Long a source of irritation for white supremacists, angry claims of an epidemic of black-on-white crime (often simply referred to as "black crime") have drifted closer to the mainstream since the controversial shooting in Florida of Trayvon Martin, a young African-American male, by George Zimmerman (who has been described in the media as a white Hispanic). Following the assertions, extremists have repeated their claims that a large number of white victims are being ignored. And now even some mainstream commentators have taken up the issue and have used rhetoric similar to that used by the white supremacists to attack the media for allegedly discounting white victims of crime.
White supremacists calls for action against "black crime"
Even as they deny "whiteness" to George Zimmerman, white supremacists have been busy exploiting the controversy caused by Zimmerman's alleged act of self-defense against an African-American. White supremacists have renewed their calls for actions against so-called "black crime," which they equate with hate crimes. Hate crimes, however, have a very specific meaning: they are criminal offenses against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation. White supremacists believe that any crime committed by an African-American against a white person is motivated by race.
On Stormfront, a popular white supremacist Internet forum, one poster recently asked people to join in a planned rally against black crime in Knoxville, Tennessee, scheduled for June 2012. The purpose of the rally would be to protest against new trials for black assailants who allegedly tortured and murdered a young white couple in that city in 2007. At that time, the incident mobilized the white supremacist community, which held rallies and distributed flyers that accused the media of ignoring what they considered to be a heinous hate crime. Police in Knoxville who investigated the crime said that the victims had not been targeted because of their race.
In May 2012, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) announced that it would investigate a number of alleged incidents around the country in which whites were reportedly the victims of crimes committed by black youths or other minorities. In particular, the NSM mentioned an alleged attack against two white reporters by black youths in Norfolk, Virginia, and assaults against white men in Mobile, Alabama, and Baltimore, Maryland. The NSM has called for hate crime charges to be filed in these cases and wrote on its Web site that "if the roles had been reversed and it was a White mob that had attacked a Black citizen, it would have been labeled a 'lynching' by the major media…We have discovered a disturbing pattern of the systematic cover up and refusal of prosecutors to prosecute offenders under these [hate crime] statutes when the perpetrators are Black and the victims are White." Read More Hate
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Black on White
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Upset about a racial name-calling
that occurred earlier that night, several black men savagely beat a
random white man who had had nothing to do with the incident. He slipped
away from his attackers, but they forced him to swim into a lake to
escape. He drowned. The three men were sentenced to less than a year in
jail.
- Massachusetts. Four black men decided to murder the next
white person they saw. That unlucky soul was a college student from
Boston, whom the men stabbed to death.
- Indiana. A black man was arrested for killing seven white
people with a shotgun. He explained that he murdered his victims due to
his “deep-rooted hatred” of white people.
- Miami, Florida. The leader of a black supremacist sect
(i.e., the “Yaweh ben Yaweh cult”) was convicted of the murders of
several white people. He ordered his followers to kill any and all
“white devils.” They killed at least seven white people, bringing back
body parts to their leader.
- North Carolina. Seven black men kidnapped a white woman,
raped her, put her in a tub of bleach, shot her five times, and dumped
her body. The murderers said they did this for racial reasons.
- North Carolina. Four black teenagers lured a white,
ten-year-old girl into an empty house. “There, they sodomized her,
strangled her with a cable wire, and beat her to death with a board. In
the past few weeks, the trials in the Tiffany Long case have received
extensive coverage in the North Carolina press. But with two of the
three defendants already sentenced to lifelong prison terms, and the
third now standing trial, the national media have all but ignored the
story. Only the Associated Press has reported on the trials, in a
single, cursory piece. The AP, of course, failed to mention the race of
the people involved — an oversight it seldom if ever committed in the
case of Amadou Diallo.
- Boulder, Colorado. After discovering that one of their
members had never had intercourse with a white woman, an Asian gang went
looking for one. When they found a white University of Colorado
student, the six men gang raped her in their minivan for two hours. At
their trial, “Detectives described the woman’s night of terror,
including repeated threats to kill her.“The woman leaped out of the
minivan after one of the men raped her. Naked, she sprinted across
Lefthand Canyon Road before Steve Yang tackled her, authorities
said.“‘They were all screaming at her, calling her names and hitting
her,’ Detective Jane Harmer testified.“Yang put her in a headlock and
dragged her back into the van, where she was raped repeatedly, Harmer
said.“‘It was a free-for-all,’ Harmer testified.“One man threatened to
‘cut and burn her,’ and another put a gun barrel to the back of her head
when they released her, Harmer said.
- Kansas City, Missouri. An Ethiopian immigrant shot two
white coworkers — killing one and critically injuring the other — at his
workplace, then turned the gun on himself. At his residence, police
found a three-page, signed note he had written in which he railed at
“black blood sucker supreme white people” for oppressing him and black
people in general.
- New York City. In a Midtown office building, a white woman
was assaulted, raped, and anally raped by a black man who called her
racist names during the attack. Police refused to label it a hate crime.
- Alexandria, Virginia. A black man walking through a neighborhood went over to a white eight-year-old boy playing in his great-grandparents’ front yard and slit the child’s throat, killing him. A witness says that the attacker shouted racial epithets during the attack, and the main suspect in the case owns anti-white hate literature and had written a note about killing white children. He had been previously arrested for attacking an unarmed white stranger with a hammer. (During the attack, he called his victim “Whitey.”)
New Black Panther Declares: We Will Hunt ‘Pink A**es’ Down, ‘Kill ‘Em
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| General T.A.C.O. (middle) & Two Masked Panthers |
(The Blaze)“That’s our brother, brother General Taco!” the New Black Panther radio host announced.
General
T.A.C.O. (Taking All Capitalists Out) of the New Black Panther Party
had some less than encouraging words for white people this week. Mr.
Taco, speaking on NBPP Radio on Sunday, decided to let white America
know that the NBPP will “hunt” their “pink asses down.” Hunting white
people down will serve to accomplish General Taco’s other stated goal of
“destroying white supremacy and capitalism.”
Gen.
Taco also justifies his killing of white people because of their
“history” of pushing “crack, AIDS and unemployment” on black men and
women in order to “exterminate” them.
But simply hunting and killing the white person does not satisfy Mr. Taco:
“Once [white people] die, we should dig ‘em up, and kill ‘em again, bury ‘em, dig ‘em up, and kill ‘em again, and again, and again!”
New York man charged with hate crimes for seven 'knockout' assaults
Barry
Baldwin, a Brooklyn resident, was charged with six counts of assault as
a hate crime, six counts of aggravated harassment as a hate crime, and
other crimes for a spate of attacks between November 9 and December 27
in predominantly Jewish sections of Brooklyn, police said.
On
November 9, Baldwin allegedly punched a 78-year-old woman who was
pushing a stroller -- apparently as part of the "knockout" assault game,
where people try to knock a random stranger unconscious with a single
blow. The victim was knocked to the ground.
On December 7, he allegedly struck again, punching a 20-year-old woman in the back of the head in Brooklyn.
Between December 21 and
December 27, Baldwin allegedly assaulted five more women, including a
33-year-old woman who was walking with her young daughter and another
78-year-old woman.
After
the attack on the woman walking with her 7-year-old daughter in the
Midwood section of Brooklyn, police released a sketch of the suspect.
The mother was punched in the back of the head and knocked down, police
said. She sustained minor injuries to her knees and hands. The suspect
fled on foot.
Baldwin
was arrested December 29 by hate crimes detectives canvassing the
neighborhoods where the previous attacks occurred, police said. He was
charged after witnesses identified him in a police lineup.
At
least nine suspected "knockout" attacks have been reported since
October in New York, but police have said they see no evidence of a
trend.
Authorities have reported similar incidents in New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri and Washington.
Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Rise As Immigration Debate Intensifies
In May 2009, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul Flores were murdered by members of a Minuteman vigilante group. The child and her father were both American-born U.S. citizens. Leader Shawna Forde broke into the Flores home in Arivaca, Ariz., with two men she recruited to help her fund her splinter Minuteman organization. After the group shot and killed her father, Brisenia pleaded with the Forde and her accomplices, saying, "Please don't shoot me." One of the masked figures then shot her in the face at point blank range, her mother, the lone survivor, said in her testimony. Forde was convicted of first degree murder in February of 2011 and sentenced to death.
Last November, two Mexican nationals, cousins Alex Cauich and Jose Omar Cauich, were brutally assaulted by a group of white men while standing in front of a bar in San Francisco. Witnesses on the scene heard the assailants yelling "run like you ran across the border" during the incident. Last week, three men with connection to a white supremacist group were convicted in the assault. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who worked as a police officer in Arizona and California for more than twenty years, told The Huffington Post that he perceives this crime and others like it to be part of rising anti-Latino sentiments around the country.
Recent studies conducted by the National Institute of Justice, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the FBI and the Pew Research Center seem to show that these incidents were not isolated hate events, but part of a greater trend.
The preliminary findings of a congressionally-mandated study by the National Institute of Justice suggest that anti-Latino hate crimes rose disproportionally to other hate crimes between 2004 and 2008. The study estimates that in 2003 there were 426 hate crimes against Latinos, while in 2007 there were 595 nationally. According to the same study, California and Texas saw the most anti-Latino hate crimes, as well as more dramatic increases of such incidents than other states. Data collected by the FBI also indicates a steady rise in anti-Latino hate crimes across the country from 2003 to 2007.
A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Montgomery, contends that the number of "radical right groups" in America -- including hate groups, "Patriot" groups and nativist groups -- increased in 2010 for the second year in a row.Although recent studies indicate anti-Latino hate crimes have been on the rise over the last decade, many believe their numbers are even greater than those reported. Mark Potok, a spokesperson for the SPLC, said in an interview with The Huffington Post that, "one thing to understand is that Latinos, and in particular undocumented immigrants, are among the least likely to report hate crimes because they fear deportation." Read more Hate
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