<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387</id><updated>2012-01-29T20:26:53.025-08:00</updated><category term='exports'/><category term='enough'/><category term='news'/><category term='flash mobs'/><category term='Peter Jackson'/><category term='community'/><category term='nature'/><category term='cartoons'/><category term='nobel prize'/><category term='Henry Louis Gates'/><category term='taxes'/><category term='Billy Dee Williams'/><category term='trains'/><category term='Atlanta'/><category term='Jeff Foxworthy'/><category term='country music'/><category term='nigger'/><category term='Snowballs'/><category term='Black 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Tillman'/><category term='compton'/><category term='gerrymandering'/><category term='st.louis'/><category term='bono'/><category term='undead'/><category term='science'/><category term='snitching'/><category term='jonesboro'/><category term='Adam Jones'/><category term='athlete-students'/><category term='rooney rule'/><category term='New York Mets'/><category term='Seinfeld'/><category term='Greeting card'/><category term='George W. Bush'/><category term='students'/><category term='Epic Beard Man'/><category term='Memphis'/><category term='minneapolis'/><category term='out of africa'/><category term='boondocks'/><category term='&quot;the Blacks&quot;'/><category term='ebonics'/><category term='tuskegee'/><category term='Jesse Jackson'/><category term='jobs'/><category term='G.I. Joe'/><category term='food'/><category term='healthcare'/><category term='mall'/><category term='Jersey Shore'/><category term='welfare'/><category term='Haiti'/><category term='kanye west'/><category term='token'/><category term='white people'/><category term='kool-aid'/><category term='snow'/><category term='Black Undertow'/><category term='NASA'/><category term='sandlot'/><category term='money'/><title type='text'>Stuff Black People Don't Like - SBPDL</title><subtitle type='html'>This website will serve to educate the general public on Black people and the Stuff That Black People Don't Like. Black people have many interesting eccentricities, which include disliking a litany of everyday events, places, household objects and other aspects of their everyday life.

Black people are an interesting subject matter and this website will chronicle the many problems in life that agitate this group of people.

To suggest material, please contact sbpdl1@gmail.com</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1002</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-1824942638461940650</id><published>2012-01-29T08:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T20:07:15.533-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EBT'/><title type='text'>Tick, Tick, Tick...</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.investors.com/image/WEBstmp0126-%5BConverted%5D_345.gif.cms" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="277" src="http://www.investors.com/image/WEBstmp0126-%5BConverted%5D_345.gif.cms" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;What is the racial breakdown?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Few have dared confront what will happen on the &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/08/day-ebt-cards-run-out-glimpse-of-chaos.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Day the EBT Card Runs Out&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This nightmarish scenario is the moment from which masters of horror like Clive Barker, Stephen King, Wes Craven, George Romero, Frank Darabont, and other writers and directors steer clear from, for the implications are far more frightening than any mere zombie apocalypse, an inextinguishable hockey-masked killer, or just an evil supernatural clown combined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/08/day-ebt-cards-run-out-glimpse-of-chaos.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Day the EBT Card Runs Out&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is a real eventuality, one that will play out when the United States federal government&lt;a href="http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/Clayton-County-Food-Stamp-Snafu-Angers-Many-20110810-am-sd"&gt; can no longer borrow money to dole out entitlements&lt;/a&gt; to a growing population segment that produces nothing. Well, "nothing" is not the best choice of word. It is more accurate to say that the disproportionate amount of crime that requires quasi-martial law to be declared in a growing number of cities that forces increases in funding of the police sector is a noticeable outgrowth of this demographic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is for this reason that Predator Drones will take to the sky over cities like Philadelphia, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Newark, and Birmingham, all in the name of 'keeping an eye on high-crime" areas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what happens when those EBT Cards stop working? What happens when the money runs out and they no longer provide the magical ability to provide victuals and provender?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in 2009, The&lt;i&gt; New York Times&lt;/i&gt; produced an interactive map that breaks down EBT card usage by race for every county in America. It's &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/28/us/20091128-foodstamps.html"&gt;available here&lt;/a&gt;. Please note that Hispanics are lumped in with the "white" category. In 2010, the &lt;i&gt;NYT &lt;/i&gt;published another map that showed the percentage of growth from &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/02/us/foodstamps-table.html"&gt;2007 to 2009&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/us/03foodstamps.html?pagewanted=all"&gt;safety net of EBT cards&lt;/a&gt; is a growing cost that an absolutely broke federal government will one day be unable to pay. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To understand the disproportionate reliance that Black people have upon the EBT card, take a look at the racial &lt;a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2011/05/10/black-apocalypse-ebt-card-food-stamp-usage-michigan/"&gt;breakdown of Michigan&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total African-Americans in Michigan: 1,405,515&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total African-Americans in Michigan on EBT Cards: 546,135&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total African-Americans in Michigan on EBT Cards: 39 percent.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A burgeoning Black (no pun intended) market exists in Detroit (84 percent Black), where the EBT card is the de facto currency of the population. Michican serves as a microcosm for the fraud endemic in the &lt;a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/food-stamp_fraud_detroit-area.html"&gt;EBT card community&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Two undercover informants entered Jefferson's Liquor Palace and spotted the owner at the register. "Big baby," said one, "we gon' do this?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man behind the counter provided $50 in cash, two bottles of liquor, two porn DVDs and two Viagra pills — all in exchange for taking $280.85 off a food-stamp card, say federal investigators who recorded the deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fraud in the government program that helps the poor has added up to nearly $100 million since 2007, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. It's a fraction of the more than $40 billion spent to feed people each year, but the crime has become a brazen way for some small stores to literally swipe cash from the U.S. Treasury, especially in the Detroit area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There have been at least 122 fraud-related convictions of owners or employees in the five-state Midwest region since 2007, nearly double the number from 2004-06, says USDA, which oversees the welfare program. About half of those have occurred in southeastern Michigan.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Remember, these numbers represent 2009 data. A recent survey provided by the Office of Research and Analysis provides a glimpse of the disproportionate reliance that Black people have on the EBT card (remember, Black people comprise only 13 percent of&amp;nbsp; our US population). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Investors Business Daily &lt;/i&gt;has provided a cover story on entitlement usage - sans racial/demographic breakdown - that offers a glimpse of the nightmarish scenario toward which we &lt;a href="http://news.investors.com/Article.aspx?id=598993&amp;amp;ibdbot=1"&gt;inch closer to each day&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If the Republican primaries are any indication, one big debate in the  upcoming election will be whether President Obama is pushing the  country toward a European-style welfare culture.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mitt Romney, for example, argues that "over the past three years,  Barack Obama has been replacing our merit-based society with an  entitlement society."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Newt Gingrich has taken to calling Obama "the best food-stamp president in American history."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obama, in contrast, says the government must play an increasing role —  what he likes to call "shared responsibility" — to ensure a society  that is fairer.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Food stamps.&lt;/b&gt; This year, more than 46 million (15% of all Americans) will get &lt;a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/34SNAPmonthly.htm" target="_blank"&gt;food stamps&lt;/a&gt;.  That's 45% higher than when Obama took office, and twice as high as the  average for the previous 40 years. This surge was driven in part by the  recession, but also because Obama boosted the benefit amount as part of  his stimulus plan.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you understand now why record gun sales are at record levels across the country? Do you understand now why people are losing faith in the government, with an increasing amount of individuals believing that society is spiraling toward collapse?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moment the &lt;i&gt;EBT Card Runs Out&lt;/i&gt; is the impetus behind such entertainment as &lt;i&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/i&gt;. In the past two years &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/04/atlanta-is-city-where-black-run-america.html"&gt;Atlanta and Detroit&lt;/a&gt; both provided glimpses of the people who rely on entitlements (Dallas as well): it was a monochromatic scene of sadness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tick... Tick... Tick...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That sound you hear is the timer clocking inexorably to the moment when the bomb goes off - the EBT card stops working at McDonald's; when the EBT card no longer purchase an Enchirito at Taco Bell; when the EBT card no longer supplies steak and lobster; when the song "&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-free-swipe-your-ebt.html"&gt;It's free, swipe your EBT&lt;/a&gt;" becomes a reminder of better days; when the EBT card can no longer be used to barter for drugs in Detroit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This nightmarish scenario will unfold. Barker, King, Romero... any of the various incarnations of &lt;i&gt;Paranormal Activity &lt;/i&gt;or &lt;i&gt;Saw &lt;/i&gt;will be child's play when compared to the horror that happens on &lt;i&gt;Night of the Dead EBT&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object data="http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212" height="280" id="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320"&gt;&lt;param value="http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212" name="movie"/&gt;&lt;param value="&amp;skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&amp;embed=true&amp;adSizeArray=300x240&amp;adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ewaga%2Fnews%2Fgeorgia%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bfname%3DClayton%2DCounty%2DFood%2DStamp%2DSnafu%2DAngers%2DMany%2D20110810%2Dam%2Dsd%3Bloc%3Dsite%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D440245842517747260%3Frand%3D0%2E8416324081629727&amp;flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxatlanta%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D135613568&amp;img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxatlanta%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2011%2F08%2F10%2F0810foodstamps4a%2EATL%5Ftmb0001%5F20110810044258%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&amp;story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxatlanta%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Flocal%5Fnews%2FClayton%2DCounty%2DFood%2DStamp%2DSnafu%2DAngers%2DMany%2D20110810%2Dam%2Dsd&amp;category=news&amp;title=0810foodstamps4a%2Emov&amp;oacct=foximfoximwaga,foximglobal&amp;ovns=foxinteractivemedia&amp;headline=Clayton%20County%20Food%20Stamp%20Snafu%20Angers%20Many" name="FlashVars"/&gt;&lt;param value="all" name="allowNetworking"/&gt;&lt;param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 320px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/Clayton-County-Food-Stamp-Snafu-Angers-Many-20110810-am-sd"&gt;Clayton County Food Stamp Snafu Angers Many: MyFoxATLANTA.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PZNLi1HLDTU" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-1824942638461940650?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/1824942638461940650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=1824942638461940650' title='37 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/1824942638461940650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/1824942638461940650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/tick-tick-tick.html' title='Tick, Tick, Tick...'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/PZNLi1HLDTU/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>37</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-5792889124929287616</id><published>2012-01-28T09:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T11:21:14.793-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kansas city'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Black people accreditation'/><title type='text'>Same Old Song: Kansas City's Billion Dollar School Experiment Loses its Accreditation</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Same old song&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Just a drop of water in an endless sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;All we do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Crumbles  to the ground though we refuse to see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Kansas, &lt;i&gt;Dust in the Wind&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boarddocs.com/mo/kanscsd/Board.nsf/files/WELCOME_IMAGE/$file/KCMSD_Logo09-welcome+image.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.boarddocs.com/mo/kanscsd/Board.nsf/files/WELCOME_IMAGE/$file/KCMSD_Logo09-welcome+image.png" width="384" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;One day, every school child will learn of the folly that occurred here&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;It was only a few years ago that Clayton County (that once bustling metro Atlanta county that is now majority Black) lost its accreditation for its school system. It was only last year that a major scandal engulfed the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://sbpdl.net/2011/07/06/a-black-scandal-for-atlanta-public-schools-aps/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQARgAIAEoBDAAOABAhdPd8ARIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&amp;amp;cd=7l9Il72NjGM&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFsFzhEQzuDPxjZSAHUw_LjDAXRjg"&gt;Atlanta Public School system&lt;/a&gt; (another majority Black system, with a bevy of Black administrators), jeopardizing the accreditation of its school district in the process.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Scandals are brewing in majority Black Washington D.C. and Philadelphia as we speak.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;But it's in one particularly interesting school district, host to perhaps the &lt;a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html"&gt;most notorious social experiment&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/taj_mahal_schools.html"&gt;American higher education history&lt;/a&gt;, that confirms that the dream of closing the &lt;a href="http://www.themaroontiger.com/?p=1732"&gt;racial gap in learning will never end&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As of Jan.1, the Kansas City Missouri (KCMO) School District has lost  its accreditation for the second time in 11 years. The last time the  KCMO School District lost its accreditation was in 2000 because of its  failure to meet the minimal academic performance standards of the  state.&amp;nbsp; In 2002, KCMO schools were able to make improvements to gain the  district provisional accreditation and avoid a state takeover.  According to MSNBC, the district has maintained only this provisional  accreditation for nearly a decade.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The State of Missouri assesses each district on the criteria of 14  predetermined standards. These standards are: Mission and Goals,  Planning, Resource Allocation, and Institutional Renewal, Institutional  Resources, Leadership and Governance, Administration, Integrity,  Institutional Assessment, Student Support Services, Faculty, Educational  Offerings, General Education, Related Educational Activities, and  Assessment of Student Learning. In 2010, KCMO passed its assessment by  only meeting four of the listed criteria. According to Kansas City News  Pro, in 2011 only three of the 14 accreditation standards were met  resulting in the loss of its accreditation.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Who are these students performing so miserably on these tests?&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rltO50t2R8"&gt; The answer shouldn't be surprising&lt;/a&gt;, with the blueprint for the school systems demise similar to those of Atlanta, Washington D.C., Birmingham, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Detroit. White flight to 'drifter colonies' surrounding Kansas City has left Black people in charge of an infrastructure they can't maintain and a school system filled with students incapable of achieving the academic standards of those who departed for temporary sanctuary in the suburbs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Here's the &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12schools.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on the collapse:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the wake of the Kansas City school board’s decision to shutter 28 of its 61 schools, many people were left scratching their heads. While school closings as a result of demographic change and tight budgets are commonplace across the country, rarely does a system lose half of itself in one sweep.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The sudden move suggests a depth of dysfunction here that is rarely associated with Kansas City, a lively heartland town with a reputation for order. But a closer look at the school board’s recent history reveals a chaotic, almost nonfunctioning body that put off making tough choices and even routine improvements for generations. Experts said that in the board’s years of inaction is a cautionary tale for school districts everywhere.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;“This is extraordinary,” said Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy, a research group in Washington. “The school board was dysfunctional for years. There was very poor governance for a long period of time, and it was like a revolving door with superintendents.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mr. Jennings also said the board was plagued with “a general unwillingness to face the facts” of the chaos it created.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;                    Students have been leaving the Kansas City public schools in droves. Close to 18,000 students exited to better suburban districts or &lt;a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/charter_schools/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about charter schools."&gt;charter schools&lt;/a&gt; in the last 10 years alone. The student enrollment is now 17,400 children, who are mostly black and impoverished.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;                    And achievement levels in the schools are abysmal: Fewer than a third of elementary students in the city schools read at or above grade level. And in most of the schools, fewer than a quarter of students are proficient at their grade levels.        &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Academic reforms to improve the Kansas City school system include shipping under-performing Black students into the drifter colony school districts that miraculously work. These primarily white students don't need tricks or gimmicks to pass tests or meet minimum standards. But with an influx of Black students, these school districts will inevitably collapse as well, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/us/kansas-city-mo-school-district-loses-its-accreditation.html?_r=1"&gt;leaving the state of Missouri with no choice but to cite the failure for academic progress&lt;/a&gt; in the Black students there too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happened in Kansas City (and continues to happen) requires us to look back in time and discuss the noble intentions of a desegregation order - and the &lt;a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/019377.html"&gt;billions wasted trying to close the racial gap in achievement between Black and white student&lt;/a&gt;s - that should give any thinking person an obvious answer to the question of nature vs. nurture. District Court Judge Russell Clark presided over a case that will serve to educate students in the future of the sheer folly that ruled &lt;a href="http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1614/article_detail.asp"&gt;American educational discourse in the 21st century&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By almost any standard, &lt;i&gt;Missouri&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;v. Jenkins&lt;/i&gt;, the  Kansas City, Missouri, school desegregation case, was extraordinary.  Between 1985 and 2003 federal judges ordered more than $2 billion in new  spending by the school district to encourage desegregation. Not only  did they double property taxes to pay this huge bill, but they imposed  an income tax surcharge on everyone who lived or worked in the city. The  court order turned every high school and middle school (as well as half  the elementary schools) into "magnet schools," each with a distinctive  theme—including not merely science, performing arts, and computer  studies, but also classical Greek, Asian studies, agribusiness, and  environmental studies. The newly constructed classical Greek high school  housed an Olympic-sized pool with an underwater observation room, an  indoor track, a gymnastic center, and racquetball courts.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; The former  coach of the Soviet Olympic fencing team was hired to teach inner-city  students how to thrust and parry. The school system spent almost a  million dollars a year to recruit white kids from the suburbs, and even  hired door-to-door taxi service for them. By 1995 Kansas City was  spending over $10,000 per student, more than any comparable school  system in the country. Despite this massive effort, litigation failed  either to improve the quality of education or to reduce racial  isolation. Test scores continued to drop, and the percentage of minority  students continued to rise. Eventually, black parents—who had long  opposed the court's heavy emphasis on "magnet schools" designed to draw  whites into the school system—insisted upon a return to neighborhood  schools. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Paul Ciotti of the Cato Institute&lt;a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html"&gt; produced perhaps the most devastating paper &lt;/a&gt;on the Kansas City experiment in Utopian dreams, revealing that no amount of money could another minute buy hopes of closing the racial gap in achievement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Will wrote about it at the &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-kansas-city-tackling-educations-status-quo/2011/04/21/AFh6qWRE_story.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Washington Post&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thirty-five years ago, Kansas City’s district had 54,000 students.  Today it has fewer than 17,000. Between then and now there was a  spectacular confirmation of the axiom that education cannot be improved  by simply throwing money at it.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the 1980s, after a court held  that the city was operating a segregated school system, judicial  Caesarism appeared. A judge vowed to improve the district’s racial  balance by luring white students to lavish “magnet schools” offering  “suburban comparability” and “desegregative attractiveness.” And he  ordered tax increases to pay the almost $2 billion bill for, among other  things, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a planetarium, vivariums,  greenhouses, a model United Nations wired for language translation,  radio and television studios, an animation and editing lab, movie  editing and screening rooms, a temperature-controlled art gallery, a  25-acre farm, a 25-acre wildlife area, instruction in cosmetology and  robotics, field trips to Mexico and Senegal, and more.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Neither  test scores nor the racial gap in academic achievement improved, and  racial imbalance increased. Today, African Americans are 28 percent of  the city’s population and 63 percent of public school students. And  Covington (“We’re not an employment agency. We are a school district”)  has survived the tumultuous process of closing schools. He won the  support of a narrow majority on the elected school board. Except for one  incumbent board member who ran unopposed, all those candidates in the  next election who had opposed the closures were defeated. Now what?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Now what? Cue up the Kansas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Same old song&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Just a drop of water in an endless sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;All we do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Crumbles  to the ground though we refuse to see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Education reform is not my specialty. But the answer is &lt;a href="http://www.kctv5.com/story/15314518/kansas-city-charter-schools-may-owe-millions"&gt;not Charter Schools&lt;/a&gt; or busing Black students into drifter colonies in the hopes that, through some of educational osmosis, they magically produce the same test scores as their white counterparts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer is one that the Federal government can never consider, for it would undermine the very foundation of its current mission (the totalitarian enforcement of what we have dubbed Black-Run America: BRA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) and I Have a Dream (I HAD) people - these are your standard Republicans/conservatives - have a vested interest in ensuring that the very question is never even asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those haunting lines from &lt;i&gt;Dust in the Wind&lt;/i&gt; provide the answer that should be obvious to any person, but because&amp;nbsp; our society values maintaining a lie (equality), we must obfuscate reality further. Ensuring that civilization crumbles to the ground in the process. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kansas City, Detroit, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Newark, and a growing list of cities must be sacrificed to perpetuate this lie. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No worries. &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/08/dust-in-wind-bleeding-kansas-city-ii.html"&gt;Kansas City is one of those cities&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;strike&gt;Flash Mobs&lt;/strike&gt; Mahogany Mobs are scaring away shoppers and potential investors hoping to revitalize the downtown area, which is home to some of the most dangerous &lt;a href="http://newsone.com/nation/dlchandler/missouri-black-homicide-rate/"&gt;Black people on the planet&lt;/a&gt; (now you should understand why white flight happens; to live in communities free of crime, murder, and mayhem).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lie of equality will continue to limp along, taking countless lives in the process and wasting trillions of dollars (not to mention the unquantifiable opportunity costs associated with maintaining it). All in the name of "progress", which really means stunting our advancement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never forget: We could have been on Mars, but we had to conduct the great Kansas City experiment. And the Detroit experiment. And the Memphis experiment. And the Philadelphia experiment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results were always the same. Here's how to save American education: admit racial differences in intelligence. This would instantly undermine BRA, so committing suicide is not an option for DWLs and I Had people. Our future must be sacrificed, instead, while we patiently look to the skies &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/07/when-waiting-for-superman-requires-lex.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;waiting for Superman &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;to come save us all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Same old song&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Just a drop of water in an endless sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;All we do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Crumbles  to the ground though we refuse to see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QPXm352nf0Q" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PbW0LjYrKa4" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-5792889124929287616?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/5792889124929287616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=5792889124929287616' title='57 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5792889124929287616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5792889124929287616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/same-old-song-kansas-citys-billion.html' title='Same Old Song: Kansas City&apos;s Billion Dollar School Experiment Loses its Accreditation'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/QPXm352nf0Q/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>57</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-6750284320483871822</id><published>2012-01-27T13:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T13:56:26.940-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Exist  &gt; Coexist</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Exist. What a powerful word. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stickershoppe.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/d201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.stickershoppe.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/d201.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;For what?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Coexist. Why? What does that even mean? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nothing is more infuriating then seeing the &lt;a href="http://www.coexistbumpersticker.org/"&gt;“Coexist” bumper sticker&lt;/a&gt; on a car, thereby alerting the person driving behind them or the individual passing their parked car at a shopping complex of their inherit moral superiority. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;There’s some new study out that Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) are all excited about, because it purports to paint conservatives and those harboring “prejudicial” thoughts as &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html;_ylc=X3oDMTNuODNnMzRoBF9TAzIwMjIzOTg2MzAEYWN0A21haWxfY2IEY3QDYQRpbnRsA3VzBGxhbmcDZW4tVVMEcGtnA2M3MzA3ZTlhLTE3ZTEtMzU5NC05YzE2LWJiNjI3NWFmZDA4OQRzZWMDbWl0X3NoYXJlBHNsawNtYWlsB"&gt;possessing low-IQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to &lt;span class="yshortcutscs4-ndcor"&gt;racism and prejudice&lt;/span&gt; may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Now why isn’t similar – let’s call it what it is: sensational - language used to describe the reasons behind that pesky racial gap in learning? Trillion upon trillions (the number can’t be quantified) of dollars have been wasted – not to mention the countless careers of Crusading White Pedagogues (CWP) – trying to fix what, well, what can’t be fixed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Black students, for the most part, can’t compete with the standards set by their white counterparts. Neither can the increasingly large Hispanic population, though Asians tend to perform at the same level – in some cases, above – as that set by their white peers. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Coexist? What Utopian delusions do DWLs imagine will exist in this world of tomorrow (did a “World of the Future” expo from the past ever include an exhibit promoting such wonderful notions of ‘coexistence’?) where Muslims, Jews, Christians and Wiccans (the “I” stands for earth, water, fire, air and human spirit) fraternize in harmony, equality, and peace? &amp;nbsp;Even in America, a land where Freedom Failed, the state coerces the people the tyrannical policy known as Black-Run America (BRA). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Just like in the dying days of the Soviet  Union, a growing majority of the population has lost all faith in this system. Conversely, as BRA’s legitimacy wanes, attempts by the state to enforce its power become more desperate (the voter identification story being one example). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;This epoch that we live in will pass. It will end. Until that moment, you have only one choice: endure. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But perhaps there is something more powerful that you can do. Something elemental.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;While the zeitgeist of the day demands you ‘Coexist’, it’s only natural that a movement would arise in opposition to this desire for totalitarian universal brotherhood. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I’ve thought long and hard regarding a logo for SBPDL. Finally, it dawned on me when I saw a ‘COEXIST’ sticker on a car that cut me off on a highway. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The word 'Exist' in white letters, surrounded by Black. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;One word that runs counter to this age, that despite decades of intense propaganda is all around us is crashing to the ground. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Exist. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;A radical notion that the cuts to the very heart of conservatism, and exposes the roots of what is behind any movement dedicated to preserving something, be it an old building designated for demolition; a forest that will leveled so a ‘drifter colony’ can be built outside an unsafe major city; or even a people who are told they have no right to worry about their collective future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Exist. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Don’t be surprised if bumper or magnetic stickers with ‘Exist’ written upon them start appearing around the nation. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Exist. What a powerful word. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In an age where a blind devotion to the delusional, yet coerced ideology that “progress” can only occur and be achieved through ‘coexistence’; well, daring to ‘exist’ might be the most radical act a person can participate in. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xI5HmmizYwY" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-6750284320483871822?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/6750284320483871822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=6750284320483871822' title='74 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6750284320483871822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6750284320483871822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/exist-coexist.html' title='Exist  &gt; Coexist'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/xI5HmmizYwY/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>74</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-958344455865726180</id><published>2012-01-26T10:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T13:16:06.767-08:00</updated><title type='text'>(Frank) Castle Doctrine in Action? 65- year-old Pennsylvania Native Fights Back</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s1.moviefanfare.com/uploads/2011/04/Death-Wish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="226" src="http://s1.moviefanfare.com/uploads/2011/04/Death-Wish.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;It has finally happened in Philadelphia&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&amp;nbsp;UPDATE: This story is going to be big. Eventually, MSNBC will send reporters to cover what looks to be a white dude utilizing the Castle Doctrine to defend himself from Black teens (who should have been in school!). It's a safe bet that the 65-year-old&amp;nbsp; man was a white male. Knowing that the dead teenage attacker is named Julius Johnson, it's an equally safe bet all three teens who attacked him (who were all skipping school) &lt;a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/DA-Robbery-victim-65-justified-in-shooting-of-teens-on-trail/-/121418/8505702/-/3s906uz/-/index.html"&gt;were Black&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A 65-year-old man was justified in shooting two of three  teenagers who were attempting to rob him as he rode his bicycle along a  popular river trail Wednesday morning, authorities announced Thursday.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The ordeal unfolded shortly before 11 a.m. on the Thun Trail in Cumru Twp., Berks Co.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The  teens knocked the man off his bicycle and onto the ground, said police,  who added that two of the teens were assaulting the man when he pulled  out a gun and shot them.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span id=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span id=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;The man was licensed to carry a gun, said Berks County  District Attorney John Adams, who noted that he told investigators that  he feared for his life. Adams said the man had no choice.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span id=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;One of  the alleged assailants, Julius Johnson, 16, a student in the Reading  School District who skipped school Wednesday, died at the scene of a  gunshot wound to the chest, officials said&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span id=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The city of Philadelphia is under-siege. Thirty-one people &lt;a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120126_Murder_toll_keeps_rising.html"&gt;have been killed in the first 25 days of 2012&lt;/a&gt; there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rocky Balboa, the fictional boxer who brought such pride to Philadelphia - a statue of this movie character sits outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art - wouldn't be able to train in the city now. He'd be targeted for assault or he'd have fled the crime that is forcing law-abiding citizens to leave for the suburbs, those rootless "drifter colonies" that surround almost every major city in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a column at the start of 2012, which quietly illustrated why &lt;a href="http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-06/news/30598180_1_black-on-black-killings-murder-big-cities"&gt;white flight happens&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The paper read murder, Black on black murder, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The paper read murder, Black on black murder again&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Murder again. . . . Is it genocide?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;- Jay-Z and Kanye West,&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;"Murder to Excellence"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Those gunshots that had you dropping to the floor on New Year's Eve? You know, the ones that traditionally ring in the new year?&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;They've  become nothing more than an S.O.S., warning us that yes, domestic  terrorism is alive and well in a city where brothers kill brothers -  Philadelphia.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Talk about black-on-black crime: According to stats  from the Philadelphia Police Department, 75 percent of 324 victims  killed last year were African American men, while 80 percent of those  doing the killing were - you guessed it - black males.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsone.com/nation/dlchandler/missouri-black-homicide-rate/"&gt;Unlike in New Orleans&lt;/a&gt;, where that city's elderly Black population prays for an end to Black violence - which no God answers - Philadelphia residents are witnessing the end-result of the experiment of ultimate freedom. Detroit should have been the case study that documented for the world to see that freedom fails. Sadly, many other cities must now fall to the same fate of The Arsenal of Democracy, with The City of Brotherly Love next on the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not hard to understand that its the Black population that makes a city unsafe to live. The greater the percentage (think Detroit or increasingly Philadelphia), the worse the violence. Just take a look at recent figures that showcase how Black people in&lt;a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/25/3392027/missouris-black-homicide-rate.html"&gt; Kansas City and St. Louis monopolize violence&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Missouri’s rate of 34.72 homicides per 100,000 black residents is  almost double the national black homicide victim rate of 17.90,  according to the study. The national rate for whites is 2.92 homicides  per 100,000 people.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If there is any positive news in the report,  it’s that Missouri’s nation-leading rate decreased from the year before  when it led the country with 39.90 homicides per 100,000 black  residents.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kansas ranks 12th nationally with a rate of 20.04 per 100,000 population, according to this year’s report.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For  their study of 2009 homicides, researchers reported 239 black homicide  victims in Missouri. There were 35 counted that year in Kansas.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In St. Louis, blacks were victims in 125 of the 143 homicides in 2009, according to St. Louis police.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Of Kansas City’s 110 homicides in 2009, there were 81 black victims, according to Kansas City police statistics.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/25/3392027/missouris-black-homicide-rate.html#storylink=cpy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Truth does seem to have a racial bias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing that Philadelphia is headed for extinction, and that the violence seen in 2011 from Black people there is going to be eclipsed in 2012, what does one do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exercise the usage of the&lt;a href="http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=361536"&gt; Castle Doctrine&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblArticleData"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A 65-year-old man  shot two teens, one fatally, as they tried to rob him Wednesday morning  on a trail near the Schuylkill River, police said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Berks County coroner's office did not release the name of the boy  who was killed, saying only that he was a 16-year-old from the city.  Officials said his mother asked them to give her time to notify  relatives before releasing his name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:17 p.m. by Deputy Coroner Jonn  M. Hollenbach. An autopsy is scheduled this afternoon in Reading  Hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other teen, who was shot once, was taken to Reading Hospital. Police  did not release his name. Information on his condition could not be  obtained.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A third teen, identified only as a 15-year-old boy, was stopped at the  scene by police and taken in for questioning. He was later committed to  the county youth center in Bern Township on unspecified charges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Authorities also did not release the name of the man, who was not charged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police said the shooting occurred shortly before 11 on the Thun Trail  near the Schuylkill River pedestrian bridge between Reading and West  Reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to investigators:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man was riding his bicycle on the trail near the Bertolet Fishing  Dock at South First Avenue and Chestnut Street in West Reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The teens knocked the man off his bicycle, and two of them assaulted him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man pulled out a handgun and shot them both.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;As of yet, the racial angle of this story is unknown. Judging by the rate at which Black people avoid riding bicycles and the fact that a &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-not-good-way-to-live-philadelphia.html"&gt;white guy was attacked by Black people while riding a bike last year into Philadelphia&lt;/a&gt;, the odds are pretty good it's a case of Black-on-white violence that was only interrupted because of the timely application of what must be dubbed the (Frank) &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/06/castle-doctrine-in-effect-in.html"&gt;Castle Law&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This story is still developing (&lt;a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/Police-Man-shot-teens-in-self-defense/-/121418/8499682/-/12rwn9cz/-/index.html"&gt;video here&lt;/a&gt;), but it's one that illustrates no "drifter colony" is safe from violence. Berks County, considered part of Philadelphia statistically, is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berks_County,_Pennsylvania"&gt;76 percent white and 4.9 percent Black&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of how the story turns out (if three white punks were the attackers), those who do evil to others must be punished. Those who would do evil must be reminded that their actions do have consequences.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-958344455865726180?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/958344455865726180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=958344455865726180' title='145 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/958344455865726180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/958344455865726180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/frank-castle-doctrine-in-action-65-year.html' title='(Frank) Castle Doctrine in Action? 65- year-old Pennsylvania Native Fights Back'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>145</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-6056223710685037218</id><published>2012-01-24T20:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T20:16:12.626-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Detroit'/><title type='text'>"Detropia" as the future for all America: Why 'drifter colonies' must come to an end</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i2.listal.com/image/876535/600full-titan-ae-screenshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://i2.listal.com/image/876535/600full-titan-ae-screenshot.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Titan A.E.&lt;/i&gt;: A Whitopia is basically a 'drifter colony' for those with no home&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;The other day, I happened to watch &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E&lt;/i&gt;. Strange as this may sound; it came out when I was in high school. It’s not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but the general thrust of the story intrigued me enough to watch bits and pieces of it while I finished reading a book called &lt;i&gt;Detroit Divided.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;First off, it’s a cartoon set between 3028 – 3043 A.D. The world has been destroyed (as in the planet has been blown up by an alien life-form made of pure energy) and only a few pockets of humanity escaped of earth. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Wikipedia describes beautifully &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E."&gt;what comes next&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E. primarily deals with the idea of human existence after the destruction of Earth. The movie opens with the destruction of Earth and primarily takes place 15 years after this event. Since that time, humans’ numbers have dwindled and there is a general prejudice against them from other species. Many humans, even ones who once fought to save humanity, have given up on the species and concluded that extinction is only a matter of time. Cale is initially cynical in this way but begins to believe in saving his species more after spending time on a “drifter colony” full of humans and relics from Earth.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;It was while watching the apathy of the Cale character (voiced by Matt Damon) toward fighting to save humanity, that I realized the movie was a perfect metaphor for our time. Sometimes, I wonder how many people have given up on defending the historic majority population of not only America, but of Europe and the civilizations her people gave birth too. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s a reason the entire non-European world wishes to live in the European-created world; they’d rather live in a world created and sustained by what Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) call ‘white privilege’ then their native land. The only ‘white privilege’ that white people have left in Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa is the privilege of watching their nations become submerged by people who have&amp;nbsp; no vested interest in maintaining the culture (an extension of race) that created it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;People dissent on what they are allowed to dissent on (in our strange world, we’d call these people “libertarians”) and the rest go about their pointless lives, hoping to get through the work week so they can spend a few hours in ecstasy watching a collegiate or professional sporting contest. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;They remain comfortably numb to anything outside the micro-paradigms they’ve created for themselves, while a macro-paradigm shift has occurred which governs all of our lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hard to believe, but 100 years ago white people made up roughly 33 percent of the world’s population; today, less than 8 percent of the population is white. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In many ways, we live in a world like that in &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Europe is quickly becoming Eurabia; South Africa and &lt;s&gt;Rhodesia&lt;/s&gt; Zimbabwe are done; Australia and New Zealand will be swallowed by the demographic tidal wave; and the United   States of America is governed by Black-Run America (BRA), where the slightest dissent means complete ostracism from respectable society. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;For four generations now, white Americans have participated in the abandonment of major city after major city. The consequences of this pulling up tent and running away from major cities that become untenable to raise a family in (always due to the same reason: high rates of Black crime that drive down property value, force the closing of businesses, and worse, bring ruin to the schools) have been disastrous. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-did-it-come-to-this-wapo-sheds.html"&gt;The collapse of Detroit&lt;/a&gt; into barbarism is the perfect reminder of why we live in a world much like that of &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E&lt;/i&gt;. Detroit’s collapse is 100 percent racial; the original Detroit, like earth in &lt;i&gt;Titan A.E&lt;/i&gt;., has been destroyed irrevocably.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Detroit had a Black riot in 1967 that convinced white people of the need to flee for the suburbs if they were to survive and flourish. Multiple Coleman Young mayoral terms in Detroit convinced those few remaining white people to completely give up on the city. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Civilization is, for all intents and purposes, dead in Detroit. Though few will state it – remember, Detroit is 84 percent Black now – the collapse of The Motor City is 100 percent a reminder that Black people lack the capacity to even sustain a city they are given through the attrition of white people. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, two filmmakers, have captured what happens when white people leave a towering metropolis that their ancestors created behind. Called&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt; Detropia&lt;/i&gt;, their documentary shows a glimpse of the future for all cities or counties that the &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/opinion/dismantling-detroit.html"&gt;Black Undertow submerges&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Detroit lost 25 percent of its population between 2000 and 2010, and now, broke, finds itself on the verge of a possible state takeover. Yet visual reminders of a better time both haunt and anoint the residents here. The past is achingly present in Detroit, and the way its citizens interact with the hulking, physical remnants of yesterday is striking.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;A few years ago, there was a rash of power outages in Detroit, caused by people illegally cutting down live telephone wires to get to the valuable copper coils inside. The Detroit police created a copper theft task force to deter the so-called “scrappers,” young men who case old buildings for valuable metals, troll cemeteries to steal copper grave plates and risk their lives to squeeze any last dollar out of the industrial detritus. &amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;One freezing evening we happened upon the young men in this film, who were illegally dismantling a former Cadillac repair shop. They worked recklessly to tear down the steel beams and copper fasteners. They were in a hurry to make it to the scrap yard before it closed at 10 p.m., sell their spoils and head to the bar. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Surprisingly, these guys, who all lacked high school diplomas, seemed to have a better understanding of their place in the global food chain than many educated American 20-somethings. The young men regularly checked the fluctuating price of metals before they determined their next scrap hunt, and they had a clear view of where these resources were going and why. They were the cleanup crew in a shaky empire.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Somebody’s got to do it. &amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Will &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Detropia&lt;/i&gt; admit the racial aspect of Detroit’s collapse? Will it even broach the racial aspect of the collapse? Doubtful. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But those hated white people, who will continue to face increasing prejudices as their numbers decrease (and yet still be given the bill to pay for entitlements to subsidize the high growth rates of minority populations) will forever search for new homes to raise families free of crime, with safe streets, and with a flourishing school system. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;They’ll search for “drifter colonies” – as in &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E&lt;/i&gt;. – where the relics of an almost all-white society from the past is kept alive, if only fleetingly. To paraphrase one of my favorite lines from a movie, kids who get to grow up in a Whitopia – isn’t that all a “drifter colony” is in BRA? – get to see what all of America was once like, just a glimpse that will eventually be lost, like tears in the rain. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;. Those people who yearn for the “good ole days” of America actually yearn for a world that has been dismantled, and can never be restored. The Detroit of yesterday is but the scrap metal of today. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;How many other cities will eventually see a similar fate? Milwaukee, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Birmingham all are at the top of a growing list. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Surrounding these dying cities reside flourishing “drifter colonies” that will eventually be abandoned to the expanding Black Undertow, fleeing the very major city they couldn’t sustain. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The Detroit Free Press &lt;/i&gt;profiled&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt; Detropia&lt;/i&gt;, publishing &lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120120/ENT01/201200411/-Detropia-documentary-Sundance-Film-Festival-shows-different-view-Detroit"&gt;these words&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The city's struggles have had no lack of attention recently. There have been other documentaries, as well as national TV reports, photo books, art exhibits and references in pop songs.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;But "Detropia" seems different, for a couple of reasons. One, it's made by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers Heidi Ewing, who grew up in Farmington Hills, and Rachel Grady. They are best known for the controversial 2006 documentary "Jesus Camp," which focused on an evangelical Christian summer camp. Two, it frames the story from the perspective of the decline and collapse of America's manufacturing base, with Detroit being at the epicenter.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;"Our intention is not that somebody point the finger and say, 'Man, Detroit's really got problems.' If that's what happens, then we've failed at our job," Ewing said this week.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"We want people to say, 'Man, that's happening in my city, too. How did we let it go this far? What is our American identity when we've allowed a city to come to this point? And what are our priorities?'&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;"Really, we want the story of Detroit to boomerang back to the viewer and reflect upon what's going on around them and their part of the country."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;With evocative music and hauntingly lovely cinematography, "Detropia" conveys some of the emptiness and beauty of the city while delving deeply into the economic battering it has taken.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The villain of the piece could be the shift of manufacturing power from the U.S., where making things fueled the rise of the middle class, to countries such as Mexico and China, where the costs of producing goods can be much cheaper.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The movie, which took two years to plan and complete, doesn't shrink from harsh realities. There are familiar scenes of an abandoned house being torn down, people scavenging for scrap metal amid ruined buildings and community meetings filled with pain and resentment.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Pain and resentment. In how many hearts, in how many minds, in how bodies of those searching for the next&lt;s&gt; Whitopia&amp;nbsp; &lt;/s&gt;“drifter colony” to try and raise a healthy family in, do these two words register? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Just as in &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E.&lt;/i&gt;, a high number have privately realized what is happening, but the majority of them have accepted that extinction of their way of life is all but finalized. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Why stand in the way of history, when it would only prevent you from cheering on your alma mater or favorite professional team to victory? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Steve Lasser recently wrote an op-ed for &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/opinion/in-detroit-a-fresh-wave-of-hope.html?_r=2&amp;amp;ref=opinion"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, claiming optimism is the only way forward for Detroit. Knowing that the city is being scavenged by scalpers seeking a quick profit, while simultaneously deserted by the very people who precipitated its demise, one can only conclude that Lasser is mentally unstable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But is one mentally unstable for hoping that the day comes when those congregating in “drifter colonies” amid the outskirts of once mighty cities all across this nation (Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Richmond, and others come to mind) realize that for the sake of the future generations of the unborn, an end to the system of BRA must end? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Detroit is the future for America if nothing changes, if the system of BRA remains in place. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;If it does not, well, just like at the end of &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E&lt;/i&gt;. we’ll get to create our own world, how ever we see fit. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;The other day, I happened to watch &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Titan A.E&lt;/i&gt;. As the credits rolled, it dawned on me: the days of hoping to find the next &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;US News and World Report &lt;/i&gt;or &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;CNN/Money&lt;/i&gt; “Best Place to Raise a Family” &lt;s&gt;Whitopia “ &lt;/s&gt;Drifter Colony” must end. Once, all of America looked like this dwindling-in-cities; now, the Federal government plots to put refugees or Section 8 housing in their midst’s. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Looking at the pictures of the old Detroit - the beautiful edifices of majestic buildings-you start to understand that they represent relics of a lost country, one that is still worth defending to the end. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Those residing in “Drifter Colonies” still seek out some semblance of that lost America, even if they won’t admit why they move from one Whitopia experiencing &lt;i&gt;Climate Climate&lt;/i&gt; to one unmolested by this real phenomenon. A temporary 'drifter colony' for safe harboring.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Cynicism that the end of BRA will come must end. What comes when it does end, well, that’s the real question. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dZec5s2-l0M" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-6056223710685037218?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/6056223710685037218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=6056223710685037218' title='98 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6056223710685037218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6056223710685037218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/detropia-as-future-for-all-america-why.html' title='&quot;Detropia&quot; as the future for all America: Why &apos;drifter colonies&apos; must come to an end'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/dZec5s2-l0M/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>98</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-9020008567602535755</id><published>2012-01-23T18:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T19:00:57.628-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Disintegration of America: Part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;PK Note: Comfortably numb. That's how I feel right now. Reading about the violence escalating in Philadelphia (could the fictional Rocky Balboa even train there safely now?), New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis... you begin to realize we are one incident away, when the wrong person is attacked by &lt;strike&gt;youths&lt;/strike&gt; Black people merely playing a simple game of Knockout King.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I read the stories of all these crimes (can't comment on... all of them), waiting patiently for some elected official to say... something. None do. None ever will. Well, SBPDL is pleased to publish part II of Zenster's "The Disintegration of America." We hope you enjoy it. Tomorrow, we'll start with old school # posts.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Oh, and &lt;a href="http://newsone.com/entertainment/nomul6/red-tails-is-box-office-hit/"&gt;for those claiming&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;Red Tails &lt;/i&gt;was a box office success, you might want to rethink that claim:&lt;a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/search/?q=tyler%20perry"&gt; Tyler Perry movies usually pull in $25 - $30 million opening week&lt;/a&gt;, with considerable less in marketing dollars (or free, sycophantic marketing dollars via glowing newspapers articles and documentaries), and &lt;a href="http://newsone.com/entertainment/newsonestaff7/red-tails-surprise-industry-professionals/"&gt;without schools closing to take students to see fiction peddled as truth&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Red Tails &lt;/i&gt;had a budget of $58 million and a marketing/distribution budget of $35 million (all paid for by George Lucas). It made $19 million opening night, largely due Black people launching a &lt;a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/why-line-red-tails-and-not-pariah"&gt;Twitter to see the movie opening week&lt;/a&gt;. Prediction: &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; drops 70 percent in box office revenue next week. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. &lt;br /&gt;― Cass Sunstein ― &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Current Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This section will examine the origins of segregation plus how a growing sense of entitlement is washing over America, particularly with respect to Blacks, but also in other parts of the population and the negative effects it has on social cohesion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Myth of Integration&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original and successful “integration” of America is largely an illusion brought about by the fact that a vast majority of early immigrants ― despite varying appearances and faiths ― still shared in common a largely Western European moral or spiritual framework. This provided a basic degree of mutual interest and lent genetic cohesion to an otherwise substantial population shift in the New World.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More recently arrived Black and Asian influxes posed issues that would prove increasingly problematic but, back then, were held in check by relatively strict and somewhat mutually agreed upon social segregation. However, almost all ethnic groups exhibited a degree of “enclave mentality”. This manifested as “Chinatown”, “Little Italy” plus districts for Irish, Scandinavian and other ethnic groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The so-called “melting pot” of America worked back then due to a predominantly European cultural milieu. Non-European populations typically did not intermingle as much and this minimal contact helped to curtail potential racial friction. America’s European immigrants slowly intermarried and this bled off a large amount of tensions that otherwise might have arisen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consistent with this existing social structure, actual government policies were put in place to ensure a lack of friction. Dating from 1937, CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) guidelines known as the “Neighborhood Composition Rule”, &lt;i&gt;required&lt;/i&gt; that tenants of a given federally subsidized housing development must reflect the same race as people living in the environs of where it was to be located.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In light of how vulnerable midcentury inner cities were to arson and other riot-related havoc, the “Neighborhood Composition Rule” made a degree of sense. Awkward placement of subsidized housing recipients could have sown the seeds for racial confrontations that might just as easily have turned violent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The “Great Society” and Big Government&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should anyone think that this sort of “social management” represented a new peak in paternalistic government, please consider the breathtaking scope of Lyndon Johnson’s plans. Here is a partial list of “&lt;a href="http://defenseofcapitalism.blogspot.com/2011/03/lyndon-johnsons-great-society-free.html"&gt;Great Society &lt;/a&gt;” programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Medicare and Medicaid (as amendments to the Social Security Act)&lt;br /&gt;• Economic Opportunity Act&lt;br /&gt;• Office of Economic Opportunity&lt;br /&gt;• Community Action Agencies&lt;br /&gt;• Elementary and Secondary Education Act&lt;br /&gt;• Higher Education Act&lt;br /&gt;• Model Cities Program&lt;br /&gt;• Housing and Urban Development Act&lt;br /&gt;• Urban Mass Transit Act&lt;br /&gt;• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps) &lt;br /&gt;• National Endowments for the Arts&lt;br /&gt;• National Endowments for the Humanities &lt;br /&gt;• Wilderness, Endangered Species, and Federal Water Pollution Control Acts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider in detail then, how these new agencies gave the Federal government unprecedented powers of intervention with respect to what were once largely state-arbitrated matters.  Just that last item alone, a forerunner to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), has seen numerous important state projects halted over supposedly endangered life forms of sometimes nearly microscopic dimensions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was Big Government on an unmatched scale in all of American history. It also represented a considerable dilution of America’s once principally Capitalistic free market economy through the injection of so many Socialist measures. The problematic aspects of expanding government to such a major extent have only now begun to show up on the electorate’s radar. This growth in the federal system also signaled a tremendous paradigm shift in who voted for whom and when.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During this most recent economic recovery, the federal government has been the only noteworthy source of new job creation. With almost &lt;i&gt;two million&lt;/i&gt; employees in 2009, there are now plans afoot to create another &lt;a href="http://content.opportunityknocks.org/2009/09/10/federal-government-must-hire-273000-new-workers-to-fill-mission-critical-jobs/"&gt;273,000&lt;/a&gt; “mission critical jobs” over the next three years. This represents a 41% increase over the same figures contained in a 2007 survey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is vital to remember that government workers are &lt;i&gt;tax consumers&lt;/i&gt; who live on the public’s payroll. Very few federal employees generate any actual revenue beyond that garnered by tax collection. The financial impact of this surge in government hiring will not be felt for many years even though its more immediate influence is sure to be visible at the polls. There is little doubt about how federal employees will tend to vote when there is any question about growing the government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this we encounter a fundamental conflict of interest which is little different from how our politicians habitually vote themselves pay increases. The most profound inconsistency resides in how the Public Employees Union has little, if any, incentive to oppose increases in pay and benefits &lt;i&gt;despite how these escalating costs threaten to destroy America’s economic health&lt;/i&gt;. Unlike private sector workers, there is no perceived chance of driving their employer, the government, out of business with demands for more wages and better retirement plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason for pointing this out arises from how there is also manifesting a voting alliance between government workers and those whose survival is tied to public-paid benefits like welfare and Social Security. That the federal government hires a disproportionate number of minorities lends a special emphasis to this issue. Ensconced tax consumers are &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; pro-Socialists, as no other form of governance could possibly support them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Back to the Plantation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has long been apparent that the traditionally Liberal Democratic Party has a deliberate strategy of appealing to the poor through advocacy for increased spending on programs involving social benefits. Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” is a pluperfect example of this. Another voting bloc with a keen interest in social benefits is that of naturalized immigrants. The typically lower incomes of these two groups assure that they will more frequently rely upon social benefits and, therefore, vote for Democratic Party candidates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By encouraging an “Open Door” policy to swell the ranks of immigrant citizens, America’s Democratic Party has effectively enlarged their voter base. Between increased government hiring and spending, there is a strong inflationary effect upon the economy such that this can pose negative consequences for private sector job creation. Thus, by exacerbating poverty and increasing the number of those who depend upon government largess, the Democratic Party creates, in effect, &lt;i&gt;Mendicant Voter Plantations&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was far more apparent in the age of large-scale urban housing projects and, as a consequence of ensuing negative publicity, Democratic Party members recently have sought to camouflage this rather grasping ploy by distributing Section 8 housing recipients into the suburbs of major cities. All of which is driving a renewed round of White flight as what were once exclusively White enclaves fall victim to the crime and lowered quality of life that an increased minority presence so often can bring along with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, there is no longer any need for large urban housing projects. The Federal government is already so heavily Liberal ― with many Republicans being RINO (Republican In Name Only) ― that, while racial gerrymandering still exists, concentrating Black voters within a single district is not of such vital importance with regard to getting minority politicians into office. The massive number of underwater homes ― a curious byproduct of Democratic Party policies and programs ― has also contributed to an increase in residences available for Section 8 housing. Finally, expanded transit systems ― recall that “Great Society” Urban Mass Transit Act ― has made it possible to achieve the dual Liberal goals of exporting urban mendicant voters into areas with less burdened social services ― read: &lt;i&gt;self-supporting White enclaves&lt;/i&gt; ― and simultaneously desegregating such areas &lt;i&gt;by force&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This peremptory imposition of “diversity” only serves to increase racial tensions and, accordingly, grows government by requiring increased hiring of law enforcement and social service officers in areas where such involuntary “cultural enrichment” happens. Again, this municipal hiring swells the ranks of tax consumers and only increases that burden which is carried by the ever-thinning ranks of &lt;i&gt;tax producers&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liberal policy-making and programs consistently reflect a strong vulnerability to The Law of Unintended Consequences, something that LBJ’s experience in Vietnam should have made him keenly aware of. Fighting racism with compulsory desegregation only strengthens the enclave mentality. Attempting to end poverty with expanded government programs increases the tax burden for productive citizens and deters overall job creation. Examples of this Liberal failing are as numerous as they are varied.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dis-Integration Arrives&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Jared Taylor’s observation is true; namely, that “the statistics for residential segregation in the United States are almost identical to what they were fifty or sixty years ago”, then what ultimate effect does this new form of forced integration have upon communities? It is already apparent that neighborhoods with a higher degree of racial “diversity” inherently will experience more divergent political and personal interests which can just as readily compromise any existing sense of social cohesion. Divergence of this sort is an automatic predictor of potential conflict.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One immediate outcome is an “atomization” of personal relationships. A community’s fabric loses its tightness of weave and thereby, its strength. This frequently promotes the sort of anonymity more commonly associated with urban environments. Such "facelessness" is a vital ingredient for criminal activity that is more often suppressed in tightly knit communities where an individual’s reputation has a greater effect upon their social and financial standing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fracturing of social unity more strongly affects Whites than it does other minorities specifically because they are minorities and already experience differing goals from both other ethnic groups and Whites as well. The inherent fragmentation of minority interests is merely a &lt;i&gt;fait accompli&lt;/i&gt; while it is an &lt;i&gt;absolute poison&lt;/i&gt; for White society. On an increasing basis any protest regarding this purposeful dismantling of White solidarity is hysterically shouted down with screeches of “racism”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This slur is only given even more effectiveness by the cottage industry that has sprung up around racial “discrimination”. Hypocritical race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have made lucrative careers out of inflating &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DhwcCqGFPe4/TKHibPSi8hI/AAAAAAAAARI/444FNq_MC0Y/s1600/Judge+cartoon.bmp"&gt;White Man’s Burden&lt;/a&gt;. With typical Black shortsightedness, little did they begin to suspect how their shameless race-mongering would set the stage for a mass rejection by Whites of this fossilized encumbrance from America’s slave era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;White Man’s Burden&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://resources.chuh.org/CHHS/allaboutu/worldhistory/WhiteMansBurden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" src="http://resources.chuh.org/CHHS/allaboutu/worldhistory/WhiteMansBurden.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After decades of being milked like the last cow on the farm, White Man’s Burden is rapidly losing its ability to inflict any guilt. All of this has been accelerated by a dawning awareness on the part of Whites that not only has this social engineering experiment with integration-at-gunpoint cost America countless trillions of dollars; it has also failed in a spectacular manner. Along with this failure has come a growing resentment for the continued inability of Blacks to productively utilize the immense largesse of White America in any meaningful way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Black community’s persistent poverty, high illegitimacy rates, habitual criminality and disproportionate incarceration statistics rather pointedly indicate that little to no progress has been made, &lt;i&gt;nor is it forthcoming&lt;/i&gt;. Instead, despite its munificence, White America has only borne silent witness to an &lt;i&gt;increased sense of entitlement&lt;/i&gt; among Blacks. This grasping arrogance has become so pronounced that such behavior now inspires slang terminology such as “gibsmedat” and other less polite expressions. Websites like &lt;a href="http://unamusementpark.com/"&gt;unamusementpark.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.chimpout.com/"&gt;chimpout.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://niggermania.net/forum/"&gt;niggermania.net&lt;/a&gt; stand as stark testimony to how fed up Whites and other races have become with, what is known in the vernacular as, TNB (Typical Nigger Behavior).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neither has this sense of entitlement confined itself to Blacks. Having experienced an unprecedented half century or more of heretofore unknown prosperity, security and abundance, today’s American youth &lt;i&gt;of all colors&lt;/i&gt; demonstrate precious little appreciation for the ultimate sacrifices which were made on their behalf; so that they could enjoy life in such full measure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One indication of this spreading sense of entitlement comes from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York whose recent report cites how &lt;a href="http://www.mortgagesbymark.com/blog/personal-finance/debt/student-loan-debt-hits-record-levels-now-exceeds-credit-card-debt/"&gt;Americans now owe more on student loans than on credit cards&lt;/a&gt;. This is no small matter as student loan debt cannot be shed through bankruptcy and, if left in default, can see the average graduation-day total of $24,000 literally &lt;i&gt;double&lt;/i&gt; in short order. Standing now at &lt;i&gt;one trillion dollars&lt;/i&gt; it is, in effect, a looming credit bubble with borrowers bearing the brunt this time instead of bailed-out lenders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The downstream implications of this are substantial as debt-burdened graduates will be obliged to forestall life milestones like buying a car or house and getting married or having children. All of which promises, in turn, to further depress an already flagging economy. Getting today’s students to carefully consider accepting government assistance is not helped by having a Black minority that has made such a very conspicuous career out of riding upon the coattails of productive citizens and does so in an entirely obnoxious manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Luxury of American Poverty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor is it helpful that newly arrived immigrants are treated to this spectacle of thankless greed. Such overt hostility displayed towards Whites masks the simple fact of how supposedly “poverty stricken” &lt;a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty"&gt;American Blacks experience a standard of living which exceeds that of most other nations on earth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;As scholar James Q. Wilson has stated, “The poorest Americans today live a better life than all but the richest persons a hundred years ago.” In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation. In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presented with the prospect of such tremendous payoffs, it is not difficult to imagine how many other immigrants may subconsciously absorb a similar reflex in automatically labeling any conflicting White behavior as “racism”. That White Liberals are so indoctrinated by Cultural Marxism to the point of abject self-loathing &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given that America’s existing Black population poses so many detrimental factors, it defies all logic and reason that this nation is currently importing hordes of African nationals. Such illogicality is further compounded by the fact that many of these African immigrants are totally illiterate, both cognitively and technologically. None of which even addresses how they are often arriving from Islamic cultures which are brazenly antagonistic to all aspects of Western civilization. Again, much of this is a direct result of Liberal Democrats cultivating tax consuming Mendicant Voter Plantations at the direct expense of White Middle Class tax producers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unrestricted immigration has also contributed to a resurgence of the once-fading enclave mentality. This is especially the case due to how so many of these new immigrants come from non-European countries that have very little racial diversity. Cultural incompatibility at the most basic levels only increases how inappropriate this is. Just as American Chinatowns slowly were becoming a thing of the past, many major cities are seeing fairly clear divisions of turf into renewed ethnic warrens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No single group exemplifies this more than recent Muslim immigrants. In European cities, this enclave mentality has spiked among Islam’s followers to the point of their creating so-called “&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0BbWmPKCyk"&gt;No-Go Zones&lt;/a&gt;”. Non-Muslims, called &lt;i&gt;kafirs&lt;/i&gt;, who enter such areas &lt;i&gt;risk physical assault or worse&lt;/i&gt;; this includes law enforcement and emergency services personnel as well. While more prevalent in Europe, sections of Dearborn, Michigan are exhibiting the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coT24Y5QcX4"&gt;precursors&lt;/a&gt; of this phenomenon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this we find an exceptional example of &lt;i&gt;immigrants purposefully driving segregation&lt;/i&gt;. Yet, any criticism by Whites over forming such intrinsically closed societies is immediately met with shrieks of “racism”. This is made all the more peculiar by the fact that &lt;i&gt;Islam is not a race.&lt;/i&gt; None of which deters mass media from parroting this patently false accusation of “racism” whenever it encounters what is, otherwise, well-justified Islamophobia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Equally, if not more alarming, is the fact that many Muslim immigrants &lt;i&gt;have absolutely no intention of assimilating or integrating into their host cultures&lt;/i&gt;. Their “No-Go Zones” are total proof of this. What then to make of their so-called “immigration? There can only be one conclusion and it applies to all non-assimilating immigrants; they are not immigrating, &lt;i&gt;they are colonizing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This issue of colonization bears repeating because the equivalent arrangements found in Hispanic barrios and Black slums usually replicate this sort of “No-Go” environment, often for &lt;i&gt;people of any other race&lt;/i&gt;. The Muslim “No-Go Zones” are particularly instructive due to how &lt;i&gt;there is no possible way that Whites can be blamed for enforcing any degree of poverty involved&lt;/i&gt;, which is the common excuse for why such ghettoes exist in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, there it is in plain language: &lt;i&gt;”Segregation for minority me but not for White thee”.&lt;/i&gt; This is just one more reflection of the iniquitous Liberal dictum that “&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/2007/10/44291/"&gt;only Whites can be racist&lt;/a&gt;”. If minorities practice &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; segregation, Liberals will claim that is just an ostensible way of “preserving their cultural identity”, but when Whites seek to obtain an identical result it is roundly condemned as the most virulent racism imaginable. This despicable double standard is a principal driver with respect to “The Dis-Integration of America”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-9020008567602535755?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/9020008567602535755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=9020008567602535755' title='79 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/9020008567602535755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/9020008567602535755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/disintegration-of-america-part-ii.html' title='The Disintegration of America: Part II'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>79</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-7167757453020009539</id><published>2012-01-23T08:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T08:34:13.853-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Newt Gingrich and Richard Lapchick: Both Working for White Dispossession</title><content type='html'>It is my belief that Richard Lapchick is one of the most evil people on the planet. Newt Gingrich isn't that far behind. They both represent the establishment in Black-Run America (BRA). Here's the &lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/articles/newt-gingrich-and-richard-lapchick-partners-in-america-s-racial-revolution"&gt;latest PK at Vdare&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Back in November, a couple of &lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/articles/south-carolina-shambles-slippery-newt-massacres-milquetoast-mitt-agonizes-immigration-patri"&gt;Gingrich resurrections&lt;/a&gt; ago, my VDARE.com colleague Peter Bradley pointed out in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/articles/newt-gingrich-gop-s-anti-white-quota-king"&gt;Newt Gingrich—GOP’s Anti-White Quota King&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;that the &lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/posts/roy-beck-on-gingrichs-compassion-for-illegals-if-gingrich-had-done-his-job-as-speaker-we-would"&gt;former House Speaker&lt;/a&gt;  had used his time in office (1995-1998) to sabotage any chance that the  Affirmative Action revolution could be reversed. I think it’s worth  reviewing that revolution, and one of its characteristic &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apparatchik"&gt;apparatchiks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Richard E. (“social conscience of sport”) Lapchick. I don’t suppose Lapchick [&lt;a href="mailto:rlapchick@bus.ucf.edu"&gt;Email him&lt;/a&gt;] will support Gingrich, but he should.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Read the full article there, comment on it here. Sports may seem innocuous, but they are not. It's why I write about &lt;i&gt;The Opiate of America&lt;/i&gt; so much, as it provides insights into the collapse of both South Africa and the United States of America (particularly in Dixie). Newt and Richard have a lot in common: they both represent the establishment, and they both actively work to promote the end goals of BRA. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This past Saturday, South Carolina voters would have been better off casting a vote for Alvin Greene then Newt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-7167757453020009539?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/7167757453020009539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=7167757453020009539' title='48 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/7167757453020009539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/7167757453020009539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/newt-gingrich-and-richard-lapchick-both.html' title='Newt Gingrich and Richard Lapchick: Both Working for White Dispossession'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>48</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-3868818689270463480</id><published>2012-01-22T12:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T12:25:39.803-08:00</updated><title type='text'>White America's Team: The New England Patriots</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bostonsbettah.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/BRady-and-Welker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.bostonsbettah.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/BRady-and-Welker.jpg" width="392" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Tom Brady and Wes Welker: This eras Montana and Rice&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;What do you call a&amp;nbsp; team led by a quarterback selected with the 199th pick in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft; a wide receiver that only one college offered a scholarship (God Bless Mike Leach) to out of high school and that was not drafted by any of the 32 NFL teams upon a record-setting collegiate career; a running back who was the Division II player of the year for two straight seasons, but was not invited to the NFL Scouting Combine and (of course) wasn't drafted; a tight-end who enjoys taking pictures with prominent adult entertainment stars when he isn't out-running defensive backs; and a former college quarterback who now plays both receiver and corner back, in between being a special teams demon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You call them America's team. &lt;i&gt;White&lt;/i&gt; America's team You call them Patriots. Nothing more, nothing less. Just as the 1980s Boston Celtics were an NBA franchise paced by outstanding white athletes, the dynasty that the New England Patriots have started in the NFL has largely been built on the shoulders of white athletes that other NFL teams weren't interested in signing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom Brady, a quarterback who &lt;a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/20/brady-told-patriots-kraft-im-best-decision-this-organization-has-ever-made/"&gt;recently said&lt;/a&gt;, "I'm the best decision this organization has ever made," is the signal-caller for a franchise that millions of fans across the nation openly root for, noticing that the Patriots have a record-breaking offense that doesn't look anything like that of the other 31 NFL teams (well, save the Indianapolis Colts who under Peyton Manning also tend to start a&lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/nfl-truths-peyton-manning-white-colts-offense-jason-whitlock-nfl-truths-093010"&gt; fair number of melanin-deficient athletes&lt;/a&gt;): The New England Patriots are America's team, and the white athletes who were overlooked by all of the other franchises represent what the NFL could look like (just as Tim Tebow showed you the type of character all of the athletes could have, the type of real role-models sports could provide).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wes Welker, the record-setting white receiver from Texas Tech who went undrafted only to find sanctuary in the New England after showing glimpses of super-star ability on the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins. &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/white-men-can-run.html"&gt;White men can run&lt;/a&gt;, and Wes Welker is one of the primary individuals responsible for proving this in an era when they are constantly told they can't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as Welker was given an opportunity to blossom into the NFL's best receiver in New England, white running back Danny Woodhead has shown that the talent he displayed at Chadron State wasn't an aberration. Woodhead produced big-numbers in 2010 (overshadowed by fellow white running back Peyton Hillis) and has played an integral role in the Patriots outstanding 2011 season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rob Gronkowski was expected to be a major contributor to the Patriots offense when he was selected in 2010. But few could have anticipated he'd become perhaps the NFL's second best receiver, trailing fellow white teammate Welker's unbelievable 2011 numbers by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Gronkowski"&gt;only a few catches&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gronkowski owns a number of tight-end scoring and receiving records,  including the single-season records for tight ends for most receiving  touchdowns (17), most total touchdowns (18), and most receiving yards  (1,327), all set in 2011.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;For the 2011 Pro Bowl, only Brady and Welker received more votes than Gronkowski in the entire AFC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/p/sp/getty/e3/fullj.206a9e7a420b9933e9f4cafc8edfffea/206a9e7a420b9933e9f4cafc8edfffea-getty-137019060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/p/sp/getty/e3/fullj.206a9e7a420b9933e9f4cafc8edfffea/206a9e7a420b9933e9f4cafc8edfffea-getty-137019060.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Woodhead, Welker, and Edelman: White guys can only be Patriots&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;And Julian Edelman was an option quarterback at Kent State. Now, he's the type of &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/red-tails-rising-tuskegee-airmen-and.html"&gt;white corner back William Rhoden &lt;/a&gt;uses in trying to ascertain why so few Black people become pilots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edelman's outstanding pro day at Kent State was enough to get him elected with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Edelman"&gt;232 pick in the seventh round in 2009:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edelman was not invited to the 2009 &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Combine" title="NFL Combine"&gt;NFL Combine&lt;/a&gt;;  at his pro day, he recorded a 20-yard short shuttle time of 3.92  seconds, which was the fastest time of any player at the Combine.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That outstanding speed helps Edelman goth both ways, playing both offense and defense for the Patriots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few other franchises would give these athletes the time of day (maybe the Colts), but the Patriots have put together a team of white athletes that remind observers like Jason Whitlock of those &lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/baltimore-ravens-new-england-patriots-tom-brady-ray-lewis-ultimate-culture-clash-011912"&gt;white Boston Celtics from the 80s&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/team/baltimore-ravens/67065"&gt;Ravens&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/team/new-england-patriots/67054"&gt;Patriots&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/player/tom-brady/70173"&gt;Tom Brady&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/player/ray-lewis/71065"&gt;Ray Lewis&lt;/a&gt; — is a cultural war of the highest order.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="parentWrapper"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  It’s offense vs. defense. It’s the most valuable offensive player of  the new millennium vs. the most valuable defensive player of the new  millennium. It’s Brady, Gronkowski and Welker vs. Sugar, Sizzle and  Safety. It’s rock ’n’ roll vs. hip-hop.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  It’s Bird vs. Magic, Marciano vs. Ali, Jack vs. Tiger, Krzyzewski’s  Blue Devils vs. Tarkanian’s Runnin’ Rebels, Spearmint Rhino vs. King of  Diamonds, and “Mad Men” vs. “The Wire.”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Oh, man. I really love that “Mad Men” vs. “The Wire” analogy. Gisele’s  beau and Bridget Moynahan’s baby’s daddy, Tom Brady, is the  skirt-chasing Don Draper.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Friend-to-porn star &lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/player/rob-gronkowski/766386"&gt;Rob Gronkowski&lt;/a&gt; is the irreverent, prostitute-buying Roger Sterling. &lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/player/wes-welker/224531"&gt;Wes Welker&lt;/a&gt;  is the squirrelly Pete Campbell. “The Wire” characters are even easier  to identify. Ray “Sugar” Lewis is Avon Barksdale. Ed “Safety” Reed is  Stringer Bell. And Terrell “T-Sizzle” Suggs is Wee-Bey.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  “The Wire” is my religion. But I really enjoy “Mad Men.” Magic Johnson  is my all-time favorite athlete. But I’m an Indiana native who reveres  Larry Bird. Give me Ali and Tiger. But I completely get why some people  prefer Marciano and Nicklaus. Well, I did root for Duke over UNLV, and  I’d give Rhino a slight edge over KOD based on decor, parking ease and  tattoos.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Look, we can tip-toe around it, ignore the big beautiful elephant in  the room, or we can embrace the fact that Sunday’s AFC Championship  contest is soaked in the white-black racial component that has driven  American sports passion at least since Jack Johnson whipped James J.  Jeffries.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The stakes are high this Sunday.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Brady leads an offense built in his image. In a league that is  predominantly black, Brady directs a high-flying offense that is  predominantly white and relies on a deep cast of white playmakers.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Lewis leads a defense built in his brash image. Nine of the 11 Ravens  defenders are African-American. To compensate for Baltimore’s  inconsistent offense, Lewis’ defense not only takes risks to create  turnovers, they take even more risks trying to convert those turnovers  into instant points.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The cliche is “styles make fights.” This is the ultimate clash of  styles and football cultures. This is Magic’s “Showtime” Lakers racing  with the basketball for 94 feet vs. Larry Bird’s Celtics brutalizing an  opponent on the defensive end with elbows and cheap shots and  demoralizing the same opponent on the other end with precise halfcourt  sets.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Brady vs. Lewis. This is better and more significant than Brady vs.  Manning. The QB duels are a reality-TV creation, a byproduct of rules  being influenced to keep our attention. Soon, the TV networks will be  telling you that Brees vs. Rodgers is better than Brady vs. Manning.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  On the basketball court, we may never see anything as compelling as  Bird vs. Magic again. And this is likely our first and only shot at  seeing Brady vs. Lewis on the biggest stage they can share. Enjoy.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  I love Tom Brady. Other than John Elway, he’s the quarterback I respect  the most. But I’ll be rooting for Avon, Stringer and Wee-Bey. “The  Wire” is my religion.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/extra_points/2011/12/14/Gronkowski-run.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/extra_points/2011/12/14/Gronkowski-run.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Gronk: Might be the NFL's best receiver&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&amp;nbsp;Brady. Welker. Woodhead. Gronk. Edelman. White men (outside of Gronk) that few NFL teams held any interest in when they were coming out of college. Now, they form the nucleus of a team that is on the threshold of another Super Bowl appearance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a league that is 67 percent Black (epitomized by the Ravens, a franchise that can best be described as "Black America's" team), the Patriots - like Tebow - shame almost every other franchise for daring to pass on talented white athletes. Their combined unselfish play and talents have enabled a replication of the Boston Celtics whiteness of the 80s to appear on the gridiron of this century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fitting that the Baltimore Ravens, representing one of those dying American cities where &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/10/war-zone-usa-black-undertow-provides.html"&gt;Black crime makes every day a war zone&lt;/a&gt; there, are paced by Lewis. It was back in &lt;a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018274/index.htm"&gt;2000 that he was a suspect in a murder&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sunseria Keith had been looking forward to Pro Bowl week for a long time, so  she was really excited on Jan. 31 as she checked into the Ihilani Resort and Spa  outside &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Honolulu/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Honolulu"&gt;Honolulu&lt;/a&gt;.  Her son, &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Baltimore_Ravens/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Baltimore Ravens"&gt;Baltimore  Ravens&lt;/a&gt; star &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Ray_Lewis/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Ray Lewis"&gt;linebacker  Ray Lewis&lt;/a&gt;, would join her in a few hours. He'd be flying in from &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Atlanta/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Atlanta"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/a&gt;,  where he'd attended the Super Bowl.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;A phone in Keith's hotel room rang. "Mama," &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Ray_Lewis/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Ray Lewis"&gt;Lewis&lt;/a&gt;'s  familiar voice crackled into her ear, "I've got to talk to you." It was the  second conversation between the two that day.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Earlier Lewis had told Keith that  police had questioned him in connection with the stabbing deaths of two men  early that morning outside a nightclub in the Buck-head section of &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Atlanta/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Atlanta"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/a&gt;,  but he'd assured her that everything was fine. Now everything wasn't fine. Lewis  was phoning from a friend's house outside &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Atlanta/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Atlanta"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/a&gt;,  and police had shown up at the house to arrest him.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lewis dropped the phone, but the line stayed connected. This is what Keith  says she heard next: "Hey, don't do that! Don't put those handcuffs on me, man!  I didn't murder nobody! I didn't do nothing! You got the wrong guy!"&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lewis never picked the receiver back up. He was taken to the Atlanta City  Detention Center, and as of Monday was the only suspect being held for the  stabbing deaths that took place near the posh Cobalt Lounge. An &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Atlanta/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Atlanta"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/a&gt;  police affidavit charged that the 24-year-old Lewis, "along with others," killed  Jacinth Baker, 21, and Richard Lollar, 24, both from nearby &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Decatur/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Decatur"&gt;Decatur&lt;/a&gt;,  "by punching, beating and stabbing them with a sharp object." Citing information  that Lewis wasn't involved in the crimes, Lewis's lawyers last Friday tried  unsuccessfully to convince &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Fulton_County/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Fulton County"&gt;Fulton  County&lt;/a&gt; district attorney Paul Howard that there was just cause to release  Lewis on bail. It appeared that Lewis would be in jail until at least Feb. 14,  when a bond hearing is scheduled.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The memory of the aborted phone conversation still haunts Keith. "They have  nothing on Ray," she told &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Sports_Illustrated/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Sports Illustrated"&gt;SI&lt;/a&gt;  last Thursday night at her &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Atlanta/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Atlanta"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/a&gt;  hotel. "Nothing. There's no doubt in my mind that he's sitting in jail for what  somebody else did. All he did was be in the wrong place at the wrong time."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lewis, the &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Baltimore_Ravens/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Baltimore Ravens"&gt;Ravens&lt;/a&gt;'  biggest name, could claim that he has been wrongly accused on several occasions.  Four other times in the last six years, dating back to his college days at &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/vault/topic/article/Miami/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" title="Miami"&gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt;,  he has been cited by police as a possible participant in a brawl or named in  incident reports of battery or charged with assault. He has never been convicted  of a crime, however; in fact, he has never even been tried.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as Lewis has never been tried for any of the crimes he has been convicted of, what franchise outside of the Patriots would have tried out Brady, Welker, Woodhead or Edleman? Better yet, one franchise has given them all a chance to shine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that's it all takes. Just give these white guys a shot. And guess what? They become America's team. It should also be pointed out that the jersey's for Brady, Welker, Woodhead, and Gronk are some of the most highly sought-after in all of the NFL.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-3868818689270463480?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/3868818689270463480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=3868818689270463480' title='37 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3868818689270463480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3868818689270463480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/americas-team-new-england-patriots.html' title='White America&apos;s Team: The New England Patriots'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>37</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-6167894102513452573</id><published>2012-01-20T15:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T15:23:33.111-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Detroit'/><title type='text'>Coleman Young's Detroit: The Real Legacy of the Tuskgee Airmen</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK NOTE: Last one on the Airmen. Promise. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://0.tqn.com/d/comicbooks/1/0/i/C/300FC-00004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="186" src="http://0.tqn.com/d/comicbooks/1/0/i/C/300FC-00004.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"Go tell the world, passerby, that here in the ruins of Detroit, does the real legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen lie."&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Coleman Young International Airport in Detroit is perhaps the most aptly named airport in the world. After all, Young was the mayor of Detroit from 1974 – 1993, &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-did-it-come-to-this-wapo-sheds.html"&gt;whose tenure can best be described as one long eulogy for the city&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In his autobiography &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Hard Stuff&lt;/i&gt;, Young describes himself as an MFIC (Mother Fucker in Charge), and peppers his sentences with the descriptive &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;mother fucker &lt;/i&gt;after seemingly every other word. It’s perhaps the most honest look into a Black politicians thinking that has ever been published. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Fitting that in 1972, two years before the election of the city’s first Black mayor, the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. was founded in Detroit. It would be this organization that would strive to motivate and inspire America’s young to become participants in our nation’s democratic process, while working to spread the word on the enormous contributions those brave Nubian airmen gave to the victory in Europe during World War II. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;After all, the &lt;a href="http://library.ucr.edu/?view=tuskegee/tuskegeeairmen.html"&gt;MFIC himself was a Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/a&gt;. One of the lesser known stories regarding the Tuskegee Airmen – save that they did lose a number of bombers they escorted – is what transpired stateside with these &lt;a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120112/ARTICLE/120119843?p=2&amp;amp;tc=pg"&gt;brave Nubian soldiers of God&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="pagpag2"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;By 1945, B-25 bomber squadrons with the 447th were deployed to Freeman Army Air Field outside Seymour, Ind., where Second Lieutenant Lawrence served as a navigator/bombardier. Although officers' clubs were officially desegregated under military regulars, commanders at Freeman Field refused to serve black officers.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="pagpag2"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;In April 1945, Tuskegee Airmen, led by 2nd Lt. Coleman Young, who went on to become the mayor of Detroit, decided to challenge base authorities. Young was among 19 Airmen initially arrested after refusing to leave the club. Two other civil disobedience actions followed during a two-day protest, resulting in the arrests of 161 officers, including Lawrence.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="pagpag2"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ultimately, the military secured only one conviction, nailing Lt. Robert Terry on a charge of jostling another officer during the protest. Terry was drummed out of the Army Air Corps with a $150 fine, loss of rank and a dishonorable discharge. But in 1995, Terry received a full pardon, a refund and restoration of rank. Other participating Tuskegee Airmen had letters of reprimand removed from their files.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;That MFIC… always in the forefront of change! Fitting that his name graces scores of buildings in the town that &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-failed-and-thunder-rolls-into.html"&gt;freedom failed &lt;/a&gt;(under his watch) in, where concepts such as Democracy, self-government and equality took a fatal nosedive from which they shall never recover. Well, at least when the pilot flying the plane is Black. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Detroit is a ruined city now (&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/visible-black-hand-of-economics.html"&gt;the Visible Black Hand of Economics&lt;/a&gt;), where no grocery chain can stay open because the once might metropolitan, now blessed with an 84 percent &lt;a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120120/METRO01/201200377/1409/METRO/Group-Detroit-lacks-healthy-food"&gt;Black population can’t sustain one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ninety-two percent of food options in the city come from party and liquor stores, forcing residents into making nutrition choices in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, according to a report released Thursday.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;In 2008, the city's last two Farmer Jack stores closed, leaving Detroit without a major chain grocery store. Independent stores such as Mike's Fresh Market or Foodland are among the options some city residents use for groceries. Still, city residents spend nearly $200 million a year on groceries in stores outside the city, according to the report.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;This is the true legacy of Tuskegee Airmen. There advancements for “freedom” destroyed Detroit. Fitting that the MFIC Coleman Young himself was elected mayor of The Motor City when its fate was sealed happened to have been a Tuskegee Airmen. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Talk about poetic justice!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Even more fitting, the &lt;a href="http://www.tuskegeeairmennationalmuseum.org/"&gt;Tuskegee Airmen National Museum&lt;/a&gt; is found in Detroit, for the former “Arsenal of Democracy” owes it dilapidated and ghostly state to the existence of these Black airmen. That Detroit is on the verge of being taking over by the state of Michigan while the movie &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; debuts in theaters is more proof that God has a sense of humor. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In fact, let’s allow the president of that museum a moment to explain the significance &lt;a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120120/ENT02/201200319/Air-legend-local-audience-embraces-Tails-?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs"&gt;of the airmen&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The Red Tails — the nickname comes from the paint job on their planes — finally got their chance at the big time in 1944, escorting heavy bombers over German territory. With their new orders, the Tuskegee Airmen not only lodged the war's most-successful track record in protecting long-range bombers from enemy attack, a feat even Pentagon brass couldn't overlook, but they also demolished notions of inferiority.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;"It used to be said that the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to the enemy," says Brian Smith, president of the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum at Detroit's Fort Wayne. "But research shows we lost about 25 bombers in 205 missions. All the same, nobody else can brag about that kind of success rate."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In that same article, we learn this, which cuts like a dagger the heart of the Tuskegee Airmen story out of its still beating chest:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Like much of the country, in World War II, the U.S. military was segregated with white and black servicemen on separate bases, and the latter mostly relegated to menial tasks far from the front lines. In particular, African-American pilots for much of the war were prevented from engaging the enemy in the air — instead doing "mop-up" operations far from the front, taking out Nazi trains and trucks.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Who were these Black fighter pilots facing in the air? Foo Fighters? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;One article published recently about the fledging national museum states that &lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120112/ENT01/201120637/Tuskegee-Airmen-film-hoped-to-boost-Detroit-efforts"&gt;10- 20 of the original surviving Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/a&gt; currently call Detroit home. “Original?” Has a thriving circuit of impersonators popped up? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But let’s get back to Brian Smith, the president of the national museum. Here’s what he told the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-tuskegee-pilots-20120120,0,7618424.story"&gt;Sun-Sentinel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;"These men were superheroes," said Brian Smith, director of the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum in Detroit. "They actually did superhuman things during the war."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Smith, 54, said he was 12 when his father first told him their story. He called it inspirational and said a Tuskegee Airman taught him to fly.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;More than 990 men trained at Tuskegee before it was shut down. About 400 of them flew missions over Europe and North  Africa during the war, with ground fire or routine accidents killing 78 of them.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Many credit HBO's groundbreaking 1995 movie "The Tuskegee Airmen," for highlighting their historical feats. There have been several documentaries made, as well, including "Double Victory" and "Silver Wings &amp;amp; Civil Rights: The Fight to Fly."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;“Superheroes?” Considering that the ‘groundbreaking’ &lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/articles/red-tails-or-red-tales-george-lucas-and-the-myth-of-the-tuskegee-airmen"&gt;1995 film established one lie after another as fact&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps the day will come when we learn these Black fighter pilots used telepathy to steer the planes and some form of mutant power to deflect incoming missiles from the bombers they escorted. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In a hilariously inaccurate column by &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120115/COL10/201150539/Rochelle-Riley-Tuskegee-Airmen-deserve-a-better-home?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp"&gt;The Detroit Free Press&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Rochelle Riley (she claims that the Airmen never lost a bomber – a fact that is still in most American text books), Smith is quoted yet again:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Dr. Brian Smith, director of the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum at old Ft. Wayne in southwest Detroit, couldn't wait to see the film at a Saturday screening.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;"The main thing we hope the movie will do is portray the Airmen as superheroes," Smith said. "I feel they are superheroes. And with superhero status, people, we hope, will research and find out who they were, what actually happened to them, what kinds of racial things they had to go through ... and in doing that, they'll search out the museum and find out about our youth programs and want to support us."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;“Superheroes?” Really. It’s fitting that these ‘superheroes’ have drifted to Detroit, living out their remaining days in a city that fellow Tuskegee Airmen – the MFIC himself – Coleman Young inflicted the final fatal blow that has led to Detroit slowly bleeding out (though few dare give the real reason why). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Superheroes the Tuskegee Airmen were not. But like Coleman Young, the current craze over a bunch of pilots whose only true accomplishment revolves around their tributes in helping us understand that freedom has failed, the Red Tails are an elaborate hoax. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Life is balance. In the final days of “free” Black-run Detroit - where Coleman Young International Airport, with the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum but a stones throw away rest – you now know the true heritage of what the Red Tails represents. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Detroit died, because Black could fly. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But perhaps Smith is right, maybe these men our superheroes…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;While watching the previews for &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;, it finally dawned on me what this movie represents: &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;300 &lt;/i&gt;for Black people. Remember Zack Snyder’s 2008 film? Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;300&lt;/i&gt; tells the tale of King Leonidas and the brave Spartans who were slaughtered fighting Xerxes massive army. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;The movie was laughed at by critics, but it sparked a nerve with moviegoers earning huge box office receipts, turning Gerhard Butler (who played Leonidas) overnight into an “A” list star. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I’ve long wondered why this movie was made. It depicts white men kicking some serious ass (largely non-white ass mind you) in a time when white actors (primarily Americans) are being phased out of being projected as bad-asses. Just ask Thomas Jane or that goofy white guy from &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Fast and the Furious&lt;/i&gt; franchise. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Juxtapose this thought with the question of why &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; was made: outside of Black people, who really wants to see a movie about Black pilots? Though it was fraught with errors, the casting of &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Top Gun&lt;/i&gt; was nearly flawless from a racially correct standing of who actually flies the fighters in our military. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; even shows the Black fighter pilots engaging in some contemporary pre-sports competition Nubian ritual (where the team comes together to get pumped up), where they huddle together and shout in unison, “We Fight! We Fight.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;How inspiring!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/movies/red-tails-george-lucass-tale-of-tuskegee-airmen-review.html?ref=stephenholden"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Stephen Holden wrote these words in a review of the film:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;This much-decorated squadron of African-American pilots, whose P-51 Mustangs were painted with red tails, flew thousands of missions between 1943 and 1945. They discredited an outrageously racist 1925 Army  War College study that asserted that blacks lacked the intelligence, ambition and courage to serve in combat. The mere existence of this movie and Mr. Lucas’s imprimatur could be seen as significant morale boosters for &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/nyregion/25tuskegee.html" title="Times article on surviving airmen"&gt;African-American men whose World War II service still remains woefully underrecognized&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hate to burst your bubble Steve, but the reality is only in a &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-red-tailsand-tuskegee-airmen-story.html"&gt;segregated unit could Black pilots succeed against other Black pilots&lt;/a&gt;. The learning curve was only against other brothers. As we have seen since integration, few Black pilots in flight training can compete with the learning curve set by white pilots. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;No matter, &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; is the attempt to create superheroes out of the Black fighter pilots of World War II (because no other war can provide anything but a few token Black pilots). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;With this post, I’m done writing about &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; at SBPDL. What we are told is such an obvious lie, that someone had to write about it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But I’m reminded of the last lines from &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;300&lt;/i&gt;, when Dilios tells the story of Leonidas death to inspire the Spartans and Greeks to wage one last war against Xerxes: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In a nutshell, that sums up what SBPDL has become: we wage a war against the concept of Black-Run America (BRA), which has made improving Black people’s lives at the expense of the nation’s health a religion, with anyone who dares question this concept a heretic, who is immediately excommunicated. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;BRA is tyranny, and it must be opposed. But BRA is the MFIC (to borrow Coleman Young’s favorite term), so we too must work to rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, if we are to ensure that our future is not one big Detroit. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;And never forget, it was a vaunted Tuskegee Airmen who &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-did-it-come-to-this-wapo-sheds.html"&gt;steered Detroit into the ground&lt;/a&gt;. Soon, she'll officially be six feet under.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detroit's status in 2012 is their true legacy.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/STcDMoQ4KT0" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-6167894102513452573?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/6167894102513452573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=6167894102513452573' title='91 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6167894102513452573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6167894102513452573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/coleman-youngs-detroit-real-legacy-of.html' title='Coleman Young&apos;s Detroit: The Real Legacy of the Tuskgee Airmen'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/STcDMoQ4KT0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>91</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-3056861431842395246</id><published>2012-01-19T15:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T15:29:40.876-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"The Virgil": What the Microsoft 'Avoid the Ghetto' App Must be Named</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;This way a good soul never passes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Inferno&lt;/i&gt;, Canto III: Virgil to Dante at The Gate of Hell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mortL9r9cZM/Sp2k2NyIk5I/AAAAAAAABXk/z02p0KLJ3zI/s400/GatesOfHell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mortL9r9cZM/Sp2k2NyIk5I/AAAAAAAABXk/z02p0KLJ3zI/s640/GatesOfHell.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"The Virgil": The only logical name for Microsoft's "avoid the ghetto" app&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Every city with a sizable Black population has one. Out of politeness, we've been trained to call it "the bad part of town," or we implore friends who must drive through this area to "lock their doors and, even if you hit someone, don't stop driving."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has many synonyms (ghetto, inner-city or high-crime area, economically disadvantaged or blighted community, etc.), but the one correlation whether you are in Dallas or Houston, Texas, Baltimore, Md., Birmingham, Al., Cleveland, Ohio, or Seattle, Washington, these "bad part of town" with few businesses is an extension of the Black phenotype.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What else can explain the ostensibly innate ability that Black people seem to possess - regardless of the region of the country - to force the closing of businesses, malls, and a swift property depreciation when their numbers overwhelm a city? High Black crime rates force the businesses to close, and high Black crime rates are still found in these same cities once the businesses have fled. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Around major metropolitan areas like Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Atlanta, and Charlotte, rests isolated pockets where the Visible Black Hand of economics has downgraded a once thriving business community or subdivision into a "ghetto." Courtesy of Black people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this reason, &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088667/Critics-say-Microsoft-Avoid-Ghetto-app-damage-economies-poor-communities.html"&gt;Microsoft has stepped forward &lt;/a&gt;and offered a savvy solution for those hoping to drive around and avoid these &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088667/Critics-say-Microsoft-Avoid-Ghetto-app-damage-economies-poor-communities.html"&gt;unpleasant reminders of racially unmentionable realities&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Want to avoid the ghetto? There's an app for that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Smartphone app to help people avoid unsafe neighborhoods has been accused of discrimination.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The application, which is being developed by Microsoft, has already been nicknamed the 'Avoid The Ghetto' app.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But critics fears the app could damage  local economies and steer tourists away from historically significant  neighbourhoods- just because they have a high crime rate.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sarah E. Chinn, author of 'Technology and the Logic of American Racism,' told AOL the app is 'pretty appalling.'&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Of course, an application like this defines crime pretty narrowly, since all crimes happen in all kinds of neighborhoods.'&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'I  can't imagine that there aren't perpetrators of domestic violence,  petty and insignificant drug possession, fraud, theft, and rape in every  area.'&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Opponents fear the data-operated app  could damage minority communities and hinder economic development in the areas most in need of it.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Pretty appalling? What's appalling is the type of behavior that is found in predominately Black neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon; in Kansas City, Kansas; in St. Louis, Missouri, etc. Yes, crime is found everywhere, but intense levels of violent crime, rape, theft, murder, assault, etc., are prevalent in heavily Black areas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And outside of Title Loans stores, liquor stores, Headstart offices, beauty parlors, and a fast food chain, what type of economic hit will these "ghetto" areas actually incur? And a loss of tourism dollars? What, so people can see where the Wal-Mart or Sears used to be before the Black Undertow forced its closing? Outside of an underage kid trying to score a fake ID from some Rastafarian, what type of tourism could one hope to find in the ghetto?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The patent filed by Microsoft patent &lt;a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/223122/microsofts-avoid-ghetto-app-racist"&gt;simply reads this way&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;According to the patent filing, the technology will help a user avoid  passing through an "unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is  subject to harsh temperatures."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;What a wonderful service! Using algorithms to compute readily available neighborhood crime statistics for real-time data mapping will undoubtedly save the lives of countless people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what to call this "avoid the ghetto" app? Mencken has put forth the ultimate name for an app that would guide one away from a "bad" area; Virgil, the noble Roman poet who was Dante's guide through hell and purgatory in &lt;i&gt;The Divine Comedy&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So anyone reading this at a creative agency that can pitch names to Microsoft, take note: Virgil is the perfect name for this app. For those brave souls foolish enough to dare venture into areas which Virgil would instruct against, this electronic guide would assist in helping you navigate through neighborhoods that the imaginative Dante would be hard-pressed to dismiss as another journey into hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virgil: &lt;i&gt;A Guide from the Damned&lt;/i&gt;. Okay, so that slogan probably wouldn't fly, but Microsoft should pounce on the name. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;This way a good soul never passes. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And with the Virgil Microsoft App for your GPS, iPhone, or smartphone, neither will you. Thanks to the guide that steers you clear of the ghetto. Or, for those brave souls daring to see the &lt;strike&gt;ghetto&lt;/strike&gt; Black people he advises you avoids you, the Virgil App will command thee (prior to entry) "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://video.dallas.cbslocal.com/global/video/videoplayer.js?rnd=862614;hostDomain=video.dallas.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=420;playerHeight=315;isShowIcon=true;clipId=6648135;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.DALLAS%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-3056861431842395246?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/3056861431842395246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=3056861431842395246' title='78 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3056861431842395246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3056861431842395246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/virgil-what-microsoft-avoid-ghetto-app.html' title='&quot;The Virgil&quot;: What the Microsoft &apos;Avoid the Ghetto&apos; App Must be Named'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mortL9r9cZM/Sp2k2NyIk5I/AAAAAAAABXk/z02p0KLJ3zI/s72-c/GatesOfHell.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>78</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-4984209600424820517</id><published>2012-01-18T21:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T14:14:41.029-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Detroit'/><title type='text'>Not the Onion: Hearse Motorcade to Protest Violence in Detroit</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK Note: Time permitting, I read every e-mail sent to me. If I don't respond, don't discontinue attempts at correspondence. With this noted, today's title is courtesy of one of those devout e-mail senders&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;Give it until Monday, and we'll be back to doing # posts and other assorted entries, finally dropping the microscope from &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detroit, Michigan. That former Motor City, a town whose declining population is bearing witness to what follows when the white people leave and the Black people are left in charge. Can we count the ways Detroit (84 percent Black) has provided a glimpse into racially unpleasant realities for all to see?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here goes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The population has declined so sharply ( &lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/-sarah-hulett-of-michigan.html"&gt;1 person left every 22 minutes over the past decade &lt;/a&gt;), that tracts of the city have returned to nature, forcing the City of Detroit to stop &lt;a href="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/12/detroit-mayor-plans-to-halt-garbage.html"&gt;police patrols and trash pickup for 20 percent of the city&lt;/a&gt;; the remaining 80 percent of the city will see a &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/08/16/detroit-police-to-cut-back-on-alarm-response/"&gt;significant reduction in the amount of calls police respond to&lt;/a&gt;; the ending of &lt;a href="http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/detroit-ending-free-police-escorts-for-funerals/"&gt;free police escorts to funerals&lt;/a&gt;; and the police banning of &lt;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/16/detroit-police-give-up-on-car-theft-ban-street-parking-to-curb/"&gt;street parking to curb break-ins&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1527778688"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704461304576216850733151470.html%20%20"&gt;All this in a city&lt;/a&gt; whose population fell &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2011-03-22-michigan-census_N.htm"&gt;25 percent between 2000 and 2010&lt;/a&gt;, to its lowest total since 1910, when the town was nearly all-white. Now Detroit is nearly all-Black.What incentive is there to stay in the city, save to watch the remaining weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds of actual Black-run Detroit tick away. So that the dwindling Black residents can watch freedom fail before their eyes, as the state of Michigan ends the misery that has been majority-rule there and implements financial martial law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the ending of Black-rule in Detroit can't come soon enough since the same senseless Black violence whose avoidance forced the phenomenon of white flight (Interestingly, &lt;a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/15945286795/letter-from-detroit"&gt;white people have built thriving Whitopia's a mere 35 miles removed from the ruins of Detroit&lt;/a&gt;) from the city is still prevalent amidst the nirvana of a white-less town. Despite claims that violent crime is decreasing in America, Detroit - a city whose population can't leave fast enough - is a town whose murder rate is exploding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a show of unity (since they don't get paid overtime), Detroit's undertakers are making a stand:&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Even Detroit's undertakers have grown weary of the senseless violence gripping the city.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On  Sunday, they will drive 20 hearses as part of the "Thou Shalt Not Kill"  motorcade that will wind its way through some of Detroit's most  crime-ridden areas. The motorcade will end with an anti-violence rally  scheduled for 5:30 at Fellowship Chapel Church, headed by the Rev.  Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Longtime  funeral director O'Neil D. Swanson will help lead the motorcade. He  says after more than five decades in the funeral business, he's seen  enough bloodshed of Detroit's young people.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Enough is enough,"  Swanson said Wednesday. "We want to send a message especially to our  young people who are creating the havoc that it is unholy and ungodly.  So many of these young people don't know the difference between fact and  fiction," said Swanson. "They look at movies. They look at video games,  and they think it's make believe. They don't realize it's final."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;While overall crime is down, murders continue to plague Detroit. The city had 344 homicides in 2011, up from 308 in 2010.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The  motorcade will begin at Woodward and Adams around 4 p.m. with hearses  and other vehicles. Anthony said the issue of crime has become a big  problem and that Detroiters must work together to combat crime.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"The  police cannot be on every street corner and location," said Anthony.  "The community must rise up and stand up and be the cavalry. Everybody  can get into this fight."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Anthony added "none of us are immune to the possibility," of being a victim of crime.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nearly  five years ago, Anthony and Swanson presided over the mock funeral of  the "N-Word" during the national convention of the NAACP in Detroit.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Lost in this &lt;a href="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/detroit-funeral-directors-plan-to-protest-violence-with-hearses"&gt;benevolent gesture for unity by irate undertakers &lt;/a&gt;is this fact: Were the motorcade to get lost, and have Microsoft's "avoid the ghetto" app up and running, one wonders whether the lead driver would be guided clear of the entire Detroit metropolis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's also debatable whether the hearse motorcade will have to make a few stops to pick up dead bodies along the route, or, if like the Detroit ambulance on New Year's Eve, the motorcade will be forced to stop and seek cover in their cars from random gunfire all around them. They might inadvertently drive to an area of town the police no longer cover or respond to calls from. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait a second. Didn't Black people in Dallas complain about Microsoft's in-development app, which basically amounts to an "avoid the Black Undertow" map? What is it about Black people and &lt;a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/01/17/app-that-would-guide-users-away-from-high-crime-areas-proves-controversial/"&gt;their apparent penchant for creating unsafe environments?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;An in-development Microsoft smart phone app designed to help drivers  and pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods is proving controversial  among some minority rights groups that find the software potentially  discriminatory. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The as-of-yet unnamed product is being referred to as the “Avoid The  Ghetto” app by those who are concerned with where it will guide users. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;“I’m going to be up in arms about it if it happens,” said Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wallace spent her afternoon at a rally on Martin Luther King Jr.  Blvd. and said she felt safe there, but fears the app may project  otherwise. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Can you imagine me not being able to go to MLK Blvd. because my GPS  says that’s a dangerous crime area? I can’t even imagine that,” she  said.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MLK Blvd. in Dallas, Detroit - hell,&amp;nbsp; in any city in America is a "dangerous crime area" that all people try and avoid because of the presence of Black people there. Microsoft's application for a GPS will save lives and insurance companies plenty of money by keeping goofy white people from wandering into the Black Undertow universe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that app were ready, it would warn all people to "abandon all hope, ye who enter" who dare drive into Detroit &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;(And SBPDL hereby petitions Microsoft to name the app “Virgil” in reference to Dante’s guide through Hell and &lt;a href="" style="mso-comment-date: 19830825T0128; mso-comment-reference: HLM_1;"&gt;Purgatory).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such is life in Detroit, during the waning days of actual Black rule in the "&lt;strike&gt;Paris&lt;/strike&gt; Mogadishu of the West."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the sake of all people in the United States, Black-Run America (BRA) must end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object data="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212" height="520" id="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640"&gt;&lt;param value="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212" name="movie"/&gt;&lt;param 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People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>52</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-5218610159014089983</id><published>2012-01-17T21:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T13:51:13.937-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tuskegee'/><title type='text'>The Myth Takes Flight: HBO's 1995 "The Tuskegee Airmen" as Pure Fiction</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Prior PK stories on the Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-red-tailsand-tuskegee-airmen-story.html"&gt;Segregation and The Tuskegee Airmen: What &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; Celebrates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/atonement-for-star-wars-new-hope-real.html"&gt;George Lucas and &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;: Atone for Lily-white &lt;i&gt;Star Wars&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/red-tails-rising-tuskegee-airmen-and.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; and White Corner Backs: What is William Rhoden Talking About?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/something-wicked-this-way-comes-nfl.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;NFL Celebrates a lie: Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmor8kuxXM1qbkeff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmor8kuxXM1qbkeff.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;HBO's 1995 &lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt;: Where the canonization of a 'myth' began&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;In looking through history books detailing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces"&gt;America's World War II&lt;/a&gt; Army Air Force 'aces', one thing stood out: the Tuskegee Airmen had absolute no impact on the course of the Allies winning the war over the Axis Powers. Not one of the famed Red Tails earned the honorific of 'ace' (meaning five or more confirmed aerial kills), compared to a list of &lt;a href="http://www.acesofww2.com/USA/USA.htm"&gt;more than 1,200 white American fighter pilots &lt;/a&gt;who earned that title during World War II. Aces like Chuck Yeager, who would go on to be the first person to break the sound-barrier, an arbitrary record in Black-Run America (BRA), a world that only honors those who were the first to break the much more important color-barrier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrary to contemporary claims, the involvement of the Black fighter pilots was inconsequential to the overall war effort. Yes, &lt;a href="http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070207-059.pdf"&gt;72 members of the Tuskegee Airmen shot down 109 enemy aircraft&lt;/a&gt;, but when you consider America's great World War II 'ace' &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bong"&gt;Richard Bong shot down 40 planes himself&lt;/a&gt;, you have to wonder why the story of the Black pilots overshadows one such as Bong's? Have you ever heard of Bong?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you've heard of the Tuskegee Airmen, right? Weird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Dr. Daniel Haulman pointed out in &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1692180831"&gt;Nine Myths About the Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/a&gt;, a controversial 2008 paper, that the Tuskegee Airmen had fewer aerial kills compared to all-white fighter groups. Interesting, 332d Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen) lost more of its own aircraft then it shot down:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In November 1945, the War Department published a report called “Policy for Utilization of Negro Manpower in the Post-War Army. Since the report had been prepared by a committee of generals headed by Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem, Jr., it was sometimes called the “Gillem Report.” Part of the report compared the four P-51 fighter escort groups of the Fifteenth Air Force, which included the all-black 332nd Fighter Group and the all-white 31st, 52nd, 325th, and 332nd Fighter Groups (the other three fighter escort groups of the Fifteenth Air Force, the 1st, 14th, and 82nd, flew P-38 aircraft). While the report praised the 332d Fighter Group for successfully escorting bombers, it also criticized the group for having fewer aerial victory credits than the other groups because it did not aggressively chase enemy fighters to shoot them down, but stayed with the bombers it was escorting. The report also claimed that each of the three white P-51 fighter groups shot down more than twice as many aircraft as it lost in combat, but that the 332d Fighter Group lost more of its own aircraft in combat than it destroyed of the enemy. The implication is that the black 332d Fighter Group might have lost fewer bombers it escorted than the other three white P-51 fighter escort groups, it also shot down the least number of enemy aircraft. Depending on what the criterion was, the 332d Fighter Group was the worst and also the best at the same time.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;One of the best? For losing the fewest bombers? But wait, we learn in another paper by Haulman that most of the bombers lost - escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen - were via &lt;a href="http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070207-059.pdf"&gt;German antiaircraft&lt;/a&gt; (ground) weaponry:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A second myth is that the Tuskegee Airmen “never lost a bomber” that they were escorting. The 332d Fighter Group’s own mission reports often note that its pilots witnessed friendly bombers going down, mostly to enemy antiaircraft fire.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;So wait-a-second: if Axis fighters weren't posing a great threat to the Tuskegee Airmen-escorted bombers, why didn't they ever engage them as other all-white fighter groups did? Wasn't the bulk of Germany's greatest 'aces' on the eastern front, fighting the invading Soviet Union?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Wrong Stuff&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASA.gov still has a story from 2004 featured on its site that has since been &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/improvingflight/tuskegee.html"&gt;completely discredited&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-Americans to be trained as  WWII military pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. One thousand Airmen  were trained at Tuskegee, Ala., and 445 entered combat. They painted the  tails of their aircraft red for easy identification, thus earning the  nickname "Red Tails."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Flying over 15,000 sorties, they destroyed more than 490 enemy  aircraft and 45 trains. They never lost a bomber to enemy fighters - a  record no other fighter group achieved.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would learn 62 years after the end of World War Two that the "never lost a bomber" &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-01-tuskegee-airmen_N.htm"&gt;story was a myth&lt;/a&gt;, perpetrated by those trying to create a legend that only bigots would dare challenge. Or those who care about honoring true 'aces' like Richard Bong, as opposed to worshiping a fictional story like the Tuskegee Airmen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In looking through those same history books - many published before the advent of Tuskegee Airmen hysteria - one thing is clear; history is written by the winners, meaning the Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) in control of Black-Run America (BRA) can pass on pushing Bong's story and puff up the contributions of the Red Tails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when did it all start? When did those white Army Air Force "aces," who won glory in the air over Europe and in the Pacific, take second fiddle to the Tuskegee Airmen? Try 1995, with an HBO movie entitled &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuskegee_Airmen"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt; is a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_in_television" title="1995 in television"&gt;1995&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO" title="HBO"&gt;HBO&lt;/a&gt; television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African American combat pilots in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps" title="United States Army Air Corps"&gt;United States Army Air Corps&lt;/a&gt;, that fought in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II"&gt;World War II&lt;/a&gt;. The film was directed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Markowitz" title="Robert Markowitz"&gt;Robert Markowitz&lt;/a&gt; and stars &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Fishburne" title="Laurence Fishburne"&gt;Laurence Fishburne&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding_Jr." title="Cuba Gooding Jr."&gt;Cuba Gooding Jr.&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lithgow" title="John Lithgow"&gt;John Lithgow&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Jamal_Warner" title="Malcolm Jamal Warner"&gt;Malcolm Jamal Warner&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;At the end, the film details the unit's accomplishments: 66 out of the  450 Tuskegee Airmen died in battle, they engaged and defeated &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262" title="Messerschmitt Me 262"&gt;Messerschmitt Me 262s&lt;/a&gt;,  the first operational jet fighters, and they were awarded a total of  850 medals over the course of the war. The credits also note  (inaccurately, but a common belief of the time) that the 332nd never  lost a single bomber to enemy fire.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Watching this movie on DVD recently, the credits still contained the same discredited note. If you repeat a lie long enough, it will eventually become a truth:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The claim at the end of the film that the 332nd never lost a single bomber to enemy action is a source of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen#Controversy_over_escort_record" title="Tuskegee Airmen"&gt;historical controversy&lt;/a&gt;.  This statement was repeated for many years, and not challenged because  of the esteem of the Tuskegee Airmen. However, Air Force records and  eyewitness accounts later showed that at least 25 bombers were lost to  enemy fire. This was still a far cry from the hundreds of bombers lost  to enemy fire under escort of their white counterparts.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A far cry from their white counterparts? Mainly because the Tuskegee Airmen never flew in the Pacific and encountered Japanese Kamikaze pilots and due to the fact they entered the European theater of war after the Luftwaffe had been largely decimated. Remember, it was largely antiaircraft fire that brought down bombers they escorted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Todd More, a gushing hagiographer of the Tuskegee Airmen, wrote about the vast impact the HBO film had in establishing the "official narrative" of the Red Tails, one that differs incredibly from true accounts. In his book Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, he we writes on p. 174:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For better or worse, &lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt; created and solidified a collective memory of the experience that will never be dislodge. It sent place a narrative that veterans of the experience and interested observers alike all appropriated as their own. People who have never been to Italy now report that white bomber pilots requested escort from the Red Tails as if they had been eyewitnessess to the conversations, because they saw white characters in &lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt; do just that. Hundreds of the narratives in the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project recorded between 2000 and 2005 followed the film's story arc closely, and the vast majority of interviewees referenced the film in one way or another; the movie itself became an artifact in the history of the Tuskegee Airmen. Of course, it's impossible to judge to what the degree the film influenced these memories, because all of the National Park Service's interviews were recorded after the film made its impact. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Such as the visceral impact of "never losing a bomber myth." Mission accomplish on that, HBO. Tell a lie loud enough and long enough, and the Tuskegee Airmen becomes as important to American history as... well, more important than any military victory we study. After all, they broke the color-barrier! Who cares if the movie is full of outright lies when it serves the purpose of being pure-propaganda!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, the winners get to write history. Teach with Movies (&lt;a href="http://www.teachwithmovies.org/"&gt;teachwithmovies.org&lt;/a&gt;), a radical DWL teaching tool for integrating movies into lesson plans, profiles HBO's &lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt; in glowing terms, meaning that school children across the nation will continue to be peddled a lie. Here's what Teach with Movies wrote &lt;a href="http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/tuskegee-airmen.html"&gt;about the movie&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt; is a movie about commitment, discipline and  courage. The 332nd Fighter Group of the Army Air Corps was one of the  best units to fly in World War II. This movie will introduce children to  another step in the long road that black people took toward racial  equality.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;To give you a sense of how our &lt;i&gt;Learning Guides&lt;/i&gt; can be used by &lt;a href="http://www.teachwithmovies.org/teachers.htm"&gt;teachers&lt;/a&gt; to develop lesson plans, and by &lt;a href="http://www.teachwithmovies.org/parents.htm"&gt;parents&lt;/a&gt; to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a paragraph from the &lt;i&gt;Learning Guide&lt;/i&gt; to &lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt;.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                   &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;     The Tuskegee Airmen were the elite, African-American 99th Fighter  Squadron (later expanded to the 332nd Fighter Group) commanded by  Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. The Tuskegee Airmen flew more than 700  missions and were the only Fighter Group that never lost a bomber to  enemy aircraft. They earned three unit citations, more than 744 Air  Medals and Clusters, more than 100 Flying Crosses, 14 Bronze Stars, 8  Purple Hearts, a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, and the Red Star of  Yugoslavia. The Tuskegee Airmen downed 111 enemy fighters, including  three of the eight Messerschmitt ME-262 jets shot down by the Allies  during the war. The 332nd also destroyed countless targets during ground  attack missions and even sank a German destroyer with machine gun fire  that hit the ship's ammunition stores, triggering secondary explosions.  Sixty-six Tuskegee Airmen (out of a total of 450 sent overseas) lost  their lives in combat. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Yikes! Virtually everything that Teach with Movies promotes about &lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt; is a lie! Dr. Daniel Haulman decimated all of these lies in a &lt;a href="http://www.tuskegee.edu/sites/www/Uploads/files/About%20US/Airmen/Nine_Myths_About_the_Tuskegee_Airmen.pdf"&gt;report published in 2008&lt;/a&gt;, though the truth is always the first casualty right? Even Amazon.com still peddles the lie in &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tuskegee-Airmen-Blu-ray-Laurence-Fishburne/dp/B005411P6I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1326865580&amp;amp;sr=8-2"&gt;the product listing for the movie&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fitting that this 1995 movie had the tagline "They were our country's best defense...and its greatest glory."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reality, the Tuskegee Airmen story is the &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-red-tailsand-tuskegee-airmen-story.html"&gt;country's best defense of segregation.&lt;/a&gt;.. and its greatest glory, since we know Black people can't compete for pilot slots in integrated flight training units now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our nation's best defense in World War II were the Army Air Force pilots like Richard Bong, who time has forgotten. Well, Teach with Movies has ensured that future generations of Americans will only learn about &lt;i&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen &lt;/i&gt;via a movie starring that dude Morpheus from &lt;i&gt;The Matrix&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is these men whose false exploits, glamorized by TWO Hollywood movies, &lt;a href="http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=11794"&gt;will ensure they are remembered as the true heroes&lt;/a&gt; of World War Two, a constant reminder that not only aerial, but supremacy over &lt;a href="http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123046787"&gt;white bigotry was achieved&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; That lily-white ace Richard Bong, who gave his life for his country, was the wrong color. He'll never get the Congressional Gold Medal nor have school children celebrate Bong Day (well, some might) as they do "&lt;a href="http://www.reachandteach.com/content/article.php/tuskegee"&gt;Tuskegee Airman Day.&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the Congressional Gold Medal to Tuskegee Airmen Public Law &lt;a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-109publ213/html/PLAW-109publ213.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Remember, less than two percent of US military aviators are Black now. What exactly is the legacy of the Airmen again? That segregation worked (though their record was still inflated, largely by Hollywood writers); that integration shows Black people can't compete with white standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yAPWUZ0qORs" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-5218610159014089983?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/5218610159014089983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=5218610159014089983' title='55 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5218610159014089983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5218610159014089983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/myth-takes-flight-hbos-1995-tuskegee.html' title='The Myth Takes Flight: HBO&apos;s 1995 &quot;The Tuskegee Airmen&quot; as Pure Fiction'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/yAPWUZ0qORs/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>55</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-3414837541596747771</id><published>2012-01-17T17:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T19:28:48.627-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"What's that about no Disney World in a Segregated Florida, Mr. Jesse Jackson?"</title><content type='html'>The whole world of Black-Run America (BRA) could come crashing down and end tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It won't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it could.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm just one, largely insignificant person. I can be ignored. Or I can be destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn3.gbot.me/photos/nj/fW/1304444793/-Walt_Disney_World_Resort-20000000001578677-375x500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://cdn3.gbot.me/photos/nj/fW/1304444793/-Walt_Disney_World_Resort-20000000001578677-375x500.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Memo to Jesse Jackson: Walt Disney selected Orlando for the future home of Disney World when it was still segregated&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;But tomorrow, were I one of the GOP contenders for POTUS, a press conference would be called to address some recent accusations of &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71468.html"&gt;Jesse Jackson&lt;/a&gt;. The Republicans, unlike the Democrats, haven't given up on the white working class in America though they could care less about defending that groups interests. In fact, the Republican Party exists solely because of the white vote (though their dispossession continues unabated courtesy of these largely septuagenarian white career politicians) and to maintain its position as a national party must continue to increase its share of the white vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before we continue, let's take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71468.html"&gt;what Jackson stated&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he wants to hear the candidates at the  Republican presidential debate tonight - Martin Luther King Jr. Day -  discuss racial issues, which the civil rights activist says the GOP  hopefuls have avoided throughout the campaign.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;“I want to hear  from them — do they support Dr. King and the New South movement? Do they  appreciate Dr. King’s legacy?” Jackson told POLITICO. “These candidates  talk about free enterprise, but do they understand that there would be  no Boeing plant in South Carolina if blacks and whites couldn’t work  together? That you couldn’t have CNN with a segregated Atlanta, or a  Disney World in a segregated Florida?”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“I’ve not seen one of them with African-Americans in their ads or  going to an African-American church,” Jackson said of the 2012 hopefuls.  “It is an irony that they are having a debate on Martin Luther King  Day, when all of them are running on state’s rights.”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;According to Jackson, by embracing states’ rights, all of the GOP  candidates are running campaigns whose platforms run counter to the very  reasons Dr. King is hailed a national hero. “The Tenth Amendment was a  rationale for southern segregation,” he said. “All of [the candidates]  are running on states’ rights, when precisely the cause to defeat  states’ rights chose the Thirteenth Amendment.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;What does Jackson mean by the 'New South movement'? Does he mean white people fleeing major cities like Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, Montgomery, Miami, Orlando, Jackson, Charlotte, and Columbia to settle in safer areas where they can raise their families ensconced in unmentionable whiteness?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what does Jackson mean about not having a Walt Disney World in a segregated Florida? Walt Disney himself scouted the land when segregation was still in full-effect down south, using dummy corporations to buy the land that would become the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Resort"&gt;Magic Kingdom in Dixie in as early as 1963&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Walt Disney flew over the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida"&gt;Orlando&lt;/a&gt; site (one of many) in November 1963. Seeing the well-developed network of roads, including the planned &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_4" title="Interstate 4"&gt;Interstate 4&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_Turnpike" title="Florida's Turnpike"&gt;Florida's Turnpike&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Air_Force_Base" title="McCoy Air Force Base"&gt;McCoy Air Force Base&lt;/a&gt; (later &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_International_Airport" title="Orlando International Airport"&gt;Orlando International Airport&lt;/a&gt;) to the east, Disney selected a centrally-located site near &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Lake_%28Florida%29" title="Bay Lake (Florida)"&gt;Bay Lake&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Quest_1-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Resort#cite_note-Quest-1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;To avoid a burst of land speculation, Disney used various &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_corporation" title="Dummy corporation"&gt;dummy corporations&lt;/a&gt; to acquire 27,443 acres (11,106&amp;nbsp;ha) of land.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Quest_1-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Resort#cite_note-Quest-1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osceola_County,_Florida" title="Osceola County, Florida"&gt;Osceola County&lt;/a&gt;.  Also, two large tracts totaling $1.5 million were sold, and smaller  tracts of flatlands and cattle pastures were purchased by  exotic-sounding companies such as the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-American_Development_and_Management_Corporation" title="Latin-American Development and Management Corporation"&gt;Latin-American Development and Management Corporation&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Ranch_Corporation" title="Reedy Creek Ranch Corporation"&gt;Reedy Creek Ranch Corporation&lt;/a&gt; (Some of these names are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U.S.A. in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Kingdom" title="Magic Kingdom"&gt;Magic Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;). In addition to three huge parcels of land were many smaller parcels, referred to as "outs."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there wouldn't be a CNN without an integrated Atlanta? Didn't Ted Turner personally fund &lt;i&gt;Gettysburg &lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Gods and Generals&lt;/i&gt;, two movies that glorify the cause of secession? Didn't he even sing the song&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVeSKwM--1M"&gt; "The Bonnie Blue Flag"&lt;/a&gt; in the latter film?Has Jackson ever been to Atlanta? The white suburbs of metro-Atlanta surround the city like some perversely unfinished puzzle; when one county - like Clayton County - starts to go majority Black, white people flee farther and farther away from the downtown area in hopes of finding a county system with "good school" (read: all-white).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Jackson is right; the mere reason we celebrate the "contributions" of Martin Luther King is because of the totalitarian reach of the federal government, which has decided a national agenda of BRA-enforcement is more worthwhile than a policy of building a strong national infrastructure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of the dismissal of the 10th Amendment, we have seen the legacy of King in the fall of a northern city once known as "The Paris of the West." Eighty-four percent Black Detroit and its current dilapidated state is courtesy of an intense desire to maintain the illusion that King was a national hero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philadelphia, the birthplace of this nation, is transforming before our eyes into Detroit. The Liberty Bell's silence in 2012 tolls for us all, a reminder that liberty and freedom have utterly failed. The repudiation of the 10th Amendment directly correlates to the decline of the northern cities, where a Black majority now lords over a once shining metropolis in Detroit which resembles the decimated "emerald city" from the strange movie &lt;i&gt;Return to Oz&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRA could end tomorrow, if instead of Ron Paul whining about the number of Black people incarcerated (it's because they commit more crime, dear doctor, not because of justice system bias), or Newt Gingrich bemoaning Black reliance on government handouts (it's because a disproportionate amount of Black people have no discernible job skills, Newty, even in a nation ruled by BRA), a candidate just said this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jesse Jackson has long been hailed as the voice of Black America. Recently, he attacked the candidates for the Republican nomination for president for failing to address the concerns of Black South Carolinian's and, all Black Americans.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mr. Jackson, thank you for once again reminding the American people that no matter what they do to help Black America, well, it will never be enough.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Democrats have all but abandoned trying to be the political party of the white working class, instead targeting Black people and recent immigrants to serve as their political base. Because of the federal governments refusal to defend our borders and enforce immigration policy, we have seen individual state budgets rise to extreme deficits in a bid to care for the costs of illegal immigration.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;My first act as president will be to remove from the Department of Justice all of the attorneys who have engaged in the suing of the various states that dare enact the type of laws the federal government should be enforcing. The good people of Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina are only doing what the federal government refuses to do.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My second act will be to start deporting all illegal aliens residing in our jails. My third act as president will be to permanently remove from one of the Democratic Party's future voting blocks by starting the mass deportation of illegal aliens.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Instantly, jobs will open up that this endless supply of cheap labor keeps from providing good wages for Americans to be able to raise a family on. This will work to help reduce the&amp;nbsp; unemployment rate across the nation - especially the Black unemployment rate, as the Democrats desire to elect a new people surpasses their desire to actually help Black America.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Black America. Jesse Jackson has long been one of the premier voices of this monolithic group. Recently, he attacked my fellow candidates for the Republican nomination because of our use of rhetoric that harkens back to states rights and a defense of the 10th Amendment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Pause here for dramatic effect)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The 10th Amendment is the most important of the original Bill of Rights. That we as a people have forgotten this, is precisely why our nation is now falling behind other nations and why our children's future is jeopardized by the dreams of lesser men. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Founding Father's of our great country understood that government, if left unchecked, would be the greatest threat to freedom and their liberties. Considering that Barack Obama's Department of Justice is now suing individual states for daring to pass immigration legislation that the federal government refuses to enforce shows you the sagacity of the dead white men we no longer even celebrate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Pause again as the media gasps)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mr. Jackson, the American people want to be left alone. They no longer desire turning to Washington D.C. for the answers, where an army of lobbyists and bureaucrats oscillating from one party affiliation to the other keep any real signs of hope bottle-necked in a sea of inertia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;More importantly many of the American people throughout this great nation, who work hard, who save money to provide for their families, who go to work and take pride in their community, and who pay their taxes, have long hoped someone would say what I'm about to say.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The only reason someone like you matters is because no one ever just got off their knees and said, "No more."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Well, "no more." &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Were we to truly embrace the legacy of Dr. King, that would mean to judge people by their character. He's our national hero after all.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;So starting with you Jesse Jackson, I choose to judge you by your character. And I don't give a damn what you, as the voice of Black America, have to say.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;And neither do the American people.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(The candidate takes no questions, walking off like President Andrew Sheppard from that stupidly Disingenuous White Liberal movie &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxGqU6LwVI"&gt;The American President&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Yeah, so a candidate would never say this. Doesn't change the fact that were a candidate to state it, he'd be elected. Oh well, at least we know Walt Disney wanted to build Walt Disney World in Orlando when segregation was still predominant there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/a-3WAhbulFs" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-3414837541596747771?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/3414837541596747771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=3414837541596747771' title='24 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3414837541596747771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3414837541596747771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-that-about-no-disney-world-in.html' title='&quot;What&apos;s that about no Disney World in a Segregated Florida, Mr. Jesse Jackson?&quot;'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/a-3WAhbulFs/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-3708008343201112928</id><published>2012-01-16T15:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T10:07:50.624-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What Dreams May Become: MLK Day as a real-life "Hunger Games"</title><content type='html'>The war was long over before I was born. In fact, the crowning achievement of Black-Run America (BRA) – the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day – had only just been enacted when I was brought into the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KxwHe-eoppM/TEcN0yituLI/AAAAAAAAAog/fJ8d5-1mEOQ/s1600/aoil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KxwHe-eoppM/TEcN0yituLI/AAAAAAAAAog/fJ8d5-1mEOQ/s400/aoil.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Unlike in &lt;i&gt;Inception&lt;/i&gt;, MLK's dream will end one day. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Now city after city that has become a nightmare far worse and more macabre than those worlds created by Tim Burton, all due to the belief that MLK’s dream should become a reality. Now city after city fail because we can no longer judge one another by neither color of skin nor content of character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless your skin is white, then your character is never judged as insidious.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;There’s no need to look into the &lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-cult-of-st-martin-luther-king-a-loyalty-test-for-careerist-conservatives"&gt;depraved background of MLK and his inability to hold firm his oath of marital vows&lt;/a&gt;; there’s no need to look at the duplicitous manner in which I Have a Dream (I HAD) conservatives cling to the illusory notion that MLK was some grand Republican; there’s no need to point out the communist affiliations of MLK; there’s &lt;a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/"&gt;no need to even look at the true&lt;/a&gt; (or untrue) legacy of MLK anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;None of that matters. All that you need to know about the reality of King's dream is seen in the ruins of cities that used to be Detroit and Birmingham, the failed school system in Memphis (or the lies told by the Atlanta Public School administrators), and the dying-before-our-eyes-in-real-time Philadelphia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;If those in attendance at the much ballyhooed 1963 speech by King in D.C. could see for themselves what the dream of MLK became, how many of them would still fight to see it come to fruition? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Jim Goad wrote a column to which I can only aspire to one day write when he said &lt;a href="http://takimag.com/article/im_so_bored_with_mlk/page_2#axzz1jezdwiR5"&gt;I’m So Bored with MLK&lt;/a&gt;. He asked this one question that few celebrating by walking in parades down cracked, despondent streets (where crime, murder, rape, and sorrow are proliferate, the perfect breeding grounds for a &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/01/the_first_48_shows_birminghams.html"&gt;First 48 Hours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; episode) and the Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) bloviating platitudes to the moral superiority of King will ever consider:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;After nearly 1,000 mostly dilapidated American streets named in his honor and a select number of cushy jobs awarded in media, athletics, education, and government, what has MLK achieved for American blacks in real terms? Have you seen &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZkAitBauAs"&gt;Birmingham&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ciSmLMieo"&gt;Memphis&lt;/a&gt; lately? Do these latter-day urban creatures seem somehow nobler than the black men in porkpie hats and Buddy Holly glasses who marched for their amorphous “rights” in the 1960s? To my blue eyes, the new jacks seem a few rungs down from their forebears on the evolutionary ladder.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;What dreams may become, MLK? Well, in &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/06/no-dr-king-your-daughter-cant-go-to.html"&gt;2011 we found out why Funtown was off-limits to Black people&lt;/a&gt;. We also found out why white people (and members of all races) find Philadelphia, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Chicago, Peoria, Baltimore, and, sadly, hundreds of other American cities unsafe for raising a family in, though – like Atlanta – the federal government will one day decree white flight to be illegal. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;What dreams may become, MLK? &amp;nbsp;We can no longer judge Black people at all (lest of which by their character), because all of the problems that originate from Black people are the fault of white privilege, white racism, and dear ol’ whitey. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;What dreams may become, MLK? That we’d abandon the space program so that we could allocate trillions into caring for a population that ruined one of the greatest cities on earth – Detroit – in less than twenty years after accidentally inheriting it as whites fled for high ground from the rising waters of the Black Underow? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Goad wrote these words which hold truth and dovetail nicely into the &lt;a href="http://takimag.com/article/im_so_bored_with_mlk/page_2#ixzz1jf7iauJH"&gt;main point of this entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Some have suggested that the more than 100 riots that erupted nationwide after his murder frightened mainstream white America into making an uneasy truce with American blacks—don’t burn down our cities, and we’ll give you our lunch money and promise to stop calling you bad names.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;This was no uneasy truce; It was a total victory for BRA, a totalitarian ideology which has destroyed the vitality of this nation and unfairly castigated all white people with the sins (some real, most grossly exaggerated) of their fathers. Worse, there is no judge you can supplicate to remove them; that means even DWLs welcome this ideology as some sort of self-immolation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Soon, &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/i&gt; will be released in theaters. It is my belief that the world of that dystopian novel is far superior to the one we live in (that essay is coming). Because of a lack of time to describe the plot, allow &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Games"&gt;Wikipedia to describe it for you&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;It is written in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_narrative" title="First-person narrative"&gt;first person&lt;/a&gt; and introduces sixteen-year-old &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen" title="Katniss Everdeen"&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/a&gt;, who lives in a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-apocalyptic" title="Post-apocalyptic"&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; world in the country of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_universe#Panem" title="The Hunger Games universe"&gt;Panem&lt;/a&gt; where the countries of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America" title="North America"&gt;North America&lt;/a&gt; once existed. This is where the government, working in a central city called the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_universe#The_Capitol" title="The Hunger Games universe"&gt;Capitol&lt;/a&gt;, holds power. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual event where one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected to compete in a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television" title="Television"&gt;televised&lt;/a&gt; battle in which only one person can survive. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But why have Hunger Games? On page 18 of the book, we learn what happened. After a series of calamitous events in what used to be the United States transpires, a new nation arose:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity to its citizens. Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;It is here we learn the rules of the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/i&gt; and the crucial role they have in shaming the thought of any insurrection by displaying the awesome power the Capitol wields (p. 18 – 19):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The rules of the Hungers Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of remind us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear, “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did District Thirteen.” &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;A lot of people want this site to highlight every Black-on-white atrocity that transpires in BRA. That would be impossible, because the Mainstream Media rarely reports the race of the suspect in a rape, robbery, or murder case, unless the rape, robbery, or murder case conveniently has an evil white person doing nefarious deeds to a saintly non-white. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;It’s this writer’s opinion that the yearly celebration of MLK Day is nothing more than a gratuitous DWL-inspired version of the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/i&gt;. But instead of one day of sacrifices, white kids are fair game to be attacked year-long in public schools, where every negative aspect about 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; century life is blamed on their ancestors. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;But instead of one day of sacrifices, white people – even Stuff White People Like (SWPL) white people – are fair game to be attacked by roving bands of Mahogany Mobbers, without fear of draconian Hate Crime legislation. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;MLK Day is nothing more than a reminder of the total victory for the left, and platitudes of inspired indifference to the truth of MLK by I HAD people (primarily conservatives) shows the totality of the victory. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;MLK Day is nothing more than a punishment for the mere existence of white people, a repudiation of the civilization that birthed the United States of America, and a way to remind us – &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Those Who Can See&lt;/i&gt; - of the total mercy to BRA, the complete subjugation of the old America in the process. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Little does it matter to DWLs and Organized Blackness that the dream of MLK has given birth to the &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/structural-inequality-new-study-claims.html"&gt;Structural Inequality&lt;/a&gt; found in all cities that BRA conquered, uprooting white families and throwing them into a&amp;nbsp; to a life of servitude (high taxation to subsidize the Black Undertow), making them nomads traveling from one Whitopia to the next. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;The miserable fate of Detroit, Birmingham, Memphis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Houston, Newark, etc., matter little in the grand scheme of things, as long as on the third Monday of January the American version of the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/i&gt; is played. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;We won’t be “tributes” to the dreams of King and his ilk forever, watching in silent horror as another major American city - once a beacon of hope to unborn generations - becomes the next Detroit.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;There are still those of us who see through the lies. There are still those of us who see the world that your dreams helped create and defiantly laugh, knowing that one day – unlike in &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Inception &lt;/i&gt;- the spinning top will fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are still those of us born into the world where all white people are nothing but "tributes" to the dream of MLK, who have and who &lt;i&gt;will awaken&lt;/i&gt; to the reality of BRA. Those boomers, generation x, generation y, millennial's, and members of the "greatest generation" must get off at knees at some point, and understand that the truce Goad spoke of means the continued usurpation of their future (and their posterity) for the subsidation of BRA.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;All dreams end when new ones dare supplant them. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;What dreams may come?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/soBZpya2BDQ" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-3708008343201112928?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/3708008343201112928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=3708008343201112928' title='97 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3708008343201112928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3708008343201112928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-dreams-may-become-mlk-day-as-real.html' title='What Dreams May Become: MLK Day as a real-life &quot;Hunger Games&quot;'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KxwHe-eoppM/TEcN0yituLI/AAAAAAAAAog/fJ8d5-1mEOQ/s72-c/aoil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>97</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-1875462572174550631</id><published>2012-01-15T16:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T16:51:58.454-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dream Deferred: Marching on Michigan Gov. Rick Synder's Home in the Name of Defending Black-run Detroit</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK Note: This week, SBPDL is going to provide a look at the Tuskegee Airmen that you'll find nowhere else. Yes, you've seen a number of articles on the subject published here already. There is more, much more that must be published. Like George Lucas, one of the biggest influences on my life was reading Joseph Campbell. The power of myth is, undeniable. And that's all the Tuskegee Airmen story is, a myth that has been repeated over and over again without any real scrutiny. Until now.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;We have also been providing a look at Detroit's impending collapse, an event that is a long time coming. In reading&lt;i&gt; The Science of Success&lt;/i&gt; by Charles Koch, I've come to realize the importance of prioritizing in order of importance.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;So in honor of communist agitator (who moonlighted as a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Young"&gt;Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/a&gt; - but never was deployed overseas - and mayor of Detroit) Coleman Young, let's take a quick look at the last few days of freedom before the "Arsenal of Democracy" under Black-rule turns out to be nothing but a dud in the end. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's no need to sugarcoat what is about to happen in Detroit. Arguably the greatest city in America as recently as 60 years ago, a massive Black riot in 1967 sparked the demise of the city. Courtesy of white flight helping decimate the white voting base, radical Black racialist Coleman Young was elected mayor in the early part of 1970s, and the Africanization of Detroit was cemented in stone. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are mere weeks (maybe even days) away from the culmination of Young's true legacy: that being the takeover of 82 percent Black Detroit by the state of Michigan. Perhaps it's fate that Young served with the 477th Medium-Bomber Group during World War II, part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen (more on this Tuesday). Though he would never be deployed overseas to bomb Germany, it would be difficult to convince anyone who visited Detroit in 2012 that a massive aerial bombing campaign didn't occur there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comparing Detroit 2012 to Dresden in 1945 isn't a logical leap, knowing that Young was a trained bombardier. Only that could explain the burned-out buildings, abandoned portions of the city, and demoralized population. Instead, the circumstance we find Detroit in is due primarily to the power of Black-Run America (BRA), a ruling ideology that mandates Black people are never responsible for their actions (or the consequences of those actions). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, that or years of the greater social experiment in the history of mankind finally ending (though the usually sound scientific method's conclusions will be disregarded) with a whimper, as Black-run Detroit ends. The conclusion should be that removing the population that created, innovated, built, and sustained a city and its infrastructure and replacing it with one whose sole claim to fame is the invention of the supersoaker isn't sound advice for the health of community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MSNBC's own Rev. Al Sharpton's livelihood revolves around being one of the primary agitators for Organized Blackness, so in the final days that equality-derived freedom reigns in Detroit, it's no surprise that he is leading the lynch mob to save &lt;a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120115/METRO/201150334/Critics-emergency-manager-law-target-Snyder-s-Ann-Arbor-home?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE"&gt;The Black City&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday joined the chorus of opponents to the emergency manager law and pushed plans for a peaceful protest in front of Gov. Rick Snyder's &lt;a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3890530692790573387#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.07em; color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on Martin Luther King Day.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sharpton, who joined U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, ministers and members of the Occupy Detroit movement, said Public Act 4 is a "sick" law that unfairly targets urban cities. He said protestors who gather at Snyder's Ann Arbor home should be peaceful but resolute in their opposition to the law.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Just like Wisconsin started union busting and then it went to Ohio and Indiana, " he said, "…This will be the beginning of governors nullifying the rights of people and they will say municipal elections don't mean anything," said Sharpton at a news conference at the King Solomon Baptist Church on the city's near west side. "You can vote for who you want but the governor will remove them if he wants to. This precedent must be stopped.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"If Snyder gets away with it here, it will spread nationally."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The 4 p.m. march on Snyder's home is expected to draw busloads from urban centers all over the state and organizers say they have cooperation from the Michigan State Police to have streets blocked off.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sharpton and the Rev. Charles E. Williams II, pastor of King Solomon Baptist Church, planned on visiting a couple of church congregations Sunday to help gather signatures to repeal the law. Williams said they have more than 170,000 signatures, more than the 161,000 minimum required to freeze the law and place it on November's ballot.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;So far, cities such as Benton Harbor, Flint, Ecorse, Pontiac and Detroit Public Schools are under emergency managers. The state is considering placing Detroit under an emergency manager and is currently conducting a fiscal review of the city's troubled &lt;a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3890530692790573387#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.07em; color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook1w0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;finances&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conyers, who has been a fierce opponent of the emergency manager law, said he's still waiting for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to respond about the constitutionality of Public Act 4 but to him it's a clear violation and should be repealed.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"I think my case of unconstitutionality is clear," Conyers said. "If he has a different view, he's going to have to express it and we'll have to draw our own conclusions."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zachary Steve, a member of the Occupy Detroit movement, said the law is a clear affront to hard-working citizens who have the right to elect their officials to make their own decisions.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"We have the governor taking away the consent of the government from local communities and school boards and giving that absolute power to one individual," Steve said. "The constitution established a credo for divided power, a legislative, an executive, a judiciary branch. This law removes that divided power. It takes away the consent of the government."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eric "My People" Holder will probably agree with Conyers that Public Act 4 is a "sick law" and it's not inconceivable to see the Department of Justice intervening on behalf of 82 percent Black Detroit. Indeed, the Department of Justice has been intervening on behalf of 13 percent of the population for more than half a century. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like his wife, Conyers should be in jail. The fact that for almost a century, Wayne County residents have helped reelect this man again and again to represent them in Washington D.C. shows you why the concept of democracy is a failure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then again, Holder might have more in common with &lt;a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2790533/posts"&gt;Conyers then were he in jail&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;According to Department of Justice whistleblower J. Christian Adams,  AG Eric Holder has a certain something in his wallet. It is a quotation —  and he has carried it for decades. It essentially says, to quote Adams,  "Blackness is more important than anything, and the black US attorney  has common cause with the black criminal." It's not surprising that  Holder would feel this way about black lawyers and criminals. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Because in his case they're one and the same. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Not one major conservative will use the collapse of Detroit (nor will they take on Eric "My People" Holder) to broach the subject of race, though The Motor City has been a veritable Petri Dish for Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) to watch their beliefs unfold in real-life, to their melancholy conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though Coleman Young protested this next sentence throughout his hilariously triumphant autobiography &lt;i&gt;Hard Stuff&lt;/i&gt;, Black people were incapable of sustaining the civilization that whites left them (well, abandoned to them) in Detroit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Memo to Al Sharpton: it was Black people who ruined Detroit, once a city that was the shining example of American ingenuity, where a true middle-class flourished and thrived; where arts and culture abound; and where dreams of the city's inhabitants for the Detroit their children would inherit resembled the world of the cartoon &lt;i&gt;The Jetsons&lt;/i&gt;, as opposed to the nightmarish existence that Black people have brought to the city, making it resemble an almost all-Black version of &lt;i&gt;The Flintstones&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dream of equality was never deferred. At the tip of Federal guns, it came true in America. Look no further than the fate of Detroit, to see where every city in America is eventually headed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Courtesy of the only &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-climate-change.html"&gt;Climate Change &lt;/a&gt;that truly poses a threat to mankind's future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-1875462572174550631?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/1875462572174550631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=1875462572174550631' title='77 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/1875462572174550631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/1875462572174550631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/dream-deferred-marching-on-michigan-gov.html' title='The Dream Deferred: Marching on Michigan Gov. Rick Synder&apos;s Home in the Name of Defending Black-run Detroit'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>77</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-3671351267139373907</id><published>2012-01-14T15:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T15:12:43.833-08:00</updated><title type='text'>1,000th Post: Because (ALL) People Deserve Better</title><content type='html'>1,000 posts (with this one). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 6,000 people visit this site every day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any success that SBPDL has had is because we publish truth.&amp;nbsp; Just remember, telling the truth is the most revolutionary act in Black-Run America (BRA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People yearn for the truth, but they know the repercussions for espousing it.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All people (regardless of race) deserve better than BRA. When the National Guard is needed in &lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/obama-campaign-makes-ridiculous-distortion-on-israel/"&gt;Camden &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.wdsu.com/r/30034943/detail.html"&gt;New Orleans &lt;/a&gt;to keep the peace, you know all the mountain of egalitarian lies espoused by Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) amounts to a hill of beans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In these volatile times, whatever becomes of SBPDL - a site that started as a joke - is inconsequential. We have started a fire. Trust me on that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The roughly 30 months that I've been doing SBPDL, I've come to the conclusion that people (all people) deserve better than the totalitarian regime that is BRA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in the 1970s, a movie called &lt;i&gt;Death Wish &lt;/i&gt;took the nation by storm. Charles Bronson portrayed a simple architect whose life was torn apart by the brutal murder of his wife and the raping of his daughter. Challenging the state monopoly on violence, his character inspired a nation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That characters name was Paul Kersey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember this: There's a Paul Kersey in all of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you understand that, you will realize what freedom, &lt;i&gt;true freedom&lt;/i&gt; means. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All people in America deserve better than potentially being the next victim of Knockout King (coming soon to a city near you!). All people in America deserve better than watching another major city &lt;a href="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/01/12/nutter-fumes-after-3-philadelphia-teens-killed-in-apparent-reprisal-shooting/#comment-158394"&gt;(like Philadelphia&lt;/a&gt;) become the next Detroit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's why SBPDL exists now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, here's to the first 999 posts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for taking the time be part of SBPDL. Thanks for reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not a celebration though. People are dying, people are being attacked, businesses are being ruined, and city after city is collapsing, all in the name of BRA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our task in all this is simple: Endure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sk4v5dZrwDY" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-3671351267139373907?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/3671351267139373907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=3671351267139373907' title='36 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3671351267139373907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/3671351267139373907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/1000th-post-because-all-people-deserve.html' title='1,000th Post: Because (ALL) People Deserve Better'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/sk4v5dZrwDY/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>36</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-5569542610112402791</id><published>2012-01-13T09:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T12:22:17.023-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Life is Balance: Another Romney in Office While America Burns</title><content type='html'>Looking across the political landscape, it should be obvious that we are preparing for a Mitt Romney - Barack Obama showdown in November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An e-mailer recently asked why haven't we been covering some of the recent criminal actions of Black people from such exotic locations as &lt;a href="http://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/Four-arrested-for-YouTube-video-assault-on-MAX/TCLY6FlPhUqcQHmV3dyWnw.cspx"&gt;Portland&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-knockout-game-victim-enraged-that-suspects-walked-free/article_6dc55245-69ec-51a0-8f5c-5bbb95777a9d.html"&gt;St. Louis&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/01/12/nutter-fumes-after-3-philadelphia-teens-killed-in-apparent-reprisal-shooting/#comment-158394"&gt;Philadelphia&lt;/a&gt;. For one, no one else dares target the state deification of the Tuskegee Airmen. Also, the impending collapse of Detroit (and the takeover by the state of Michigan) will be the biggest story of the first quarter of 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Long-time SBPDL readers should know that once a target is acquired, we attack it. Completely. Last summer, this site along with View from the Right, Unamusement Park, OD, TakiMag, OneSTDV, GL Piggy, and a few others began documenting the trend of Black people targeting whites in vicious attacks. Some call it Knockout King; in Milwaukee, it was just Black people (more than a hundred) attacking whites. In Philadelphia, well, it was &lt;a href="http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-06/news/30598180_1_black-on-black-killings-murder-big-cities"&gt;Black people waging war with one another&lt;/a&gt; (and white people) that illustrates why liberty is really cracked in Black-Run America (BRA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This needs to be made clear right now: If you notice that it is Black people attacking white people nationwide; if you notice that Black people are waging a war on the profitability of public transportation by attacking whites and driving them to car pool to work; that &lt;a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/01/13/ocala-bus-beating/"&gt;Black children are attacking white kids&lt;/a&gt; on school buses;&amp;nbsp; if notice that the government seems to favor Black people; well, you my friend are an ENEMY OF THE STATE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't have to advocate the superiority of the white race. All you have to do - to be considered an ENEMY OF THE STATE - is notice collective Black failure and the government's (both state and federal) to endless promote Black people above everyone else.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps it's fate that we enter a race for the President of the United States between Mitt Romney, the son of former Michigan Governor George Romney. After all, it was George Romney who was the Republican governor of the state when &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot"&gt;Black people rioted in the summer of 1967&lt;/a&gt; and burned it to the ground, scaring the remaining white people to the suburbs and solidifying that &lt;i&gt;Climate Change &lt;/i&gt;would totally ruin &lt;a href="http://blogpublic.lib.msu.edu/index.php/july-23-1967-detroit-race?blog=5"&gt;The Motor City&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A massive race riot erupted in Detroit. The summer of 1967 was a  turbulent time in American history. The Detroit rioting began near 12th  Street and Clairmount in a predominantly African-American, overcrowded,  and low-income neighborhood. Early on the morning of July 23, Detroit  police officers raided a “blind pig,” which was an establishment that  illegally sold alcohol after hours. A crowd gathered as those arrested  were put in a police wagon. Riots erupted and quickly spread. Detroit  Mayor Jerome Cavanagh asked Michigan's governor, George Romney, to send  in the State Police. Eventually, Romney called in the National Guard.  After eight dangerous and unfortunate days, the riot came to an end. The  riot's immediate effects were disastrous. Forty-three people had lost  their lives. 1,700 stores had been looted. In all, 7,231 people were  arrested and over 1000 buildings were burned. Damages to property  amounted to about $50 million. As a result of this debacle, President  Lyndon Johnson set up the Kerner Commission to investigate the causes of  civil disorder in American cities. New taxes were eventually adopted to  bring increase revenue for education, welfare, and other government  services. In 1972, a state lottery was also established to help raise  money and alleviate the dire conditions of inner-city living. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should be noted that Gov. Romney (the elder) had designs for the White House, but those all ended when he claimed he was "brainwashed" into supporting the &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/romney.htm"&gt;Vietnam War:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Governor George W. Romney of Michigan was a leading contender for the 1968  Republican presidential nomination until September 4, 1967, when he told Detroit  television newsman Lou Gordon that he had been "brainwashed" by American  generals into supporting the Vietnam war effort while touring Southeast Asia in  1965.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Though Romney tried in earnest to explain himself, he became the target of  blistering press and partisan attacks. Romney's candidacy never recovered from  the furor he created with his statement. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day will come when Black-Run America ends, that never-ending&lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/posts/minority-occupation-govt-forces-pepsi-to-hire-possible-criminals"&gt; pursuit to promote Black people above everyone else&lt;/a&gt; (even at the expense of the nations overall health) which is the official governing policy of the government, the court system, the private sector, the military, the media and entertainment industry, and academia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many white politicians will claim, like Romney the Elder, that they were "brainwashed" into believing it. The summer of 2011 was a prelude to the sparks that will fly in the summer of 2012, courtesy of &lt;strike&gt;packs of youth&lt;/strike&gt;, f&lt;strike&gt;lash mobbers&lt;/strike&gt;, Black people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, both &lt;a href="http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/camden-asks-national-guard-for-help-120611"&gt;Camden&lt;/a&gt; and New Orleans have requested the National Guard to patrol the city streets in a last-ditch bid to keep Black people from killing one another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is Balance. The moment that Mitt Romney is elected POTUS, it won't just be Detroit that could go up in flames, but every American city (think St. Louis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Birmingham, Portland, Buffalo, Memphis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Atlanta, etc.) that feels the defeat of Mein Obama is yet another reminder that The Man wants to keep the The Brother forever down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nArLuubNjKs" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-5569542610112402791?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/5569542610112402791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=5569542610112402791' title='95 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5569542610112402791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5569542610112402791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/life-is-balance-another-romney-in.html' title='Life is Balance: Another Romney in Office While America Burns'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/nArLuubNjKs/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>95</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-4143706887700181510</id><published>2012-01-12T16:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T16:53:30.910-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Atonement for "Star Wars: A New Hope": The Real Reason George Lucas Funded "Red Tails"</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/A-New-Hope-star-wars-46309_1024_768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/A-New-Hope-star-wars-46309_1024_768.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;There was not one Black person in this film&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/i&gt;. Go watch it. Pop it in your DVD/Blu Ray player and enjoy the one movie that George Lucas regrets having made. Yes, the 1977 space saga is the basis for the massive money-making machine which helped Lucas buy Skywalker Ranch and become a billionaire, but outside of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Star Wars: The Holiday Special&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this is the one story he regrets telling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why? Because the cast was whiter than the one in &lt;i&gt;American Graffiti&lt;/i&gt;. Not one Black face is to be seen in the movie that introduced the world to Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi, Grand Moff Tarkin, and Wedge. Not one Black face in the entire film of&lt;i&gt; Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/i&gt;. Not even Darth Vader himself is a Black guy (spoiler alert: Vader is the father of the blond haired, blue-eyed Luke).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uber-comic book nerd Kevin Smith wrote a scene &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLZRp2WRF78"&gt;detailing this exact scenario&lt;/a&gt; in this boring film &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118842/quotes"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chasing Amy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (PK Note: Hooper is a Black Nationalist comic writer; Holden and Banky are hapless white guys:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263880/"&gt;Hooper&lt;/a&gt;: For years in this industry, whenever an African American character, hero  or villain, was introduced - usually by *white* artists and writers -  they got slapped with racist names that singled them out as Negroes.  Now, my book, "White-Hatin' Coon," don't have none of that bullshit. The  hero's name is Maleekwa, and he's a descendant from the black tribe  that established the first society on the planet, while all you European  motherfuckers were still hiding in caves and shit, all terrified of the  sun. He's a strong role model that a young black reader can look up to.  'Cause I'm here to tell you, the chickens is coming home to roost,  y'all. The black man's no longer gonna play the minstrel in the medium  of comics and sci-fi fantasy. We keepin' it real, and we gonna get  respect by any means necessary.&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000255/"&gt;Holden&lt;/a&gt;: Ah, come on, that's a bunch of horse shit! Lando Calrissian was a black  guy. You know. He got to fly the Millennium Falcon, what's the matter  with you?  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263880/"&gt;Hooper&lt;/a&gt;: Always some white boy gotta invoke the holy trilogy. Bust this: Those  movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down, even in a  galaxy far, far away. Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke  Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got  Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!  &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005134/"&gt;Banky Edwards&lt;/a&gt;: What's a Nubian?  &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263880/"&gt;Hooper&lt;/a&gt;: Shut the fuck up! Now... Vader, he's a spiritual brother, y'know, down  with the force and all that good shit. Then this cracker, Skywalker,  gets his hands on a light saber and the boy decides he's gonna run the  fuckin' universe; gets a whole clan of whites together. And they go and  bust up Vader's hood, the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call  that?  &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005134/"&gt;Banky Edwards&lt;/a&gt;: Intergalactic civil war?  &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263880/"&gt;Hooper&lt;/a&gt;: Gentrification! They gon' drive out the black element to make the galaxy  quote, unquote, safe for white folks. And Jedi's the most insulting  installment! Because Vader's beautiful black visage is sullied when he  pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They  tryin' to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!  &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005134/"&gt;Banky Edwards&lt;/a&gt;: Well, isn't that true?  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; [&lt;i class="fine"&gt;Hooper pulls out his gun, shoots Banky&lt;/i&gt;]  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;George Lucas is well-aware of the new rules governing Hollywood (as denoted in &lt;i&gt;Hollywood in Blackface &lt;/i&gt;and the&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/05/fast-and-furious-changing-dynamic-of.html"&gt; Fast and the Furious article here at SBPDL&lt;/a&gt;) and he was quick to add Billy Dee Williams into &lt;i&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/i&gt; as Lando Calrissian, the administrator of Cloud City (who, we should add, "snitched" on his friend Solo to the Empire) to cast. This added some much needed diversity to the lily-white cast, though he bust out the crayola casting for the three prequel movies that came out in 1999 - 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should also be stated these three movies are universally loathed by fans of the "real" trilogy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could this be the real reason Lucas decided to put up his own money to bankroll &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-red-tailsand-tuskegee-airmen-story.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a movie that many hope will replicate the success of a similar film &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/04/lies-in-remember-titans-and-glory-road.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Remember the Titans&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/a&gt;(the latter movie was based on a true story, but the Black screen writer liberally added fabricated stories of racism)? Lucas wanted to atone for the all-white &lt;i&gt;Star Wars&lt;/i&gt;, by making a movie that had no conceivable audience (remember, single Black women only have a net worth of $5 and a ticket to a movie costs double that) outside the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you mean by that, you ask? Well, only in America do Black actors have any box-office pull. The rest of the world doesn't subscribe to the belief in the supremacy of the&lt;a href="http://popwatch.ew.com/2007/03/01/why_arent_afric/"&gt; Black Fictional Heroes&lt;/a&gt;, which is not good for a&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/movies/28color.html"&gt; healthy return on investment Hollywood &lt;/a&gt;studios seek:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dreamgirls&lt;/i&gt; has enjoyed a remarkable run, winning two Oscars,  seeing Jennifer Hudson emerge as the toast of Tinseltown, and crossing  the $100 million barrier at the domestic box office. But the musical’s  greater financial situation tells a more troubling story — namely, the  difficulty studios have in selling movies starring African-Americans  internationally.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/movies/28color.html" target="_blank"&gt;As &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; reported&lt;/a&gt; in a long feature yesterday, &lt;i&gt;Dreamgirls&lt;/i&gt;  has earned more than $101 million in the U.S. and Canada, but Paramount  expects it will make little more than $60 million abroad. Which is  particularly problematic in an era when Hollywood increasingly depends  on foreign box office to drive profits. These days, 52 percent of movie  earnings come from international markets. As BET Networks entertainment  president and &lt;i&gt;House Party&lt;/i&gt; director Reginald Hudlin says in the &lt;i&gt;Times&lt;/i&gt;‘  story, "I always call international the new South. In the old days,  they told you black films don’t travel down South. Now they say it’s not  going to travel overseas." At home, frequent box office champ Will  Smith seems like the biggest star on the planet, but the &lt;i&gt;Times&lt;/i&gt; quotes industry watcher James Ulmer as saying that Smith ranks no better than No. 12 in terms of worldwide bankability. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;The most common type of movie that Hollywood makes with African-Americans? Comedies. Yet among &lt;a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2006&amp;amp;p=.htm" target="_blank"&gt;the top domestic grossers of 2006&lt;/a&gt;, every comedy (&lt;i&gt;Talladega Nights&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Click&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Borat&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Break-Up&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&amp;amp;yr=2006&amp;amp;p=.htm" target="_blank"&gt;fared better at home than abroad&lt;/a&gt;;  American humor apparently doesn’t travel well.Unfortunately, studios  fear that black people don’t go to the movies,so they don’t make many  different kinds of movies for black people(much like they don’t make  many movies for women). But as the successof Smith’s &lt;i&gt;The Pursuit of Happyness&lt;/i&gt; (pictured) or Tyler Perry’s films (or, in the case of female-driven movies, &lt;i&gt;The Devil Wears Prada&lt;/i&gt;)shows,  those fears are misguided, a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the  studiosmade more high-quality dramas with African-Americans, rather than  broadgenre films, maybe international audiences would be interested.  The industry certainly won’t know if it doesn’t try.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Considering that studios rely heavily on the international market to raise box office receipts, Hollywood is squeamish about green-lighting any film that is seen as "too Black."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Enter George Lucas, still trying to atone for that past lily-white mistake that is the genesis of his entire wealth. Enter &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/george-lucas-hollywood-di_n_1197227.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In an appearance on The Daily Show last night, George Lucas said that  he had trouble getting funding for his new movie, "Red Tails," because  of its black cast.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"This has been held up for release since 1942 since it was shot, I've  been trying to get released ever since," Lucas quipped to Jon Stewart.  "It's because it's an all-black movie. There's no major white roles in  it at all...I showed it to all of them and they said no. We don't know  how to market a movie like this."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Red Tails," which stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard,  is based on&lt;a href="http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/" target="_hplink"&gt; the Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/a&gt;,  the group of pioneering black pilots who fought in the United States'  segregated armed forces during World War II. The movie is directed by  Anthony Hemingway, the rare black director getting a chance to direct a  big-budget feature.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last week,&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/story/2012-01-04/george-lucas-talks-red-tails-production/52378392/1?csp=ip" target="_hplink"&gt; Lucas told USA Today that he was worried that if  Red Tails was a failure,&lt;/a&gt;  it could have negative repercussions for black filmmakers. "I realize  that by accident I've now put the black film community at risk [with Red  Tails, whose $58 million budget far exceeds typical all-black  productions]," he said. "I'm saying, if this doesn't work, there's a  good chance you'll stay where you are for quite a while. It'll be harder  for you guys to break out of that [lower-budget] mold. But if I can  break through with this movie, then hopefully there will be someone else  out there saying let's make a prequel and sequel, and soon you have  more Tyler Perrys out there."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;More Tyler Perry's? Didn't he know that Aaron McGruder worked as the screenwriter for &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; and is one of the more outspoken critics of Perry? Oh well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's hope that Lucas can finally put the abomination that is all-white &lt;i&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope &lt;/i&gt;behind him with the film &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's also hope that the credits to his film don't include the fabrication that the T&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/something-wicked-this-way-comes-nfl.html"&gt;uskegee Airmen never lost a bomber during the war&lt;/a&gt;, as the 1995 HBO movie &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuskegee_Airmen"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tuskegee Airmen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; did:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;At the end, the film details the unit's accomplishments: 66 out of the  450 Tuskegee Airmen died in battle, they engaged and defeated &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262" title="Messerschmitt Me 262"&gt;Messerschmitt Me 262s&lt;/a&gt;,  the first operational jet fighters, and they were awarded a total of  850 medals over the course of the war. The credits also note  (inaccurately, but a common belief of the time) that the 332nd never  lost a single bomber to enemy fire.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When myth becomes legend, print the myth or something like that, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's be honest: only in a galaxy far, far way would you ever see a Black pilot truly save the day. Well, or &lt;i&gt;Independence Day&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vHLJfxfXHBg" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-4143706887700181510?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/4143706887700181510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=4143706887700181510' title='49 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/4143706887700181510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/4143706887700181510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/atonement-for-star-wars-new-hope-real.html' title='Atonement for &quot;Star Wars: A New Hope&quot;: The Real Reason George Lucas Funded &quot;Red Tails&quot;'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/vHLJfxfXHBg/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>49</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-8502035234636077065</id><published>2012-01-11T16:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T08:32:12.737-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Segregation: What "Red Tails"and the Tuskegee Airmen Story Really Celebrates</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.1starmy.com/upload/images/product/product_1_5413_max.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.1starmy.com/upload/images/product/product_1_5413_max.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;What your typical pilot in the military looks like&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;With the impending release on January 20th of George Lucas' &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;, it's important to ask a simple question: "What is the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, those Black pilots who escorted white bombers over Germany so many years ago?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If one were to rent from Netflix&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2010/09/soul-plane-reality-of-airline-industry.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Soul Plane&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you'll get a glimpse of the pinnacle of Black aviation achievement since the Tuskegee Airmen took to the air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing that the Black people selected for flight training down in Tuskegee during World War II were screened for intelligence - &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/red-tails-rising-tuskegee-airmen-and.html"&gt;so that they wouldn't fail&lt;/a&gt; - it's important that this point be made: The Tuskegee Airmen's success (&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/something-wicked-this-way-comes-nfl.html"&gt;though much of it has been inflated&lt;/a&gt;) and growing legend is attributable entirely to segregation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What? "How can you say that?," you're probably asking yourself. Yes, the &lt;a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/integration/IAF-11.htm"&gt;segregation of the military &lt;/a&gt;(there was no separate Air Force during World War II, just the Army Air Force) is the real champion in the Tuskegee Airmen tale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many historians have pointed to the success (remember, most of the "success" - like never losing a bomber they escorted -was entirely made-up) of the Tuskegee Airmen as the primary reason for the desegregation of the Armed Forces. If this is true, this event must signify the death of Black aviation achievement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Black men were only competing with other Black men in pilot training, they had only the best scores of Black cadets to aspire to replicate; once Black men were forced to compete for the few pilot slots available in an integrated training unit, they were forced to compete with the standard set by white men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as in firefighting and police exams, the results weren't pretty. You can't have affirmative action in the pilot seat, and lowering standards and requirements for a pilot equates to risking lives and millions of dollars in equipment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recall this story from the&lt;a href="http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/02/airforce_black_history_022109/"&gt; Air Force Times&lt;/a&gt;, which states that less than two percent of Air Force fighter pilots are Black:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Racism in the Air Force is largely a thing of the past, but that  doesn’t mean all wrongs have been righted or that the issue doesn’t  merit discussion, says one of the service’s 12 black general officers  and the head of its recruiting command.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brig. Gen. A.J. Stewart  sees February, designated as Black History Month, as an opportunity to  talk frankly about the past and the importance of diversity.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“One  of the interesting questions that comes up every year is ... ‘Why do we  continue to have an African-American heritage month? I thought we were  past these issues,’ ” Stewart said. “My perspective on that is yes, we  are no longer under the bonds of slavery, [and] we no longer have legal  discrimination. ... However, for African-Americans in particular, we  suffered very deep wounds for hundreds of years in this country, and  while the wounds essentially have healed, they’ve left scars, and we are  still in one sense recovering from this terrible experience.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Only 1.9 percent of Air Force pilots are black, according to AFPC. Of  14,130 Air Force pilots, 270 identified themselves as black; another  620 declined to report their race.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“We’ve been trying for 20 years  to get more black pilots, but it’s a little lower than it was 20 years  ago,” said Stewart, who is a pilot.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The drop in pilots is harder  to explain but probably stems from blacks being underrepresented in the  sciences and technical fields, where the Air Force gets many of its  pilots, Dorn said.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;In Black-Run America (BRA) we are all trained in public school to understand that anytime that Black people collectively fail at something (or are underrepresented in a vocation) then only racism from white people is to blame. Or white privilege.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recall that when the Tuskegee Airmen were trained, they weren't up against white privilege. They were in an entirely Black unit, competing only against other Black people. This was the reason that so many Black people were able to take to the skies and escort white-flown bombers over an already mortally wounded Nazi Germany. The heavy lifting had already been accomplished by white fighter pilots and white bombing teams; why not give the 332 Fighter Group an opportunity to shine since they had logged so many flight hours?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They only competed against themselves. Success was thus guaranteed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon integration of the US Military, success would no longer only be measured against fellow Black people. They had to compete with white pilots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen meant absolutely nothing upon the integration of the Air Force. In the Korean War, only a handful of Black people were&lt;a href="http://www.nj.gov/military/korea/factsheets/afroamer.html"&gt; fighter pilots&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1950, the  Air Force had 25 black pilots in integrated fighter squadrons led by  Captain Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., who was assigned to the 36th  Squadron, 5th Air Force. Captain James was an exceptional fighter pilot  who often flew his F-86 Sabre jet on dangerous, unarmed reconnaissance  missions behind enemy lines -- a task reserved for a select group of the  most able and trusted flyers. James flew 101 combat missions in Korea  and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross before being reassigned  stateside. In July 1951, he became the first African-American in the Air  Force to command a fighter squadron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Again, why must we must ask ourselves why the story of the Tuskegee Airmen must continually be rehashed? Haven't other Black pilots distinguished themselves? Well, not really. Even in the private sector, &lt;a href="http://www.eturbonews.com/9214/black-leaders-unhappy-about-delta-air-lines-diversity"&gt;Organized Blackness is constantly attacking the airline industry&lt;/a&gt; for the paucity of Black pilots. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tuskegee.edu/sites/www/Uploads/images/About%20Us/Airmen/Tuskegee%20Airmen1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://www.tuskegee.edu/sites/www/Uploads/images/About%20Us/Airmen/Tuskegee%20Airmen1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Honoring the Tuskegee Airmen is glorifying segregation: Blacks can't compete as pilots otherwise (save in movies)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organized Blackness &lt;a href="http://www.empowernewsmag.com/listings.php?article=1782"&gt;tries to equate the discrimination&lt;/a&gt; that the Black men of the Tuskegee Airmen faced when trying to ascertain (make-up excuses) reasons for the current lack of Black pilots. But let's not kid ourselves: there is no discrimination in the current United States Military, &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-does-army-navy-game-mean-in-black.html"&gt;save that officially sanctioned against white males&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The military goes out of its way to locate Black people qualified (and intelligent enough) to &lt;a href="http://www.stripes.com/military-life/despite-recruitment-efforts-few-black-pilots-land-in-air-force-navy-cockpits-1.11138"&gt;place in pilot training&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;About 20 percent of the U.S. military is black, compared to 13  percent of all Americans, according to recently released Defense  Department statistics.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But in the two services with the majority  of fixed-wing aircraft, the Navy and the Air Force, the percentage of  black aviators is very small.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Navy statistics from the fourth  quarter of 2002 show that of 8,557 pilots (16 percent of the officer  corps), just 185 are black — 2 percent.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And in the Air Force, of  12,639 pilots (also 16.1 percent of the officer corps), just 236  officers are black pilots, or 2.1 percent.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The dearth of black pilots is hardly news. To the contrary, military officials have been aware of the phenomenon for decades.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“We  can go all the way back to the 1970s,” to trace the U.S. Air Force’s  efforts to increase the black pilot cadre, Brig. Gen. Leon Johnson, an  Air Force Reserve fighter pilot and one of the military’s most prominent  advocates for recruiting black pilots, said in a February interview.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a landmark report published in 1999 by the Office of the  Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness titled “Career  Progression in Minority and Women Officers” (the last time the topic has  been addressed by the Defense Department), a section on aviation says,  “of all minorities, the representation of blacks has remained stubbornly  low over the last 15 years.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Selection and training&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Once  blacks who want to be military aviators make it into college, the  manner in which the military identifies, recruits, selects and trains  its pilots might be a significant barrier to the stated goal of  increasing the black flying cadre, the 1999 report said.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The  services draw their pilot candidates from several different sources,  including the “Big Three pipelines,” as Johnson called them.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Those  pipelines are the service academies; Reserve Officer Training Corps, or  ROTC, programs at mainstream colleges and universities; and direct  commissioning via the officer training schools.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For both ROTC and  academy students, the military selection process for flight school  begins in the senior year of college, when selection boards take into  account academic performance, leadership, faculty recommendations and  extracurricular activities.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Students also take a battery of  service-specific aviator tests.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The number of flight school slots available in any given year varies, depending on the needs of the services at the time.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Each  college or university is allocated a limited number of slots for pilot  trainees, Gen. Johnson said, “So even though [candidates are] qualified,  they may not be able to go.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Richard Jones saw that happen to 12  of his best black friends in 2001, during his senior year at Grambling  State University in Louisiana (Grambling is part of America’s network of  almost 100 formally designated Historically Black Colleges and  Universities).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;All 13 friends sent their applications to the Air Force’s pilot selection board, but only Jones was accepted to pilot training.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Moral of the story? Only a segregated unit would have allowed all of those 13 Black ROTC cadets from Grambling a shot at flying. They can't compete with white pilots otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's the reason that we must continue to have the Tuskegee Airmen rammed down our throats because only segregated pilot-training could have allowed this story to transpire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as Black men aren't equipped to compete with &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/05/inevitable-seals-team-6-movie.html"&gt;white men when it comes to being part of&amp;nbsp; US Special Forces&lt;/a&gt;, Black men can't compete in an integrated Air Force. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Funny, in the 1960 and 1970s, the United States Air Force created a special Black pilot training program that didn't have the same - exaggerated - results of the real &lt;a href="http://lubbockonline.com/stories/053109/loc_445532318.shtml"&gt;Tuskegee Experiment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remembering the struggles they went through to earn their wings, Hank  Taylor and about a dozen mostly retired black pilots on Saturday walked  around the old Reese Air Force Base. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nearly 40 years ago, these men were in the midst of a civil rights-era struggle for racial equality in the air.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;       &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;"We're sort of on the heels of the Tuskegee Airman," Taylor said,  alluding to the all-black World War II air-combat unit based in  Tuskegee, Ala.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;       &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the 1960s and '70s, Reese was one of several bases where the  United States Air Force launched a black pilot training program. Taylor,  a 1971 graduate of the program, said the Air Force started it to curb  failure or "wash-out" rates that were twice as high among black students  - about 50 percent - compared to white students. To do this, the Air  Force grouped black students at several bases and slowly recruited more  black instructor pilots to help level the playing field during the  highly subjective, yearlong assessment process.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Off they don't go into the wild blue yonder. A 50 percent wash-out once the military had integrated? What was the wash-out rate for the all-Black Tuskegee Airmen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise, there would be more Black pilots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Times&lt;/i&gt; published an article on the lack of Black pilots (&lt;i&gt;Pentagon Studies, Finds no Reason for Lack of Black Pilots&lt;/i&gt;, May 7, 1996) that shows the problem still vexes the Pentagon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blacks continue to be underrepresented among the military's aviation officer corps, and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pentagon, after a lot of study, doesn't know why, a top official said yesterday.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edwin Dorn, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said the services have spent much time analyzing why&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;blacks&amp;nbsp;make up only 2.1 percent of the 10,000 fixed-wing aircraft&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;pilots&amp;nbsp;in the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, while accounting for 7.4 percent of all 218,000 officers in those services.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;"I don't think we came up with a very good answer, quite frankly," Mr. Dorn told a conference of scholars and military officers sponsored by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He said the armed forces'&amp;nbsp;blacksalso lag in representation in special forces units and in civilian management posts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Alan Gropman, a history professor at the Industrial  College&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;"American education is not providing the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines with enough&amp;nbsp;black&amp;nbsp;candidates for&amp;nbsp;pilot&amp;nbsp;training," Mr. Gropman, a former Air Force navigator who flew on 650 combat missions in Vietnam, said in an interview.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;He said the service academies like to draw from a group of high-school seniors who have at least a 3.5 grade-point average, a 1,100 score on the Scholastic Assessment Tests and a letter of recommendation, and who have participated in two or more extracurricular activities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Of 150,000 such students last year, 135,000 were white and 1,190 were&amp;nbsp;black, Mr. Gropman said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Noting the low ratio of&amp;nbsp;black&amp;nbsp;pilots&amp;nbsp;in the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, an aide to Mr. Dorn said, "It's not going up the same way the other occupations have gone up."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;What occupations are going up in the  military? Definitely not in those positions that put Americans in harm's way in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, where &lt;i&gt;Stars and Stripes&lt;/i&gt; recently lamented t&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/06/stars-and-stripes-claims-white-people.html"&gt;hat only white men are earning honor and valor on the battlefield&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, we could always institute massive affirmative action schemes as the South African government did in the vain attempt at de-whitening the &lt;a href="http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmoral/articles/20061120.aspx"&gt;Air Force there&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="article" id="ctl00_mainContent_content"&gt;The South African  Air Force (SAAF) has a morale problem. The government has been trying to  integrate previously all white institutions. This has been most  difficult in areas that require lots of technical training and  education. Like pilots. The government has set a racial goal for SAAF  pilots, and wants them to be 75 percent black and 25 percent white.  Currently, it is 19 percent black and 81 percent white. The morale  problem arose when, recently, three top rated graduates of pilot  training school, who would normally go on to fly fighters, were told  that, because they were white, they would instead fly helicopters or  transports. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the ANC government hoped to re-create the Tuskegee Airmen down in the Cape of Good Hope? How'd that work out? Well, the previous article was published in 2006. This one, &lt;a href="http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/20091123.aspx"&gt;was in 2009&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This year, the  South African Air Force stopped automatically releasing data on how many  hours combat pilots flew for training. When the numbers were finally  obtained, it was discovered that in the last year, fighter pilots were  in the air for 325 hours (less than two hours a month per pilot). In  contrast, pilots on VIP flights (carrying politicians and government  officials) were up there 1,932 hours. There are about fifty transports,  and 80 helicopters in the air force.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But there's more going on. First, the air force only has twenty  fighter pilots, and only nine fighters. In the next three years, 26  Swedish Gripen fighters are being delivered. Nine are already on hand.  Last year, the last of the 66 Cheetah fighters (rebuilt French Mirage  IIIs) were retired.&amp;nbsp;Last year, the last full year that Cheetahs were  operational, fighter pilots got 2,084 hours in the air. The year before  that, 2,448 hours. It's believed that only six of the twenty fighter  pilots are competent to handle their aircraft in combat. Most competent  pilots have left the air force because of the lack of flying hours. Many  of the pilots remaining got in under a quota system that attempts to  add more racial diversity to the air force.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Not surprisingly,  many South Africans believe that the South African Air Force (SAAF) is  falling apart. The most obvious aspect of this is the decrepit state of  aging buildings, runways and aircraft. But the biggest problem is  getting, and keeping, technical people. This is complicated by a  government program to integrate previously all white institutions. This  has been most difficult in areas that require lots of technical training  and education. Like pilots and aircraft maintainers.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The  government has set a racial goal for SAAF pilots, and wants them to be  75 percent black and 25 percent white. Currently, it is still over 50  percent white.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks like the goal of finding qualified Black pilots in South Africa is still somewhere over the rainbow...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing that Black-Run America (BRA) is still followed to a "T" in the United States Military, we could one day see a policy similar to that of South Africa instituted at the Air Force Academy and ROTC programs across the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we must state this simple fact: The Tuskegee Airmen story - which George Lucas personally funded re-telling in his &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; film - could have only transpired thanks to the military being segregated. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you go see Red Tails and you wonder what the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen really is and why we must continually read and hear about this lone Black unit, understand that the integration of the military completely clipped the wings of future Black pilots before they got the chance to be trained to fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They just can't compete with white (or non-Black) pilots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Know this: we at SBPDL do not endorse segregation. We believe in merit, which is anathema to the governing apparatus known as BRA. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, there's the truth about why we must continually be bombarded with tales of the Tuskegee Airmen's aerial success. One, since the Tuskegee Airmen defied stereotypes and were able to fly planes successfully, then only racism can be blamed for the lack of Black pilots now. Right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In integrated units, Black pilots have no chance. Just ask Black firefighters and Black police officers how they got their jobs. Entrance exams had to be lowered to accomodate low scoring Black applicants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the Red Tails movie will inspire millions, and lead to Black kids channeling their inner Luke Skywalker and joining the ROTC or applying to the Air Force Academy, right? Too bad the&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/education/09gap.html"&gt; proficiency of your average Black high school student&lt;/a&gt; is abysmal now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pinnacle of Black aviation achievement has been achieved. Roads all around the country will be renamed in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit that could only exist under the pretenses of segregation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you go see&lt;i&gt; Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; to honor the airmen, know you go to actually honor segregation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the Tuskegee Airmen didn't win the war in Europe for us; primarily, they escorted bombers and encountered opposition from a completely decimated Luftwaffe relying on new teenage recruits to protect the imploding Third Reich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What they do represent is the apex of what segregation could provide (and only sports can do now): actual positive role models for the Black community.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-8502035234636077065?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/8502035234636077065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=8502035234636077065' title='75 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/8502035234636077065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/8502035234636077065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-red-tailsand-tuskegee-airmen-story.html' title='Segregation: What &quot;Red Tails&quot;and the Tuskegee Airmen Story Really Celebrates'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>75</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-2300991229447810257</id><published>2012-01-10T15:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T14:53:33.546-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birmingham'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Detroit'/><title type='text'>The Visible Black Hand of Economics</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The world is nothing more than all the tiny things you left behind.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;- Gran Torino&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In reading the powerful essay on Highland Park, Michigan (&lt;a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/01/10/return-to-a-darker-age"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Return to a Darker Age&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) that HW put together, the whole concept of the Visible Black Hand governing economics came to me in a moment of clarity rivaling the epiphany the esteemed Dr. Emmett Brown had when he visualized the flux capacitor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rxw_u7klLiw/Tq1QEHRchdI/AAAAAAAAAIs/9IM7_0ZJGpg/s1600/grantorino.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rxw_u7klLiw/Tq1QEHRchdI/AAAAAAAAAIs/9IM7_0ZJGpg/s400/grantorino.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A movie set where the Visible Black Hand of Economics is on its finest display&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;By a strange twist of fate, the Clint Eastwood-directed film &lt;i&gt;Gran Torino&lt;/i&gt;  was set in &lt;a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/high-d06.shtml"&gt;Highland Park&lt;/a&gt;. Odd, the population of the actual city is 93  percent Black; watching Eastwood's insipid movie, you'd have never known  this fact.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;If you've been a regular reader of &lt;i&gt;Stuff Black People Don't Like&lt;/i&gt;, then you are aware that some key terms for understanding life in Black-Run America (BRA) originated here: Climate Change; the Black Undertow; Man-Made Climate Change; Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs); Black Fictional Heroes; and now, we give you the reality of the Visible Black Hand governing economics.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;While reading about the nearly&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park,_Michigan#Demographicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park,_Michigan#Demographics"&gt; all-Black inhabitants of Highland Park &lt;/a&gt;and their inability to create, innovate and even maintain an economy (with the telltale remains of a long-gone civilization providing them shelter, signs of structural inequality built by a people who fled for a safer city), my mind drifted to the city envisioned by Henry Ford once his Highland Park Ford Plant was built and thriving roughly 100 years ago.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Is 2012 Highland Park, where the &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/05/highland-park-schools-emergency-manager_n_1184623.html"&gt;Highland Park Schools recently failed an Emergency Manager Review, &lt;/a&gt;the vision Ford had as he looked upon plant back in 1912 is dead. Between 1910 - 1920, Highland Park would expand more than an order of magnitude in its population (from 4,000 to 46,000). Now, the population of Highland Park is around 11,000 and the last inhabitant to leave won't have to be reminded to turn the lights off: &lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120108/NEWS05/201080511/Unpaid-taxes-put-thousands-of-metro-homeowners-at-risk-of-foreclosure?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE"&gt;just as 42,000 home owners in Wayne County&lt;/a&gt; could soon lose their homes because they can't pay the taxes, Highland Park recently turned off &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/highland-park-sreetlights_n_1079909.html?"&gt;66 percent of its streetlights&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highland Park, Michigan, a city in the greater Detroit area, is the latest town to implement dramatic austerity measures, according to the Associated Press.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;With $58 million in municipal debt and a $60,000 monthly electric bill that it can't pay, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/unable-to-pay-4-million-electric-bill-michigan-city-turns-off-and-removes-many-streetlights/2011/11/03/gIQARqeCjM_story.html" target="_hplink"&gt;Highland Park has elected to remove 1,000 of its 1,500 streetlights&lt;/a&gt; -- not just turning the power off, but tearing the poles themselves out of the ground.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It's a strategy that's unlikely to fix most of Highland Park's economic woes. The town's &lt;a href="http://www.highlandparkcity.us/Community/CommunityProfile.asp" target="_hplink"&gt;unemployment rate is 22 percent&lt;/a&gt; -- &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/jobs-report-october-november-2011_n_1075719.html" target="_hplink"&gt;more than twice the national rate&lt;/a&gt; -- and 42 percent of residents live below the poverty line.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;How many millions of people worked in Detroit, punched their card, worked long-shifts at the factory,all&amp;nbsp; the while hoping that their children would one day live in a better city than they did? How many thousands of people raised families in Highland Park, walking their children down the same sidewalks that are now bathed in the silent darkness where laughter once preceded it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;White people left Highland Park - well, they abandoned it really - to the current Black inhabitants of the city. Just like thousands of other cities across the nation, the fate of Highland Park was sealed when the whites left. No formal surrender took place nor was a ceremony commemorating the transfer of power necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Smith's concept of the invisible hand goes&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand"&gt; something like this&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;In economics, &lt;b&gt;invisible hand&lt;/b&gt; or &lt;b&gt;invisible hand of the market&lt;/b&gt; is the term &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist" title="Economist"&gt;economists&lt;/a&gt; use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace...  individual ambition benefits society, even if the ambitious have no benevolent intentions.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;In Black-Run America, the ultimate aim of the government, the church, the media, the entertainment industry, combined with the academic sector and the private sector is the enhancement of the quality of life for Black people to the expense of everyone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worse still, it all comes off the dime of everyone else through a redistribution of tax-revenue that flows to Black people via TANF/Welfare, EBT/Food Stamps, Section 8 housing, and the prison industry with the attendant costs of police protection, incarceration, probation, and court system maintenance, all of which disproportionately incur against whites. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been official government policy for some time that the collective needs of Black people trump individual ambitions in America, negating the entire concept of Smith's invisible hand. DWLs understand, hence their desire to live in Whitopia's like Portland, San Francisco, Boulder, Silicon Valley, and Washington D.C. (where DWLs priced Blacks out of the housing market and drove them into Prince George's County) where the nullifying presence of visible Black Hand governing economics has been minimized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider Frédéric Bastiat parable of the&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window"&gt; broken window&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;[It] illustrate[s] why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is actually not a net-benefit to society.The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable" title="Parable"&gt;parable&lt;/a&gt;, also known as the &lt;b&gt;broken window fallacy&lt;/b&gt; or &lt;b&gt;glazier's fallacy&lt;/b&gt;, demonstrates how &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_costs" title="Opportunity costs"&gt;opportunity costs&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences" title="Unintended consequences"&gt;law of unintended consequences&lt;/a&gt;, affect economic activity in ways that are "unseen" or ignored.&lt;/blockquote&gt;The Climate Change in major metropolitan areas like Detroit, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, &lt;a href="http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/08/the-confrontation/singlepage"&gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Milwaukee is a form of destruction. Knowing that the Black people who inherit the city will face structural inequality because they lack the ability to collectively sustain an economy - whether it's a major city like Detroit or a small one like Highland Park - the destruction of that city's tax base is foreordained. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see the visible Black Hand of economics at work when you drive into areas of city where commerce was once prevalent. Be it a mall, a shopping center, a restaurant, a strip mall, or an autonomous car dealership, an infallible indicator you have drifted into a Black Undertow city is the sign that civilization once flourished there but has since been replaced with hair accessory stores, liquor stores, pawn shops, and title-loan lenders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless you plan on removing the population that was instrumental in a city's decline, we have no reason to rebuild these cities (The population that was instrumental in its ascent left because of the influx of the Black Undertow, anyway). Thus, the money spent to try and bring recovery to Detroit or Birmingham is of no net-benefit to society. The visible Black Hand of economics is at work in these cities, just as Bastiat's parable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black people had nothing to do with building Detroit into a world-class city; they had everything to do with its removal from that select list of world-class destinations, though. The same goes for Highland Park, a city that &lt;i&gt;Dirty Harry&lt;/i&gt; himself couldn't save now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aren't convinced of the awesome power that the visible Black Hand of economics has over our lives? Let's take a look at a city that experienced an unhealthy dose of Climate Change in a span of just 20 years. Spanish Lake (outside St. Louis) was 99 percent white in 1970; it is now 77 percent Black. It's a safe bet that when it was an all-white city, the police primarily dealt with ticketing teenagers driving too fast or drinking underage. Now, they are forced to deal with the Black Undertow which &lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_45bf0fb2-9644-5212-9176-43995f202fcc.html#ixzz1j6Je8B3j"&gt;preys upon everyone&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;County police have responded so many times to calls from Countryside Townhomes that they are now posting officers at the 787-unit apartment complex that has become synonymous with trouble in the Spanish Lake area.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Of the 6,525 calls for police help logged by the 1st Precinct since the start of 2009, more than 3,600 were from that area — for a murder, robberies, assaults, burglaries and other crimes, officials said.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beginning Sept. 1, officers have been pushing back with foot patrols aimed at protecting the good residents and visitors — and routing out the bad. They made 18 arrests on just the first day.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Commanders said if they don't act aggressively and swiftly, the problems at the complex, along Rosado Drive off Bellefontaine Road, will just spill into the surrounding neighborhoods. The effort includes code enforcement and sobriety checkpoints.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Capt. Troy Doyle, the precinct commander, said he expects the tactics to continue as long as necessary. "Hopefully, until the problems get rectified," he said.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The Visible Black Hand of Economics on display. Phillip Andrew Morton, who grew up in Spanish Lake when it was that quintessential American city Norman Rockwell once celebrated, decided to make a movie about the &lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-son-of-spanish-lake-returns-to-do-a-movie/article_bf7956c1-da80-5b26-b257-bb92c0e34526.html#ixzz1j6KqYkCY"&gt;changes there&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_45bf0fb2-9644-5212-9176-43995f202fcc.html#ixzz1j6Je8B3j" style="color: #003399;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Phillip Andrew Morton has made two trips since 2007 to the house at 1238 Maple Street where he grew up.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;On both occasions, he was shocked at the profound changes the little frame house had undergone in a matter of a few years.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Morton, 32, is now an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles. The rapid transformation of the north St. Louis County community he calls his hometown, though it has never been incorporated, forms the basis of his documentary, "Spanish Lake."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The movie combines the warm feelings that Morton has for the area with a case-study of what many feel was governmental action — or inaction — that changed its bucolic nature into one that, in some sections, is more befitting of an urban ghetto.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;"I really wanted to research all the dynamics that went into the phenomenon of white flight in Spanish Lake," Morton said in a recent telephone interview from Los Angeles. "I came away convinced that this is not an issue of race but of class and opportunities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;As recently as 1970, Spanish Lake was 99 percent white and 1 percent black.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;But the 1970s also marked the beginning of a mass migration of African-Americans from the city of St. Louis. Many left failed housing complexes such as Pruitt-Igoe to settle in government-subsidized Section 8 housing in North County.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The city of Black Jack, which abuts Spanish Lake, feared that the poverty and crime that plagued the St. Louis complexes could recur in apartment complexes planned for their city. To thwart that possibility, Black Jack officials enacted zoning ordinances that prohibited multi-family housing.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1975, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Black Jack's zoning ordinance, ruling that it violated the Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly known as the Fair Housing Act.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The construction of apartment complexes in North County proliferated during that period. Many were upscale, designed to attract well-heeled singles.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;But as they lost their luster, they were transformed into Section 8 housing.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;RISE IN BLACK POPULATION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;By 1990, 17 percent of Spanish Lake's residents were African-American. By 2010, with the population at 19,650, the percentage of blacks had soared to 77 percent, with many living in Section 8 apartments.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                                &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Among the biggest of these Section 8 complexes is the Countryside Townhomes in Spanish Lake, built in 1971. In recent years, it has become a hotbed of crime.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Section 8 is the same as saying Man-made Climate Change. Just like Highland Park, Spanish Lake has been destroyed; having studied Basitat, you already know that any money spent trying to restore it is folly, because those responsible for the economic ruin of the city still reside there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the economy! It's all about class! It's about the De-industriliazation of the country!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pittsburgh never experienced Climate Change, so the visible Black Hand governing economics never destroyed that city. Instead, the invisible hand of economics flourished there, with primarily white citizens trying to find new ways to a make a living as the steel industry collapsed.&amp;nbsp; Through innovation and via the free market, Pittsburgh is now even attracting DWLs from Portland. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/06/microsoft-patents-avoid-ghetto-feature-for-gps-devices/"&gt;Microsoft was smart to patent an "avoid ghetto"&lt;/a&gt; application. Basically, it's an avoid the Black Undertow app that documents where the visible Black Hand of economics is most pronounced. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XKP85Nswnq8" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-2300991229447810257?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/2300991229447810257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=2300991229447810257' title='81 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/2300991229447810257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/2300991229447810257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/visible-black-hand-of-economics.html' title='The Visible Black Hand of Economics'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rxw_u7klLiw/Tq1QEHRchdI/AAAAAAAAAIs/9IM7_0ZJGpg/s72-c/grantorino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>81</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-760234734491984989</id><published>2012-01-09T15:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T06:38:18.990-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's Always Darkest Before Dawn</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK Note: Head over to &lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/articles/just-do-it-what-the-nike-riots-tell-us"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vdare&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to see the ultimate look at the Nike Air Jordan Riots from just before Christmas. Learn how in 1990, inner-cities across the nation where awash in the blood of those desirous of a pair of Nike's or any apparel with a "Swoosh" on it. Some things never change. Head over to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/zeitgeist/football/"&gt;Alternative Right&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;to see the kind of preview for tonight's BCS Championship Game between Alabama and LSU that only SBPDL could provide.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also, we got lax on the no usage of "the-word-that-must-not-be-named." Your comment will not approved if you use it moving forward.&amp;nbsp; I wanted to write about both the University of Alabama and discuss the Visible Black Hand governing economics (by focusing on the &lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-son-of-spanish-lake-returns-to-do-a-movie/article_bf7956c1-da80-5b26-b257-bb92c0e34526.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Climate Change&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in Spanish Lake) in two separate posts, but we'll save those until tomorrow.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T5Pf-WhfUyU/Twt3q3S1imI/AAAAAAAAAUU/_KEHqh3fTWs/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T5Pf-WhfUyU/Twt3q3S1imI/AAAAAAAAAUU/_KEHqh3fTWs/s640/cover.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Just in time for Black History Month&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;SBPDL was never meant to be anything more than a joke. Inadvertently, we started a fire. Now, it's time that fire rises. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You judge an organization by the type of people it attracts; by the type of individual who wants to work within the existing structure and who strives to enhance and expand it at every turn. That's where Mencken came into the picture, offering timely editing at a moment when SBPDL experienced huge growth back in 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He took a break; but he's back.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other individuals have donated time and effort into building the brand that is SBPDL. We don't try to Imagine 2050 or think about what color of change means at SBPDL; we look to the &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-did-it-come-to-this-wapo-sheds.html"&gt;collapse of Detroit,&lt;/a&gt; and realize that in the ruins of The Motor City rests the shattered dreams of equality that both Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) and I Have A Dream (I HAD) people everywhere shared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Color of Change in &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/sorry-rush-limbaugh-its-not-liberalism.html"&gt;Detroit was Black&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New people have joined the SBPDL team. If we were to do a quick SWOT Analysis of what this "started-as an-inside-joke-turned-into-something-else" has the potential of becoming, we'd easily state that the main strength of SBPDL is the ability to utilize the talents of the growing ranks of &lt;i&gt;Those Who Can See&lt;/i&gt;. More importantly, the opportunity of SBPDL is to continue to capture the attention of &lt;i&gt;Those Who Can See&lt;/i&gt; and offer an alternative vision to that of Black-Run America (BRA), and the continued strategy of abandoning city-after-city or county-after-county to the encroaching Black Undertow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is for this reason we offer a glimpse of book number four from Paul Kersey, &lt;i&gt;Stuff Black People Don't Like: 365Black Days of Judging by Content of Character&lt;/i&gt;. Collecting published material from Year Two at SBPDL.com, this is the book to understand the current country you live in and to understand that you are not alone in wanting to know the truth of BRA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll be back tomorrow with a couple of new posts (including the official post detailing the Visible Black Hand governing economics), but wanted to take this opportunity to debut the cover to book four. Remember, SBPDL's growth can only occur with your donations. Plus, you get signed of copies of the books with your donation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of people out there Who Believe in Paul Kersey; who value the work done here and desire offering (or in the case of Mencken, volunteering) their unique talents and skill sets to help take SBPDL to the next level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we thank you.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who write to us, ask yourself this question; "what could I do to help grow SBPDL?" Once you have that answer, contact me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps "hope" is that one quintessential human delusion. Nevertheless, we have it. It's about time you have it too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-760234734491984989?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/760234734491984989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=760234734491984989' title='60 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/760234734491984989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/760234734491984989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-always-darkest-before-dawn.html' title='It&apos;s Always Darkest Before Dawn'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T5Pf-WhfUyU/Twt3q3S1imI/AAAAAAAAAUU/_KEHqh3fTWs/s72-c/cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>60</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-7726208873589220380</id><published>2012-01-08T15:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T18:10:26.301-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dis-Integration of America: Part I</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;PK Note: The following essay is a product of regular commenter Zenster. SBPDL is the product of one person (though the return of Mencken to edit essays - normally a number of hours after it is posted, so blast me for any errors - will help take this site to even greater heights), but we are proud to give Zenster the chance to run this essay. On Wednesday, we will debut the cover to &lt;i&gt;Stuff Black People Don't Like: 365Black Days of Judging by Content of Character&lt;/i&gt;. Two weeks from that, we debut the cover to&lt;i&gt; The Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White&lt;/i&gt;. In 2012, we aim to misbehave. Two weeks after, the cover to the book on Detroit's collapse. Two weeks thereafter, the cover to &lt;i&gt;Down to Slavery: Obama's War on White America&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;So to all those who have donated money, please be patient. Your books are almost ready. The wait will be worth it. On Martin Luther King Day, we will be debuting a huge video and be going for a money bomb on that same day. It is time we judge by character in America; at SBPDL, we plan to do just that. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Check Vdare for a big article tonight by PK, and look at Alt Right for one tomorrow. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;― Lyndon Baines Johnson ―&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was not just a misplaced sense of egalitarianism but greed, in both its financial and political forms, that drove early desegregation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Dawn of Big Government&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lyndon B. Johnson and the Democratic Party’s “Great Society” programs represented social engineering on a scale unseen since Roosevelt’s New Deal, which was just another Democratic boondoggle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America’s New Deal focused on the "3 Rs" of Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Among its reforms was one of the most detrimental economic strategies imaginable and it was instrumental for the “Great Society” ― with its “War on Poverty” ― to become a reality. This reformation was a shift off of the Gold Standard which allowed the U.S. government to print fiat currency, a crippling addiction that it has not shaken to this very day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead, by printing fiat currency the Federal government has waged a devastating economic war upon its population’s most productive segment, the Middle Class. Being among America’s most diligent savers, inflating the currency supply had a direct effect of looting from Middle Class savings and retirement accounts that which could not be extracted through increased taxes. This is because tax increases were rather routinely opposed by the Middle Class whose conservatism tended to favor small government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had the Gold Standard remained in effect, it is questionable as whether the Democratic Party could ever have financed the massive welfare state it then sought to bring about. The damage done to America by this social engineering was not confined to creating a totally dependent class of tax consumers. This push for equal rights would see the abandonment of America’s space exploration and an unheralded diversion of funds into Liberal Socialist programs that bore every prospect of dwarfing the New Deal in both scope and magnitude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the New Deal had an adjusted cost of $557 billion (2011), it dealt with the entirety of American society save only the very most wealthy. The “Great Society” was focused largely upon those dwelling below the poverty line, which was some 22% of Americans in 1965. Therefore, its adjusted cost of $344 billion (2011) would require an approximate multiplier of 4.5 times were it to have addressed the majority of Americans in an equal manner. This would make the “Great Society” programs cost some $1.548 trillion (2011), far in excess of the New Deal and surpassed only by one other expenditure. To put this in perspective, the combination of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid took up 43 percent of our national budget in 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bailoutnationchart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bailoutnationchart.jpg" width="569" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Bailout Flow Chart&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it stands, the future costs of existing New Deal programs  sees America facing a standing bill totaling some &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/11/new-deal-stimulus-opinions-contributors_0211_jim_powell.html"&gt;$50 trillion dollars&lt;/a&gt;. Nor was this lingering debt something that could not have been anticipated, even back then. In 1920 the Civil Service Retirement System was started and it soon required taxpayer-funded supplements to meet payments for retired federal employees. From the linked article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explains LBJ's approach, "The subjects might change, but the essentials remained the same: &lt;b&gt;in the opening, an expression of dire need; in the middle, a vague proposal; in the end, a buoyant description of the anticipated benefits&lt;/b&gt;--all contained in an analysis presented in a manner that often failed to distinguish between expectations and established realities ... Pass the bill now, worry about its effects and implementation later--this was the White House strategy."&lt;/i&gt; [emphasis added]&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of which is highly reminiscent of the strategy used by South Park’s underpants gnomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;● Phase One: Collect underpants.&lt;br /&gt;● Phase Two: ?&lt;br /&gt;● Phase Three: Profit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is sad to see just how little change there has been over the last half century with respect to America’s planning and enactment of large scale social programs. Despite repeated and clear demonstrations of federal incompetence, a new generation of US voters is being persuaded that their government is capable of managing corporate enterprises where it has absolutely no charter to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Origins of “Hate Crimes”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from renewed large-scale federal spending, the “Great Society” programs also set in motion anti-discrimination laws which would serve as the cornerstone for today’s Politically Correct “hate speech” and “hate crime” laws. These modern &lt;a href="http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html#crimethink"&gt;Thoughtcrime&lt;/a&gt; laws found their footing in the Fair Housing Act of 1968.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A principal thrust of this legislation was to remove all legal enforcement of restrictive housing covenants that previously assured neighborhood racial cohesiveness. In doing so, the Fair Housing Act institutionalized unequal protection under the law by creating seven protected classes. These categories were: race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Little did many expect that this relatively innocuous piece of legislation might serve as part of a lever that would one day drive the most massive default in American history. The cherished “American Dream” would be forcibly wedged into a government equation that had long ago stopped being about individual “pursuit of happiness” and equality of opportunity in favor of &lt;i&gt;equality of &lt;b&gt;outcome&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and mandated entitlement. Few, at that time, stopped to remember Gerald Ford’s uncharacteristically prescient words:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;”A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INSERT FHA LISTING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And give the Federal government did. Between 1945 and 1960 large numbers of federally subsidized home loans were financed through the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) and VA (Veterans Administration). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEo2x4A6Yec/TwogEXBvrSI/AAAAAAAAAUE/GP0VVFSKlPI/s1600/Redlining_-_75%2525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEo2x4A6Yec/TwogEXBvrSI/AAAAAAAAAUE/GP0VVFSKlPI/s640/Redlining_-_75%2525.jpg" width="428" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Federal government refused to back mortgages in “racially changing” (i.e., “&lt;a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/redlining.asp"&gt;redlined&lt;/a&gt;”), localities due to them being regarded as higher risk propositions. Thus was &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; segregation enforced by law and it provided largely White loan recipients with a solid taste of how crime-free such neighborhoods could be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a small wonder that Whites so vigorously resisted newly mandated laws regarding home sales which only served to devastate this once Elysian setting. This will soon bring us to the role that financial greed played in destroying much of the urban “American Dream”. First, however, it is necessary to examine the other side of Big Government’s segregation coin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Not-So Civil Rights Act&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another “Great Society” program was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This sweeping response to Jim Crow violated Constitutional freedoms with respect to both right of association, management-employee relations and the ability of States to determine their own racial policies under the Tenth Amendment. Many Republicans opposed this fundamental bias contained by the Civil Rights Act, something that probably even cost Barry Goldwater the 1964 presidential election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bare few managed to foresee that this sort of obligatory socialization would create an over-reliance by minorities upon government mediation in what were largely public affairs of individual choice. Conversely, these same “protected classes” also began to automatically presume upon their protection as a form of entitlement. This sense of prerogative was only further augmented by a lavish program of welfare benefits that would, in reality, serve to create an entire a near-permanent underclass of multi-generation urban dwellers that were wholly dependent upon government ― in reality, taxpayer ― largesse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the United States Housing Act of 1937 made provisions for government sponsored assistance to low income families and individuals, this did not come into its own until 1965 with the Section 23 Leased Housing Program. It was further amended in 1974 to create the now familiar Section 8 housing program. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Massive inner city housing projects served to cluster together poverty-line residents and became a breeding ground for some of the most concentrated urban crime activity ever seen at that time. The swift decline of living conditions in these gigantic housing blocks only served to aggravate public perception of them as warehouses for drug addicts and street thugs. Conversely, these aggregations of low income residents also created a sort of &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; segregation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E-PlFGR6Kfk/Twog3O0vs5I/AAAAAAAAAUM/6UiEZJumbkA/s1600/Pruitt-Igoe_-_St_Louis_-_50%2525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="245" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E-PlFGR6Kfk/Twog3O0vs5I/AAAAAAAAAUM/6UiEZJumbkA/s400/Pruitt-Igoe_-_St_Louis_-_50%2525.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Government housing built in South St. Louis&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such urban housing projects were notorious for being predominately Black in population. This bunching together of Blacks engendered a proliferation of mannerisms, patois and what can only be called “social rituals” that tended to create an artificial “culture” which derived from what were mostly impoverished circumstances. Attempts by Blacks to enshrine so-called “&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wanted-ebonics-translator-federal-dea-job/story?id=11462206#.Tu2scFZ_mHk"&gt;Ebonics&lt;/a&gt;” is a prime example of this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A useful comparison is how American Black “Soul Food” ― similar with respect to many other peasant culture cuisines ― was, in reality, a reflection of the inadequate nutritional resources made available to slaves at that time. While glorified in this modern era as a genuine artifact of early slave culture it, nonetheless, does not represent a truly healthful or nourishing bill of fare. Perhaps, even more ironic, is the simple fact that a low-calorie regimen of traditional “Soul Food” would better serve many typically obese American Blacks than the sugary and fattening fast-food diet they often seem to prefer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it was that the atmosphere in many urban housing projects cultivated a crop of highly negative behavioral modes that weren’t being reinforced so much by supposedly “oppressive” external influences than voluntary internal ones. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the fertile ground encountered by much of America’s late century “Black Power” movement that was largely responsible ― along with other Culturally Marxist mindsets ― for embedding a strong sense of victimhood and entitlement now currently in evidence among many urban Blacks. This largely unwarranted sense of entitlement only promised to grow and spread into other parts of the population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/tools/shared/mediahub/09/55/11/slideshow_1115596_TECHWOOD_HOMES_ONE_8709.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="277" src="http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/tools/shared/mediahub/09/55/11/slideshow_1115596_TECHWOOD_HOMES_ONE_8709.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where the &lt;a href="http://takimag.com/article/blight_of_the_living_dead#axzz1iuSO1bun"&gt;Blight of Living Dead &lt;/a&gt;reside in Atlanta... the true &lt;i&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unbeknownst at the time both to Liberals and Conservatives alike, these gargantuan apartment blocks and Section 8 housing programs were, perhaps, America’s first genuine glimpse of how Liberal Socialist intentions would just as often pave a road straight to hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blockbusting&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enter rapacious real estate agents and the unsavory but lucrative practice of “blockbusting”. Frequently, several small realtors would pool funds in order to finance the purchase of a dwelling in a predominantly White neighborhood specifically so that it could then be sold to a Black or minority family. This prompted an immediate exodus by White residents in an attempt to dodge the certain decline in property values that would so often follow. This allowed these same disreputable realtors to then “flip” all of the remaining homes; often at handsome profits as anxious White owners sacrificed hard earned equity for the sake of a swift sale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through construction of inner city housing projects and gradual dismantling of urban residential areas through blockbusting, there arose the phenomenon that SBPDL has accurately labeled as “Black Undertow”. It is an almost irresistible force that has already seen once great cities like &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6WKMNmFsxM"&gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt; reduced to the status of Third World living standards. Nearly all Black run cities and counties reflect this trend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most ironic of all is how so many of these government efforts at forcing racial harmony are not just spectacularly unsuccessful but that they can actually serve to worsen tensions. There is no Constitutional law that forbids an individual from being racist. Only public condemnation can serve to chastise such a stance. Instead, through the Civil Rights Act and its Fair Housing Program, America’s government had sought to &lt;i&gt;legislate morality&lt;/i&gt;. It is a Sisyphean task and one which government has no legitimate part in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How strange is it that modern America is just as segregated today as it was &lt;i&gt;half a century ago?&lt;/i&gt; Jared Taylor at &lt;a href="http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2011/09/white_identity_1.php"&gt;American Renaissance&lt;/a&gt; had this to say: (Video time point ― 06:06)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“White people say they’re all in favor of integration and yet there is a profoundly important act of integration that they could undertake but they almost never do. A White person could buy a house in a Black neighborhood. Nowadays there are plenty of middle class Black neighborhoods where a White person would be perfectly safe. But not even the most Liberal Whites will take that basic integrationist step. Despite what they say they, too, prefer the company of Whites. Just as I do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Were you aware that the statistics for residential segregation in the United States are almost identical to what they were fifty or sixty years ago? Despite all of the encouragement and propaganda in favor of mixing of the races, Whites prefer to live with Whites and Blacks prefer to live with Blacks, Asians… Hispanics … there is self-segregation virtually across the board.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly, government mandated desegregation &lt;i&gt;does not&lt;/i&gt; work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Subsequent parts of this article will examine how a prevalent sense of entitlement has acted to help destroy much of what has been built up over the last 100 years. There will also be a brief look at ways of possibly averting what threatens to be a race war of national proportions. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3oVv3aF5Q84" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-7726208873589220380?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/7726208873589220380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=7726208873589220380' title='57 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/7726208873589220380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/7726208873589220380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/dis-integration-of-america-part-i.html' title='The Dis-Integration of America: Part I'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEo2x4A6Yec/TwogEXBvrSI/AAAAAAAAAUE/GP0VVFSKlPI/s72-c/Redlining_-_75%2525.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>57</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-41795092701839057</id><published>2012-01-07T12:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T10:15:41.496-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NFL'/><title type='text'>Laying Deadspin to Rest: Simulated White vs. Black NFL Madden Game Shows The Folly of Fans</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK Note: Zenster's piece will be published later today. Plus, the long-awaited unveiling of the cover of &lt;i&gt;Stuff Black People Don't Like: 365Black Days of Judging by Content of Behavior&lt;/i&gt; will debut next week. A contract is going out for the Detroit and College Football book soon. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2011/writers/don_banks/09/12/redskins.giants.insider/ryan.kerrigan.ap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2011/writers/don_banks/09/12/redskins.giants.insider/ryan.kerrigan.ap.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;White linebacker Ryan Kerrigan knows all too well the reality of real racism in the NFL&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Few people know more about football than I do. This is not meant to be sarcastic, I've just read more and immersed myself in a serious study of the game that will culminate in release of &lt;i&gt;The Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White &lt;/i&gt;in February and a book on the NFL around the start of the 2012 regular season. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this reason, I had to laugh when reading an&lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/5873045/we-simulated-the-nfl-white-vs-black-race-bowl-on-madden-so-you-dont-have-to"&gt; article published on Deadspin &lt;/a&gt;discussing the simulation of a Race Bowl on Madden NFL Football 2012 between an all-white and an all-Black team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The author of the piece doesn't know much about football, believing there to be only five white defensive backs in the NFL. Considering that the New York Jets start two white safeties (Eric Smith and Jim Leonard), and that the racial breakdown in the NFL is 15 percent to 84 percent white/Black in the safety position, we'll just say the good folks at Deadspin didn't do much research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps they, like many who follow the league, consider the rise of the pedestrian Cam Newton the big story of 2011. The real story of 2011 was the rise of Jordy Nelson, a former walk-on to Kansas State, and Wes Welker, a man who only had one scholarship offer and wasn't even drafted by an NFL team. They showed that &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/white-men-can-run.html"&gt;white men can run&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, we also saw white running back Toby Gerhart prove he should be a starter in the league when he had the opportunity to replace Adrian Peterson. It's a safe bet Gerhart never c&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/03/right-to-be-better-paid-slave-what-nfl.html"&gt;omplained about being a $10 million slave&lt;/a&gt;; all he complained about was the racism he received during &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2010/03/toby-gerhart-wonderlic-and-upcoming-nfl.html"&gt;NFL draft evaluations for lacking the right amount of melanin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's take a quick &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/5873045/we-simulated-the-nfl-white-vs-black-race-bowl-on-madden-so-you-dont-have-to"&gt;look at the article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Earlier this week, reader Dustin asked who would win between an all-white &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/5872698/all+white-nfl-all+star-team-vs-all+black-nfl-all+star-team-who-ya-got"&gt;NFL All-Pro team&lt;/a&gt;  and an all-black NFL All-Pro team. Mind you, this question was asked  without ANY ROOTING INTEREST, and without any hint of RAYCESSNESS. Are  we clear on that? Good. BECAUSE WE TOTALLY SIMULATED THAT RACE WAR ON &lt;i&gt;MADDEN&lt;/i&gt; TO SEE WHO WOULD WIN.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;After  seeing Tuesday's post, reader Joe took time to provide us with a full  roster for both all-race teams. He had a few notes for us before  revealing the roster:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;-I didn't give the white team Haloti Ngata or any Pacific Islanders.  Considering Ngata is one of the greatest DTs of all time, and because  Troy Polamalu would also count as white, it was too unfair of an  advantage for either team. And it'd really look bad if the white team  gets an unfair advantage over the black team.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;-Shaun Cody, who's half white, is on the white team because they  would have no competent DTs otherwise. Justin Smith is already  undersized at DT and couldn't play every down at the nose. The other  white DTs after that are guys named Josh Brent and Scott Paxson. For the  sake of minimizing a brutal black-on-white beating, Cody's on the White  team.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;-Another half white player, Jimmy Graham, is on the all-black team. That way, we can decide who's better: GRONK or Graham.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;-Since there are no white cornerbacks, Eric Weddle, who can play  corner, gets moved there. Craig Steltz, who can't play corner or safety  competently, is the other CB by default. Haruki Nakamura, who's half  white, half Asian does qualify for the white team. There are only 5  white secondary players in the entire NFL. I thought about Tom Zbikowski  as a nickel or starter, but decided he's better off pursuing a boxing  career.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;-The Black Team would have no qualified kickers. Chad Ochocinco did  kick an extra point in a preseason game last year, so he's the kicker by  default. In punting situations, the black team is better off throwing  50-yard bombs to Megatron or Fitzgerald against Steltz then actually  punting. But, if they feel compelled to, I guess they can dress Randall  Cunningham for punting purposes only.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here are Joe's rosters:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;WHITE All-Stars&lt;br /&gt;QB: Aaron Rodgers/Drew Brees/Tom Brady&lt;br /&gt;RB: Peyton Hillis&lt;br /&gt;RB: Toby Gerhart&lt;br /&gt;FB: John Kuuuuuuuhhhhhhnnnnnn&lt;br /&gt;WR: Wes Welker&lt;br /&gt;WR: Jordy Nelson&lt;br /&gt;WR: Danny Amendola&lt;br /&gt;TE: GRONK&lt;br /&gt;TE: Jason Witten&lt;br /&gt;T: Joe Thomas&lt;br /&gt;T: Jake Long&lt;br /&gt;G: Logan Mankins&lt;br /&gt;G: Chris Snee&lt;br /&gt;C: Nick Mangold&lt;br /&gt;DE: Jared Allen&lt;br /&gt;DE: Jason Babin&lt;br /&gt;DT: Justin Smith&lt;br /&gt;DT: Shaun Cody&lt;br /&gt;OLB: Clay Matthews III&lt;br /&gt;OLB: Jarrett Johnson&lt;br /&gt;ILB: Brian Urlacher&lt;br /&gt;ILB: Brian Cushing&lt;br /&gt;CB: Eric Weddle&lt;br /&gt;CB: Craig Steltz&lt;br /&gt;SS: Sean Considine&lt;br /&gt;FS: Haruki Nakamura&lt;br /&gt;K: Sebastian Janikowski&lt;br /&gt;P: Shane Lechler&lt;br /&gt;KR/PR: Danny Woodhead&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;BLACK All-Stars&lt;br /&gt;QB: Cam Newton/Michael Vick&lt;br /&gt;RB: Ray Rice&lt;br /&gt;RB: LeSean McCoy&lt;br /&gt;FB: Vonta Leach&lt;br /&gt;WR: Megatron&lt;br /&gt;WR: Larry Fitzgerald&lt;br /&gt;WR: Mike Wallace&lt;br /&gt;TE: Jimmy Graham (also qualifies as white)&lt;br /&gt;TE: JerMichael Finley&lt;br /&gt;T: Jason Peters&lt;br /&gt;T: D'Brickashaw Ferguson&lt;br /&gt;G: Jahri Evans&lt;br /&gt;G: Brian Waters&lt;br /&gt;C: Maurkice Pouncey&lt;br /&gt;DE: Dwight Freeney&lt;br /&gt;DE: Jean Pierre-Paul&lt;br /&gt;DT: Vince Wilfork&lt;br /&gt;DT: Jay Ratliff&lt;br /&gt;OLB: DeMarcus Ware&lt;br /&gt;OLB: Terrell Suggs&lt;br /&gt;ILB: Patrick Willis&lt;br /&gt;ILB: Derrick Johnson&lt;br /&gt;CB: Darrelle Revis&lt;br /&gt;CB: Champ Bailey&lt;br /&gt;CB: Johnathan Joseph/Charles Woodson&lt;br /&gt;FS: Ed Reed&lt;br /&gt;SS: Earl Thomas&lt;br /&gt;K: Chad Ochocinco&lt;br /&gt;P: None&lt;br /&gt;KR: Devin Hester&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;I take issue with some of Joe's choices, but no roster here will ever  be 100% agreed upon. Joe picked the All-Black team to win 70-56. Was he  accurate? Well, we decided to have &lt;a href="http://kotaku.com/people/owengood/"&gt;Owen Good from Kotaku&lt;/a&gt; simulate the game on &lt;i&gt;Madden&lt;/i&gt;. He writes:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;It is impossible to create the lineup Joe suggests in &lt;i&gt;Madden NFL 12&lt;/i&gt;,  much to EA Sports' relief, I am sure. The All-White lineup fits  everyone he suggests under the cap with the exception of the third  quarterback (Brady, in this case). This is thanks to the terrible  secondary and the lack of GLORY BOYS at running back and wide receiver.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;The All-Blacks are impossible. I had to forego Michael Vick (subbing  in Terrelle Pryor), Mike Wallace (keeping Chad Ochocinco for assumed  versatility) and dedicating myself to a 4-3 to get rid of Derrick  Johnson and preserve the front four of Freeney, Pierre-Paul, Wilfork and  Ratliff. I was still gasping for air in the secondary, hamstrung by my  inability to get rid of injured contracts totaling $2 million each.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Even if could have disposed of Hiram Eugene and Rock Cartwright, I  couldn't have wedged in Johnathan Joseph and/or Charles Woodson and Ed  Reed. I sacrificed Reed for the highest-value free safety I could  find—Seattle's Kam Chancellor, rated 84 with just a $600,000 cap hit. I  had to let go of Joseph and Woodson as the third corners, also for cap  reasons.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;The best cornerback I could fit under the cap was Kansas City's  83-rated Brandon Carr.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;The final problem is the inability to assign non-kickers to punting  and kicking slots in the depth chart, so there goes Ochocinco, rated 73  in kicking power and 60 in kicking accuracy, as your leg. That may sound  halfway decent until you realize that the lowest rated kicker comes in  at 81 in either category. I took Josh Bidwill off the free agent scrap  heap, rated 81 in power and 87 in accuracy, and pretended he was black.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the video, you're going to see non-all stars and sometimes players  of different races on the wrong sideline or even in the plays (Goethel  shows up for the Raiders, Ball for the Cowboys). This is because a) I  didn't get a full 53-man roster full of white/black all stars and b) the  aforementioned cap problem.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;I did not intervene on the 2-yard field goal attempt at the end of  the first half, judging that to be a PAT (it was, actually, kicked from  the center of the field) which Ocho made. I did not show that in the  video just because it's too jarring to have the white kicker there.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'm sure Drew is noting the punt/kick disparity, and Hester returned  nothing. User returns of any decent length are rare on this game and CPU  returns are nonexistent.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The final result?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;WHITE ALL-STARS 28, BLACK ALL-STARS 24&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Now, this was only one simulation, so you'd have to run it 100 times  or so to get a proper average score. And let's face it: The Black  All-Star team was thoroughly hamstrung by &lt;i&gt;Madden's&lt;/i&gt; bullshit salary cap rules. If there were no salary cap, then the outcome may have been radically different.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6TCyMGK_lAE/Twinv9FEKHI/AAAAAAAAAT8/0vDPXwfJKP4/s1600/nfldefense.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6TCyMGK_lAE/Twinv9FEKHI/AAAAAAAAAT8/0vDPXwfJKP4/s400/nfldefense.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Deadspin couldn't bother looking up the actual&lt;a href="http://tidesport.org/RGRC/2011/RGRC_NFL_2011_FINAL.pdf"&gt; NFL racial breakdown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Few thoughts: There are plenty of talented white defensive tackles in the NFL. I'd put the Washington Redskins Adam Carrikers on the team, and add Kelly Gregg.&amp;nbsp; Running a 3-4 defense would allow the white team to utilize more linebackers and insert complex blitz packages. There are so many talented white linebackers, that it would be silly not to insert the Redskins Ryan Kerrigan onto the team. He understands - like Gerhart - how the NFL discriminates against talented white players:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Terrelle Pryor is fast. The Ohio State quarterback usually runs away       from defenders, even swift defensive backs, with his long stride. He has       been timed in the 40 under 4.4 seconds, which is blazing fast. That's       why one play of the many that I watched when studying Purdue defensive       end &lt;a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/players/1243851"&gt;Ryan       Kerrigan&lt;/a&gt; caught my eye. Terrelle Pryor didn't run away from       him. Kerrigan actually closed on him.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;      That's big-time speed for a 6-foot-3, 267-pound defensive end. And it's       also why any comparison of Kerrigan to Aaron Kampman and Kyle Vanden       Bosch, two NFL defensive ends, does him a disservice. I think Kerrigan       is compared to those defensive ends for one reason: Like them, he's       white. The NFL Draft stereotypes are almost never fair. Yet we hear them       every year heading into the draft. This year, Cam Newton is almost       always compared to Vince Young, in part because both are black       quarterbacks who move around. Unfair. They aren't as alike as you might       think.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last year, receiver Jordan Shipley, coming out of Texas, was often       compared to New England's Wes Welker, even though Shipley ran much       faster. I actually asked Shipley, who just finished his rookie season       with the Bengals, his thoughts about the comparison. He wanted no part       of that talk. It's a touchy subject for sure, but let's be real:       Labeling and comparing a player based on race happens.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;      "Comparing current NFL players to current college players is very       common, especially in the spring as things intensify for the draft," one       NFL general manager said. "At least coming out of college, Ryan is a       better pass rusher than Aaron and Kyle. I don't see Cam like Vince       either. I think you have to be careful to compare players for only one       reason."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;      For Kerrigan, the comparisons usually come with phrases such as       try-hard, effort-player, never quits. They also might be costing him       money. Speed rushers go in the top-10 of the draft; effort rushers go       mid-first round to late-first round. In his mock draft for NFL.com, Pat       Kirwan writes that Kerrigan plays with a high motor. Our top-notch guys       from NFL DraftScout.com wrote this in their analysis of him: "Hustle       pass-rusher; does not have exceptional closing burst."    &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Just as &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/01/nowhere-to-run-predominately-black.html"&gt;Peyton Hillis went on The Dan Patrick Show&lt;/a&gt; to talk about Black defensive players making fun of him, Kerrigan went on the show to&lt;a href="http://www.theboilingpoints.com/2011/09/kerrigan-goes-on-dan-patrick-show.html"&gt; discuss stereotypes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Former Purdue defensive end, now current Washington Redskins linebacker Ryan  Kerrigan went on the Dan Patrick show this morning to talk about his first NFL  game, a 28-14 win over the Giants.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;While on the show, Patrick discussed  the "high motor" clique used to describe white players, which Kerrigan called a  "double-edged sword," because it implies you don't have any talent. That doesn't  mean he doesn't try to play with a lot of energy, however.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In many locker rooms, white players are a distinct minority (each NFL roster has 53 active spots and the league is 67 percent Black/ 31 percent white). If white players weren't worried about social ostracism and being called a "racist," how many do you think would comment openly about bigotry they have faced from predominately Black teammates and opponents?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;White defensive backs? Didn't William Rhoden already write something about in a strange &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; column on &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; (without &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/red-tails-rising-tuskegee-airmen-and.html"&gt;mentioning the dearth of Black fighter pilots &lt;/a&gt;)? Weddle would make a great NFL corner; New England plays the versatile Julian Edelman at corner/receiver/ and kick returner now. He'd be perfect for this game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you had the chance to pick the best white players for an offensive line, it's hard to imagine an all-Black defense putting any pressure on the white quarterback. Gerhart, Hillis, and Danny Woodhead would run for big yards in this situtation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have your pick of talented white tight ends, with Witten and New England's Rob Gronkowski posing huge threats to an all-Black secondary and being major match-up problems to linebackers trying to guard them. Owen Daniels would also be a great tight end for this team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Receivers? Welker, Nelson, Denver's Eric Decker, Philadelphia's Riley Cooper, and Miami's Brian Hartline would be a perfect five-deep rotation. Indianapolis' Austin Collie would be great as well, a hard player to cover from the slot or from the outside receiver position.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And on defense, so many talented white defensive ends would be more than willing to play for a team where they weren't the only white guy on the field. They'd actually have someone to talk to in the locker room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A white safety like Reed Doughty would be a reliable contributor on this team, and would receive praise for his work instead of backhanded compliments like this from &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/safety-reed-doughty-is-redskins-reliable-backup-plan/2011/09/08/gIQAcLbPDK_story.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;WaPo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Doughty isn’t a physical specimen like Landry and doesn’t have the superstar credentials Taylor had. Yet he has been an important cog on the team. He has survived two coaching changes and has been part of the defense as long as anyone (Rocky McIntosh and Kedric Golston were fellow 2006 draft picks).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, I think an all-white team would dominate not just Madden, but also the real NFL. Remember what Peyton Manning &lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/nfl-truths-peyton-manning-white-colts-offense-jason-whitlock-nfl-truths-093010"&gt;meant to the Colts &lt;/a&gt;(as we saw, there all-Black defense was horrendous in both 2010 and 2011, but without Manning, the offense couldn't carry the load):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;From the we’re-not-supposed-to-mention-this file: It was fascinating watching &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/nfl/player/peyton-manning/69814"&gt;Peyton Manning&lt;/a&gt; and his BYU offense destroy the &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/nfl/team/denver-broncs/67044"&gt;Denver Broncos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; The unwritten rule in sports writing/journalism is we’re only supposed to mention racial progress when it involves dark-skin minorities. Obviously, I don’t care about rules.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; With receiver &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/nfl/player/pierre-garcon/535591"&gt;Pierre Garcon&lt;/a&gt; sidelined with an injury, the &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/nfl/team/indianapolis-colts/67048"&gt;Colts&lt;/a&gt; started and played nine white guys on offense pretty much all day. NFL rosters are nearly 70 percent comprised of African-Americans. What the Colts did was significant.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; For a day, the best offense in football was 82 percent white. &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/nfl/player/austin-collie/638205"&gt;Austin Collie&lt;/a&gt;, Garcon’s replacement, put a clown suit on the Denver secondary with precise route running and nifty moves after the catch. Some practice-squad kid, Blair White, performed a Collie impersonation when Collie was tired.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Peyton Manning is the Larry Bird of this era. I mean that as high, high praise. I’m not accusing Manning or the Colts of any kind of racism. Bill Polian, Jim Caldwell (and Tony Dungy) have surrounded Manning with players who mirror his approach to the game. Race is not the determining factor.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An offense is only as good as the quarterback and the offensive line built to protect and block for that QB. We know Black Men can't throw. We also know Black men perform poorly on the Wonderlic; thus, an offensive coordinator would have a much more intelligent team with all-white players as opposed to the learning disabled all-Black team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe&amp;nbsp;that the key to understanding why Black-Run America (BRA) persists is because of the belief in Black athletic supremacy -- &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/05/thoughts-on-2011-nfl-draft-caste-system.html"&gt;which is a true social construct&lt;/a&gt;. White alumni of schools worry what would happen if they took public stances about Black failures in American life, and the consequences of what happens when a city goes majority Black.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An all-white team would beat an all-Black NFL team. 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Reading it, I realized the day will come when the last Whitopia is overwhelmed by the Black Undertow, probably through coerced refugee resettlement or Section 8 Housing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;William Golding's&lt;i&gt; Lord of the Flies &lt;/i&gt;can best be described by this Wikipedia &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies"&gt;entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The book indicates that it takes place in the midst of an unspecified &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_war" title="Nuclear war"&gt;nuclear war&lt;/a&gt;.  Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others  arrive as a musical choir under an established leader. Most (with the  exception of the choirboys) appear never to have encountered one another  before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to  themselves in a paradisical country, far from modern civilisation, the  well-educated children regress to a primitive state.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;It took a nuclear war to destabilize civilization and cause English kids to revert to savagery. Remember though, Golding's work is only fiction. With this in mind, let's take a quick look at a director Termaine (M5) Brown's new movie Toddlers, which glorifies life for the children of the Black Undertow in America. It doesn't take a nuclear war -- though the cities where the Black Undertow reside resemble areas ravaged by atomic weapons -- to reduce the &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082698/Boy-14-kills-intruder-Michael-Henderson-gang-FOUR-men-try-break-house.html"&gt;Black Undertow to savagery&lt;/a&gt;; it just takes the &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/baby-faced-harlem-teens-starring-controversial-film-shot-uptown-anti-violence-advocates-threaten-boycott-article-1.1001571"&gt;absence of white people&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The streets of Harlem are being run by baby-faced gun-toting kids who  aren't afraid to pull the trigger and leave a bloody trail of bodies in a  new independent film that's quickly making the rounds uptown.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  There's wild shoot outs, drugs and sex in “Toddlers” - shot in Harlem  using neighborhood kids as young as 12 making their acting debut.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The DVD, released last month, has anti-violence activists charging the  movie glorifies guns. They’re thinking about boycotting the video store  selling the film.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Director Termaine (M5) Brown insisted he's not promoting gun violence, just showing a harsh reality.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "That's what's going on, I'm just showing it," Brown told the Daily  News. "You hear about these murders, but people don't see how it  happens. I show how these incidents happen. These are real life  situations.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "The parents don't get to see what these kids are really doing," said  Brown, 29, who was raised in Harlem and shot many scenes on W. 147th St.  between Broadway and Amsterdam two summers ago.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The DVD cover features a chubby-cheeked kid holding a gun. In the  one-minute trailer, posted on YouTube, kids are brandishing guns; a girl  is kidnapped by thugs and a man is shot in the head.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  In “Toddlers,” the lead character Pito, played by &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jordan+Pena" title="Jordan Pena"&gt;Jordan Pena&lt;/a&gt;, 14 at the time, turns to a life of guns and drugs after his drug dealer father is killed .&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Pito, once a promising baseball player, purchases guns with his  newfound drug money. He and his friends gun down anyone who gets in  their way.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Pena, who said his first-time in front of the camera was a "great experience," insisted the movie doesn't promote violence.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "It promotes how to turn into a man; how to take care of a family,"  said Pena, now 16.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"It promotes how life is out here. It's definitely  reality."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  He said playing the role of Pito wasn't hard for him.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "It was basically me acting like myself. It wasn't hard at all. This  was like playing my life," said Pena, who now wants to continue acting.  "I was proud of myself for finishing the movie."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  He said his parents and grandmother were also proud of him for doing something "positive."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;  But some anti-violence leaders were stunned by the shoot 'em up’s trailer.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"It promotes how life is out there," the teenage actor said. Well, he's right. It does promote how the world out there is for the children of the Black Undertow (unless rich white suburban families adopt the unwanted offspring of Black copulation, like Michael Oher), so Pena succinctly sums up life for your average Black kid in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really, he sums up why white people participate in white flight from areas where the Black Undertow slowly overwhelms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember back in the 1990s when Oliver Stone's &lt;i&gt;Natural Born Killers&lt;/i&gt; took the country by storm for its glamorizing of gratuitous violence? &lt;i&gt;Toddlers&lt;/i&gt; could be the first film that perfectly integrates the concept of natural born killers into celluloid; nothing like Black kids -- mind you, no nuclear holocaust was necessary -- in their natural habitat to remind people of why they live far away from the &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083134/Is-sickest-film-America-Calls-ban-ultra-violent-gang-movie-featuring-children-young-12.html"&gt;Black Undertow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;An ultra-violent movie that features  children as young as 12 murdering their way through the streets of New  York has been branded 'disgusting'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Anti-violence campaigners claim the film, Toddlers, glorifies guns and have called for it to be banned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Set  in Harlem, the movie - released on DVD last month - follows the  exploits of a boy who has to fend for himself after his drug dealer  father is murdered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Toddlers&lt;/i&gt; looks more like an uploaded video to WorldStarHipHop or a real-life documentary then it resembles a scripted film. Is that due to the directorial eye of M5, or just the realism of the subject matter he turns a camera on? Golding's story required a nuclear war for the white children to engage in savagery; all it takes for the children of the Black Undertow to engage in savagery is for the absence of white people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Toddlers and Tiaras&lt;/i&gt; this movie on the Black Undertow isn't; an accurate depiction of the real Black Undertow it is. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Natural born killers indeed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eFVjfbdTyeQ" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-2120498287500241351?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/2120498287500241351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=2120498287500241351' title='61 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/2120498287500241351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/2120498287500241351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/real-lord-of-flies-toddlers-shows-daily.html' title='The Real &apos;Lord of the Flies&apos;: &quot;Toddlers&quot; Shows the Daily Life of the Black Undertow'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/eFVjfbdTyeQ/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>61</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-8647418732743476734</id><published>2012-01-05T21:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T21:34:15.095-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Detroit'/><title type='text'>How Did it Come to This? WaPo Sheds Tears Over the Inevitable Collapse of Detroit</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stateofred.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/time%20assignment%20detroit%20the%20tragedy%20of%20detroit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://stateofred.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/time%20assignment%20detroit%20the%20tragedy%20of%20detroit.jpg" width="481" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The tragedy of Detroit is that Black people were unable to &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/structural-inequality-new-study-claims.html"&gt;sustain what white people created&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;It is the opinion of SBPDL that the coming collapse of Detroit represents a watershed moment in American history. &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/sorry-rush-limbaugh-its-not-liberalism.html"&gt;A mere 100 years ago, Detroit was nearly 100 percent white&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond the horizon, these white citizens envisioned a magnificent city, with opulent buildings, grand theaters for entertainment and a thriving economy that would be the envy of the world. If you build it, they will come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the southern United States flowed "The Great Migration," as Black people saw that same horizon and realized they could never build an infrastructure for a city near the grandeur of Detroit. For that matter, no record exists of any city that Black people have ever built with an economic infrastructure or low crime rate that didn't receive massive subsidization or entitlements from a government or charitable organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, Detroit is 82 percent Black, a rotting shell of its former self.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, Black people inherit an existing infrastructure that white people abandon due to unsavory &lt;i&gt;Climate Change&lt;/i&gt;. In an embarrassing op-ed for&lt;i&gt; The New York Times&lt;/i&gt;, Thomas Sugrue wrote these words about &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/opinion/27Sugrue.html?_r=4"&gt;white flight from Detroit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Those who left the city cited various reasons: desire for a little green  space, new housing, better schools, freedom from crime. Few of them  acknowledged the racial motive behind white flight, that words like  “freedom from crime” were code for moving away from blacks.        &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;It's not just Detroit that white people have abandoned, with it the hopes of dreams of their ancestors who toiled, saved, and hoped for a brighter tomorrow for their children then the one they had. "Freedom from crime" does mean freedom from the Black Undertow, who are responsible for the majority of the crime in the United States of America. "Better school" can only be found in school districts not relying on Superman to save the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If only white people would admit this reality, there would never be another Detroit; there would never be another Clayton County (Ga.); there would never be another &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/jefferson-county-declares-bankruptcy.html"&gt;Jefferson County, Alabama&lt;/a&gt;; there would never be another major city or county where &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/structural-inequality-new-study-claims.html"&gt;"Structural Inequality"&lt;/a&gt; would be the excuse for Black people's inability to maintain what was left to them, which equates to white people 'willing' the real estate knowing full well that economic death and ruination will only follow this gesture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On New Year 1912, white people in Detroit celebrated a future filled with endless possibilities; on New Year 2012, Black people in Detroit celebrated in an endless drunken stupor while a &lt;a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/01/06/black-new-years-2012/"&gt;two members of medical emergency personnel in a broken-down ambulance &lt;/a&gt;sat frozen in horror while gunshots from revelers kept them behind the locked-doors of the immobile vehicle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/possibility-of-emergency-manager-in-detroit-prompts-civil-rights-concerns/2012/01/04/gIQATFqYdP_story.html?hpid=z4"&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; reports the impending Civil Rights fiasco in a city where &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-failed-and-thunder-rolls-into.html"&gt;freedom failed &lt;/a&gt;once the Black Undertow assumed control:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article_body"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KcTrWVjZRTE/S9ZVvvsJMNI/AAAAAAAAAbs/fXyeI0qFzns/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="252" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KcTrWVjZRTE/S9ZVvvsJMNI/AAAAAAAAAbs/fXyeI0qFzns/s320/10.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Detroit: Before the Arrival of the Black Undertow (circa: 1936)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;article&gt;          &lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As a Michigan panel considers whether a state-appointed emergency manager should take over Detroit’s &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/with-detroit-in-dire-straits-mayor-invites-big-thinking/2011/02/07/ABL6NwQ_story.html"&gt;debt-laden&lt;/a&gt; budget, some residents and leaders are arguing that the move would disenfranchise black voters.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“How come all of the jurisdictions put under emergency  management are majority African American? Has anybody noticed that?”  asked Rep. John Conyers (D), who has represented Detroit for 47 years.  “There seems to be a racial aspect, a racial component of the  application of this law.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Under a newly strengthened law allowing the governor to appoint  emergency managers over local governments, appointees are now running  other financially bereft cities with large black populations — including  &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/magazine/benton-harbor.html?pagewanted=all"&gt;Benton Harbor&lt;/a&gt;,  Pontiac, Ecorse and Flint. If Detroit is added, a sizable proportion of  the state’s black residents will be living under emergency managers.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) said that he has no interest in running Detroit and wants the city to be responsible for itself.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Our role is to be a supporting resource,” Snyder said in a &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/possibility-of-emergency-manager-in-detroit-prompts-civil-rights-concerns/2012/01/04/gIQATFqYdP_story.html?hpid=z4"&gt;video he released&lt;/a&gt; last month. “My goal is to avoid appointing an emergency manager, because that’s a failure point.”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But if the city meets certain conditions, appointment of an emergency manager is the next step under state law.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Snyder  understands he is stepping into a political minefield if an emergency  manager is appointed, said Bettie Buss, a senior research associate at  the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a public policy think tank.  “There is no upside for the governor to appoint an emergency manager of  Detroit, but the city is facing a crisis,” she said.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mayor Dave  Bing (D) said at a city council meeting Thursday that the city’s  cost-saving measures are beginning to work, the Associated Press  reported. He presented an update that highlights savings from 1,000  imminent layoffs, overdue payments from the Detroit Public Schools  district and a corporate tax increase he says will mitigate a cash  shortfall. He has also said his negotiations to rework the city’s union  contracts are progressing.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Detroit owes bondholders, retirees, and other debtors more than $14.1&amp;nbsp;billion, according to a &lt;a href="http://www.crcmich.org/"&gt;research council report&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The  state law allows emergency managers to sell off city assets,  restructure debt and break union contracts. But the managers also usurp  the powers of local elected officials.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“It is the civil rights issue of our time. I didn’t vote for an  emergency manager. I voted for a mayor. I did not give up my right to  vote on the whims and fancies of a law that we believe is  unconstitutional and immoral,” said the Rev. Wendell Anthony, pastor of  Fellowship Chapel and a civil rights activist in Detroit. “We view it as  another step in the direction of voter suppression and vote  oppression.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Rep. Conyers, the answer to your question is simple: &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/media-asks-is-iowa-too-white-for-first.html"&gt;Black people lack the ability&lt;/a&gt; to overcome the horrors of "Structural Inequality" nor do they have the acumen to sustain an economy, education system, public works infrastructure, or attract outside investors (save the Salvation Army).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not just Detroit. It's any city that once was the envy of the world, well, a people whose goal was to colonize space. We could have been on Mars, but we had to erect a new Detroit in the suburbs; we had to erect a new Atlanta in the suburbs; we had to erect a new Cleveland in the suburbs; we had to erect a new Philadelphia in the suburbs; we had to erect a new Los Angeles in the suburbs; we had to erect a new Chicago in the suburbs that were ultimately abandon to the rising Black Undertow, all subsidized with entitlement money (TANF/welfare, EBT/Food Stamps, Section 8 Housing, and free lunches for their neglected children and free daycare at public schools) from predominately white tax-payers.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rep. Conyers, you have been an elected for almost half a century. You have presided over the collapse of Detroit, elected to Congress to represent a district that resembles Mogadishu of 2012 more than it does the Detroit of 1912.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a time when majority Black Washington D.C. was considered the &lt;a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+worst+city+government+in+America-a06977500"&gt;worst run government in America&lt;/a&gt;. Guess what? White people took the city from democratically elected Black representatives who were scaring away investors and white pioneers (gentrification) from the city. The Washington Post reported this in 1995:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Congress  today approved legislation to create a financial control board for the  District of Columbia, a measure that would effectively end home rule for  the city for at least eight years. President Clinton is expected to  sign the bill into law shortly.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Like similar boards established to  guide New York, Philadelphia and other cities through earlier fiscal  crises, the five-member financial control panel, whose members are to be  appointed by Mr. Clinton, would have vast authority over municipal  spending, financial planning, borrowing, hiring and contracts.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It  would also have authority to overrule decisions of Mayor Marion S. Barry  Jr. and the City Council, a power that would give unelected officials  the largest influence over the District since limited home rule was  granted by Congress more than 20 years ago.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Further, the  legislation all but kills the campaign of statehood for the District, a  leading goal of the city's Congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes  Norton.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The board, the only authority that would be allowed to  borrow money from the Federal Treasury on the District's behalf, is  viewed by its creators in the House and the Senate as a means of  salvation for a city facing insolvency by next month, a deficit that  could reach $722 million in this year's budget of $3.2 billion and a  continuing decline in municipal services.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"For  the city, it is the ultimate way to start revitalizing itself," said  Representative Thomas M. Davis 3d, a Virginia Republican whose House  subcommittee drafted the legislation. "It has to become financially  stable, and this is the first step."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;After weeks of resisting  demands by Congress to reduce the size of city government and add to the  cuts he had already made in spending, Mayor Barry said that as a result  of the legislation, he felt "excited and positive" about the District's  future.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"We are going to have the best-run city government with  the best citizen services in the nation," he said in a statement issued  by his office.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Mayor made no reference to the new reduction in  his role other than to say, "My administration will respond vigorously  and enthusiastically to this next period of home rule."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For Mr.  Barry, the legislation provides political cover, since he can now  justify any painful spending cuts by declaring that the board insists on  them.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Senate passed the bill on Thursday, adding several  amendments to a version earlier passed by the House, which approved the  Senate's changes today.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/article&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final nail in the coffin of Black-run Detroit is being put in place. Black-run Washington D.C., where financial mismanagement, corruption, high crime rates, horrible schools, and economic stagnation was ultimately saved by white people &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dc/mismanage/manage20.htm"&gt;usurping freedom from elected&lt;/a&gt; [duplicitous] Black officials in the mid-90s. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1293383391"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://247wallst.com/2012/01/05/best-and-worst-run-cities-in-america/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; put together a list of the best-run and worst-run of 2011 and, well, it broke down along racial lines again. Majority Black cities, where high rates of crime are endemic, ensure that you are on the worst list. Remember, your elected officials come from this class too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, with the impending collapse of the city once dubbed "the arsenal of Democracy" we can safely surmise that freedom truly failed once Detroit's future was in the hands of Black people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's your answer Rep. Conyers. Then again, you should have known Black people were incapable of running a city when the wheels of your government leased Cadillac Escalde were &lt;a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/03/car_trouble_for_conyers_wheels.html"&gt;stolen in front of your home&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;First, the son of U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) was forbidden from using dad's taxpayer-leased Cadillac Escalade. Now, it looks like nobody else will be driving the fancy SUV real soon either, &lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20110309/NEWS01/110309060/Wheels-stolen-off-Cadillac-Conyers-home"&gt;not after a thief stole the wheels off of the vehicle.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;According to news reports, a Conyers staffer confirmed that the wheels had been stolen yesterday while the vehicle was parked in front of the congressman's home on the west side of Detroit.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detroit must never be rebuilt. It must remain as a monument to the folly of egalitarian thinking, courtesy of Utopian-visioned Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) who refused to acknowledge that the fate of ALL major American cities is similar to that of The Motor City.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must go back to nature, a cautionary, despondent reminder that race is not a social construct, but a biological fact. So that in 2112, school children can fly into the renamed International Airport&amp;nbsp; in Detroit and trek into the abandon ruins of a city that 200 years earlier was on the cusp of greatness; that 100 years was on the brink of disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it will be here, where these children will no longer be taught to hate their race (as they are now), but to remember the disaster that was only averted when their ancestors stopped allowing their guilt to outweigh their anger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1293383412"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/sorry-rush-limbaugh-its-not-liberalism.html"&gt;Detroit's collapse is 100 percent racial&lt;/a&gt;, for the same reason that &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/10/detroit-vs-pittsburgh-difference.html"&gt;Pittsburgh's ascension is 100 percent racial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our guilt outweighs our anger; for the future, we must understand that it is all predicated upon our anger outweighing our guilt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collapse of Detroit is 100 percent racial, and the &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-failed-and-thunder-rolls-into.html"&gt;thunder is just getting ready to roll in&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object data="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212" height="519.25" id="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="639"&gt;&lt;param value="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212" name="movie"/&gt;&lt;param value="&amp;skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&amp;embed=true&amp;adSizeArray=300x240&amp;adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ewjbk%2Fnews%2Fmetro%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bfname%3Ddetroit%2Dems%2Drig%2Dstranded%2Das%2Dgunfire%2Drings%2Din%2Dthe%2Dnew%2Dyear%2D20120103%2Dms%3Bloc%3Dembed%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D135555373970419170%3Frand%3D0%2E22156385728158057&amp;flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxdetroit%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D136640519&amp;img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxdetroit%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2012%2F01%2F03%2FBROKEN%2DDOWN%2DAMBULANCE%2DNYE%2Et%5F20120103182157%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&amp;story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxdetroit%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdetroit%2Dems%2Drig%2Dstranded%2Das%2Dgunfire%2Drings%2Din%2Dthe%2Dnew%2Dyear%2D20120103%2Dms&amp;category=news&amp;title=6P%2DEMS%2DSTRANDED%2Emov&amp;oacct=foximfoximwjbk,foximglobal&amp;ovns=foxinteractivemedia&amp;headline=Ring%20of%20Gunfire%3A%20Detroit%20EMS%20Unit%20Stranded%20on%20New%20Year%27s%20Eve%20" name="FlashVars"/&gt;&lt;param value="all" name="allowNetworking"/&gt;&lt;param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 639px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/detroit-ems-rig-stranded-as-gunfire-rings-in-the-new-year-20120103-ms"&gt;Ring of Gunfire: Detroit EMS Unit Stranded on New Year's Eve : MyFoxDETROIT.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-8647418732743476734?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/8647418732743476734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=8647418732743476734' title='141 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/8647418732743476734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/8647418732743476734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-did-it-come-to-this-wapo-sheds.html' title='How Did it Come to This? WaPo Sheds Tears Over the Inevitable Collapse of Detroit'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KcTrWVjZRTE/S9ZVvvsJMNI/AAAAAAAAAbs/fXyeI0qFzns/s72-c/10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>141</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-8158619416854276261</id><published>2012-01-04T16:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T07:43:54.184-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Expressed: Black University of Florida Football Players Poke Fun at Whitey from Ohio State</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK Note: The whole concept of SBPDL was started as a joke. When I sat down to write&lt;a href="http://takimag.com/article/the_crucifixion_of_tim_tebow#axzz1iWuqD4ti"&gt;&lt;i&gt; The Crucifixion of Tim Tebow&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that appears at Takimag today, I reflected on how far this blog/site has come. People have come to rely on SBPDL, depending on what is written here. Finding value in it. One website went as far to call the writing here some of the &lt;a href="http://cyclopswarrior.blogspot.com/2011/12/most-innovative-writing-on-website.html"&gt;most innovative since the start of the Internet&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ridiculous praise, but knowing that people hold what you do to such esteem makes you want to work harder and harder. In the coming months, you're going to see what is meant by that "work harder and harder" remark.I am to misbehave. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The war for truth on&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; Red Tails&lt;/i&gt;. Detroit's collapse. Obama's War on White America. I HAD people. The continued violence from the Black Undertow. &lt;i&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/i&gt;. Black people's reliance on the social construct of Black athletic domination to provide the only positive examples of their community. Black Fictional Heroes Month during Black History Month.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For too long, our guilt has outweighed our anger. The day is coming when our anger outweighs our guilt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;If SBPDL plays any part in helping this occur, then it was because of readers like you who helped spread the message. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mit.zenfs.com/214/2012/01/Tyler_Moeller-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://mit.zenfs.com/214/2012/01/Tyler_Moeller-2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;University of Florida "special admit" athletes made fun of white Ohio State players&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Out of a population of more than 50,000 students, the University of Florida is proud to have enrolled at the school roughly &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida#Demographics"&gt;5,000 Black students&lt;/a&gt; who help make the Gator Nation as the second best school in the nation for awarding &lt;a href="http://www.gatorzone.com/football/media/2007/pdf/18.pdf"&gt;Black people undergraduate degrees&lt;/a&gt;. What an accolade for a school that 40 years ago had maybe 500 Black students. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of the effort to accommodate Black students at every turn, the University of Florida football team has resorted to recruiting predominately Black students in the hopes of fielding a team that resembles the Historical Black College and University (HBCU) that sport embarrassing graduation rates of 50 percent or less. If HBCU's can't provide an education to Black students, a Predominately White Institution (PWI) can lower academic standards to&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/homefinder/content/sports/stories/2008/12/28/acadmain_1228_3DOT.html"&gt; help out a brother in need&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Football and men’s basketball players on the nation’s big-time  college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their  classmates, and some of the gaps are so large they call into question  the lengths to which schools will go to win.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;   &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The biggest gap between football players and students as a whole  occurred at the University of Florida, where players scored 346 points  lower than the school’s overall student body. That’s larger than the  difference in scores between typical students at the University of  Georgia and Harvard University.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These numbers are from 2008; your average UF football player posted an SAT of 890. It's a safe assumption that most of the Black athletes on the squad - did we tell you that in 2010, the entire football recruiting class was Black? - require '&lt;a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4781264"&gt;special admission&lt;/a&gt;' status, with many of these players qualifying as learning disabled because of their pitiful scholastic aptitude (fitting that Disingenuous White Liberals have stated that it is inhumane to execute a criminal with an IQ under 70; they have no problem admitting them to college if they can run, jump, or catch a football). Then again, isn't that SAT 'culturally biased' or &lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/stories/2008/12/27/academics_race.html"&gt;something&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;An Atlanta Journal-Constitution study of athletes’ admissions  qualifications partly confirmed Hewitt’s point. On average, black and  white students arrive on campus with much different academic backgrounds  and graduate at much different rates. Athletes’ experiences reflect  those differences, and those differences affect the statistics for  athletes as a whole.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;   &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blacks are far better represented on the playing field than in the  classroom. Only about 1.8 percent of white students were scholarship  athletes, compared with 6.4 percent of black students. Some schools’  athlete-student demographic differences were huge. For example, about a  third of the black students in Colorado’s 2002 freshman class were  scholarship athletes.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;   &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The SAT has been criticized as racially biased, and black students as  a whole enter college with lower scores than white students. The  difference in the average scores for white and black students was 149  points at public universities in the six Bowl Championship Series  conferences, an AJC study showed. That explains part of the average  124-point gap between an athlete’s SAT score and the score for a typical  student on his or her campus.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;ESPN's &lt;a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4737281"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Outside the Line&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; program did a special investigation of UF's main rival Florida State University (FSU), a university under head football coach Bobby Bowden that relied exclusively on "special admit" Black athletes to win games. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turns out, more than a third of FSU's football players were listed as&lt;a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/learning-disability-diagnoses-help-some-athletes-at-florida-state-u/9200"&gt; "learning disabled"&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4737281"&gt;ESPN reports&lt;/a&gt;  that Florida State University uses diagnoses of “learning disabilities”  to provide extra help to athletes struggling with their schoolwork. The  investigation, by ESPN’s &lt;i&gt;Outside the Lines&lt;/i&gt; program, aired  yesterday and was based on interviews with a former learning specialist  at Florida State who is now suing the university. Athletes with learning  disabilities are able to receive more-intense academic support and are  eligible to apply for waivers from the NCAA that relax certain academic  requirements. More than a third of Florida State’s football team, and  three-quarters of its men’s basketball team, have received such  diagnoses, ESPN reported.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They aren't "learning disabled"; they're just Black.Regardless of trillions of dollars spent over the years to help alleviate the racial gap in learning, Black kids still fail at astonishing. If they can play football, they fail upwards it seems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which brings us to the story of the 2012 Capital One Bowl game between the Florida Gators and the Ohio State Buckeyes. Just like &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/08/louisiana-state-university-lsu-football.html"&gt;Black Tennessee Volunteers who made fun of Jacob Hester&lt;/a&gt;, the white running back from LSU, who said he should be "playing for Air Force"; and just like all the majority&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/04/michael-vick-vs-peyton-hillis-for-cover.html"&gt; Black defenses in the NFL who made fun of Peyton Hillis&lt;/a&gt;, the white running back from Cleveland, in 2010, Ohio State's Tyler Moeller said the almost all-Black Florida Gator team hurled bigotry at the &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Buckeye-linebacker-calls-foul-on-race-baiting-Ga?urn=ncaaf-wp12427"&gt;white guys on his team&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trash talking is as old as football itself. A player baiting another  player with a taunt or threat is usually par for the course during any  game, especially a game between rivals or with championship  significance.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;So, it was no surprise that Monday's Gator Bowl between &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/teams/ffa/"&gt;Florida&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/teams/oob/"&gt;Ohio State&lt;/a&gt;  — two teams that have loved Urban Meyer — had a little more vitriol  than usual. What was surprising was the type of caustic comments being  said.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Ohio State linebacker &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/players/136584/"&gt;Tyler Moeller&lt;/a&gt;  said Florida players hurled racial slurs at him throughout the game and  that that sparked some of the chippiness during the 24-17 Florida win.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"They're classless. That's the way I'd put it," Moeller said, &lt;a href="http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=145&amp;amp;f=1079&amp;amp;t=8512187&amp;amp;p=1" target="_blank"&gt;according to Marcus Hartman from Buckeye Sports Bulletin&lt;/a&gt;.  "I've never seen more people swing at our players and call us racial  slurs. I've never been called a 'cracker' more in my life than I have  today. So I don't really have much respect for them in terms of that but  they're a good team. They came out and outplayed us today."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'll be the first to admit I've never heard a player complain about  this in terms of reverse racism (which is still just racism) and really,  you rarely hear about this type of thing at all on the collegiate  level, though it probably exists. I'm sure there was a slew of unsavory  things said on that football field, but who knew the "C-word" was still a  racial slur that anyone used?&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rNVwyPakHKw/TwXEOjcYuBI/AAAAAAAAAT0/RMYanLXZxFU/s1600/SEC_SAT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="384" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rNVwyPakHKw/TwXEOjcYuBI/AAAAAAAAAT0/RMYanLXZxFU/s640/SEC_SAT.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Breakdown from 2008 SAT scores in SEC. How &lt;a href="http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/hbd-human-biodiversity/the-game-of-the-century/"&gt;low must the Black scores be&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'm not trying to make light of the situation, but I thought it went out of style after comedian &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/players/205381/"&gt;Chris Rock&lt;/a&gt; ran the slur into the ground during &lt;a href="http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/c/chris-rock-bigger-and-blacker-script.html" target="_blank"&gt;his HBO special in 1999&lt;/a&gt;. The word is probably as relevant now as some of the words used in the infamous 1975 Saturday Night Live skit "&lt;a href="http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75ginterview.phtml" target="_blank"&gt;Racist Word Association Interview&lt;/a&gt;" with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;I do wonder what other things he and other players were called and  what they might have yelled back? I'm sure there was some profanity  dropped that probably drew more anger — and some colorful rebuttal —  than the "C-word."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ohio State defensive back &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/players/168650/"&gt;Travis Howard&lt;/a&gt;, who is from &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/teams/mmi/"&gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt;, told Hartman that that kind of trash talk &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/marcushartman/status/153961370143039489" target="_blank"&gt;is common in the state of Florida&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;It's interesting that in other leagues, &lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-suarez-racism" target="_blank"&gt;especially soccer leagues&lt;/a&gt;  where there are many different ethnicities on one field, this kind of  stuff is severely punished. Unfortunately, this will probably go  relatively unnoticed.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's new in Black-Run America (BRA)? This episode will never be made into a movie, but an inverted episode will be written into the script of a major Hollywood film that was released a few years back. The Express, telling the story of the first Black Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davies, utilized overzealous writers to fabricate examples of white racism (the only kind that exists) toward the integrated Syracuse football team, even though it&lt;a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/how_the_express_fumbled_the_re.html"&gt; didn't happen in real-life&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A few intense scenes of racial bigotry in "The Express" --  Hollywood's portrayal of the former Syracuse University football star --  have prompted some of Davis' former teammates to say the filmmakers  fumbled the ball.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As a work of fiction, the movie is terrific," said Ger Schwedes,  captain of the 1959 SU national championship team. "But that's not the  way it was."&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a letter to this newspaper, published today, Schwedes lists 11  factual shortcomings in the movie, which is based on Davis' heroic and  tragic life.&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Because so many of the '59 members have called, e-mailed and written  to me with their objections, I'm compelled to set the record straight,"  he writes.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;    Schwedes said the letter reflects the consensus of 39 ex-teammates  who returned to Syracuse for the movie's world premiere Sept. 12. About  12 later reviewed the letter before it was submitted.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "You won't find any dissent over what I've written," he said.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Schwedes said the former teammates bristled over what they view as unfair portrayals of racism at West Virginia and SU.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  At one point, during the film's gala opening last month in Syracuse,  some players grew so upset at the emerging story -- including its  depiction of coach Ben Schwartzwalder -- that they nearly left the  theater before the closing credits, according to two players.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "The Express" opened nationally last weekend and ranked sixth at the  box office. It generated $4.5 million, about a quarter of the revenue of  the nation's top-grossing film, "Beverly Hills Chihuahua."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  But "The Express" -- showing powerful images of a racially divided  America in 1959 -- was always destined to generate far more debate than  the usual popcorn movie.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  During one seven-minute sequence in the film, SU's racially mixed team  faces an angry white crowd at West Virginia, where fans shout slurs and  throw garbage, and even the referees are corrupt. Schwartzwalder, played  by actor Dennis Quaid, warns his team to stay helmeted, fearing they  will be hit by beer bottles.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "That's the way they do things down here," the coach says.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The movie sets the date of the game as Oct. 24, 1959.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Trouble is, it never happened.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The record book shows Davis, a sophomore, had a breakout game in 1959  against the Mountaineers, rushing for 141 yards. But the game took place  in Syracuse.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The teams did play in Morgantown, W.Va., on Oct. 22, 1960. Behind  Davis, SU won 45-0, delivering the worst home defeat in West Virginia  history. Newspaper accounts mention no racial incidents, though such  issues rarely made newsprint in that era.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Though racial conflict at the 1960 Cotton Bowl game, in Texas, has been  well-documented, West Virginia critics say the filmmakers seem to have  picked their school arbitrarily to serve as the film's composite face of  racism.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "The dialogue itself is deplorable, stereotype propagating works of  slanderous fiction that both never happened and are nothing but attacks  on the state," the West Virginia campus newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum,  recently argued.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Several former SU players from that era -- including Schwedes,  offensive tackle Bob Yates, tackle John Brown and quarterback Dick  Easterly -- have stated publicly that they recall no such racial  incidents in Morgantown.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Brown, an African-American, said he never experienced a regular season crowd or game like that during his time at SU.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Nor is there mention of any West Virginia ruckus in Robert C.  Gallagher's 1999 book, "The Express: The Ernie Davis Story," on which  the movie is based.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The book does note one anecdote from the 1960 game: On Davis' first  three runs, a Mountaineer linemen twisted his ankle in the pile-up.  Davis smiled at the guy and asked what he was trying to do.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Writes Gallagher: "The tackle, expecting a violent response, became  embarrassed and said, 'Ernie, I'm sorry.' That was the last time Ernie's  ankle was twisted that day."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The complaints bear a striking resemblance to those filed by Central  New Yorkers in 1990, after filmmaker Oliver Stone's film, "Born on the  Fourth of July."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  That movie, based on the story of Vietnam vet-turned-war-critic Ron  Kovic, showed Syracuse police beating peaceful protesters at a rally. In  fact, the record showed that no attacks occurred -- at least, in  Syracuse.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  After receiving protests, Stone issued a public apology to the Syracuse police.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Film director Gary Fleder has not commented publicly on the West Virginia criticisms.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  In a pre-premiere promotional video, Fleder described how he believed  an early script for the movie lacked focus. He spent an hour with Jim  Brown, the great running back who preceded Davis at SU, to discuss the  movie.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "He (Brown) talked me through the real stuff ... the times, what he  went through as a player, what Ernie went through as a player," Fleder  said. "I thought, 'That's the story.'"&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  The 1959 team also quarrels with the portrayal of Schwartzwalder by  Quaid, the movie's star. Quaid plays the coach as a good-hearted,  slightly bigoted football genius who by the movie's end has been  redeemed through his genuine concern for Davis.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Yates, who lives in Texas, said Quaid took too many artistic liberties  with the former coach, to whom the team remains loyal. Yates said  Schwartzwalder would never swear at a player, never drink alcohol in  front of his team, never tolerate inequalities -- as Quaid's character  does. The coach kept a strict honor code, and nobody ever overruled his  edicts -- as Davis does several times in the movie.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  "We as a team are truly appalled at the complete falsity of the  portrayal of our coach," Yates wrote, in a letter to NBC sports host Bob  Costas. "It was very hard for those members of the '59 team in  attendance at the premiere not to leave en masse, as we had done before,  after the 1960 Cotton Bowl, because of the injustice to Ernie."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Overall, the movie treats the coach kindly -- not mentioning later  controversies, such as the 1970 walk-out by African-American athletes,  which decimated the program.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;That walk-out by Black players is a story for another day. &lt;i&gt;The Express &lt;/i&gt;also tried to show racism toward Syracuse and the school Black players at the 1960 Cotton Bowl against an all-white Texas University team. Problem: &lt;a href="http://www.mmbolding.com/bowls/Cotton_1960.htm"&gt;there was none&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;White guys on the football field should just be the kicker, place-holder, punter, and long-snapper. Maybe the quarterback. In a world where Black people are such great athletes, why should we believe white players can even compete with them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's what has happened at places like Florida, Florida State, and Alabama, where alumni and students have been conditioned to believe that only ebony athletes can help provide the spark for a solid football foundation. This helps them overlook the fact that that same ebony spark makes cities like Birmingham, Mobile, Tallahassee, Miami, Montgomery, Orlando, and Tampa incredibly unsafe to live in. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, it takes "special admission" status to even get these "great" Black athletes enrolled in school. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's your Gator Bait, Gator Nation. 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We ask "Is Detroit too Black for Civilization?"</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.mysanantonio.com/chris-duel/files/legacy/09FieldofDreams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://blog.mysanantonio.com/chris-duel/files/legacy/09FieldofDreams.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Is this heaven? No, it's just too white Iowa&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;"Is this heaven?," asks the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in &lt;i&gt;Field of Dreams&lt;/i&gt;. That same question is asked by his father, right before they &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_wnD6jxREU"&gt;finally have a catch together&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States of America once looked like Iowa (the state is 91 percent white; in 1964, America was 90 percent white). Now, the Iowa State Fair is home to "&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2010/08/field-of-broken-dreams-groups-of-black.html"&gt;beat whitey night&lt;/a&gt;," an event that is being replicated all across the country with nary a peep from anyone in a position of power. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;100 years ago,&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/sorry-rush-limbaugh-its-not-liberalism.html"&gt; Detroit was nearly 100 percent white&lt;/a&gt;. Today, Detroit is 82 percent Black and on the verge of bankruptcy. The civilization they inherited (like the one that Black people inherited in &lt;a href="http://takimag.com/article/blight_of_the_living_dead#axzz1iRCzoUWb"&gt;The Bluffs of Atlanta&lt;/a&gt;) has died on their watch, with this fitting story putting an &lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120103/NEWS01/120103049/Detroit-police-precincts-limiting-hours"&gt;exclamation point on that statement&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Detroit Police Department precincts and districts may no longer be open to the public 24 hours a day.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beginning  Monday, precincts and districts will be closed to the public from 4  p.m. until 8 a.m., officials said. As part of the plan, several job  assignments will be eliminated and those officers will end up on the  street, Detroit Police Cmdr. Steve Dolunt said.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;“I think it’s going to work,” he said. “I think it’ll get the officers more involved” with citizens.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Detroit  Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens said Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. will  address “the new procedures regarding Front Desk Operations” at 1 p.m.  Thursday.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;This story confirms that the Detroit of 2012 -- already one of the most violent and dangerous in all of the world -- is in a far worse state than that depicted in &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/02/robocop-statue-in-detroit-just-build.html"&gt;1987's &lt;i&gt;Robocop&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consequently, the following story (published in both&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0103/Too-white-Iowa-is-91-white-but-does-that-mean-it-shouldn-t-vote-first"&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Christian Science-Monitor &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and the&lt;i&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/01/03/is-iowa-too-white-to-kick-off-the-presidential-selection-process"&gt;US News and World Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) shows that Disingenuous White Liberals (DWL) like NBC's Andrea Mitchell hope that all of America one day looks like Detroit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Is &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Iowa" target="_self"&gt;Iowa&lt;/a&gt; too white to be politically representative of the &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+States" target="_self"&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt; as a whole? That question arises because &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/NBC+Universal+Inc." target="_self"&gt;NBC&lt;/a&gt; correspondent &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Andrea+Mitchell" target="_self"&gt;Andrea Mitchell&lt;/a&gt; on Sunday implied that it was.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;While interviewing &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/U.S.+Republican+Party" target="_self"&gt;GOP&lt;/a&gt; strategist &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Mike+Murphy" target="_self"&gt;Mike Murphy&lt;/a&gt;,  Ms. Mitchell made this comment: “The rap on Iowa – it doesn’t represent  the rest of the country. [It’s] too white, too evangelical, too rural.”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conservative  critics have leaped on Mitchell for injecting her opinions into the  discussion. To be fair, however, she was clearly citing “critics” who  say such things – and they do. In fact, she was almost directly quoting  from a &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/The+New+York+Times+Company" target="_self"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt; article of Dec. 17, which made much the same point while discussing Iowa’s relative economic stability.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag"&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag-p"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;“As  the first state to take part in the Republican nominating contest, Iowa  has long been criticized as too much of an outlier to be permanently  endowed such an outsize influence in shaping the presidential field,”  wrote the &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/us/politics/economy-rules-gop-message-but-iowa-differs.html?_r=3&amp;amp;ref=agsulzberger&amp;amp;pagewanted=all" target="_blank"&gt;Times’ A.G. Sulzberger&lt;/a&gt;. “Too small, critics say. Too rural. Too white.”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It  is the “white” part of this that may be raising the most hackles among  conservatives. They point out that in 2008 then-candidate &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Barack+Obama" target="_self"&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; won the state and its seven electoral votes, after all.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Well,  this is easy to check, isn’t it? And at first glance there is something  to the criticism of Iowa as racially unrepresentative of the US.  According to the &lt;a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/19000.html" target="_blank"&gt;US Census Bureau&lt;/a&gt;,  Iowa is 91.3 percent white. The US as a whole is 72.4 percent white.  Iowa’s population is 2.9 percent black, as opposed to 12.6 percent for  the US as a whole. Latinos make up 5 percent of the state versus 16.3  percent of the US.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fitting that that 12.6 percent of the United States helps make life inhospitable in places like Birmingham, Alabama; Baltimore, Maryland; Newark, New Jersey; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fitting that that 12. 6 percent of the population engaged in massive riots over Air Jordan's during Christmas 2011 that cost $180 a pop, when most rely on EBT/Food Stamps, TANF/Welfare, Section 8 Housing, and other entitlements to merely survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.420742%21/img/httpImage/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.420742%21/img/httpImage/image.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Detroit: Too Black for civilization&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Fitting that that 12.6 percent of the population has been responsible for turning Detroit, once one of the shining examples of human achievement and ingenuity, into the Detroit of 2012: a macabre example of what happens to any city, county, or country that transfers from white rule to Black.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black people had nothing to do with the building of Detroit; they have everything with its collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iowa's relative economic stability is predicated upon the fact that it is almost all-white; Detroit's economic instability is predicated upon the fact that it is almost all-Black. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We call the latter the Visible Black Hand of Economics. Here's &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/us/politics/economy-rules-gop-message-but-iowa-differs.html?pagewanted=all"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;on the oddity of a state that is actually efficiently run, because it avoids having large metropolitan areas that are effectively &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-do-most-of-30-brokest-cities-in.html"&gt;Black Undertow cities &lt;/a&gt;that are a drain on the economy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As the first state to take part in the Republican nominating contest,  Iowa has long been criticized as too much of an outlier to be  permanently endowed such an outsize influence in shaping the  presidential field. Too small, critics say. Too rural. Too white. But  this election cycle, there is another particularly relevant way in which  the state does not represent the nation as a whole: it is too  economically healthy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; Iowa, one of several Midwestern states that largely sidestepped the  reckless rise of the housing market and the crash that followed, has  remained relatively stable through these difficult years. Buoyed by a  booming agriculture sector, the state is enjoying lower unemployment,  greater income growth, steadier home sales and fewer foreclosures than  most others.        &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 2010 movie &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2010/11/do-we-live-among-crazies-bobby-tillman.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Crazies&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it took a military pathogen unwittingly unleashed in an Iowa towns water supply to destabilize the (almost all-white) population, turning them into maniacal murderers. Looking at the homicide rate of Detroit, for that matter any town with a sizable Black population, we can't blame a military pathogen on the lawlessness there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Is this heaven?," asks the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in &lt;i&gt;Field of Dreams&lt;/i&gt;. That same question is asked by his father, right before they &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_wnD6jxREU"&gt;finally have a catch together&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When one visits Detroit, the question doesn't even need to be asked: You are entering hell on earth, a city Dante himself would never dare visit.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the media can ask "Is Iowa too white for first Presidential Caucus?" We'll ask at SBPDL this simple question: "&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-failed-and-thunder-rolls-into.html"&gt;Is Detroit too Black for Civilization?&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Judging by the rate that middle class Black people are fleeing Detroit, where &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/structural-inequality-new-study-claims.html"&gt;structural inequality&lt;/a&gt; is too much of a burden for Black people to overcome, the answer is a resounding, emphatic "yes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;PK Note: Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/"&gt;OD&lt;/a&gt; for bringing these articles on Iowa's ugly whiteness to my attention. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X5f6hp7Z1Dk" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b_wnD6jxREU" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7qeMslmDBxY" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-1082717172852347576?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/1082717172852347576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=1082717172852347576' title='107 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/1082717172852347576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/1082717172852347576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/media-asks-is-iowa-too-white-for-first.html' title='Media asks &quot;Is Iowa too white for first Presidential Caucus?&quot; We ask &quot;Is Detroit too Black for Civilization?&quot;'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/X5f6hp7Z1Dk/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>107</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-6104906553126454043</id><published>2012-01-02T15:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T16:38:49.684-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Detroit'/><title type='text'>Sorry Rush Limbaugh, it's not Liberalism: 100 Years Ago, Detroit was almost 100 Percent White. Now, it's 80 Percent Black</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK Note: All new articles on college football are being saved for the book, The Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White. Alternative Right will be publishing two pieces by me on recruiting and a special look at the University of Alabama/LSU National Championship match-up and the correlation to South African Rugby. Because "conservatives" and the entire Mainstream Media (MSM) will be lying about the monumental collapse of Detroit and the takeover by the state of Michigan of that city's finances, we publish this to set the record straight. I only ask that you inundate Rush Limbaugh and ever square inch of the internet with it. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_b89n_WpHbU/TwJAR74bLII/AAAAAAAAATI/yRjeYRmGp38/s1600/detroit10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="168" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_b89n_WpHbU/TwJAR74bLII/AAAAAAAAATI/yRjeYRmGp38/s400/detroit10.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The real reason Detroit collapsed... Notice the correlation to the overall Black percentage of the population&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Roughly 100 year ago, the Titanic would hit an iceberg and sink to the bottom of an icy Atlantic ocean. Thinking the boat was unsinkable was part of the hubris of the engineers who designed it and the careless navigation of the ship by the captain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At that same time, Detroit, Michigan was a growing city of 465,766 people, almost 99 percent of them being of European descent. They built a city - with the auto industry as the backbone of the economy - that became known as "The Arsenal of Democracy" and "The Paris of the West."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hundreds of thousands of Black people would move north during this time period and seek fortune and stability for their families in what become known as The Motor City, and also gravitate to places like Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Cleveland. This was known as "The Great Migration," though history will one day call it by a different name: The Black Undertow Effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-failed-and-thunder-rolls-into.html"&gt;2012 Detroit&lt;/a&gt; is a much different picture than what 1912 Detroit looked like, and not once in Dan Austin's &lt;i&gt;Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor's Majestic Ruins&lt;/i&gt; (a pictorial account of Detroit's mighty buildings left to the ravages of the new rulers of the city) does he allude to the inconvenient truth that the city is now 82 percent Black. The people who built Detroit, toiled in its factories, kept the city streets safe for children and the growing of local economies, and labored at building small businesses all vacated the Motor City for the suburbs (basically white people rebuilding what they fled) when the Black Undertow &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/us/23detroit.html"&gt;became too unbearable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Detroit’s population fell to 713,777 in 2010, the lowest since 1910,  when it was 466,000. In a shift that was unthinkable 20 years ago,  Detroit is now smaller than Austin, Tex., Charlotte, N.C., and  Jacksonville, Fla.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; “It’s a major city in free-fall,” said L. Brooks Patterson, the county  executive of neighboring Oakland County, which was also hit by the  implosion of the automobile industry but whose population rose by almost  1 percent, thanks to an influx of black residents. “Detroit’s tax base  is eroding, its citizens are fleeing and its school system is in the  hands of a financial manager.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; But a major factor, too, has been the exodus of black residents to the  suburbs, which followed the white flight that started in the 1960s.  Detroit lost 185,393 black residents in the last decade.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; “This is the biggest loss of blacks the city has shown, and that’s tied  to the foreclosures in the city’s housing,” Mr. Frey said. Because of  the Great Migration — when blacks flowed from the South to the North —  and the loss of whites, he said, “Detroit has been the most segregated  city in the country and it is still pretty segregated, but not as much.”  At one point, the city was 83 percent black.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; Many blacks moved to nearby suburbs, but census data shows that even  those suburbs have barely held their own against population loss.&lt;/b&gt;         &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/04/rms_titanic_400px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="350" src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/04/rms_titanic_400px.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Detroit has hit the Black Undertow Iceberg: Many cities in America will be next&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;As Black people flee the still dead Frankenstein-monster that is Detroit, they move to the safe Whitopia's that will inevitably be vacated by white people fleeing the crime and depreciated property value that follows the Black refugee's of The Motor City. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when did this actually start to occur? The book &lt;i&gt;Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967&lt;/i&gt; by Sidney Fine reports this on page 15:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It was crime and its association with blacks that triggered a major crisis in race relations in Detroit in 1960. Four days after the Civil Rights Commission concluded its hearings in the city, the &lt;i&gt;Detroit News&lt;/i&gt; noted in an editorial that although blacks constituted 26 percent of the city's population, they were responsible for almost 65 percent of its serious crimes. Asserting that the black community bore "a share of responsibility" for this fact, the &lt;i&gt;News&lt;/i&gt; complained that the black leadership had "not pressed as hard" on this issues as it should have. "A wave of murders, rapes and purse snatching," with blacks identified as the perpetrators, culminated that same month in the murder of a white nurse's aide, a twenty-eight-year-old mother of three.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;You see, Black crime has always been bad in America. This is why white people didn't want to live around Black people then, and why laws were erected in the south that convinced Black people to participate in "The Great Migration" north that culminated with Democrats in Michigan in 1972 giving the nod to Alabama segregationist George Wallace in the primary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, you read that right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, actually it culminated in white people abandoning Detroit to the ravages of the Black Undertow, who promptly elected Coleman Young -&lt;a href="http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2009/12/02/coleman-young-revisited/"&gt; the city's first Black mayor&lt;/a&gt; - and watched as The Motor City started an unprecedented collapse in human history that confirmed Black people can't maintain the civilization they are handed. Well, it was more like a baton-passing in a track meet, with white people sprinting out of the city before they were mugged again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should be stated here that Detroit's International Airport is named after Coleman Young, the Black mayor of Detroit who presided over the collapse of Detroit that can best be described as a continual aerial bombardment of the city with Black people serving as the munitions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detroit is a reminder, not of what liberalism does to a city (&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/10/detroit-vs-pittsburgh-difference.html"&gt;Pittsburgh has been rated as the best place to live in America and it has never been a bastion of conservatism&lt;/a&gt;), but what Black people do to a city, a county, or a country that has been immolated because of the power of white guilt in the face of Black incompetence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the concept of &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/structural-inequality-new-study-claims.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Structural Inequality &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;shows us, even Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) now admit that Black people can't sustain the infrastructure of a city they have inherited because of white flight. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detroit, a city that was nearly 100 percent white but one century ago, is now on the verge of being taken over by the state of Michigan (much as Black-run Washington D.C. was once taken over by an act of Congress because Black people were running the city into the ground) in a moment that confirms one thing: the Black Undertow is the greatest threat to the future security, prosperity, and existence of the United States of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times &lt;/i&gt;admitted what the concept of the Black Undertow has done to Detroit, and will inevitably do to Whitopia's surrounding the city with this op-ed by Sugrue, in a piece that should have been named &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/opinion/27Sugrue.html?_r=3"&gt;"A Dream that Never was to be"&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt; &lt;b&gt;AT first glance, the numbers released by the Census Bureau last week showing &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/us/23detroit.html" title="Times article on Detroit census figures"&gt;a precipitous drop in Detroit’s population&lt;/a&gt;  — 25 percent over the last decade — seem to bear a silver lining: most  of those leaving the city are blacks headed to the suburbs, once the  refuge of mid-century white flight.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;      &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; But a closer analysis of the data suggests that the story of housing  discrimination that has dominated American urban life since the early  20th century is far from over. In the Detroit metropolitan area, blacks  are moving into so-called secondhand suburbs: established communities  with deteriorating housing stock that are falling out of favor with  younger white homebuyers. If historical trends hold, these suburbs will  likely shift from white to black — and soon look much like Detroit  itself, with resegregated schools, dwindling tax bases and decaying  public services.        &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why can't Black people sustain a city and maintain public services? Why does Sugrue admit that - just like Detroit - where ever Black people end up they will only replicate what they left?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many other major cities have been overwhelmed by this phenomenon? Memphis? Charlotte? Birmingham? Philadelphia? Cleveland? Chicago? St. Louis? Atlanta? Newark? &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/falling-home-values-mean-budget-crunches-for-cities/2011/12/14/gIQAwWmtHP_story.html"&gt;Baltimore&lt;/a&gt;? Montgomery? Milwaukee? Harrisburg? Buffalo? New Orleans? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-homicides-fall-in-dc-rise-in-prince-georges-numbers-meet-in-the-middle/2011/12/21/gIQAjopBTP_story.html?hpid=z3"&gt;Prince George's County&lt;/a&gt;, with Washington D.C. quickly becoming a Stuff White People Like (SWPL) playground?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Folks, Rush Limbaugh would have you believe its "liberalism" that has ruined Detroit, as he told &lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/30/rush-on-how-to-fix-detroit-get-rid-of-every-liberal-in-government/#ixzz1iLVGaojj"&gt;Fox News this recently&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In an appearance on Fox News Channel aired on Thursday night’s “On the Record with &lt;a href="http://topics.dailycaller.com/search?q=%22Greta+Van+Sustren%22"&gt;Greta Van Sustren&lt;/a&gt;,” conservative talk show host &lt;a href="http://topics.dailycaller.com/search?q=%22Rush+Limbaugh%22"&gt;Rush Limbaugh&lt;/a&gt; explained, in no uncertain terms, how to fix &lt;a href="http://topics.dailycaller.com/search?q=%22Detroit%22"&gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt;, where unemployment and poverty are rampant. His solution: End liberalism.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Get rid of every liberal in government,” he said. “What is the one  constant in Detroit, all of these years? Been run by liberals. Liberal  ideology. Liberal economics. Liberal belief system. Detroit, other  places: A microcosm of where Europe is, and where we are headed —  unchecked, unstopped liberalism. For those of you who like the Democrat  Party, that’s where we are headed. There hasn’t been any opposition  there, not of any strength or power. Take a look. That’s the one thing  that is constant. It was the same thing in New Orleans, post-Katrina.  What’s the one thing that was constant there? All run by liberals. All  run by Democrats.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;What does that even mean? The connection between New Orleans collapse (plus &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/freedom-failed-new-orleans-black-crime.html"&gt;rampant crime&lt;/a&gt;) and Detroit's is Black people! New Orleans and Detroit aren't two of the most dangerous cities in the world because of liberalism, they are two of the most dangerous cities in the world because of Black people. This is why hospitals in Cincinnati and Baltimore are used as trauma-training centers for military surgeons preparing to go &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/10/war-zone-usa-black-undertow-provides.html"&gt;overseas to war zones&lt;/a&gt;; because Black people have turned these cities into war zones that are far worse than what our troops see overseas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait, &lt;i&gt;The Baltimore Sun &lt;/i&gt;did just publish a celebratory article for the city posting the &lt;a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/breaking/bs-md-ci-year-end-crime-20120101,0,6012046.story"&gt;fewest murders since 1977&lt;/a&gt;. Thank God we have harsher sentences on Black criminals, the real reason crime has dropped (barely) recently.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Detroit's collapse is 100 percent racial. Just look at the breakdown of population from 1910 (nearly all-white) to now (nearly all-Black). Just check out p. 23 of Thomas Sugrue's &lt;i&gt;The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit&lt;/i&gt; to see a racial breakdown of Detroit from 1910-1970. Better yet, look at the data we have provided above. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;There is no inequality in Detroit; it's just that Black people can't maintain the civilization (buildings, infrastructure, economy, businesses, tax-revenue, school system) that white people left them. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;No, it wasn't liberalism that killed Detroit Limbaugh. It was what we call Black-Run America (BRA) plus the city actually being run by Black people. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;And, no, just because &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/10/once-more-into-breach-usa-today.html"&gt;The USA Today&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;states Detroit is resurgent doesn't make it so. Nor does &lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/detroits-resurgence-12222011.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;BusinessWeek&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; parroting the same theme either.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;We will know that Detroit is making a comeback only when Coleman Young International Airport is stripped of its namesake, for he represents the very Organized Blackness that helped bring about the disastrous Black Riot of 1967 that sealed the fate of the city. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;On that day, Black-Run America dies forever. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Until then, major cities/counties like &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/jefferson-county-declares-bankruptcy.html"&gt;Birmingham/Jefferson County&lt;/a&gt; will continue to hit icebergs. We just call these icebergs the Black Undertow. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fykA7R72nGg" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-6104906553126454043?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/6104906553126454043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=6104906553126454043' title='104 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6104906553126454043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6104906553126454043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/sorry-rush-limbaugh-its-not-liberalism.html' title='Sorry Rush Limbaugh, it&apos;s not Liberalism: 100 Years Ago, Detroit was almost 100 Percent White. Now, it&apos;s 80 Percent Black'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_b89n_WpHbU/TwJAR74bLII/AAAAAAAAATI/yRjeYRmGp38/s72-c/detroit10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>104</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-5811507359941887149</id><published>2012-01-01T13:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T14:05:11.325-08:00</updated><title type='text'>#100. Renaissance Fairs</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.texrenfest.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/600x400_scale/school%208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://www.texrenfest.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/600x400_scale/school%208.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;What's that Black guy doing there?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_fair"&gt;Renaissance fairs&lt;/a&gt;. White people dressing up as... white people from the 10th - 15th centuries, in celebration of the culture and traditions that were found in England during this time period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Black people, a renaissance fair is&lt;a href="http://listverse.com/2011/02/15/top-10-reasons-we-should-revive-the-dark-ages/"&gt; just another reminder &lt;/a&gt;that even white people 500 - 700 years ago were far more advanced and lived in safer communities than Black people in Africa do now. Well, these villages were safer than &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/10/war-zone-usa-black-undertow-provides.html"&gt;predominately Black-cities like Baltimore circa 2011&lt;/a&gt;, where the United States Military trains doctors preparing for war zones by immersing them in a battleground area much worse than they'll encounter overseas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The so-called "Dark Ages" that preceded this boom &lt;a href="http://listverse.com/2008/06/09/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"&gt;weren't even that dark&lt;/a&gt;, not compared to the darkness that has followed white flight from Detroit, Baltimore, Birmingham and other major American cities (not to mention former European colonies in Africa) and what Black people who inherit these cities/nations have been able to sustain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Were Black people to try and stage their own renaissance fair, it would resemble a scene out of the film &lt;i&gt;Naked Prey&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;Zulu&lt;/i&gt;. Odds are, no restaurant/entertainment chain like Medieval Times would appear in cities throughout America that mirrored what Black people in Africa were doing 500-800 years ago...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Renaissance fairs are immensely popular in America, because white people know they offer one of the rare opportunities for white people to embrace their heritage. A similar festival by Black people to embrace their historic heritage - were it done accurately - would be most depressing affair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worse, &lt;a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/was-the-medieval-european-peasant-wealthier-than-an-african/"&gt;medieval England was twice as prosperous&lt;/a&gt; as the "developing" nations of today, &lt;a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205234308.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher"&gt;further proof of the visible Black hand of economics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;New research led by economists at the University of Warwick reveals that  medieval England was not only far more prosperous than previously  believed, it also actually boasted an average income that would be more  than double the average per capita income of the world's poorest nations  today.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In a paper entitled &lt;i&gt;British Economic Growth 1270-1870&lt;/i&gt;  published by the University of Warwick's Centre on Competitive Advantage  in the Global Economy (CAGE) the researchers find that living standards  in medieval England were far above the "bare bones subsistence"  experience of people in many of today's poor countries.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The figure of $400 annually (as expressed in 1990 international  dollars) is commonly is used as a measure of "bare bones subsistence"  and was previously believed to be the average income in England in the  middle ages.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://media1.helloatlanta.com/media/articles/large/185_image2_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="261" src="http://media1.helloatlanta.com/media/articles/large/185_image2_large.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Would they serve "human" at the Black version of Medieval Times?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;However the University of Warwick led researchers found that English  per capita incomes in the late Middle Ages were actually of the order of  $1,000 (again as expressed in 1990 dollars). Even on the eve of the  Black Death, which first struck in 1348/49, the researchers found per  capita incomes in England of more than $800 using the same 1990 dollar  measure. Their estimates for other European countries also suggest late  medieval living standards well above $400.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;This new figure of $1,000 is not only significantly higher than  previous estimates for that period in England -- it also indicates that  on average medieval England was better off than some of the world's  poorest nations today including the following (again average annual  income as expressed in 1990 dollars).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zaire $249&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Burundi $479&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Niger $514&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Central African Republic $536&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comoro Islands $549&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Togo $606&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guinea Bissau $617&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guinea $628&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sierra Leone $686&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haiti at $686&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chad $706&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zimbabwe $779&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Afghanistan $869&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;University of Warwick economist Professor Stephen Broadberry, who led the research said:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Our work sheds new light on England's economic past, revealing that  per capita incomes in medieval England were substantially higher than  the "bare bones subsistence" levels experienced by people living in poor  countries in our modern world.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The majority of the British population  in medieval times could afford to consume what we call a "respectability  basket" of consumer goods that allowed for occasional luxuries. By the  late Middle Ages, the English people were in a position to afford a  varied diet including meat, dairy produce and ale, as well as the less  highly processed grain products that comprised the bulk of the "bare  bones subsistence" diet."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;He also said: "Of course this paper focuses only on average per  capita incomes. We also need to have a better understanding of the  distribution of income in medieval England, as there will have been some  people living at bare bones subsistence, and at times this proportion  could have been quite substantial. We are now beginning research to  construct social tables which will also reveal the distribution of  income for some key benchmark years in that period"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Hmm... perhaps it's time Eric "My People" Holder's Department of (In) Justice looks into these evil Renaissance Fairs - and considers shutting down Medieval Times - as a form of racism or a draconian example of disparate impact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worse, even with advances in medical technology (not to mention free health care and child services), infant mortality rates in the Black community is approaching that of what was documented in even the darkest days of the &lt;a href="http://www.medieval-castle.com/medieval_castle_life/medieval_times_children.htm"&gt;Black Death&lt;/a&gt;. In Milwaukee, the Black infant mortality rate is reaching levels that once induced white people in Europe to create children's songs revolving around "ashes-to-ashes we all fall down"; instead of a plague wiping out Black children in America, it's just the &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/milwaukee-runs-provocative-ads-wake-parents-dangers-co-213117311.html"&gt;neglect of their Black mothers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The &lt;span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1321363027_4"&gt;Journal Sentinel&lt;/span&gt; said Milwaukee had an “infant mortality crisis.”&amp;nbsp;Milwaukee’s &lt;span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1321363027_1"&gt;infant mortality rate&lt;/span&gt;  in 2009 was 10.4 deaths for every 1,000 live births, according to the  city’s health department. As noteworthy as this overall rate is the  racial breakdown: For white babies, the rate was 5.4; for blacks, 14.1,  the JS said.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="yui_3_3_0_22_1325519385950354"&gt;&lt;b&gt; The city has set a goal of reducing the&amp;nbsp;infant mortality rate for  blacks&amp;nbsp;by 15 percent,&amp;nbsp;and the overall rate by 10 percent&amp;nbsp;by 2017, the JS  said.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so &lt;i&gt;Stuff Black People Don't Like &lt;/i&gt;includes Renaissance Fairs, which serve to remind Black people that without the integration of white society now, they'd be less well off than your average medieval Englishmen from centuries ago. It's just another reminder of how poorly developed "developing" nations really are, and at the same time it reveals how errant the term "dark ages" really is.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bc_4_IVURHE" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nZ8sozEEllU" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-5811507359941887149?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/5811507359941887149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=5811507359941887149' title='117 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5811507359941887149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/5811507359941887149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/01/100-renaissance-fairs.html' title='#100. Renaissance Fairs'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/bc_4_IVURHE/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>117</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-6035907671886654014</id><published>2011-12-31T09:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T09:07:02.439-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fire Rises: Predictions for 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PK NOTE: TakiMag.com will be running a big article by me on Tim Tebow. Stay tuned for it. Keep your eye on a certain white doe site too. Also, stay tuned to a certain "Renaissance" site for an article on Detroit's impending collapse. Sorry Rush Limbaugh,&lt;a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/12/rush-limbaugh-the-problem-with-detroit-is-liberalism-its-the-one-constant-in-the-last-50-years/"&gt; liberal policies have nothing on the collapse of Detroit&lt;/a&gt;; it's 100 percent racial. The one constant in the past 50 years there hasn't been liberalism; it's been white abandonment of the city because Black people aren't safe to live near. They [Black people] and they alone &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/structural-inequality-new-study-claims.html"&gt;are responsible for the collapse of Detroit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;With the impending failure of Detroit, SBPDL is proud to announce that we will be publishing a book honoring Black people's contributions to the collapse of the "Arsenal of Democracy." We will honor the collapse of Black-Run Detroit, the city once known as "The Paris of the West," with a retrospective look at how we arrived at the point where the state of Michigan would be needed to take over the Motor City from... Black people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tomorrow, we'll run the article by Zenster. It's the beginning of a multiple part series. You won't want to miss it. # posts will be making a comeback as well.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;One other thing: FaceBook has blocked people from posting links to SBPDL on your wall. Facebook no longer wants people to share links to this site. No other site is banned from having this done on Facebook. Why is that? &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.solarfeeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="276" src="http://www.solarfeeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;What comes in 2012? &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Have &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/have-we-started-fire-mall-of-black-run.html"&gt;we started a fire&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. We have not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Quanell X, the &lt;a href="http://www.click2houston.com/news/Minister-activist-call-on-Nike-Michael-Jordan-to-end-shoe-craze/-/1735978/7147066/-/mne2guz/-/index.html"&gt;Air Jordan Black riots of 2011&lt;/a&gt; was the complete fault of Nike. We disagree. It was the &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/nike-winged-goddess-of-black-people.html"&gt;fault of Black people&lt;/a&gt;. No questions asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reading this article in &lt;a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/urban-game-changer/2011/dec/29/maxine-waters-and-devastation-urban-area-51/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_must-read-stories-today"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; made us laugh, because the conditions described in this Black Undertow area would accurately describe the conditions of any majority Black city or county in America:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Imagine living in a demilitarized war zone, an environment where  helicopters circle your neighborhood for hours every night. Imagine a  place that has regular car chases, a neighborhood where football  stadiums leave their lights on all night for safety. City leaders and  the police tell you that—because of the crime in that part of the  city—the lights must be left on. Imagine feeling powerless, with little  hope for any sense of normalcy. Imagine how demoralizing and depressing  your life would be, parents simply wanting to get their children "the  hell out" to raise them in a normal life.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It’s not imaginary. It’s real. Welcome to District 35 in inner city Los Angeles, California—also known as&amp;nbsp;Area 51.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Only in times of war are "curfews" needed. Well, that and in &lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/03/curfew-ordinances-and-black-people-open.html"&gt;Black Undertow areas&lt;/a&gt;. Only in times of war are private security/paramilitary personnel necessary to maintain the peace. Well, &lt;a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/06/palmer_woods_neighborhood_in_d.htmlhttp://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/06/palmer_woods_neighborhood_in_d.html"&gt;that and in Black Undertow areas&lt;/a&gt;. In times of war, "blackouts" are necessary for fear of air raids from the enemy; in your typical Black Undertow community, lights must be kept on for fear of Black raids engaging in salvaging missions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How widespread is this knowledge? Does SBPDL represent the fringe view, a small outpost for &lt;i&gt;Those Who Can See&lt;/i&gt; to vent, connect and escape from a world that hates them (it's well known in Black-Run America that anyone who questions the sainthood of Black people will immediately be deemed worse than a child rapist).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or does SBPDL - a site that started as a joke - represent something else? Does it represent the direction that many people are headed because Mein Obama's War on White America (OWWA) becomes more pronounced daily, courtesy of&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203391104577125532355717866.html"&gt; Eric "My People" Holder&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first two weeks of 2012 will see the SBPDL look at Hunger Games and why the world of BRA is far worse than the one in Suzanne Collins dystopian future; you'll see the Atlanta/&lt;i&gt;Walking Dead &lt;/i&gt;article, illustrating why The City too Busy to Hate nears a Birmingham/Detroit style collapse; and you'll get a return to # posts. Plus, we declare war on the Tuskegee Airmen Myth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now, we offer you a quick look at some predictions for 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;i&gt;The Dark Knight Rises &lt;/i&gt;will become the biggest film of all-time. Conversely, &lt;i&gt;Red Tails&lt;/i&gt; is a flop.&lt;br /&gt;2. Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for president; Ron Paul will run as a third party candidate after a contentious primary battle.&lt;br /&gt;3. The state of Michigan takes over Detroit in early February. Organized Blackness nationwide protests this form of neo-colonialism/ audits of the city's books show a far worse financial situation then originally believed. &lt;br /&gt;4. Philadelphia is the first city to introduce emergency "curfew" rules in 2012 as Flash Mob violence begins to overwhelm city leaders and scare away investors.&lt;br /&gt;5. High levels of violence in New Orleans forces XE (the former Blackwater) to be contracted to patrol the city.&lt;br /&gt;6. The US Post Office will cut 40 percent of its work force; Organized Blackness protests.&lt;br /&gt;7. The Debt Limit debate heats up; Mein Obama's hopes for more borrowing will be stymied by Congress.&lt;br /&gt;8. Mein Obama, told by Chris Rock and &lt;a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/30/your-obama-apologist-of-the-day-don-cheadle/"&gt;Don Cheadle&lt;/a&gt; to go "full-gangsta" will become increasingly identified with Black America as white voters - even Disingenuous White Liberals (DWL) - support for him wanes.&lt;br /&gt;9. Violence in the summer of 2012 mirrors that of 2011; Black &lt;strike&gt;Flash Mobs&lt;/strike&gt; Mahogany Mobs begin targeting white people (and Asians) in major cities throughout the nation. A business owner, defending his property, will fire upon a Mahogany Rob triggering the first full-scale riot of 2012 as Organized Blackness descends on this town with MSNBC and CNN leading the calls for a lynching.&lt;br /&gt;10. Michael Savage, the number two radio talk show host in America, is the first public leader to advocate on behalf of white people. FOX News invites Jared Taylor onto &lt;i&gt;The O'Reilly Factor&lt;/i&gt; after Black riots breakout in numerous American cities. Millions of viewers wonder why he was never invited on before.&lt;br /&gt;11. In what constitutes the last stand of white America, Mitt Romney is elected president of the United States, after the most racially-tinged election of all-time. Immediately after, MSNBC and CNN claim white people repudiated all the racial gains made by the "color-blind" election of Mein Obama: Organized Blackness warns Jim Crow is coming back.&lt;br /&gt;12. Riots break out in Black Undertow cities after the election results are announced.&lt;br /&gt;13. The economy continues to tank, with property values dropping in major metropolitan areas. Buckhead tries to secede from Atlanta, triggering similar efforts by Whitopia cities in other majority-Black Undertow urban areas.&lt;br /&gt;14. Eric "My People" Holder, the attorney general of the United States, gives a major speech denouncing white people for their cowardice... again.&lt;br /&gt;15. With the dollar fading fast - and Conspiracy Theorists fuming that "Globalists" are trying to destroy America - emergency moves to cut spending force the firing of 30 percent of the Federal workforce. The patriot movement grows in America, with distrust of the government growing to all-time highs. &lt;br /&gt;16. Nelson Mandela dies of natural causes; Black-on-white violence rises in South Africa triggering a low-level war. Mein Obama intervenes on behalf of the ANC-controlled government.&lt;br /&gt;17. Dec. 21 rolls around and... nothing happens. &lt;br /&gt;18. The Far-Right in Europe starts to take power; Black violence in England, Sweden, and riots in France become too large to coverup.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;19. The Supreme Court rules in favor of Arizona. Other states pass similar bills to Alabama, Arizona, and Georgia's immigration acts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, these are just predictions. What happens in 2012 in your life is up to you. All we can do is react to events that unfold in 2012. Don't blame others for your condition in life. Go out and make this year yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stuff Black People Don't Like&lt;/i&gt; was started as a joke; 2012 will be the year of SBPDL because that is my goal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is your goal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of the predictions above, the fire rises in 2012. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RPXmeYCHK-g" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3890530692790573387-6035907671886654014?l=stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/feeds/6035907671886654014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&amp;postID=6035907671886654014' title='87 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6035907671886654014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3890530692790573387/posts/default/6035907671886654014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/12/fire-rises-predictions-for-2012.html' title='The Fire Rises: Predictions for 2012'/><author><name>Stuff Black People Don't Like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07923871032509110194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/RPXmeYCHK-g/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>87</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890530692790573387.post-2937859964516972695</id><published>2011-12-29T15:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T07:23:04.213-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birmingham'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Detroit'/><title type='text'>Structural Inequality? New Study Claims Black People in Detroit Can't Sustain Infrastructure Left Behind by White Flight</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vagabondish.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/michigan-central-station.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.vagabondish.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/michigan-central-station.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Black people in Detroit can't be expected to maintain its infrastructure, &lt;a href="http://www.esaim-m2an.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=8466344&amp;amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;amp;fileId=S1466046611000391"&gt;study finds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Climate Change&lt;/i&gt;, courtesy of the Black Undertow. The Visible Black Hand governing economics (this is why majority Black cities and counties can't sustain a local economy, save Check Cashing, Pawn Shops, Liquor Stores, Fast Food joints, and Hair Salon/Barbershops) that Adam Smith could never have foreseen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are those who would blame white people for every problem in this nation. Even white flight itself. White flight is just a natural defensive mechanism to escape the Black Undertow and the crime, property value drop, dereliction of infrastructure, and the decimation of the business district that follows this group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the coming weeks, Detroit will be taken over by the state of Michigan. Even though white people built a world-class city, full of architectural marvels that rivaled those found anywhere else on the planet, the Black people who inherited Detroit after the calamitous race war of 1967 (and the subsequent white abandonment of the city) have been unable to maintain a modicum of what they were unceremoniously bequeathed. &lt;a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/27/opinion/la-oe-martelle-detroit-20110327"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Los Angeles Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; bashed white people for the failure of the city, when it was white people ingenuity that was responsible for the greatness of Detroit in the first place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2011 Detroit is a direct representation of its majority population, which happens to be 82 percent Black. The ruins of the city, neglected and rotting monuments courtesy of a people who then rebuilt what they abandoned in the white suburbs surrounding Detroit, are to the Black inhabitants of the town what those strange heads on Easter Island where to the Europeans who first encountered them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your average Black inhabitant of Detroit has no understanding for how these architectural marvels were ever erected, nor could they - if trained by the top mechanical, industrial, electrical engineers and architects - ever hope to reproduce them. They can't even sustain them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The haunting pictures of the empty Michigan Central Station; the staggering details on the facade of the Metropolitan Building still apparent despite the graffiti and trash found on the inside; Lee Plaza, once home to the elite of Detroit, now home to the elite of homeless Detroit; the Grand Army of the Republic Building, a castle erected in 1900 for veterans of the Civil War, now sits boarded up to keep out the descendants of Black people whose freedom has failed Detroit; the Broderick Tower, built in 1927, is the tallest skyscraper in America that has been deserted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the post-apocalyptic world found in the book &lt;i&gt;The Earth Abides&lt;/i&gt;, the Black people in Detroit show precious little concern for sustaining any of the city's former marvels. They find it hard to believe that people actually built them. Like the Sphinx in Egypt, Black people in Detroit sit in wonderment, gazing at some of the aesthetically - unequaled in the world for their majesty, even in their depressing state - magnificent buildings and wonder what they were once used for. Why were they even built?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It wouldn't be so bad if Detroit was the only city in America like this, but any city or county that the Black Undertow overwhelms inevitable fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the south, you have Birmingham (72 percent Black), which was once one of the world's great cities. It has been rebuilt in the white suburbs surrounding the city. With Vulcan looking on, the Black Undertow which inherited Birmingham has decimated the hopes and dreams of the city founders and&lt;a href="http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/jefferson-county-declares-bankruptcy.html"&gt; helped lead to the bankruptcy of Jefferson County&lt;/a&gt;. Mind you, it's the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, two researchers at Michigan State just published a study that blames, you guessed it, white flight for the demoralizing results of the Black Undertow's leadership over cities and counties they inherit. In &lt;i&gt;ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS &amp;amp; CASE STUDIES: More Cost per Drop:  Water Rates, Structural Inequality, and Race in the United States—The  Case of Michigan (&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esaim-m2an.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=8466344&amp;amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;amp;fileId=S1466046611000391"&gt;published in the Cambridge Journal&lt;/a&gt;) we learn that white people will always shoulder the blame for the&lt;a href="http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/do-minorities-get-%E2%80%98hosed%E2%80%99-on-water-bill/"&gt; problems befalling Black people:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;White flight from urban centers often means minority residents are left  to pay to maintain aging water and sewer systems, a new study finds.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;This “structural inequality” is not necessarily a product of racism,  but does mean that racial minorities pay systematically more than white  people for basic municipal services.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;“This study demonstrates a disturbing racial effect to the cost of  basic services,” says Stephen Gasteyer, assistant professor of sociology  at &lt;a href="http://news.msu.edu/story/10062" target="_blank"&gt;Michigan State University.&lt;/a&gt;  “People of color have the fewest opportunities to leave urban centers  and are left to pay for the crumbling legacy of a bygone economic era.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For the study, reported in the journal &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esaim-m2an.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=8466344&amp;amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;amp;fileId=S1466046611000391" target="_blank"&gt;Environmental Practice,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  researchers analyzed Census data on self-reported water and sewer costs  in Michigan and found that urban residents actually pay more than rural  residents, a finding that refutes conventional wisdom.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Perhaps more importantly, water and sewer services cost more in areas with greater proportions of racial minorities.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Detroit is the “poster child” for this problem, Gasteyer says. The  city has lost more than 60 percent of
