In the last three years, there have been dozens of episodes of racial violence in this once bucolic slice of middle America. Many documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it.
Much of it on video.
But because the participants are not carrying signs with racist slogans, or promoting violent black revolution as some did during a recent public meeting in Indianapolis, many reporters say there is no evidence of racial violence in Indianapolis. Or anywhere else.
No matter how many videos there are. No matter how far out of proportion black mob violence is. If they do not report it, it does not exist. And if it does not exist, how can they report it?
Every discussion of racial violence in Indianapolis must begin with the Indiana Black Expo. Over the last ten years, this annual, week long celebration of racial consciousness has been the site of shootings, assaults, property destruction, violence against police, and large scale mayhem that can only be called riots.
It got so bad even the Indy Star could no longer ignore it:
"Although none of the shootings or fights was directly connected to Summer Celebration events or venues, the annual celebration of black culture that attracts more than 200,000 people Downtown during its 11-day run has been inescapably tied to the violence."
Black mob violence is hardly limited to the Black Expo.
Downtown Indianapolis has been the site of dozens of cases of large-scale black mob violence over the last three years. The Indy Star reports these perpetrators as "unruly teens," or "unruly youths" or any number of other euphemisms. But the videos tell the story.
The mobs are black.
Downtown Indy is supposed to be a gleaming center of commerce and government and tourism.
Instead, downtown on weekends today often resembles an armed camp with police officers, barricades, helicopters, and an increasing number of empty storefronts from merchants who no longer wish to tolerate the black mob violence that occurs with regular and violent intensity.
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downtown on weekends today often resembles an armed camp with police officers, barricades, helicopters, and an increasing number of empty storefronts
Like Chicago, DC, Atlanta, St. Louis, Houston, LA,...
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Large numbers of uneducated, unemployed youth, roving, raping, and pillaging. In the finest traditions of sub-Saharan tribal Africa, it's time for a gov't orchestrated war 'die off'.
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At some point the folks that have been crying whites are racists for years and building up this reserve of hate and hopelessness in the black community should be held accountable.
Members of the Washington establishment were quick to denounce Vladimir Putin's op ed article in Thursday's New York Times questioning the legitimacy and legality of a U.S. attack on Syria. The White House quickly dismissed his column as "irrelevant" and a sideshow to the real issues at stake. Many tweeters and "texters" have criticized the Times for daring to publish a column by the Russian President that is critical of President Obama and U.S. policy abroad.
There is an unspoken sub-text at play here: what President Putin said in his column is pretty much what American liberals and leftists have been saying about the United States since the 1960s. From the standpoint of American liberals, there is nothing the least bit new or controversial in anything Mr. Putin wrote in his column.
Putin made three general points. First, it is contrary to international law for a member of the United Nations to attack another country without approval from the U.N. Security Council. Second, the major powers should avoid armed intervention into internal conflicts and civil wars in other countries. Such interventions are likewise illegitimate under international law. They are also ineffective and typically result only in an escalation in the level of violence. Third, the United States is not an "exceptional" nation, or no more exceptional than any other nation is, and this belief promotes a sense that the United States is not bound by conventional rule of international conduct
Where have we heard Mr. Putin's principles before? They are in fact basic articles of faith among American liberals who have been saying for decades that the U.S. should not use military force without United Nations authorization, we should not intervene in civil wars abroad, and the idea of American exceptionalism is a myth used to cover up crimes against women and minorities at home and the poor and oppressed abroad. Barack Obama at one time or another has expressed support for all three of Mr. Putin's principles.
It would be a good thing if American liberals, in their zeal to defend a liberal president, would in fact shelve for good their doctrines about diversity, multiculturalism, and American imperialism. But their attacks on Mr. Putin will undoubtedly prove to be but a momentary lapse in their ideological campaign to re-make the United States into a multi-cultural utopia. At some point in the future, probably when a Republican next occupies the White House, they will dust off Mr. Putin's principles and put them into play once more.
PJ Media's Wretchard assesses the Syrian agreement and has found it wanting:
From TFA:
It seems given that Obama's "breakthrough" will result in Assad remaining in power. Without new patrons the rebels are doomed to dwindle and die, unless they switch to the winning side or convince Saudi Arabia and Turkey to up the ante. Worse, Israel may soon be asked to disarm itself of WMDs just like Syria is supposedly doing -- except Israel will be expected to do it for real where Syria need merely pretend. It's the power of bad example: I'll be bad while you set the example.
Hezbollah will once again be the power in Lebanon, where its sword of revenge will come out of the scabbard against those who opposed it just when it seemed ready to fall. Most importantly, Iran's road to becoming a regional nuclear power has become a superhighway: next stop for Teheran -- the Atomic Bomb.
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Boy from the hood wannabe is now aware he is a lower mid level crack dealer, not the top dawg...
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#2 Boy from the hood wannabe is now aware he is a lower mid level crack dealer, not the top dawg...
Oh, my head hurts. Reading these comments, I couldn't help but think of "Clockers" and promptly had a "Condor" moment. So Strike is Barry. Duh. Victor is obviously the US military. Ahab's is Syria, right? Darryl is Bashir (got to be got!). Errol Barnes might be Putin. Stone heartless killer. Tyrone? Obviously not a real person, but plausibly a composite character representin' disaffected youth. But who is Rodney? Uhhhh-oh. And Champ? Wait, don't tell me. I don't want to know.
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More to life than dichotomies, but all great advice, distilled to its essence. Thanks for that one...
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This is the one I was looking for. Yes, it's from that hokey old show Kung Fu, but it does espouse how sometimes there's a range of choices and an overarching strategy to consider:
"Perceive the way of nature and no force of man can harm you. Do not meet a wave head on: avoid it. You do not have to stop force: it is easier to redirect it. Learn more ways to preserve rather than destroy. Avoid rather than check. Check rather than hurt. Hurt rather than maim. Maim rather than kill. For all life is precious nor can any be replaced."
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Then again, some forces just need to be killed, right away, on general principles...
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If taken as "this" or "that" with no in between, you are correct, BP. In life, everything is a compromise.
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"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
Not a lesson plan, but a good reminder. I like this one (paraphrased): Concerning baseball, but really any sport:
You are going to take the field and play your best, and you are going to win 1/3 of your games, and lose 1/3 of your games; its what you do with those close games which gets you to the playoffs.
Yes, fresh fried calamari is good. And catfish. Trout.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Members of the Washington establishment were quick to denounce Vladimir Putin's op ed article in Thursday's New York Times questioning the legitimacy and legality of a U.S. attack on Syria. The White House quickly dismissed his column as "irrelevant" and a sideshow to the real issues at stake. Many tweeters and "texters" have criticized the Times for daring to publish a column by the Russian President that is critical of President Obama and U.S. policy abroad.
