There’s no race war in America

Guest Post by Marc A. Thiessen

Did you know that this newspaper is named for a slaveholder? It’s right there on our masthead, the name of a man who for 56 years held other human beings in bondage on his Virginia plantation — a man, according to the official Mount Vernon Web site, who “frequently utilized harsh punishment against the enslaved population, including whippings.” This dreaded symbol of oppression is delivered to the doorsteps and inboxes of hundreds of thousands of people each morning.

Sure, George Washington also emancipated his slaves in his will, won our independence and became the father of our country — but no matter. It is an outrage that this paper continues to bear the name of such a man.

It is time to rename The Washington Post!

Think that’s stupid? You’re right. But there’s a lot of stupid going around today. The latest example: The TV Land network has pulled the plug on reruns of one of America’s most beloved shows, “The Dukes of Hazzard,” because the car in the show, the General Lee, bears a Confederate flag. There is nothing racist about “The Dukes of Hazzard.” It is a show about moonshine, short shorts and fast cars. What is accomplished by banning “The Dukes of Hazzard”? Nothing.

Our country is in a miasma of political correctness. So where does it end? Are we going to rename our nation’s capital (and Washington state for that matter)? Should we close the Jefferson Memorial (named for a man who never freed his slaves)? How about renaming Arlington (which is named after Robert E. Lee’s estate) . . . or Washington and Lee University (names for not one, but two slave owners) . . . or Fort Hood (named for Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood) and Fort Bragg (named for Braxton Bragg, military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis).

This impulse to wipe away history is Stalinist. Just like Joseph Stalin once erased people from photographs, we’re now erasing people from our collective history.

These historical purges are not only wrong, they are also completely unnecessary. If you want to see where race relations are in the South, just look at how the people of Charleston, S.C., reacted to the shootings at Emanuel AME Church. There were no race riots. The city didn’t burn. People came together — black and white — to mourn and heal together. The white mayor of Charleston joined hands with the state’s black senator and its Indian American governor to pray. Thousands of people of all races, creeds and colors formed a “unity chain ” that stretched two miles across the Ravenel Bridge to honor those who died.

What a testament that is to how far the South has come since the days of segregation. The alleged Charleston shooter, Dylann Roof, wanted to set off a race war. Instead he set off an amazing display of unity and love. It was a beautiful sight to behold.

Now come all these self-righteous liberals from cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Washington, doing what the Charleston shooter failed to do — sowing division and discord where none exist.

Let’s be clear: The recent criticism of the Confederate flag is really not about a flag — it is about the people of the South. It is driven by the notion that most Southerners are a bunch of racists who agree with the Charleston shooter’s murderous actions. As we saw after the shooting, nothing could be further from the truth.

According to the FBI’s Hate Crimes database, in 2013 — the most recent year for which there are statistics — there were just five homicides in the United States that were classified as “hate crimes” and only one found to be anti-black. By contrast, that same year there were 2,491 recorded homicides of African Americans, of which 2,245 (or 90 percent) were committed by other African Americans. Meanwhile, of the 3,005 white people killed that year, 2,509 (or 84 percent) were killed by other whites. So most whites are killed by other whites, and most blacks are killed by other blacks — and almost none are killed in hate crimes.

In other words, there is no race war in the United States today.

Moreover, none of this political correctness is helping African Americans at all. Getting rid of the Confederate flag or banning “The Dukes of Hazzard” won’t save a single black life. It won’t do a thing to help the nearly one quarter of young African American men who are unemployed — or to lift up black kids trapped in failing schools. Instead of sowing division with historical purges, let’s celebrate how far our nation has come — and focus our energies on actually helping those who have been left behind.

And when it comes to symbols of the past, perhaps we should take our example from Abraham Lincoln. After the South surrendered, Lincoln addressed a crowd gathered on the White House lawn and asked that the band play “Dixie,” which he said had always been one of his favorite songs.

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bb

I don’t believe this bullshit for one second. Hate crimes happen every day in this country.90% of the time it is blacks attacking white people for no other reason except skin color. Go to ( NEW Nation or the Daily Stormer ) .These are websites that keep a daily account of the assaults , rapes and murderers of white people by blacks . This shit happens multiple times a day across this naion.To say this is no a low level race war against whites is a DAMN LIE.

Also Google illegal immigrants assaults , rape and murder against Americans. It is sometimes just heartbreaking to see this shit but denying it will not stop the attacks.

taxSlave
taxSlave

I spent this last weekend at Gettysburg touring battle fields and going to museums.

It was the anniversary of the Battle (July 1, 2 and 3)

I bought a Stars and Bars T-shirt and will wear it to Walmart when I buy ammo.

kokoda
kokoda

We didn’t have this division until the Divider-in-Chief used his Teleprompter to instill a divide that generally didn’t exist. Think of a bell curve, eliminate the extreme tails and that is what really exists.

Obama uses his BS just as a distraction (among many) to keep the stupids from recognizing the real problems in this country and in foreign policy.

Stucky

1. Anyone who was a speechwriter for Bush … is a dick.

2. Anyone who was a speechwriter for Rumsfeld … is a dick.

3. Anyone who ever uses the word “miasma” …. is a huge dick.

4. Anyone who uses a very specific source of info — the “FBI’s Hate Crimes database” — to prove blacks don’t kill whites … while totally ignoring ALL THE OTHER DATA that proves otherwise ……… is a cocksucking lying dick.

Mr Thiessen needs to pull his head out of his ass …. or just talk a walk in Camden, NJ when the sun goes down.

robert h siddell jr

There will be because the people that want the South destroyed again are the same types that gave Nobel Prizes to Obama, Mandela. MLK Jr, Chamberlain, Kissinger, Carter, Gore, Begin, Peres, Rabin, Stiglitz, Krugman, the UN, etc. They will beggar their enemies, pass all the perverse and hate laws they want and start the fighting they want so bad but this time maybe the Goyim will win back their freedom, country and God.

llpoh
llpoh

Ten percent of the population suffers 2500 murders, along with 90% being killed by the same 10%. So 60% of the population kills 250 blacks, or 4 per percentage point of population. Blacks kill blacks at 225 per percentage point of population.

60% of the population (whites) suffers 3000 murders, 600 of which are killed by the 10% blacks. Or 60 whites per percentage point of population are killed by blacks. Whites kill whites at a rate of 40 per percentage point.

I am no maff genius (well, actually I am but that is beside the point), but those figures quickly confirm:

1) that whites are 15 times more likely to be murdered by blacks than vice versa, and

2) blacks murder their own at a rate almost 6 times higher than whites murder their own, and

3) that blacks kill whites at a rate 50% higher than whites kill whites. And that this happens even though whites do their level best to avoid blacks at all costs, and move as far from them as humanly possible.

See what numbers can show? The numbers this guy puts up clearly indicates 1) that as a whole, blacks are a bunch of murdering bastards, 2) the only thing they love more than killing whites is killing themselves, and 3) they go a long way out of their way to find whites to kill.

There is a race war going on – and the blacks are the ones waging it. Should the whites decide to actually fight back, it will not be pretty.

Zarathustra

llpoh says:

There is a race war going on – and the blacks are the ones waging it. Should the whites decide to actually fight back, it will not be pretty.
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No. There is a culture war going on. Inner city, fatherless, poor, stupid and uneducated black men against everybody else that gets in their way and whites for being responsible for them being fatherless, poor, stupid and uneducated.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Zara, I used to believe that way, but if you look at numerous actual cases you can find too many instances where black men raised in good income two-parent households still turned out to be murderous bastards. There is some kind of genetic predisposition to violence.

Zarathustra

Anon, there are lots of blacks in the SW suburbs of Houston where I have lived for two years and they are all polite and friendly. One middle aged black guy recently came up to the window of my car to let me know that my right front tire was low on air. Oh I am sure that there are undercurrents of suspicion. Realtors direct white buyers away from black neighborhoods, for example. My own neighborhood is mixed, probably about 1/4 black.

Llpoh

Z – better move now.

1/4 black becomes 1/2 black, then 3/4 black then all black.

Seriously, you have reached the point of no return. Check Detroit for what is coming your way.

No kidding – time to beat feet. The civil blacks will be replaced by the feral. Because the civil blacks will move out too.

BEA LEVER
BEA LEVER

Llpoh- Right again. There is seriously something to the change that happens when the mix gets past 50/50. Ferals take over and you go from a “neighborhood” to “the hood” overnight.

Z- Take a good look at Clayton county Georgia and other counties around Atlanta, there are many articles out there. You don’t want to stay too long.

robert h siddell jr

The military did a study and found that when Blacks become 30% of a unit, the Whites put in for transfers. I think your 50% is optimistic.

Zarathustra

BEA LEVER says:

Llpoh- Right again. There is seriously something to the change that happens when the mix gets past 50/50. Ferals take over and you go from a “neighborhood” to “the hood” overnight.

Z- Take a good look at Clayton county Georgia and other counties around Atlanta, there are many articles out there. You don’t want to stay too long.
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Bea, the median home value here is $300,000. The homeowners association is active and all houses are well maintained, as are the rest of the properties. It is a somewhat older neighborhood, built in the 70’s and 80’s so I guess we shall see who moves in as the empty nesters downsize or move to retirement communities. Behind my house is a nature preserve and beyond that is a large, high income gated community, built around a bunch of artificial lakes. I have no idea how many blacks reside there. If there are, they are probably professional athletes. There are also no feral black yuts and no gang presence that I am aware of. I am about four miles from the nearest, working-class or low income black neighborhood and even it isn’t all that bad.

llpoh
llpoh

Z – you would be amazed at how far and fast termites can travel. Detoilet used to be full of nice neighborhoods, too.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Zara –

I know, sincerely, that there are some good black people. Probably sizable numbers of them. The problem is that there are many bad black people, and some of them appear 100% the same as the good ones right up until they put the knife in your back – sometimes literally, sometimes just figuratively. I say this from painful real experience on multiple occasions. You can be a naive and optimistic person and hope you don’t get knifed, or you can protect yourself at the cost of avoiding a group of people, some of whom could have been friends. Except you would never know which ones.

You also said “I have no idea how many blacks reside there. If there are, they are probably professional athletes. There are also no feral black yuts and no gang presence that I am aware of. ”

Judging from endless news reports, black professional athletes are among the most dangerous people, period, probably about as dangerous as blacks whose “day job” is being a gang member, and easily 1000 times more dangerous than blacks who are educated professionals.

Zarathustra

llpoh says:

Z – you would be amazed at how far and fast termites can travel. Detoilet used to be full of nice neighborhoods, too.
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Detoilet fell into ruin when the local industrial base collapsed. The oil-dominated Houston economy is hurting with lower oil prices, but the economy here is pretty diverse and there is no state income tax. As long as there is food and air-conditioning, this city will survive.

llpoh
llpoh

Z – I believe you are mistaken re Detoilet. Whites abandoned Detroit in droves prior to the loss of the auto base. The white population of Detroit halved between 1950 and 1970 (which was before the impact of imported vehicles). And halved again by 1980 (imports started to bite). And again by 1990. And again by 2000. And again by 2010.

card802
card802

Detroit, Flint, Benton Harbor, Highland Park, Inkster, Muskegon Heights, even college town Kalamazoo.

All once great places to find great jobs, live and raise a family, now all are cesspools of shit, filth, crackheads, prostitutes and gang bangers killing each other and any unfortunate whites that take a wrong turn.
A year ago a black woman was shot and killed in the Heights, because she fought back against the piece of shit that was trying to steal her purse. In court he testified he shot her “because she dissed me in front of my boys”
There is no value of human life to these fucking scum of the earth.

My mom grew up and graduated from Muskegon Heights High School, even back in the 60’s is was a great part of town.

When I worked in the trades in the early 80’s we were doing renovations to the High School that was now 95% black.
The heat registers in the boys locker rooms had to be placed on the ceiling because the boys learned that if they pissed on the registers the smell would cause the school to be closed for the day.
A month later we were back renovating the girls locker room as they started pissing as well.

That being said there are good decent black folks, but they are vastly outnumbered by worthless dregs of society.
I fear too that one day, maybe soon, the lid will blow and that small minority of bottom of the barrel shit stains will be washed away.

Thranduil
Thranduil

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” Frank Lloyd Wright

NBC: “White people are biggest terror threat in America.” http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-u-s-study-n380931

The intention is clear: white people (and their history) throughout the world are facing genocide. The liberals and political correctors need to be reminded that Lincoln was racist as well so everything that has to do with him should be removed as well.

dearieme
dearieme

“George Washington also emancipated his slaves in his will”. Nope: his widow freed them of her own volition. Or so I understand.

Olga
Olga

I am beginning to suspect that middle/working class Americans who happen to be black are beginning to see the light – that the ghetto “culture” long tolerated as some sort of racial identity/pride thing and the generations of illegitimacy/welfare have in fact blown up in their face but I also suspect it’s too late, the Fabian socialists have won and it’s time to collapse now and avoid the rush.

I’ve just started this book – as the liberal the left lost I might even make my left leaning book club read it.

Persnickety
Persnickety

LLPOH said: “Z – I believe you are mistaken re Detoilet. Whites abandoned Detroit in droves prior to the loss of the auto base. The white population of Detroit halved between 1950 and 1970 (which was before the impact of imported vehicles). And halved again by 1980 (imports started to bite). And again by 1990. And again by 2000. And again by 2010.”

Yes, 100%. People often misunderstand the domestic auto industry and think it is/was literally in the City of Detroit. Only small parts of it were – much of the “Detroit” production was in fact in Highland Park (an independent enclave), Dearborn (Ford), and various “Downriver” towns like Ecorse and Wayne. More recently, a ton of it went to Warren, Sterling Heights, Redford, Livonia (whitest town in America), and then even farther out townships etc. Flint and Lansing had a greater amount of auto manufacturing within their city limits, relative to their total economy, than Detroit.

Detroit proper, which in 1950 was one of the wealthiest and nicest cities in the world (though not the safest), was done in by white flight, followed by the inevitable black-Democrat politicians and their Reign of Error. NAFTA and GATT were bad for the state overall but Detroit was circling the drain before NAFTA.

overthecliff

There are 200 whites left in Detroit. They are all mud sharks.

Oh really?
Oh really?

Thranduil,

The article you mentioned was about a report from the New American Foundation.

NBC: “White people are biggest terror threat in America.” http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-u-s-study-n380931

Who is the New American Foundation?

From Wiki.

New America is an American non-profit, nonpartisan[2] public policy institute and think tank focusing on a wide range of issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy. The organization is based in Washington, D.C., in addition to having a significant presence in New York City.

In 2007, Steve Coll, a former managing editor of The Washington Post, became President of New America.[3] Google’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, is the chairman of the foundation’s board of directors.[4]

Persnickety
Persnickety

@overcliff, there’s also boatloads of hipsters that have moved in. Also, believe it or not, there’s a decent university downtown that actually attracts decent students from the region.

yahsure
yahsure

School books say that the civil war was fought over slavery.Ask someone from the south about it and get a different answer. I am not from the south,My answer would be that the it was about taxes.
The south wanted to succeed from the union. My travels in the south showed me plenty of lazy and ignorant people.Saying really bad things was so common that they didn’t realize that they were doing it. It was so bad that i decided i would never live there.I didn’t want my kids raised in such a backward place.
Race wars? Where i live there are few blacks and little crime.Plenty of Mexicans though. When the economy tanks.People who didn’t plan at all,And who are hungry are what i see having to deal with.
Obama sure is the great divider.Race and class. He is doing a bang up job of destroying the country.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Yahsure- Where the heck did you visit in the south? What did they say that turned you off to that point?

Lincoln nor anyone in Washington gave two shits about the kneegrows, the Civil War was not about slavery…….period.

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