The SHTF in Chicagoland

‘One creature, caught. Caught in a place he cannot stir from in the dark, alone, outnumbered hundreds to one, nothing to live for but his memories, nothing to live with but his gadgets, his cars, his guns, gimmicks...’

-      Matthias, The Omega Man

The future for whites in America is now for whites in Chicago -- hiding in their homes at night, with large portions of the city war-zones of the black and brown variety

LZ Granderson, a black man, has written we should label Chicago gangs as ‘terrorists’[Treat Chicago gangs as terrorists, CNN, 4-24-13]:

You know things in Chicago are bad when 70 murders in the first quarter can be seen as a good thing. But context is everything: Last year at this time there had been more than 120 murders, so I guess we should thank God for small favors. 

It seems inconceivable that the city President Barack Obama calls home is also the city where his family may be least safe. Just this Monday a 15-year-old boy was found shot dead in a backyard only four blocks from the president's house.  

What's responsible for the bloodshed? Gang violence, as usual. Police estimate that of the 532 murders in 2012 -- nearly 1.5 a day -- about 80 percent were gang related. And yet, despite that rather staggering statistic, the national outcry is muted at best -- nothing, to say the least, like the kind we saw last week in Boston. What is it about the word "gang" that brings out the apathy in us? Would we view Chicago differently if we called the perpetrators something else?

Unfortunately, it is a misnomer to label the violence found in Chicago today as ‘gang related’ – really, it’s almost exclusively black violence (with a touch of Hispanic violence tossed in to add a bit a spice) [Gang labeling in dispute when analyzing Chicago violence, WBEZ Chicago, 8-28-12].

Gangs were once running wild in Chicago, especially in the 1990s.

Well, black and Hispanic gangs that is. And a disproportionate amount of the victims of gang-related murder were white.

The Chicago Police Department put together a comprehensive analysis of suspected ‘gang related’ murders as part of the “Chicago Crime Trends” series [Gang-Motivated Murders 1991 — 2004]. It is this study that helps the layman understand the limited ‘white’ gangs pose to the city of Chicago’s stability and the imminent threat both black and Hispanic gang members are to the Windy City’s health: 

From 1991 to 2004, there were 3,422 gang-motivated murders in the City of Chicago. This constituted 33.0% of the murders that occurred in Chicago during this time period. Excluding instances when the Detective Division could not determine a motive, gang activity was the most common murder motive from 1991 to 2004. From 1991 to 2004, there were 2,383 gang-motivated murders involving African-American victims, 908 involving Hispanic victims, and 112 involving Caucasian victims. 

Consulting Table 1 from the study (below), you’ll notice of all known offenders for Gang-Motivated Murder in Chicago between 1991-2004, blacks represent 69 percent, Hispanics 27.5 percent, and whites only 3.1 percent.

For those victims of Gang-Motivated murder, whites represent 7.2 percent, Hispanics 30.3, and blacks 61.9 percent.

For those victims of Gang-Motivated murder who were also gang members, blacks represented 68.8 percent of the victims, Hispanics 28.5 percent, and whites 2.5 percent.

More recent data on murder suspects/victims in Chicago is a case study  in minority dysfunction.

Yes, Gang Crime in Chicago does have a color...

Between 2003 and 2011, whites in Chicago accounted for only four percent of the homicide suspects, yet six percent of the victims:

A WND review of the Chicago Police Department Murder Analysis reports from 2003 to 2011 provides a statistical breakdown of the demographics of both the victims and offenders in the 4,265 murders in Chicago over that time period. 

Of the victims of murder in Chicago from 2003 to 2011, an average of 77 percent had a prior arrest history, with a high of 79 percent of the 436 murdered in Chicago in 2010 having arrest histories. 

For the same 2003-2011 period, blacks were the victims of 75 percent of 4,265 murders. Blacks also were the offenders in 75 percent of the murders. 

According to 2010 U.S. Census information, Chicago has a population of 2,695,598 people. The city is 33 percent black, 32 percent white (not Hispanic), and 30 percent Hispanic or Latino in origin. 

For the 2003-2011 period, whites were nearly 6 percent of the victims and accused of carrying out 4 percent of the murders. 

For the 2003-2011 period, Hispanics or Latinos were 19 percent of the victims and 20 percent of the offenders.

Understanding the racial data behind gun violence in Chicago (and murder), one should immediately laugh when they read President Barack Obama is trying to use gun violence in the Second City as a means to push for gun control – in a city that has had some of the toughest gun control laws since 1982. [Obama Campaign Uses Chicago Violence to Push for Gun Control, Weekly Standard, May 3, 2013]

In a petition emailed today to supporters, Organizing for Action, President Obama's former campaign group, uses violence in Chicago to push for more gun control.

"In 2009, my schoolmate Greg Robinson was in the backseat of a car returning home from a basketball game when someone with a gun opened fire," the letter from "Ronnie Mosley," of Morehouse College Class of 2013, emails.

He died shielding his young cousins from gunfire. 

Greg wasn't a gang member -- he was a 14-year-old who wanted to play basketball. He was quiet and kind, and that year, he was the 28th student in the Chicago public school system to be killed. 

Since then, I've been fighting for common-sense gun legislation to honor Greg's memory and to help prevent this kind of violence from happening again.  

I added my name to OFA's petition to Congress demanding action on gun violence. But my voice and my story isn't enough on its own. Together, our voices are powerful enough to make Congress act  -- so please, add your name, too.  

Right now, I live in Georgia for school -- and last month I watched my new senators both vote against expanding background checks for gun sales. 

It was disappointing and disheartening. All I could think about was the kids back in my neighborhood in Chicago. We have an acronym: LIFE -- living in fear everyday.  

But bullets don't come with name tags. No one intended to shoot Greg, or his little cousins. On your walk to school or on your way home, you couldn't help but be afraid that it could happen to you.

  That's why I'm not giving up just because we lost one vote. As a country, we can and should make it harder for bad guys to get their hands on deadly weapons. To me, it's just common sense. 

Sign OFA's petition to Congress to demand action on universal background checks for gun sales, and take one big step toward making our communities safer: http://my.barackobama.com/Sign-the-PetitionThank you.Ronnie 

President Obama, Ronnie, and anyone interested in knowing the cause of gun violence (and crime for that matter) in Chicago, please pay attention to this next sentence: it is black people – and Hispanics – who are using guns to kill their fellow citizens in Chicago.

The violence in Chicago is precisely why law-abiding citizens should carry guns to protect their person and property [Chicago Mobs and the Case For High Capacity Magazines, SHTFplan.com, 4-1-13], while simultaneously showing why white residents of the city should correctly fear both black and Hispanic males.

Instead of treating Chicago’s gangs (or a signficant portion of the black/Hispanic population) as posing a ‘terroristic’ threat to the city’s stability, we want to demonize law-abiding citizens who want to protect their property and family with guns.

Large portions of the city of Chicago are off-limits to law-abiding white people, the exclusive stomping-ground (breeding ground) of black and Hispanic gangs – though the word ‘gang’ is misused in today’s lexicon.

White America can look to 2013 Chicago as their future; though the American flag still flies over the city, it is a metropolis where they are virtually confined to certain sections of the city.

To paraphrase The Omega Man, white citizens of Chicago are “Caught in a place he cannot stir from in the dark, alone, outnumbered hundreds to one, nothing to live for but his memories, nothing to live with but his gadgets, his iPhone, his Netflix, his Plasma-screen TV…”