When Whites Attack!

[_dmp_]

Isn't it dumb when white people kill non-white people for stupid reasons?

 

[Big D]

Originally posted by dmp
Isn't it dumb when white people kill non-white people for stupid reasons?

Good luck finding one of those storys.

 

[DKSuddeth]

Originally posted by Big D
Good luck finding one of those storys.

http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/jun1998/byrd-j13.shtml

Racial violence and the social forces in America that fuel it
By Martin McLaughlin
13 June 1998
The sadistic murder of a middle-aged black man in Texas last week is an indication of the savagery which lies just beneath the surface of American life. James Byrd, Jr., 49, was beaten unconscious, chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged for miles over rural roads outside the town of Jasper.

Three white men, John William King, 23, Shawn Berry 23, and Lawrence Brewer Jr., 31, have been arrested. Berry has already given a confession that implicates the other two as the principal assailants. Both King and Brewer had links to white supremacist groups while serving terms in state prison. In the course of the killing King reportedly made a reference to the "Turner Diaries," a fascistic novel which was in the possession of Timothy McVeigh when he was arrested for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

The official commentaries on this atrocity--from the media, the Democratic and Republican politicians and the civil rights establishment--have not gone beyond the horror of the killing and its racist motives to begin a more searching examination of its social roots.

The black mayor of Jasper said race relations in the town were good: "Here you have a hospital administrator who is black, the executive director of the East Texas Council of Government is black, the president of the chamber of commerce is black, the past president of the school board is black and the mayor and two councilmen are black.''

Precisely! The mayor's statement quite unintentionally highlights how limited in many respects and how fragile is the social progress made since the days of Jim Crow. A handful of middle class blacks may hold privileged positions, and legal segregation may be banned, but it is still the case that a black man is in danger of being beaten and murdered because of the color of his skin.

Today the killers are arrested and jailed, rather than being patted on the back by the local authorities, but that will not bring back James Byrd Jr., or prevent the next such attack.

Racism and politics
Race hatred did not spring fully-grown from the hearts and minds of King, Brewer and Berry. It is a product of the broader social environment. East Texas was a center of Ku Klux Klan activity during the heyday of lynching, from 1889 to 1918. These traditions live on, especially in the activities and attitudes of the local police.

There have been a series of police killings and jailhouse deaths of black men in recent years in nearby areas of east Texas. In Hemphill, Texas, in neighboring Sabine County, on the Texas-Louisiana border, a young father of six, Loyal Garner, was arrested on a phony drunk driving charge, taken to the county jail and beaten to death in 1987. Another young black man, arrested for the theft of a fountain pen, died in a jail cell in 1988 after a police beating. In Vidor, near Beaumont, Texas, Ku Klux Klan members staged armed patrols in 1994 in an effort to prevent the integration of a local housing project.

Added to this is the open encouragement given to the activities of extreme-right groups by leading elements in the Republican Party. Many of the freshmen Republicans elected in 1994 had significant backing from militia groups and echoed their views. After the Oklahoma City bombing, they pressed for congressional hearings, not into the fascist milieu which produced Timothy McVeigh, but into the Ruby Ridge incident, the Waco massacre, and other cause célèbres of the militia groups.

One such congressman, Steve Stockman, represents the congressional district just south of Jasper County. He sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno on behalf of the militia groups only six weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing. On the day of the bombing he received a fax from a fascist radio commentator in Michigan updating him on the investigation of the blast.

It is noteworthy that Texas Governor George W. Bush, after a perfunctory condemnation of the murder of Byrd, declined an invitation to come to Jasper personally to show his outrage over the racial killing. The son of the former president does not want to weaken his standing with the Christian Coalition and other ultra-right groups, which he banks on to propel him to the Republican presidential nomination in 2000.

The social roots
What are the social conditions which made this tragedy possible?

Jasper County is part of rural east Texas, one of the poorest and most backward regions of the United States. US census figures give the following profile:

The county's population of 31,148 is 80 percent white, 18 percent black, 2 percent other. The number of college graduates, 1,649, is exceeded by the number of people who dropped out of school in the ninth grade or earlier, 2,816. Barely half the adult population are high school graduates.

The unemployment rate is well above the state and national average. Most of those who work are employed in low-wage jobs in retail sales, light manufacturing, lumber and construction.

The median household income is $20,451, considerably below the US average, while the poverty rate is 20 percent. One out of every ten households is on welfare, and one out of three have no wage or salary income at all. In a largely rural area, 10 percent of households have no car and five percent have no phone.

These figures suggest the social context in which the murder of James Byrd took place. The conditions in Jasper County are the worst for younger sections of the working class, especially those who are high school dropouts, sinking into a life of petty crime, drunkenness or drug addiction.

The mounting social tensions in America are the product of poverty, the decay of basic services like education and health care, and the increasing polarization of society between a fabulously wealthy elite and the vast majority who must struggle to make ends meet. In the absence of a politically conscious workers movement, with political life and public discourse entirely monopolized by the privileged 10 percent at the top, these tensions do not as yet find any progressive outlet.

Instead of being directed into a political struggle against the economic system which is responsible for growing social misery, the anger over deteriorating conditions festers and is subject to be diverted into reactionary channels. It finds expression in the outbreaks of individual violence which now take place almost on a weekly basis in America--workplace rampages, school shootings, murder-suicides. This increasing brutalization of American society is the background to the murder of James Byrd.

That wasn't too damn difficult

 

[Zhukov]

"Trail of Tears"

 

[_dmp_]

LOL!!!


BigD is the guy in the white

 

[DKSuddeth]

BigD is the guy in the white

now THATS funny, twice

 

[Big D]

These are just some of the storys of blacks attacking whites in just the last few days.

In a show of support for the woman, 93 and 94 years of age at the time of the alleged assaults, a group of more than 30 people turned out for a preliminary examination for Earl Marsh, the woman's alleged assailant.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/sto...wp__man_awa.sto

A man accused of killing a school guidance counselor made his first court appearance Wednesday a day after authorities found the counselor's body.
http://www.wral.com/news/2927889/detail.html

Riley is married with two children, and he lives in an affluent neighborhood. Officials say nearly all of the rapes happened in Riley's home between 9 a.m. and noon, Monday through Friday, while his wife was at work and his children were at school.
http://www.news24houston.com/conten...D=25584&SecID=2

This was a just verdict. He did a horrible thing," Molly McKinnon Boyd said of the death penalty ordered Monday for former Montgomery resident Charley Washington, who was convicted of brutally beating her elderly parents to death in the course of a robbery.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com...caldeath16w.htm

A 22-year-old lesbian described in court Tuesday how a Gwinnett County deputy sheriff stuck a gun to her head, forced her to drive to a store to buy condoms and then made her take him to her Oconee Street residence where he raped her.
http://www.athensnewspapers.com/sto...040317049.shtml

Rutgers University students were living in fear yesterday after three co-eds were brutally raped and robbed in an off-campus apartment by a gang of knife- and gun-toting masked men - the latest nightmare sex assault to plague the Rutgers community.
Jittery students are taking extra precautions in the wake of Monday's frightening predawn sex attack just a block from the charming College Avenue campus in New Brunswick.

Co-ed Ann Pottheiser, 20, who lives down the block from where the latest attack occurred, is so worried she has temporarily moved back in with her parents on Staten Island.

"I'm scared to be here," said Pottheiser. "I never feel safe here."
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20476.htm

 

[Big D]

Originally posted by DKSuddeth
That wasn't too damn difficult

You had to go back seven years just to find one, have you ever heard of the Wichita mass murders?
http://abcd.freewebsitehosting.com/Wichita/WichitaMain.html

Bet you have not, makes James Byrd's dragging look like a winters sled ride.

 

[William Joyce]

http://www.amren.com/colrcrim.html

All you need to know.

I don't wish that dmp would get fucked up the ass by a black thug in a jail cell, but if a smile crept across my face as it happened, I'd not chastise myself.

And, I'd be willing to talk afterward, dmp. I'm here for you, man.

 

[Big D]

That is a sad story, the only reason something like that could happen is because so many Whites are afraid of being called racist.

Look at this DK person, they are so ready to get upset and fight for one black guy who died seven years ago because he was killed by whites, but compleatly ignores and does not care that those sort of crimes happen to whites everyday at the hands of blacks.

In fact, just to even mention the fact the 90% of interacial crime and 98% of interacial rapes are blacks attacking Whites, is a sure way to get people like DK calling you a racist.

 

[Cousin Vinnie]

Originally posted by dmp
Isn't it dumb when white people kill non-white people for stupid reasons?

What about non-white people killing white people for stupid reasons?

 

[Cousin Vinnie]

It's no more right for a white person to kill a black person as opposed to the other way around, but why does the media make such a big stink about racism when it's a white killing a black, but they would NEVER mention it if it was the other way around?

 

[DKSuddeth]

Originally posted by Big D
That is a sad story, the only reason something like that could happen is because so many Whites are afraid of being called racist.

Look at this DK person, they are so ready to get upset and fight for one black guy who died seven years ago because he was killed by whites, but compleatly ignores and does not care that those sort of crimes happen to whites everyday at the hands of blacks.

In fact, just to even mention the fact the 90% of interacial crime and 98% of interacial rapes are blacks attacking Whites, is a sure way to get people like DK calling you a racist.

Who the hell said I didn't care about crimes on whites by blacks?

I call you a racist because you blame these crimes on blacks simply because they ARE blacks, and thats not only ludicrous, it borders on insanity.

enforce the law fair and evenly and have people like YOU stop discriminating and hating and you probably would see a steep decline in the stats you like to brief yourself on every morning.

 

[deciophobic]

Originally posted by Big D
That is a sad story, the only reason something like that could happen is because so many Whites are afraid of being called racist.

Look at this DK person, they are so ready to get upset and fight for one black guy who died seven years ago because he was killed by whites, but compleatly ignores and does not care that those sort of crimes happen to whites everyday at the hands of blacks.

In fact, just to even mention the fact the 90% of interacial crime and 98% of interacial rapes are blacks attacking Whites, is a sure way to get people like DK calling you a racist.

just curious...where did you get those stats from?

 

[Johnney]

Originally posted by dmp
Isn't it dumb when white people kill non-white people for stupid reasons?

hell in my book the only reason some people are alive is because murder is illegal

 

[Big D]

Originally posted by deciophobic
just curious...where did you get those stats from?

A Black man told me:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder102600.asp