Preview of an article at FrontPage magazine.
Tim Oberlander says he wants to be able to live in a city that does good things for good people.
So what’s wrong with that?
Everything.
Oberlander is a news editor at KGW TV in Portland. His city is under attack from black mob violence centered on and around Martin Luther King Boulevard. This mob has been attacking bike riders, housewives, students, you name it. These attacks are part of a long — but quiet — history of racial violence in a city that prides itself on racial tolerance and harmony.
But Tim does not want to let us know that.
Tim and his station are raising money to fix the teeth of a recent victim of black mob violence. “I want to live in a city where people do good things for other people,” Tim said. “Now we’ve raised money for Andy’s teeth, I can say that we live in a city that does good things for good people.”
Tim might be a good person. But he is a bad and dangerous and unreliable reporter. Here is what Tim’s station, KGW, had to say about a few recent attacks:
“Police were warning bicyclists in Northeast Portland to be on the lookout after two men were injured during separate attacks along Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.”
Andy Sweeney is the beneficiary of Tim’s editorial largesse. He was riding home from the grocery store when a “group of teens” threw a traffic cone at him. Knocking him off his bike, leaving him with a concussion and two shattered front teeth in what used to be a winning smile.
“It’s crazy,” Sweeney told KGW. “I don’t really understand their motivation or what they were going for.”
Lots of readers figured it out, even if the reporters were determined to ignore it:
“Great job ‘whitewashing’ the story,” said David Klassix on the station’s comments section, “and falling to mention the attackers were black.”
Said another, Chloe Ru
“Hey KGW. I will help you do something called REPORTING THE FACTS instead of hiding the truth,” said Ru. Another victim said “her attackers were a group of [AFRICAN AMERICAN aka BLACK] teenage boys and she suspects they didn’t stop with her.”
“Anyone with any information about a roaming pack of AFRICAN AMERICAN aka BLACK teenage thugs beating anyone else, please call…..Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. They care just as much as KGW does about the community’s safety.”
The paper did not mention it. But Sweeney described his attackers on Twitter: “Black kids in hoodies.”
After the sanitized version of the bike attacks became public, other victims of black mob violence in that area stepped forward as well, one at Reddit.com in response to Sweeney’s Tweet:
“Same thing happened to me once except it was a rocks being thrown, and thankfully my teeth are intact. The best you can do is just avoid being around any collection of young black males. It isn’t being racist it’s just being practical.”
Many of the attacks are centered around Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. Maybe local media thinks everyone already knows this is a black part of town. For the benefit of the out of towners, it is.
Some readers provided a link to the Chris Rock comedy bit:
“You know what’s sad? Martin Luther King stood for non violence,” said Rock. “And I don’t care where you are in America, if you’re on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down.
It ain’t the safest place to be. You can’t call nobody and tell them you are lost on MLK.” (If you do, will say) RUN! RUN! RUN!.
Sad. Sad. Sad.
One of the recent victims, middle aged woman, wound up in the emergency room. The other passed around a flier, warning neighbors to be on the lookout. Said KGW:
“I heard some noise across the street and apparently one of the guy that was trying to vandalize the car came across the street,” said Amy Wilson. “(He) hit me very, very hard. (He) knocked me out cold. I fell back and hit my head on the sidewalk.”
She suffered a concussion and needed 12 stitches to close the wound on the back of her head.
Wilson said her attackers were a group of teenage boys and she suspects they didn’t stop with her. “I’m almost convinced that it’s the same group that we’ve talked about that are going against cyclists,” she said.
Then another victim came forward at the Oregon Live web site:
It was at least the second time in less than a week that a group of teenagers had assaulted a bicyclist along MLK.
Last Tuesday night, Bill Lynch, 64, had just crossed MLK as he pedaled home from a garden party when someone in a group of “three to five young people” knocked him off his bicycle on the Northeast Going Street Neighborhood Greenway.
“They were walking down the middle of the street like they owned it,” Lynch said. “I don’t know what hit me. A strong fist? Something in someone hand? It hurt.”
Lynch said he was riding past the group and the blow “came out of nowhere.”
“When I filed a police report the officer said similar nighttime incidents had occurred in the neighborhood recently,” Lynch writes in a flyer that he posted in his neighborhood to encourage people to be more vigilant. “I learned there was another attack on Aug. 19. In a couple of cases, the bicyclists were beaten and had their bikes stolen.
And another, Chris Freeman, who wrote:
I was also attacked by a group of about five kids on bikes at NE 7th and Stanton at about 11pm on Aug 17. One of them jumped off his bike and tried to push me over. Luckily I didn’t lose my balance after being pushed and was able to get away.
Still another:
Bummer man. I was riding near SEI in North Portland a few years ago with my 3 year old daughter in a Burley behind me when 5 dudes (yes, they had dark skin) jumped our and threw rocks at us. Amazingly, considering how close they were and how many there were they completely missed and I hightailed it out of there, just feeling really sad about humanity.
Some were willing to point out the obvious: “There’s a lot of black-on-white animosity in NE and N Portland. Especially towards white bicyclists.”
All the suspects in all of these attacks are black.
But others in Portland, like Tim, are eager to say they live in a city without racial tension — or violence. Several commenters at the Reddit.com news site say white people do it all the time too.
“But there are dumbass white kids who dress the same that are capable of doing stupid shit like this, too. The kids in this instance didn’t necessarily have to be black, but it is what it is.
Dumbassedness knows no racial bounds.”
But none of these people supplied police reports, links, pictures or even anecdotes of roving bands of caucasian youth creating violence against black people — or anyone else.
Others in Portland grudgingly admit that violence is real. But they plead guilty with an explanation: Said someone at Reddit.com identified as Kounterculture:
“I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that in the african-american community bicycling isn’t seen as a viable alternative to the automobile. It isn’t mostly racial animosity, although I’m sure some of that goes on.”
Black mob violence against bicyclists and others has been a regular — and unreported –feature of life in Portland since at least 2007. Bike Portland reported six years ago several cases of black mob violence against bikers.
The web site mentioned the race of the attackers, largely to dismiss racial violence as having anything to do with it:
I don’t think these attacks are solely about race, but I also don’t think the conversation is real and honest if we don’t mention it.
And I think any mention of race must also include the realities of gentrification in Northeast Portland. I think there remains resentment in the black community about gentrification…but whether that has to do with bikes and whites is hard to say.
Are bikes somehow symbolic of whites and gentrification to the eyes black community? I’m not sure, but it’s a question I’d like to delve deeper into. It’s certainly obvious that Portland’s cycling population could be more diverse.
For those who require some help with translation, here it is: Black mobs attack bike riders in Portland because they are not diverse enough.
More than a dozen examples of black mob violence in Portland are documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it. Many of these cases are on video.
The book features QR codes that readers can scan with their smart phones to watch the violence on their smart phones as they read about it. Some recent cases:
Last year, 10 to 15 hoodie wearing black people invaded Nordstrom, stole clothing and raced out of the store. On video.
The locals were far from upset. Said one man who called himself the Crazed Sex Poodle to a local news site:
“I am actually sort of hoping that it happens more, it seems like a trend worth encouraging. Giant corporations like Nordstrom and Chevron steal everyday, taking back is something worth fostering.”
A few days before that, a mob of 20 black people chased a white couple into a convenience store. The local papers described the ensuing assault and robbery as a “fight.” The mob left when one of the employees sprayed them with “bear spray.”
A few days before that: “A large group of kids stormed” into a convenience store and stole everything they could carry. They came back later to threaten the clerk. On video.
A few months after that, a bigger crowd attacked an Albertson’s grocery store, following the same play book: Theft, destruction, intimidation. And no arrests. Despite the video.
KPTV – FOX 12 Still, people seemed surprised when in June, a group of 150 black people — described by the newspapers as drunken teenagers — assaulted several people in a Portland park, robbing at least one of them. The newspaper — and the TV broadcast — may have shied away from describing the attackers, but the internet site of a local TV station was a little more revealing: “Both fights involved groups of black teenagers randomly attacking people in the park. The following night, a group of 20 to 30 black people, came upon three people on a tennis courts at the same park: “Some of the teens began throwing bottles onto the court and calling out to them. They said the teens then began fighting with them.” In January of this year, a 14-year old white girl was beat down by three black women while about a dozen other black people took videos, shouted racial epithets, and encouraged the assault. Four people were arrested, including a mother of two of the assailants. The mother was convicted of giving police false information while trying to hide her daughters. Taleeb Starkes describes many examples of black on white crime in his book: The Uncivil War.
“Portland is one of the most liberal cities in the country,” said Starkes. “They are quite proud of that. But this same liberalism is causing them to ignore, condone and excuse black on white crime and black mob violence. People who commit these horrific acts of violence are one thing. But people who condone them by ignoring them or refusing to tell the truth about them only encourage more them to occur. Those folks are sicker than the criminals.”
Here are the links to some stories about it.
Teens attack bicyclists in NE Portland | kgw.com Portland
Two Northeast Portland bicyclists injured in unprovoked attacks on or near MLK | OregonLive.com
Another victim describes attack by teens in NE Portland | kgw.com Portland
Police Respond to Weird Assaults in Laurelhurst Park | Blogtown, PDX
These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
Get it here:
Portland is hardly liberal. It is the only place that a white thug (totally unknown to me) pulled up beside me in his car and called me “nigger”. I am constantly asked (by whites) “what country are your from (born and raised right here in good ole’ America)?
The problem with the gentrification is that white go into the neighborhoods and instead of blending in as a community, the usual is to set themselves apart from the community that has been there for decades. When I go to NE Portland, the white people look at me as if to say “what are YOU doing here?”. 10 years ago, no bicycle lanes, no sidewalk restaurants, no bicycle riders. NOW, with the re-gentrification, all the good for the whites. Displacement of the blacks to the Gresham and other distant areas. All I can say is wow.
I don’t condone violence of any kind towards anyone. Violence is wrong. BUT, when you live in a society where a black man is crucified for alleged dog abuse and then someone like the Florida pretend to be a cop, gets free (heralded by white people) after killing an unarmed black teenager (thug on general principle), excuse me if I resent your calling black young men “thugs”. You have no credibility.
Your description of the white girl being beaten by “women” was slanted as well. They were girls too (still wrong to beat the white girl). If you want to be credible, then write a credible and show less bigotry (really showing the hate aren’t you?)
Again, I don’t condone violence of any kind, but the perspective I have is just as credible as the one you are giving. YOU are playing the “race card” instead of giving
credible facts.
I knew I was in Lefty land when I rode the light rail in Portland. All the public address announcements were in English and Spanish. Coming from Alta Mexico, aka California, where parts resemble Mexico, we don’t even do the Spanish announcement thing. Are those Portland people nuts?
The lengths the media go to to conceal the ugly truth about Black teen mobs makes them accessories to the crimes. The 1st Amendment includes freedom of the press because the FF thought that reporters would be concerned about being the watchdogs of the community, the state, and the gov’t. The press has now grown to include many more forms of media, but those who purport to apprise the public of the NEWS still have the same obligation…to be the watchdogs, not the lapdogs.
Failing to identify the criminals is not only dishonest, but allows the criminals to feel invincible so the crimes multiply.
The Progressives have made it clear that crimes and racism can ONLY be attributed to Whites, preferably successful whites. As long as the MSM has a bully pulpit from which they can denigrate, discredit, lie, and use any number of Alinsky’s rules to stimulate class warfare and racial unrest, the vast numbers of uninformed voters will continue to vote based on emotions, not logic and those who only know news regarding celebrities will continue to vote for “free stuff”.
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