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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0...publican-states.html ______________ Trump’s Crime Strategy Chicago Rejects Plan 2 Weeks, 1,000 Arrests Grand Juries Reject Indictments. Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington Republican governors who have mustered National Guard troops for deployment in blue-state cities may re-examine their deployments if federal intervention significantly brings crime down. David W. Chen By David W. Chen Sept. 1, 2025 Updated 2:38 p.m. ET When Tennessee’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, dispatched his National Guard troops to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on crime, Democrats and other critics wondered why he didn’t keep them within state lines. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital, according to F.B.I. statistics. Nashville has a higher rate of violent crime than Washington as well. The same questions could be asked of other Republican governors like Greg Abbott in Texas, Mike DeWine in Ohio and Mike Kehoe in Missouri, since cities under their purview all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. Yet no Republican governor has asked for federal intervention. The image of red-state governors mustering uniformed troops for duty in blue-state cities has left many Americans with the foreboding sense of a nation dangerously divided, perhaps even drifting toward open conflict. Mr. Trump denied statistical reality last week when he was asked whether he might send federal forces into high-crime cities in Republican-led states. “Sure,” he said, “but there aren’t that many.” There are that many: Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Memphis and Nashville; Houston; Little Rock, Ark.; Salt Lake City; and Shreveport, La., all have crime rates comparable to Washington’s, according to F.B.I. statistics. But the reality of Mr. Trump’s deployments in Washington has also not matched the stark “invasion” rhetoric of some Democrats, who have raised the specter of an uninvited occupying force in their cities. Indeed, Republican governors who have so far declined to ask the president for an intervention in their cities might be tempted to rethink that stance. The supplementary forces in Washington, provided by and funded by Mr. Trump, have had a noticeable impact, at least in the short term. Washington’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, has softened her tone on the deployment, crediting it for “more accountability” and a reduction in some crimes, particularly carjackings. Even in Chicago, which Mr. Trump has said may be next in his crime agenda, the signals lately have been mixed. Brandon Johnson, the city’s progressive Democratic mayor, has stood resolutely against his streets being “occupied by federal troops,” but his police chief, Larry Snelling, has struck a softer tone. If the National Guard were to flood his city, Mr. Snelling told reporters last week, he hoped that with better communication, local and federal forces could “find some type of balance” and avoid “an adversarial environment.” Red-state governors sending their National Guard troops to blue-state cities is just another example of the political divide in the country that has become the standard. It is also another example of Republicans going out of the way to curry favor with Mr. Trump. Republican governors did not want to answer why they were willing to send their National Guard troops to Washington while not inviting the same attention to their cities. In Texas, Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesman for Mr. Abbott, declined to comment on whether the governor had made any specific requests of Mr. Trump to help fight crime in San Antonio or Houston. The question, he said, should be directed to the Department of Homeland Security. Dan Tierney, a spokesman for Governor DeWine, said under Ohio law, mayors would have to request any assistance from the state, and “no current mayoral requests for National Guard assistance” have come in. Aides to Governor Lee of Tennessee did not respond to the question. Adam Gelb, the president and chief executive of the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan research organization, stated what he said was obvious — Mr. Trump is not basing his interventions on crime rates. “The federal government almost never does anything based on pure statistics,” Mr. Gelb said. “No administration would just look at a chart and go straight down the list based on rates of violence.” Jeffrey A. Butts, executive director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, noted that even in Washington, federal resources are not actually being targeted where they would make the most difference, in high-crime neighborhoods far from the photogenic monuments and government buildings where National Guard troops are patrolling. “If you accept the premise that it is OK to use military resources in the name of securing public safety, which is very debatable and I think historically should be rejected, they would be in the communities with the highest rates of gun violence,” Mr. Butts said. “They’re not doing it to improve public safety,” he continued. “It’s designed to humiliate political opponents.” But if Mr. Trump has a political imperative, so do his targets. States need to balance their budgets, unlike the federal government. The federal government is covering the cost of more than 2,000 National Guard troops sent to Washington from six states, at an estimated cost of $1 million a day. That serves as a reminder that such resources could also be available in other cities, if requested. Federal support for local policing has also had a long history of bipartisan support. Ms. Bowser is one of many Democratic politicians who have sought to put more police on the beat but have run up against budget constraints. Democrats in Congress have been the primary champions of federal assistance for local police forces through the Community Oriented Policing Services — or COPS — program, first passed as part of President Bill Clinton’s crime bill in 1994. Federal-local partnerships have always shown promise, said Thomas Abt, founding director of the Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction at the University of Maryland. Working with mayors and local officials, the center has become involved with violence reduction efforts in Memphis and Knoxville, Tenn., as well as St. Louis and Boston. In all four cities, reforms have emphasized intervening with the people and places at the highest risk of violence, balancing accountability with empathy, and maintaining legitimacy and credibility in high-crime communities, said Mr. Abt, who wrote a book on violence reduction, “Bleeding Out.” Knoxville, St. Louis and Boston have seen violent crime rates decline faster than the national average, he said, and Memphis — the newest city to partner with the center — is on track to join them. “Reducing crime is a team sport,” he said. “Mayors and governors would appreciate sustained support and sustained collaboration from their federal partners. They always have and they always will.” But Democratic governors say that vision has little in common with the masked federal agents and uniformed military troops on Washington’s streets. In a statement last week, 19 Democratic governors said the president had cut federal funding for law enforcement and was undermining their authority over their respective National Guards. “Whether it’s Illinois, Maryland and New York or another state tomorrow, the president’s threats and efforts to deploy a state’s National Guard without the request and consent of that state’s governor is an alarming abuse of power, ineffective, and undermines the mission of our service members,” the governors said. David W. Chen reports on state legislatures, state level policymaking and the political forces behind them. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | ||
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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What is the point? Both deranged parties could not care less about their citizens. All that matters is who gets more bribe money and get to rule! Your system is the most OPENLY CORRUPT political system in the WORLD! Everything boils down to DONATIONS! BRIBES! | |||
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Red criminals. Just like their leader - convicted felon & rapist. Now involved in the greatest criminal shakedown in history with his tariffs and his Crypto business in Pakistan. What a disgrace. The US is now blatantly announcing itself as a Banana republic.
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I agree, you are a disgrace. The FACTS are that the most crime-ridden cities in the countries are blue cities, usually in blue counties. These are FACTS. That you refuse to see this to push your agenda is a disgrace Tell me again the last time you paid us taxes? opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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And the elephant in the room is…black and highspanic areas but as we already know, you cannot mention it for being branded …you know what… Never been lost, just confused here and there for month or two | |||
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Milan Nothing to do with race, everything to do with "culture" and social norms. I am certain a Limousine liberal will be around shortly with "low expectations " opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Most dangerous cities in the U.S. Note, President Trumo today did not name any city in a Red State. https://thehill.com/homenews/a...nt-crime-cities/amp/ Memphis, Tennessee- Red State, Blue Local Detroit, Michigan-Blue all around Baltimore, Maryland-Blue Trump called out the Governor today Kansas City, Missouri-Red state, Blue local Milwaukee, Wisconsin-Blue Gov and Blue local, but the Legislature is controlled by the Reds. Albuquerque, New Mexico-Blue all around Houston, Texas-Red State w Blue local Nashville, Tennessee-This is the Second Time Tennessee makes the list. Trump never me goons TN cities nor its Governor. Red State w Blue Local. Denver, Colorado-Blue as the KU Bluegrass grass Washington, DC-Fed entity. The Mayor is Blue and the Council is Blue. There is not an actual Ted on the Council. https://thehill.com/homenews/a...nt-crime-cities/amp/ City government receive their power from their states. It is not a lie that cities in Red states are very dangerous, and their state governors and legislatures cannot curtail the violence. However, Trump never me til a these Red Stats, these cities in Red States, nor their Red Governments when he declares he is going to use his “DC Template” (his words) in those states. This data looks only at Homicides and is a collection of data from 2023-2024. This data has 4 Red States including Kentucky in the top 24. There is some wiggle room here as its ranking is based on number of murders to population percentage. Lexington, KY had 14 and 22 homicides. https://www.rit.edu/liberalart...Homicide%20Stats.pdf Newsweek list a 3 of Ohio cities; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; two cites in Alabama; and Little Rock, Arkansas. https://realestate.usnews.com/...ost-dangerous-places The poking is cities in Red States are just as dangerous as cities in Blue States. However, Trump in public addresses only declares that he will use federalization on National Guard units to displace the civil government of Blue States in the name of stopping, destabilizing crime. | |||
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Racist hate crimes are by whites on Hispanics, blacks and native Americans. Most are not even booked, let alone arrested or convicted. White Cop crimes are well known though under reported. People like Lane will blame Obama for drawing attention to such hatred and bigotry. Hate based lynchings of the past are still celebrated by some families with pride.
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Annnddddd You know this HOW? If its not reported it not in the stats. Speaking of DC.... Go see the word of the day, whacky naki Btw "booked" and "arrested" are nearly synonymous, sweetpea. Go tend to your "business", salaryman opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Any friends yours involved? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPTrPJGFStY Lots more if you really want to find out. OR - ARE YOU HIDING SOME DARK SECRETS?
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Poor whacky naki. Always the victim, or bride, or corpse. You are almost as usual as a pantar wart, but even more unwanted. Worthless sack of fertilizer. Mind your "business" whacky. Try to turn a profit. Oh me? K-1s and quarterly reports are doing ME well. If I can't make bank in the us, well, looser is a word opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Naki You are amazing like a herpes flare up. Sure it happens every couple of months. And no one wants it opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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The truth is, they can only be called racist hate crimes if the perpetrator is white. Whites can be assaulted or even murdered by blacks, Hispanics, or native Indians, and even if it is racially motivated, it can never be a hate crime. That is the way of our world. White people, especially white men, are required to accept the blame for everything wrong in the world. Whites are expected to be the whipping boy for all others. If a white person has the audacity to deny that everything is his fault, he is a racist, a bigot. Bill | |||
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There are plenty of brain dead magats in those blue cities. They do not vote 100% blue nor even close. | |||
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Counties snd cities are subdivisions of state. They can have no more power than what state legislatures give them. There a plenty of cities in Red Stsyss as dangerous or more than what Trump has targeted. However, the tyrant’s own words, are to Federalize troops to subvert the civil government of only blue states. The man needs to be impeached. Fact, it is only Blue States that Trump has singled out to subvert civil, state government with Federalized forces. Fact, his rationale for that is violent crime. Fact. res States have just as much crime. Fact, Trump’s own words do not place those states at risk of his Federal takeover of those state governments. | |||
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Frankly, if the crime rate is high, and the Feds are willing to pay the ANG to support the LE agents, I could care less if they called out the ANG in my small town. If there is a high rate in a GOP run city/state, I can't imagine the governor or Mayors turning down free help to solve the problem. Unfortunately, until we start punishing the offenders and stopping the revolving wheel, I can't see more enforcement agents as having a long term effect. We used to send scofflaws to the Army or the Marines. I think it might be eye opening if we sent our "turning around" types to a forced 1-5 year term in the peace corps in a third world nation. They would all the sudden see what poverty and need are, and further what these folks would do for the opportunities that our lower classes tend to refuse to even utilize here (like an education). | |||
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You got it absolutely right! See below the bold Red part. MANY White people dehumanise blacks, brown & other ethnic minorities. THAT is why they are universally branded as racists. It has nothing to do with crime or violence. It is the basic denial of equal HUMAN rights and dignity. Any "white" person who cannot understand that needs to be accused and condemned for eternity. https://allyfromnola.medium.co...nchings-f65aa6164038 PSYCHOLOGY Why White People Brought Children to Witness Violent Lynchings This was an effort to socially condition the next generation Dr. Allison Wiltz In my community, there's a quote painted on the side of a pale green house that reads, "A precondition to doing violence to any group of people or nation is to make them less than human.” It offers an answer to the question many have pondered after learning about acts of cruelty toward marginalized groups — how could this happen? For example, some are shocked to learn that White children often attended lynchings. This shameful history is rarely discussed, but it was common practice as witnesses treated these events like family affairs. They bought postcards and kept other souvenirs, as if they were visiting the gift shop of a theme park, rather than a homicide scene. Bringing children to witness racist mob violence was a form of social conditioning. Americans often discuss racism as if discriminatory attitudes are the endgame. However, this prejudice frequently acts as a warning sign for racial violence. Lynchings are a clear example of this pattern. One NAACP pamphlet highlighted the 1935 lynching of Rubin Stacy. White people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, claimed he was "threatening and frightening a White woman." According to his great-great niece, Tenille Brown, a… Upon learning of this example, some White people respond defensively. They may argue, for instance, that the children appearing in a photo at the lynching of Rubin Stacy are nothing more than an isolated event. But the gruesome tradition of postcards documenting… ... Need to log in for full article
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Claiming whites are the only ones who deny others basic human rights and dignity is sophistry of the highest order. Lots of folks think of others as being lesser. Statistically most of them are not white. (As you like to point out, there are more people of color than white folks in the world.) Don't believe it? Spend some time around Chinese folks from China. The current "in" thing is to claim that its all power differential, which is also BS.
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_________________________ You are spot on Bill. More info and good context. This is CULTURE issue & not just crime & violence. It is ingrained in "White" society, particularly when that "white" identity is definitive rather than societal. https://lynchingintexas.org/carrigan The Making of a Lynching Culture in Central Texas By William D. Carrigan, Rowan University In 1991, I took a class with George C. Wright at the University of Texas at Austin. Wright, a historian of racial violence destined for a career in higher education administration, changed my life. I had entered the University as a mechanical engineering major, but I switched tracks to study history after the transformative experience of taking his class. The single most impactful moment of his teaching was his distribution of lynching photographs, including several of the infamous 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas. I had grown up near Waco, but I had never seen such photographs or even heard of the lynching. I could not shake from my mind the images of Washington’s burned corpse and, especially, of the large crowd that had assembled to watch the burning of a human being. As a result of growing up where I did, I knew lots of people that did not like black people very much, but I could not imagine that even the most racist of these individuals would condone or participate in such a torturous murder. As I looked at the faces in the photographs, it was clear that one could not dismiss all those who attended, estimated at the time to be 15,000 individuals, as sadistic and mentally deranged. I knew that the mob contained a wide range of otherwise normal people who attended church, ran small businesses, worked their farms, and raised sons and daughters. The encounter with these photographs, combined with the encouragement of George Wright, led me to dedicate myself to the study of history in general and to the study of this one question in particular, “how and why did ordinary people come to support lynching?” The answer to this question, at least as it relates to the lynching of Jesse Washington, took me over a decade and can be found in my first book, The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 (University of Illinois Press, 2005). What follows below is a summary of my findings and conclusions. When I began my research on the lynching of Jesse Washington, I assumed that virulent racism was the primary explanation for the tortuous violence inflicted upon Washington and others in central Texas. My research certainly uncovered much evidence of deep-seated notions of white supremacy. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine what happened to Jesse Washington and other African Americans without an understanding of the depths of white racism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, it also became soon apparent to me that racism would not be a sufficient explanation for what happened in Waco and the surrounding region. Racial antipathy was widespread and existed North and South, East and West, in remote locations and in urban areas, and in both lynch-prone and in lynch-free communities. So, I began to try to understand why some places, such as central Texas, seemed to be more prone to mob violence than others. There were two quotes that I found early on in my research that had a disproportionate impact on the arc of my research. The first came from J. N. Bennett, the editor of one central Texas’s several local newspapers, the Waco Weekly News. On February 24, 1893, Bennett attempted to explain mob violence: “Lynching becomes chronic and contagious. Boys grow to manhood with the idea, ingrained in them that lynch law is right and proper, and worthy of applause, and they follow the example set them by their fathers.”[1] This insight leapt off the page to me because it clarified my sense that the best way to understand the lynching of Jesse Washington was not to focus on the particular events of 1916 but to look deeply into the underlying and long-term factors supporting vigilantism in the region. I would eventually conclude that historical memory – the way in which communities and individuals shape recollections of the past to shape present needs – was essential to understanding how and why so many central Texans supported extralegal violence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The second quote came from a 1916 clipping preserved by Tuskegee University in their archival files on lynching. The author of the quote, an African American leader from North Carolina named W. D. Weatherford, wrote that the “first lynchings in this country were perpetrated on Indians.”[2] This statement shook away some of my preconceptions about lynching and encouraged me to extend my study of the extralegal violence back much farther than I had originally anticipated. While I never became comfortable labelling much of the violence against Native Americans as “lynching,” I certainly came to believe that the conflict with the Native Americans in Texas had a clear and direct impact on the culture of extralegal violence that was so prevalent in the region for almost a century. These two quotes helped give shape to my book, but the full argument consists of six related elements. Each component built and supported the others and, together. they were responsible for the making of central Texas’s culture of lynching. First, those white settlers who moved to central Texas, especially after 1848, came ready and prepared for a culture of violence because, in part, they carried with them pre-conceived notions of the state as a dangerous place. This “Texas of the mind” could be found in a diverse set of people and included not only outlaws escaping lives in the East and veteran heroes of the wars with Mexico but also planters, European immigrants, and yeoman farmers. One of the primary shared connections between these individuals, it seemed clear to me, was the belief that surviving on the central Texas frontier would depend upon the willingness of you and your neighbors to use violence. Second, the quarter-century conflict in central Texas with Native Americans was a foundational moment for Texas’s culture of violence. Individuals and small groups, not regular army units, did the bulk of the fighting against the region’s Native Americans. In the justifications of their actions and in the ways that the groups formed to meet the threat of “invading Indians,” these early settlers set the standards that later lynch mobs followed. In 1859, vigilantes marched under the banner “Necessity Knows No Law” and successfully forced the closure of the state’s only reserved space for Native Americans, the Brazos Indian Reservation. The success of these vigilantes and of all those who had successfully forced Native Americans to abandon the region emboldened future generations who looked back fondly to the “Indian Fighters” of early Texas. Simultaneous to much of the fighting with Native Americans was the rise of African slavery in central Texas, a third factor of significance. The ability to grow cotton led to an influx of slaveholders and their slaves from all parts of the South in the quarter century before the Civil War. They brought with them many elements that reinforced mob violence. For one, most “crimes” committed by African Americans were punished not by the courts but by overseers and masters. For a second, locals quickly introduced the slave patrol, a lightly regulated group that nevertheless provided a model for vigilante action. Another important element was the growth of fear of “outside agitators” and fifth columnists whose actions might encourage slave resistance and revolt. All of these elements existed in the earlier settled southern states, but I argued that the violence and tension that underlay slavery was more apparent and unsettling to whites in central Texas because slave resistance, especially slave flight aided by the proximity of both Mexico and independent Native American communities, increased once slaves reached what was then the “edge” of the cotton South. These concerns over slave resistance, possibly stoked by outsiders, exploded into a full panic in 1860 when local committees of public safety lynched an unknown number of suspected abolitionists and alleged slave rebels. The experience of the Civil War and Reconstruction proved to be a fourth critical moment in the history of central Texas’s culture of extralegal violence. When war and then emancipation came to Texas, memories of slave resisters, their alleged white allies, and all that had transpired under bondage remained and continued to shape the region’s culture of vigilantism. In particular, central Texas mobs targeted those they believed posed a threat to the white majority, beginning with suspected Unionists and continuing during Reconstruction with “carpbetbaggers,” “scalawags,” and black leaders. Unlike the Panic of 1860, however, I argue that the threat to the white majority during Reconstruction was very real, that there was a serious white minority willing to ally with black voters capable of contesting political power in the region. The legitimacy of this threat only strengthened the region’s culture of violence when Reconstruction finally ended. The lessons were clear. Extralegal violence during Reconstruction, as it had been in the struggle with Native Americans, had been essential, and those who orchestrated this violence were to be praised and appreciated. One of the important questions in the history of lynching is how and why lynching became so racialized in the late 19th century. In central Texas, as elsewhere, African Americans were disproportionately targeted by white mobs in the years before 1890 but not so greatly as would be the case in the years following. Between 1860 and 1922, mobs killed 67 “whites” and 64 African Americans. However, between 1895 and 1922, mobs murdered 26 African Americans and only one white, Curley Hackney. The fifth factor, and in many ways the heart of my argument, is that participation in mob violence emerged in the late 19th century as an important rite of passage for young men. Having grown up in a culture that lavished praise on their fathers and grandfathers for fighting against Mexico, defending homesteads from Native Americans, suffering for the “Lost Cause” during the Civil War and successfully vanquished the abomination of multiracial government during Reconstruction, these men needed to prove that they too were willing to defend their communities when threatened. That the dangers faced by their ancestors no longer existed did not lessen the need for them to demonstrate their manhood. Out of this cauldron emerged a new region-wide panic that required mob action, the black rapist. The charge of rape, even when alleged of a black man against a white woman, did not universally, or even usually, provoke lethal mob violence before the last decade of the 19th century in central Texas. For example, in 1886, an African American barber named Tom Burney allegedly raped a white woman named Maggie Schuster. Even though the local newspaper described Burney as a “brute” with “vile desires,” no mob lynched Burney. In fact, he never even went to prison as his trial ended in a hung jury. Just a few short years later, however, and the culture had changed to the point that the mere charge of rape in such a case would lead to mob action. While there were many factors involved in the racialization of lynching, I argued that the needs of young men to demonstrate their masculinity through acts of violence underlay both the “discovery” of the epidemic of black rapists and the increasingly brutal lynchings that took place in the 1890s and early 20th century in central Texas.[3] The sixth and final factor in the rise of central Texas’s culture of lynching is also the one that ultimately helped end public extralegal executions in the region as well. For three-quarters of a century, between the arrival of white settlers in the region in the 1830s until the lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916, most white leaders in central Texas either actively supported and encouraged extralegal violence or tolerated it without much condemnation. This lack of censure and punished encouraged more acts of mob violence, which met with yet more indifference, which fed the cycle all over again, leading to larger and more brutal mobs over time. The lynching of Jesse Washington, in my analysis, was the turning point. Because of the work of the undercover sleuth and activist Elisabeth Freeman and her report in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s magazine, The Crisis, as well as national and international newspaper coverage of the lynching, central Texas’s ruling class began to turn against lynching and mob violence. While vigilantism did not end overnight, a combination of local public criticism, especially by religious leaders, and legal action against mob members began to undo the region’s lynching culture. In 1937, the African American newspaper editor of the Waco Messenger wrote that “years ago this community became mob infested” and the cause of the “trouble was in the unhealthy attitude” of “civic and political leaders toward law enforcement.” When the “situation got extremely bad and something had to be done,” he concluded “this element acted and the country has since witnessed an era of total freedom from mobs.”[4] While “total freedom” may have been an exaggeration, the violence against African Americans that continued after 1916 was fundamentally different. Public support for lynching had declined. No longer did mobs of unmasked men in the middle of the day murder African Americans without fear of punishment. The lives of African Americans in the region remained fraught with great challenges, and the struggle for black freedom continued, but the strange world that I had seen in the Jesse Washington photographs had gone, transformed into the familiar, if still tragic world, that I knew growing up, one that still contained plenty of white supremacists but not nearly as many people willing to watch and let pass the burning of a human being in front of the local courthouse. Notes [1] Waco Weekly News, February 24, 1893. [2] “Lynchings 1916 – Discussions,” box 2, Lynching Files, Tuskegee University Archives, Tuskegee, Alabama. [3] Waco Daily Examiner, May 20, 1884. [4] The Waco Messenger, May 28, 1937. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Doc Are you deflecting? We are talking about the US in the context of the Original post. Institutionalised racism is entrenched in the US particularly among older white men and this has been established far beyond doubt for over 150 years and even more so among GOP supporters. What you are referring to is ETHNOCENTRISM which is people being comfortable among their own ethnicity and wary of others. THAT is not about dehumanising others or denying their human rights through institutionalised oppression. Trump's policy of targeting Democrat governed states and not using the same logic or values to address the same issues in Republican governed states is a great example. There are those here on ARPF who deny that institutionalised racism exists in the US and even blame Obama for highlighting the problem as some sort of race baiting. We have had this conversation before on more than one occasion, Doc.
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I will be brief. You are an under-informed idiot, speaking of a place you only know from biased sources. That you THINK major cities are controlled by the state is laughable... did the state allow the elders and villagers to raid and lay siege to your compound when you were abusing villagers? Dolt, you are under informed. Ain't the first time I am a native houstonian, and spent the last decade, with remote and on-site work in Dallas, and spent most of my childhood summers in Detroit. You? You might have visited for a weekend to a major city, and likely spent that time in an enclave. I have worked in NYC, spent lots of leisure time in DC, Memphis, STL, and Nola. Each and every one of those major cities is a HOLE Other than JEALOUSY, you have no basis, other than bias, to spout off. I have spent more time in these cities than YOU have, sum total, spentnin the us I would NEVER presume to judge India, based on the months I have spent there, on my limited experience there. I find India both amazing and I doubt I could ever understand all of the things Let's keep it simple, blue cities opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Yawn, facts are hard. The President’s stated purpose did his extreme action in subverting civil government of states applies to Red states. However, he only seeks to use federalized force against Blue states. No, I am not jealous of one of the most dangerous places in the U.S.. one where women are being made infertile by your abortion loony. I think Texas is what some here say California is. | |||
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So is reading, but keep trying Here's an easy version of both Blue cities opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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No question, blue cities are the reason red states lead in crime. The real question is why isn't trump sending the NG to cities in red states? Hmmm..... | |||
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Lets start with Houston, expanding to Nola, Shreveport, then Memphis and stl. Though, since the NG aren't doing the policing, lets send fbi, dea, dhs, and federal Marshalls. We should keep the NG out of Austin, but send in the federales for the tech bros. Austin would corrupt even marines .. well usata would Heads will explode, but crime will go down. Can we send the Katrina blow-ins back? Literally a hickeystick in crime in Houston post Katrina opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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As I said, this is only reprehensible if committed by a person with white skin against a person of color. Mr. Carrigan is demonstrating the correct self-flagellation technique where he accepts the burden of his race and takes the punishment due the few who were evil human beings. When black Africans murder white African farmers, their fellow blacks are not required to accept their burden of guilt. Indeed, the white African should have written out an apology for his existence, which could be read posthumously. Of course, this would not eliminate the requirement for the white American, Canadian, or New Zealander to accept their share of guilt for being born white. Regards, Bill | |||
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People like Lane are simply pointing out that Obama created most of the current racial division in America. You have no knowledge of what you speak. Prior Obama, we as Americans were pretty much post racial. Obama needs the division and the Democrat party keeps it alive. How racist is a country that elected a Black man, twice? The Black population is 13% of America, yet Obama received ~69 million votes or 53% (2008) and ~65 million or 51% in 2012. Your accusations ring hollow. "The soft bigotry of low expectations" is exactly the Democrats view of race relations in America. Formerly "Nganga" | |||
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Yup. And only Donald Trump can save you!  Shoot the niggers and deport the spics…the message is loud and clear. A white Christian America is what his supporters want, without vaccines or toothbrushes, but with lots and lots of guns.  | |||
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https://www.facebook.com/share...Spi/?mibextid=wwXIfr There are apples that mean nothing and oranges that are more important to ponder. JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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I don't know a single soul that uses that language. Formerly "Nganga" | |||
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Race and culture are not monolithic. TomP Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906) | |||
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What a one eyed and obtuse perspective. So you are saying that the 45% who voted against Obama and the 30%+ hardcore right wing racists in the US does not make the US an INSTITUTIONALISED racist society? Really? Despite all the PROVEN racist hate crimes and cop shootings of innocent blacks and the huge disparity in criminal justice court rulings, you are saying that the US is "post racists"? You are saying that Obama was being populist for pointing out the unfair and PERSISTENT INSTITUTIONALISED racism among WHITE REPUBLICANS? Your response is not hollow at all. It is ABSOLUTE PROOF of the level of INSTITUTIONALISED racism in the US AND here on ARPF. Talking of low expectations, how low can one get than Trump? You RIGHT WING republican MAGA bigots are the ones with the LOWEST OF LOW standards in continuing to defend Trump & the current GUTTER OF A PARTY!
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How can you even know that I didn't vote for Obama? your assessment is that a full 30% of the non-Obama vote is racist? You have no clue of what you post and your lack of objective thought is astounding. Perhaps you should limit your post's to subjects you understand. Formerly "Nganga" | |||
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Judge Would you pass judgement in a court based on that "evidence" and condemn Democrat governed STATES? Did you identify the BIG FLY IN THE OINTMENT. She was referring to only Mayors and NOT Governors. The Mayors do not control the State of the LEAs of the State. What is your verdict Judge? 
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20 Minutes of Black DC Residents Supporting Trumps Federal Takeover LONG LIVE FREE SPEECH! | |||
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Steve Just look at the mirror. I have spent a lifetime studying and researching political and social institutions and history. A significant amount of that was in formal education and training. So I can proudly claim good knowledge and understanding of such matters from a GLOBAL perspective (not just from the tiny view point of a 0.5% global proportion of American right wing MAGAOTS or even a 4% American perspective). Let us assume that you voted for Obama. So what? You may personally not be a racist. I know you promoted a gay manager as your General Manager. Good on you. But you still defend Right wing bigotry and the hate culture that goes with it. "There are good people on both sides" seems to your defence. Enough surveys have been done in the US to establish that there is a 30% hard core right wing racist demographic in the US that is mostly comprised of White Old men (over 65% of that group). If you are not aware of such evidence, then may be YOU need to stop posting on a subject you know nothing about.
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Oh, silly boy, include the entire quote... funny how you "forgot" the specific call out of "I am not talking about the neonazis and racists" I mean, the actual truth, as usual, ruins your "arguement " When was the last time you paid us taxes, naki opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3-wEgTqIU A more detailed expose on the disappearance of Rasheem Carter and the apathy of the local White Police force. Who were the locals who were putting pressure on the land owner not to report the Game cam pictures? THAT is culture and Institutional behaviour. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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