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Memphis resident and future quantum physicist Ezekiel Kelly, who recently went on a shooting spree that claimed three lives.
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During the weeklong span from September 2-8 in Memphis, Tennessee, a black career criminal abducted and murdered a white female jogger, a black teenager went on a prolonged murder spree that he livestreamed on Facebook, and another black teenager, inspired by both earlier crimes, filmed himself driving around Memphis and threatening to shoot the first white woman he saw.
It was a typical late-summer week in this brain-meltingly hot shithole on the banks of the Mississippi River.
In the predawn hours of September 2, a white pre-kindergarten teacher and mother of two named Eliza Fletcher went out for her last-ever jog. Unlike Ahmaud Arbery, she was actually jogging. Fletcher’s remains were found three days later by police, who smelled “an odor of decay” near some high grass adjoining a vacant residence in a poor side of town. Police had arrested 38-year-old potential particle physicist Cleotha Abston the day before in connection with Fletcher’s disappearance. Abston, who also goes by Cleotha Henderson and is known by his closest friends as “Pookie” and “Wild,” had recently been released from prison after spending nearly 20 years for the 2001 kidnapping of a prominent Memphis lawyer whom he’d kept locked in his car trunk for hours.
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Police suspect that Abston beat, raped, murdered, and tried to set Fletcher on fire. After arresting him, police also charged Abston with kidnapping and raping another woman in 2021.
Responding to the murder, police in Dayton, Ohio counseled citizens to jog more wisely.
Writing in The New York Times under the headline “The Killing of Eliza Fletcher Is a Tragedy, Not a Morality Play,” some cunt named Margaret Renkl counsels us not to get all high and mighty about her death, at least not as high and mighty as The New York Times gets about the deaths of people such as Breonna Taylor and George Floyd:
“Say her name,” [conservatives] tweet, as though there could possibly be an analogy between Ms. Fletcher’s death, allegedly at the hands of a man whom the Shelby County district attorney has characterized as a lone killer, and Breonna Taylor’s killing at the hands of the Louisville Metro Police Department. . . . “Say her name,” they tweet, as though Black [sic] women aren’t raped and killed every single day without making national news. . . . Any cursory glance at the history of human predators will make it clear that there is no race requirement for killers, but race isn’t the only detail endlessly discussed in the public discourse about this case. There’s also the crime rate in Memphis, the way the media covers crime and the time of day when Ms. Fletcher habitually got in her run.
Ah, more jogging tips! It was Ms. Fletcher’s fault for jogging before daybreak.
But I agree it’s dumb to make an analogy between Fletcher’s death and Breonna Taylor’s. Fletcher’s husband was at home asleep with the kids, whereas Taylor’s boyfriend was shooting at cops.
And yes, black women are raped and killed every day without it becoming a national news story. The only part you left out is that black men are doing nearly all of the raping and killing.
And sure, a “cursory glance” at human history would suggest that there is no “race requirement for killers.” However, according to FBI stats regarding homicide for the past few decades, killing someone almost seems to be a prerequisite for young black males.
Around 1 AM on September 7, two days after police found Eliza Fletcher’s corpse, a 19-year-old black male from Memphis named Ezekiel Kelly — who was free as a bird after serving only 11 months of a three-year sentence for two counts of attempted first-degree murder, possession of a firearm, and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon — began a murder spree that would take him into the early evening. Using his Facebook alias “Zeek Huncho,” this rocket scientist-in-training livestreamed himself randomly shooting at white and black Memphians. He apparently committed several carjackings in the course of his spree before police finally caught up with him across the Mississippi state line. Two of his confirmed murder victims are black, while one, a medical assistant and mother named Allison Parker, is white.
If you search for the subhead “Randomly Shooting a Man in an Autozone” on the linked page, right below it is a very short and very psychotic clip of the barely human Ezekiel Kelly babbling to himself in his car before he walks into an AutoZone and shoots a white man named Rodolfo Berger, who is currently in intensive care.
Kelly was photographed smiling after his arrest. He’s also smiling in his mug shot.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland went way out on a limb and took a hard, risky stance when he declared that Kelly’s killing spree was “not acceptable.”
The day after Kelly’s rampage, another calculus wizard named Reginald Williams filmed himself decrying “racism” in the same breath that he threatened to kill white women:
I’m fixing to go on ahead and go Zeek Mode on nothing but white people. I catch any white hoe on the sidewalk, you going to get popped tonight. He [Ezekiel Kelly] already shot a white old man. I’m fixing to shoot a white old lady, shit, while her grandkids [are] in the car.
Williams was arrested and charged with committing an act of terrorism, civil rights intimidation, harassment, and disorderly conduct. The local ABC affiliate, as is to be expected at this point, left out the whole “old white lady” angle in its headline: “Man arraigned on charges of making threats to Memphis community on social media.”
Statistically, old white ladies are probably only about 5% of the “Memphis community” these days.
A police affidavit claims that Williams said he became angered after some “white lady” left a comment under some tribute video he made about Ezekiel Kelly. He also told them that he was driving around on a “memorial run” of Eliza Fletcher’s kidnapping and murder.
This chart ranks Memphis as America’s second-most dangerous city in 2022, behind only the even blacker Detroit. This one places it in a more respectable sixth place.
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.
The US Census Bureau named Memphis the nation’s poorest large metropolitan area in 2011.
Why is it so poor? Why is it so dangerous?
A 2018 essay titled “‘An Unseen Light’: On the History of Black Memphis” places the city’s problems exactly where you’d expect two completely full-of-shit “academics” to place them:
The system of white supremacy dictated that African Americans lived behind masks, hiding their frustrations and aspirations. . . . African Americans shaped the politics and culture of this city at the crossroads . . . [with] the core thematic elements of the Black [sic] freedom struggle: Black [sic] responses to the pervasive nature of white violence. . . . For Black [sic] folks in Memphis, the constancy of racial violence pervaded every facet of life. . . . Poverty lay at the heart of inequality in Memphis.
Are you sure you don’t have that all ass-backwards? Doesn’t basic, innate, immutable human inequality cause most economic disparities?
And where the hell is all this “white violence” these days, anyway? What century are you living in?
It appears that the roots of Memphis’ modern problems started in 1862, when Union soldiers conquered Memphis via the Mississippi River. Hordes of blacks followed the Yankee soldiers into Memphis, increasing its black population nearly sevenfold by the time the war ended.
In 1866, a gunfight between black Union soldiers and white Memphis cops led to the Memphis Riot, which left 42 black and only two white Memphians dead. It also led to the exodus of about one-quarter of the city’s black population to safer climes.
A rash of yellow fever epidemics during the 1870s caused about 75% of the city’s population to flee, leaving a ghost town mainly populated by very poor blacks and very poor Irish whites.
Over time, the poor Irish whites lost.
As an Irish white who can confidently say I’ve never been rich, I am fascinated by urban blight for anthropological, archeological, and architectural reasons.
I first visited Memphis in 1987, when blacks formed a slight majority, outnumbering whites by about 55% to 45%. The nominal reason for my weekend vacation was to visit Graceland — which was much smaller than I expected, almost like a toy model of what I’d envisioned — but I drove through enough of the town to realize how much of it was scorched and destroyed, even back then. A kind and generous man, I enriched the local black community by stopping at some hole-in-the-wall restaurant for some chitlins.
From its north side to its south side, Memphis hosts the most aggressively dumb and Mesozoic Era blacks in all of our nation. Blacks seem cruder and more zombie-like in Memphis than anywhere else, which is a tremendous accomplishment when you sit back and ponder it. Due to the forces of nature and history and bad luck, this ruined city on the banks of the Mississippi somehow serves as a pool filter that traps all the scum.
In 1950, white Memphians outnumbered blacks 63% to 37%.
According to the most recent available stats, blacks comprise nearly 65% of the population, whereas whites have shrunk to about 27%.
But none of the recent articles about the recent mayhem in Memphis dares to suggest that the problem with Memphis is that it’s become too black.
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I’m desperately trying to come up with a city that I’ve visited where blacks are not crude and zombie like. Not one springs to mind.
This is the glaring point right here. The media will sift through thousands of resumes before settling on some AVERAGE IQ blacks who can put a coherent sentence together. Then they parade them around like idols and pay them ten times their worth. Though I grew up in a city that’s 60% black, I didn’t meet a black person who could handle a basic hypothetical conversation until I was about 31, and this was after moving 3,000 miles away from home.
It’s strange that I wasn’t race realist until about 35. I guess no one I knew brought up the topic and I preferred not to think we were surrounded by an indelible cancer
All it takes is stating the name of black cities to be accused of racist dogwhistling by racial liberals. EG, Memphis, Detroit, Baltimore. That’s because deep down they know our current situation is basically untenable, that the predations of the black community are totally egregious, that they are incompatible with civilized society. Merely acknowledging their astronomical crime rate is seen as unforgivably racist. Even worse is pointing out the record homicide numbers post-Floyd. Truth is so manifestly on our side we can’t lose, or at least, not if we aren’t exterminated first by screeching harpies and their thuggish black pets.
It gets worse as you go down.
I like to go up to Memphis every now and then because it’s more temperate, safer and more upbeat than where I usually dwell. There are a couple of good used book stores, plus a sci-fi fantasy themed bookshop, which I hope survived Covid, where I can find stuff cheaper than online.
Why do you dwell someplace horrible? I vaguely recall from past comments of yours that you have money.
Anyway, I’ve always liked that Marc Cohn song “Walking in Memphis”. But I suspect it’s more fantasy than reality (ie, that Memphis is a civilized place with deep tragic history expressed best in the blues, or something like that, rather than just another ruined black ghetto).
Family connections and stuff. I wouldn’t call myself as “having money.” I’m not destitute or anything, but I’m not wealthy or anything.
🎶She went jogging in Memphis
Cleotha snatched her off her feet off of Beale
Jogging in Memphis
They found her decomposing in a field🎶
(Music emoji)
Early morning, Sept 4
A shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, Cleotha took your life
But he could not take your pride“
(music emoji)
substitute black hood of the week. The satire is more incisive there.
Jim, growing up where we did in the Philly area, palatial homes are a dime a dozen. I’ve always heard that Gladwyne on Philly’s Main Line is second only to Beverly Hills for wealth. It’s where people like Mike Douglas and Teddy Pendergrass lived. Graceland could be the servants quarters on some of those places.
I was there exactly a month after Elvis died and was also less than wowed. You couldn’t go in it then, but there was easily a hundred or more people there just standing around in silence. I’d say about a quarter of them black, too.
Then here came the Beverly Hillbillies in an old jalopy and cheerful dirt farmers piled out. Anything not nailed down is taken for souvenirs so I offered to climb up on the wall to grab leaves off the maple tree on the property for two Granny Clampett look-alikes.
Then everyone wanted one until Elvis’s uncles came racing over in golf carts and suggested I stop that.
Of course, everyone now had to take a picture with me.
“Smahl real nass lak Ailvis would. Ah’ll tell people yore his cuzzin.”
They say it’s even unsafe to go to Graceland now. The hood comes right up to across the street, i.e. Elvis Presley Boulevard..
Memphis used to make it onto the true crime show The First 48 a lot, which follows actual muder investigations. No matter the city, it’s invariably black on black crime and this would be an infinitesimal sampling of their cases.
There’s always the peculiar to Memphis twist.
An entire family of seven wiped out including small children stabbed and bludgeoned to death after witnessing their parents’ murders. Who would do such a thing?
Their uncle.
Well, no, not “a quarter of them black.” But some! Let’s say seven. Maybe they thought it was Kool And The Gang’s house.
It was only a few years ago when Southern governors were bragging about how ‘their’ blacks were not as riotous as the North. Perhaps there was some truth to it, but not now. The blacks down South are far worse than up North. There are just so many more of them. They did a ‘reverse’ Jim Crow on me (even though these were white businesses that they clerked for) turning me away left and right when I wanted to shower at several truck stops. Finally, I gave up and the last one I walked out of I said this is why we voted for Donald Trump and David Duke, much to their chagrin. Flipping on local talk radio stations in the Deep South it is quite surreal because it consists of white Republican appeasers apologizing for ‘oppression’ and how we need another 400 years to make amends, while the black callers are frustrated they are not more electrically successful despite being the highest per capita in this region. The South is/was a strange modus vivendi. It is striking just how tenuous it is. There is no white suburbia despite the cultural disparity. Down South blacks and whites live in mixed neighborhoods. Whites vote GOP, blacks vote Democrat. Politics is seldom discussed. I’m not sure how any white can live there.
Northman, do you know northwest Arkansas well and would you classify it as the south? I’m looking to leave my northern metropolis and NW Arkansas is on my list thanks to Neil Kumar and Ramzpaul.
Is this true? Down South blacks and whites live in mixed neighborhoods.
I have family in parts of the Southeast, and they damn sure don’t live in any “mixed neighborhoods”. (I do, out West.) I do not believe that people like David Duke and Sam Dickson live in integrated neighborhoods. I’ve seen demographic profiles of different Georgia counties, for example, and they seemed to be heavily segregated. But I’ve never been down Deep South, so I don’t really know.
Anecdotal evidence from a Southerner here. When I moved into my quiet suburban neighborhood not too many years ago, it was still 98% white, many of them original owners from the 1960s. They get up in their 80s, die, and their children use the house as a cash register–most would never dream of moving back to the childhood home. Investors scoop up these houses, most of which are in dire need of updating, and in move the renters or–if we’re really unlucky–the Section 8 tenants. They are by far the worst. Now, in sight distance of my house, we have a Honduran flophouse, two houses of Mexicans, one of Africans from Africa, a Section 8 Shaniqua and her numerous progeny (who drive my 92 year old neighbor, one of the original owners, bonkers), and some sort of mulatto from New Jersey. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote, and so it goes.
Goad’s essays are a how to guide for how Americans can learn to use their Bullshit Detectors. More should take time to read their operator’s manual.
It is well established that women are a sizable amount of the leftists and not a major contingent of a website like this one. What is the swiftest way to persuade them the left is not looking out for their interests? Risk of violence. Some fact checking and accurate reportage of the news is a splash of ice water on the inaccuracies of leftist rage.
While both left and right can have double standards, the left especially so. How many times have you heard that women dressed seductively are not ‘asking for it’ and one mustn’t blame the victim of the assault. Unless it’s a white lady not jogging wisely (e.g. without police escort?). I’d imagine that essayist Margaret Renkl does not live in a crime ridden zip code. Writers like her are churning out the same essay over and over for a few bucks because the ‘industry’ pays to have a number of whites show up to claim the problem is mostly with white people.
While the below link dates from 2019, a camera was there at the right moment to capture what one of these horrific assaults actually looks like. Like some of the Memphis perps, LA gang member Zachary Castaneda had already been jailed at least 14 times. But back on the street again he made a days work of stabbing 4 people to death while 2 miraculously survived. The woman below was saved by the quick action of a coworker, who briefly contained his murderous frenzy by dousing his rage with some cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhn0JMYDSQ
I agree. This was an excellent essay, hitting all the right notes correctly.
I swear to god in heaven they are not the same species as us. Perhaps their different appearance, behavior and abilities can be chalked up to 70,000 years evolving separately from the rest of mankind?
There is not ONE mankind, there are some different mankindS.
I was using “mankind” in it’s scientific sense referring to the genus “homo”. (I’m sure you would agree there is only one genus called “homo”?) This should have been clear since I stated the opinion that blacks are not the same species as us but I included them as part of “mankind”.
Consider that sub-Saharan Africans go through adolescence at a younger age than other races, closer to the age that archaic hominid species matured as indicated by the fossil record. That alone could suggest that they are a different species of human than us.
Here I would note that there are no such words as doghood or cathood, and everybody understands the differences of various cat and dog races, and nobody says that yorkies and newfoundlands are “created equal” – which does not mean at all that some dog or cat races are “better” than others. I like all dogs and cats, but I see, as everybody sees it, that they are different.
I like dogs and cats better
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cathood
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doghood
Domestic cats and dogs don’t have races they have breeds. When the words “dog” and “cat” are used to refer to their greater respective genera then they have different respective species within the genera. In a similar way the word “mankind” can be used to refer to the various species of humans within our genera.
I can’t say that I like all dogs and cats. Some are complete a$$holes who attack without provocation or $hit in your laundry hamper. But, I admit, some species of mankind can be worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k37DrRyiSs
I often skip these ghastly black crime compilations as they do nothing to elevate my mood or motivate me for the future, but I realize that they probably save lives by reminding us never to relax around blacks. Thank you for your service Mr. Goad.
Not trying to be a cuck here, but my experience is a bit strange. I slightly know some real decent blacks, and some real a-holes, both in personal and ideological terms (I’m not aware of knowing any actual thugs). What’s of interest is that the decent blacks, several of whom are basically socially conservative and certainly know the score wrt criminals, are all blue collar private sector workers (grocery baggers, security guards, FedEx deliverymen; I know one real nice woman who’s a medical assistant, which is sort of blue collar, too), while the educated white collar ones, some of whom are colleagues, are to a man and woman total jerks, individually and stereotypically racio-nationalistically.
Blacks will always disproportionately impose problems onto white societies. But with the glaring exception of the (alarmingly large) contingent of hardcore “thug-homies”, many of whom are clearly mentally ill as well as sociopaths utterly without normal human consciences (predictable black underclass evil is the best argument for atheism I know), the worst blacks are usually the more professionally privileged ones. They are the ones who really push wokeness (ain tandem with the worst of the white pathological altruist types). Perhaps this is because so many understand that they occupy their positions solely due to the manipulation of (the evolutionarily totally defective) “white guilt syndrome”, and thus they have a vested personal interest in maintaining it. But I think it is also an expression of an underlying inferiority complex among an otherwise very proud and racist people.
Working class blacks, OTOH, tend to be more down to earth, and less indoctrinated into fantasy ideologies. They know that coddling criminals just encourages crime, for example.
I’ve taught college English for over a decade.
Every semester I get a handful of black males.
Let’s say I’ve had 60 of them since 2011.
57 of them are athletes. 55 of them are basketball; 2 baseball: 94% of them finish in the bottom of my class. All of them give off the same vibe as Mr. Ezekiel Kelly. (pictured above). 100% of them listen to rap, and this is probably their dominant feature: a love of rap.
The other 3 were international and they’ve done OK. Nothing special.
It’s remarkable. I can’t think of a single American black guy who attended college just to get an education.
But let’s get them into NASA. And NOW!
College? Not enough! The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has declared for a YUGE increase in black medical students, not to achieve proportionality (13%?) but to redress past “inequity”, for which, I suppose, the sky may be the limit.
The last time they tried this (1970s) it was still possible to flunk out of medical school, but as this is no longer possible, successful results are just around the corner.
The black commenters are correct: Eliza Fletcher WAS a fool for jogging by herself at 4:30 am….. because blacks live nearby.
OTOH women who jog at night in Iceland, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, etc. return home unharmed 99.9% of the time.
Not to go autistic, but the percentage of returnees in those countries would be like 99.999999%
Shocking but not surprising.
Reggie is being molded into something lethal.
Thank God for the Great White State of Maine.
What happened to the Somalis the NWO forced on you up there?
Ultimately, nowhere is safe for whites. There are ever fewer places left to flee to, and with the white-invented information, communications and transportation revolutions, nonwhites will be coercively imposed upon whites in every last place, no matter how remote, including Iceland (and Maine). The day is rapidly approaching when whites are going to have to start fighting back, at first politically, though I think, finally and inevitably, physically/militarily – or else resign themselves to subjugation and servitude. What fools and/or traitors our recent ancestors were (and so many whites still are)!
They are almost all corralled in Lewiston (where Ali fought the Liston rematch) and outside of that isolated city we never hear of them or hear from them. They are not an issue in this state. Am I wrong? Have ye horror stories from my home state? Yes the Somalis are up there. And yes, despite this, Maine remains the whitest state in the country. These are the facts and they are undisputed.
Portland, too.
The Maine county I live in went red twice for President Trump and maintains an impressive and important 96% white population with blacks coming in at less than 1%. These are very desirable living conditions the likes of which exist in very few other places. Our Portland is nothing at all like the west coast Portland. Ever been?
What happened to the worst week yet Jim?
Did you decide to retire it? I’ve been waiting to hear what your thoughts are on the nationwide railway strike.
It will be back.
Monday. Same time, same station.
Oh, never mind I just read it this morning.
That tranny thumbnail took me out for 4 minutes. How can a fucking grown man walk around like that? I mean seriously. Do they try to draw attention to act as if they’re penniless and change their gender to beg for money?
Just a decade ago shit like this didn’t happen all the time. It did privately and once in a while. Now it’s all out in the open to make the viewer either laugh, scream or vomit in blasphemous rot.
Meanwhile, back in racist anti-white black scumland…
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/this-week-in-white-supremacy/id1586049116
I have never seen any mug shot with the criminal smiling so confidently and with such self-congratulation as Ezekial Kelly. He surely has a wonderful life ahead of him. That mug shot is so blatantly nasty that I feel sorry for anyone so far off the social-moral scale. Nevertheless, before we get carried away by woke pangs of conscience, remember to keep No. 1 in view, and high-tail it out of there. I just hope we keep enough ‘nice towns’ open for us to flee to. RIP Memphis.
The most dangerous animal in Africa is the Hippopotomous. Apparently Black Lives don’t Matter to them. We need to let a few loose on the Mississippi.
Another pandemic
Gov requires everyone to be vaccinated
13% of the vaccines designed to sterilize jigaboos
By 2063, America only 2% negro
Next up: Hebrews and Hispanics, Chinks, feminists, and
Jim, the part about “black women [being] raped and killed every single day” deserves a comment, with a bit more elaboration on the FBI crime stats that you mention.
FBI crime statistics have become an exercise in bureaucratic obfuscation since neither the local agencies who provide the raw data nor the number-crunchers in Quantico have any interest in providing the public with factual data about crime. However, the National Crime Victimization Survey used to be fairly illuminating. The historical surveys may now be an embarrassment to the Regime, but I guess no one really cares about facts nowadays so they have not been completely flushed down the memory hole and can still be located, with effort, on the FBI website.
The “Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2008 Statistical Tables,” published in 2010/2011, is available here for download, and is worth a scan. Even though the numbers are skewed against whites through the inclusion of Hispanics in the “white” category, they are nevertheless incredible — upon any honest review, they should turn the most ardent Leftist into a race realist.
Table 42 (“Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victim, and perceived race of offender”) is particularly noteworthy. Here you will find that blacks are responsible for 100% of black-white rapes/sexual assaults, and that whites are responsible for zero percent (0.0%, fewer than 10 sample cases) — so, in 2008, more than 19,000 white women were sexually assaulted by black men and fewer than 10 black women were sexually assaulted by white men. Doesn’t quite jibe with Regime Media reporting, does it?
Another striking statistic on that table is “robbery, with injury.” A robbery is taking property with force or threat of force. Thus, the defined objective is to take money/property. Yet blacks are responsible for vastly disproportionate number of robberies in which the victim is injured — i.e., violence that is gratuitous to the objective of the crime. Again, we all know about the tendency among blacks to commit shockingly gratuitous acts of violence from all the NY subway, Chuck-E-Cheese and Spirit Airlines videos, but this shows empirical support that goes way beyond what I think we would intuit.
Table 48 (“Percent distribution of multiple-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victims, and perceived race of offenders”) is also interesting in that it shows that whites are responsible for zero percent (0.0%, fewer than 10 sample cases) of the black-white interracial multiple offender robberies and assaults.
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