It is happening all over the country and it is being ignored by almost everyone for all of the wrong reasons. “It” is black mob violence against whites.
To utter such thoughts is to risk being called an insensitive racist by Eric Holder and his buddies such as Al Sharpton and the entire leadership of the New Black Panther Party. Yet, the fear of even saying “black mob violence” infects most of the supposedly rational leadership of this entire country. The infection attacks and silences their vocal chords and also apparently their brains. The infection has been also spread by the words and meaningful inaction of the current inhabitant of the Oval Office.
The latest example of this virulent infection occurred in Norfolk, Virginia several weeks ago when a group of young blacks attacked and beat two white Virginian-Pilot reporters who happened to be in their neighborhood. The two were injured seriously enough to stay out of work for a week.
The newspaper ignored the story under its nose for two weeks. When Pilot Editor Denis Finley allowed the paper to mention the serious incident, he assured the world that it did not involve racial hate. This was also the public position taken by interim Norfolk Police Chief Sharon Chamberlin. The public has been assured that it was a simple case of an ordinary street crime.
However, Jesse Watters, a reporter for Bill O’Reilly’s Fox TV program, managed in one visit to find young blacks who said on camera that racial animus was involved and that there was some mention of taking revenge for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
For the most part, the mainstream media has continued to ignore the story even though there have been numerous similar reports of black mobs and individual blacks attacking innocent whites in the name of avenging Trayvon.
As I have recently argued, President Obama has contributed to the spread of this ugly, violent situation by failing to condemn such attacks and by allowing his attorney general to take no action against the New Black Panthers and by embracing the lead inciter of violence, Al Sharpton. The failures of our president and his attorney general make all decent people of all races less secure.
Among the reasons why a thoughtful American might vote against the reelection of Barack Obama, his behavior regarding the Martin-Zimmerman case should be among the most important.
We who voted for the first African-American presidential candidate have every reason now to feel utterly betrayed. I am one of them. He broke his promise to be a post-racial president – and thus he has failed us all in that regard.
Yet, to my knowledge candidate Mitt Romney has been afflicted by the widespread infection of silence on such matters. If he is to earn the trust of the electorate he has got to step up to the plate and condemn the racial violence that has occurred in the aftermath of the Martin-Zimmerman tragedy. He could also state clearly that when he is elected, he will see to it that the New Black Panther Party will feel the heat of an investigation led by his new attorney general.
The only people who would oppose such a move would be the New Black Panther Party.
For an explanation why the DOJ refuses to act, see this PJ Media piece by Legal Editor J. Christian Adams, as well as what happens when nothing is done to stop the mob in other countries.
We who voted for the first African-American presidential candidate have every reason now to feel utterly betrayed. I am one of them. He broke his promise to be a post-racial president – and thus he has failed us all in that regard.
You voted for him on the strength of his “promise to be a post-racial president?” You “now feel utterly betrayed?” You can’t blame Obama for that. You apparently did not read the instruction booklet; you did not trouble to learn the language of Leftism it was written in before you cast your ballot.
It is to be hoped that you will have learned this time around—before you cast your ballot again—that the Left believes only whites can be racist; they have “the power,” they have “the hegemony,” and they are indissolubly wedded to “white privilege.” This means that whites can, through continuous self-abasement, somewhat atone for the sin of their skin color but can never truly do so entirely—nor can they ever act in a non-racist manner. This means, by the way, that all the Left’s lip service to “education” is merely that—lip service—because the Left does not believe that “education” can ever change the skin of the non-Ethiopian, so to speak.
By the same token, the same things are true of the non-white, in reverse; “people of color” can never be racist, even (perhaps especially) when they are part of a flash mob/gang beating up on white people with intent to maim or kill. Such unpleasantries are merely part of the “education” process that ever-racist whites must endure as a punishment for their hegemonic skin tones.
Barack Obama, running as a “post-racial” candidate, meant that he would adhere to this worldview. “Post-racial,” in his linguistic universe, meant that he would herald in an era when the racists (racialists, i.e., whites) would no longer be in power; when the non-racists (i.e., non-whites) would rule. He was going to put the “black gang” from the boiler room on the bridge of the ship of state.
This revanchist worldview was perfectly pitched to the electorate so as to allow Obama’s core base—i.e., radical Leftists and those who supported him on purely racial grounds—to hear clearly what he was promising, and to permit the remainder of his supporters, those who embraced what they wanted to believe was a “message of racial healing”, to fool themselves.
I have a minor disagreement with, “the Left believes only whites can be racist.”
I think that you need to change that. “The Left believes only The Left cannot be racist.”
Anyone that disagrees with the Left is a racist, homophobe, misogynist, whatever the derogatory term is for the issue you disagree with. Even if you are black, white, hispanic, asian, gay, female, etc. The only Enlightened Ones are the Left.
Minor correction – the Left believes that they are aware of their racism, and struggle against it, and this gives them virtue.
It’s truly minor, but it is the thing that fuels their smug, self-righteous belief that they are virtuous, and those who do no share their world-view are irredeemable.
Good catch. Nice distinction. I think you’ve got a handle on it.
Yes. Original Sin for the unbeliever.
Acting like a dick and shoving “I told you so in the faces of regretful Obama voters is a great way to push them back into Obama’s camp.
Thanks, but we don’t need another Obama.
Your question to Romney is a valid one but only an inept fool would answer it by doing what you suggest. The right would applaud, the left would scream and the squishy middle would wring their undecided hands and declare Romney an agitator. There are so many egregious examples of Obama’s failing to stem racial hatred that it would fill a book. Throw in Holder and we are looking at two of the biggest racists in 60 years. Michelle has a written history of hating Whites and her actions and words since taking over the WH house show that she hasn’t changed her ways. If a person is truly logical and analyses what Obama said he would do against what he has actually done it would be a no brainer to vote him out of office. Unfortunately that is not the way voters act. The Blacks will vote for him no matter what he says or does. The liberals will vote for him no matter what and the gays, Hispanics and Jews will do the same. No one knows why they respond the way they do but reason and logic are not part of the equation.
Mr. Trebach,
It is beyond me to understand how an intelligent, educated person could have voted in 2008 for Barack Obama to the most important and powerful office in the world. It was easy enough to discover sufficient damning evidence against his qualifications for the office, to cast doubt on his love of country and loyalty to it, and on his honesty, and to know of his affiliation with radical elements. You disgust me. The same goes for Peggy Noonan. You should both give up public writing for the shame, at least long enough to seriously contemplate your qualifications to advise other people on whom to support in political office.
Bigfoot – I completely disagree with your tone toward the author. While some migth have been blessed with your discernment in 2008, not all were. I know plenty of educated and intelligent people who voted for Obama who were not liberals or leftists in 2008. Mr. Trebach’s piece was measured and thougtful. More importantly, it represents something you better hope for in 2012 else the results will be the same as 2008 – and Obama victory. If people who voted for Obama in 2008 face scorn and ridicule, as you did toward the author, why should they adopt your point of view? These people should be welcomed, not attacked. They are the kew to the 2012 election turning out differently. Hopefully you come to understand that. Only a clown show pushes away converts.
Dude, spelling and grammar. Seriously.
Now, what would Saul Alinsky say to Bigfoot and Mr Trebach?
Saul Alinsky would consider Trebach’s conversion as a point on the scoreboard.
Regarding spelling – last refuge of a…
The election will not be won or lost based on the opinions of the readers of Stormfront or members of the Citizens Council.
… scoundrel. Yep, me and Saul Alinsky.
While I agree with you that we all should welcome the arrivals of the Mr Trebachs, the Peggy Noonans and the NYTimes’ Brooks (as Instapundit says “another rube self-identifies”), I think the frustration and unease we (who had Obama pegged from the very beginning) feel at the arrival of the onesy-and-twosy Obama-tards to the other side of the struggle is both palpable and to be expected.
Many of these people were traitors to American ideals (I say that as someone who is married to one). And for me, the test of readiness for acceptance and forgiveness must be preceded by them saying something along the lines of “O.M.G. I was a complete fool. I am so ashamed of myself”.
We have yet to hear that from Peggy Noonan, who continues to fund her Upper East Side condo on the backs of those of us who remain in the struggle for America. Mr Trebach can speak for himself.
Your skin is amazingly thin, and your tone virulently unpleasant. Further, I would call your response tendentious.
I tried to talk sense to some of them. Might as well have tried to preach Mormonism in Riyadh. It was pointless, and dangerous.
I came to the conclusion that these “intelligent people” were anything but. Nothing since has given me any reason to reexamine my conclusion. Perhaps you’re confusing intelligent with educated? Plenty of educated morons out there.
Mr. Adams: While I welcome Mr. Trebach for having seen the light (so to speak)I have to agree with Bigfoot on the primary issue: Recognition of the danger O posed in 2008. O did not have a brilliant history in politics or administration. He was in the Senate for just two years before running, and in his stint in the Illinois senate he was distinguished for voting present. He was totally unprepared to be president of the United States. (And the Left complained about Palin’s inexperience.)
As important, were the friends he kept: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, two unrepentant terrorists, and the “Reverend” Wright, who is anti-American, antisemitic, anti-white, etc., and in the background there was Saul Alinsky. It was not necessary to be clairvoyant in 2008 because it almost crystal clear what would happen, and which did happen.
On reflection, “disgust” is too strong a term.
“I know plenty of educated and intelligent people who voted for Obama who were not liberals or leftists in 2008.”
Really? I know of none, and I have an awful lot of highly-intelligent friends. None of my circle were so obscenely naive as to vote for this vile person.
So, the question becomes, how is it you know so many? Or are you mistaken when you consider them intelligent?
Yours was a knee-jerk defense of the writer, and a poor one.
I don’t think that’s quite fair. I myself thought Obama was a good choice as a Washington outsider at first. That’s because I didn’t know the guy. And at first, when I learned about Trinity United, I didn’t really want to believe it because I hate conspiracy theory stuff about interconnected racist cabals and the like.
Remember, when Alexander Werth first sent his report to the BBC about the Nazi’s Maidenek, they didn’t want to use it because they didn’t believe anyone would make a death camp like that.
I’m not comparing a concentration camp to Obama’s clique, but I am saying it was difficult to believe he was part of a racist cabal that despises white people and works against them politically. Guess what: Obama is part of a racist cabal that despises white people and works against them politically.
Read his wife’s Princeton thesis, read Derrick Bell, read Eric Holder, read about Holder’s wife, read about the DOJ, read about Louis Farrakhan and James Cone and Rev. Wright in relation to Trinity Church. They’re amazing racists, end of story.
But being fooled by people who conspicuously try to hide their racism doesn’t amount to having one’s credibility shot down forever.
You really thought Obama was an “outsider”?
You really are full of fail.
Fail Burton
“I don’t think that’s quite fair. I myself thought Obama was a good choice as a Washington outsider at first. That’s because I didn’t know the guy”.
My God man! Do you understand what you just admitted to? You voted for someone that NO ONE knew anything about except that he had been in the Chicago mafia for 20 years and had two well known terrorists as his close friends. Talk about throwing your vote away!
OK, so apparently we’re all agreed that Arnold S. Trebach is an “inept fool” about this.
The next question we should ask should be what strategies can anyone adopt that solve this problem. Because it certainly is a problem, and if you don’t think it’s a problem then you should test your own ineptness by walking unarmed through a black neighborhood.
Of course, I have no real national solution either. I’ve managed to move to a rural area and I don’t go about unarmed and I make darn certain I go nowhere near areas that are predominantly black. That might protect me but it won’t protect my friends who think that because they live in America, they’re invulnerable.
So, like I said, what’s the solution? Or is there no solution? Short of always carrying a concealed handgun and praying you never have to use it (see George Zimmerman).
At a national level there isn’t much of a solution. I think the best we can do would be to get a non-racist Attorney General, maybe one who will launch a few investigations into the violation of white citizen’s civil rights by the local investigations. Of course to do that we need a new President, and in order to do THAT the only things that should be coming out of Romney’s piehole are how terrible the economy is and how Obama and his policies are abject failures.
The Democrats are desperately casting about trying to find any subject that will distract the electorate from the economy. If I may humbly suggest: DON’T *&^@ING HELP THEM!
I think Mitt should just stay on message. Let O’Reilly and others bring that message. Obama has a three year history of involving himself with events that have nothing to do with his office. It’s not presidential behavior. It’s the campaigner in Obama that just can’t resist commenting on everything. He will lose in November mostly because he has rarely if ever been seen to be doing his job. I doubt the people who like him actually think he works very hard at being POTUS.
Some problems cannot be solved – only managed. Beyond that, some leadership would be helpful.
Why would obama even consider speaking out against Black violence? To even consider the concept, you would have to make the assumption that he gives a shit about someone other than himself. Where’s the slightest evidence of that?
If he ever did say something against the tragic problem of black violence, the only rational thing to do would be to begin the search for the real motive.
but since blacks vote for him about 99%, it’s impossible to imagine it ever happening. He doesn’t say ANYTHING about blacks that isn’t a promise to redistribute something from other people…taxes, justice, health care, etc.
This was clear as a ringing bell by about the 2nd day of his term.
Amazing coincidence, I came to this site (Pajamas Media) just 30 seconds after finishing watching a
video of a White US Army soldier (stationed at MacDill AFB) being beaten to within a inch of his life
on Westshore Blvd in Tampa Fl by a group of four young black males. They attack the young soldier
for no reason that I can see, he just walks by them, and out of the blue, one ‘youth’ delivers a sucker
punch that knocks the solider to the ground, then they punch him and kick him for five long minutes.
The young White soldier could easily have been killed.
This is happening again and again and again all over the USA. This summer’s black mob on white
violence is picking up from right where it left off last fall. (The summer of 2011 saw a long
string of these attacks.) This did not start with the Zimmerman/Martin incident.
I just watched the video for the first time. If he’d shot all four dead, and on tape, he’d have been raked over the coals. He would’ve been perfectly justified in shooting all four. I wouldn’t be surprised if he buys a gun. No one anywhere in the world needs to put up with that type of thing. Defense is a natural right that even animals employ. I do not need the permission any man who was ever born or God himself to tell me otherwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Mc2IZvyOo
However heartfelt the advice of the Mr. Trebach, the Romney team would follow his advice only if they want to produce a circus. Better that independent voices raise the issue. Romney would be well advised to steer clear. If race is to be injected into the campaign, let the first post-racial President and his team be the ones to do it.
If?
The Obama/Democrat crew are a single minded race-card playing machine.
Prepare for it. Ask yourself, what would Saul Alinsky do?
Given that he ran in ’08 selling, if only implicitly, the promise of a post-racial America (reread Mr. Trebach’s post), I think that Alinsky would be smart enough to avoid being the one to inject race into the ’12 campaign. Obama and his team? Who knows? If they do raise the issue, it will fatally undercut the one great shiny promise that overrode all other concerns for many in ’08 and remains an attraction to some.
Stephen, yet another “if?
they have already begun.
They have a black activist training Democrat members of Congress in how to play the race card whenever Republicans make their talking points.
Like I said. Know your Saul Alinsky.
My original point stands: If Romney takes the lead on this he ends up responding to the inevitable and endless series of accusations. It would be a mistake and would play right into the hand of the Obama team. Others can raise the associated issues; Romney shouldn’t initiate.
– economy, economy and the economy.
Bingo. This is a loser issue for a Republican presidential candidate. The issue needs to bubble to the surface, but not in the presidential debates. I don’t want Romney talking about global war…err…climate change for the same reason. It’s just not what people want to hear about from a presidential candidate.
It’s the economy, stupid. The economy, the economy, and the economy.
And the economy.
This.
The author admits to having voted for Obama, and now he offers really poor counsel. He suggests Romney choose a battle he cannot win.
More and more, PJM keep getting these new writers who have left-leanings, and often do not even know it themselves. And Radosh has stated that he thinks the goal should to reach out to those on the Left and convert them. So we get nonsense such as this.
Well, Mr. Trebach, welcome to the NFL, rookie. You are going to have to up your game, because the readers here are very sharp, and they will call you on this kind of stuff. It will not fly, here.
I think it would be foolish for Romney to allow himself to get bogged down in a racial conflict such as this while still a candidate. Once he gets elected then yes, he should take a stand. But anytime you engage the Left on racial issues you are playing their game and we don’t need Romney sabotaging his hard-won momentum by giving the Left an opportunity to play the race card any more than they already do. They would LOVE for Romney to fall into this trap. Let other voices make the arguments regarding racial double standards. Romney can’t solve the race problem. He can help solve the economic crisis if given a chance. Most importantly, Obama must be defeated. If that can be accomplished then progress can be made.
Moria- you should read Shelby Steele’s White Guilt. The “economic problem” IS the “race problem.” The left has linked their broad agenda to racial issues. When you flee in terror from the discussion of the issue – YOU are playing into their hands.
I don’t disagree with that. Believe me, I know that it’s time for this issue to be dealt with. I’m simply saying that it doesn’t have to be Romney doing it right now while he’s trying to win the White House. If he wins he’ll have at least four years to weigh in. At the very least it will end our long national nightmare of having Eric Holder in the DoJ. So Romney’s go this assignment for the time being. It’s up to everybody else to do their part in this. By the way, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and everybody else at PJM for being proactive and consistent in tackling these delicate issues. It’s necessary and imperative.
All I’m saying is that Romney’s focus from now until November must be getting elected. Obama has managed to slap black voters in the face with his pandering to gay activists. They’re unhappy about that and they are suffering from his economy. It doesn’t mean they’re going to vote for Romney but it might be enough for them to stay home. No need to give Obama an opportunity to fire them up again.
Mr Adams,
With all due respect, “you flee in terror from the discussion of the issue” is a little heavy handed, isn’t it?
Obviously no one here is fleeing in terror from anything, much less a discussion. In fact, virtually every commenter here except you and Mr Trebach has made the point repeatedly that the discussion needs to be joined but (pay attention please) not at this time by Mitt Romney. Surely you can spot the difference, no?
Look, I realize that you are now on the outside (of the DOJ) looking in and I certainly understand that after a career that has culminated in being surrounded by worthless political hacks and vile corruption (aka Eric Holder), one would find a balanced, nuanced and thoughtful approach to be a challenge. But the point here is to win. Not to rush enemy lines every time you see one of them on the battlefield.
Can only concur with the naysayers above. We’ve had 3+ years of Buttinski Obama, Commenter in Chief.
This issue is a quagmire. Romney needs to stay above the fray, behave in a presidential manner and let others speak out.
Romney needs to stay on message. And yes, that message is the economy.
Hundreds of episodes of racial violence in more than 50 cities over last three years.
It’s all in the new book “white Girl bleed a lot”
So what are you waiting for?
Http://whitegirlbleedalot.com
Mitt couldn’t pull it off. Allen West could if he were VP pick. And he could garner the votes of millions of black citizens who are fed up with the thugs.
Message to an Obama voter: no offense, but why should anyone listen to you????
Hell hath no fury like a hater scorned. Why the variant of the old aphorism? Because I suspect the Trebach’s of the world are now trying to revise history to make it seem like their choice for Obama was all about positivity and hope. Well, I remember the frenzy of irrational Bush hatred which helped sweep this Obama bastard into office. The people who voted for the fraud formed perfect electoral storm of America-haters, Bush-haters, haters-of-whites, haters of western civ, haters of capitalism, etc. all sugar coated and whitewashed and propagandized under the label of Hope-N-Change by the Leftist MSM propaganda machine.
I didn’t vote for Geaorge Bush, but the frenzy of Bush hatred is what propelled Obama into The White House, let us not forget.
And I’m still trying to understand how Mr. Trebach utterly failed to see the fraud standing before him four years ago. It seriously casts doubt on his credibility to lecture Romney on the matter of race today. Obama has primed and armed the nuclear weapon of race, which has long been the Left’s most potent weapon of mass destruction against America and Western civilization. That nuclear weapon, which Mr. Trebach is correct to be deeply worried about, is something HE helped arm by voting for the anti-American bastard in the first place…. What is Mr. Trebach going to do to rectify the havoc and damage he helped to create? Lecturing Romney on fixing the mess Mr. Trebach helped create takes some genuine hutzpa.
I also think it would prove fatal to Romney’s chances by creating a perfect storm around which all the media would rally. The Mr. Trebachs got their fundamental transformation of America – just don’t come lecturing to us about now that you begin to perceive what you’re complete lack of rationality wrought.
I’m not impressed with this writer who has admitted to being a fool in 2008 but it is interesting to see the responses, we are fed up with all the weak fools that have allowed the Left to take power!
“We who voted for the first African-American presidential candidate…”
Well, I’d say you’ve told us enough about yourself with that one utterance. There was enough evidence even in 2008 to convince all but the most sub-educated that Obama would be a problem. It’s not your fault, of course – the Left has made sure our education system doesn’t produce people who understand history or who can think critically. But let’s not go there.
Poll after poll show that the greatest concern of Americans is the economy. Romney is doing a very good job of staying on message. Such a diversion into racial politics would play into the Left’s hands.
You’re not a mole by any chance, are you?
“The only people who would oppose such a move would be the New Black Panther Party.”
Well, them, and every other damned black in the country.
“It is happening all over the country and it is being ignored by almost everyone for all of the wrong reasons. “It” is black mob violence against whites.”
The article goes on to present a single example: one which has been debunked. The person who claimed there was a reference to Trayvon made at the fight wasn’t even on the scene.
Find a new way to race-bait.
“Well, them, and every other damned black in the country.”
Hey look, a bigot.
Breathe people, take a minute. Is there anyone on here that doesn’t know at least one Democrat that regrets voting for Obambi? My brother in law is a lifelong old school Democrat and yes, he voted for Obambi but he’s not going to again. Now, go back and look at the choices back in 2008. We didn’t know much about Obambi then but we did know Hillarity Clintoon. Even the Dems didn’t want her in there. On the other side we had McLame. I know I had to think twice about voting for him and I’ve always voted Republican. Obambi ran on hope and change and obviously a lot of people bought into that otherwise he wouldn’t be where he is.
I think it’s great to get Mr. Trebeck’s side of the story. It’s pretty brave of him to come here and admit he voted for Obambi and that he sees his mistake. He is willing to say what he thinks will correct that mistake come November and may be something his former side would respond to. I’m not saying he’s right but at least he’s trying. We should be civil and just point out why we think he is wrong and show him our side of it. Don’t condemn him for making one (big) mistake. Welcome to the dark side Mr Trebeck.
19. Anonymous @3:13–
“Oh look, a bigot”
Now that you mention it, I did forget to include all of the soft, cringing, intimidated, indoctrinated, self-loathing, neurotic liberal white people in that. Fixed!
“If he is to earn the trust of the electorate he has got to step up to the plate and condemn the racial violence that has occurred in the aftermath of the Martin-Zimmerman tragedy. He could also state clearly that when he is elected, he will see to it that the New Black Panther Party will feel the heat of an investigation led by his new attorney general.”
Der Mittzenblitzen doesn’t have to earn the trust of the electorate, it is sufficient merely that he not be the strange little fruit that we trust all too well to pursue a race war in hopes of retaining power over us all for four more years.
If Romney did win, and condemned racial violence done to other than black people, and investigated the stupid vicious New Black Panther street gang, you would call that bigoted too, even though that would be a manifestly just and fair action for the .gov to take. Go wave your stinking goddamned finger in someone else’s face. “Bigot” is no longer a power word, you bug.