Black Crime and the perils of Walking When White

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Black crimes are foundation of whites’ fears

Published: Thursday, August 6, 2009

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By Paul Marx

BLACK intellectuals just don’t get it. They refuse to understand why there is widespread racial profiling and why they and people they know often are its victims. Black intellectuals simply refuse to acknowledge that there is a very obvious connection between themselves and the lawless black underclass.

In a recent essay in The New York Times, Brent Staples, a member of the newspaper’s editorial board, wrote, “The experience of being mistaken for a criminal is almost a rite of passage for African-American men. Security guards shadow us in stores. Troopers pull us over for the crime of ‘driving while black.’ Nighttime pedestrians cower by us on the streets.”

In expressing his disgust that the Harvard professor-Cambridge cop confrontation has not been seen generally as a flagrant instance of racial profiling, Times columnist Bob Herbert urges black people “to rant and to rave, to demonstrate and to lobby, to march and confront and to sue and generally do whatever is necessary to stop a continuing and deeply racist criminal justice outrage.”

The Harvard professor — Henry Louis Gates Jr. — and Staples and Herbert think the unfair treatment of blacks by the police is 100 percent the fault of white people. In the view of Staples, white people need to exorcise their “poisonous misconceptions.”

But, for racial profiling to go away, blacks, especially black intellectuals, need to remove their blinders. They need to see what whites see. They need to see and acknowledge the criminal lifestyle that is pervasive in the black underclass.

Young black men of the ghettoes take pride in carrying guns and have little respect for law. When they go outside their communities, the guns and attitudes are not left behind. In much of their music, they are out front, bragging about their lawlessness.

White people’s awareness of that criminal lifestyle creates fear, and that fear, unfortunately, becomes wariness of even law-abiding blacks.

Black crime is the most potent determiner today of white attitudes toward blacks. While the great majority of American blacks are not involved in criminal activity, the criminal lifestyle of young black men makes most whites fearful and suspicious. That is a great injustice, because among middle-class blacks, there is relatively little crime.

In many cities — New Haven, Hartford, Brooklyn, Baltimore, for instance — major hospitals are located on the edge of neighborhoods populated by the black underclass. When whites who work at the hospitals drive through those neighborhoods, they make sure their windows are up and doors are locked. Walking from the parking lot to the workplace is risky. In e-mails, medical students and hospital staff are informed of robberies and beatings by young black men. They are warned against walking alone.

If it is dangerous to “drive while black,” it is even more dangerous to walk while white in some neighborhoods. Driving while black may result in the indignity of a speeding ticket; walking while white could result in a fractured skull.

Staples has written about his walks near the University of Chicago. It upset him that when white women walking alone noticed him, they would try to avoid him, speeding up or crossing the street. He was befuddled about why a completely innocent black man should be avoided. Why couldn’t the women understand that he was Brent Staples, not some thug?

The other day, I was walking down a street and suddenly I saw three young black men coming toward me. My first reaction was “uh-oh.” I thought I might be attacked. When I wasn’t, I thought how unfair it was to think that.

But it is a typical reaction when a white person walks alone in a fringy neighborhood. Lawless young black men cause fear among whites, and it is not unnatural for whites to be suspicious of all blacks who fit the profile of the attackers. Would it be unnatural for the citizens of African cities — like Lagos, Nairobi or Harare — to be suspicious of white men if there were an epidemic among whites of robbings and beatings?

The American media have bent over backward to avoid identifying criminal perpetrators and suspects by race. But by names, addresses, education and criminal records, people easily jump to conclusions, and they usually are correct. They then generalize.

It may not be logical to do this, but for most people, generalizing comes as easily as eating. This is not fair to law-abiding blacks, but most white people would rather have an unfair thought than risk being hurt.

Paul Marx is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven 06516. E-mail: pppmarx@comcast.net.

Anti-Racism = Let Scorpions and Snakes Into The UK

Image - Hate Racism, Love Banana Spiders. Searchlight have just announced that they intend to start a campaign to protect the Banana spider from racist spider squishers.







The award for '2009 Twat Of The Year' has it seems already got a strong contender.

Professor Christopher Smout, Scotland's Historiographer Royal and the founder of the Institute for Environmental History at St Andrews University, is what is classified as a 'Liberal Academic Twat'.

The Liberal Academic Twat is a subset of the generic 'Liberal Twat' able to be identified by the following traits ;

1) They have never had a real job in the real world and have usually spent their entire lives sucking up public taxes whilst teaching twaddle to idiotic students

2) They live in an middle class Ivory Tower with other middle class mainly white public purse parasites in a tax funded university

3) They are usually demented and see the spectres of 'racism' or 'institutional racism' everywhere, in a manner similar to the way hysterical women in the Middle Ages ( or in contemporary American Christian Fundamentalist groups ) once saw witches or devils everywhere.

According to proffessor Smout we should embrace scorpions, snakes, malaria, locusts, American crayfish and all other 'foreign and alien' creatures that are not part of the native British ecological system as part of the 'racial' diversity of the UK.

If we try and eradicate these alien species from our shores, and seek to recreate a pristine and harmonious ecological system, then we are 'racists' and almost 'Nazis'.

Yes that right we are 'racists' - Even I never thought that one day the term 'racism' would one day be used by liberals to defend scorpions and snakes.

What makes this even funnier is the oh so pious, liberal editorial from the saddoes at the Independent newspaper that welcomes the criminalisation of anyone who dares call a ruddy duck an alien species here ;

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-ruddy-ridiculous-1515758.html

Are we "quasi-racist" towards so-called alien bird and animal species? Professor Christopher Smout thinks we are, and says it is time that we re-examined the dogma, upheld by groups such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, that many non-native species deserve to be eradicated. A case in point is the ruddy duck, a perky bird from North America, which had been paddling around Britain's ponds since the 1950s until the RSPB earmarked the species for extermination, principally because some had the temerity to fly off to Spain and cross-breed with a similar, rarer species, creating a hybrid.

As the professor suggests, it is incongruous to apply rigid doctrines of ethnic or racial purity to the natural world that we would now judge repellent when applied to human society.

Conservation groups disagree, but there is no doubt that old assumptions about the desirability of keeping native species "pure" are now being questioned, and rightly so. "

Yes it is true - they are ruddy bonkers, the whole ruddy lot of them.

I can just imagine the prosecution of wildfowlers for 'hate crimes' for daring to shoot the ruddy duck, arrests of those that squish banana spiders that escape from packs of bananas for 'racism' and the public villification for anyone caught chopping down a foreign weed as a 'Nazi genocidal maniac'.

This country has gone completely fucking mad.



http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/uk-accused-of-racism-towards-invaders-from-across-the-pond-1515728.html


"Save the aliens!" is the cry – and an unusual one too. Safeguarding Britain's flora and fauna from the ravages of mankind and "non-native invader" species has become the largely unquestioned cause célèbre of a generation.


In a new book, however, a leading historian argues this "culturally-determined" idea of native and non-native species is fundamentally flawed, and calls attempts to preserve the genetic identity of British wildlife "quasi-racist". Professor Christopher Smout, Scotland's Historiographer Royal and the founder of the Institute for Environmental History at St Andrews University, said species needing conservation should receive it regardless of "ethnicity". Those which cause problems, such as native bracken or non-native giant hogweed, should be dealt with in the same way and classed as "pests".

"The preoccupation with alien species is comparatively recent and not something which worried scientists and ecologists 50 years ago," said Professor Smout, whose book, Exploring Environmental History, is published in May. "They were concerned with pests. In recent times, the emphasis has been on the fact these pests are aliens and it has tended to a blanket condemnation to all species not classed as natives."


One such unfortunate is the ruddy duck, an American species accidentally released from the Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire – described as the "birthplace of modern conservation" – in the 1950s. The population expanded to such an extent that the bird migrated to Europe and, in Spain, started breeding with the white-headed duck, threatening the latter's status as a distinct species. The RSPB persuaded the British Government to carry out a decade-long cull of ruddy ducks.

"Conservationists are up in arms because they fear the ducks will all get turned into some kind of mish-mash," said Professor Smout. "The conservationists would say 'We're doing this because it is endangering the genetic integrity of the white-headed duck'.

"I don't think that's a scientifically valid point of view. The concern with genetic integrity seems almost quasi-racist. Our attitude towards alien species is culturally determined and sometimes you end up with rather bizarre actions by scientists."

Another case in point is the sika deer from Asia. Scientists have warned breeding with native red deer in Scotland threatened the famous "Monarch of the Glen". Professor Smout dismisses it as "no big deal", adding: "If one species can successfully interbreed with another, it might assist its survival in evolutionary terms. If it is a failure, the hybrid will die out."

Andre Farrar, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, was outraged by the claim of "quasi-racism", saying the more extreme wing of the animal rights movement had suggested that conservationists who talked about alien species "are one step from Goebbels". "These are dedicated people who have given their lives to give beleaguered native fauna a chance."

Not welcome here: 'Alien' species

*Ruddy ducks were introduced from North America to Britain in the 1950s and their population grew rapidly. They have been repeatedly culled down to about 4,100 over-wintering birds to stop their migration to Spain, where interbreeding with white-headed ducks is threatening the latter's existence as a separate species.

*Reeves's pheasant is endangered, with just 2,000 left worldwide. It is native to China but there are a few wild escapees in Britain. According to the RSPB, they have never formed a sustainable population. Professor Smout argues that they should be considered for conservation projects here, despite their alien status.

*Sika deer were brought to the UK in 1860 from Asia. Scientists recently voiced concern that they are interbreeding with red deer, threatening the red deer's genetic identity.

Hollywood strikes again.

1) Hancock - the bad guy in the film played by English actor Eddie Marsan. Film also features a 'funny' nasty scene of child abuse where a blonde , blue eyed young child, a french child, is violently thrown into the air by the 'hero' hancock.


2) Wanted - villain played by Terence Stamp english actor


4) Get Smart - villain played by english actor Terence Stamp (again)


5) Kung Fu Panda - the evil tiger villain voiced by English actor Ian McShane


6)The Incredible Hulk - the villain played by Tim Roth english actor


7) Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull - villains played by English actor Ray Winstone and Cate Blanchett



Not a bad total - of the top 10 movies in the US 6 of those films use English actors to portray the villains or have the villains as english.

But hey, this isnt typecasting or stereotyping is it.

I wonder if these actors ever wonder what the effect on young english people is when they make their careers out of playing constant parts that denigrate the english.

I suppose the money is good and they dont care.