Letter from a Teacher. Lots and lots of PTSD out there.
I get lots of letters from teachers and cops and self are workers and other who work in the public sector.
Many sound like this: Traumatized by black mob violence.
But no one believes them.
I do.
Here’s the letter:
Hi.
I am currently reading your book White Girl Bleed a Lot.
I am a white teacher working in an almost exclusively black middle school. In May of 2012, I left my classroom in an ambulance after two fighting students ran around the room at full speed and plowed into me, knocking me to the ground.
I sustained permanent back injuries and had a knee operation. This year, instead of remedial reading classes (I am a reading teacher), I was assigned full classes. From mid-September, I have been subjected to almost daily race baiting, racial and sexual taunts, threats, and attacks.
Students chase me and each other around the room with table legs, threaten to kill my “three ugly little niggers”, follow me to my car in groups shouting racial epithets and “get in a white school, bitch”. Requests to sit in a seat are met with, “Oh, it’s cause I’m black” or “Why you hate black people?” I often hear, “Imma gonna slap this white bitch”, etc.
On Oct 30 of this year, a 7th grade girl with a history of incidents against me had just returned from suspension (she had sprayed me in the face with perfume after telling me that I “smell like old white pussy”) and got angry when I changed her seat.
She said, “Oh, this damn bitch is all up in my face startin’ her shit. Imma gonna kick her fuckin’ white ass”. She then got up and gave a long racially charged diatribe about how she “can do whatever I want to the white bitch and the school can’t do nothin’. It’s just a damn school and I’m about to kick this bitch’s white ass ‘cuz I am DONE with the damn bitch”.
She ended her rant by shoving past me and shoving me to the floor.
Incidents such as these are written off as “poor instruction” or “poor planning”. When I discussed this situation with my (Black) principal, she said, “I doubt they even know you are white”. She also said, “I have to wonder of you are able to really ENGAGE the young people – to they LIKE the work you give?”
I have gone to NBC, which had me come in to the studio to film an interview, which I did, only to be told that the story was killed because “school violence is on the decline” and “we already did one assaulted teacher story already”. Ben Chapman of the Daily News seems mildly interested, but not in the racial aspect.
I have emails, incident reports, anecdotal records, etc, that show the racial and sexual hostility, the administration’s lack of response, and the media’s failure to call it what it is. I am asking if there is any way I can get this story out. I know other teachers who are in similar situations who are also fed up.
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.
In her article, “The Inner Voices Behind Violent Behavior,” Dr. Lisa Firestone writes “After years of researching, interviewing, and assessing violent individuals, along with my father Dr. Robert Firestone , I began to recognize certain voices (negative thought processes) that flood the minds of these individuals influencing them to engage in acts of violence.”
One of the negative thought processes she identified were ones that support people feeling victimized and persecuted. These voices promote and support thoughts of being discounted, blamed, or humiliated by other people.
In his book, “Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic,” psychiatrist Dr. James Gilligan asserts that violence is caused by shame and humiliation. When we commit violence, says Gilligan, we’re actually trying to do something that to him is positive—that is, reclaim a part of the self, a part of a depleting sense of self-love, which we feel has somehow been violated. This is why, when you ask most young people today why they became violent, they’ll say it was because they were disrespected, or “dissed.”
In Nathan McCall’s book, “Makes Me Want to Holla,” he discusses the power black youth feel with a gun in their hand. The possessor of the gun derives a level of respect, which has evaded him because of cultural oppression
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.
The treatment of enslaved Black people was generally characterized by degradation, dehumanization, and fatal brutalities. The violent tactics of whippings, rapes and executions was a normal way of life for them.
Men were stripped of any form of pride and self respect by being humiliated in front of his family. Women were often taken from their husbands and raped at their owner’s discretion which further diminished the black man’s sense of self worth as well as the woman’s self esteem (Dubois, The Souls Of Black Folk, 1903).
The brutal treatment of Black people continued well after slavery legally ended, through the days of Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and, to a certain extent today. The trauma caused by this psychological brutality resulted in severe damaged to the mind of the victims, which manifested as an identity crisis, self hate, low self worth, and a distrust of the world at large. This mentality has been passed down through generations.
Today, conditions such as low socioeconomic status, social deprivation, inadequate education, high unemployment, and the criminal industrial complex has reinforced this negative mentality, which has and still affects behavior in the Black community today, including young black boys. Follow @ColinFlaherty
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.
Letter from a black racist — here’s why non-blacks deserve violence.
This is about as good as it gets:
1) Its not happening
2) Here’s why it is happening.
Enjoy:
From Bdot
big_beegee@yahoo.com
Racist whites seem to be obsessed with this knockout game. Back in the day, the “knockout game” involved a bunch of cowardly faggots in white sheets hunting blacks for lynching and burning wooden stakes on yards. These days you can find kids in Mississippi hunting blacks for fun and running them over with trucks, or dragging them to death in Texas.
You racist whites are the most ignorant, underdeveloped, tunnel visioned element of OUR SOCIETY. You ignore the white racism that gave birth to most of the ignorance perpetrated in this nation, and you champion every story you can find about blacks committing violence against whites.
Your chickens will never stop coming home to roost on that ass. You fucked and impregnated your black slaves and now you complain about the rapidly growing dynamic of interracial relationships in this country. That’s your chicken, and it’s home. You try to fashion the knockout game into some sort of attack on the white race, yet you’ve played the knockout game for centuries.
That’s your chicken, and it’s home. You complain that blacks are always pulling the race card, but now you spend your entire day trolling blacks on the internet and claiming racism at every opportunity, even creating blogs predicated on the race card. That’s your chicken, and it’s home.
You lose. You’re gonna keep losing until you either flee the country or take your retarded ideology to your pathetic grave. It doesn’t matter how many blacks you troll on the internet or how many guns you stockpile. You’re just a coward with a case filled with weapons, hiding out on the internet. And that’s where you’ll stay.
While NPR makes up its mind whether the Knockout Game is an “old phenomenon with fresh branding,” or just a conservative fairy tale, victims, witnesses, videos and stories continue to pour forth.
“Folks, as a Program Director at an NPR station, I don’t usually get involved in discussions like this, but I have personal experience with this so-called game,” Hingsbergen said in the comments section of an NPR blog on race called Code Switch. “It was this past May, just a block from the Hilton Garden Inn on First St, N.E. While I was taking a brief walk around the area, within sight of the hotel and with plenty of other people on the sidewalk, a teenager walked up to me smacked me on the side of the head. Thankfully, he was not strong enough to “knock out” this 60+ year old so all I did was spin around, only to see him take off running to the other side of the street to join two companions who were laughing as if it was the most hilarious thing they’d ever seen.”
Laughing is constant of the Knockout Game. So is the fact that most of the predators are black. Most of the victims are not.
Hingsbergen gets to the hard part: “Is there a racial component? I choose to believe not but sadly this was an African American teenager attacking an older white man.”
An email asking Hingsbergen why reporting the news without fear or favor should be an occasion of sadness went unanswered.
The most recent racial violence came on Friday: ten black people attacked a still unidentified man in Washington, D.C. He lived. They laughed. “After the punch, I remember chuckling,” he told the ABC affiliate.
In November, Phoebe Connolly was riding her bike through a Washington, D.C. neighborhood when she passed through a group of black people. CNN calls them “teenagers.”
Then one “reached out and punched me in the face,” she told Anderson Cooper. “The whole group of kids laughed.”
The day before the same thing happened to another woman in the same place, Connolly said.
A few days later, a black person punched New York Congresswoman Grace Meng in the head and stole her purse. She now believes she could have been the victim of the Knockout Game. She doesn’t remember the laughing, or much else about the attack on the streets of Washington.
This was one of dozens of similar mob attacks at the Metro Trail over the last three years against bikers and hikers and joggers using weapons including stun guns and pipes. All the assailants were black. Most of the victims were not. More often than not, they were laughing.
Almost as if it were like some kind of game.
In June, the Washington Post sent two reporters to do a story on the ritual mayhem at the trail. The reporters did not think that mentioning the race of the perpetrators was important. But the readers who left comments did. Including this one from Reverend Bacon.
“Yes, they usually remember to steal something, almost as an afterthought, so that their apologists can claim it was about robbery. In many recent examples of the knockout game, they have forgotten to do this.”
In a November story about white racism, Washington Post columnist Mary Curtis declared it was easy to detect: Just look at the pattern. For example, people who do not like Barack Obama are not going to come out and declare they are racist. Or leave a calling card. Or issue a press release.
But if you look at the pattern, then it becomes “A Question of Race,” she said.
But not all patterns, apparently.
Steve is a resident of Washington. He was a victim of racial violence. So were others he knows. He sees a pattern since his attack in October 2010.
I was walking away from the Jon Stewart event on the Mall when a girl came up behind me on the sidewalk on 14th Street and screamed that she had just been punched by a group of kids.
I turned around to witness a group of 5-10 black kids colliding with pedestrians and throwing punches whenever they were confronted. Within a few seconds, they started pushing me in the back & when I responded a punch arrived to my throat and the group started running away when I attempted to notify police.
Multiple friends refuse to attend events in certain parts of D.C. including Adams Morgan and Chinatown where a multitude of attacks have been perpetrated over the years. There is a persistent air of racial tension around the city.
I have been attacked several times by gangs of blacks in D.C. (male & female) over the past few years.
The Washington Metro is also the sight of frequent black mob violence. Most of which goes unnoticed by the Washington Post. But at least one D.C. Outlet thinks it is a story: The UnSuck DC Metro blog.
I have never been more disgusted or shocked by what I witnessed Saturday night at the Anacostia Metro. I went to pick up a family member at the Metro, and just as she was telling me about the fights (Yes, plural!) that happened on the Green Line train [between L’Enfant and Anacostia], we witnessed a group of 6 to 8 young black teenagers kick, stomp, punch and push a lone teenage girl.
I could not believe my eyes! I also could not believe there was not an officer in sight.
When the family member arrived, she had her own story as well:
When she got on the train toward Anacostia, a group of teenagers proceeded to verbally and physically assault a group of young women. One of the boys threw a bottle and another threw the contents of a bottle in one of the woman’s face. The assaults got so out of hand that some people landed on a woman and her baby.
The attacking group had the doors to the train blocked so people couldn’t get off the train. My cousin told me she was so scared that she hid behind some seats and pulled out the box cutter she used for work.
And every time the web site runs another story of racial violence, readers — often dozens at a time — post their most recent encounter with black mob violence in Washington.
Some on video. Such as the two white women attacked by a black mob on the Red Line in Southeast Washington. No one knows what these two women were doing on that Metro in that part of Washington. On the video, they told their attackers they “did not want any trouble.”
To the black mob that confronted them, threatened them, beat them and robbed them, it was no trouble at all. All the while one of the members of the crew was rolling video.
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.
Is the legacy of Slavery driving black people crazy? Yes, says councilwoman.
A preview of a story at WND.com, with links.
Wilmington, Delaware has a big problem: Large groups of black people are going crazy.
And this collective “mental illness” is causing record levels of crime and gun violence in this largely Chocolate town of 70,000.
That is the diagnosis of the city council which, by unanimous agreement earlier this month, asked the Centers for Disease Control to investigate this wave of psychological mayhem that has turned this historic and once-charming city into an unrecognizable husk of its former self.
“There is a well known fact that the African American community here in the United States of America is still suffering from the traumatic syndrome of slavery,” Shabazz said. “That is compounded with the many effects that are happening in today’s society with our young people and the things they are seeing, and there is definitely a shift of mental capacity of their ability to make good decisions. That results in gun violence.”
Shabazz went on to talk about the “mental illness that our young people are suffering in order for our young people to be able to take life so aimlessly.”
She pointed to the recent movie 12 Years of Slavery to illustrate her diagnosis. In one scene, a slave is hung from a tree with a rope around his neck and must stand on his tip-toes for a long period of time to survive. Many people saw the slave in distress but did not help him.
Shabazz says that is the situation with black people today.
“That mentality is still going on,” she told her council colleagues. And it is “not a natural phenomena. It is not in the nature of the African American to act in self-destruction.”
Shabazz did not explain who is playing the role of slave master. Or what they are doing to endanger so many black people in Wilmington. Or if the black men and women who serve as mayor, city council president and city councilmembers are also afflicted by this disease.
The councilwoman’s comments came after a series of news stories and violent incidents in Wilmington that left the council grappling for new solutions to what are now old problems: Shootings. Stabbings. Violence. Drugs. Mayhem.
The city has seen a record 150 shootings this year, with 22 fatalities. Most of the shooters are black, as are the victims.
Other council members lined up to support the Shabazz diagnosis and co-sponsor her resolution. Some offered their own visions in council chambers — or on Facebook.
City Councilwoman Maria Cabrera posted an article on her Facebook page with a complementary point of view that is also very popular in Wilmington political circles: Sometimes known as the “Freeway Did It” analysis: The article points to the destruction of several hundred homes in Wilmington 50 years ago to make way for Interstate 95 as the tipping point that led to the epic levels of crime and violence in the city.
City councilman Trippi Congo, one of two funeral directors on the council, blamed police. Congo says they are not friendly enough. Congo also blasted the local newspaper and the WDEL radio station for not reporting enough good stories about the city — that several national news organizations have reported as one of the most dangerous in the country.
Congo said the stories about violence somehow encourage and create more violence and said other council members agree with him that local media should report fewer crime stories.
“I wish the newspaper headlines would read: A majority of the kids in this town are good people not trying to break the law,” said councilmember Loretta Walsh, the same councilmember who says people who do not support Barack Obama are racist.
Earlier in December, a suburban diner was robbed and attacked while visiting one of the city’s older Italian restaurants, Mrs. Robino’s. Several commenters to the story at the News Journal web site were upset the paper wrote a story about it:
“I do not find an article about the incident in the News Journal is warranted,” said Jackie Chrimbes. “She gets to back to lovely home in Hockessin, when, the people who live in Wilmington put up with this everyday.”
Others were unhappy that the local newspaper appears to be complicit in covering up this vast wave of mentally-ill induced racial criminality. Said John Engleman: “The News Journal thinks it is contributing to racial harmony by not reporting the truth that the vast majority of violent crimes committed in our violent city are committed by young black men. It is not fooling anyone. I woke up from Martin Luther King’s dream when two black teenagers robbed me at gunpoint. Since then I would like to wake up from the nightmare of black crime. Unfortunately, it is not a dream. It is a reality.”
When Mrs. Robino opened the doors to her restaurant in 1940, the demographics of the city were different: The city’s population had just peaked at 112,000: 89 percent white. 11 percent black.
Today, the city has 40 percent fewer residents: 27 percent of them are white, 60 percent black. So the urgency to cure this mental illness has never been greater.
In November, a state police officer was shot on the streets of Wilmington in the middle of the afternoon. Some said it was an ambush. Others said the trooper wandered into the middle of an otherwise routine gun fight.
The police responded with dozens of cars, more than 50 officers from several agencies, and at least one helicopter.
Several council members echoed comments in a video at the News Journal site from people who live near the shooting. One person said he did not like the fact that more police responded to the shooting of the officer than when a regular citizen is shot.
“I ain’t happy because I lost a couple of friends and we did not get this much attention for nothing,’ said James Warner. “He (is) human just like us. So we should all be treated equal. They are not better than us,” he said.
Councilwoman Cabrera said the response was “excessive.” And other council members echoed her comments. The shooters are still at large.
Marlin Newburn said he does not have to ask the CDC who is responsible for the lawlessness that dominates Wilmington life: He says the people who ignore it, condone and excuse and deny it are the ones at fault — as much or more than — the criminals themselves.
Newburn is talking about the members of the Wilmington City Council — where one party rule has dominated city hall since at least the time of Mrs. Robino’s opening.
During his 30-year career as a a prison and court appointed psychologist, Newburn has seen racial violence and denial — on personal and collective levels. As is the case with the Wilmington City Council.
“This is the zenith of denial, a complete rejection of personal responsibility. Center for Disease Control? Are you kidding?! Just how ignorant are these “leaders?”
The character of the citizen creates a community atmosphere. If a kid knows someone in power will make excuses for their predation, they will be empowered.”
“Just keep this hard and fast rule in mind when addressing government “caring.”
Whatever behavior is defended, financed, excused, and where personal responsibility is displaced, you will get more of the behavior.
Though it would not be fair to blame just the city council. The message of racist oppression is also heard from the pulpits of the city’s black churches.
The pastor of one of the largest black congregations in the state said: “This violence in our community – you don’t think it has something to do with the last 400 years?” Rev. Lawrence M. Livingston told the News Journal, “We didn’t create this stuff – all this mess.”
The comments came just a few days after a crowd of black people beat a white clergyman near Livingston’s church in Wilmington.
But less than one hour after listening to the NPR report on Knockout, i received these two emails:
October 30, 2010 – I was walking away from the Jon Stewart event on the Mall when a girl came up behind me on the sidewalk on 14th Street and screamed that she had just been punched by a group of kids. I turned around to witness a group of 5-10 kids colliding with pedestrians and throwing punches whenever they were confronted. Within a few seconds, they started pushing me in the back & when I responded a punch arrived to my throat and the group started running away when I attempted to notify police.
The Jon Stewart event was a collection of 100,000+ predominantly white attendees with a multitude of black entertainers and celebrities on stage that produced an image of racial unity & harmony that was negated by the sidewalk experience shortly thereafter. While the incident only affected a small collection of people, it was clear that their intention was to disrupt the event in any fashion possible for their amusement.
Multiple friends refuse to attend events in certain parts of D.C. including Adams Morgan and Chinatown where a multitude of attacks have been perpetrated over the years. There is a persistent air of racial tension around the city that is clearly evident on the abundance of cell phone video of crimes and confrontation around the region.
Truly unfortunate that President Obama has fed the flames of racial tension over the years that clearly portrays his overwhelming sympathy for the condition of African Americans. While I appreciate his concern for those of his own race, he has set the stage for continued violence and disunion around the land.
And another:
In 1989 I was a victim. I was 18, in Dallas, waiting on the bus downtown. I had worked third shift so I was tired and ready to go home when two school-skipping “teens” (aka young Black thugs) who were walking by decided to pick ME. One swung without warning but I didn’t go down, ears just ringing.
I got him back, breaking his jaw and knocking out a few teeth. He held his head in his hands and started crying, spinning circles on the sidewalk and staggering toward the street. His friend looked scared but he didn’t need to be. You see, three grown men, instigated by several grown women, attacked me. My head was beaten into a wall, I was left for dead. I still carry the scars and the other day I dug yet another grain of sand out of that old wound.
The Dallas news stations got together and decided to investigate. Not because of me, my assault went unreported because I just didn’t feel like dealing with it. They placed a camera van at Main and Griifin in downtown Dallas, and in a matter of hours caught video of teenaged Black boys sucker punching a white man in a business suit.
So no, it isn’t new. It does exist. I will personally beat the living sheet out of any white person who denies it. It’s like denying the holocaust. Only racists, idiots, and masochistic white people deny this problem exists. Got my gun. Always. Let me see it happen. On with the mask, out with the bullets, another thug dies. Hooray!
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.
NPR says Colin Flaherty ringleader of movement to racialize the Knockout Game.
Not a bad story. Way better than Slate. Salon. CNN. And unlike MSNBC, at least NPR did not blame White Girl Bleed a Lot for the Boston Marathon Bombing.
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.
KO Victim to Huffington Post: Knockout Game a myth. Really?
Come on, man.
Preview of an article at WND.com
Just because someone gets punched in the face, that does not make them an expert. Or even smart.
Like James Addlespurger. If you have seen any of the recent news coverage on the Knockout Game, you have seen Addlespurger. He was walking down an alley in Pittsburgh last year when he came face to face with six black people.
One of them punched him in the head: He was out cold before he landed face-first on the concrete gutter. They ran.
Now the grainy, black and white security video is seemingly everywhere. The O’Reilly Factor. All the network news and local stations too. Addlespurger is the poster boy for the Knockout Game. But he does not want any part of it.
“I work with kids every day. As a public school teacher for 20 years. I understand that kids are troubled. But to stereotype and go down that avenue, I am not going to fan those flames of hatred.”
The Knockout Game is a “faux trend,” said HuffPost Live, in part because the person who punched Addlespurger in the face said so on ABC’s Nightline.
Addlespurger is not the only victim of racial violence in the Pittsburgh area. Though there is no indication he ever checked.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “We don’t have a very detailed description other than that there were several males, and that the majority of them if not all of them are black males,” according to Detective Dan Staneck of the Washington police.
Addlespurger is not even the only teacher whose beating was caught on video in Pittsburgh. Just a few weeks before, another security video caught another black mob beating another Pittsburgh teacher.
They punched him, chased him, punched him some more, and pushed him into the street where he was almost run over by a car. This teacher did not want his name released, so maybe Addlespurger was not aware of this.
Or how about the four football players from Pitt who were arrested last November for spontaneously assaulting a few white students on campus.
Sherry Godfrey did not know much about the Knockout Game either. That’s not the kind of thing that people expect in Springfield, Missouri — hometown of Brad Pitt. But that is what happened to her son last year. And several others.
“They did not leave a calling card saying they were playing Knockout,” Godfrey said. “But all the attacks are vicious and spontaneous just like the other cases of the Knockout Game.”
“The same day, around 4 p.m., my son called me from a friend’s house with his voice shaking as he described to me EXACTLY what I had just read about in Flaherty’s article.”
“Knockout Game,” welcome to Rochester. I just ordered these cops a copy of “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it.” They need it – as does every cop and every reporter in America.
“I’m a 58-year-old white man who work(ed) as a ‘liberal librarian’ in Northern California,” he said. “Not your typical WND reader, but as a research librarian I read a lot of news sources. And this attack was exactly the way you describe in your book and articles. Exactly the same.”
Unlike Addlespurger, Lane is keeping an eye on all the media coverage the Knockout Game is receiving all over the country. He has a hard time believing what he is reading – and hearing.
“I listen to left-wing radio,” he says. “And I could not believe it when I heard my favorite radio personality – Stephanie Miller – say the Knockout Game does not exist. That’s crazy.”
Addlespurger is a teacher. A blues musician. A self-described positive person. His willingness to overlook the racial violence perpetrated on him is not new to Marlin Newburn, who recently retired after 30 years as a prison psychologist and court appointed counselor.
Addlespurger’s willingness to empathize with his attackers might seem like the Stockholm Syndrome to some. But Newburn said it is more accurately called Masochistic Altruism:
This is a better way to describe the teacher and other victimized deniers of the knockout game. Stockholm Syndrome is a pathological attachment to an aggressor as a reaction to terror over time. With Masochistic Altruism, one can sustain a thoroughly false sense of nobility as they take their occasional beating. It’s not being dishonest, it’s a pathology, a psychological illness.
This is in line with people who are codependent, which, although an officially non-psychology recognized pathology, means a person will take abuse from a dominant person or people in the belief they can change them for the better. These people have very low levels of self-worth thus they choose a person or people they believe lower than they are on the human scale. In this effort, they believe themselves as “great and good.”
What these apologists are doing is enabling and empowering their attackers, and that means there will be more victims. That’s guaranteed.”
Others point out that some are hesitant to talk about the race of their attackers because they fear becoming victimized once again: This time as a racist.
But Addlespurger’s story is that race had nothing to do with the violence against him. And he is sticking to it.
As a teacher, Addlespurger must know that Pittsburgh area schools are also the scene of frequent black mob violence.
Swissvale police chief Greg Geppert said it was a “riot.”
In March 2010, 11 black students were arrested after earlier riot at the same school. Two police officers were injured. Several students blamed the riots on police and security guards.
After 30 years and thousands of cases, Newburn has seen the face of racial violence — old and young. It is not pretty. Nor widely talked about.
To people who practice this type of racial violence, all non-blacks are the enemy since they were weaned on the idea that whites/Asians/Hispanics/Martians were “keeping my people down.”
They may be functionally illiterate, and I have yet to meet one that wasn’t, but their older family members or people in their neighborhood along with the popular culture drove that early message into their skulls.
They believe that they have some black toxic-tribal license to attack, and the more brutal, the more “down with the struggle” they are. The degree of viciousness also demonstrates just how manly (or womanly) they are. In other words, the more sadistic, the higher the social and personal power status.
It’s also great street cred for them, the sacred status for assaulting the all-pervasive and imaginary white power structure, and in regard to Asians and Hispanics, those people are just “takin’ jobs” from them.
The people who practice this kind of racial violence — like the Knockout Game — have imaginary, social injustice tags as legitimate reasons to assault all non-blacks.
To say the black assaults on non-blacks isn’t racist is a blatant lie. Black predators are racist to the bone.
Newburn does not expect to see Addlespurger on his office couch any time soon. He is working it out on his own. Playing music. Teaching. But Addlespurger does have one parting message abut people who might think twice about visiting downtown Pittsburgh because of the threat of racial violence. As he told HuffPo Live:
“People who live in this violent city of Pittsburgh should feel safe going down there.”
Letter from a Teacher. Lots and lots of PTSD out there.
