New: More Philly Denial and big talk from Mayor on Knockout Game.

November 26, 2013 — 2 Comments

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More Philly Denial and big talk from Mayor on Knockout Game.

A preview of an article at WND.com

 

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is not waiting around for the New York Times to figure out if the Knockout Game is real. Not anymore.

That did not work out too well last time.

“Three years ago Philadelphia was on the cusp of a two year bout with dozens of episodes of what the press was calling flash mobs of unruly teens, but what lots of other people recognized as black mob violence,” said Taleeb Starkes, author of the Uncivil War: Confronting the Subculture Within the African-American Community. “It was an exact repeat of what happened this week when Nutter promised he was not going to tolerate the Knockout Game. The Mayor had assembled a full cast of characters including the District Attorney and the Police Chief to promise they were not going to put up with this flash mob nonsense.”

Not any more. This was the same Mayor who had recently declared that an outbreak of racial violence was nothing to worry about and was really the fault of bad reporting.

Nutter told The New York Times the violence had “no racial component.”

The Times was one of the only outlets to even consider the question. Even if only to dismiss it.

The Police chief backed him up. The District Attorney said a ‘high school diploma is the best anti-crime tool.’

Then came the YouTube videos, showing thousands of black people roaming the streets of Philadelphia, with violence and injury following at pizza shops, hotels, bars, tourist spots. The largest attacks all took place on South Street.

 

Pulling people out of cars and beating them.

And there were lots and lots of video cameras: “Local network affiliates were all over it with video,” said Willie Shields, a Philadelphia area talk show host.  “But no one had the nerve to say what the video screamed: All the attackers and looters were black.”

Many of these stories documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore it.

Then came the testimonials from other victims.

Police had claimed that none of the injuries imposed by the mob was serious. Turns out they had not even checked. Ronnie Polaneczky, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, checked.

She found John, a maintenance mechanic, who “suffered severe brain injury and facial fractures and is sitting in a hospital as I write this, two weeks after he was pulled from a bike and beaten.”

That same weekend that Philadelphia urban pioneers ran into “nothing much”  and ended up in the hospital with serious injuries, more than 40 black people in a Philly suburb descended on a Sears and ransacked it in broad daylight.

Afterwards, the police chief said he feared for the safety — of the rioters.

A few days later, news anchors on the local Fox affiliate weighed in. A black TV anchor worried about the “destructive tone” of the comments from people who observed that all the people in these riots were black.

She said it was “sad” that people did not recognize the true nature of the violence: Young people were to blame. Not black people.

Their guest, a black radio talk show host, said the riots were not racial. But if they were, it was understandable because the state legislature cut money for job training and increased money for prisons. He said it was not right to blame  everyone in a group for the acts of a few bad people in that group.

“When African American commits a crime, society is looking to define race. When Lochner shot (Congresswoman) Giffords, nobody said ‘what is wrong with white men?’ This isn’t a black or white issue: they need things to do.”

Then they blamed young people some more. It was not about race. Despite overwhelming video evidence, despite the fact that everyone arrested was black, despite every bit of evidence to the contrary, this reporter wanted to know: Who we were going to believe: Her? Or our own eyes.

Why couldn’t we see that?

Then, one month later, Mayor Michael Nutter blew all the deniers out of the water.

After years of denying and explaining dozens of attacks, Nutter took to the pulpit of a black church — where he grew up — to break the silence and mention the “R” word: Race

. In a Sunday speech in July of 2011, the Mayor admitted his city had a problem with violent black people:

 

“You have damaged your own race.”

“Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer,” Mr. Nutter, the city’s second black mayor, said in an angry lecture aimed at black teens. “Pull your pants up and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”

“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said.

 

The head of Philadelphia’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, J. Whyatt Mondesire, said it “took courage” for Mr. Nutter to deliver the message.

“These are majority African-American youths and they need to be called on it,” Mr. Mondesire said.

The black web site TheGrio.com said Nutter just seemed so disgusted that he just had to, as he put it, talk about things black people “think but won’t say.”

 

After years of joining with the Mayor in ignoring organized racial violence, the Philadelphia Inquirer congratulated the mayor for “moving quickly against mayhem mobs.”

 

Soon after, the Mayor decided he would solve at least part of the problem. At least for a little while: He took a few dozen of the unruly youths to a bowling alley. “Where they got into a fight and one even got stabbed,” said Starkes.

Flash forward two years to today: Racial violence in Philadelphia never really went away. It just took a different form. The latest being several well publicized versions of the Knockout Game.

This time, local media is all over the story, at least questioning whether these attacks are racial in nature. Except for the Philadelphia Inquirer, which is still not convinced that the Knockout Game is real.

The Inquirer is joining the New York Times, CNN, the Los Angeles Times and other news outlets around the country claiming the Knockout Game may be a fad. Or a myth.

The last time Nutter tried to wait out a bout of racial violence, he was hammered in the press and talk radio and in the comments section of the local newspapers almost daily for two years before he got religion.

This time he is out front. The Inquirer reports: “First and foremost, this is disgusting and inexcusable behavior,” Nutter said at an evening news conference at City Hall this week. “And it’s not a game. You can seriously injure, possibly even kill, someone with this kind of activity.”

Even Al Sharpton joined in. “This behavior is racist, period,” Sharpton wrote in the Huffington Post.  “And we will not tolerate it.”

 

 

Not even from the New York Times? The Philadelphia Inquirer? CNN?  Stay tuned: As soon as the New York Times changes it mind and says it does exist, or Nutter changes his and says it does not, we will let you know.

Philly mayor: flash mobbers ‘damaging their race’ | theGrio

Flash Mobs in Philadelphia: Sorry PC America, They are a Racial Thing | Philly2Philly.com

Knockout Games — The Biggest Form of Cowardice | Rev. Al Sharpton

Nutter denounces random attacks, warns youths, parents

‎www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/47751717.html?viewAll=y

Racial violence in Philadelphia: The hate that dare not speak its name – phillyburbs.com: Oped

5 ‘Knockouts’ reported in Philadelphia

Philly: Cyclist Victim Of Knockout Game Attack –Mob Of 8 Teen Thugs Male & Female

Stu Bykofsky: Nutter did well to move quickly against mayhem mobs – Philly.com

Nutter denounces random attacks, warns youths, parents

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.

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Colin Flaherty is the author of #1 Amazon Best Selling Book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it. He is an award winning journalist whose work has been published in over 1000 news sites around the world, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. He is a frequent guest in local and national media talking about racial violence. 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.
blank laura r says:

maybe nutters speech is on youtube? does anyone know? was it ever on twitter?

blank M M says:

It is incredible how people ignore this.