Anarchy and Black Terrorism in Cincinnati It's not "racial unrest" - It's criminal activities April 14, 2001 By: Mary Mostert ( http://www.bannerofliberty.com/ ) April 13, 2001 Cincinnati's Democrat mayor, Charlie Luken, yesterday was quoted as saying: Despite the best efforts of the good citizens of our city, the violence on our streets is uncontrolled and it runs rampant." Mayor Luken, your problem isn't with the "good citizens" of your city. Your problem is being caused by the hoodlums of your city. When a good citizen is being arrested by a member of the police force, he or she is required, by law, to cooperate, not run, which is what Timothy Thomas did. The fact is, Thomas was not shot because he was black. He was shot because he was running away from a police officer who chased him through the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood for five minues trying to arrest him for 14 failures to appear in court on various misdemeanors and traffic charges. Kweisi Mfume, national president of the NAACP address Cincinnati community leaders on what he termed the "need to solve the problem of racial profiling by the police. ...It's important for the nation to focus here on ground zero," Mfume said. "If we can fix it here, we can fix it elsewhere. But if it doesn't get fixed here, it turns into anarchy and all of us are left wondering, Is justice blind?" Of course when you have citizens refusing to be come to court when arrested - not once, but 14 times - and then refusing to be arrested for refusing to come to court, Mfumi, you already HAVE anarchy. The way to "fix" the problem is for citizens in the affected area to start abiding by the law. So far, I haven't heard any of the pundits, critics and so-called "black leaders" suggest just how they intend to improve the behavior of citizens who are currently ignoring the law. As a matter of fact, last night on Fox News Hannity and Colmes, Malik Shabazz (who has taken the name Malcolm X used), head of the so-called "New Black Panther Party" clearly called for MORE violence. "We are fighting for our people by all means available - including shouting down the Mayor, if necessary." Liberal Alan Colmes asked if he meant violence and Shabazz made it crystal clear that he DID mean violence. "This is not the fault of the black people," he said. "They are the victims." What does so-called "racial profiling" have to do with this issue? Not much, so far as I can see. According to the ACLU, "racial profiling" is a practice of some policemen of "substituting skin color for evidence as a grounds for suspicion by law enforcement officials." The organization claims that "Tens of thousands of innocent motorists on highways across the country are victims of racial profiling. And these discriminatory police stops have reached epidemic proportions in recent years - fueled by the "War on Drugs" that has given police a pretext to target people who they think fit a "drug courier" or "gang member" profile." "Profiling" probably is practiced where blacks are concerned. It is, after all, a simple statistical fact that there is more violence in black areas than there is in white areas. There is also age profiling and sex profiling due to the statistical facts that young people, especially male young people, have higher crime rates than older people, especially female older people. The fact of the matter is that, as a grandmother, I am not nearly as apt to be arrested for speeding, as one of my teen-age grandsons. That could be because I am less apt to BE speeding than one of my teen-age grandsons. But, that's age profiling. Back in the 1970s, in fact, one of my teen age sons was, in his view, a victim of age profiling when driving home from a trip late at night. There were almost no other cars on the road and he sped through 45MPH zone at about 65MPH. He was stopped and given a speeding ticket, which he thought was perfectly stupid because there was no one else on the road. He insisted on making a defense to the judge that the officer was treating him differently than he would have treated an older person. A slightly exasperated judge pointed out persistently that the fact of the matter was - he was speeding through a 45 MPH zone at 65 MPH. The officer was well within his right, and his responsibility, to stop him and give him a speeding ticket. It was the last time my son sped through that part of the highway late at night at 65MPH. Since he couldn't change the system, he changed his behavior. A black teen-ager who has failed to show up for 14 court appearances and then runs when an officer tries to arrest him should expect that the officer is going to take some kind of firm action. Timothy Thomas would not be dead if he had changed his behavior. As I see it, the real problem here is that the black community has never learned that the solution to their problems lies with them. They need to change their behavior and/or their culture if it is leading them to violence and crime and being shot by those trying to enforce the law. . Thirty six years ago, during 1964 and 1965, America was wracked with a series of race riots - which, it appears, is what is going on in Cincinnati. In fact, Cincinnati talk show host Bill Cunningham (WBDZ-1230 AM) pointed out on the Hannity and Colmes show that what was happening in Cincinnati was hate crimes. Although it is not being widely reported, he said, "dozens of white motorists are being singled out by roving white gangs and beaten simply because they are white." A white police officer was shot, but fortunately the bullet ricocheted off his belt buckle and he didn't die. And, as was the case in the 1960s, most of the vandalism being committed was being committed in black neighborhoods, by blacks, against businesses IN their neighborhoods. Who then suffers when the businesses close down? The people in the neighborhoods, of course, meaning other black people. Each time this sort of thing happens, people who once were trying hard to improve conditions in poor, black communities, become disheartened and give up. It will be no different this time. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported yesterday on one such individual, Mike Gundling who was driving to the old Volunteers of America building for a remodeling job. He saw the trash cans in the street. Then he saw the teen-agers. One small kid, about 13, had a brick. "I saw the brick leaving his hand and I just turned my head," Mr. Gundling said. The brick smashed his window and hit him in the neck and chest. Was it less painful because it was thrown by a "child?" Not likely. "Before, I was never afraid to come downtown. Not anymore. I couldn't believe what was happening. ...They're tearing up everything we're trying to do down there. Why are they tearing up their own community?" I know just how he feels. In the 1960s I was buying and fixing up older houses in Rochester, New York in the inner city. In fact, a few months after the riots began breaking out in the area, I was presented the Charles Leander Hill Award for "contributing toward better Inter-racial relations in Rochester." Charles Leander Hill received his doctorate in philosophy from Ohio State University in 1938 and became president of Wilberforce, a black college, in 1947. I had a close-up view of what happened in the black inner-city after the '60s riots. It wasn't just white people who gave up in disgust trying to help improve the condition of inner-city blacks. Many black middle class leaders washed their hands and walked away. Those of us who were close to the situation at a time when millions of federal dollars were being spent in improving inner-city housing quickly realized that money was not going to improve the situation. The riots caused millions of dollars worth of damage and drove out small business owners and that made living conditions worse. This has nothing at all to do with integration. Shabazz was asked by Sean Hannity why he objected to Bill Clinton moving into Harlem and he openly responded that he believed Harlem should be only for black people. Back in the 1960s the "riots" were supposedly because the blacks wanted OUT of the black areas and were not being "allowed" out because of discrimination. Now we are being told by new black militants that racial segregation is their goal and white folks like Bill Clinton who want to move into their area are the enemy. And they are the ones who object to "racial profiling?" It is Shabazz and his ilk, including Jesse Jackson, who are "racially profiling" the black community. The police are merely trying to cope with the natural results of it. Shabazz outlined for us on nationwide television last night a program of terrorism, and neither Hannity or Colmes challenged him on it. In a few days a white terrorist named Timothy McVeigh will die for blowing up a federal building and causing the death of many people. When it is black terrorists who blow up neighborhoods, shoot policemen and intimidate white people, we call it "justifiable" and they are rarely arrested, much less executed. For decades there has been a small elite, composed of people like Shabazz and Jesse Jackson and Kweisi Mfume, who have made a lot of money on the "race" issue. They can only make that kind of money by keeping a large segment of the black community in bondage to them. What we are seeing is the 21st century version of the black racial profiling by black leaders for money that has been going on for decades. It's all part of the movement to get even more money out of the federal government for "black reparations" for "slavery" that has become a popular talk show issue. What is new this time is a rising group of articulate black people who are willing to tell the truth about the black elite that creates these kinds of situations from time to time to suck the life blood out of neighborhoods like Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine. Also, a few of the media reports are calling the vandalism what it is - vandalism, not "protesting." Looting stores is not "protesting." Looting stores is just plain old stealing. There is absolutely no reason why, in America today, young black people are held back by the color of their skin, as the thousands of educated, articulate, talented and frequently wealthy black performers, educators, entrepreneurs, writers and members of the Bush cabinet attest. Those who have any desire to improve their lives can do so. Those like Shabazz who choose to dedicate their lives to hate crime and violence, need to be held strictly accountable for their crimes - just like Timothy McVeigh. To comment: mmostert@bannerofliberty.com