Fred Reed
“A country deserves what it tolerates, and will assuredly get
more of it,” said my favorite political commentator (me).
He has also asked, “This is supposed to help blacks?”
Across the country the rabble rampage, Black Lives Matter,
Antifa, and mobs sacking stores. They are by no means all black. Whites
participate in the vandalism, blacks do the looting and beatings of whites. Both
are out of control. Anger over this quietly grows. A spring is being wound, methinks,
a hammer cocked, the scene set for a grisly outbreak of racial bloodshed.
The backdrop will be the hatred between Elites and Deplorables,
exacerbated by a declining economy, financial anxiety for the future, anger
over immigration, the epidemic, and so on. Yet it is race that will provide the
spark.
Does this sound like unbalanced raving? If I had told you the
day before the Floyd incident that in a few days cities across the country
would be if flames with looting and vandalism, would you have thought me
unbalanced?
For whatever reason, catastrophic racial realities exist, disguised
and hidden by the White House and the media. Maybe these think they are
preventing, or postponing, and explosion that might occur if people knew what
was happening. Maybe they are stroking their voters. This video, of actual events, catches
the straits in which America finds itself. The degree to which it shocks you is
a measure of the effectiveness of the journalistic suppression.
The political landscape is of course complex. In a curious
twist the white Elites use blacks against their Deplorable enemies, claiming
and perhaps sometimes believing that they are opposing racism. To this end they
eliminate bail, defund the police, hide crime by blacks, order the police not
to use tear gas and rubber bullets. Police
resign in droves, not wanting to be the next Chauvin. Homicide rises sharply. Looting
flourishes.
Crime by blacks is now barely restricted, and reported as
little as the big media can manage. For
example, Thirty-two
Black on White Homicides, for October. These typically appear for a couple
of days in local papers but are never picked up by the majors
The results of the unpolicy?
Seattle
has become so dangerous that police have to walk the city’s employees to
transportation after work.
The great majority of blacks do not do these things, but the
great majority of those who do these things are black. The white and Asian
victims will notice this. People remember who did, not who didn’t. Anger will
grow, grows. This is a very bad thing.
We now see stores selling expensive goods attacked by
organized flash packs, windows smashed and wares stolen, in minutes. The
looters are not Japanese school girls. In San Francisco, where shoplifting is
virtually legal, store after store leaves for friendlier climes, unable to
withstand the losses. Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, a region of stores selling
prestige goods, now has many empty stores because of looting. Goodbye tax base.
Shortly, goodbye middle class. There is no reason for these robberies to end
since they are profitable and almost free of risk.
How can the spreading lawlessness be stopped? Easily, but not
nicely. Throwing a brick at a policeman is at least ADW, assault with a deadly
weapon, and arguably attempted murder, twenty to life. Apply it. Lighting
buildings or cars is arson. So charge it and throw the book. Allow store owners
to shoot looters. But this we will not do, or at least not yet, and nothing else
will work.
The brighter among the woke worry that if ever whites develop
a racial consciousness like that of blacks, things will get very, very ugly. Thus
the hysteria over White Supremacy. Unfortunately, the best way to promote white
consciousness is exactly what the woke are doing--to encourage crime by blacks,
allow the beatings, and endlessly pummel whites for racism. The woke are
working hard at getting exactly what they don’t want. They are not doing blacks
a favor. If an explosion comes, it will be bad for whites but worse by far for
blacks who, whether they like to admit it or not, depend on whites for much. The
country would never recover.
Journalists, perhaps lacking the wit to understand what they
are doing, labor to intensify racial hostility. In particular, they
relentlessly tell blacks that they are victims of whites, that they are being
killed in large numbers by white police, while suppressing the fact that far
more whites are killed by blacks. This understandably enrages blacks who, emotional,
less educated than whites, reading little, believe it.
Having worked in the scrivener’s trade, I partly blame the
joy of shared indignation and a diminishment of the former belief in
fact-checking. (It used to be said, “If your mother says she loves you, check
it out.” No more.) Wild partisanship adds to the problem. The journalists of
Washington read each other, write for each other, talk to each other and,
finding that they all think the same things, assume that they must be right,
because they all think the same things.
Further, networks run by people of a particular view hire
people who agree with them. Reporters too seem gripped by the free-floating
anger that afflicts America as a whole. Bingo.
Remember that the strongest human proclivity, stronger than
the sex drive, is to avoid information working against ardently held beliefs.
Liberals do not, will not, read Fox News or American Renaissance, and
conservatives avoid Salon and NPR. It is curious that reporters, whose job is
to know what goes on in America, largely don’t.
Remember also that that the networks have limited
news-gathering ability compared to freelance websites. During the Floyd riots,
hundreds, maybe thousands, of people with smartphones recorded video of
looting, vandalism, and beatings. These were posted, and circulated, freely on
the net, but not on CNN. They showed the looters to be almost entirely
black. The vandals no, but the looters,
yes. In my (now limited) acquaintance with the media in Washington, they really
don’t know what is happening.
The upshot? It would be a very good idea to stop the lawlessness,
the racial attacks, and the mob robberies before those targeted decide to take
things into their own hands.
For the literarily inclined, perhaps worth contemplation:
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy -- willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.