What has become of the killers of unarmed Black Americans that I have posted on? As of November 12th 2013:
C.J. Miller (1893) – killed by a white mob in Kentucky on suspicions of murder. No charges.
Years served: 0.
Isaac McGhie (1920) – a white mob in Duluth, Minnesota lynched him and two other black circus workers on suspicions of rape. Twelve were charged, no convictions.
Years served: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.
George Stinney (1944) – executed by South Carolina governor Olin D. Johnston, white, who went on to become a senator from 1945 to 1965.
Years served: 0.
Emmett Till (1955) – his two killers, white, were charged but not convicted.
Years served: 0, 0.
Medgar Evers (1963) – Byron De La Beckwith, white, was not convicted till 1994. Died in prison.
Years served: 7.
Denise McNair (1963) – killed along with three other black girls in a church bombing by four white terrorists. One killer died in 1994 without being charged. The other three got life sentences in 1977, 2001 and 2002. One is still alive.
Years served: 0, 8, 2, 12+.
Martin Luther King, Jr (1968) – James Earl Ray, white, sentenced to 99 years. Died in prison in 1998.
Years served: 29.
Fred Hampton (1969) – Killed by the Chicago police. No charges.
Years served: 0.
Betty Jean Baucum (1994) – Henry Louis Wallace, black, murdered her and ten other black women. He is on death row.
Years served: 16+.
Gary Graham (2000) – executed by Texas. His final appeal was voted down by Supreme Court justices William H. Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.
Years served: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.
Romona Moore (2003) – the two black men who tortured, raped and murdered her are in prison for life without parole.
Years served: 7+, 7+.
Sean Bell (2006) – the three police officers, one white, two black, were acquitted of all charges. All three were fired or forced to resign by the NYPD.
Years served: 0, 0, 0.
Oscar Grant (2009) – BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, white, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Got out in 2011.
Years served: 1.
Taraha Nicholson (2009) – Antwan Pittman, black, found guilty of first-degree murder in 2011. He is suspected of having murdered seven other black women. Life in prison.
Years served: 2+.
Aiyana Jones (2010) – Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley, white, is charged with involuntary manslaughter. A jury deadlocked in June 2013. Retrial set for December 4th 2013.
Trial pending.
James Craig Anderson (2011) – Deryl Dedmon, white, pleaded guilty to murder. Life in prison.
Years served: 1+.
Troy Davis (2011) – executed by Georgia governor Nathan Deal, white, who is still governor.
Years served: 0.
Kenneth Chamberlain (2011) – Officer Anthony Carelli, white. No charges.
Years served: 0.
Ramarley Graham (2012) – NYPD officer Richard Haste, white. No charges.
Years served: 0.
Trayvon Martin (2012) – killed by neighbourhood watchman George Zimmerman, white Hispanic. No charges till after nationwide protests. Found not guilty.
Years served: 0.
Rekia Boyd (2012) – killed by Chicago police detective Dante Servin, white. Her family sued the city and got $4.5 million. No charges yet.
Pending investigation.
Jordan Davis (2012) – killed by Michael Dunn, white. Dunn is in jail awaiting trial for first-degree murder. Trial set for February 3rd 2014.
Trial pending.
Jonathan Ferrell (2013) – Charlotte police officer Randall Kerrick, white, charged with voluntary manslaughter.
Trial pending.
Renisha McBride (2013) – killed by a 54-year-old white man, whose name the police has not made public. No charges yet.
Pending review.
Predictions: Conviction only in the Jordan Davis case.
– Abagond, 2013.
Update (August 31st 2015): Jonathan Ferrell’s killer gets off, as predicted.
See also:
Is there something missing from the end of this sentence?
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@ Jefe
Fixed that. Thanks.
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These cases make me so sad. I think White AmeriKlan’s fear and hatred of young, Black adults is leading to all of these unnecessary and ”accidental” deaths. None of these young, Black adults were really bad people but Black people are already condemned as ”Bad” by a White dominated society that devalues Blackness from their birth into this world. Thus White AmeriKlan will find ways to justice the murderers of these young, Black people.
These Caucasian murderers wouldn’t get justice for these murders in their lifetime on earth but God will punish them in the afterlife, trust me on that one!
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hmm great post, i’ll add Willie Edwards, Kenneth walker, Tarika Wilson, Orlando Barlow, Kendrec Mcdade ,travis mcneil killed in Miami officer was fired but not charged. oh a post about ppl killed in the war on drugs would be nice too.
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The “years served” is somewhat misleading. If someone served seven years, but died in jail or capital punishment was administered, then the impression given is that they only had to do seven years and then were free to go, even though justice was dealt.
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Although some of the perpetrators were black,it probably wasn’t done with racial intent like the white ones were,used to think of America as the big dream but more and more I realize that it’s not a place I would reside in,especially with the guns,people are too trigger happy.
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And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Man, this is horrible. Thanks for the update Abagond.
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Asplund, you pendejo… you need to stop using my name…
why don’t you rename yourself “I’m a liar who got caught and now I’m acting like b’tch!”
so yeah, Abagond, those 2 posts definitely are not from me.
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I read that George Stinney’s family wants the case reopened, How do you try a case for a dead person?
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Kudos Abagond! Beautiful post brother!
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This is just sad as hell!!! Thanks for sharing this!
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Also renders the “black crime” argument moot. As illustrated above, if blacks commit a crime, they are tried, convicted, and serve LOTS of jail time. The notion that whites don’t commit crime is ridiculous! It’s not that they aren’t criminals, it’s that they aren’t charged or convicted of the crimes they perpetrate. It’s one of the main reason prison population statistics are so skewed.
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@ mary
Yeah I heard about that, all they can do is clear his name. Idk I’m not in their shoes so idk if i’d even try to clear a dead relatives name, now if they were alive on death row or something then i’d want them cleared. I guess to give themselves and George stinney peace this is what needs to be done.
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Linda exclaimed:
“Asplund, you pendejo”
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Oh no you didn’t! LMAO!
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Sad. Blind Justice is blind my @$$! She got 20/20 vision. So if you are a person of darker hue you better fly straight for the jump, no mistakes, because you will pay one way or another. #hardknocklife #godirectlytojaildonotpassgo
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@ Brothawolf
You said, “And this is only the tip of the iceberg.”
Then let us break the ice.
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What is the point of including people condemned to die by a court and executed by the state they are incarcerated in. Was this list intended to counter my post of last night? It’s a little short. I don’t see many listings of blacks killed by whites in the commission of a crime (rape, robbery, assault for fun). There are a lot of blacks killed by cops, I don’t know what that means – either some cops are out to do murder, or some people can’t follow orders, let their emotions get the best of them and then get shot by the police – probably somewhere in between. But you’ve included Trayvon, who half the country believed got what he had coming to him, so the rest of the list is suspect too.
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“Riverside_Rob,
But you’ve included Trayvon, who half the country believed got what he had coming to him, so the rest of the list is suspect too.”
Linda says,
you mean ONLY WHITE people believe Trayvon being killed by Zimmerman was justified…white people are the “half of the country” that is the problem that we non-white people have to deal with… the white half that are self-delusional cowards that think it’s OK to kill a teenager because of their own irrational fear of black people
as far as I’m concerned, you misquoted on the other thread, white people in this country are the “professional victims” who keep crying that they are “losing their country” — a country that their white forefathers had to steal and murder both black and brown people to build and live in…
keep up the fantasy that white societies hands are clean Bob…I’m sure your convenient statistics helps you and your racist kind to forget all the sh’t you do
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and as far as most Latinos/Hispanics are concerned, you can keep George Zimmerman, we don’t want him
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Linda, if you non-white people think it’s ok to beat on someone because they ask what you’re doing in the neighborhood, then you deserve to take a bullet, teenager or not. Trayvon’s momma should have raised him better – you defending him could lead to some other tough guy getting his ticket punched too.
keep on projecting by calling people cowards – I think you’re a coward, you didn’t answer the question – why do blacks attack old white people – I’ll tell, you , because they’re cowards and seek out victims that can’t fight back. You’re part of the problem when you defend these animals, that’s why people don’t bother distinguishing between “good” and “bad” guys, If you’re not robbing and raping, you’re excusing those that do it because of the horrible legacy of slavery.
http://dailykenn.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-blacks-attack-old-white-people.html
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@ Riverside_Rob
I got the idea for the post when I did the one on Renisha McBride, as a sort of follow up post. I listed all the unarmed black people that were killed that I have posted on. In some cases justice was done, in others not.
The executions and police shootings certainly belong on the list since they are part of the justice system.
Small-time Black crooks generally do not interest me enough to post on them. Given “Cops”, gangsta rap and the 11 o’clock news, that appears to be more of a White interest. Probably because they have built Blacks into a boogeyman.
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@ Linda
Thanks.
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@Linda
I agree. I my opinion I do believe a lot of white Americans have irrational fears of black people…particularly men.
In my city of Baltimore…in uptown area if you are black…or mainly non white walking through a white neighborhood they are quick to call the police on your ass.
They say thing like ” They don’t belong here.”
One time this white lady called the police saying my friends were trying to rob her house. She was obviously lying but the police gave her benefit of the doubt. They were walking from school 2:00 in the afternoon.
Plus, this was back when we were on middle school and a lot of black students started getting special transfers to mainly white schools and some of the white folks didn’t like it too much. Especially some of the school staff. Randomly getting my locker searched because someone ” said” I had weapons. Smh! One of my friends were actually relieved to stop going to that school. Too much bullcrap we dealt with but we never complained. A lot of the white kids were nice don’t get me wrong. I had my good times.
I’m only 20 now and it’s really easy to dislike white people as a whole but I don’t think its right to throw everyone under the bus but I just don’t understand a lot of the bullcrap. You just feel like you want to explode!
Even my bi-racial ex gf( half black-white…but she looks very much like a white girl) stopped talking to me because I got a tan over the summer and it hasn’t gone away and she kept complaining about how dark I was. We spent some time away from each each other so I guess it threw her off. Her grandfather is white and didn’t like me much. Maybe that’s why? Maybe in jumping to conclusions but I know all white people are not bigots.
Excuse me if I went off topic. Unjust had to get that out of my system.
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@Rob
I get what you’re saying I guess.
“blacks attack old white people – I’ll tell, you , because they’re cowards and seek out victims that can’t fight back.”
My take:
If you want to play that game, it’s no different than the situation in Little Rock where white came in groups to harass those kids for integrating into a school. Not just the kids either. Bricks were thrown at these folks, they were spit on etc.
Why?
Because if those black kids hit a white person those while people would go crazy as cat-shit and use that as every excuse to do more derogatory things to those people. So they knew they were too scared to fight back.
I think you’re derailing part of what Linda was pointing out but to each their own.
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(Continued)
It’s also no different than how elite white people feared white indentured servants, discontented whites began aligning with blacks actively participating in space revolts to over throw the existing order. The elitist knew they were outnumbered so they were clever enough to use a divide a conquer strategy. They declared these pissed off white people to officially be legally white and started giving them privileges and land which eventually led many them to pull away from the revolts because they now got what they wanted. They were told they were superior to blacks after getting a taste of “The good life.”
Sounds similar to friends who butter you up only to use you in the end for their own personal benefit.
Tavistock Institute of Human relation have used these same tactics. Deceiving people into wars you can deceive people to succumb to their own pride.
The white elitist were cowards by not fully accepting the responsibility of a problem THEY started and deceived people with material things to get their own way.
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“Riverside_Rob,
keep on projecting by calling people cowards – I think you’re a coward, you didn’t answer the question”
Linda says,
I don’t have to answer any of your ridiculous questions, R_Rob…because you are a race realist and your questions are irrelevant because they are not real questions or asked out of any real concern … I talk to you when I feel like it– when it amuses me to do so
I have no respect for race realists because you have no respect for black or brown lives… you preach nothing but Hate.. you will say anything to further your agenda
“White Supremacists Use Black-on-White Crime as Propaganda Tool”
http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/domestic-extremism-terrorism/c/white-supremacists-use.html
and a bunch of cowards who all come on this blog wrapped in lies and deception so that you can “attempt” to blend in and spread your filth and lies–
Abagond tolerates you all (you, DaJokah, and Randy) because you stir the pot and keep things “interesting” under the guise of “debating” — but that’s a load of BS because all your responses are rote and canned, straight out of the Race Realist manifesto…and like all creatures with no conscience, you don’t know when to stop.
all of you race realist say the same things and react the same way
that’s why you are easy to spot in the beginning when you all come to this blog disguised as: ” white but part Hispanic, or part Native American” or pretend to be black — you all have “Asian wives” or date interracially, everyone is an engineers or “professionals” with high GPA’s, who have worked in Asia or are/were in the military…
what’s wrong with being “a poor, white garbage man or dishwasher who is average, never left Kentucky or went to college, and lives in a trailer”… you all have to reach for the stars in order to appear special and attempt to intellectually keep up with the black commenters on Abagonds blog…
spare me, R_Rob, even if black America did everything that white American society wanted them to do, you would still HATE them, R_Rob — so you stop with your sanctimonious bullsh’t!
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“@Riverside_Rob,
Linda, if you non-white people think it’s ok to beat on someone because they ask what you’re doing in the neighborhood, then you deserve to take a bullet, teenager or not. Trayvon’s momma should have raised him better – you defending him could lead to some other tough guy getting his ticket punched too.”
Linda says,
and R_Rob, please shut the h’ll up with that garbage because only another coward thinks it’s OK for a grown man to kill a teenager when he’s losing a fight that he, the grown man, started.. and
no, its NOT OK for a Strange man to approach a kid/teenager in the dark without identifying himself as someone “who is a Safe and not out to do him harm”— that’ why most parents instruct their kids not to talk to strangers R_Rob and to walk in groups… Trayvon did not Know George and had NO RESPONSIBILITY TO TALK to his a’s — George was a STRANGER
I guess you must have told your children that it’s OK to talk to strange adults and to get into strangers cars too, I bet you think child molestors are wrongly accused also R_Rob or that men who look at child porn are just misunderstood
that’s why George got NO support from Hispanics/Latinos.. he acted and excused himself just like a white Gringo boy — because that’s what you all do best… find excuses for your cowardly actions.
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“@RasTafariEthiopianKingz,
Excuse me if I went off topic. Unjust had to get that out of my system.”
That’s OK, thanks for sharing…
people like R_Rob like to pretend that white people are innocent and are not participants in stoking the flames of racial hate in this country… but we all know better
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@Linda
Right.
I always hear people like Riverside_Rob
Claim racism because someone called them a name and resource to propoganda to twist the hot spotlight off of themselves because they know they are wrong. It amazes me of the white people who said hail Zimmerman.
White people like that are strange.
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@Abagond,
BTW, I thought you wince at the word “Caucasian”.
It made me think your target audience for this post was white people.
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@ Jefe
I used “Caucasian” to match the posts I did on Phantom Negro Weapons and Phantom Negro Assailants.
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The executions and police shootings certainly belong on the list since they are part of the justice system.
Gary Graham (2000) – executed by Texas governor George Bush, white, who went on to become president from 2001 to 2009.
Years served: 0.
Arguably GWB is guilty of many things but the power to sign an execution order as governor was never his, nor has it been in the power of any Texas governor since 1936. GWB was powerless under Texas law to stop the execution of Gary Graham after the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles recommended that the execution proceed. The governor of Texas can grant a single, 30-day reprieve to a Texas inmate on death row; however, a predecessor had already granted this reprieve in 1993.
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@ Uncle Milton
Thanks for the correction.
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@ Average Bee: Comment deleted for use of moderated language.
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@ Linda
what’s wrong with being “a poor, white garbage man or dishwasher who is average, never left Kentucky or went to college, and lives in a trailer”… you all have to reach for the stars in order to appear special and attempt to intellectually keep up with the black commenters on Abagonds blog…
*blink* Will you marry me?
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Aww c’mon, Linda. You know that comment was too grammatical to have been written by you-know-who. There are no misplaced commas for starters!
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“Pay It Forward
Aww c’mon, Linda. You know that comment was too grammatical to have been written by you-know-who. There are no misplaced commas for starters!”
Linda says,
you think it might be Asplund or R_Rob trying to pretend they’re Sondis?
Well, they are quick studies because they sound just like him!
that’s my point, though — if Sondis didn’t put that sh’t out into the stratosphere in the first place — for all these race realist to read and enjoy, then they wouldn’t be able to mimic his words.
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Abagond,
if that comment addressed to me was not from the real Sondis, then please delete my response comment.
and Sondis, if that wasn’t really you… then I apologize…. almost — I still think you are a Judas for putting out the business the way you did and insulting black women the way you did.
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wtf. um I don’;t think that is the real sondis but they sure did impersonate hime well except they didn’t say nbw rofl. maybe next time they will figure it out oh and no pic. But whoever is impersonating is on a scale of 1 to 10 doing a 7 so I guess congrats lol
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amen.
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Ok Abagond, if that is not the real Sondis,
why are you leaving that insulting comment addressed to me, on the board alive and well… shouldn’t that be deleted also?
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OK, nevermind… Thank you
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That was not the real Sondis. The IP address was from a different state. It also had the wrong avatar. I deleted that comment and Linda’s response.
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mstoogood4yall @ LOL…. “nbw”
you’re right, I should have been suspicious when he didn’t throw in his signature quote!
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If you a see a comment with the wrong avatar you can assume it is probably Asplund since he is the only one known to impersonate other commenters.
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Wait. We have a impersonating troll among us?
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yessir brothawolf he tried to impersonate me but abagond caught him and now he’s impersonating sondis for the second time smh.
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Yes legion before the nbw stuff and a lot of other things and watching a lot of tommy vids I had respect for him now not so much.
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brothawolf, Asplund also impersonated me the other day… I luckily caught him
I guess I need to learn how to put in an avatar for myself so that he cannot pretend he is me.. I’m not here all the time…so I really don’t want him trying to use me to start stuff.
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That’s a sad development. To resort to impersonating other commentators is a surefire sign of a weak mind.
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Legion, I aim to teach 🙂
anyway all, goodnight… if you see any other posts from “Linda” in the next 24 hours, as the song says “it wasn’t me”
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Lmao!
I can think of a couple more “signs”, but that’s another story…
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Linda
Linda says,
I don’t have to answer any of your ridiculous questions, R_Rob…because you are a race realist and your questions are irrelevant because they are not real questions or asked out of any real concern … I talk to you when I feel like it– when it amuses me to do so….
…..all of you race realist say the same things and react the same way
that’s why you are easy to spot in the beginning when you all come to this blog disguised as: ” white but part Hispanic, or part Native American” or pretend to be black — you all have “Asian wives” or date interracially, everyone is an engineers or “professionals” with high GPA’s, who have worked in Asia or are/were in the military…
Rob responds – Linda, you sound madder than a wet cat – I’ve always been white, married white too. I’m an engineer, I’ve worked in China, I was in the military. This is my real life, not a disguise. Who are you to mind read and come up with different stories. You just don’t like what I (and others) say on this site. I’m glad I amuse you.
I don’t preach hate, but I am growing fonder of the idea of being separate, segregated if you will. I don’t care if you’re town is nice or filled with shantys, I just want to be free of you. In that regard I have the very same feelings as many on the blog – Adeen, Adonis, Brothawolf, Matari and I think you too. All tired of living with whites, feeling oppressed by whites, feeling preyed upon by whites.
I celebrate our similarities, I feel the same exact way – I feel oppressed by and preyed upon by blacks. I see blacks are over-represented in the government jobs, and feel the disdain when I seek government services. I see the same at airports (for some reason I see that airports employ a large number of black people). I see that blacks that have no consideration when out in public – their behavior (at the least the blacks I’m exposed to) seems calculated to annoy, hinder, and obstruct me (and any whites nearby) to the maximum extent possible. If they have a party, it’s gotta be loud, cars have to dump trash on the street, if they laugh, they fall about and scream, if anything is within reach, it gets trashed or stolen. Episodes of spontaneous blackness –assault without provocation are becoming more widely known because of the internet and alternatives to the lame stream media. Bad behavior isn’t being hidden as well anymore and people like me are realizing it. Is this what a race realist says? Is that what you mean when you call me that?
It occurs to me that blacks treat whites as bad as whites treat blacks! Lets live apart – we’ll all be happier – don’t you agree?
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Riverside_Rob
Whenever I read your last comment, I hear violins. Please spare me.
You were NEVER oppressed by blacks. You have been a victim of violence involving blacks, but that’s not oppression. It’s laughable that white guys are claim singular moments of physical violence by nonwhite as oppression.
Also, when having party, people get loud because, IT’S A PARTY. Get it? Turning it into a black pathology is a weak attempt to dehumanize them.
Like Sharina said in another post, you come here with intend on feeling superior with these black pathology comments while projecting your own insecurities about being white onto us. And honestly, it’s getting sadder and sadder each day.
And like all people with the same hive-minded comments, I question how your treatment of blacks could have any plausible why they were so mean to you, and that you’re leaving that out on purpose to present half of a picture.
Maybe us destructive, white hating black people would feel sorry for you if you learn to have genuine feelings to begin with, and not try to pull off these half-baked, whoa-is-me, black-people-hate-me, they-are-so-bad pity parties. Why not consider that?
Oh yeah. That’s right. Because black people started it. LOL 🙂
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@ abagond
Would you mind of possibly doing a post about the Kuching of Jess Washington?
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Renisha’s killer was found guilty.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-detroit-porch-shooting-20140807-story.html
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“When Americans Lynched Mexicans”
“Lynchers targeted many other racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, including Native Americans, Italians, Chinese and, especially, Mexicans.”
“From 1848 to 1928, mobs murdered thousands of Mexicans, though surviving records allowed us to clearly document only about 547 cases. These lynchings occurred not only in the southwestern states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, but also in states far from the border, like Nebraska and Wyoming.”
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@Speak Out,
If you notice, “mob violence” and “mob justice” is a key major piece of the legal and political history of the United States, but it is curiously not included in the history textbooks, or at best makes an isolated footnote.
It is exceedingly minimised when compared to such atrocities as the Holocaust, something that did not occur on US soil.
Even with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of lynching in the USA, it is seen as mostly a white on black thing and confined mainly to the Deep South. That is a main problem with the report that the NYT talks about, which focuses only on lynching of blacks in 12 Southern states (1877-1950). It ignores the fact that it happened all over the country.
The 1920 Duluth lynching
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/the-1920-duluth-lynching/)
I think the most extensive victims of mob violence and mob justice were Native Americans. You can find extensive evidence of it from the early 17th century until well into the 20th century. They managed to wipe out whole peoples.
The reason why Mexicans figure highly into this is because Anglo whites encountered both Mexicans and Native Americans when they seized the SW and west from Mexico in the 1840s. White mobs drove out them both throughout the 19th century, and lynched the ones that did not leave in time (or ones they felt had done any misjustice to a white person). They later used the same template to eradicate the Chinese in the 1870s- early 1900s.
The largest single public lynching ever in US history is not actually of Blacks, Native Americans or Mexicans. It was the Chinese Massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles. The 2nd largest was of Italians in New Orleans in 1890 / 1891.
So, it is not a fluke that they added Native Americans, Chinese and Italians to the list that included blacks and Mexicans.
But, who ever studied about US white mob justice in school? It has been carefully, if not deliberately whitewashed.
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@jefe
I would not say that the lynching of Mexican Americans and Native Americans was done to drive us out. I would say it was done as a terrorism tactic, and as part of the U.S. government program of genocide against Native Americans. We were not driven out of the Southwest as a whole. Some people may have changed states while others stayed right where they were. Plenty of us have been living in the Southwest continuously since then, including my family through my paternal grandfather’s side.
Both the genocide of Native Americans and the all but genocide of Black Americans are shamefully minimized compared to the Holocaust.
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^^ I meant maternal grandfather’s.
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Article about how a young Black female activist in Sacramento is being accused of “lynching” (yes, really).
“The young and the relentless: Sacramento’s next generation of activists is up in the establishment’s face: And groups like Black Lives Matter and homelessness advocates are facing blowback”
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/young-the-relentless/content?oid=16520197
“Her charge stems from events on Sunday, January 18—more than four weeks before her actual arrest. That afternoon, there was a pro-law-enforcement rally at the state Capitol. Hampton and others in the Black Lives Matter contingent showed up to counter-protest, to remind the cops that they need to be accountable.”
“A YouTube video from the incident shows one officer grabbing and detaining a male protester. Hampton appears on the video and allegedly tries to free this man, grabbing his arm while the cop is holding him. This scene from the video, which has more than 6,000 views on YouTube and an incredible 781,637 on Facebook, lasts less than four seconds, but it is the basis of Hampton’s felony “lynching” charge. She’s scheduled to be arraigned this Monday, March 16, and could serve up to four years.”
“Historically “lynching,” or Penal Code 405a, has been used in California in cases where individuals break an inmate out of jail—but to harm them further, as was the case with white mobs lynching black people.”
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