Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.
As it is, 40 percent of the 88,000 streetlights are broken and the city, whose finances are to be overseen by an appointed board, can’t afford to fix them. Mayor Dave Bing’s plan would create an authority to borrow $160 million to upgrade and reduce the number of streetlights to 46,000. Maintenance would be contracted out, saving the city $10 million a year.
Louisiana State University (LSU) is the flagship school of the state of Louisiana. Boasting a student body that is overwhelmingly white, the few Black males who attend the school do so to play for the football team. Word has now emerged that Morris Claiborne, one of the Southeastern Conference’s (SEC) feared cornerbacks from the past few seasons, scored an impressively embarrassing 4 out of 50 on his Wonderlic test:
That’s four. Zero-four. Four out of 50. Usually those two numbers bring to mind Tim Tebow’s passing stats or the Oakland Raiders won-loss record, not a score on a test where a mark of 10 is considered literate.
Claiborne’s four ties the lowest reported score in draft history. The NFL average is 21. The public average is 24. Vince Young, the most popular failed Wonderlic test-taker in NFL history, scored a six.
Claiborne’s score is indicative of the type of athlete-student recruited by SEC schools. The Black male population at the 14-member SEC schools is incredibly low for reason: most don’t have the intelligence to compete with other high school seniors to gain acceptance to Vanderbilt, Auburn University, the University of Georgia, the University of Florida, Texas A&M, or the University of South Carolina. Head Coach Steve Spurrier complained that academic standards were too high at USC, because it kept a number of high-profile Black athletes from enrolling at the school.
Either you have academic standards and academic integrity, or you have an entire student body that worships Black athletes like Claiborne who shouldn’t even be allowed to enroll at an HBCU.
The entire sports world is laughing at Claiborne. We ask: what was this idiot even doing at LSU? The same reason most of the other Black members of the LSU football program are enrolled there: because of the perceived belief that only a team full of semi-literate Black athletes can be competitive.
Eighty-nine percent Black Detroit is on the verge of being taken over by the state of Michigan because – well – the Black people of The Motor City can’t creating any jobs or wealth, relying on the state to provide EBT cards/Food Stamps, TANF/Welfare, and federal aid/federal grants to keep the city limping along.
We are days away from the city being taken over, and The Detroit Newsreports this:
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said Wednesday he is concerned that harsh comments against a possible consent agreement to solve Detroit’s financial crisis could foster economic chaos and even civil unrest.
In an interview, Patterson expanded on remarks he made before a Chamber of Commerce breakfast Wednesday morning at OaklandUniversity. During the event, he described Detroit as a “tinderbox” and criticized a minister’s comments made at a Detroit town hall meeting.
The outspoken Patterson also predicted Detroit couldn’t survive without an emergency manager “yet continues to borrow money in an effort to get out of debt.”
“Detroit is in a desperate economic struggle and appears headed towards the cliff we call bankruptcy,” said Patterson. “An emergency manager may be the only way out of it. We have seen that in Flint, Pontiac, other cities, struggling with money problems. In Pontiac, we went from hundreds ofemployees and eliminated police and fire departments, much of city hall, and will probably be down to about 20 before it is all done.”
He also criticized Detroit City Council’s vote Tuesday to borrow $137 million to allow the city to make two upcoming debt payments.
“Trying to borrow your way out — like trying to sell $135 million (in bonds) like the council is talking — doesn’t solve anything,” Patterson said. “It just increases your debt. You don’t get out of debt by adding to it.”
Patterson said an emergency manager is “not pejorative” in his dictionary.
“The (emergency manager) may be all that stands between economic chaos and bankruptcy,” Patterson said.
Patterson also criticized comments by the Rev. Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party at a Detroit town hall meeting Monday on the fiscal crisis. Shabazz told state officials, “Before we let you take over our city, we will burn it down first.” in reference to any state ordered takeover by an emergency manager.
The real reason Detroit collapsed… Notice the correlation to the overall Black percentage of the population
Roughly 100 year ago, the Titanic would hit an iceberg and sink to the bottom of an icy Atlantic ocean. Thinking the boat was unsinkable was part of the hubris of the engineers who designed it and the careless navigation of the ship by the captain.
At that same time, Detroit, Michigan was a growing city of 465,766 people, almost 99 percent of them being of European descent. They built a city – with the auto industry as the backbone of the economy – that became known as “The Arsenal of Democracy” and “The Paris of the West.”
Hundreds of thousands of Black people would move north during this time period and seek fortune and stability for their families in what become known as The Motor City, and also gravitate to places like Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Cleveland. This was known as “The Great Migration,” though history will one day call it by a different name: The Black Undertow Effect.
2012 Detroit is a much different picture than what 1912 Detroit looked like, and not once in Dan Austin’s Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor’s Majestic Ruins (a pictorial account of Detroit’s mighty buildings left to the ravages of the new rulers of the city) does he allude to the inconvenient truth that the city is now 82 percent Black. The people who built Detroit, toiled in its factories, kept the city streets safe for children and the growing of local economies, and labored at building small businesses all vacated the Motor City for the suburbs (basically white people rebuilding what they fled) when the Black Undertow became too unbearable.
Detroit’s population fell to 713,777 in 2010, the lowest since 1910, when it was 466,000. In a shift that was unthinkable 20 years ago, Detroit is now smaller than Austin, Tex., Charlotte, N.C., and Jacksonville, Fla.
“It’s a major city in free-fall,” said L. Brooks Patterson, the county executive of neighboring Oakland County, which was also hit by the implosion of the automobile industry but whose population rose by almost 1 percent, thanks to an influx of black residents. “Detroit’s tax base is eroding, its citizens are fleeing and its school system is in the hands of a financial manager.”
But a major factor, too, has been the exodus of black residents to the suburbs, which followed the white flight that started in the 1960s. Detroit lost 185,393 black residents in the last decade.
“This is the biggest loss of blacks the city has shown, and that’s tied to the foreclosures in the city’s housing,” Mr. Frey said. Because of the Great Migration — when blacks flowed from the South to the North — and the loss of whites, he said, “Detroit has been the most segregated city in the country and it is still pretty segregated, but not as much.” At one point, the city was 83 percent black.
Many blacks moved to nearby suburbs, but census data shows that even those suburbs have barely held their own against population loss.
Detroit has hit the Black Undertow Iceberg: Many cities in America will be next
As Black people flee the still dead Frankenstein-monster that is Detroit, they move to the safe Whitopia’s that will inevitably be vacated by white people fleeing the crime and depreciated property value that follows the Black refugee’s of The Motor City.
But when did this actually start to occur? The book Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967 by Sidney Fine reports this on page 15:
It was crime and its association with blacks that triggered a major crisis in race relations in Detroit in 1960. Four days after the Civil Rights Commission concluded its hearings in the city, the Detroit News noted in an editorial that although blacks constituted 26 percent of the city’s population, they were responsible for almost 65 percent of its serious crimes. Asserting that the black community bore “a share of responsibility” for this fact, the News complained that the black leadership had “not pressed as hard” on this issues as it should have. “A wave of murders, rapes and purse snatching,” with blacks identified as the perpetrators, culminated that same month in the murder of a white nurse’s aide, a twenty-eight-year-old mother of three.
You see, Black crime has always been bad in America. This is why white people didn’t want to live around Black people then, and why laws were erected in the south that convinced Black people to participate in “The Great Migration” north that culminated with Democrats in Michigan in 1972 giving the nod to Alabama segregationist George Wallace in the primary.
Yes, you read that right.
Well, actually it culminated in white people abandoning Detroit to the ravages of the Black Undertow, who promptly elected Coleman Young - the city’s first Black mayor – and watched as The Motor City started an unprecedented collapse in human history that confirmed Black people can’t maintain the civilization they are handed. Well, it was more like a baton-passing in a track meet, with white people sprinting out of the city before they were mugged again.
It should be stated here that Detroit’s International Airport is named after Coleman Young, the Black mayor of Detroit who presided over the collapse of Detroit that can best be described as a continual aerial bombardment of the city with Black people serving as the munitions.
As the concept of Structural Inequality shows us, even Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) now admit that Black people can’t sustain the infrastructure of a city they have inherited because of white flight.
Detroit, a city that was nearly 100 percent white but one century ago, is now on the verge of being taken over by the state of Michigan (much as Black-run Washington D.C. was once taken over by an act of Congress because Black people were running the city into the ground) in a moment that confirms one thing: the Black Undertow is the greatest threat to the future security, prosperity, and existence of the United States of America.
The New York Times admitted what the concept of the Black Undertow has done to Detroit, and will inevitably do to Whitopia’s surrounding the city with this op-ed by Sugrue, in a piece that should have been named “A Dream that Never was to be”:
AT first glance, the numbers released by the Census Bureau last week showing a precipitous drop in Detroit’s population — 25 percent over the last decade — seem to bear a silver lining: most of those leaving the city are blacks headed to the suburbs, once the refuge of mid-century white flight.
But a closer analysis of the data suggests that the story of housing discrimination that has dominated American urban life since the early 20th century is far from over. In the Detroit metropolitan area, blacks are moving into so-called secondhand suburbs: established communities with deteriorating housing stock that are falling out of favor with younger white homebuyers. If historical trends hold, these suburbs will likely shift from white to black — and soon look much like Detroit itself, with resegregated schools, dwindling tax bases and decaying public services.
Why can’t Black people sustain a city and maintain public services? Why does Sugrue admit that – just like Detroit – where ever Black people end up they will only replicate what they left?
How many other major cities have been overwhelmed by this phenomenon? Memphis? Charlotte? Birmingham? Philadelphia? Cleveland? Chicago? St. Louis? Atlanta? Newark? Baltimore? Montgomery? Milwaukee? Harrisburg? Buffalo? New Orleans?
What about Prince George’s County, with Washington D.C. quickly becoming a Stuff White People Like (SWPL) playground?
Folks, Rush Limbaugh would have you believe its “liberalism” that has ruined Detroit, as he told Fox News this recently:
In an appearance on Fox News Channel aired on Thursday night’s “On the Record with Greta Van Sustren,” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh explained, in no uncertain terms, how to fix Detroit, where unemployment and poverty are rampant. His solution: End liberalism.
“Get rid of every liberal in government,” he said. “What is the one constant in Detroit, all of these years? Been run by liberals. Liberal ideology. Liberal economics. Liberal belief system. Detroit, other places: A microcosm of where Europe is, and where we are headed — unchecked, unstopped liberalism. For those of you who like the Democrat Party, that’s where we are headed. There hasn’t been any opposition there, not of any strength or power. Take a look. That’s the one thing that is constant. It was the same thing in New Orleans, post-Katrina. What’s the one thing that was constant there? All run by liberals. All run by Democrats.”
What does that even mean? The connection between New Orleans collapse (plus rampant crime) and Detroit’s is Black people! New Orleans and Detroit aren’t two of the most dangerous cities in the world because of liberalism, they are two of the most dangerous cities in the world because of Black people. This is why hospitals in Cincinnati and Baltimore are used as trauma-training centers for military surgeons preparing to go overseas to war zones; because Black people have turned these cities into war zones that are far worse than what our troops see overseas.
Wait, The Baltimore Sun did just publish a celebratory article for the city posting the fewest murders since 1977. Thank God we have harsher sentences on Black criminals, the real reason crime has dropped (barely) recently.
Detroit’s collapse is 100 percent racial. Just look at the breakdown of population from 1910 (nearly all-white) to now (nearly all-Black). Just check out p. 23 of Thomas Sugrue’s The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit to see a racial breakdown of Detroit from 1910-1970. Better yet, look at the data we have provided above.
There is no inequality in Detroit; it’s just that Black people can’t maintain the civilization (buildings, infrastructure, economy, businesses, tax-revenue, school system) that white people left them.
No, it wasn’t liberalism that killed Detroit Limbaugh. It was what we call Black-Run America (BRA) plus the city actually being run by Black people.
And, no, just because The USA Todaystates Detroit is resurgent doesn’t make it so. Nor does BusinessWeek parroting the same theme either.
We will know that Detroit is making a comeback only when Coleman Young International Airport is stripped of its namesake, for he represents the very Organized Blackness that helped bring about the disastrous Black Riot of 1967 that sealed the fate of the city.
On that day, Black-Run America dies forever.
Until then, major cities/counties like Birmingham/Jefferson County will continue to hit icebergs. We just call these icebergs the Black Undertow.
The saying goes that generals fight the last war. Obama, and his allies, politically are stuck in the 1960s. Everything for them, is Bull Connor setting police dogs and hoses on peaceful Black civil rights marchers, live on the three networks! But like the Nazi army in late 1942, they seem headed for failure. Not because of the brilliance of their enemies, but because of the fatal but unseen flaws in their own organization.
This summer, The Dark Knight Rises will set the box office ablaze. The third and film in the Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, we will see the culmination of Bruce Wayne’s efforts to save Gotham City from the criminals and corrupt.
In the imagination of comic book writers, authors of fiction, and those in Hollywood working on the scripts of movies and television shows, magnificent heroes can be created to save the day. Defeat the bad guy, restoring peace and stability to a city where anarchy and chaos would have otherwise ruled without their benevolent sacrifices.
Nolan’s first film in the trilogy – Batman Begins – sees a younger Bruce Wayne seek out the means to fight evil and injustice. The League of Shadows trains him; a group of men who we learn have existed for centuries to fight corruption and decadence (“because no courts will try men entrenched in bureaucracies that exist merely to perpetuate themselves, to paraphrase the leader, Ra’s al Ghul), and, once a society has reached a point of no return, ensure that harmony and balance are ultimately restored by destroying said city. We learn that the League of Shadows sacked Rome when it became too decadent and corrupt.
It is in this exchange of dialogue between Ra’s and Wayne the true function of the League of Shadows is delineated:
Ra’s al Ghul: Tomorrow the world will watch in horror as its greatest city destroys itself. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time.
Ra’s al Ghul: Of course. Over the ages, our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gotham, we tried a new one: Economics. But we underestimated certain of Gotham’s citizens… such as your parents. Gunned down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself… and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job. And this time no misguided idealists will get in the way.
The real world has no League of Shadows. It has no heroes either, costumed and jumping from one rooftop to another at night to fight criminals and keep the city streets safe.
Ours is a world where no secretive cabal needs to organize in the shadows to see some of our greatest cities (at least in the United States) brought to their knees. Were the fictional League of Shadows smart, to destroy Gotham City they’d simply implement the exact same policies that have been enacted in the United States of America, and the bureaucrats in charge of the metropolis where Bruce Wayne’s parents were gunned down by the white criminal Joe Chill wouldn’t have to worry about criminal offenses such as the murder of its most illustrious citizens.
The ruling of restrictive covenant being unconstitutional meant the death of not just major cities, but every city in America will eventually happen. Were the world of Gotham City in Nolan’s Batman trilogy to operate under the rules of our world, Gotham would have been long ago been destroyed.
The League of Shadows would have unleashed a more destructive force upon a city than a weaponized aerosol hallucinogenic to bring about mass hysteria (as they did in Batman Begins): A majority Black population.
No, all the League of Shadows would have to do to destroy Gotham City is change the racial complexion from a majority white, economically thriving city into a majority Black city, where the only thing thriving is a high crime rate and blight.
Sure, it might take 20 – 30 years for this plan to mature, but the League of Shadows has been around for over an millennia. Civilizations come and go, but looking at the history of 20th century America, the fate of Birmingham, Memphis, Baltimore, Newark, Camden, Prince George’s County, Atlanta, and, of course, Detroit, is inexorably tied to going from a majority white city or county to a majority Black city or county.
In the case of Detroit, the corruption of the elected Black officials is but a microcosm of the day-to-day corruption and criminality found in its population (82 percent Black now; at the height of the city’s influence, it was more than 75 percent white when it was dubbed “The Arsenal of Democracy” in the 1940s).
Even as Detroit has ceased being a functioning city – when it was once of the world’s most revered cities for its daring architecture, culture, arts, and industrious population – the misery found there hasn’t subsided.
The city is fast running out of money, with only $76 million reported on hand last month, and could be headed toward payless paydays this spring unless union concessions and other cuts are implemented soon, new financial numbers show.
The cash flow numbers; as of Jan. 27 also show the city would be $46.8 million in the hole at the end of the fiscal year on June 30. The city would officially run out of cash in mid-to-late April, the figures posted on the city’s website predict, a fiscal reality that first prompted the governor to consider sending in an emergency manager.
At the end of November, the city had a cash balance after required distributions of $109.9 million. That fell to $53.7 million in December and jumped back to $76 million last month. The city is forecasting a steady drop in cash this month to $55.9 million, then $42.2 million in March and $2.5 million in early April. It’s unclear why the numbers jumped in December.
“Things are going down, down, down,” said Edward Rago, the former city budget director under Mayors Coleman A. Young and Dennis Archer.
“All the evidence points to the fact that things are bad, they are getting worse, they are going to be negative in eight weeks or so.”
The city also was forecast to receive $97 million in revenue through the end of January but was $21 million short of projections.
Rago said that cash flow trend soon will signal a payless payday for Detroit.
Unlike the city of Pittsburgh, the majority Black population of Detroit that inherited the city once they chased away white people after the Negro Revolt of 1967 (and subsequent introductions of massive affirmative action policies in the 70s and 80s) they couldn’t restructure the economy to sustain the city – even as its population dwindled away– and completely failed to innovate or find ways to secure new investments from entrepreneurs or corporations. The tax roles dwindled as crime, prostitution and drug dealing made the concept of a “Black” market an oxymoron.
We read about the brutality in Detroit, when a nine-month old Black baby died in a hail of bullets from an AK-47, fired from a Black individual upset from the events at a wedding shower. We read about an 86-year-old Black veteran, beaten and carjacked, who crawled in search of help, but no good Black Samaritan was to be found.
Life is so little valued in Detroit, that the Black 14-year-old son of a Black mother opened fire on her while she slept, because she denied him the opportunity to hang with his friends:
Family members say a 14-year-old boy shot his mother to death as she was sleeping early today because he was mad she wouldn’t let him hang out with friends.
Tamiko Robinson, 36, died around 3 a.m., according to her brother, Leshaun Roberts.
Detroit Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens would not release any information about the case.
“He just wanted to hang with the thugs,” Roberts said, sitting on the front porch of the home on Burns, just off Gratiot Avenue, as he was holding a family picture of them. “The first thing that came to mind was he did it because of what they were going through.”
Roberts said the boy, who is on the swim team and ROTC at Kettering High School, broke into an office in the home to get a gun owned by his mother’s fiance.
As she slept in the living room and her fiance slept in an adjacent room with their 5-year-old daughter, Roberts said her son shot her on the couch and when she fell to the floor.
Mayor Dave Bing today called on parents to better raise their children in the wake of a disturbing spate of violence involving young people in Detroit.
His voice rising at times, Bing said what was especially jarring to him were crimes in which youngsters attack their parents. He said those kinds of incidents hurt him deeply and are simply “unacceptable.”
“When you’ve got parents afraid of their kids, you know you have not done a good job as a parent,” Bing said in a news conference in his 11th floor conference room at City Hall. “You need to start disciplining those young people when they come out of the womb. Mothers and fathers … you can’t start disciplining a kid at the age of 12 or 14, it’s too late.”
“What we are living with today is totally unacceptable,” Bing continued. “And we’re going to deal with it, we’re going to solve the problem and we’re going to make our streets and our homes safe again.”
Police Chief Ralph Godbee said his department will solve the recent crimes. The string of violence in the past few days includes the shooting death of an infant, a carjacking that left a 6-year-old in critical condition and a 14-year-old who is accused of killing his mother. But they can’t do it alone, he said.
“We’re not standing idly by. What closes the loop for us is community involvement,” Godbee said. “If you don’t have the community closing that loop and turning over criminals that will kill our young people and maim our senior citizens, then we don’t have a true community policing system. To that end, we’re going to do our part.”Godbee said his department has “the resolve to get the job done.”
“The fact that we’re afraid of our own children is a commentary right there,” Godbee said. “I don’t want to wax philosophical, but when I was growing up I was more afraid of my father than I was the police. That element is missing in our community.” Bing said that a “very small percentage of our population” is committing the crimes, but he stressed citizens “cannot just stand idly by and accept this.” Even though admitting he doesn’t have all the answers, Bingpledged to do “whatever I can to eradicate the kind of thinking and action that is now taking place in our community.”“I was taught to respect my elders, and I was taught to protect the young,” the mayor said. “And for whatever reason, we have a culture that doesn’t accept that anymore.”
Wait a second. Isn’t another one of America’s formerly great cities seeing the exact same scenario of white people leaving in droves and Black people taking over every public institution in the city? Why yes, Philadelphia is seeing the Detroiting of The City of Brotherly Love take place as we speak.
It was just last summer that Mayor Michael Nutter took the Black people of Philadelphia (responsible for virtually all the violent crime in the city) to task, in a heavily promoted speech:
As violent mobs of young men continued to wreak havoc in Philadelphia for a second summer in a row, Mayor Michael Nutter has taken a hard line against the roving “flash mobs,” tightening weekend curfews, endorsing stiff “stop-and-frisk” polices, and blasting the mostly black teenagers involved in the violence with fiery words from the pulpit this weekend.About 50 teenagers were arrested Friday for violating the newly enforced weekend curfew. It is aimed at cracking down on mobs of young people responsible for random attacks on people and property.
The mayor’s crackdown has placed him in the center of a simmering debate about how black community leaders should respond to violence within their own community. On one side are those who admire the mayor’s take-no-prisoners rhetorical style and use of police force, while others say this approach lets the mayor off the hook for failing to address the needs of young black Philadelphians.n a combative speech on Sunday at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Mayor Nutter said that young black men have to stop acting like “sperm donors” and “human ATMs.” He admonished parents for failing to supervise and expect good behavior from their children. And he directly implicated habits and styles of some young black men in the city.
“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?” Nutter told the congregation “They don’t hire you ’cause you look like you’re crazy. You have damaged your own race.”
“I am a proud black man in this country,” Nutter said in a subsequent interview with the Associated Press. “It was a message that needed to be said. It needed to be said at this time . . . People have had enough of this nonsense, black and white.”
Strange that so many of the formerly great cities in America have turned into breeding grounds for criminality, pathetic school systems (which are only a reflection of the students in the schools) and depressed property values.
Gotham City could have been easily destroyed in Batman Begins by the introduction of Black people into positions of power and a slow rise in the overall Black population of the city as a percentage of the whole population. White flight would have happened and the effects would be nearly irreversible.
No Batman could save the city then from the crime, decadence, and corruption found merely in City Hall (does Batman even have a Black guy in his rogues gallery?), let alone the thugs and gangs that roam the streets of Detroit, New Orleans, or Philadelphia.
No Blackman can save them either.
The League of Shadows had it all wrong. Strange they could sack so many other civilizations but fail to understand the racial dynamics of America in the 20th and 21st century to understand why so many of our great cities have collapsed.
Stranger still that the liberalism so many claim to be the cause of Detroit and other majority Black cities’ decline can’t say the same about Burlington, Vermont; Missoula, Montana; Boulder, Colorado; or Portland, Oregon, where liberalism thrives amid a sea of tranquility, courtesy of whitey.
Misguided idealists refuse to look at the ruins of Detroit and blame the current occupants for its condition. The same goes for the declining city of Philadelphia. The same goes for Milwaukee. The same goes for St. Louis. The same goes for Orlando.
The same goes for… well, you get the picture.
Is corruption, crime, misery, decay, and failure the ultimate fate of any city that comes from transitioning from majority white to majority Black population?
Yes. The League of Shadows’ failure in bringing Gotham City to its knees – with or without a Batman to protect it – was in not introducing Black people into the metropolis to facilitate immediate white abandonment.
Once this occurs, the fate of the city is sealed. To understand where Philadelphia is headed, look no further than Detroit.
Our world has no League of Shadows to incapacitate a city through a veil of secrecy and surreptitious, clandestine machinations. The Visible Black Hand of Economics, an action that is available for all to see without any shadows blocking the view, destroyed Detroit.
The Tuskegee Airmen: A enduring fabrication that must be shot down
Note: All this week will be # posts. Even if Detroit burns to the ground; even if a violent Mahogany Mob occupies and terrorizes Philadelphia for three days; even if Eric “My Holder” People enlists the dwindling percentage of enlisted Black members of the US Military to help close the racial gap in learning (one of the primary reasons that the percentage of enlisted Black members of the military has deteriorated: 40 percent of “The Blacks” can’t pass the entrance exam); even if… well, you get the picture. Okay, we might have one article one article on sports. Just one. Promise.
A good friend of mine, Luke Darren, who assisted me on a piece at Vdare, has finally come up the primary slogan for SBPDL. One of the slogans is SBPDL: Fight Back.
But the moniker for SBPDL needs to be something fundamental, something elemental: SBPDL: Because truth has a racialbias. More on this in the coming weeks.
One of the books I’d like to write is a take-off on the misnamed Lies my Teacher Told Me. It would simply be called Lies my Teacher Told Me About Black-Run America (or Lies My Teacher Told Me About Black History, but you get the picture). It would discuss purported inventions by Black people, and give reasons for various laws that were passed in more civilized times. More importantly, it would target the myths that are continually trotted out to paralyze people from pointing out the failures of the Black community now, by showcasing the discrimination that Black people faced once upon a time.
Black people can’t be held accountable for their actions now, when they were once barred from playing in Major League Baseball or segregated into all-Black flying units like the Tuskegee Airmen. It is important that in every aspect of a white person’s life that they constantly be bombarded with reminders of their ancestors (and nations) past racism, so they are incapable of voicing opposition to the ever-tightening vise of Black-Run America (BRA).
I’ve been working on a long article on the myth of Tuskegee Airmen (one of the foundational myths of BRA, much like the Rosa Park incident and the Edmund Pettis Bridge moment in Selma) that will be published elsewhere, but today realized a pernicious new maneuver by Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) to have us believe that these Red Tails single-handily defeated the Axis Powers due to their superior aviation skills.
Much like Major League Baseball (MLB) has mandated that each year Jackie Robinson Day be commemorated (when every player on every team must wear a jersey with Robinson’s jersey number 42, which has been retired in his honor by ever team) to constantly remind people America and baseball’s racist past, the National Football League (NFL) has done something so silly and sanctimonious that it will surely become a yearly tradition: The Tuskegee Airmen were trotted out at a slew of NFL games to show that Black people can be trained to fly a plane (now clap, because though Black people make up less than 2 percent of Air Force pilots – and most major airline pilots – now, they beat Germany by themselves back in 1941-1945!) and are the only people worthy of remembering from those who served in the US Military during World War II:
The Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African American military pilots who flew in World War II, are being honored on the 70th anniversary of their service with a special tribute during three NFL games held on November 13th, 2011 — Veterans Day Weekend — in conjunction with the upcoming release of the motion picture Red Tails from Lucasfilm Ltd.
The Dallas Cowboys, the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets will host Veterans Day Weekend games which feature salutes to the Tuskegee Airmen, including sideline interviews with some of the original veteran World War II pilots, and on-field tributes to these American heroes.
An all-black combat unit created at the Tuskegee Institute in 1941, the Tuskegee Airmen pilots faced unimaginable challenges: fierce discrimination, outdated training equipment, and their performance was scrutinized by government officials who believed they would fail. Despite these obstacles, the Tuskegee Airmen persevered and earned an impressive combat record in World War II. They flew more than 15,000 sorties on more than 1,500 missions throughout North Africa and Europe. They won three Distinguished Unit Citations and earned 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Bronze Stars, 744 Air Medals and several Silver Stars and Purple Hearts.
In addition, stars from the upcoming movie Red Tails, an action adventure film that celebrates the bravery of the Tuskegee Airmen, will be attending pre-game tailgate events and performing at select games. These include Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, Elijah Kelley, Tristan Wilds, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael B. Jordan and Gerald Mc Raney. Red Tails opens in theaters on January 20, 2012.
Sigh. Soon a Paul Kersey article will be published that begins the assault – with the sturdy ally of veracity on my side – on the Tuskegee Airmen myth. Have your fun NFL placating a lie. One thing no one ever points out is how condescending it is to continue to honor this group of people, when hundreds of thousands of white men were trained to fly on other Army Air Bases. Do the DWLs in charge of education consider it a major accomplishment that so many Black people (reports state that roughly 445 of 996 trained at Tuskegee over a five-year time period saw action overseas) were capable of flying? Despite massive recruiting efforts, why are so few Black people capable of flying in our military now?
I can remember teachers telling all sorts of weird and unbelievable stories about the Tuskegee Airmen (modern day Gods descended down from Mt. Olympus in the eyes of DWLs and constantly indoctrinated by BRA) that sounded incredulous to my young ears. That they never lost a bomber; that no plane was shot down or any airmen was killed; that they found Amelia Earhart; that they were the original pilots selected for NASA’s Mercury team; etc.
Sadly, the latter two are untrue. Worse, so are the rest. For 60 years the lie persisted that the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a plane as they escorted US bombers over Germany. This lie was happily by teachers across the country and repeated at ceremonies honoring the surviving Red Tails. One of the foundational stories of BRA is nothing more than a lie, told so that succeeding generations of children question why there are so few Black pilots now, when their legendary war record was so sterling (also having people question why, if they never lost a bomber, why segregation ever existed since their martial skills were second-to-none):
At least 25 bombers being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen over Europe during World War II were shot down by enemy aircraft, according to a new Air Force report.
The report contradicts the legend that the famed black aviators never lost a plane to fire from enemy aircraft. But historian William Holton said the discovery of lost bombers doesn’t tarnish the unit’s record.
“It’s impossible not to lose bombers,” said Holton, national historian for Tuskegee Airmen Inc.
The report released Wednesday was based on after-mission reports filed by both the bomber units and Tuskegee fighter groups, as well as missing air crew records and witness testimony, said Daniel Haulman, a historian at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery.
The tally includes only cases where planes were shot down by enemy aircraft, Haulman said. No one disputed the airmen lost some planes to anti-aircraft guns and other fire from the ground.
The 25 planes were shot down on five days: June 9, July 12, July 18 and July 20, 1944 and March 24, 1945, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.
The real inconvenient truth is that Black people have been able to claim they were part of this legendary band of aviators (and garner awards and speaking engagements) without anyone ever questioning said claim because of the moral authority that BRA grants to the Tuskegee Airmen:
Tuskegee Airman Robert A. Decatur often spoke in public about being one of only about 960 black pilots who escorted the all-white crews of bombers over Europe, how he inscribed his plane in Latin with the slogan “Through Adversity, to the Stars,” and how one of the characters in a 1995 HBO movie about the black pilots was based on him.
“If you remember the scene in The Tuskegee Airmen where the pilot, played by Laurence Fishburne, landed in a field where convicts were working, the pilot stepped out of the plane and one of the convicts said, ‘My God, he’s colored.’ That pilot was Robert Decatur,” he told an audience during Martin Luther King Day observances this year at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Because of his stories of heroism, the Arkansas chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen is named in his honor.
But his death last month in Titusville at age 88 did not lay to rest the contention of fellow Tuskegee Airmen that Decatur’s legendary life was largely his own creation.
“He included himself as one of those heroes, and he wasn’t,” said John Gay, president of the Orlando chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc., an association created in 1972 to honor the first black pilots trained in Tuskegee, Ala., during World War II.
Decatur’s embellishments were repeated over the years in articles ranging from a 2004 cover story in Onyx magazine to an Aug. 22 obituary in the Orlando Sentinel.
The record shows that Decatur was a Tuskegee cadet in 1944 but did not complete pilot training. He did not graduate from flying school and never flew in combat. He was not portrayed by Laurence Fishburne.
“Mr. Decatur was not the model for the character, nor were the six or seven others who have claimed to be over these last 14 years,” said Joan Williams, whose late husband, Robert, wrote the movie’s screenplay and based much of it on his experiences as a Tuskegee pilot.
The impersonation of war heroes is so prevalent that Congress passed the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 to crack down on men who gave themselves medals they never earned. To many of these men, the glory of their imaginations makes up for shortcomings in their lives.
“The more you exaggerate, the more acclaim you get, and the more acclaim you get, the better it feels,” said Alan Keck, an Orlando psychologist.
How many Black men like Decatur have been able to lie and profit off of this BRA myth? Why is the need for the Tuskegee Airmen myth of near invincibility so vital to the official – and incredibly patronizing – story of Black people being capable of aviation training? Just check out this article that details the uproar in the Tuskegee Airmen community over the news of their discredited reputation as perfect warriors of the air:
In 1996 or 1997, Holton said, he heard a white fighter pilot complain that the Red Tails weren’t perfect — every fighter group lost bombers.
That angered Holton, who wanted to prove the man wrong. But he waited until 2003 to begin research. He felt no rush, he said, and wanted to wait for the Red Tails’ 60th anniversary in 2004.
He figured proving the record correct would make a big splash at the group’s convention in Nebraska. But Holton said he found that World War II bomber and pilot reports showed five bombers under Tuskegee protection were shot down by German fighters.
“I expected some flak,” said Holton, who presented the information at the convention. “I just didn’t expect the magnitude.”
Ron Brewington, 61, a broadcast journalist who has long been fascinated by the Red Tails and serves as the group’s spokesman, said Holton was told to keep the news to himself until it could be verified.
Remember: Stars and Stripeshas deemed white males too valorous; Real American Heroes are invariably almost all white in today’s military. Parading around a lie in the form of the Tuskegee Airmen to induce white guilt is a wonder tactic; unlike their false war record, the story of the Tuskegee Airmen never misses bombing young minds into a veritable mush of guilt that will accept and tolerate any lie told to further the objectives of BRA.
Al.com put this picture of a white Flash Mob with its story on the 400+ Black people riot that closed Edge 12 Movie Theater in Birmingham on Christmas Night
Have we started a fire? No, but the fire rises anyways.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A crowd of young people — possibly drawn though social media — interrupted the movies at The Edge 12 Movie Theater and were disruptive outside in the parking lot of Festival Shopping Center on Crestwood Boulevard Sunday night.
About 400 people were involved, with 200 of them really disruptive, Birmingham Police East Precinct commander Capt. Allen Hatcher said Tuesday, based on reports he got from the off-duty Birmingham police officer who worked security at the theater that night.
Movie-goer Shannon Webster, pastor of First Presbyterian Church downtown, said he counted 18 police cars when he and his family were told to leave the theater, part-way through seeing “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”
“I was surprised,” he said. “I did not expect to see that on Christmas night, going out to the movies.”
Hatcher said that a large group of youths had showed up in the theater and the parking lot Sunday and started to cause problems and disruptions. When theater management confronted them, they grew more disruptive and management shut all the movies down. Hatcher said some youths out in the parking lot banged on windows of nearby businesses, pushed some shopping carts into the parking lot, and went inside a Chinese restaurant. The off-duty officer put out a call, and police responded with a large contingent.
No one, to his knowledge, Hatcher said, was hurt or arrested, but a window was damaged at the Radio Shack store. The off-duty officer said that youths had heard on Facebook there was going to be a fight.
Hatcher said he recalled Trussville having a similar social media mob at a movie theater more than a year ago.
Webster said he had arrived at the Edge 12 about 7 with his wife and two adult children. When he arrived, there were “a lot of really young kids were crowded inside, milling around.”
During the movie, some came into the theater and started making noise, but one of the other movie-goers ordered them out in a commanding voice, Webster said.
“There were hundreds of kids in the lobby,” he said.
Webster saw security guards handcuffing several. He thought the crowd of youths ranged in age from 13 to their early 20s.
The outside scene seemed tense, said Webster, who has done church work in places such as the Gaza Strip, Northern Ireland, Cuba, Guatemala, and Communist Eastern Europe.
“Usually there is nothing going on there on Sunday afternoon,” Hatcher said of the shopping center. “I believe social media made it a big event.”Efforts to reach the management of Edge 12 for comment were unsuccessful.
Webster said Sunday night was the only time he had ever felt unsafe there, and he plans to return to the movies.
“I don’t want it to keep me from going back to the theater, because I think it’s important for the neighborhood and for East Birmingham,” said Webster, who lives in Crestwood. “We need them there, so I will continue to go there.
Why can’t the writer of this story just state that these were Black “youths?” Birmingham, located in Jefferson County, the home of one of the south’s first big Mahogany Mob attacks. This is freedom. This is why freedom failed. Don’t forget that Jefferson County (Birmingham is 72 percent Black) recently declared the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
Detroit’s (or Wayne County) will be even bigger.
Not once does the article have the temerity to call ‘youths’ by the proper term: Black people. The owner of Edge 12 stated in an interview earlier this year that the goal was to turn it into a family establishment:
Owner Marty Felts and general manager Rob DeLeo are seeking to bring new life into the old digs, and hope to reinvigorate the Festival Center in the process. Safety concerns from the past have been dealt with, and the theater features heightened security and an interior ticket office so that moviegoers can buy their tickets inside rather than standing outside at a box office.
“We want this to be a family-friendly place, with a committed staff and great employees,” said spokesperson Newton, assistant manager of the Edge, who added that there has been no trouble whatsoever in the area thus far.
Well, having “youths” force the premature closing of Edge 12 on Christmas night isn’t a great way to keep business going. Perhaps that’s what happened to Edge 14 in Macon, which Felts owned. It was closed in September. Odds are people avoided the theater because the well-known Black Undertow in Macon couldn’t be quiet during the movies. Don’t try and be an entrepreneur to the Black Undertow unless you are in the chicken business (like the Tulsa Chicken Hut), or selling crack.
It is Black people – 400 +!!! – who forced the early closing of the Edge 12 movie theater, depriving that business of revenue through ticket and concession sales. Then again, crime in Birmingham is nearly monochromatic.
Worse, Al.com had the audacity to post a story today that discussed the Flash MobMahogany Mob phenomenon wrecking havoc across the nation, that was accompanied with pictures and video of white kids dancing for the Salvation Army kettle campaign at the Brookwood Mall in Birmingham.
These white kids were participating in a true Flash Mob, ostensibly trying to raise money through philanthropy that will probably go towards clothing and feeding the very Black kids who forced the closing of Edge 12 on Christmas.
Flash mobs are in the news again, with reports of a rowdy Mall of America “smash and grab” crowd on Monday and, closer to home, movie goers being sent home early from the Edge 12 Movie Theater in Birmingham on Christmas Day when security and management grew anxious over a group of rowdy young people believed to have been drawn by a Facebook mention of a possible fight.
Some cities have wrestled with trying to find a way to address the chaos such social media-driven events can cause. In Cleveland, the city council passed ordinances earlier this month aimed at curbing them.
The City Council there banned “inciting to riot” and added computers and cellphones to a list of items that can be considered criminal tools when used illegally. Violators may be sentenced to up to six months in jail and fined $1,000.Critics had blasted a previous effort by the Cleveland panel to outlaw the use of Facebook and Twitter to rally mobs as unconstitutional, unnecessary and difficult to enforce. The ordinances passed this month became law without the signature of Mayor Frank Jackson, who said he didn’t think they will make a difference.
For years, social media has been used to fuel gatherings that turn out to be beneficial or sinister, entertaining or even philanthropic, such as the November kickoff for the Salvation Army kettle drive in Birmingham, which was billed as a “flash mob” event but might not have met the letter of the definition of the term.
All of the stories cited in this story involve (GULP!!!) Black people. It is the Black Undertow that is responsible for the mess in Birmingham, and it is the children of the Black Undertow that forced the early closing of Edge 12.
Birmingham was abandoned to the Black Undertow through massive white flight that created some of the top cities in America like Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook, and Hoover, where white people rebuilt the town they had just fled.
Black people, who inherited the infrastructure that white people had created, built, and sustained in Birmingham, have turned it into a permanent filming location for the real-life crime/murder show The First 48.
Crumbling infrastructure in many of the nation’s larger cities such as Birmingham are placing an unsustainable financial burden on populations unable pay for the rebuilding of key systems such as sewer and water, says a new research study from Michigan State University.
The infrastructure of the nation’s central cities has reached and passed replacement age just as many core areas now contain populations of largely lower-income minorities already paying more for services than rural and small-city residents.
Along with metro Birmingham, other cities mentioned include Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
Is there even need to discuss the implications of what Climate Change means to this story? Pittsburgh is one of the nicest places live in America, but money that should be going to public works is diverted to paying for a the permanent underclass that is the Black Undertow.
Cleveland, St. Louis, Birmingham, and Detroit have one thing in common: Black people inherited an existing infrastructure when white people fled the Black Undertow, and they couldn’t sustain it.
In summation, those journalists in America whose job is to inform law-abiding citizens of potential risks to their person, business, and private property have failed us miserably. They aren’t ‘youths’; they are Black people.
Or, the exact same behavior that was on display at the Mall of America.
Yes, Dr. King, your children can go to Funtown now. But because they now can, malls are closing nationwide. So is Edge 12 in Birmingham.
Freedom has failed. It has bankrupted Birmingham; it has made seeing a movie with the family an unpleasant experience at Edge 12; it is simply the tyranny we call Black-Run America (BRA).
Let it be known that the theory stating that only so-called Blue States (those with laws against conceal carry) would be the host of Mahogany Mobs is now dead. Alabama, that reddest of red (well, white) states has now seen a 400 + Black person riot. Another business (like many of the dead malls/strip malls/restaurants/etc.) has its very existence threatened by Black people putting it in the red.
Have we started a fire? No, but the fire rises anyway.
