During the most recent Democratic presidential debate on PBS, C-Span host Brian Lamb asked the moderator why he didn’t enforce a no-applause rule for the debate, which is the more common debate format.
The moderator, Tavis Smiley, — who is black — replied, “Because black people are an emotional people. I know it wouldn’t have worked.”
Smiley says the black audience attending the 90-minute session at Howard University would not have listened or complied with such a request for silence, suggesting African-Americans are unable to control themselves.
Before I agree with Smiley, let’s just pause for a moment to listen for the outrage coming from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Nothing. Not a sound.
Now imagine a white moderator from another network — oh, let’s just call it Fox News Channel — had said the exact same thing. The roar from the Left-o-sphere would have been deafening. And Jesse and Al wouldn’t have slept until the moderator had been fired.
Freedomzone notes:
Yet observation of a pattern of behavior in a sub-segment of a population should be treated nothing more than what it is — an observation, regardless of who says it.
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But let’s get back to Smiley’s premise, that black people are too emotional, and thus unable to control themselves (does it make me a racist for simply agreeing with Smiley, who is not a racist for suggesting it?)
I think that there is a mob-mentality in the black culture that is unlike anything you’ll see in any other ethnic group in our country. And very often times, that mob mentality turns to looting, rioting, and violence.
Some recent examples that come to mind:
- New Orleans, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there was rampant looting. People weren’t just taking “survival” items, they were carting off plasma screen TVs and other electronics. Watching the videos, it was almost entirely black people, and it looked like a joyous feeding frenzy.
- During the Los Angles race riots in 1992, blacks torched and looted their own neighborhoods. Reginald Denny was a white construction truck driver who, after being dragged from his truck, was nearly beaten to death by black rioters.
- During the 2001 race riots in Cincinnati, Robert Stearns, a white truck driver from neighboring Kentucky, was severely beaten after a group of blacks attempted to steal his parked vehicle in a riot-torn part of Cincinnati. “He was inside making a delivery and heard gears grinding on his truck, ” said Steve Borth, general manager of HGP Industries, a glass fabricating company. “He came out and they attacked him.”
- During the race riots in Toledo, Ohio in 2005, blacks burned and looted local businesses, they attacked police officers, they attacked an ambulance (for mercy’s fucking sake — who is so much of an animal that they would attack an ambulance?); they turned over cars and burned buildings.
- Violence erupted in several cities during Juneteenth celebrations this year. Police reported stabbings, shootings and beatings - including the fatal mob beating of a Hispanic man here in Austin.
The thing that has always disturbed me the most while watching many of these black mobs in action on video, is that there is more of an air of fun and joy than there is of anger.
Can blacks control themselves? Absolutely. Of course they can.
But when large groups of urban blacks get together to party or to otherwise express their anger over something — you can almost always bet that someone’s going to get looted, and something’s going to burn. And if there’s a white person around, you can almost always bet he’s going to take a beating.
Looting and rioting has become synonymous with poor black people in this country.
There is something very wrong with the black youth gang-culture in America. If Jesse and Al wanted to truly help their people, they should start there, by holding their own accountable. But instead they continue to make excuses for their behavior and blame anybody but the thugs doing the looting and bringing the mayhem.
, ha…..please stop……..ha, ha, ha…..you’re killing me here! 
Some great generalizations there Robbie. By the same logic, whites like to simply go on rampages with their automatic weapons and kill each other in large numbers. This is especially popular amongst the teen set or disgruntled white males who can’t stand the pressure of dealing with all those people who hate.
Neat.
Left by David on June 30th, 2007 at 8:03 pm