You won’t see this on MSNBC. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Eric Holder to investigate either:
“In an attack partially caught on video, a group of youths assaulted at least three people in the parking lot of the Poplar Plaza Kroger Saturday night.”
That’s how the Memphis, TN newspaper The Commercial Appeal began its coverage of a shocking, unprovoked attack on three people by a vicious gang apparently made up of dozens of black teenagers. Not until some six paragraphs further into the story does the reporter mention that the brazen and brutal attackers were black. Nowhere in the newspaper story does the reporter say that the victims of the late-night assault were, according to other reports, white.
Memphis TV station WREG, a CBS affiliate, also reported on what many might consider a senseless hate crime…and also on their website failed to note the race of either the attackers or their victims.
The Fox station in Memphis appeared much more interested in the fact that the video of the attack was going viral than in making note of race in a story in which race was apparently an important and critical factor.
The race of the attackers and the three people hurt in the assault was also missing from other Memphis media coverage reviewed for this post. Officials say the two store employees beaten by the mob were knocked unconscious. None of their injuries is reported to be serious.
You can quickly get a sense that race very likely played a role in the violent incident by what the person taking the cell phone video is heard to exclaim, including calling the marauding gang members “hood rats”…and then laughing as she shouts “they got a white dude.” In several sections of the cell phone video, there seems to be almost a giddy, celebratory mood among the people whose voices are heard.
This is what happens when race-baiting becomes the official policy of the White House. Starting in 2007 Barack Obama and the Democrats have deliberately stoked the fires of racial resentment for political gain.
Expect more incidents like this one in the days, weeks and months ahead. When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
Here’s another black-on-white violent racial attack in a different city:
The Crawdad Hole 
One of the standard Leftist tropes is the idea that racist “white flight” is to blame for the current situation in our inner cities. If you are white and lived near where this happened, why wouldn’t you want to get the hell out of there?
BTW – this was not a “fight”. This was a violent flash mob of black kids attacking random white people.
The really crazy thing is that if one of the victims had used a gun in self defense the media would say he killed unarmed black teens.
But wait! There’s more!
I couldn’t help it. I lol’ed.
Not only that , the Memphis Police want to hold the parents accountable . I say throw Al Sharpton in jail first . Better yet, hit him where it hurts , make him pay for all the costs involved. How in the hell is this not a hate crime?
It is a hate crime.
“Holding the parents responsible” is law enforcement shorthand for “ignoring the problem”.
The left-wing approach to racism in 2014: deny racism exists, completely ignore the race of attackers and the race of victims, then smear anyone who points out the race of the people involved.
When a neighborhood becomes violent, when teachers in the schools have to spend more time on “classroom management” than teaching, when merchants can’t afford to keep their businesses open because of violence and theft, then everybody, people of all colors, who can afford to move away do. While that may be primarily white people, middle class black families get the hell out, too.
That’s how you get a place like Detroit.
Watched a video the other day by a middle class black man who had gotten the hell out of Detroit over a decade ago. He was making the same point. Sensible, successful black people flee too – which leaves NOTHING but problems and the opportunistic race-baiters who profit from those problems behind.
And then those problems and dregs and scum get held up as “authentically black” by the racial “leadership”. The ones who left and had a brain don’t get held up as authentic. And no, that is not the white man’s fault. The black community itself refuses to excommunicate/shun the gang bangers and mobs. I understand the protective instinct, but the black community is doomed unless they stop DEFENDING this crap (violent rap artists, etc). Because you can’t keep up the drumbeat of “He’s my brother, he’s a big part of my culture, we are one” on the one hand, then say “Don’t judge me by him” when it’s convenient.
Exactly–reminds me of some classes I’ve taught. I’ve had black students say racist things and after calling them on it, was told that only whites were racist. tried to explain how that wasn’t logical–but don’t think it got through.
I don’t know, it’s sorta neat to know by virtue of my paleness I have all these only occasionally recognized super powers. I’m working on making my yard pick up after itself better, but struggling a bit.
Sometimes teaching is like spitting up wind.
I’ve been up for 3 hours but I’m too lazy to make breakfast for myself. (Made bkfast for everyone else though)
I remember mornings like that, just ate the scraps off everyone’s plate. Ahhh, mommyhood 🙂
yumm
Scraps have zero calories. #science!
Truth. Pieces of bacon eaten while one is still standing frying the rest of the bacon batches is calorie free.
We took my daughter and her family out last night for her 40th birthday. I was too stuffed for dessert so I brought a cannoli home. I’ve been waiting for lunch to eat it, but that’s really silly isn’t it? It could be breakfast, and I could stop thinking about it.
Mmmm cannoli
have you ever made cannoli dip and used cinnamon sugar pita chips to dip ? made some the other day. easier to make than the cannoli and really good during football games
1 container 32 oz ricotta cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cut candied citron or use orange and lemon zest like I do
little bit of orange juice or lemon juice. just a tad
4 oz semi sweet chocolate
stir cheese and sugar
fold in zest and chocolate
got recipe off computer and it is great
That sounds too good.
Ray Rice elevator video:
Whoa.
Sad thing is that either she’ll forgive him, or some other woman will see that video and still date him.
Sad thing also , he isn’t in jail .
He should be, although isn’t it still true that in most states the gf would need to press charges?
Depends on the state laws, I think . Here in Maryland , if the assault is witnessed , then the person is charged and sent to jail whether or not the victim presses charges . Those laws were changed years ago .
For instance , many years ago , when I called the police on my ex , after a violent drunken episode ; they were not going to arrest him at all , and discouraged me from pressing charges . He was so drunk that he kept cursing at them , and shoving them , then they arrested him . I guess they didn’t like it when he did it to them .
Seems to me that camera is a damned good witness .
LOL. When I was a cop – back in the dark ages – was the kind that ignored the verbal insults and blustering stupidity of the almost drunks…..until they took that as a sign of weakness and went too far. Sigh. So satisfying to place them in cuffs and book ’em. A night in jail does wonders for bullies. The STINK stays with them for years. And jails stink!
She is his wife now.
He needs to be in jail.
I will say, though, that it does look like she hit him first. Once in the hall, once on the elevator. Not saying that excuses him being excessive, or not taking into account his punch was going to do much more damage than hers – he knew he could hurt her, and she was unlikely to do him much damage. He’s accountable for that. Just saying that it was a STUPID thing to do.
Men are bigger. And stronger. It’s why they (mostly) get taught not to hit girls. That social convention is not a license for women to say “I can smack you if I want, and you aren’t allowed to hit me back.” The social convention is supposed to have two mutually-understood sides. When you start pulling crap like that, the social convention starts going away. The same social convention used to hold for anyone who was markedly smaller/weaker than the man in question, even another guy. They kind of got a free hit in a heated argument, and it was *understood* that the big guy doesn’t retaliate with full power. Unspoken rules.
My boys were taught to never hit a girl. Ever. One of my daughters, at a certain age, decided to get cute and assume she could whack her brother and take advantage of the rule. It went on and on, until I quietly gave her brother permission, ONCE, to pretty much deck her (body slam, taking care not to really hurt her.) Then we had a talk about not fucking ABUSING a social convention that was being upheld in this house for HER protection.
No, it is not fair to men to tell them they have to just take deliberate physical abuse from women, and can’t retaliate. “The rule” was more along the lines of understanding that an emotional woman striking out was unlikely to do much damage, so the onus was on the bigger, stronger party to deescalate. Once a woman starts twisting that “rule” to deliberate advantage, you have another situation entirely.
Flailing at a man then taking the “Nyah nyah, you can’t hit me back” attitude is playiing with fire, ladies. Stop it. You will fuck up things that are actually a pretty good deal FOR US, you idiots.
Good. Owners don’t want a loose cannon like that around. Asshole.
Obama, Holder, Sharpton and Jackson built it.
They have perverted MLK’s legacy.
The outpouring of hate has already begun.
First thing I thought of when I saw the news, let the gravedancing commence.
What they don’t understand is that he and his family welcome the hate as proof of his being a servant of God and see it as a burden to bear in being one of the faithful. Being ignored is much worse.
and here is al
http://weaselzippers.us/198994-al-sharpton-on-hawks-owner-selling-team-over-offensive-email-nba-shouldnt-allow-sale-to-another-white-guy/
nah you don’t think al is racist , ,do you?
Dictionaries are too hard. So is math.
OH look who it is !!! Hey Donna , look up KINGDOM too , you might get a clue !
She doesn’t know what hillbillies are either if truth be told.
O’Keefe has done it again !
I LOLed at the fake terrorist, but it’s really bad how porous our borders are.
He looks more like a ninja. The Osama bin Laden drag-assing through the mud at the border was funny too.
Oh the fake bags of ebola and ricin, then walks into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a big bag of them ! O’Keefe amuses me. Andrew Breitbart’s smiling too.
On the NBA dude losing his franchise, WTF? I mean, where is the awful racist hate in this statement? He was concerned about the long term profits of the franchise, based on achieving a wider customer base. He made an observation. No one is even asking/reporting if his observation is factually true.. No one cares whether it’s true. No one cares that in other parts of the email, he specifically said that he was ONLY concerned with widening the customer base, not bitching about black people. It’s no different than a car company noticing that they are losing the 25-45 market, and only selling cars to gramps. That’s not hate for gramps – that’s concern over a too-narrow market.
And that’s the thing that has gotten so out of whack. I depise hateful dumb bigots. But that’s not what is setting people off. What is setting people off is any observation of a TRUTH that the Narrative has proclaimed off-limits. Shut up, you are not allowed to see/notice that thing that is staring you in the face. Doesn’t matter if you haven’t a shred of “hate” in you, you are not allowed to say what is demonstrably true, if it is judged off limits or counter-narrative.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/07/us/atlanta-hawks-owner-bruce-levenson-racist-email/index.html
All he was doing was citing demographics . If you changed the word black to white , no one would have blinked . No one.
Exactly. If he’d said “This crowd is 70% men/teenagers, so we need to attract more women/older people” or any other observation of demographics as relates to profits, no one would have cared.
If noticing people are black is perceived as racist, then we see why news reporters are afraid to mention the race of the perpetrators and victims in the main video. The PC police have made it racist to point out racism if the racists are black. That and the idea that blacks can’t be racist has to be ridiculed and laughed at by everyone. It’s insane and the insanity has to stop.
If a mob of white teenagers beat up some random black people it would be called a racial hate crime.
I have been visiting Acadia National Park for years. I mentioned to a black neighbor it’s a great way to see a beautiful national park without having to travel halfway across the country. She told me black people don’t go to national parks. I would love someone to do a study about that if it’s true. I guess we can’t. But she’s not interested in going because as a black person it’s not part of her “heritage”. We get along pretty well so I asked her when her family came here. Because if national parks are not part of her “heritage”, than neither is slavery. She laughed. But I’d like to know if there’s some reason our black kids aren’t getting to see the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. I already know I’m a racist because I care about that.
The degree to which very narrow racial cultural conformity is demanded of black kids in the black community is destructive in so many ways.
I don’t know, Levenson basically ratted himself out. I’d say he wants out and for some reason this is how he is choosing to get out.
Donald Sterling walked away with millions more in his pocket after girlfriend drama and racist remarks. Perhaps Levenson is thinking of same?
It seems a strange marketing ploy to sell a team. He does want out of 51% ownership of the team obviously. Maybe he is just bored or tired of it.
I’m certain I heard that he tried to sell the team a couple of years ago – maybe 2011,
“Sad thing is that either she’ll forgive him, or some other woman will see that video and still date him.”
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She married him!!! The whole “domestic” violence thing pisses me of. Here we have a weight trained athlete hit a woman and render her unconscious and it’s documented by video. Because of the disparity in physical condition and the harm done, he should have been charged with aggravated battery but no, he gets off with being sentenced to counseling. If he had hit a random woman, he would have likely been charged.
Now that they’re married his earnings are community property. That means any fines or lost wages are 50% hers too.
In a situation like this, the prosecutor should file charges regardless of her wishes. The State has an interest in punishing violent crime.
That is true but getting beaten to death is a hard way to make a living that these women choose. I guess they think it is worth it at least for a while.
My view saw the security guard approach at the end, there is a lady lying on the floor and the security guard stands there speaking with the athlete instead of bending down and checking this lady’s condition.
The ISIS propaganda minister, raised and educated in Boston, went to the same mosque as the Tsarnaev brother. Mr ISIS Propaganda’s (I typed Progaganda which is a good term for media now!) father was the “eminent” doctor at Mass General. Well he was on the mosque’s board of directors until the FBI came around. “Dr. Abousamra, now chief of endocrinology at Wayne State University in Detroit, did not return emails and phone calls seeking comment.” Why did he run off to Detroit? The mosque claims they are moderates which is obviously a lie. http://nypost.com/2014/09/07/jihadi-behind-beheading-videos-linked-to-notorious-us-mosque/? h/t WZ.
Now the left claims that MLK was a communist because he couldn’t possibly have been a Republican.
Exactly. The Narrative would have you believe that we are still operating under the old paradigm, where white straight older male is the source of ALL power. Not true. Not anymore. Victimhood is a currency of power now.
ANY power can and will be abused by human beings. Money power, victim power, political power, social power, ANY. What we are seeing is the predictable abuse of this new form of power – being a perpetual victim. And the Narrative that we live in 1952, and that women/blacks/immigrants etc have zero power, therefore CANNOT possibly be abusing any power, since they have none, is a flat lie.
You can often tell who has power by whom one is allowed to criticize.
You can often tell who has power by whom one is allowed to criticize.
This.
With power comes responsibility. I’m all for people being able to defend themselves, even brutally. A man of his size and skill pretty much has deadly weapon hands – you don’t use those unless you are in true danger of injury. If you are, then you are justified. DId she hit him first? Yep. But it’s obvious he was in no danger.
If he had walked away, he could have charged HER with assault.
I need to understand this. She establishes the ground rules of the relationship by using physical force on him, but by virtue of his size and strength differential he’s not permitted to reciprocate. Okay, I got it. I happen to agree he’s an idiot and deserves whatever happens, but is she really a classic victim? Or just a loser among co-conspirators? When you tease the tiger and get too close to the cage, you get scratched pretty bad.
pre-Obot Chris Rock talked about how men know their limits in a confrontation, i.e. not antagonizing a larger man. He also said some women who know they won’t get hit will do things that would normally get them hit. That’s kind of sad if you’re a woman who grew up in a culture where punching was a form of deterrence.
Yeah, I’m sad she was ever in that situation in the first place, but can’t accept that she’s a complete victim.
Wins the internets.
They’re defending ISIS?
think they got their talking points from backtrack
http://ulstermanbooks.com/video-obama-caught-tape-thanking-isis-linked-terror-organization/
Do you really think TMZ readers would be interested in IRS emails? They might could find them then sell them to Fox.
“Ravens release running back Ray Rice after video emerges”
*****
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/08/ravens-release-running-back-ray-rice-after-video-emerges/related/
I wonder what the response of the NFL players union will be?
CNN just reported that Ray Rice’s contract with the NFL has been terminated.
“The Baltimore Ravens have terminated the contract of running back Ray Rice, the team announced today, the same day a shocking video surfaced showing the NFL star punching his then-fiancée in February.”
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/08/us/ray-rice-new-video/index.html
He lied to them. That will get you canned every time.
I denounce myself
I think y’all hurt her feeelings
I’m going to pin that photo in “What Not to Sew”.
It does look like a home economics school project, doesn’t it?
Amanda Butthurt.
Amanda didn’t seem to mind when she hurt other people’s feelings . I guess it’s different when people hurt her feelings . Must be different for her , because her feelings count and other people’s feelings don’t count.
The left lost its soul when it lost its sense of humor.
Amazing that he already knew about the “Ray Rice situation”. Can someone ask him again about Benghazi? Maybe after 2 years, he’s finally heard about that.
need to rant big time.
have an appointment tomorrow with the DMV to change my car and driver’s license from California to Florida. now I have enough ID to sink a battle ship but they want a birth certificate or a passport. government tells illegals come on down we will give you a driver’s license, educate your kids, give you food stamps and make life just peachy keen for you. Legal citizens its screw you you have to prove who you are
Its like how the TSA will pat down grannies & kids but not profile middle eastern men.
The thing is Muslim extremists will plant bombs on grannies and kids if they are let through the TSA check points without being checked. Great way to get rid of unwanted female relatives, blow them up and take the plane with them.
Just tell ’em you crossed the border near Calexico years ago and can’t remember. They’ll take good care of you and sign you up for benefits. Keep Google handy, though, to translate everything they mail you the next 20 years. Btw, your vote already been counted in the next 8 elections.
Helen you only have to do that once in Florida and it is precisely because of illegals. You must be a citizen in Florida and they want you to prove that. I’ve lived in Florida my entire life and the last time I had my license renewed I was required to provide all of that myself. I don’t remember exactly when the law was passed but it was several years ago. They’re working their way through the system with renewals and new comers like you.
Do you have your social security card? They require an actual ss card too or at least they required one of me. It absolutely is a pain in the ass and I resented it too, but like I said you only go through it once. They key something into the system that basically says you’re a legal US citizen, it doesn’t show on your license but it’s in their computer somewhere.
yes I have all the info needed.
what shocked me was the cost of auto insurance.it is triple what it is in California
Helen, I recently went through the damn same thing. In Florida. I’ve had my license here for 20 years though. But had to supply my original birth certificate. Not a certified copy of same with stamp but the actual original document. Its on microfish paper stuff. Don’t exactly know what type of paper its on but it clearly states that sunlight will degrade it and don’t expose paper to sunlight. Its very fragile cause I am old.
I didn’t even want them handling it.
My question – are the immigrants, like those floating on rafts from Cuba carrying their original birth certificates too? The border immigrants? All I know is that they are driving.
I imagine next renewal I may not be.
A gentle giant?
Now we need the liberal media to only show pictures of him when he was 12 years old.
Next thing you know, they’ll look into has past to smear him further. Clearly racist.
Nothing about Olbermann is “must watch”
DeniseVB have you seen this? Hope your son takes precautions about being approached while doing his job.
“The FBI and CDC are investigating an attack on a federal air marshal who was injected with a syringe full of an unknown substance inside the Lagos, Nigeria airport on Sunday, according to a Situational Awareness notice obtained by FoxNews.com.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/08/us-federal-air-marshal-attacked-with-syringe-in-lagos-airport/
That Salon article about Hanson you linked to–well, I posted a comment there: “Sure that’s not a picture of how Salonistas view conservatives? Irony ain’t just the opposite of wrinkly.”
The comment was gone within three minutes or so. I posted it again. Same thing. It got erased. Either the author of the piece or a Salon moderator is extremely thin-skinned and quick-on-the-draw.
What’s also ironic is that there are comments saying that Cheney, etc. are the real Orcs. Those comments of course, were allowed to stand. Salonistas are indeed immune to irony.
By making the “real man” argument, what one is attempting to say is that it’s usually the macho types who like to beat up women–and it might work to explain to those macho types that it is not manly to abuse women. In that sense, there is nothing “sexist or dated” about that trope. Ya gotta love the PC police types, though; they’ll “strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.” Never fails.
One in 13 murder victims are killed by a husband or boyfriend? Doesn’t that mean there’s a double that (14%) chance that a murdered woman will be a victim of a husband or boyfriend? Seems high to me.
In any case, all those Voxstats are generically sourced. The UN is not a source. They put out thousands of reports a year. Which report is the infographic from? These people would fail a high school class with that kind of BS.
What’s telling is that they don’t allow comments–thus, there’s no accountability, no one to challenge their statements.
In any case, I don’t think there’s anyone out there who’s taken in by their “objective” or “neutral” stance–their “just the facts, ma’m” Dragnet pose–well, maybe some lo-fo who happens to stumble across their site and doesn’t know who Ezra Klein is or his journo-list history.
I don’t mind shameless hacks, well, I do– but what I really resent are partisans posing as mere “explainers.” There has to be a special circle in Dante’s hell for those scoundrels.
I think Politico just did a story about how Vox isn’t succeeding at what they intended. Which is ironic, since Politico was invented to elect Barack Obama by doing stories about what a political genius he is.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/07/Vietnam-Vet-Walking-from-North-Carolina-to-Washington-DC-to-Protest-Marine-Jailed-in-Mexico
Semper Fi