An inspiration to gangs? Maybe.
A new trend is on the rise… Black gangs attacking whites while videoing the assault for resale later.
"They knock a young white guy out with one blow to see if his knees will wobble and surround them and take their money," said the Rev. Leon Kelly, who runs a Denver gang-prevention program. "It’s a joke."
I’m not sure what he means by joke… but if this happens to me, or near me, I intend to respond very seriously. Fifteen of them are going down, permanently. Why 15? That is how many .45 ACP rounds are on me at the moment.
I wonder if Obama’s election has something to do with this trend? If he can inspire militias, maybe he can inspire gangs too?
I noticed, for instance, when in D.C. recently, that many black people were rude to me. I’d lived there in years past and found that, except in the case of the criminal element, black people were polite, family oriented and quite kind. I don’t recall any rudeness the years I lived there, except during pick up basketball games – when I gave as good as I got.
But in the days I’ve been in DC since Obama, I’ve been treated rudely by blacks several times and in oddly mundane situations.
Perhaps his election empowered regular blacks to act out repressed dislike for my race? And perhaps the same effect has been magnified by the criminal element within black culture and channeled into gang assaults on whites?
I don’t know. Am I even allowed to talk about it? Can I say that a surprising number of black people were rude to me my last trip to D.C.? It is true. It happened. Dare I speak it?
I recall wondering where it was coming from. Since the town was adorned with Obama everything it wasn’t hard to think of him as a possible source. Since I traveled all over the country this year, including recently to Atlanta, and the rudeness was not encountered again - I suspect it was a DC thing.
Well, more power to them, they can find out the benefits or drawbacks from being rude to people. And I can handle a little rudeness from folks feeling their oats.
But I draw the line at gang assaults.