USmessageBoard posters too young to remember the Woodstock festival may have read about it. From Friday, August 15th, 1969, through the morning of Monday, August 18th nearly 500,000 young people met at a farm in Bethel, New York for a rock concert. Nearly all of them were white. The few blacks present were perfectly safe. No one will killed. There were no fights.
What would happen if tens of thousands of young blacks met for a rock concert? You do not need to wonder about it. In May 10, 1975 about 125,000 young people gathered on the Washington Monument grounds for a free rock concert in what was called "Human Kindness Day." The vast majority were black. This is what an article in
The Washington Post has to say about Human Kindness Day:
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There were sporadic assaults early in the day, but the real violence didn’t start until after Stevie Wonder’s performance.
A 22-year-old man from Vienna was standing near the base of the monument when a group of men grabbed his wallet. He gave chase and was struck in the mouth with a club. An 18-year-old from Annapolis was jumped by a group of 20 teenagers who beat him and threw bottles at him until he was able to run to an ambulance. The worst injury was to
Steven Laine, who was stabbed in his right eye while cutting across the Mall on his way home from work at the Agriculture Department.
“I said, ‘Help me,’ and there was no response,” Laine told a Post reporter from his hospital bed.
By the time it was over, there had been about 500 robberies and 600 injuries, and 150 people were treated at hospitals.
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This is so typical of large gatherings of young blacks that an exception stands out. There almost certainly will be violence. Whites foolish enough to be there are in particular danger. A friend of mine attended with his girl friend. He said that most of the blacks did not attack whites, but if a gang of blacks attacked a white person no blacks helped the white person.