The Monster That Nearly Ate Cambridge
by John T. SimpsonFor those of you who don’t know, I’m from Cambridge. Born and raised there. I grew up in the Jefferson Park housing projects a stone’s throw from Harvard. Never a Dull Moment in JP I can tell you! Even today. Knew lots of CPD cops like Officer Crowley too, but never in a good way. Like when a fellow punk projects friend of mine drove a stolen car through a fence and into the deep end of the local MDC kiddie pool. They wanted us real bad that night! I was guilty as sin, too. All wet, in fact. Rode shotgun the whole way. Front row seat. Yee-ha! Island Kingdom, eat your heart out.
My whole childhood was like that. A lot of crazy stuff, a lot of running from police. Was a local sport, like train-hopping. But that’s all just the gritty side of Cambridge. And even though I’m a rank Righty today, I still love Harvard University all the way, the Square especially. It’s the Crossroads of the World. I was a total Harvard Square rat growing up. Harvard is the Bright Light of Olde Cantabrigia. Harvard was also very active in the community back then, and most likely still is today. Harvard hosted field trips to the campus from schools all over Cambridge. The Agassiz Museum was my favorite. Lots of dead bugs and dinosaur bones. That was Heaven to me. Still is.
So there it is. Cambridge Dark and Light. Of course, as a Harvard Square rat I ran into my fair share of elitist Harvard eggheads, both students and faculty, whose utter contempt for a lowlife Cambridge projects kid like myself could be felt with Hiroshima-like intensity. But given my many experiences on campus, and as a waif wayfarer on Harvard’s Challenge program, I believe most people at Harvard, both faculty and students, could not be more honorable or pure of heart and intent. I’m not going to smash that whole crate because of a few bad eggheads. Harvard has its troublemakers, too. Lots! Just ask former Harvard president Larry Summers. He was run out on a rail by militant feminists.
Fact is, I love Cambridge. Warts and all. Part of my heart and soul, and one of the most egalitarian cities on earth. So when news broke about Dr. Gates’ outrageous charges of racism, I immediately and most publicly called him a bold-faced liar. But not just in defense of my hometown or CPD. I called it based on personal experience. And I called it right on the money, did I not? See, some years back my brother and I, both drunk, were in a confrontation of my idiot drunken brother’s making with five Cambridge cops when I yelled “Your Mama!” at a black cop. We were arrested for disorderly conduct, cuffed, thrown into the paddy wagon and hauled off to the same jail as Dr. Skippy.
That incident took place not five blocks from Dr. Gates’ house. In short, I had experienced the exact same arrest for the exact same charge in the exact same neighborhood by the exact same PD. Who not actually there could have seen how the whole thing went down better? From yelling “Your Mama!” to cuffing to paddy wagon ride to booking in the same jail? Yet Dr. Gates’ hoax cry of racism at whom we now know is one of the state’s top racial profiling experts, President Obama’s Man Show suds-rinsing of Dr. Gates’ crime by sitting down white victim and black victimizer on an equal moral plane in sickening equivocating fashion, is not even the real monster here.
The real monster would have been if Al Sharpton brought his Traveling Racial Arsonist Show to town, which he was ready to do. Big Al lives for incidents like this to spark or fuel smoldering racially-tinged incidents into Towering Inferno proportions. Think about this. Had Officer Crowley been just some regular Officer Joe on the Beat, and not been able to provide the damning refutations of Dr. Gates’ hoax cry of racism, Cambridge, the city of my birth that I love warts and all, might at this very moment be going up in flames, both racial and literal, for Big Al’s race-mongering fun and profit. Just like Crown Heights and Freddy’s Fashion Mart. Nine dead in those two alone. And it would have all gone down over yet another foul race-baiting hoax, just like Tawana Brawley and Duke.
In my city? In my birthplace? He’ll have to kill me first! Over my dead body! Not a rare outcome when Big Al brings his racial gas cans and lighters to town. How Big Al a bullet did Cambridge just dodge? I’ll bet Big Al is breathing a sigh of relief as he watches Dr. Skippy burn in a fire of his own making, yet is even now scouring the American landscape for the Next Big Whitey Thing to torch to the skies. That’s who he is. A black David Duke, as Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe so aptly put it. What happens to the next racially-targeted innocent white police officer, his city and his peaceful neighborhoods, when said officer is NOT a racial profiling expert who teaches the subject?
Got an idea. And THAT is the monstrous 800-pound gorilla that is occupying and trashing the Obama Racial Harmony Room, to wit the all-too-profitable and most politically powerful black Lefty racial grievance-mongering Hate Whitey cottage industry in America. It’s got to go. The law, and the law alone, from the cop on the beat to the US Supreme Court, should deal with all crimes and legal matters of race, not the racists themselves. Kind of defeats the whole purpose, doesn’t it? They’re like the black radical version of the Klan, showing up with ropes and torches at even a whiff of white-on-black injustice, real or imagined, wherever it happens in America. Duke Lacrosse ring any bells?
In fact, black Lefty racial grievance-mongering is a HUGE business in America today. With a black President in a 72% white-majority nation, how sad is that? In this Obama Age of Racial Harmony, in particular? Tell me truly. What legal resources and avenues of redress do any and all minority Americans NOT have? The federal and state EEOCs, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a million other NGOs and government agencies exist, and even live, to redress real racial grievances to the fullest measure and extent of the law. As they should. For ALL races of Americans!
Since news on Dr. Gates first broke, I have been neck-deep in it. It has been my mission in life since to bring him down, and as many of his fellow career race-baiters and grievance-mongers who jumped all over this race-hoax abomination from the word go. Anderson Cooper’s AC360 show called me about my first damning oped on Dr. Gates. The Cambridge Chronicle is reprinting it Thursday. My reports are all on file at my article folder at Digital Journal, including one manic thirty-hour stretch when news was breaking insanely fast and furious.
Lots more deep background on Cambridge, and some very unsavory stuff on Dr. Gates et al. But this has all been a very unsavory episode, hasn’t it?
That monster is growing, people. Worst of all, with President Obama’s direct aiding an abetting by giving Get-Out-Of-Terrorizing-White-Voters-Free cards to the three Black Panther thugs whom career DOJ lawyers wanted to skin alive, and had default convictions in hand to do just that. Why did Obama do it? Aren’t white voters just as protected by the law as blacks in the Jim Crow South? Or are we witnessing a regression of the law in favor of black radicals? When you throw in Obama’s equivocation of Dr. Gates’ crime of yelling racial “Fire!” in a crowded country, it doesn’t look good.
A lot more background in my DJ reports, but here’s two related news items you may find interesting.
AL SHARPTON’S NIECE WANTS REPERCUSSIONS FOR SNITCH WHO CALLED 911
That would be Ms. Lucia Whalen, the woman who placed the 911 call, whom Brittany Sharpton wants revenge served cold on. Ms. Whalen has been insanely persecuted ever since that call, even though she never mentioned race until asked by CPD. Great. Rile up some whack job black racists to terrorize an elderly woman for doing a public service, even for Dr. Gates has it been a real break-in like the one he recently suffered. Like Uncle, Like Niece.
Here are some delightful insights from Facebook on NBBP poll watcher thug-in-chief Jerry Jackson, who will be right back terrorizing, er, I mean watching the polls in Philly:
DISTURBING CONTENT ON NBBP JERRY JACKSON’S FACE BOOK PAGE
‘Killin’ Crakkkas’ is very high on Mr. Jackson’s To-Do List. He also has a very welcoming sign at his home in Philadelphia: “COLORED ONLY: NO WHITES ALLOWED”
I have to tell you, people. I may not be black. But with all that’s going on lately, I’m starting to get an idea of how it felt to be a black man in the Jim Crow South. Tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way. Racial injustice knows no color, people. And Hate is as Equal Opportunity as it gets. Stop The H8!
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Folks like Sharpton and Gate are too invested in grievance mongering to actually want a solution to racial tensions. Too much money and adoration to quit now.
Are we surprised this Chicago Machine thug Obama is going to play hardball politics? Not me, I saw it coming, like many even vaugely familiar with Chicago politics. If you're a Obama crony, it's "prime time for crime time"!
I encourage irresponsible and gratuitous accusations of "racism" by the Left. The more they do it, the more and more peopel hate their effing guts.
Great article.____I just got through watching "Roots" (not sure why I decided to watch the 70's mini-series) and it certainly showed all of the horrors and degradations of slavery. No one can possibly agree that one man should own another. It is a disgusting institution that sadly has occurred in every society on the face of this planet at one time or another. However, the race baiters, the Al Sharptons of this world, come a close second to those who actually owned slaves in my humble opinion. They trample on their own people by their dishonest actions and do more to foment discord than perhaps any other segment of society. It is sad that they are able to get away with it so well. However, I think that just as people are starting to turn out at Tea Parties in disgust at Obama's policies, people will also come to stand up to the race baiters of this country.
Nailed it. Gates has only one note and he picked the wrong cop to play it to. Hopefully more and more people will begin to call bs on this game.
We must address false racial accusations and hold people accountable. Even if the accuser is President. We also need to do it in a way that respects all Americans rights and not be caught up in fanning the flames. Respect, Honor and Liberty should come to mind of any American before anyone plays the race card.
Not surprising from the Peoples Republic of Massachussetts!
I agree. The term racist has become so broad in its application that is verges on meaningless. Perhaps a good response to someone who calls you a racist would be "I know you are but what am I" or whatever it was that Pee Wee Herman said.
This is just another way for leftists to destroy reputations, as surely as they have tried to do with Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, et al. White cop, black antagonizer (victim!!) = fantastic oppotunity to teach us "whiteys" the way things are going to be FROM NOW ON. Alinsky would be so proud.
Any rage from Al Sharpton (or his niece) concerning the Cambridge imbroglio must be viewed through the prism of their own self-interest. As the immortal Vito Corleone said, "It's just business."
Other than the Human race. I believe you are right or as your name states, not always.
No one can possibly agree that one man should own another.
One man should not clap another in chains, certainly. But fortunately for the left, bribes, favors, loyalties and political "debt" are less visible than chains — and less easily broken.
Laura, Like I said, this is epidemic nationwide, and goes far beyond the PRM or even the PRC, both of which I love despite it all. Nutty Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Patriots fan, too. It's not all bad. Just the politics suck
Like I said, don't smash that whole crate because of few bad eggs. Despite Lefty Hollywood and AMPAS, great films still get made despite them. I feel the same way about my home town and state. Except for Gates et al. Pick your targets like I do. Shotgunning is their game. 'nuff said.
Hey John real passion brother! I had a couple friends in the early ‘70s from Walpole MA. Crazy as hell, and loved Boston, good god …in fact that became one of the guys nickname. Race relations are improving IMO despite the Sharpton’s and Jackson’s of the world. Look we just elected a black man as president, we can’t help he’s a racist.
Has Mass., declared bankruptcy yet? I know that the socialist medicine scheme is breaking that state, right?
A few rambling thoughts:
John, I'll bet you a hundred bucks, when you were cuffed it wasn't in front. Sgt. Gates most definitely gave the professor kid gloves treatment.
I grew up in Wat-ah-town, so I kinda know the neighborhood. Something about that postcard of a picture in your article, gets me homesick. Looks like a beautiful fall day.
MDC =Metropolitan District Commission, for those who may wonder.
Brittany Sharpton = Meatball
Jimmy Crowley = Standup guy, good cop, wicked pissah. The best thing about this whole story, we know him.
As for the whole issue with the National Black Panther Party, don't even get me started. Once again, another great piece told as only you know how to tell it. Appreciate the effort in supplying the large assortment of links.
And I don't mean Jimmy Dean.
Try to stay out of trouble John.
Take care.
Re-reading my post. I've been screwin' up all day…Sgt. Crowley.
I suck.
Sgt. Gates, LOL! "This is a citizen's arrest of a racist Whitey cop and his Mama!" I can see why you're in comedy, Jimmy. You're even funny when you f* up. BRILLIANT!
Thanks for a great article John.
StanH above choose the perfect word to characterize it – Passionate.
Keep telling the truth.
People are listening.
Yeah, so my wife is always telling me.
Do I win the hundred bucks?
Big Al knew this wasnt the fight to pick. Not even if Mr Gates claimed rape, had KKK written on him and been dumped in some remote part of town.
Four possible Crimes by police and or the City of Cambridge.
1st Crime Officer not producing photo ID when it was requested before and after entering lawful residents home
GENERAL LAWS OF MA. – POLICE OFFICERS
Chapter 41: Section 98D. Identification cards
Section 98D. Each city or town shall issue to every full time police officer employed by it an identification card bearing his photograph and the municipal seal. Such card shall be carried on the officers person, and shall be exhibited upon lawful request for purposes of identification.
2nd Crime false arrest
3rd Crime filing false Incident Report
4th Crime more then one person working for the City of Cambridge trying to keep first three crimes from coming to light.
I have run into police like this in Cambridge, and I am fine with them not working as police officers.
Alex, I guessed you missed the part about Dr. Gates screaming so loud while Sgt. Crowley was trying to provide that information that Gates never heard him, or that Gates followed Officer Crowley out of the house, still screaming and causing a public disturbance. Or that Sgt. Crowley warned him twice that he would be arrested for being disorderly.
Or that a black cop on scene called it a righteous arrest. Or is he just an Uncle Tom anyway? Alex, you are part of the problem. Dr. Gates turned what should have been a simple case of mistaken identity into a nationwide racial inferno. I'm sure that suits you just fine, huh? Being from Cambridge and all? I know your type only too well, pal.
Done here, people. I'm not going to battle brainless Cambridge Lefties like Alex all night. Exercise in futility. I will let my words stand in the harsh Court of Public Opinion. The Truth Has Set Me Free! Hallelujah! But feel free to defend me if you like
Good Night and Good Luck!
This story has got my blood boiling. The whole racism as a political strategy is dispicable. I feel some kinship for you and Simpson since my family is originally from Watertown, then Cambridge, although my 6G grandpa was one of the original petitioners to the crown to break-off a "new town" 300 plus years ago so that it is today known as Newton (his house is actually still standing today in the Waban neighborhood which I always thought was pretty cool.) I think the current administration, including the A.G. is far too comfortable with this whole line of political attack. Of course my adopted home town of Philly has seen many of the same issues (who can forget M.O.V.E. and John Africa.) Keeping this hatred alive is, sadly, a seemingly large part of their political strategy. I just don't see how the country can move forward if it's leaders and their allies keep ramping up the hatred.
This story has got my blood boiling. The whole racism as a political strategy concept is dispicable. I feel some kinship for you and Simpson since my family is originally from Watertown, then Cambridge, although my 6G grandpa was one of the original petitioners to the crown to break-off a "new town" 300 plus years ago so that it is today known as Newton (his house is actually still standing today in the Waban neighborhood which I always thought was pretty cool.) I think the current administration, including the A.G. is far too comfortable with this whole line of political attack. Of course my adopted home town of Philly has seen many of the same issues (who can forget M.O.V.E. and John Africa.) Keeping this hatred alive is, sadly, a seemingly large part of their political strategy. I just don't see how the country can move forward if it's leaders and their allies keep ramping up the hatred.
<sigh> You're right. I'm Chicago born & bred (mostly), now a TMZ dweller, and I love 'em both, wart and all.
DaJoker say………….
I won………….and DaJoker know best.
"Spread the wealth"
I wouldn't own Al Sharpton as a gift. You'd have to feed him.
What's your source? Not that you'll come back to answer the question.
I'm pretty sure you're working from an assumption of guilt, based solely on Gate's account of the incident. Very enlightened.
And yet, you'll slam anyone who does exactly the same thing based solely on Crowley's account. No personal bias showing here, at all.
You don't understand. None of that stuff happened. Gates said so.
no surprise why there was segregation in the past – the Real Americans that I know have segregated themselves from the diversity nuts and the obama fans that are acting stupidly
nothing new there – just more professional victimhood by the race hustlers and the fellow scum and America haters
he who lives by the sword…
The biggest fear we had after The One had posted victory back in November was that being from Cook County and all the era of filthy, not just dirty politics would have arrived. And then there was the race issue. To tempting to leave alone, although that would have been the smart move, we figured as soon as anything went south the race card would be instantly played.
And, of course, we were not to be disappointed. From here, where?
We have 3 and a half more years of these people- and they will not go quietly into the good night. It appears that this nonsense, like the Joker thing, nonsense- will be de riguer' from now on. Of course,people of good will can, and will reject this. But 13 percent of the population give 97% of their support to this fellow.
They are the ones who will ultimately determine his outcome…
As far as I am concerned there should be NO race card. But to those who feel compelled to use it so freely perhaps they have forgotten that those who live by the sword, die by the sword…or however Pee Wee Herman put it.
You won the hundred bucks!
Here is forty, we took all the taxes out. Do not spend it right away, we have some more bills to ram through Congress and may need some of that back soon.
Look, let us forget all this talk about reparations, making up for past injustices, whatever. Let us admit what we all know is true.
There are people out there who will not be happy until white people in chains are working the fields while a black overseer holds the whip, so white people can "know what we suffered." And even then there will be those who say it has to go on for a few hundred years so white people really know how it felt.
Maybe you’ll get lucky, the next time you need a cop they won’t come.
Why is it that when I see that picture of Gates getting cuffed and stuffed with his mouth wide open (yelling something, I guess), I get a visual of Gollum from LOTR screaming "AAAAAAAHHHHHH, my Preshhhhioussss"?
and we'll be spreading the wealth of what you used to have for health insurance, too
I thought the photo of Officer Crowley helping the elderly black racist down the White House steps as Obamo walks by obliviously put the final cap onto that story, to bad thier is no real news media anymore to distribute the pic.
END RACISM IN AMERICA, IMPEACH OBAMA
Except we already did… BEFORE the Africans were the slaves of choice… Only they are too ignorant to know that because our history books don't mention THAT part. Hmm… I wonder why?
I love Cambridge too… people in Mass aren't as liberal as they come off in the news (or with their perpetual need for liberal punishment of voting in Barney Frank in one of the most gerrymandered districts ever) at least they aren't near Lowell anyway.
But let's just face it… if a Cop in the Boston area is going to be a jerk they are going to be a jerk to everyone, not just blacks or white or whatever color one claims to be…. The real jerks will pull you over simply because your tags aren't from Mass, let alone the Northeast…
Side note, I wonder if I personally know Alex up there… :/ it wouldn't surprise me.
Sanmon, If you'll notice, however personally offended and passionate on this issue (I have suffered racial violence myself), I believe I have laid out the facts and the case as they need to be. Our Founding Fathers must have been furious at King George over incidents like the Boston Massacre, but by focusing and harnessing that anger in most eloquent fashion, well, you know the rest.
I do not believe in lashing out blindly. That is what Gates and Sharpton et al do. We have to stay above that. BTW I've emailed this link to the NAACP, the ACLU, the CBC, the SPLC, even BET. This double standard must end. It is hurting our country deeply. Look at how bad what should have been a peacefully resolved case of mistake identity has hurt us. Never had to happen. It never does. 'nuff said.
There are many things that are not getting mentioned, like how blacks enslaved other blacks for, what now, well over 10,000 years, 15,000, probably as long as there have been humans. Or how blacks sold other blacks to the slave traders, and even raided other tribes for more to sell. Or how free blacks in the colonies and then the US owned black slaves themselves. The complicity and outright participation of their ancestors in the slave trade is either not mentioned, or explained away as the corrupting influence of "the white man" which in several ways is even worse. Everything is only the fault of the "white devils."
Would it be racist to say I want to smack people like Gates upside the head and try to slap some sense into them? Right now, I Do Not Care.
Do you ever intend on posting anything else but that same message? I mean, come on now!
Oh but if you DO tell them that they say none of that matters… it only matters that whites kept black slaves… regardless that there were white slaves too here in America and no matter that blacks owned black slaves in America…. it just doesn't matter to them… all they care about is reparations and sticking it to the man…
My husband was accused of being a racist and calling a black woman the n word because he called her an idiot for stealing company property and blowing up her kitchen (which when she asked if she could "borrow" the property she was told explicitly no and one of the reasons was because it could blow up her kitchen).
Needless to say she was fired (for stealing company property) and it's on her record now that she falsly accuses people of racism.
A thought occurred to me…if Gates had something to hide in his house, say, drugs, would he have reacted to Crowley the way he did?
"Look, do you know who I am? I'm Al Sharpton's neice!"
I have to tell you, people. I may not be black. But with all that’s going on lately, I’m starting to get an idea of how it felt to be a black man in the Jim Crow South. Tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way.
Because you cannot demonstrate an iota of harm done to you for your whiteness.
How about this SubMac? If you checked my linked material, you would know that I have been terrorized in my youth by black racist punks at both knife and gunpoint. For starters. The kids with the knife were all laughing. One of my nephews had his jaw broken, was stabbed and nearly beaten to death by four black Michigan Wolverine gang members.
But I only hold the punks accountable. Not all blacks. Same thing for innocent blacks terrorized by racist white punks. It's the punks that gotta go! Larger point being, SubMac, I've forgotten more about racial injustice than you or that Lefty Harvard egghead will ever know. EOM.
I'm reprinting this reply to SubMac out front, because it's key if you at what he/she said.
How about this SubMac? If you checked my linked material, you would know that I have been terrorized in my youth by black racist punks at both knife and gunpoint. For starters. The kids with the knife were all laughing. One of my nephews had his jaw broken, was stabbed and nearly beaten to death by four black Michigan Wolverine gang members.
But I only hold the punks accountable. Not all blacks. Same thing for innocent blacks terrorized by racist white punks. It's the punks that gotta go! Larger point being, SubMac, I've forgotten more about racial injustice than you or that Lefty Harvard egghead will ever know. EOM.
John, I think your points are well made. Let us know if you ever hear back from those organizations you sent the link to. I suspect not. I believe you have strong feelings regarding Respect, Honor and Liberty. You are a little edgy in what you write, I like it when folks like you make me think through the issues. Keep it up. My caution was for all not you.
Police officers, especially around a large metropolitan area, are often trained to recognize if someone is on drugs, there is also experience on the job. Cops can be amazing, some of them know exactly what someone is on. If he had shown those signs at the time, then things would likely have gone differently. As it was, no signs, nothing to be seen in plain sight inside, no probable cause thus no search. If there had been drugs, the sensible thing would have been to shut up and be polite. Of course, as seen on Cops, you cannot count on people being sensible when drugs are involved, not even with those who are not users themselves.
However, as a side note, there had been a previous break-in attempt, and as the news stories have flown about I am unsure if Gates had looked through the place to see if anything was taken prior to returning that night. If he had something in his possession that he did not want public knowledge of, and had been getting worked up checking around everywhere, or perhaps waiting for his driver to leave so he could check, and then whoa, suddenly as soon as he is back there is a cop there, who is a white cop….
Excellent reasoning. I agree, Gates wasn't on drugs. His actions are inexplicable from a rational viewpoint. As you stated in your second paragraph, I wondered if his moving the police focus to race-baiting and arrest was an attempt to hide something else.
you cannot count on people being sensible when drugs are involved
Another explanation of Gate's behavior is to restate as: "you cannot count on people being sensible when Harvard professors are involved."
the Civil War lost the Democrats their slaves…
modern liberal policies have reclaimed said slaves for the Democrats once more.
But it is a better system nowadays as they will enslave anyone possible regardless of minority status. Being multi-racial makes everything better, unless you are a "minority-supporting" organization.
Does anyone here know how to set up a non-profit organization? I want to start NAAAP, National Association for the Advancement of American People.
Oh I'm sorry, I thought you were referring to something this year – you know, lately as you say – that would demonstrate that you were something other than a crybaby.
Oh, so doubling the injustice.
How about something in the last ten minutes? I don't think that anything would change your narrow mindset. Anyway, two snarky comments qualify you as a troll – go play in traffic.
Oh, so first it's show SOMETHING, then show something RECENT! You want time stamped vicitimization? Could you be more of a POS, SubMac? Going by your logic, why all the howling about slavery and Jim Crow? Not exactly today's news, is it? Who has scars from chains?
Who's been lynched lately? No one for decades? Okay, guess they're all crybabies just like me, huh? It's people like you that make a America a really sucky place to live these days. Congratulations!
yes, they seek to enslave us all along with their old slaves.
Oh, so first it's show SOMETHING, then show something RECENT!
YES. As in "But with all that’s going on lately, I’m starting to get an idea of how it felt to be a black man in the Jim Crow South." But you can't back it up because you're just whining.
Who's been lynched lately? No one for decades?
Stupid argument. It's a trivial exercise to find racist assaults in the news.
Change that to NoSubstanceOrGravitas, LOL! First you tell me I don't know what it's like to be racially raped, then it doesn't count because I was raped so long ago. As for racial assaults in the news, I don't even have to look!
Speaking of which, why aren't the black racist teen mob attacks on innocent whites in Marine Park and Akron, Ohio getting anywhere near the attention of Dr. Gates? That's SERIOUS racism! Violent too! But don't mind me. Nah, I'm just a grudge-monger for bringing all these unpleasant truths up. Like the nine racial lynching victims Big Al is good for.
Go back to your hole, NSOG. I ony debate with the intelligent. EOM.
I have to tell you, people. I may not be black. But with all that’s going on lately, I’m starting to get an idea of how it felt to be a black man in the Jim Crow South.
Tell me about it. Last November, I was so intimidated by all those Obamamite thugs with their hope and change rhetoric right up in my face right up to Election Day, I didn't even vote. It was just like a poll tax.
Once again, the Jim Crow analogy isn't backed up at all. White folks and black folks have been beating on each other for quite a while, so what can your "lately" mean? The answer is absolutely nothing: not a single facet of your life has changed "lately": you just whine about it more because an election hasn't gone your way.
More than doubling. While some horrific things were done under slavery, that was still a time when life was considered cheap and was often hard and short. A good chunk of the outrage that brought down slavery was from punishments still being used on slaves that had (largely) stopped being used on free people, but such were par for the course until just before that time. When did floggings end anyway? That was a military punishment during the Revolution, offhand I think it was still being done during the Civil War.
Point being, the image of the cruelty is greater than the reality, mainly because it gets viewed from the modern perspective but this is also true from the historical one as well. Think about how this country got stuck with labor unions, the workers were treated as slaves, difference being the slaves had been provided with room and board while workers were given pittance wages and had to secure such on their own. Also, and it sounds horrible to put it this way yet it is true, you do not abuse farm equipment. Each slave was an investment towards yielding profits, while they may have been pushed hard for greater productivity, punishments leading to decreased output or inability to work were discouraged by mere economic reality.
The injustice would be more than doubled since the image is what gets promoted, not the reality, and even then the image gets exaggerated. If you tried to replicate the equivalent injustice by modern standards, well, basically you are pretty close to many Chinese factory workers, dorms with meals, long hours for little pay, oppressive punishments for protests, and do not even ask for a vacation. Now, let us see if those demanding redress for slavery will bravely decry the modern iteration by boycotting Chinese goods.
Oh yeah. The thing is though, the whole "racism" debate is severely skewed from reality. If I would start up the N double-A A P to help American citizens regardless of race, it would get denounced as racist for excluding illegal aliens.
Start of thread:
Because you cannot demonstrate an iota of harm done to you for your whiteness.
Last post, that you can demonstrate it does not matter since both sides keep beating on each other.
Yup, "progressive" logic at its finest.
Could you be more of a sickening Lefty equivocator, NOSG? I think not. Neither did you read a word I've written, obviously! If Al Sharpton had set my hometown of Cambridge aflame over yet another race hoax like Brawley or Duke, and people I know got hurt, then yes, that affects me!
BTW I have STAUNCHLY defended the President against Birthers and far right wing nut jobs. When will he protect white voters like against Klan-like NBPP thugs, instead of giving them a total pass and free rein to terrorize again next year? Or speak out against racist black mob attackers "acting stupidly" against whites like he did Officer Crowley?
Don't answer, they're rhetorical questions. Being a Lefty means never having to prove you're intelligent.
Last post, that you can demonstrate it does not matter since both sides keep beating on each other.
Genius, John believes something has changed "lately" that makes him think he is as put-upon as a black guy in the Jim Crow South.
What that is, he will not say because there isn't an example he can use. You can't supply one either obviously.
If Al Sharpton had set my hometown of Cambridge aflame over yet another race hoax like Brawley or Duke, and people I know got hurt, then yes, that affects me!
So you'd get denied bathroom privileges at the local library and not be allowed to eat at certain establishments if this thing that has not happened had happened? C'mon, defend your Jim Crow comparison here. Or maybe you're just talking out of your ass again.
Which, no matter what, does nothing to disprove the simple fact that you were wrong. You asked him to demonstrate period, he did, then you tried to duck it by saying it did not matter he demonstrated it, and now, as with your new posts to John, you are trying to retroactively define it as a certain kind of harm, similar to how earlier you tried to retroactively specify a time frame.
You asked for five bucks, he gave you five bucks, then you said he had paid you too early, refused to give him a receipt, and insisted it had to be in quarters. Yup, truly the hallmark of "progressive" debate skills.
What happened during Jim Crow, NoSubOrGrav? Were not blacks persecuted for the color of their skin? Because of racial stuff that happened before I was even born makes it okay to for black radicals to shite all over Whitey now, like Obama equiviocating for race-hoaxers like Gates?
Or terrorizing NBPP poll watcher thugs like Jerry Jackson, who has a "COLORED ONLY: NO WHITES ALLOWED" sign on his front door? If that isn't pure Jim Crow, what is? Only the colors are different.
Look. I'm right, you're a Lefty moron, I've said my piece and I'm done here. If I had to spend all my time engaging in battles of wits with unarmed Lefty tinfoils and black racist-enablers like you, I'd never get anything else done. I got a life, unlike some people. Over and Out!
Gee, are there places where the hostility from blacks against whites, the racism, is so strong that white people would risk denial of service, intimidation and even assault by, for example, eating at certain establishments or using public facilities? Oh yeah. And what would happen if a group of white people would hold a peaceful sit-in to protest? Well, besides the media either not mentioning it at all or reporting it as a white supremacist event…. Oh wait, now you are likely going to argue that is not "legal" discrimination. But when the owner, representative, or likewise asks a a white person to leave, at that point they are trespassing and the cops can be called. And if you document that white people are repeatedly and preferentially denied service and try to bring about a discrimination case because of it? Good luck with that. Jim Crow against whites does effectively exist. If you really want a world where race does not matter, stop talking about it.
You're correct and he's correct that 40 years ago or whatever he got beat up. That still does nothing to change the absurd claim – which neither you nor he can back up – that But with all that’s going on lately, I’m starting to get an idea of how it felt to be a black man in the Jim Crow South.
Or terrorizing NBPP poll watcher thugs like Jerry Jackson, who has a "COLORED ONLY: NO WHITES ALLOWED" sign on his front door? If that isn't pure Jim Crow, what is?
A law. Good Christ, you're complaining you're not allowed into some jerk's house you'd never visit in a million years and you're comparing it to laws on the books that denied people schooling, transportation, water, and the vote. What better definition of "crybaby" could there be?
If you really want a world where race does not matter, stop talking about it.
Note what the post is about.
Yup, you are still ducking, not accepting, not listening.
Therefore I shall now demonstrate denial of service as under Jim Crow.
Go away.
You started with a variation of "You don't know what black people went through and will never know!" and went downhill from there.
Oh, sorry, I started demonstrating denial of service under Jim Crow, better get back to it.
Go away.
What better definition of "crybaby" could there be?
Working definition, provided by example: Substance McGravitas.
Resuming demonstration.
Go away.
You started with a variation of "You don't know what black people went through and will never know!"
No, I started with the assumption that Simpson couldn't demonstrate a change in his life that made it recognizably similar to the Jim Crow experience of a black person. Different.
And thus far, he can't demonstrate it and neither can you. Well done!
I had to peek. Like looking at a car accident as I'm driving by. And I was right. NoSubOrGrav, I could be hanging by a noose from a burning cross and you would say, "Yeah, but so what? White and black people lynch each other all the time!"
Like I said. Pathetic. And even though like most libtards you will get the last word here, you are just guano at the bottom of my birdcage. My words stand large and tall above yours, and always will. And you can't stand that, can you? GOOD!
BTW I have been contacted on this story by Anderson Cooper and the Cambridge Chronicle, linked everywhere, and even have new BFF in CPD. Who's called you lately but your mother up from the basement, LOL! I hate resorting to insults. But just sometimes
Go away.
Hey, my life is good and it's not at all as if it's like the Jim Crow era and I'm black.
Obviously I'm doing better than you are. You say so.
Hey SubMac, since you've been so kind, I just left some juicy commentary on your blog. Even love the title of your piece: "The White Man Is The Black Man Of Liberal Fascism." You should be writing for Big Hollywood!
Here's the link, if any SubMac fans would like to comment direct. Share the Love. Have that long-awaited discussion on race with an expert. Besides, his blog only has 84 page views. I can't help but sympathize. How's THAT for being a nice guy to the enemy?
http://houseofsubstance.blogspot.com/2009/08/whit...
Thanks! You may rate a limerick for that.
That's one of their favorite tools for silencing those that disagree.
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I have a question. Where were you and your brother when you were arrested?
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