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But we now know that Brian Williams, a Jacksonville Jaguars’ CB, and not an NBC News anchor, according to WJXT-4 (not NBC) Jacksonville:

…had not yet made headlines on the football field when he made news off the field, accused of making some offensive comments to an officer the night he was arrested on suspicion of DUI.

According to Jacksonville police, Williams went on a racist, profanity-laced rant on the September 2006 night he was charged with driving under the influence.

Channel 4 has obtained court documents detailing what an officer says Williams said to him that night.

The officer involved wrote in his notes that Williams called him a, “Honky mother (expletive).”

The statement goes on to say that Williams said, “I (expletive) your momma … I (expletive) your wife twice.” It got worse when, according to the officer’s notes, Williams said he would do something to the officer’s daughter.

It looks like Mr. Williams will have to face some music for his racial tirades, but if he were white, and made similar racial remarks and threats toward a black cop that was popping him for DUI, we would have known about it within the hour (it wouldn’t have taken 18 months to come out), and the NFL Commissioner would have banned him from the league within the next hour.  I doubt that Mr. Williams will get such a severe punishment.

World Net Daily:

Obama pastor’s theology: Destroy ‘the white enemy’

Barack Obama’s suddenly radioactive pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has defended himself against charges of anti-Americanism and racism by referring to his foundational philosophy, the “black liberation theology” of scholars such as James Cone, who regard Jesus Christ as a “black messiah” and blacks as “the chosen people” who will only accept a god who assists their aim of destroying the “white enemy.”

“If God is not for us and against white people,” writes Cone, “then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community.”

Up until today, and this revelation, I was willing to consider the possibility that Rev. Wright was not an outright hatemonger, but just a typical purveyor of black fatuous paranoia.  This is the Rubicon.

Chicago Tribune:

A melee broke out Monday at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center as offenders threw chairs, destroyed copy machines and flipped bookshelves, causing minor injuries to 16 youths and 10 staffers.

The 13-minute brawl started during a Black History Month presentation in the chapel when one boy tackled another, said Earl Dunlap, transitional administrator at the embattled detention center on Chicago’s West Side.

A third boy, seeing an opportunity to cause a ruckus, stood up and shouted encouragement for others to start fighting and destroying property, Dunlap said.

Then chaos erupted among the 78 youths, fewer than 20 of them girls, in the chapel, Dunlap said. There were 17 staffers in the room when the melee broke out at about 9:10 a.m., he said. About 10 minutes later, an additional 16 staffers arrived to help break up the fighting, he said.

It looks like the BHM proceedings were successful.  The “yoots” got so much self-esteem that they decided to start a small riot.  Later on in this article, it tells of a judicial takeover of Crook County’s juvenile justice center because the ACLU complained about “mistreatment of youths.”  Maybe there was a good reason why they were “mistreated.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

NY lawmaker apologizes to Kirkwood

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A New York lawmaker apologized for making a petulant allusion to a rampage at a town hall in Missouri while sheriff’s deputies were escorting him and fellow protesters out of a heated public meeting.

“And you guys wonder why there’s violence, you guys wonder why. You wonder why a guy in Missouri goes and shoots some damn body,” state Assemblyman David Gantt remarked as he was led out of Monroe County’s legislative chambers on Tuesday.

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Gantt said that he intended to get across a message that people who are shut out of decision-making will act out. But he insisted that he has always preached nonviolence and said the Missouri attack was clearly wrong.

I wonder if one NYS Assemblyman David Gantt ever had a nickname.  If he did, I wonder if that nickname alluded to a flat, round, circular cake.

As for the substance of his remarks, I hope by now you can knock that slow meatball out of the park.

Reuters:

NY police face judge, not jury, in groom shooting

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three New York City police officers charged in the 2006 shooting death of an unarmed black man hours before his wedding waived their right to a jury trial on Friday, saying any local jury would be biased against them.

Lawyers for the white, Hispanic and black detectives who fired 50 bullets at the groom and his friends have argued that intense media coverage of the death of Sean Bell, 23, had made it impossible to find a neutral jury in New York.

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The policemen appeared determined to avoid facing a jury in the New York City borough of Queens, where Bell was killed and his two friends were wounded around 4 a.m. on November 25, 2006.

“The potential jury pool was poisoned right from the start,” said Michael Paladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association. “It has nothing to do with the good people of Queens. They were hit with an avalanche of negative publicity.”

(snip)

The venue dispute mirrors a similar case nearly a decade ago, when four police officers charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed West African man, Amadou Diallo, were tried — and later acquitted — in Albany, the mostly white state capital.

That shooting took place in the Bronx, which, like Queens, has a large minority population.

I agree that “the potential jury pool was poisoned right from the start,” but I don’t think “an avalanche of negative publicity” is to blame.  It’s all race, and racial jealousy, and the hatred to cops and authority in general that festers in black America.  These cops made the right call.

Why would the Bay Area MSM take out after a bunch of black radicals?  In this case, the answer is easy:  One of the YBMBers is accused of murdering a black MSM reporter from an Oakland newspaper.

What is it with Bay Area politicians and their cozy relationships with cults?  Remember, for several years in the mid-1970s, Jim Jones was an important figure in the San Francisco civic constellation.  The difference with YBMB, though, is that the Oakland government was friendly with it in spite of its reputation.  Hardly anyone knew that Jim Jones was a cult leader until the kool-aid was passed out in Guyana.

Bob Barr:

Firefighters as spies truly over the top

The image of the friendly firefighter helping rescue a wayward kitten from a tree might need updating. If the federal Department of Homeland Security has its way, firefighters across the country will be armed not only with firefighting equipment, but also issued training materials on how to recognize suspect behavior on the part of citizens and what to look for in peoples’ homes that might be “suspicious.” In other words, firefighters would become domestic spies. In fact, such training already has begun.

(snip)

According to published accounts of such training, firefighters are being trained to watch for “hostile” or “uncooperative” individuals, or those “expressing discontent” with our government. They are also trained to watch for and report on things that “seem out of place” in a home or business such as firearms and video recording equipment. Rooms with “little or no furniture” fall within the reportable suspicious activity.

Other than the fact that this is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, in some cases, firefighters are the problem, if they are black firefighters that are members of affirmative action junkie extremist hate groups like FIRE and the Vulcan Blazers.

A reader, J.T. from Louisiana, writes in:

I would like to say thank you very much for [your Jena blog posts].

Being a former citizen of Monroe, Louisiana, about 40 miles from Jena, I know the town of Jena and a few people around there.  This is not a racist town, not in the way you may think anyway.  The town of Jena is suffering from what every town in Louisiana is,hate crimes and race fights.  But the dirty little secret is that the crimes being commited are not white on black but the other way around.

Facing hatred towards myself, just because of the color of my skin, is why I’m writing you today.  The European-Americans of today are facing hate crimes and discrimination on a rate much higher than the drive-by media will report.  I personally have never seen an Arican-American attacked or hagled because of the color of their skin.

Now, when we talk about European-Americans, it’s a whole different ballgame.  I’ve had friends beat up side their heads by anywhere from 4 to 15 different African-Americans with locks, just for going in the “black peoples bathroom,” or “the black peoples street,” and especially over the lies that come out of the mouth of that hate card playing, racist damn Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

I’ll be a new visitor to your site now, it’s good to know that I’m not just crazy and the only one alive who sees this.  Godspeed my friend.

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Buffalo News:

Mark Pasternak said he lost his state job helping troubled youths because he couldn’t stand working under a black boss who called him racist names like “cracker,” “polack” and “stupid white boy.”

Pasternak was dismissed from his position as a youth worker with the state Office of Children and Family Services in 1999. But today, he feels some relief and vindication.

After a rare reverse racial discrimination trial in Buffalo’s federal court, a jury Tuesday awarded Pasternak $150,000. Jurors found that his former boss, Tommy E. Baines, discriminated against him racially and created a hostile working environment.

Federal court officials said they could not recall any reverse discrimination case in Buffalo resulting in a larger monetary verdict. Most such cases wind up being settled or dismissed before they ever go to trial.

“I’m elated and overwhelmed,” the 48-year-old South Buffalo man said in an interview Wednesday. “I feel like I’ve been to hell and back. . . . After all these years, the best feeling is, the jury heard his story and mine, and they believed me.”

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Pasternak was subjected to three years of cruel abuse from Baines, a veteran supervisor with the agency formerly known as the state Division for Youth, according to Pasternak’s attorney, David J. Seeger.

The abuse came in the form of race-based slurs, job sabotage and crude insults that Baines made about Pasternak in front of co-workers, according to court papers and testimony.

“You’re a white boy, and I don’t like white boys,” Pasternak quoted Baines as telling him. “Handle it.”

“He said that to me more than once, and he said many other things like that over the years I worked for him,” Pasternak told The Buffalo News. “He called me cracker, polack, Paster-rat and stupid white boy. . . . I was sick to my stomach.”

Pasternak said his boss also harassed him by removing documents from his desk and changing the locks on doors and filing cabinets that Pasternak needed access to.

The state conducted an internal investigation into Pasternak’s allegations in 1998, court records show, and the investigation resulted in a $2,000 fine against Baines. But he was allowed to continue working as a supervisor.

(snip)

Pasternak has since obtained a railroad job, but “working with troubled youths was his passion,” Seeger said.

While I am glad for Mr. Pasternak, and for the greater cause for which this verdict stands, anyone whose passion is working with “troubled youths” (i.e. black juvenile members of the FFA, the Future Felons of America), such that he would take a job with a state agency, being mindful of the fact that many governmental offices and departments are nothing more than affirmative action hiring agencies, with affirmative action in promotions on top of that, one can’t help but think that he brought a slight bit of the bigotry directed at him from his affirmative action supervisor on himself. Put another way, anyone whose “passion” is “troubled youths” probably wouldn’t vote for Theodore Bilbo versus your typical New York State liberal Democrat or Rockefeller Republican.

Otherwise, the real scandal here is not the bigoted harassment on the part of the black boss, it’s the fact that he wasn’t fired for it. A white boss that would call a black worker over which he had supervisory authority even one racial slur would have been dismissed instantly.