I’m guessing the assailants are all white, since CNN declined to describe them. Right?
93-year-old Tuskegee Airman robbed, then carjacked on same day
By Holly Yan, CNN
(CNN)A 93-year-old Tuskegee Airman struggling to find his daughter’s house in St. Louis was robbed and then carjacked minutes later.
The World War II veteran got lost while trying to find his daughter’s home Sunday morning and pulled over to call her, CNN affiliate KMOV reported.
That’s when a suspect got into his car in broad daylight and robbed him. The assailant fled in another vehicle.
The victim tried to track down the robber, but to no avail. So he pulled over again to ask two men for help.
Those two men then carjacked the elderly man, KMOV said. The car was found two days later, St. Louis police said.
The veteran told a local reporter he didn’t want to be identified because it would cause him more harm, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said.
In all likelihood, the assailants probably didn’t know their victim made history during World War II.
The veteran is one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pursuit pilots who protected U.S. bombers from enemy fire over parts of Europe and North Africa.
Their training program, first based at the historically black Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1941, eventually grew to include almost 1,000 pilots and several air bases.
When St. Louis Cardinals executives heard about what happened to the Airman, they stepped up to the plate and helped.
“I think like everybody else, we were absolutely heartbroken,” team spokesman Ron Watermon told CNN affiliate KTVI. “We heard about it and just reached out to him and said look, we want to help. And we’re donating some tickets and a field visit and giving a fan a VIP experience to the game against the (Chicago) Cubs.”
The St. Louis Post Disgrace did identify the criminals. They used the “code words” north St. Louis. I think that they are not telling the truth. Since the victim was black the criminals must have been undercover white cops.
Saw this story before, but I hadn’t read the details. So he got robbed by, not one, but two consecutive random strangers he happened upon? That’s what you call a shitty neighborhood.
Been reading a book on line called …… The revolt against civilization : The menace of the under man…by lothrop Studdard written in 1922 .He has some good thoughts on why some people just wantto watch society burn. Both the elites and the under class.
Coral snakes.
King snakes.
Both have red, yellow and black stripes. Only one of them is poisonous.
In times of high social mood people assume all the red, yellow and blue stakes in their yard are King snakes. Yes, there’s an occasional Coral snake, but you never heard much about them in the news.
Instead you were endlessly told that your neighbors were beating all the snakes in their yard, and that this was (understandably) wrong.
In times of shifting social mood (shift from high toward a new declining trend) you have started to notice that some of the snakes in your yard are dangerous, but you have difficulty telling the King snakes from the Coral snakes.
That’s where we are now.
When the credit bubble inevitably Hindenburgs and masses of people find themselves in difficult straights, enraged and looking for targets on whom to take out their anger…
…sadly….
…all snakes will be assumed to be Coral snakes, and no matter how awful it may be, it’s going to be VERY VERY bad to be a King snake (since King snakes can’t much help that they look almost exactly like Coral snakes.)
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For all the Black Lives Matter narrative, in this metaphor the Coral snakes (black hyper-violent thugs) truly threaten their “fellow” King snakes the most, but in-grouping will in all likelihood crowd the majority non-violent blacks in with the hyper-violent thug blacks who paradoxically are their worst enemies.
It’s like a war between the Maple and the Oak, forcing Maple to crowd together with Lumberjacks. I truly feel sorry for those whom John Derbyshire calls IWSB’s (Intelligent, Well-Socialized Blacks.) In all likelihood this 93 year old is an IWSB and that makes him every bit as much a target as anyone on Earth.
“He has some good thoughts on why some people just wantto watch society burn.”
If you peel Leftist “philosophy” long enough, this is exactly what it’s all about.
It is the political apotheosis of utter destruction, of civilizational suicide.
Niggas killin’ niggas … it’s what feral animals do.
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North St Louis has been a total rathole since my earliest days. It is still the worst nabe in a city that is almost all one big bad neighborhood.
Then, the West End and Midtown areas became blighted by the tornado of 1958, and then the incursion of Section 8 housing in the 70s. They have partially recovered since because of their beautiful and often quite-grand housing stock- all the great mansions are there- but only partially. They still have fearsome street crime and are very unsafe to be in after dark.
Then the solid blue collar south side was trashed from the 80s onward. You could see this coming decades earlier as the disinvestment began in the 60s, with only a sprinkling of new houses being built from that time forward. Now it is a crime filled shithole.
Oh, by the way, St Louis, like the rest of MO, permits concealed carry. It seems to have had no effect one way or the other on the city’s appalling violent crime rates. Since the 50s, St Louis has had twice the rate per 100,000 pop., murder and other index crimes, as Chicago or Los Angeles. It has been in the top 5 larger cities in murder rates since I can remember.
Only a tiny pocket in the southwest corner of the city remains pristine, but for how long, no one knows.
“Oh, by the way, St Louis, like the rest of MO, permits concealed carry. It seems to have had no effect one way or the other on the city’s appalling violent crime rates.”
Like trying to prevent a dam collapse with chewing gum.
CCW is a natural right, but carrying a spare tire and jack, and actively avoiding tire-endangering road conditions does not change the rate of flat tires all that much on a population level.
On a personal level it can be all that matters, however, and a mindset that embraces ones responsibility for ones own personal safety also inculcates other laudable, civilizing values.
Chicago, the robbery took place in one of the best neighborhoods. The Central West End is the showplace of the Democrat gangsters. The city of St. Louis has no good neighborhoods anymore. South and west St. Louis have some really good suburbs and St. Charles County too. I just have a hard time figuring out what makes a bad neighborhood.
Overthecliff, the West End may be one of the richest neighborhoods, and it is surely the most beautiful. I know every inch of that neighborhood because that is where I spent the first third of my adult life. It is also where i was mugged and almost murdered TWICE, and where several of my neighbors had similar experiences. Why did we put up with this shit? Because it is the ONLY nabe in St Louis that has any kind of urban charm, or beautiful housing stock. It has all the finest apartment buildings and most of the spectacular limestone mansions with 30 rooms or more that were built in St Louis’ high period as one of the industrial centers of the Midwest.
While the CWE is a gorgeous neighborhood, it has been a dangerous one since the 60s at least, after being seriously damaged by the Great Tornado of 1958, and the flight to the suburbs. Wealthy occupants of the massive limestone mansions on all the private places moved to much smaller, simpler to maintain digs in exclusive suburbs like Ladue and Clayton and Town & Country. After WW2, houses that take 8 servants to run became passe.
The neighborhood is pretty much as it was when I left it for Chicago in the late 80s- a trendy, snobbish, overpriced area in which you are not safe on the streets and in which you pay Chicago prices for condominiums. There are still blighted streets, and once you are north of Washington Blvd, you are right back in the ghetto. There are a couple of spectular new buildings built since my time, and priced accordingly, but I’m still afraid to enter the area when i visit down there, while I have to go pretty far south or west in Chicago to be in an area that makes me as nervous.
Chicago, out of curiosity, does St. Louis’ CCW law have a shall-issue provision? There can be a big difference between being theoretically able to carry, and being able to in reality.
I’m not sure, Pagan, truth to tell. I only know that almost everyone left who I know down there carries.
MO is “shall issue.” 99% certain of it.
IL (for East St. Louis) is also now “shall issue,” but entails the most hassles of any shall issue state.
They are just rats. Filthy, disease ridden, vicious rats.
Wow Chicago, great commentary. Thank you.
I’ve been to St. Louis exactly twice. Once I went to do weight loss/stop smoking seminars in the Ford plant that made Explorers and some Jap Explorer like thing. They had six miles of assembly line, thousands of employees, and I walked that plant 3 times in 36 hours plus 4 more days of seminars. We didn’t have much time to wander the city, but knew we were not in the best neighborhood – but the Monster Truck, was it Bigfoot? wow, things you forget – having lived around De’toilet helped immensely. You can develop the feeling to beat feet or prepare your weapon, well, thankfully I did. I did see the Arch and go to the riverboat casino, I don’t believe De’toilet had opened theirs yet. The other visit was a fly in/out job interview. As I flew over before landing I realized it was way too familiar to here. I wouldn’t live there.
You also said, “After WW2, houses that take 8 servants to run became passe…”
Not just passe, regulated, taxed. Employment taxes were coming into their own back then. Rates were pretty high, to pay for the war you know, but times were good and the “rich” found out they could no longer help support 8 or 10 families in addition to their taxes and then their own even if “making” more money.
Most of us don’t realize/never knew that a very large percentage of America used to be employed by their local rich. When the employment tax hell started, many couldn’t afford as many household employees.
At every turn the government has put up regulations and requirements that separate the middle class from our historic places and real family supporting jobs. Started long, long, ago. It has just been perfected by every town council, state legislature, Supreme Court decision and the belly of the beast, WDC. So it goes.
Insanity is going to last right up until the day it doesn’t. Freaking epic is the upcoming reversion to mean.
Thanks again for your insights, I truly enjoyed them!
The article said in all likelihood the assailants didn’t know the victim made history in WWII, those stupid fucks probably don’t even know about WWII.
That story is sad. Robbing any 93 yr.old is wrong to 99% of the criminals I worked with, but especially a real war hero (unlike John McCain).
The Tuskegee Airmen was a great movie.
Those guys were brave & patriotic, even when people didn’t consider them fellow country men.
Rent it. Much better than Ben “Aflac” in Pearl Harbor.
TE, some of St. Louis’ most splendid limestone mansions were razed after WW2 because of the confiscatory property taxes. Two of such were architectural masterpieces that will never be duplicated again, even by the uber-wealthy now building insanely extravagant palaces costing $100M or more, mainly because these older places were designed by classically trained architects with a well-developed sense of beauty. They’d be appalled at the vulgarity and stupidity of today’s mega-mansions.
The property tax is one of the most destructive, and regressive taxes there is, and it is especially hard on poorer property owners, who stand to be taxed out of modest homes that they struggled for decades to own outright. People buy houses to have a place that they OWN, a hedge against rising costs and their own diminishing earning power as they age. At the same time the tax is brutally regressive, punishing the poor much more than the rich (including poorer renters), it makes it prohibitive to continue to own and maintain a really beautiful house, and punishes renovation and improvement. But it’s an easy tax to collect because owners are totally captive, unlike income taxes that go away when incomes drop, or fees and fines that can be avoided by making different choices.
Property taxes may be the most evil taxes of all.
There is no such thing as home ownership if a country has them. The State owns your house.
Are you telling me they let negros actually fly uh airplane? Are you readin this Billy?
BW, there was a war going on. After that, the best black history movie we got is Straight Out of Compton.
You should go see it, I hear it’s quite inspiring. As for me, I don’t need to see a movie about getting out of the ghetto, I lived it.