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As We Enter Black History Month, Let Us Reflect on Teen (and Preteen) Crime
In news reports, the word “teen” has become a dog whistle that racist reporters use to identify young, black criminal suspects. Due to misguided propriety, it’s considered racist merely to call them black, even though everyone knows that when you identify anyone in a news story as a “teen,” that’s shorthand for “young black malefactor.”
Riddle me this, though: If it’s racist to identify a criminal suspect as black, why isn’t it ageist to identify them as a “teen”? People have no control over being born black, but it’s not like they get to choose their birth year, either, is it? Are there any Gray Panthers out there who can help unpack this double standard for me?
In a refreshingly honest Washington Post essay, a black man named Colbert I. “Colby” King dispenses with the niceties to reveal that
[l]ast year, 584 youths under 18 were arrested for violent crimes in [Washington,] D.C. Of those, 556 were Black [sic], and 99 were between 12 and 14.
So despite the fact that blacks only account for 41.4% of DC’s population, last year they comprised 95.2% of those under 18 who got arrested for violent crimes. At this point, “teen equals black” is settled science.
One might fairly assume that the same applies to preteens.
King’s article is titled “What it means when a 9-year-old is charged with attempted robbery,” and it deftly interweaves the topic of young black criminality with the fact that February is Black History Month. Blacks get the shortest month of the year to celebrate their history for the simple fact that, hey, there’s not a whole lot to celebrate:
This year’s Black History Month kicks off with recognition of a milestone that warrants no celebration whatsoever . . . In response to my inquiry, the D.C. police department told me that the 9-year-old male arrested Jan. 26 and charged with assault with intent to rob a woman at 12:40 a.m. appears to be the youngest person arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery in the past five years. That’s nothing to cheer about.
But while rhapsodizing, I’ll also be thinking about that 9-year-old and his 13-year-old companion, who allegedly approached a woman in the overnight hours and tried to steal her purse. There are hundreds of Black [sic] youths in this city traveling down that same path.
Do nothing, forget about the world of that 9-year-old, condemn and discard troubled Black [sic] boys and girls as worthless refuse? I would rather die. Do that, and one day all the triumphs of Black [sic] history will be relegated to the dust heap.
As appalling as it is to ponder that there are 9-year-old blacks out there attempting to rob women’s purses, that’s probably the least horrific story of teen criminality to cross my desk this week. I’m going to suspend all pretense of journalistic opportunity, clamber up a giant white oak tree, and crawl out on a big, fat, racist limb the size of a battleship cannon to infer that every racially unidentified “teen” in these reports is black.
“Max penalty given to teen who stabbed another teenager in fight over McDonald’s sauce,” blares a headline regarding the resolution of a murder case, again from DC, regarding a condiment-related stabbing death from last August:
The death of Naima Liggon, 16, made international news when police first said she was stabbed after a fight over sweet and sour sauce. Just one day before starting her junior year at Thomas Stone High School in Waldorf, Naima broke curfew and went to a D.C. house party with friends.
Afterward, a group of girls went to McDonald’s on U Street, where an argument started in the car over sweet and sour sauce. Three girls, including Naima, stepped out of the car and began physically fighting. Naima ended up being stabbed twice by another 16-year-old girl with a 7.5-inch knife.
Prosecutors played the video from the MPD interrogation room when detectives asked the 16-year-old if there was a “prior beef” with Naima and she replied, “No — it was about the sauce. I asked for more sauce and she had an attitude.”
Let’s review: teen . . . McDonald’s . . . sweet and sour sauce . . . stabbing death . . . attitude. Blackness confirmed.
In her defense, the killer said:
Sorry to the friends and family. I am sorry to cause you this pain. I still think about the victim and I want to apologize to Naima’s mother. I am a very genuine person and I’m not a bad person.
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There are perks to being a teen. The judge handed down the maximum sentence allowable by law. When the convicted killer reaches 21, she will be free once more to roam DC’s streets and stab people to death over fast-food disputes.
Last week, Seattle authorities finally arrested two “teens” — a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy — in connection with “two deliberate hit and runs” the pair filmed on November 26. If you are intrepid enough to click the link on the word “teens” there, you can espy footage of the underage joyriders. Their patois sounds distinctly African American:
Neither minor has been identified, but police say they left their victims with ‘serious injuries’ after striking them down in a stolen car. . . .
The clip of the first incident shows a woman crossing the street with the vehicle taking aim at her before she reaches the other side.
The disturbing actions are then witnessed from inside the car with the occupants heard laughing and hollering at one another as they appear to enjoy knocking over an unsuspecting member of the public.
In cellphone footage from inside the car, one of the occupants can be heard saying, ‘Hit this b****, hit this b****,’ before the car hits the woman walking near the corner.
In the second incident . . . [the] driver of the vehicle once again aims directly for the pedestrian, striking them head-on from behind giving them no chance to move out of the way.
What kind of person would steal a car, drive around looking for people to vehicularly assault, and laugh while filming it? A teen, that’s who. Since police were only able to trace the perps through the cell-phone video, it’s also to be assumed that these were the sort of teens who were dumb enough to share the evidence with others.
On Thursday, Denver police arrested a “teenage straphanger” in connection with a shooting death that happened in the early evening hours of Saturday, January 27 aboard a public bus. The victim apparently died after committing the innately disrespectful crime of “manspreading”:
A 13-year-old boy is accused of murdering a Colorado grandfather over a dispute he was blocking the aisle on a public bus last week. . . . Richard Sanchez, 60, was killed only a few blocks away from his home while riding an RTD bus last Saturday night after he allegedly got into an argument with a teenage straphanger, according to Fox 31.
Less than a week after the heartless killing, police arrested a 13-year-old suspected in connection to Sanchez’s murder on Thursday.
Police believe the argument between the alleged killer and Sanchez started over the elderly man blocking the aisle with his leg.
“At this stage of the investigation, it appears there was a verbal exchange between the suspect and victim about the victim’s leg blocking the aisle on the bus, and the suspect then shot the victim,” the Denver Police Department told the outlet Friday.
Public bus . . . leg jutting into aisle . . . 13-year-old feels disrespected, pulls out gun, and shoots leg-wielder dead.
Happy Teen History Month, everyone.
After Stalling for Nearly Three Months, Pope Francis Finally Responds to a Passive-Aggressive (and Frankly Pushy) Open Letter From His “Jewish Brothers and Sisters in Israel”
To my knowledge, the Catholic Church had nothing to do with the Hamas attacks on Israel last October 7, but from my experience, Jews can be so touchy that they will feel attacked even if you didn’t attack them.
On November 12, a coalition of over 400 self-described “Jewish scholars, religious leaders, and long-time practitioners in Jewish-Christian dialogue, in Israel, America, and Europe” with intensely Jewy names such as Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz and Rabbi Irwin Zeplowitz sent “An open letter to His Holiness, Pope Francis, and to the Faithful of the Catholic Church” hectoring the Pontiff and his sheep about past verbal commitments they’d made to protect Jewish feelings at all costs.
I’m not sure why Catholics or Jews should feel anything in common, seeing as their major bone of contention is whether Jesus was the messiah. From a Jewish standpoint, Catholics corrupted and perverted their special covenant with Yahweh and thereby stole their religion from under their sandals, whereas Catholics believe that Jews murdered God and still haven’t apologized.
It didn’t take long for the Pope’s Hebraic pen pals to launch into an extended kvetch-fest about October 7:
On October 7, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and not a few Gazan civilians committed a massacre in the Southern part of Israel. Approximately 1200 civilians were slain, including women, children and babies, disabled people, and Holocaust survivors. The terrorists abused bodies, burned entire families, brutally raped woman [sic], and committed other atrocities which the hand hesitates to write. About 240 men, women, and children were abducted and are still held hostage by Hamas. This massacre was the most horrific attack on Jews since the Holocaust. It was a full-fledged pogrom of the kind we all hoped was no longer possible.
To the Jewish signatories’ credit, they managed to dredge up several official proclamations from the Holy Roman Church and then throw them back in the Pope’s face — namely, pledging to honor “the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham’s stock,” to be “mindful of the patrimony [the Church] shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel’s spiritual love,” to cherish the “strong bond of friendship between Jews and Catholics,” and to ensure that “the spoiled seeds of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism [will] never again be allowed to take root in any human heart.”
I hope I’m not stepping on anyone’s toes to suggest that Jewish behavior can be a trifle off-putting. I’m not sure why the Jews fingered the Pope to take action about the global outbreak of anti-Jewish animus that resulted after Israel decided to pound Gaza into pixie dust, but it’s almost as if crying out in pain while launching airstrikes is some kind of tradition with these peeps.
The initial signatory to November’s open letter was a decidedly uncomely female rabbi named Karma Ben Johanan, who in mid-January thought it’d be prudent, and maybe even persuasive, to write a condescending article called “There is a right and wrong way for Catholics to criticize Israel.”
Last Saturday, the Pope finally deigned to answer the open letter by sending his response directly to rabbi she-beast Karma Ben Johanan:
Dear brothers and sisters,
My heart is torn at the sight of what is happening in the Holy Land, by the power of so much division and so much hatred. . . .
Unfortunately, however, it must be noted that this war has also produced divisive attitudes in public opinion worldwide and divisive positions, sometimes taking the form of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism. I can only reiterate what my predecessors have also clearly stated many times: the relationship that binds us to you is particular and singular, without ever obscuring, naturally, the relationship that the Church has with others and the commitment towards them too. The path that the Church has walked with you, the ancient people of the covenant, rejects every form of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, unequivocally condemning manifestations of hatred towards Jews and Judaism as a sin against God. Together with you, we, Catholics, are very concerned about the terrible increase in attacks against Jews around the world. We had hoped that “never again” would be a refrain heard by the new generations, yet now we see that the path ahead requires ever-closer collaboration to eradicate these phenomena.
Comparing the two letters, one can easily imagine the body language of their respective authors as they wrote them. Despite the fact that Christians are being attacked all over the world, I’ve never seen the Pope badgering Jews about how they intend to stop it. If anything, the Pope’s response comes off like a submissive letter from a panicked renter to one’s landlord saying, “I know the rent is late, but I swear I will get it to you, so please don’t evict me.”
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When Theodore Herzl tried to get Pope St. Pius X (1834-1914) to support Zionism, he got a clear answer: Jews don’t accept Christ, so No. The evil clown now in charge in Rome can find no enemy of either the Church or the White West whose ass or (literally) foot he will not kiss. Pretty much like every leader in Europe and the Americas. The words shame and betrayal don’t begin to cover it.
In this latest Middle East flare up, current casualties are 1400 Israeli vs. 26,000 Palestinian. A ratio of about 1 to 19. Are they requesting holy prayers for an even more lopsided holy war? I remember not to long ago whites were told to ‘shut up’ because they were a ‘global minority’. Maybe our Jewish friends would like to pipe up about Islam on on a trajectory to overtake Christianity as a ‘global majority’.
Another recent news story was of the 14 migrants in NYC who attacked two police trying to break up a fuss. Six were arrested and released without bail with a future court date. They quickly got on a bus to Calexico, CA. Should I be cynical to doubt the reason for the trip was to prepare for their trials, which they definitely plan to attend (in the tradition of migrants released on their own reconnaissance with a court date for an asylum hearing)?
I have neither the time nor the energy to independently fact check everything I see, but I have seen a few credible-seeming summaries of various sources claiming that the number is in fact fewer than that on the Israeli side – which would be entirely keeping to the norm, if true.
It’s far larger than 1400 on the Israeli side. That’s only the high estimate of October 7. Most other Jewish casualties are, of course soldiers, which is also true for those killed on October 7.
I would have never thought that we would need to amend the “Never Relax” axiom to include pre-pubescent children.
My black coworker has a baby, I’m talking not even 18 months old, who wears an expression on her face that you would have to see to believe. It’s not even RBF (resting bitch face), it’s way worse. I swear to God, I have never met a freaking BABY that I disliked, but this one clearly already hates all honkies. Never seen anything like it in my life. This kid can’t even talk yet! But it knows momma hates whitey so so does she.
My friendly neighborhood corner bar for over thirty years, no trouble, fights, etc., older crowd, old guys with oxygen tanks on wheels. Never saw a black person in there. Last night a black guy shot and killed in there by another black guy.
Similar to what has happened to a tavern in my old neighborhood. Turned all black. Not because the neighborhood has. A guy I know asked one of the black patrons where she lived. She said the other side of town. The reason she and her compadres go there now is because they have nothing open in their section of town.
Apparently the victim was the first to introduce a gun to the festivities. If yer a nigra arguing with another nigra over something infantile and nigra #1 sez: “Hold that ‘thought’ such as it is. Just give me a mo. I gotta run out to the car for sumthin’. Back in a jiffy.”
Am-scray.
Anyone who grew up near blacks, knows that even the young are violent criminals. They’d sneak into our neighborhood and steal anything that wasn’t nailed down and would always bully any kid smaller than them at public parks. Our parents all had to pay for private schools or you’d spend most of your day fighting. We used to joke around that if your parents sent you to public school, it meant they didn’t love you.
Most Whites I know still think that Black people are these “Godly, Christian people.”
I can’t believe our people, sometimes. It really makes me sick
Sorry to the friends and family. I am sorry to cause you this pain. I still think about the victim and I want to apologize to Naima’s mother. I am a very genuine person and I’m not a bad person.
The scariest thing of all is that, on a certain level, there’s some truth to her statement. She didn’t commit murder with malice aforethought. She isn’t like a serial killer who stalks his victims in advance. She isn’t like Richard (the “Iceman”) Kuklinski bloodlessly carrying out a contract killing in exchange for a paycheck. Rather, in the heat of the moment, she simply chimped out, TNB-style, and so inevitably her natural lack of impulse-control took over, with predictable results, all ethical considerations be damned.
But even if this doesn’t make her “evil” per se, it does make her (and others that are like her) dangerous as all hell to a civilized society.
Excellent comment
Thank you, Dr. Johnson. It is a pleasure exploring this website. So many interesting things to read! I make it a point to recommend it to others whenever possible.
A teacher once described that felons guilty of armed robbery/mugging were more sociopathic than the average murderer. Many murders are “Crimes of Passion” and not pre-planned. However the muggers wait in the shadows and stalk prey, carefully weighing out who might have the most loot and who is vulnerable enough to strike upon. However, paying with your life is ultimate cost, whatever one’s motive, and there isn’t any definitive cure for being a hot-head.
I thought “teens” was merely a reference to their IQ….
Good one
I’d like to see Jim Goad write something on black names. He must be the world’s foremost expert at recognising ethnicity purely by name. ‘Naima Liggon’ does not sound like the kind of name on the side of a pumpkin spice latte in Starbucks for example. That’s more of a Becky, Jennifer, Kate kind of thing.
I’d also like to see Jim write something on why half-blacks seem to overwhelmingly side with the nonwhite half. (Even though this is mostly their absent father, and they were probably raised by a white mother, probably had supportive white teachers, and best childhood friends probably also white) for example the police chief dude in the video on the daily mail page with the driver footage. He seems half-black; yet if this article was read to him he’d object to it as racism. Yet any anti-white media bile, of which there’s a neverending supply, wouldn’t bother him at all. This despite the fact that logically he’s half white so surely that should be equally offensive?
If Goad has already written on these matters I’d appreciate a link.
An article I wrote about idiotic black names:
The Jacksun Also Rises
You’ll have to click on the super-tiny “Next Page” link at the bottom of that page to see the list of black names I concocted. Also, please forgive the HTML mangling. That site is run by a nepotism beneficiary who has no idea what she’s doing.
Back in my blogging days I did a post about that article of yours, pointing out the genius of one of the commentators, a woman who suggested this great melanic moniker:
Noam Sayen Meauxfaux
The aforementioned “nepotism beneficiary” scrubbed every comment that ever existed on that site and removed all commenting functions.
Jim, after reading (and then sounding them out in black voice) the black names you have concocted in your Takimag article, I have not laughed so hard in a long time.
My absolute favorite, and it was hard to pick only one, is JaPeetus Cribbens. Perhaps that is your pal Patton Oswalt’s given name, lol?
After the laughter subsided, I have renamed our dog and cat JaPeetus Prime and JaPeetus Invictus. I was thinking of calling the cat Shitavious but I see from your article that the name Shitavious already adorns a truly deserving member of the black race. I don’t want to plagiarize. As always, thanks, thanks, thanks for the laughs.
May I suggest that we bridge the euphemism gap by referring to the feral ones as teenths?
I prefer Tarantula Heads, on account of their short dreadlocks.
That was an image. Hope it doesn’t stick.
Teenth co-opts their usage.
In certain parts of England they’re colloquially called “bog brushes”.
Have you seen videos from South Africa showing kaffirs coming into restaurants with their pikanninis, some of them very young. The mother looks around for invariably an older white woman who has put her bag under or near her chair. Then they all take up a position near the victim, as though they are waiting for something and the pikanninis start playing on the floor so that the victim is aware of them and lets down their guard. Soon as the mother realizes the victim is not paying attention it does some kind of eek or ook and the pikannini grabs something out of the purse or just takes the whole purse and quickly passes it to the mother and they all scoot out of the restaurant with the victim blissfully unaware of what has just happened.
Always be on your guard when any kind of negroid is anywhere near you.
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