Great Moments in Black History: Page One of the February 4, 2015 Edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Has there ever been a cover to a newspaper that helps explain the insanity of modern America better than the February 4, 2015 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch?

Black-Run America (BRA) in action: The February 4, 2015 cover of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Notice the 365Black golden arches of McDonald's hilariously positioned above the ruins of 70 percent black Ferguson's financial district...

Notice the news of a sequel to the official book of Black-Run America (BRA), To Kill a Mockingbird.

Notice the news of yet another lawless black male in St. Louis engaging in a deadly encounter with the police.

And, notice the news of a long under control disease in America now returning to our land. For years, there have been plenty of non-vaccinated Americans who never got the disease, because they weren't exposed to any one who had the disease.

Diseases that ravage third world nations have been largely eradicated in America for decades.

Until the historic American majority (white people) were deemed a threat to future Americans... illegal immigrants, the very people importing diseases long under control in the former United States.

The cover of the February 4 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch speaks volumes to how the civilization whites established in America is largely being eradicated before our eyes.

The Midnite Basketball hour is close at hand

One of the great stories of post-Civil Rights Era America is the hilarious "Midnite Basketball" scam in St. Louis from the mid-1990s.

We'll tell the story later (it's a story drenched in blackness), but suffice it to say, it cost the first black mayor of St. Louis his job. A hilarious political ad - by the more white-friendly black mayoral candidate Clarence Harmon - read:

"$120,000 stolen from midnight basketball. Money for police and children's health care squandered. Hundreds of city cell phones misused. And millions in city contract handouts to his political cronies."

But that's a story for another day (one of those perfect antidotes to the endless onslaught of positively impossible Black History Month stories)...

Only days after the announcement of the 2nd Annual "40 Days of Non-Violence" tipped off in 98 percent black East St. Louis, the upstanding black leaders of the most African in America city in the entire USA have decided to call midnight (midnite) basketball off the bench. [Midnight Basketball Returns to East St. Louis, CBS St. Louis, 2-2-15]:

They’re bringing back midnight basketball in East St. Louis, hoping to get young males off the streets on Friday nights and get them exercising with mentor supervision.

One of the organizers, Harold Lawary, says it’ll be run similar to league play East St. Louis had back in the late 1990’s, started by St. Clair County Judge Walter Brandon, “Any given Friday we had well over 200 young men there in the gym between the hours of 10pm and 2am. We had four games of basketball each Friday. There were no problems, no fussing, and no fighting. Everything was smooth.”

Lawary says the the Greater Metro East Male Involvement Program has support from law enforcement and the city of East St. Louis leaders, “We’re giving the males an opportunity to have some place to be during the hours identified as the high crime hours in our city.”

The season is expected to begin February 13, with games being held each Friday night at the Sunshine Cultural Art Center, 630 N. 59th Street in East St. Louis.

Lawary says they’re hoping to raise $30,000 in donations from businesses and individuals to fund the program.

He says checks may be made out to the Community Performance Ensemble, in care of the Midnight Basketball Program, 630 N. 59th Street in East St. Louis 62203.

Just for the record: one of the reasons "midnite basketball" failed in St. Louis back in the mid-1990s was because the black mayor of the city appointed a black crony to run the league. This black crony, Darryl "Pee Wee" Lenard, was accused of stealing $50,620 from the Midnite Basketball program.

The reason? Because he was allegedly kidnapped by drug dealer in East St. Louis and his family had to pay ransom... [BASKETBALL MONEY WENT FOR RANSOM, SOME SOURCES SAY, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8-24-1997]

No program in all of American history celebrates the unique contributions of black people to the communities they belong to across the country like midnight "midnite" basketball, for it is these programs that are designed to keep them from engaging in uniquely black criminality....

There is no Spoon...

A few years ago, the [then] black police chief of St. Louis dedicated more resources to patrolling those dangerous neighborhoods where crime was concentrated. 

Dangerous neighborhoods meaning black neighborhoods. [St. Louis police chief wants special unit to target crime hot spots, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-1-10]:

"The overwhelming majority of our homicides are being committed as a result of gang and drug activity," [Dan] Isom said in a statement. "And while some of these people are choosing to lead these lifestyles, the fact is, they are often leading them in a neighborhood filled with people who are making no such choice, people who are hardworking, law-abiding citizens and who want their neighborhoods back."

One day, we'll realize we've been asking all the wrong questions... 

What about those white citizens who want their neighborhoods back, forever lost to becoming just another of Africa in America (white flight is simply the collective decisions by individual white families to seek an existence more suitably European than African). 

Only 100 years ago, a saner, healthier racial reality flourished. Writing in Lions of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, James Neal Primm details a curious moment in the history of the city seemingly validated by the presence of "doll houses" in areas of St. Louis that have gone from all-white to all-black. Primm's book is the seminal account of the history of St. Louis, and this excerpt speaks volumes to the truth of why white people fought for the integrity of their neighborhoods (so the houses wouldn't "doll houses" in the hands of blacks):

White neighborhood associations in St. Louis which were close to black areas organized the "United Welfare Association" in 1911, found a powerful, well-heeled ally in the Real Estate Exchange, and began a persistent campaign for segregation ordinance. After repeated rejections by the Municipal Assembly, the U.W.A. circulated an initiative petition in 1915 to enact "An ordinance to prevent ill feeling, conflict and collision between the white and colored races" by requiring "the use of separate blocks for residence" and mandating segregation in churches and dance halls. The U.W.A. was not prejudiced, it claimed, it only sought the greatest good for the greatest number by protecting property values. (p. 436)

Only 100 year later, those neighborhoods once kept safe via restrictive covenants are home to some one of the most violent populations in the entire country (the blighted ruins of the homes a reminder of a grander yesterday), an example of the tremendous capacity for decline from European standards Africans in America possess. 

Which brings us to February 2, 2015. [Stray bullet hits woman in St. Louis neighborhood slated for beefed up patrols, St. Louis Post-Dispatch]:

A woman in the West End neighborhood was shot in the chest early Monday, apparently hit by a stray bullet fired into her home about five hours before St. Louis police were scheduled to blanket the neighborhood with more patrols. 

The woman, 36, was conscious as paramedics rushed her to a hospital, where she was listed in critical but stable condition. 

She had heard her car alarm sounding at about 5:15 a.m. Monday in the 5900 block of Horton Place. Police Chief Sam Dotson said the woman looked outside and saw four men standing near her car. Then, a bullet came through her window and hit her in the chest. 

Police have made no arrests in the case. Police did not release her name. 

St. Louis kicked off a new wave of police patrols in that neighborhood at 10 a.m. Some officers are in uniform, driving marked police cars; others will be in unmarked vehicles wearing plain clothes. 

The West End neighborhood, a tiny portion of the Wells Goodfellow neighborhood and part of Hamilton Heights are the focus this week of the St. Louis Police Department's hot-spot policing. The locations were announced in January.  

The scene of the shooting on Horton Place is north of Delmar Boulevard, and between North Skinker Parkway and Goodfellow Boulevard. The boundaries of the West End neighborhood are Page Boulevard on the north, Delmar Boulevard on the south, Belt Avenue and Union Boulevard on the east, and St. Louis city limits on the west.

As Ferguson reminded us, those white people in 1915 who dared try and create a world for their posterity free of "ill feeling, conflict and collision between the white and colored races" by requiring "the use of separate blocks for residence" were correct; what's most interesting about 2015, is the all-black communities of St. Louis are full of ill feeling, conflict and collision between only impulse challenged black people...

For this reason, police presence must be increased in heavily black area via "hot spot" police tactics.
Shania Harrison, a black resident of one of the areas where this 'hot spot' policing will occur, told the St. Louis Fox affiliate of how glad she was this endeavor was taking place.   [City residents speak out about hot spot policing, Fox2Now.com, 1-26-15]:

“I’m a workin mama. I work every day. I take care of my kids. It’s dangerous. You have to run in the house at nights. You have to grab yo’ kids. They shootin’ everyday. My kids are askin’ me, ‘why they keep shooting fire crackers at my house?’ and I cant do nothing but tell my babies ‘don’t worry about that. We say our prayers every night. We say our prayers every night."

Hilariously, those three areas of St. Louis are: 

• Hamilton Heights: 97 percent black, 1 percent white
• Wells-Goodfellow: 97.5 percent black, .7 percent white
• West End: 84.9 percent black, 8.1 percent white

The U.W.A. was not prejudiced, it claimed, it only sought the greatest good for the greatest number by protecting property values. 

Only a century after white individuals collectively gathered in St. Louis to protect the integrity of their property for future generations, the "doll houses" and dilapidated structures throughout heavily black North St. Louis stand as a silent monument to the morality of their position.

The difference is elucidated simply as what Europeans in America create versus what Africans in America inherit and watch disintegrate.

It's Like 10,000 Spoons when all you need is a Knife

News that the black violence in St. Louis is requiring "hot spotlight" policing to combat the Ferguson Effect shouldn't come as surprise. [Hot-spot policing kicks off downtown, KSDK.com, 1-30-15]

News that the black violence in St. Louis is requiring a request from the city police for help from the Missouri Highway Police to patrol the city's downtown streets shouldn't come as a surprise. [St. Louis cops seek highway patrol's help to police downtown streets, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1-28-15]

Prayer, marching, "come-to-Jesus" meetings, more police, lighting candles, vigils, a week dedicated to non-violence; when nothing else works, it's time to realize the one consistent variable required for each of these attempts to end violence... black people

Recall, St. Louis was home to the "Call to Oneness" in 2008, where black people marched in unity to the message of black people stopping the violence and working to make the city a better place.
[Black Men answer ‘Call to Oneness', St. Louis American, 6-2-2008]:

Depending on who was asked, the crowd estimates for the “Call To Oneness” march yesterday afternoon along the old Annie Malone May Day Parade route in North City ranged from 20,000-50,000. Regardless of the final count, the message was clear that African American men are ready to move forward to make a better St. Louis.

Marchers gathered at Kings Highway and Dr. Martin Luther King, and then proceeded down Page, Newstead, and Kennerly.

Of course, this black "Call to Oneness" was largely ignored by black people, with a two black people killed by other black within 24 hours of the march ending. [Cops Should Get On Beat to Help Clergy With Slowing City Violence, St. Louis Magazine, 6-27-14]:

There have been many prayers and marches and “come-to-Jesus” meetings concerning violence on the streets of St. Louis over the past few years.

In June 2008, during the “Call to Oneness,” thousands of African-American men marched through the streets of St. Louis to “reclaim their community” and begin efforts anew to end violence and murder. Hours later, just two miles from the march’s starting point, a young woman was shot and killed on a gas station/convenience market parking lot, and another woman was critically injured; a day later, a 19-year-old man was shot and killed, the St. Louis American reported.

Maybe we should all pray for more police on the streets of St. Louis. It's also time to consider police who walk daily beats.

Actually, black clergy did call for prayer and divine intervention to stop the black violence in the city, roughly 45 days before anyone had heard the names Michael Brown or Darren Wilson. [Clergy call for citywide prayer to end violence in St. Louis, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6-26-14]

 "Come-to-Jesus" meetings, prayer, black people marching in "Call to Oneness" marches, hotspot policing, and more police resources dedicated to patrolling downtown St. Louis won't stop the black crime. [Prayer vigil held to stop the violence in St. Louis, KPLR.com, 7-1-14]:

Area religious leaders are hoping a week of prayer will help curb violence in St. Louis summer.  The week of prayers culminated with a service Sunday night inside Washington Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church.

Host pastor Rodney Francis said prayer alone will not stop violence.  He said, “Prayer changes people, and people change things.”

Candles were lit for each homicide victim this year in St. Louis City. The candles were then extinguished.  Faith leaders say in addition to destroying lives, violent crime can kill economic development.

“If people are afraid of St. Louis, they’re not going to invest in St. Louis,” said Rev. Rodrick Buton, New Northside Missionary Baptist Church.

He talked about how painful it is to conduct a funeral service for a murder victim.

“It’s heartbreaking,” said Burton.  “It’s just reprehensible.”

Faith leaders hope anyone caught in a culture of violence can break free and find peace in a house of worship.

“We just need a unified approach with police, along with churches, along with businesses,” said Burton.

White people don't want to be caught up in the black "culture of violence": this is why you get white flight and divestment of businesses from areas that go from white to black.

Race will always be the ultimate variable in understanding why a city rises or fails; why a community is violence-free or one requiring "come-to-Jesus" meetings, lighting candles, prayer for divine intervention, black people marching in "Call to Oneness" marches, and hotspot policing to combat rampant criminality.

To ever address why St. Louis is overwhelmed in crime, one must use a knife to cut to the heart of the problem.

Put the spoon away, and just admit the problem individually black people collectively represent to the future stability of St. Louis.