driver's side of the vehicle and the suspect was on the other side, near the car's headlights, when the shooting occurred. 
As the officer points his gun, he is backing away and loses his balance, Belmar said. As he fell, he dropped his flashlight and fired off at least three shots. 
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS units. Berkeley police called the county's crimes against persons unit at 11:45 p.m., and they arrived at the scene at 12:15 a.m., Belmar said. 
The body, which was covered and concealed from the crowd by a partition, was removed from the scene at 1:40 a.m., Belmar said. 
He also said the 9 mm gun found on the suspect had five rounds in the magazine and one round in the chamber. He also said the gun's serial number had been filed off. 
Belmar declined to release his name at the news conference but said he had a criminal record, with charges including three assaults, armed robbery, armed criminal action and multiple uses of weapons since he was 17. 
A woman at the scene overnight, Toni Martin, said it was her son, Antonio Martin, 18.
To truly understand why the unidentified cop who saved numerous lives at Pooh's Corner on December 2 fears for his life, look no further than Martin's family scrambling to defend their son. 

A son, mind you, who had a vast criminal record including assaults, armed robbery, and multiple uses of a firearm since he was 17... [Parents of Antonio Martin say his fatal shooting 'doesn't make any sense', St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-24-14]:

Antonio Martin's extended family was in shock early Wednesday, as they waited for details to unfold about the fatal shooting of the 18-year-old at a Berkeley gas station. 
"This doesn't make any sense for them to kill my son like this," Toni Martin-Green said early Wednesday from her home located near the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus. "I am trying to be calm." 
Martin mainly grew up in the Hyde Park area of North St. Louis before moving with family to unincorporated St. Louis County a few years ago. Martin attended high school in Jennings before dropping out and had also been enrolled in the federal Job Corps program for a spell. He last worked at White Castle and wanted to go back to Job Corps, his father said. 

Police say the man shot had a criminal record, with charges including three assaults, armed robbery, armed criminal action and multiple uses of weapons since he was 17. 
Martin's parents acknowledged that their son has been arrested before and had "stumbled in the past." 
"In the last year, he was really trying to find who he was. He was ready to take the world on," the father said. "He knew he had parents who loved him. He had that support." 
"He was not a violent person, to our knowledge," he added. "Around us there weren't any pistols. It's hard to believe that." 
His grandmother, Margret Chandler, was also in disbelief. 
"When he was around me, he knew to do right," she said. "Why would he pull out a gun against the police? That's the thing I don't get. It just doesn't add up." 
Well mom and grandma, when your son wasn't around he was doing everything he could except doing right; now, more violence is breaking in St. Louis because of yet another black male making a decision to directly challenge the states monopoly on violence. 

And though the American state in 2014 is incredibly, over-the-top, anti-white, the police represent the one instrument standing in the way of a tidal wave of black criminality capsizing the entire nation into the orgiastic violence found on December 2nd at Pooh's Corner. 

Hold your family a little tighter this 2014 Christmas Eve and remember each incident where a criminal black male dares challenge the authority of police (and their monopoly on violence) is another crack in the American Experiment's hull, proof our nation has "failed...; for as we see a black community prepared to defend Antonio Martin's right to point a gun at a police officer, we view the dissolution of the American Dream and the birth of the American Nightmare.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Attributing Magic to a Situation DNA Explains: Black Writer Believes "Proximity to Whiteness" Required for Individual Black Success

Every so often, the truth inadvertently slips out. NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES published a long article (School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death — odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country) lamenting the horrible conditions of all-black public schools in metropolitan St. Louis versus the idyllic state of nearly all-white public schools. 

The nearly all-white public schools consist of individual white students who collectively produce some of the top test scores, highest graduation rates, and stunning rates of efficiency on various standardized tests and in AP course participation in the state of Missouri. 
So, white people have magical powers which liberate black people from the lack of opportunity found in areas of concentrated blackness...


Also, the quality of life these individual whites collectively create in their nearly all-white schools is reflected in the low expulsion rate and few disciplinary problems disrupting the education process. 

The nearly all-black public schools (like the one Michael Brown graduated from) consist of individual black students who collectively produce some of the lowest test scores, poorest graduation rates, and shockingly pitiful rates of efficiency on various standardized tests and in AP course participation in the state of Missouri. 

Also, the non-existent quality of life these individual blacks collectively create in their nearly all-black schools is reflected in the high expulsion rate, radical disciplinary problems disrupting the education process scaring away teachers and creating huge turnover rates.

The New York Times decided to excerpt some of Nikole Hannah-Jones work. [How School Segregation Divides Ferguson — and the United States, 12-19-14]:
ON Aug. 1, five students in satiny green-and-red robes and mortarboards waited in an elementary school classroom to hear their names called as graduates of Normandy High School. This ceremony, held months after the official graduation, was mostly for students who had been short of credits in May. 
One of those new graduates was Michael Brown. He was 18, his mother’s oldest son. He had been planning to start college in September. 
Eight days later, he was dead, killed in the streets of nearby Ferguson, Mo., by a white police officer in a shooting that ignited angry protests and a painful national debate about race, policing and often elusive justice. Many news reports after Mr. Brown’s death noted his graduation and his college plans. The implication was that these scholarly achievements magnified the sorrow. 
But if Michael Brown’s educational experience was a success story, it was a damning one. 
The Normandy school district is among the poorest and most segregated in Missouri. It ranks last in overall academic performance. Its rating on an annual state assessment was so dismal that by the time Mr. Brown graduated the district had lost its state accreditation. 
About half of black male students at Normandy High never graduate. Just one in four graduates makes it to a four-year college. The college where Mr. Brown was headed is a for-profit trade school that recruits those it once described in internal documents as “Unemployed, Underpaid, Unsatisfied, Unskilled, Unprepared, Unsupported, Unmotivated, Unhappy, Underserved!” 
Just five miles down the road from Normandy lies Clayton, the wealthy county seat where a grand jury recently deliberated the fate of Darren Wilson, the officer who killed Mr. Brown. Success there looks very different. The Clayton public schools are predominantly white, with almost no poverty to speak of. The district is regularly ranked in the top 10 percent in the state. More than 96 percent of its students graduate. Eighty-four percent head to four-year universities.
The article continued, but it for the sake of brevity, this appears to be Nikole Hannah-Jones thesis (We even Tweeted it to her!): 
Thesis: Without whites, blacks fail; without blacks, whites thrive
Hannah-Jones primarily goal with her long article, and it being excerpted at the New York Times, seems to be based on to showcase the magical properties white people have at unleashing black potential trapped if surrounded by only blackness.

She even responded to us on Twitter!:
yeah, in a system based on white hierarchy, proximity to whiteness required for access to opportunity. Duh.
So, Nikole Hannah-Jones attributes to white people magical powers that heroically liberate individual blacks incapable of flourishing if only exposed to blackness...

That makes a lot of sense!

It's truly misguided to continue and judge individual blacks by the academic standards established by individual whites, for when they are collectively aggregated we learn the truth of the racial gap in learning is embedded in the genetic code of the respective races.

No amount of magical thinking or proximity to whites can change the DNA of blacks, though proximity to blacks can negatively impact the DNA of a white females offspring...

The main question Nikole Hannah-Jones will never entertain is why, in the absence of whites individual blacks can't collectively creating the type of social capital required for thriving communities?

If proximity to whiteness is a necessary condition for opportunity, how did those black Ancient Egyptians ever build those pyramids?