* So, is there any correlation between the size of those communities and their city’s place on the list? (Note: the US is about 12% African American.)
Here are the top ten cities from highest to lowest rate of homicide increase:
City, Homicide +Incr/-Decr, % African-American
Baltimore, +77, 64%
St. Louis, +51, 49%
Chicago, +50, 32%
Milwaukee, +45, 40%
Houston, +44, 23%
Washington, +32, 50%
New Orleans, +22, 60%
Louisville, +21, 33%
New York, +18, 25%
Tulsa, +17, 16%
And here are the bottom ten cities, from lowest rate of homicide decrease:
City, Homicide +Incr/-Decr, % African-American
Boston, -15, 24%
Memphis, -13, 31%
Las Vegas, -10, 11%
Riverside, -4, 7%
Arlington, -4, 9%
Miami, -4, 19%
Fresno, -4, 8%,
Corpus Christi, -3, 14%
Santa Ana, -3, 1%
Raleigh, -3, 29%
* A long time hobby horse of the New York Times is: “Since crime is down, there is no need to keep violent criminals in prison.”
* Amanda Blackburn was killed by overspill from the hyper violent black gang culture which the media – especially the NYT – have been covering up for 50 years.
Anything that forces the truth about the black gang culture out into the open helps future Amanda Blackburns.
* The NY Times knows what’s important: Getting Woodrow Wilson out of Princeton!
The NY Times knows what’s not important: 11 to 16 percent more murders!
This is an obvious Sailerian point, but in a weird way the NY Times editorial endorsing that Princeton should bury Woodrow Wilson explained what was so obvious about the video of President Eisgruber and the kids in his office: the strange inversion of power. It was clear in that clip that Eisgruber had no power and the girl yelling about how walking past a building named after Woodrow Wilson constituted genocide had all the power. You might think on first blush that this was just some strange mesmerism, some trick of who can talk louder, but the much more sensible explanation is that Eisgruber’s world is dominated by the NY Times editorial page and people who think like the NY Times editorial page, the MacArthur grant committees and National Book Award committees and so forth. (There is also the question of how much the average important donor has shifted to reflect Today’s Priorities- no longer are schools courting that average millionaire who just wants his two field hockey-playing daughters to be given an extra look in admissions season; now they’re courting megagazillionaires who have been to Davos and know the score. )
This may also explain some of the anti-majoritarianism implicit in the NY Times editorial. The University had given the kids what they want, they were launching some official process of investigating whether to change the name and soliciting broader input, yadda yadda yadda. But that kind of dialogue is not what the arc of Justice bends towards- the NY Times editorial page already knows that it bends towards the Black Justice League!
* The New York Times has a lot of nerve. It was the Times’ editorial board (which is slightly less black than the Ferguson police department was in August, 2014) that fanned the flames in Ferguson by citing Missouri Department of Motor Vehicle data to charge the local white power structure with dispensing justice unequally.
Aside from the obvious problem with pointing to higher rates of traffic stops for blacks than whites compared to their percentage in the general population as evidence of white racism, the same data that shows blacks stopped at a disproportionately higher rate than whites, shows whites stopped at a disproportionately higher rate than Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, and Others. So, if disproportionate traffic stops are evidence of racism, then the racist white cops in Ferguson were racist against their own race in four out of five non-white racial categories.
The data were in the very same chart the Times’ editorial board cited to prove their case against local whites in Ferguson. They simply discarded the data that destroyed their case. In other words, the editorial board violated basic journalistic ethical standards to whip up racial hatred against whites. And now, they seek to deny the very result for which they bear a great deal of responsibility. I hope, someday, they are held accountable.
* Margaret Sullivan, is the former editor of the Buffalo News and current Public Editor of the NYT. There was, just a few years ago, a mass shooting in Buffalo at the City Grill, a downtown bar. Eight blacks were shot and four died. The shooter Ricardo McCrea, was arrested and convicted of this crime. However, Ms. Sullivan had the temerity to point out that seven of the victims had prior arrests or pending warrants, most for felonies. The local black community jumped on her with both feet. However, she did not apologize, but stated that the timing of the story might be insensitive….but true. Of course, the Buffalo News, a Warren Buffet property, doesn’t have the gravitas of the NYT.
* What’s really perverse is that a horrible terrible evil racist like me is far more broken up about those 1500 additional African deaths than the Race-Baiter in Chief. Admittedly, I’d be more broken up if those were 1500 whites murdered by Africans than the current African:African situation, but just as leftists cannot comprehend statistics and probabilities, they cannot understand hierarchies of attachment, only those of status. I’d rather see a pile of 1500 dead cats than 1500 dead dogs, but above all I’d rather not see any dead dogs or cats. For the leftist all that matters is status, such that African lives matter only if they’re taken by white heterosexual males who aren’t copulating with or eagerly cuckolded by Africans. Even then, it’s not the African’s life that matters, but the leftists’ opportunity to claim and gloat over their imagined social status supremacy. How many leftists do we observe spending all their time in the ghetto forming human protective shields around the innocent vulnerable black bodies of the Africans being wantonly and egregiously gunned down by racist cops?
* It’s Noah Smith. The worst “public intellectual” out there — even dumber and less thoughtful than Genius T. Coates. Noah Smith is really big on virtue signalling, contrived statistics, and picking internet fights with his intellectual superiors. He’s a joke.
* I do feel sorry for Noah Smith: smart enough to understand the statistics; too sincere to ignore them; too weak to come to terms with them.
But he does have a point. Whites try to insulate themselves from the worst blacks and often succeed, but whites are too numerous and blacks too poor for blacks to insulate themselves from the worst whites*. In fact, many whites are able to insulate themselves from the worst whites and forget they exist. But they do.
*Obviously, in this statistic, “whites” includes Hispanics, but there are some pretty terrible white white people too.
* Before I even knew who Noah Smith was, I stumbled onto an entry on his blog where he was talking about what a decrepit wasteland “flyover country” is, and how the people there should all vote Democratic. All of the observations he mentioned came from a friend of his who drove through the midwest.
It became clear pretty quickly that this friend drove through during the winter, and it was obvious that Noah Smith had never considered the fact that, if his friend had driven through while there were crops in the miles and miles and miles of farmland, it would hardly have seemed like a “wasteland”.
He also quoted a Facebook comment from a different friend who described the people he saw in flyover country as “shuffling sacks of humanity”. I asked him if he would be OK with someone calling poor black people “shuffling sacks of humanity”, and if not, why he was OK with calling poor white people that.
The whole comment thread then vanished, to be replaced by more innocuous comments from others.
I guess the moral of the story is that Noah Smith doesn’t seem to be very smart, or if he his, it’s the kind of intelligence that can’t even foresee the most basic objections to his theories.
* On closer analysis of Noah’s numbers, it is clear that he has made a basic math mistake. He has compared the number of murders of blacks by (whites+Hispanics) relative to the number of blacks with the number of murders of (whites+Hispanics) by blacks relative to non-Hispanic whites.
Its not clear whether he is trying to score points by coming up with a new way to create confusion or he is just an idiot who is making a basic math mistake. I will give him the credit of the latter.
Poor Noah, he doesnt understand that the game is to ignore black crime. There is no way that black crime stands up to any scrutiny AT ALL.
* Black guy robs white college student, drives her to MLK Jr. Blvd, rapes her on Black Friday.
“Tuscaloosa police looking for a teen accused of kidnapping a girl from a mall on Black Friday and raping her. At approximately 07:30 am this morning Tuscaloosa Police Dept. officers responded to University Mall (170 McFarland Blvd.) on a robbery and sexual assault. The victim, a 19 year old white female, stated she was sitting in the parking lot of the mall when the suspect, a 17 year old black male, walked up to her car and asked to use her cell phone. She agreed and the male got into her car. The suspect told the victim that he had a gun and forced her to drive to an ATM machine and withdraw money. He then forced her to drive to an abandoned property off Martin Luther King Jr Blvd where he sexually assaulted her. The suspect then fled the area. The victim then made contacted the police and she was taken to DCH ER for treatment of injuries. Over the past several hours, investigators have developed Cedrick Lamar Collins as a suspect and developed probable cause to obtain a Kidnapping I, Rape I, and Robbery I warrants on him. Collins is described as a black male, 6’00”, 160 lbs, brown eyes, black hair, and medium complexion. See the attached Wanted Poster. Any information on Collins’ location please contact Tuscaloosa Police Dept. or you local law enforcement. Collins should be considered armed and dangerous.”
* An article published in 2014 about violence in Chicago referred to a total cost to Chicago of $2.5 Billion to treat gunshot victims. In 2014 there were 2500 Chicago gunshot victims, many of whom are left with lifetime disabilities. One victim, who was left paralyzed was uninsured and ran up a bill totaling $10 million. Of course actual numbers for a specific city can be staggering, for example, July Fourth weekend, 2014, in Chicago, saw 80 shot with 14 fatalities. Those are Battle of the Bulge type numbers. So any reduction would be a blessing. And one more thing, violent crime may be down because people are consciously avoiding certain areas of dangerous cities.
