"We need more Dead Thugs": Atlanta is on the Brink; plus, buy a house for $61,000 in Nearly All-Black Riverdale

We all live in his dream: it turned out to be a nightmare

The story of Deshon Marman is illustrative of the problem plaguing college football. Because of ‘special admission’ status, those 50 percent of Black males who graduate high school are admitted to colleges where they are incredible ill-prepared to perform anything classified as academic work.
 

Marman’s story is hilarious and indicative of why states that wish to ban “baggy pants” are wrong; “baggy pants” are a positive demarcation that Black males, who commit a disproportionate share of the murder and crime in America (hence why so many are locked away in prison), voluntarily display that allows law-abiding citizens to know trouble might be near.
 

All he had to do was cooperate with the authorities, pull up his pants, and this would never have happened:

The Transportation Security Administration identifies many, many official threats to our skies, from contact lens solution to gel shoe inserts to throwing stars. Even in the wake of the "Underwear Bomber," though, boxer shorts have been considered generally safe — unless, that is, as New Mexico safety Deshon Marman discovered Wednesday at San Francisco International Airport, airline personnel can see a little bit too much of them:

On Wednesday, San Francisco police got a call about 9 a.m. that someone was exposing himself outside a US Airways gate, Sgt. Michael Rodriguez said.
An airline employee spotted Marman before he boarded Flight 488, bound for Albuquerque, and complained that Marman's pants "were below his buttocks but above the knees, and that much of his boxer shorts were exposed," Rodriguez said.
The employee asked Marman to pull up his pants before he boarded the plane, but he refused, Rodriguez said. Marman allegedly repeated his refusal after taking his seat on the plane.

"At that point he was asked to leave the plane," Rodriguez said. "It took 15 to 20 minutes of talking to get him to leave the plane, and he was arrested for trespassing." Marman allegedly resisted officers as he was being led away.

Rodriguez told a local TV station that the 5-foot-11, 195-pound Marman, 20, "was not threatening anybody directly," but the airline's dress code forbids "indecent exposure or inappropriate" attire, and "being disruptive" in any fashion once on the plane may interfere with the crew. He was charged with trespassing, battery and resisting arrest, and was being held on $11,000 bail ahead of a scheduled arraignment Thursday afternoon.

Marman's mother told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son was in "an emotionally raw state" after attending the funeral of a recently murdered high school friend on Tuesday, and was targeted by authorities "because of the way he looks - young black man with dreads and baggy pants." She also said that Marman, an incoming juco transfer to New Mexico from the City College of San Francisco, hoped to honor his friend's memory by making it to the NFL. She called him "a good kid trying to make it, and he's going through a lot. And then this happens." For what it's worth, his official New Mexico bio describes Marman as a "true leader with a winning mentality."

An interview with his irate momma can be found here. These are the type of athletes that Predominately White Institutions (PWI) spend vast sums of money to recruit and court so that they will represent an overwhelmingly white student body on the football field and basketball courts.
 

Once on campus these Black athletes, who come from cities long since abandoned by white flight, fail to acclimate to the mores and morals and still dress in a manner befitting ghetto styles. All Marman had to do was pull his pants up, and the stereotype of the Black thug who rebels against societies norms would have instantly vaporized.
 

Perhaps it is this image that prompted Neal Boortz (thanks OD) to make this comment regarding the city that is erecting a police state to stave off “urban” – Black people – violence:

Ed Schultz said he is worried about right-wing rhetoric after playing a clip of a talk show host calling for the streets of Atlanta to be "littered" with "dead thugs."

Speaking on his Wednesday show, Schultz challenged conservative talk show host Neal Boortz to appear on his MSNBC show and defend controversial comments he made about Atlanta on Monday:

BOORTZ: We got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I'll tell you what it's gonna take. You people, you are - you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta.

"There's something very ugly and dangerous going on in this country," Schultz said. "Right wing talk show hosts seem to be amping up racist and reckless rhetoric like never before ... the level of racist and violent rhetoric on hard-right wing radio today is off the charts."

He said that, in his opinion, Boortz "just advocated murder in the streets of Atlanta," and guessed that "Neal wasn't thinking of white thugs." Schultz also called Boortz "reckless, stupid and a racist."

Boortz is right. Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Newark, Memphis, Birmingham, Charlotte, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Knoxville, Columbia, Richmond and many others – not just Atlanta – have way too many urban (Black people) thugs that threaten the safety and well-being of the law-abiding.
 

Schultz is wrong. It is Black people – who wear baggy pants – that are amping up the levels of racism and violence in this country, attacking white people in Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C. It is the Mainstream Media, led by Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs), who refuse to report on the race of these attackers.
 

Slowly, those on the right are becoming aware of the problem.
 

Recall that The Atlantic magazine pointed out – much too white liberals bafflement and chagrin - that Black crime followed the patterns of where Section 8 housing vouchers were passed out in the lovely city of Memphis. Here is more on that story:

Richard Janikowski and Phyllis Betts don't look as if they're inclined to stir up trouble.
He is tall, a sharp dresser who laughs easily. She is short and motherly. They live in suburban Countrywood with two dogs and three cats.

Yet stir up trouble the couple did when a long article in the July/August issue of The Atlantic -- "American Murder Mystery" by Hanna Rosin -- brought to national attention their theory that shifting patterns of crime in Memphis can be linked to or at least run parallel with the demolition of old public housing in inner-city neighborhoods -- Lamar Terrace and Dixie Homes, Hurt Village and LeMoyne Gardens, Lauderdale Courts and Fowler Homes -- and the transfer of former inhabitants to new neighborhoods on Section 8 vouchers.

In other words, crime follows poverty wherever it goes.

"Well, that's a bit of a simplification," said Janikowski, associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Memphis and director of the Center for Community Criminology and Research, "though that's the way our studies have been interpreted. Crime and poverty are inextricably linked, there's no question, but it's not that poverty causes crime. Poverty creates a contact point that exacerbates all sorts of stresses on people. It's not that there's any one cause. It's a confluence of stresses."

No. Crime doesn’t follow poverty. Crime follows Black people. Take a look at this recent story from Atlanta:

The 2010 census makes it clear that there is a modern-day migration underway, as black families leave Atlanta and relocate to the suburbs.

But contrary to what a lot of people thought, it's not the displaced poor who are behind those numbers.

During the last decade, the city's urban landscape underwent a profound metamorphosis, as the public housing projects were demolished one-by-one. In many cases, new upscale developments replaced what were basically dangerous crime factories.

But in order to do that, thousands of residents had to be uprooted and displaced.
The conventional wisdom was that they left the city and went to suburban communities like Clayton, Cobb, and Gwinnett counties, all of which saw large population spikes among African-American residents.

But researchers say that's a myth, quite literally an urban legend. Because most of the former public housing tenants stayed in Atlanta.

"80 to 85 percent of the people in our study moved within the city limits," said Georgia State University sociology professor Deirdre Oakley. "And typically they moved within three miles. That's the average moving distance from their public housing homes. So we didn't find very many at all that moved outside the city of Atlanta
Professor Oakley says the reason people stayed put is simple: Public transportation.

Most relocated near MARTA lines.

While some of the displaced residents returned to the new and improved developments, many more simply took their vouchers from the Atlanta Housing Authority and relocated to other places. Typically these were still poor communities, but respondents to the survey felt the neighborhoods also had less crime and fostered less fear.

 Just as crime followed Black people in Memphis, crime follows Black people in Atlanta, in New Orleans and Birmingham; and we can’t forget Washington D.C., where the artificially created Black middle class wages war on each daily in Prince Georges County.
 

We have talked about Clayton County before, but Riverdale is a town I know very well. Just look at this article from Atlanta Magazine (starting on page 88) that describes a county whose school population – 67 percent of which receive free lunches - is 70 percent Black and 7 percent white:

After a rash of violent episodes, including the beating of a Forest Park High School teacher by three students, school officials implemented precautions, such as random use of metal detectors in the system’s high schools, searches by drug-and-gun-sniffing dogs and new dress codes that ban baggy, oversized pants. Police presence had to be increased at football games after several shooting incidents last fall. A teenager was charged when two men were shot after a Riverdale-Lithonia football game in September. A month earlier, two people were shots after a game in the Morrow High School parking lot. Finally, the system as a whole did not meet “adequate yearly progress” as required by No Child Left Behind.

Riverdale and Clayton County sound like a great place to live and raise a family, right? Well, look what the Atlanta Journal Constitution just published:

Riverdale is Georgia's most affordable housing market, according to a new Coldwell Banker Real Estate's 2011 Home Listing Report.

The report, released Wednesday, looks at the average listing price of a four-bedroom, two-bath home in 2,300 North American markets between September 2010  and March. The survey examined 97 real estate markets in Georgia and found Riverdale, with an average listing of  $61,618, was the most affordable. Dunwoody is the state's most expensive market, with an average listing of $379,866. Nationally, a four-bed, two-bath home averaged  $293,251, well above the Georgia average of $180,373.
Nationally, Riverdale's housing market was second only to tourist magnet Niagara Falls, N.Y. where the average list price was $60,820.  Two other Georgia cities made Coldwell's top 10 list of most affordable U.S. markets:  College Park was fourth ($72,477) and Lithonia was eighth ($77,385). The report noted that all three cities are within a 20-mile commute of Atlanta, which had an average list price of $255,000

Dunwoody, the state’s most expensive market, is one of the white enclaves that Black lawmakers are talking about suing. No one is threatening to sue Clayton County, except banks who continue to foreclose on Black homeowners there.
 

Clayton County schools – and by extension Riverdale – are veritable police states, jails that house Black students until the bell sounds. No wonder property values are so low.
 

Like the Comedian from Watchmen, I find all of this hilarious. Riverdale and College Park were once thriving white communities (30 years ago) but the Black Undertow moved in and whites fled. Atlanta and its suburbs are a microcosm of every major city.
 

It’s all a joke.
 

We could have been on Mars, but we had to fund our own dispossession. Our major cities rot, to point where crackhead infestations in Detroit and Black citizen’s attempts to ward them off are major news stories.
 

The Los Angeles Times asks if we should be preparing for European-style riots this summer. Chicago already offers a glimpse of what is coming; as does Newark, Baltimore and Atlanta preparations.
 

Knowing that a disproportionate amount of criminals are Black, and knowing that a disproportionate of people who eschew wearing belts are Black, the chances that a Black person wearing baggy pants being a criminal are large.
 

Or as Boortz was careful to identify them: “urban thugs.”
 

And so we march to the inevitable moment when Atlanta becomes a full-on Section 8 riot, and Disingenuous White Liberals blame libertarians like Neal Boortz for antagonizing a population that has already antagonized white people to build suburbs 40 – 50 miles away from the epicenter of Black-Run America (BRA) looming demise.
 

But hey, you can buy a lovely abode in Riverdale for $61,000 if you want your kids to go through metal detectors at school.
 

As the Comedian said in Watchmen when asked what happened to the American Dream, “What happened to the American Dream? It came true. You’re looking at it.”