"Mindless Behavior" -- Blacks Riot at Ford City Mall in Chicagoland: 50 Police Squad Cars Called to Quell the Riot

"Mindless Behavior" -- black people riot at the Ford City Mall in Chicagoland: 50 police squad cars called to quell the riot

What do you get when you mix a black boy band, black people, and a mall together? Oh, and have the aforementioned three variables set in Chicago? Mindless behavior [Mindless Behavior meet & greet leads to Ford City Mall evacuation,Fox 32 Chicago, 2-23-13]:

What started as an autograph signing with chart topping boy band Mindless Behavior quickly turned into a full out brawl at Ford City Mall. That outburst spread to the mall's parking lot and nearby stores. There were reports of looting and we are told teens threw snowballs at police responding to the scene.

Moments after a fight broke out inside Ford City Mall on the Southwest side, hundreds of teens are seen jumping on cars and running in different directions.

The chaos happened after an autograph signing by boy group Mindless Behavior who posted about their Chicago appearance on Twitter.

Fox 32 News has learned two people were injured in the mayhem, including a child and a CTA bus driver.

"It was just reckless. We were out here fighting, you feel me... we were out here for JoJo we were out here fighting… I don't know... I wasn't fighting. I was just down here for the entertainment," said Cameron Moore.

One witness said, "They busted out a lady's mirror in the back of her car, knocked mirrors out, they were throwing snow at the police, anything you could think of they were doing that."

"Robert" shot this video from his cell phone. He tells Fox 32 News the police were no match for about seven hundred teens who came to the mall's food court for Mindless Behavior's promotion of their new release All Around the World.

"The police tried to do what they try to do but it was just too many kids," said the witness.

Chicago police say 20 people were arrested in the aftermath and there could be more arrests. It remains a mystery what sparked the fight that prompted the mass melee.

"All the teenagers were trying to get inside the mall but I don't know how many was in the mall," said Latoya Ligon.

"There was a lot of fighting going on inside the mall and they wouldn't let nobody else in," said Charles Morgan.

Fox 32 News was there as teens boarded CTA buses and left the premises under police escort with a police helicopter hovering above. The disturbance prompted street closures and gridlock near the mall.

The injured adult was taken to Holy Cross Hospital. A child was also injured and rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center. FOX 32 News has learned both suffered minor injuries.

Wow. Black people engaging in 'mindless behavior' in Chicago. Who would have thought that would be possible? The Chicago Tribune let's us know that 50 squad cars were sent to the Ford City Mall to try and stop the act of Spontaneous Blackness from getting out of hand [2 hurt, 19 arrested in melee near Ford City Mall, Chicago Tribune, 2-23-13]:

Two people suffered minor injuries and police arrested 19 teenagers during a disturbance involving crowds of young people Saturday at Ford City Mall on the Southwest Side, authorities said.

About 4:45 p.m., a large group of disruptive teens ran yelling through the mall, which is located at 7601 S. Cicero Ave., according to a mall official.

Officials closed the mall minutes later, but the chaotic scene continued outside, where police found between 100 and 200 people damaging vehicles in the shopping center's parking lot, according to a police report.

Two people were taken to hospitals, according to Chicago Fire Department Chief Joe Roccasalva, a department spokesman.

A CTA bus driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, said Roccasalva, who said he did not know what happened to him.

A "kid" was also hurt, and that person was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, also in good condition, Roccasalva said.

About 50 police squad cars assigned to multiple South Side districts, including Chicago Lawn, Englewood and Deering, and a helicopter responded to the scene, police said.

Traffic came to a standstill as teenagers jumped on cars, both parked and moving, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune. Many of those involved ignored orders to disperse, and police arrested 19 people between the ages of 13 and 18, according to police.

One teenager was charged with battery, and another was charged with criminal trespassing, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. The 17 remaining teens were charged with mob action. All the charges are misdemeanors, police said.

Officers did their best to control the disturbance, "trying to get everyone out of there safely," News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala said.

During the disturbance, the CTA had to reroute the No. 79 buses, which travel on 79th Street, as well as other buses in the immediate area.

Earlier in the afternoon, members of the teen band Mindless Behavior had appeared at the mall food court from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to promote their new release, "All Around the World," said John Sarama, the mall's senior general manager.

The band's autograph signing drew approximately 1,000 parents and children, primarily mothers and girls between the ages of 6 and 13, Sarama said.

About 45 minutes after the band left, the chaos began, Sarama said.

"A group of older youths came into the mall with the intent of causing havoc and chaos and were running through the mall, screaming, yelling and so forth," he said.

Security staff contacted the police department, and mall officials closed the mall about 5 p.m., Sarama said.

 Good God!

It was a war-zone.

A war-zone.

50 police squad cars were necessary to stop the black melee.

Let that stew for moment.

Perhaps it's fate that days before this 'mindless behavior' black riot at the Ford City Mall, retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore compared black Chicago to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Lt. Gen Honore -- in charge of Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans: The unnatural disaster in Chicago is purely a black problem, sir.

But it isn't a natural disaster that brings chaos and disorder to the Windy City -- just black people [Retired General Says National Guard Could Help Curb Chicago Violence, Chicago Tribune, 2-22-13]

To reduce the homicides and shootings plaguing Chicago streets, elected officials should consider calling on the state and federal governments for help, even the National Guard if necessary, said a retired Army lieutenant general who spearheaded the military response after Hurricane Katrina.

“Just like we do with any disaster. When the tornado comes, or the floods come, the federal government comes in to help,” Russel L. Honore said Thursday at a news conference in Chicago.

“Let’s not let this be about pride. ‘We are big ol’ Chicago, we are too proud, we can handle this.’ Maybe you can’t handle it. If you need help, get the federal government here. But let’s control the streets so children and elderly people can be in a safe community.”

 Ladies and gentlemen -- keep purchasing guns and ammo.

"Mindless behavior" -- courtesy of the black population in America, is coming to a town near you.  Chicago News and Weather | FOX 32 News

Guns, Blacks, and Steel: John Lott on the Witness Stand

John Lott is loved by a lot of people. 

A lot. 

"More guns, less crimes," he claims. 

Wrong. 

It's "More blacks, more crime; Less blacks, less crime."

Gun Violence in U.S. Cities Compared to the Deadliest Nations in the World (yes, there is a correlation to the size of each cities black population)

Especially when guns are involved.

Luckily for us, Atlantic Monthly has cobbled together a breakdown of major American cities and the rates of gun violence found there. Mr. Lott, pay attention; there will be a quiz when we're done [Gun Violence in U.S. Cities Compared to the Deadliest Nations in the World, Atlantic Cities, 1-22-13]:

"We can't put this off any longer," President Obama implored the nation last week as he introduced 23 executive actions designed to reduce gun violence in America. While the United States has the highest level of gun ownership per capita in the world, its rate of gun homicides, about three per 100,000 people, is far lower than that of Honduras, the country with the world's highest gun homicide rate (roughly 68 gun murders per 100,000 people). But America's homicide rate varies significantly by city and metro area, as I pointed out here at Cities a few weeks ago.

The map below compares the rate of gun murders in American cities to nations around the world. Building upon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data used in that post, Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute compiled additional data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other sources collated by The Guardian. (While international crime data suffer from significant reporting and comparison issues, homicide data is more reliable. As the Urban Institute's John Roman points out, it is the one type of crime that is "hard to fake" and also most likely to be reported.)

The pattern is staggering. A number of U.S. cities have gun homicide rates in line with the most deadly nations in the world.

• If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
• Detroit's gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
• Baltimore's rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
• Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
• Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
• Atlanta's rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
• Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).
• Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).
• Houston's rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador's (12.7).
• Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).
• Phoenix's rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).
• Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).
• Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).
• New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).
• Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia respectively.

Yes, it's true we are comparing American cities to nations. But most of these countries here have relatively small populations, in many cases comparable to large U.S. metros.  

The sad reality is that many American cities have rates of gun homicides comparable to the some of the most violent nations in the world.

The sad reality is that many American cities are no longer filled with Americans; they are filled with black people. According to 2010 US Census information:

• Baltimore is 63% black, 28% white
• Detroit is 82% black, 7% white
• Atlanta is 54% black, 36% white
• Cleveland is 53% black, 33% white
• Sand Diego is 5% black, 48% white
• Portland is 6% black, 72% white
• New Orleans is 60% black, 30% white
• Newark is 52% black and 11% white
•  Philadelphia is 44% black and 37% white
• Memphis is 63% black and 27% white
• Birmingham is 73% black and 21% white

Consult the map of the United States and compare the gun violence in cities replete with black citizens and those with a paucity of black citizens. 

Notice any... trends?

Now, for those believing "More guns, less crime" as espoused by Mr. Lott, let's look at South Africa [Guns Are Everywhere in South Africa. But South Africans Don't Feel Safer Because of It, Slate, 2-14-13]:

It’s surprising to learn that an Olympic athlete stands accused of murder, but there’s nothing new about gun violence in South Africa. While the country’s gun-related violent crime rate has dropped in the wake of 2000’s Firearms Control Act, The Guardian reports that “many people say they live in fear of crime in South Africa, with Johannesburg still listed as one of the five most dangerous cities in the word, along with Mogadishu and New Orleans.” In a Globe and Mail article today, Geoffrey York reported:

South African airports and casinos have prominent signs directing people to storage rooms to deposit their weapons. Criminals assume that their victims have guns. When they break into a house, their first step is to search for the owner’s gun.

Guns are widely used in the most common crimes here: they are used in 77 per cent of house robberies and 87 per cent of business robberies, and they are the cause of death in more than half of all murders, reports say.

Fear of guns is why South Africa’s middle classes are hidden behind three-metre-high electrified fences and walls, in compounds with motion detectors and metal-barred doors. They hire security companies with gun-toting guards, who promise “immediate armed response” to every activated alarm.

As that last paragraph suggests, many South Africans don’t trust the police to protect them. GlobalPost has noted “growing frustration over this country’s corrupt and incompetent police at seemingly every level of the system, from traffic cops soliciting a bribe for a “cold drink” to the controversial appointments of some of the country’s highest-ranking police officials.” In 2012, The Economist reported that:

Last year 5,869 formal complaints were laid against the police, mainly for assault and attempted murder. Police statistics concede that 566 people, including innocent bystanders, were shot dead or otherwise killed by the police in 2009-10; another 294 died in their custody.

Police corruption and venality breed lawlessness, and it also prompts citizens to start taking protection into their own hands. The Guardian reported that “six out of 10 South Africans feared burglary more than any other crime,” and that many people relied on private security services to pick up the police department’s slack. Pistorius’s apartment complex seems to have been a veritable fortress; the New York Times reported that the buildings were “protected by high walls and razor wire.”

Some early reports indicated that Pistorius may have accidentally mistaken his girlfriend for an intruder. (The police have dismissed this theory.) This wouldn’t have been the first time he made such a mistake; late last year, he tweeted about having thought his washing machine was a burglar. The facts of this particular case are still in dispute, but a defense of mistakenly firing at a perceived intruder is more plausible in corrupt, gun-infested South Africa than it might be elsewhere. “And that is a particularly South African mistake, that we are so paranoid you are ready to fire off bullets when you don’t know what is coming,” an acquaintance of Pistorius’s told the Times this afternoon. “We are such a messed up country in some ways, and every now and then it comes to the surface with events that bring it into such stark relief.”

 South Africa was once the jewel of the continent of Africa; when it was controlled by white people. 

Actually, it was a nation built by white people. 

Today -- though guns are everywhere, crime and mayhem is everywhere. 

Today -- South Africa is 79% black and 9% white.

John Lott is loved by a lot of people. Especially conservatives.

A lot of people.

"More guns, less crimes," he claims. 

Wrong. 

It's "More blacks, more crime; Less blacks, less crime."

Great Moments in Black History -- Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington's 1992 March in Chains

Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington marches with 700 people, in chains, to symbolize oppression and persecution -- all because he refused to comply with a request by a Federal District judge

Imagine you're the first black mayor of perhaps the most important city - symbolically - in the world, whose recent history literally represents the destruction of one civilization and the creation of another. 

What do you do when you are tasked by a Federal District judge to turn over appointment records to a Federal grand jury investigating you over  charges of corruption at the City Hall you are tasked to run? 

Cry racism, of course, while draping chains around you and walking - with 700 supporters - from one of the holiest of holy "Civil Rights" sites in America to turn yourself in to those same Federal authorities. 

Birmingham, Alabama is that city and in span of twenty years (1963-1983), the formerly "Magic City" has completely flipped from being 60 percent white/40 percent black to the exact opposite. 

By 1979, the demographics had switched to ensure - with almost monolithic black support - a black man was elected mayor of the city. 

That black man was Richard Arrington. And, yes, he wrapped himself in chains and marched from the 16th Street Baptist Church - bombed in 1963 - to conjure up sympathetic images in the minds of the nation, and arouse suspicion of just another racist government witch-hunt against an angelic, innocent black man [Mayor of Birmingham Is Sent to Prison : Courts: The city's first black chief executive will serve time on weekends for contempt. He claims the citation is racially motivated, Los Angeles Times, 1-24-1992]:

Richard Arrington, the first black mayor of this city that became a symbol of the civil rights battles of the 1960s, went to prison for contempt of court Thursday amid emotional charges that he was railroaded because of his race.

The contempt citation stems from Arrington's refusal to obey a federal grand jury subpoena for his appointment records, which are being sought as part of an investigation into allegations that he took $5,000 in kickbacks involving city contract work--a charge Arrington denies.

With about 45 minutes to spare before a 5 p.m. deadline, the 50-year-old mayor, surrounded by hundreds of supporters--some wearing symbolic chains--marched under leaden skies from a rally and turned himself in to federal authorities, who were to take him to a federal prison in Montgomery, Ala.

He is scheduled to serve time from 5 p.m. each Thursday until 8 a.m. the following Monday, leaving him most of the week to run the city. Also, he is being fined $1,000 a day for each day he ignores the subpoena. Attorneys say the sentence will last until May, when the grand jury session ends.

The rally was held at the 16th Street Baptist Church, where in the 1960s, a racist bombing killed four black girls and where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized powerful protests. Several speakers praised Arrington and assailed the judicial system that was about to lock him up because of its "klan mentality."

"We're tired of white folks acting like black folks don't have no sense," thundered the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a noted civil rights activist.

A message urging the U.S. Justice Department to "intervene in the Birmingham controversy" because it has "severely polarized" the city was sent by John E. Jacob, president of the National Urban League.

A white downtown office worker, who asked not to be named, worried that the controversy will set the city back racially.

"Things have improved over the years," he said. "I feel like he's using the racial thing the same way white officials did back in the '60s."

In choosing confinement instead of complying with the subpoena, Arrington hopes to gain attention for his contention that black officials nationwide have been victims of racist investigations.

He told the church rally: "We have a history of taking adversity and turning it into advantage. That is what we hope to do here."

However, some political commentators questioned the effectiveness of playing the race card, pointing out that it reminds people that former Washington Mayor Marion Barry was convicted of cocaine use despite asserting that the charges against him were racist.

"This tactic is not as potent as it once was," said William Boone, chairman of the political science department at Clark Atlanta University. "There is a strong strand of people who are beginning to say: 'Look, you can't use the race issue.' They say: 'The question is not whether you were targeted, but did you do it?' "

Thursday's events were the latest skirmish in a seven-year war between Arrington and U.S. Atty. Frank Donaldson. Donaldson has launched about a dozen investigations of Arrington but has not succeeded in getting him indicted.

Tarlee Brown, an Atlanta architect and former partner of Arrington, has accused Arrington of accepting $5,000 in bribes on two occasions. Additionally, according to Brown, the mayor was to receive 25% of whatever Brown's city contracts were worth.

The Los Angeles Times story doesn't quite do the march justice in the same manner as The Old Grey Lady does -- The New York Times goes right to the heart of they symbolic march in chains from the start, employing the old inverted pyramid strategy to illustrate the most important news at the top of the story 

[With 700 Supporters Rallying Round, Birmingham Mayor Goes to Prison, New York Times, 1-24-1992]:

After leading hundreds of his supporters, some of them draped in chains, from the 16th Street Baptist Church to the Federal courthouse in a scene evocative of the civil rights marches of the 1960's, Mayor Richard Arrington Jr. surrendered to United States marshals today under a contempt of court citation.

Mr. Arrington, the first black Mayor of this city, submitted himself to the order of a Federal court after an emotional send-off by more than 700 of his supporters that started at the church. It was where a bomb exploded on Sept. 15, 1963, taking the lives of four black children attending Sunday school.

Some of the Mayor's supporters draped themselves in chains to symbolize what marchers said were the chains of oppression that still bind black Americans.

Rejects Court Order

The rally at the church and the march to the courthouse, three blocks away, seemed calculated to arouse memories of the civil rights movement in Birmingham when similar marches set out from the church to protest racial segregation. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of other demonstrators were arrested during protests in the spring of 1963, and supporters of Mayor Arrington say he is following in Dr. King's footsteps by going to jail on a matter of principle.

Mayor Arrington, before he began the walk to the Federal courthouse and the 90-mile drive with marshals to the Federal prison in Montgomery, said, "We have a history of taking adversity and turning it into triumph." He arrived at the prison this evening without speaking to reporters, The Associated Press quoted a prison spokesman as saying.

At the rally, the Rev. Abraham Woods, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, made a defiant reference to Birmingham's past. He said, "We didn't let the dogs turn us around, the hoses, the jails, the Ku Klux Klan. We wouldn't let Eugene Bull Connor turn us around!" And he led the crowd in the singing of protest songs from the 1960's, when Mr. Connor headed the city's police force.

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a central figure in the civil rights movement in Birmingham in that period, said: "We're tired of white folks acting like black folks don't have any sense. We're going put an end to this harassment. Hallelujah!"

Draping oneself in chains, marching with 700 of your closest friends (a dramatic showcase of the power of Organized Blackness), and using the sympathetic media to broadcast your story to a nationwide audience - all with the backdrop of the great "civil rights" victories and monuments in the background of the story - is exactly what the first black mayor of Birmingham did in 1992 when 

 tasked by a Federal District judge to turn over appointment records to a Federal grand jury.

This has been another great moment in black history.

T.K.O -- It's Official: Blacks Knock out Detroit

When writing Escape from Detroit: The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis, I knew this day was coming.

"Magazines like Ebony celebrated Detroit as the nation’s black capital, the place where, as Mayor Young put it, “blacks exercised more power than blacks anywhere in the United States.”

Knowing the history of Detroit - a city that was nearly 100 percent white 100 years ago; 85 percent in the 1950s; and ultimately a city where high rates of black crime and a black uprising in 1967 completed the genocide of whites from the Detroit - I can't help but smile reading this story from the Detroit News [Review team: Detroit faces financial crisis, has no plan to fix it:Fiscal emergency tied to cash crunch, deficits, long-term liabilities,The Detroit News, 2-20-13]:

 For the second time in a year, a state review team has found Detroit is in a financial emergency that requires Gov. Rick Snyder to intervene in City Hall.  

 But this time, if Snyder agrees that a financial emergency exists, the governor's choices are more limited.  

He could appoint an emergency manager to keep Michigan's largest city from plunging into bankruptcy, experts say, or he could continue state financial supervision through a new consent agreement, which seems a faint possibility.  

 State Treasurer Andy Dillon ruled out a bankruptcy filing at this time.  

 The six-member review team unanimously concluded in a report released Tuesday that the city failed to restructure its debt-laden bureaucracy under the financial consent agreement signed in April and that Detroit's financial crisis requires Snyder's intervention "because no satisfactory plan exists to resolve a serious financial problem."  

 "We gave the city every chance to avoid the outcome we're recommending to the governor today," said Dillon, who led the review team.

He was more direct in an interview after the press conference. "The city doesn't have more time," Dillon said. "They have limited cash right now, limited ability to access capital markets. I kind of think they've got one more bite of the apple to get it right." 

 In a sobering report to Snyder, the review team found Detroit has: A cash-flow deficit of more than $100 million without "significant spending cuts" by June 30, on top of an accumulated deficit of $327 million. $14.9 billion, including unfunded pension and employee retirement liabilities.  

The city also needs $1.9 billion during the next five years to make payments for the liabilities, but city officials have no debt payment plan. 

 Accumulated deficits in the general fund of $155.4 million to $331.9 million annually since the 2005 fiscal year. Dillon said the city has been "masking over" annual deficits with long-term borrowing.  

The report said that without the borrowing, the deficits would total $937 million in fiscal year 2012. 

 "We believe there's a financial emergency in the city and that there's no plan in place to correct the situation," Dillon said.

Recall that in the 1950s, Detroit  was 85 percent white and perhaps the most important city in all of America -- it boasted a standard-of-living never-before-seen in world history, which was only a reflection of the type of community its white citizens could create, sustain, and pass on to their children.

Today, Detroit is an 82 percent black city (almost 90 percent black in the core of the city) -- it boasts a standard-of-living in 2013 that makes it perhaps the poorest big city in the nation - with some of the highest violent crime rates - which is only a reflection of the type of community its almost entirely black citizenry could create, sustain, and pass on to their children.

I'll never know why I decided to write Escape from Detroit; I've only been there a few times, but each time in the city, a stir of echoes from a long-dead past overwhelmed -- for in the decaying buildings white citizens of the city had once built to stand the test of time, they could not withstand the unforgiving hand of blackness.

Detroit is one of the pivotal battles of an undeclared race war, and every citizen of the white Diaspora in what I've dubbed Black-Run America (BRA) - and what Lawrence Auster calls America 2.0 - must find the demise of black Detroit a moment on par with the moon landing in 1969.

No... that's wrong. That's the wrong historical analogy.

For it is in the ruins of Detroit, which black people have been custodians of since 1973, and in the news of the financial collapse of the city today that any belief in racial equality dies. More so than the Apollo Space Mission proved what white individuals can collectively accomplish when the state sets a course of action.

For Detroit is a reminder of what black individuals can collectively accomplish when the state (the city of Detroit) sets a course of action emboldened by black power.

Allow me to present to you just a few pieces of evidence from Tamar Jacoby's book "Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Business for Integration," that are a powerful reminder of why dubbing the 2013 collapse of Detroit nothing more than the demise of America's Black Metropolis:

In the black mythology of Detroit, 1967 became the point that blacks finally stood up for themselves – what Ebony magazine called “the birth pangs” of a new city. Former head of the Detroit NAACP Arthur Johnson used the same metaphor. 

“What we had in 1967 was a surprise pregnancy,” he said. “The baby had to be delivered… We had to go through some kind of trauma.” It would be a few years before Detroit would technically become a black city – before the population tipped and political control fell into black hands. But plainly, for most residents, the riot was the turning point that mattered. People began to talk proudly about the emerging “Black Metropolis.” (p. 239)  

[Detroit's first black Mayor Coleman] Young bragged to reporters about the blacks in his administration and the black entrepreneurs landing city contracts. Residents talked about proudly about “doing for themselves,” about “self-determination” and local leadership. Magazines like Ebony celebrated Detroit as the nation’s black capital, the place where, as Mayor Young put it, “blacks exercised more power than blacks anywhere in the United States.” 

 Most of the time, the mood was one of pride and enthusiasm, though every now and then it edge toward something more defiant. Only “sentimentalists,” Ebony noted bullishly, missed the old integrated, mainstream Detroit. The city might be smaller now, it might be poorer, but at least blacks maintained, “It’s ours.” 

 “I’ve never been concerned,” Young boasted, “about upsetting white people. I’d rather not, but I’m not going to back away from something I know is right just to please whites.” “We refuse in Detroit,” he told another reporter, “to kiss their behinds.” (p. 343)

There are dark times ahead.

But today, smile.

For today, a victory of immense, immeasurable worth was won -- for today, a city under complete domination by black America collapsed for all the world to see.

"Down goes black Detroit..."