By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--January 7, 2015
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Hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying "You get what you deserve, white boy' (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch 'for Trayvon' (Mobile, Ala.). It's just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it'd be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.To no one's surprise, the depraved left-wingers at Salon sided with the brunch-busting racists. Salon assistant editor Joanna Rothkopf hailed the disruptions as "powerful demonstrations in predominantly white spaces" and smeared those who objected to the anti-white harassment as part of a "hateful backlash." Apparently only one prominent black politician in the Big Apple has denounced the brunch disrupters. Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, a garden-variety identity politics-driven leftist who differs little on the issues from New York's small-c communist mayor Bill de Blasio, said the restaurant occupations were a bridge too far.
"I think it's unacceptable," he said. "My private time is my private time. And I want to sit down and enjoy."Adams said he would have confronted demonstrators had they interfered with his brunch. "I still need my moments of self-reflection and to re-energize myself, and I would tell them when is the appropriate time to speak with me," he said. "I'm trying to learn more about what happened, but I don't like to be disturbed at any time, and I don't think anyone wants that." The theory behind the Black Brunch actions appears to be that annoying white people at brunch will somehow bring about social change. The Weasel Zippers website published a 9-page manual that organizers prepared prior to the actions. (Soon after posting the document, the conservative website was hacked.) In a blizzard of ahistorical, postmodernist-sounding drivel, the document states:
Anti-Black racism is a violent force that often diminishes the safety of Black people in public spaces. We reclaim our humanity and right to unapologetically hold space in public. Our history of struggle for Black liberation continues and we proudly draw on the tactics of previous Black struggles including slave rebellions, civil disobedience used during the Civil Rights Movement and movement to end apartheid in South Africa."There is a war on Black people in America that cannot be ignored," it continues, "and the Black Brunch tactic is one that is committed to interrupting 'business as usual' until the war against us has ended." Of course anyone who is honest about race relations has to acknowledge that the United States is probably the least racist nation on earth. They also would have to admit that no one has deprived American blacks of their "humanity," and that unfortunately police are quite reluctant to prevent trespassing activists from "hold[ing] space in public." Whoever wrote the manual is obviously well-versed in the organizing techniques of Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky. The document also states:
It is our goal that this manual will help black people across the US to carry the weight of their pain to communities and to people who otherwise never have to think or feel for us. The beauty in the Black Brunch tactic is that it is easily replicable and allows for Black folks of all backgrounds, generations, identities etc. to mobilize together and create space for inclusive Black leadership and Black resistance.The Black Brunch phenomenon comes as black racist attacks on white Americans are now being mainstreamed by the media. The explosion of black violence following the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner is barely reported at all. Some brainwashed young whites even say they deserve to be attacked by blacks. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service student Oliver Friedfeld took diplomacy to absurd new heights after he was mugged, saying nice things about his assailants. In an op-ed that reads like a satirical piece from The Onion, this youthful useful idiot refuses to judge his attackers.
Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as 'thugs?' It's precisely this kind of 'otherization' that fuels the problem.No doubt a job is waiting for this budding young diplomat at the State Department.
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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