Baltimore takes accurate incoming from, er, Breitbart!

The American Left, from Obama down through the Democrat party, the trade unions, particularly public service unions, the mass media, the national, state and city bureaucracies and all the way to the ‘community organisers, all of them are totally and completely responsible for the Baltimore riots.  Thus sayeth, Mr. John Nolte (no, me neither) on the pages of breitbart.com.  His argument is compelling: 

In 2012, after four years of his own failed policies, President Obama won a whopping 87.4% of the Baltimore City vote. Democrats run the city of Baltimore, the unions, the schools, and, yes, the police force. Since 1969, there have only been only been two Republican governors of the State of Maryland. 

Elijah Cummings has represented Baltimore in the U.S. Congress for more than thirty years. As I write this, despite his objectively disastrous reign, the Democrat-infested mainstream media is treating the Democrat like a local folk hero, not the obvious and glaring failure he really is.

Every single member of the Baltimore city council is a Democrat.

Why am I not surprised?  We have seen it all happen before, many a time and oft’, one immediately thinks of Detroit which, to quote an old British joke, would appreciate a visit from Hitler’s Luftwaffe because it would improve the look of the place!  But back to Mr. Nolte:

You can call the arson and looting and violence we are seeing on our television screens, rioting. That’s one way to describe the chaos. Another way to describe it is Democrat infighting. This is blue-on-blue [the Democrat party colour] violence. The thugs using the suspicious death of Freddie Gray (at the hands of a Democrat-led police department) to justify the looting that updates their home entertainment systems, are Democrats protesting Democrat leaders and Democrat policies in a Democrat-run city.

Poverty has nothing to do with it. This madness and chaos and anarchy is a Democrat-driven culture that starts at the top with a racially-divisive White House heartbreakingly effective at ginning up hate and violence.

To provide some cheer to my e-pal, 'Whitewall', he compares and contrasts Baltimore with North Carolina:

Where I currently reside here in Watauga County, North Carolina, the poverty level is 31.3%. Median income is only $34,293. In both of those areas we are much worse off than Baltimore, that has a poverty rate of only 23.8% and a median income of $41,385.

Despite all that, we don’t riot here in Watauga County. Thankfully, we have not been poisoned by the same left-wing culture that is rotting Baltimore, and so many other cities like it, from the inside out. We get along remarkably well. We are neighbors. We are people who help out one another. We take pride in our community, and are grateful for what we do have. We are far from perfect, but we work out our many differences in civilized ways. Solutions are our goal, not cronyism, narcissistic victimhood, and the blaming of others.

One attitude we don’t have here is the soul-killing belief that somebody owes us something, which, of course, is a recipe for discontent. Because if you’re not getting what’s owed to you, how can you be anything but angry?

Sometimes I tremble for America!

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

Interesting post. Watauga County is in the mountains about 2 hours west of me. It's chief asset is a nice university that is part of the NC system. Outside of the school there are barely any minorities of any kind. But as the article points out, there is poverty, rural white poverty that is as old as the first settlers. These hill folk can trace their origins to the 1700s when settlers from all over Great Britain and a few later on from Germany found their way up the eastern face of the mountains. These people are not easily led, manipulated or God help you if you try, controlled.

[Whitewall]

Furthermore, I have mentioned the rotting away of the Blue Governing Model. That is the name for the all Democrat power structures in big cities that Mr. Nolte describes. The set up is usually the same. White Democrats, as I have said, have always found a way to keep control of blacks and they will until blacks figure it out. To control blacks, be it 1815, 1915 or 2015, one only needs to ingratiate oneself with black leaders. Give them status, titles, money and praise and get on camera with them frequently. Let the black masses see this and they will follow if promised benefits from a far away all powerful State. This format should sound a bit familiar.

[David Duff]

Gloomy but true, Whitewall. But what will happen when they glimpse the truth?

[Whitewall]

The ones that have seen the truth are labeled "Uncle Toms". These people are a mortal threat to the White Democrat power structure and, most importantly, to the Black Democrat overseer model. Eventually what happens is Blue on Blue civil war. Soon I hope.

[jimmy glesga]

Whitewall. Thanks for your opinion and updates. Must be difficult over the water with your time zones.

[Whitewall]

Jimmy, you're welcome. The politics of race is very deep in my part of the country. There are things that can't be said, even though true. There are obvious conclusions to be made though none dare reach them. There are things that are even true though they can't be allowed to be true.

[jimmy glesga]

Strange how things have changed since the fifties. Old Labour who formed the NHS believed in hard work and personal responsibility. I have been listening to the political debates here in the UK and all you hear is hard done to stories from people who do not have a clue what real poverty is. It seems the government is supposed to change the nappie from cradle to grave.

[David Duff]

So why, Jimmy, are you intending to vote Labour?

[jimmy glesga]

Because I believe in fairness and Britishness and there are some Tories given the opportunity would have our people in the 30s Slave Camps. I am very familiar with the contempt people were treated with before I was born. I have never seen the Tories as being more loyal to Britain as they often portraited themselves.

[jimmy glesga]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/freddie-gray-autopsy-report-given-to-baltimore-prosecutors.html?referrer=
Whitewall looks like three of the cops were not whities.

[Whitewall]

Jimmy, that happens in a city with a large minority population like Baltimore. In such cases the narrative is "police brutality" which harkens back to the '60s. If they had all been white, then the narrative is "racist cops". A predominantly black city, black mayor, black prosecuting attorney is supposed to bring justice for all the problems of the black community. On the other side is the police union. This union backs Democrats in the city of Baltimore...as do--shamefully--the teacher's unions. Thus Baltimore has rotten city schools with the second highest per student expenditure in the nation with awful results. Minority whites have to be blamed. Rinse repeat.

[jimmy glesga]

Thanks Whitewall I suspected that would be your answer and from what I have been reading recently you are on the ball. However the police will have to do their duty and no doubt if they stood back for a second and let crime happen then they would be in court.
A no win situation. No doubt it is so bad that criminals stir the shit with decent people against the police to take the pressure of them.
I served in Gibralter years ago and you just did not break the law. If you got caught then you got done and it was accepted.