The field Negro education series continues.
"The murder in College Park, Maryland of Richard Collins III, an African-American student who had recently been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was days away from his graduation from Bowie State University, underscores the violence of America’s far-right wing. Sean Urbanski, the University of Maryland student who allegedly stabbed Collins to death, belongs to a racist Facebook group called Alt-Reich: Nation.
It makes sense that the FBI is helping the police investigate this incident as a suspected hate crime. But my 15 years experience of studying violent extremism in Western societies has taught me that dealing effectively with far-right violence requires something more: treating its manifestations as domestic terrorism.
While attacks such as the recent suicide bombing in Manchester that left 22 people dead and several dozen injured will probably continue to garner more headlines, this growing domestic menace deserves more attention than it’s getting.
Domestic terrorism
Terrorism is a form of psychological warfare. Most terrorist groups lack the resources, expertise and manpower to defeat state actors. Instead, they promote their agenda through violence that shapes perceptions of political and social issues.
Collins’ murder, if it was motivated by racist sentiments, should be treated as an act of domestic terrorism, which I define here as the use of violence in a political and social context that aims to send a message to a broader target audience. Like lynching, cross-burning and vandalizing religious sites, incidents of this kind deliberately aim to terrorize people of color and non-Christians.
I consider domestic terrorism a more significant threat than the foreign-masterminded variety in part because it is more common in terms of the number of attacks on U.S. soil. For example, my report published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point identified hundreds of domestic terror incidents per year between 2008 and 2012.
Another report initially published in 2014 by New America Foundation on domestic incidents of extremist violence shows that excluding the Orlando nightclub massacre, between 2002-2016, far-right affiliated perpetrators conducted 18 attacks that killed 48 people in the United States, while terrorists motivated by al-Qaida’s or the Islamic State’s ideology killed 45 people in nine attacks.
The Orlando mass shooting, given its mix of apparent motives, is hard to categorize.
A spontaneous appearance
In briefings with law enforcement and policymakers, I have sometimes encountered a tendency to see U.S. right-wing extremists as a monolith. But traditional Ku Klux Klan chapters operate differently than skinhead groups, as do anti-government “patriot” and militia groups and anti-abortion extremists. Christian Identity groups, which believe Anglo-Saxons and other people of Northern European descent are a chosen people, are distinct too.
Certainly, there is some overlap. But these groups also differ significantly in terms of their methods of violence, recruitment styles and ideologies. Across the board, undermining the threat they pose requires a more sophisticated approach than investigating their criminal acts as suspected hate crimes.
In an ongoing study I’m conducting at the University of Massachusetts Lowell with several students, we have determined that, as apparently occurred with Collins’ recent murder in Maryland, many attacks inspired by racist or xenophobic sentiments may appear spontaneous. That is, no one plans them in advance or targets the victim ahead of time. Instead, chance encounters that enrage the perpetrators trigger these incidents.
Sporadic attacks with high numbers of casualties that are plotted in advance, such as Dylann Roof’s murder of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, South Carolina church, are always big news. More typical incidents of far-right violence tend to draw less attention.
The fatal stabbing of Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche and Ricky John Best aboard a train in Portland, Oregon on May 26 seems to be emerging as an exception. The alleged killer of these two white men, Jeremy Joseph Christian, attacked them with a knife after they stood up to him for haranguing two young women who appeared to be Muslim, police said. A third injured passenger is expected to survive. Much of the media coverage is focused on Christian’s violent and racist background.
Given the spontaneous nature of so much far-right violence, U.S. counterterrorism policies should, in my view, target the dissemination of white supremacist ideology, rather than just identifying planned attacks and monitoring established white supremacy groups.
An iceberg theory
The number of violent attacks on U.S. soil inspired by far-right ideology has spiked since the beginning of this century, rising from a yearly average of 70 attacks in the 1990s to a yearly average of more than 300 since 2001. These incidents have grown even more common since President Donald Trump’s election.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that researches U.S. extremism, reported 900 bias-related incidents against minorities in the first 10 days after Trump’s election—compared to several dozen in a normal week—and the group found that many of the harassers invoked the then-president-elect’s name. Similarly, the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that tracks anti-Semitism, recorded an 86 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the first three months of 2017.
Beyond the terror that victimized communities are experiencing, I would argue that this trend reflects a deeper social change in American society.
The iceberg model of political extremism, initially developed by Ehud Shprinzak, an Israeli political scientist, can illuminate these dynamics.
Murders and other violent attacks perpetrated by U.S. far-right extremists compose the visible tip of an iceberg. The rest of this iceberg is under water and out of sight. It includes hundreds of attacks every year that damage property and intimidate communities, such as the recent attempted burning of an African-American family’s garage in Schodack, New York. The garage was also defaced with racist graffiti.
Data my team collected at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point show that the significant growth in far-right violence in recent years is happening at the base of the iceberg. While the main reasons for that are still not clear, it is important to remember that changes in societal norms are usually reflected in behavioral changes. Hence, it is more than reasonable to suspect that extremist individuals engage in such activities because they sense that their views are enjoying growing social legitimacy and acceptance, which is emboldening them to act on their bigotry.
Budget cuts
Despite an uptick in far-right violence and the Trump administration’s plan to increase the Department of Homeland Security budget by 6.7 percent to US$44.1 billion in 2018, the White House wants to cut spending for programs that fight non-Muslim domestic terrorism.
The federal government has also frozen $10 million in grants aimed at countering domestic violent extremism. This approach is bound to weaken the authorities’ power to monitor far-right groups, undercutting public safety.
How many more innocent people like Richard Collins III—and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche and Ricky John Best—have to die before the U.S. government starts taking the threat posed by violent white supremacists more seriously? " [Source]
37 comments:
Yet another Muslim terror attack, another week of hundreds of black on black murders, and Field makes a post about a supposed "white supremacist" threat.
You can't be that dumb to actually believe the things you repeat.
You are the fakest of the fake news.
From Rotherham to London Bridge, the UK is a failed culture.
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"From Rotherham to London Bridge, the UK is a failed culture."
No....multiculturalism is just a failure.
Time for The Great Seperations to begin
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The bodies are never even cold before the media starts actively facilitating future attacks with all their deflections about "Islamophobia."
There is a distinct difference in the type of attack on the Bowie St. grad and the "typical" Black on Black attack. Most of the intra racial attacks are perpetrated for motives such as revenge against rival gang members while the Maryland attack could just be anyone. Say what you will but even the hardest core gang member wouldn't go into a church and shoot elderly women while white racists would. Thus white racists are a bigger threat because they will attack any negro while a gang member is looking for someone specific.
PX
Ahmad said...
>From Rotherham to London Bridge, the UK is a failed culture.<
Last night, I saw something that I would've never thought possible.
It made me realize that the UK is likely doomed.
A British man took video as unarmed, helpless police came into a bar and told everyone to lie down on the floor.
In the middle of a mass-casualty terrorist attack, one customer shouted "Fucking Muslim cunts!"
He thought he was about to die.
The man filming--in the MIDDLE OF THE ATTACK--began lecturing the other about how he shouldn't say such things.
The comments on this man's Twitter feed showed that MANY Brits think it's rational to criticize victims of terrorism for their language.
Keep in mind that the terrorist attack WAS IN PROGRESS, the victims were cowering on the floor, yet offensive language was the issue.
As two men waited to be killed by terrorists, one criticized the other for offensive language against Muslims.
The fact that so many Brits APPLAUDED this insanity shows that Britain is likely doomed.
"Thus white racists are a bigger threat because they will attack any negro while a gang member is looking for someone specific."
Statistically, blacks are the biggest threat to everyone.
I thought that as Islamic terrorist attacks in Western Europe became more and more frequent, public sentiment would begin to turn against Moslems.
However, this has not happened, and there is no reason to believe it is ever going to happen.
People are just going to keep dying on the streets, as the police state ratchets up in an attempt to deal with something it cannot possibly deal with – given that many if not most of these new attacks are lone wolf attacks, that are not centrally planned, and thus it is very difficult to monitor them and catch them before they happen – and they are never going to blame the religion of Islam or the racial group that it represents.
Not in Western Europe they’re not.
If it was going to happen on a large scale, it would already be beginning to happen on a higher and higher rate. And it just isn’t happening.
Every time one of these attacks happens, it is all #NotAllMoslems, and people are learning to adapt to a situation where they just might be murdered at any time, randomly, on the street, by strangers.
There is hope in America and there is hope in Eastern Europe, but in France, Germany, the UK and Scandinavia, there is no longer any hope that there is going to be some popular backlash against the Islamic invasion and conquest.
I genuinely thought it would happen.
But it simple is not happening.
The people of Western Europe want to be conquered and destroyed by Islam. This is what they want. You can blame brainwashing, feminism, Jews, whatever – but the cause does not change the reality on the ground.
This is where we are at.
There is going to be twitter hashtags and buildings lit up and prayers for the dead until these countries are totally dominated by foreign hordes.
If there is an attack every hour, on the hour, this response is going to remain the same for the overwhelming majority of the population.
This is what the people have chosen.
"Statistically, blacks are the biggest threat to everyone."
Unless you're an elderly Black woman in church.
"Statistically, blacks are the biggest threat to everyone."
Or a newly commissioned Army officer waiting at a bus stop in Maryland. Then crazy white boys kill you. Crazy white boys are always a threat. Ask the people killed in Oklahoma City.
Typically Y'all Qaeda quiets down during Republican administrations and ramps up during Democratic ones when the Pig-People are more ripe for fleecing with "THEY'RE COMIN FER YER GUNZZZ111!!!" hysteria, and the Sovereign Citizen idiots get all het up with their Posse Comitatus racist insanity and shoot a few cops to show that US law doesn't apply to them. Hint: Yes, yes it does.
But this time the McVeigh-in-training club isn't calming down as much and it seems from the specific flavor of insanity they are currently ranting about that they are starting to have delusions about their time having arrived at last. They may be somewhat right about that in a certain sense, but perhaps are in for a rude shock when they discover the answer to "time for what?"
President four-year-old may be all wink-wink-nudge-nudge with them when they can serve the purpose of juicing the turnout of the Pig-People to elect him, but as soon as they become an impediment to the operation of the corporations he is busily carving up the country and selling it to, all such general turning of a blind eye to their activities will suddenly transform into highly targeted "law and order" campaign promise fulfillment.
They are really just one more of his constituencies being played for suckers, albeit one that occasionally murders people and damages the lives of others.
Hopefully, when they get it through their heads that they've been used and lied to by their Orange Fire Demon, they won't throw a big, ugly, fit on their way back to the fringes of obscurity, but a lot of smart people are concerned about them doing just that.
Glad I don't live around them, really. Watching them seems really tiresome and boring.
As for the government doing anything about them as things stand right now, Ryan and McConnell aren't gonna let that happen, and relying on the cops to do the right thing is a crap shoot at best and suicide on a bad day.
-Doug in Oakland
President four-year-old just tweeted away the chance his Muslim ban had with the supremes:
ACLU NationalVerified account @ACLU
ACLU National Retweeted Donald J. Trump
Glad we both agree the ban is a ban.
-Doug in Oakland
Great points PX, WASTED on a bunch of terrorist minded whooteemoos.
Theodore 4 year old Potus- Talk crazy and be a big dick.
I really, really believed if we just call them thugs what they are they would go away. That is what the orange shitgibbon in the WH said.
"Great points PX, WASTED on a bunch of terrorist minded whooteemoos."
I guess if you're not the target you don't care much.
PX
"I guess if you're not the target you don't care much."
Terrible thing that was done to Richard Collins. Ignorant, evil, deeply wrong thing.
But if you want to keep everything on a racial scorecard, today, these terrible things are done by blacks against innocent whites at about 75 times the frequency.
I guess if you're not the target you don't care much.
Drumpf's big mouth is big mouth Drumpf's worst enemy-especially as ot pertains to his Muslim ban/not a ban. He should get his balls handed to him on a plate with a crayon written slap in the face from the Scotus.
He has been told often enough to keep his trap shut by the Scotus and yet he apparently believes the rules do not apply to him because of his historic Electoral vote (snark).
With every passing day, a ban on Muslims looks better and better.
With every day a ban on all religion looks better and better.
Everyone claims to do what they do on the orders of some invisible sky captain with no proof whatsoever.
Sick of this foolish bickering and killing. Let religion go.
makes you wanna believe "it is always darkest just before dawn." I've pulled some all-nighters (and worked night shifts) and never noticed the truth of that saying.
But surely Muricans (i.e. white Americans) will wake up after this administration's Alt-right kick in the head, will rise up, vote, and reverse course in the next election.
Or are we this stupid?
Over the line using the n-word, but blacks not paying for utilities is a problem throughout USA. Water and electricity service is not a right.
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Flint official blames water crisis on f*cking n*****s’ who ‘don’t pay their bills’
An official with a publicly funded land bank in Flint, Michigan, blamed the city’s water crisis on “f*cking n*****s” who fail to pay their bills.
Audio recordings made by an environmental activist appear to show Phil Stair, sales manager for the Genesee County Land Bank, using racial slurs and blaming poor residents for rising water costs, reported Truth Against The Machine.
“Flint has the same problems as Detroit — f*cking n*****s don’t pay their bills,” Stair says on the recording, which was made May 26 during a conversation with environmental activist and independent journalist Chelsea Lyons.
Stair was driving to a restaurant with Lyons and another person when the recordings were made, according to the blog.
“I don’t want to call them n*****s, sh*t I just went to Myrtle Beach (with) 24 guys, and I was the only white guy,” Stair said. “I got friends — I mean, there’s trash and there’s people that do this sh*t. They just don’t pay their bills. Well, Detroit, didn’t collect on their bills, so they charged everybody else, but Flint, Flint had to pay their bill to Detroit.”
Stair is a government employee through the land bank, which is described on its website as a “non-profit government organization.”
He claimed the city, which is 56 percent black, was forced to begin using contaminated water from the Flint River after Detroit raised prices to account for its own unpaid water bills.
Brigade Fake Narrative said...
"It's the first white person you can fnd in chain that's at fault"
Nope - one black run city (Detroit) tried to gouge another black-run city (Flint).
Second black run city got in over their head trying to run a water company.
Brigade of Falsehoods said...
"Gotta love these racist pinheads who think poor black people aren't really poor and are only choosing not to pay their bills"
Poor whites pay their bills at a lot higher rate than blacks.
Fact Jack, do u have a link to back up that claim?
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/images/2-2-chart4.png
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/patterns-of-homeownership.htm
Delinquency data indicate who pays their bills.
Poor whites have lower loan delinquency rates than middle-income blacks.
Interestingly, black foreclosure rates are much lower than would be expected base on black loan delinquency rates. Probably because Racist.
http://wweb.uta.edu/economics/workshop/Credit%20Scoring%20Paper%201%20for%20UTA.pdf
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/blacks-hispanics-mortgages/471024/
Blacks and Hispanics get pushed towards higher risk loans than whites. Discrimination rears its ugly head some more.
That's because they are higher risk.
This is determined by their credit history, not their ancestry, as no loan applications ever ask you to indicate your race.
The reasons for this are not solely practices of the recent past, such as redlining. Today, home loans are consistently more expensive for black and Hispanic buyers than they are for white buyers. Why? Because banks and other lenders direct these groups toward high-risk, high-priced products. The result is, in part, that blacks and Hispanics are less likely to own homes in general, and additionally that when they do obtain home loans, those loans are often a more expensive and risky proposition—think of the subprime loans that tanked the housing market—which can increase the chance of financial ruin and default.
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I believe this report is telling you you are all wet, Fact Jack.
China is eating our lunch in the clean power market. They take it seriously and know that whoever is in the position to sell the technology abroad will get the biggest bite of the economic pie going forward.
Also, their workers aren't as retarded about coal mining as ours:
“This aboveground work is so much more pleasant than the hot air down in a coal mine,” Mr. Yang said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/business/energy-environment/china-clean-energy-coal-pollution.html?_r=0
These are the real manufacturing jobs of the upcoming century, and if the goddamn Republicans actually gave a rat's ass about them, they would be trying to get them to be American jobs instead of ratfucking them and lying about coal.
Coal isn't coming back. And even if it did, the jobs mining it wouldn't. Even if we doubled coal production right now, coal mining would employ fewer people than in 1985.
Coal is one more bullshit Republican lie used to prop up their backward looking ideology and jerk off their backward thinking base, who are apparently old enough not to give a fuck about rendering the air unbreathable and the water undrinkable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvT2r828QY
-Doug in Oakland
Terrorism is a form of psychological warfare. Most terrorist groups lack the resources, expertise and manpower to defeat state actors. Instead, they promote their agenda through violence that shapes perceptions of political and social issues.
You mean, like the epidemic of armed robberies, home invasions and arsons which drove White people out of Detroit? THAT kind of terrorism? Leaderless and driven by tribal loyalties and hatreds?
The murder in College Park, Maryland of Richard Collins III, an African-American student who had recently been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was days away from his graduation from Bowie State University, underscores the violence of America’s far-right wing.
So how do you classify Kendrex White, who attempted to murder not just one but FOUR innocent White people on the campus of the University of Texas? Add to that the other 126 Black-on-White murders so far this year. So far YOU have... FOUR (at least two of which are justifiable homicides of violent apefrican boyfriends).
In Chicago alone, 264 homicides so far this year. Almost all of them are Black-on-Black. Your response? <crickets> But the ONE killing of Richard Collins III is notewothy, not for his death, but because of who killed him.
No, Wayne, your "White racists are trying to wipe out my people!" narrative doesn't fly, except with Black racists like you who can't see anything except through a tribal lens. The non-Black audience for this is shrinking as fast as a urinal deodorant cake, and for the same reason. Hispanics already have carte blanche to purge your asses, and it's an excellent bet that when a gun is shoved in your Black face the last thing you'll ever see is the light brown hand holding it.
If you wanted a different outcome, you would have declared for reconciliation long ago. That's water under the bridge. You could escape to Jamaica if you jumped soon enough, but it looks like you aren't bright enough to take the warnings while it's early enough to act on them.
Gotta love these racist pinheads who think poor black people aren't really poor and are only choosing not to pay their bills.
What do you bet that these Black women (because they are all women) heading these households have their hair and nails did, but didn't pay the water bill?
The Republican-appointed penny-pincher -- er, I mean emergency manager -- decided that rather than signing a short-term contract with Detroit, he could save a few bucks by tapping the water from the local Flint River.
"Even after the officials were told repeatedly that the Flint water department wasn’t ready to make the switch in 2014 and that the city should keep getting its water from Detroit..."
We are not told by WHOM they were told. Those people are nameless. In other words, they're White.
We know it was Black people fucking up, because even afterward the Black mayor tried to put the water system crisis donations into her campaign fund.
China is eating our lunch in the clean power market. They take it seriously and know that whoever is in the position to sell the technology abroad will get the biggest bite of the economic pie going forward.
Yes, guess who is the eager underdog in the overseas nuclear plant market, behind Russia and South Korea? China.
The first Hualong One outside of China may be built in the UK.
Michael Dean Miller,
I'm not sure how important it really is, but since you have exhibited the knowledge of a complete goofball who never paid attention in class and obviously never reads anything other than right-wing screeds. Allow me to point out this simple spelling error.
Separate is spelled with an "a."
A racist dickhead like yourself ought to be familiar with the mid-century argument in favor of segregation, known as, "Separate but Equal."
I never worry about "white racists" wiping me out, because most of them, like you, are pretty stupid.
It will take generations to get that gene pool up to snuff.
And for the record, I love my Jamaican and my American home. 😏
Fuck the gooks and chinks!
Well we certainly must shift the focus to white males. Every front must be employed to convince them to give any and all manifestations of power. Forget the real constant islamic menace. We'll sort that out amongst ourselves.
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