Don’t move into bad neighborhoods
More than a week ago, in a bad neighborhood in St. Paul, a white man was beat up by a gang of black youths and suffered “serious brain injuries.” According to law enforcement officials, it’s not a hate crime.
The victim appears to be a hipster type who attempted to be on the vanguard of gentrifying his neighborhood. This is why it’s a lot better to have rich parents so you can have a low-paying starter job in a creative industry and not have to live in a neighborhood like that.
Lion of the Blogosphere 
Who “happens upon” a mob of 30-40 gangbangers at 11:30pm? The noise alone had to have traveled blocks yet he continued with his evening stroll? I don’t want to sound cold-hearted but this is darwin award territory. The family will have to push hard in the media for this to prosecuted as a hate crime.
islandmommy
August 14, 2013 at 8:15 AM
While it may not be the case for these specific criminals, cities in Minnesota and Wisconsin have gotten a big influx of former residents of now-demolished Chicago housing projects. They’ve used their Section 8 vouchers to move to these states, which offer more generous welfare benefits than Illinois. Quite a few are gangbangers and have wrought all sorts of havoc.
Peter
ironrailsironweights
August 14, 2013 at 9:31 AM
You mean blacks.
Obvious
August 15, 2013 at 12:26 AM
The 1986 Pulitzer prize winning book Common Ground, a book about school busing in Boston and integration generally, includes the tale of a young vanguard activist white woman hoping also to enact ‘change’ by moving to a ghetto neighborhood. She was raped. The book is worth reading.
Curle
August 14, 2013 at 9:39 AM
Many rape claims are false.
E. Rekshun
August 14, 2013 at 6:15 PM
This book was a national bestseller and I don’t think anyone complained or challenged the claims regarding rape.
Curle
August 14, 2013 at 11:48 PM
Many rape claims *AGAINST WHITE OR MIDDLE CLASS MALES are false.
Fixed ‘er for ya bud.
depressed_danny
August 15, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Notice how his moron father expresses bafflement at the motives of the perpetrators.
Why would they do such a senseless thing? It’s a mystery.
A mystery that somehow happens all the time… but we are forbidden to notice such patterns…
Tarl
August 14, 2013 at 9:42 AM
From the Daily Mail article: “Speaking at a press conference, his father Peter said Ray had never ‘expressed any concerns’ about living on the East Side.” I guess he had a rough awakening.
eightofcoins
August 14, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Dear Tarl:
Was the expression
“forbidden to notice such patterns”
invented by you independently ?
I like it very much, and I met it numerous times in Steve Sailer’s posts.
Your F.r.
Florida resident
August 14, 2013 at 1:02 PM
I read Sailer’s site so the phrase could have crept into my mind from there, but in this particular case I didn’t use it consciously in imitation of him.
Tarl
August 14, 2013 at 9:45 PM
It’s funny how quickly the local authorities sweep in and assure the public that this is not a hate crime.
Camlost
August 14, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Given that the ‘hate’ element was introduced into law solely for the purpose of granting prosecutor bureaucrats a tool to help magnify an overarching Left narrative about institutional racism, sexism and homophobia charging minorities for ‘hate’ does not advance the narrative. Whether hate exists or not is entirely dependent on the narrative such a conclusions will advance and it is intended, and thus will operate, as a visible manifestation of the power of the Left over white intransigents who don’t want to get with the moral program of internalizing the notion that black deficiency=white racism causation. .
Curle
August 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Curle probably has the correct answer. The left controls the narrative on what’s “racist” and what’s “hate.”
Lion of the Blogosphere
August 14, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Could everyone please stop using the word ‘narrative’ when bringing up politics.
The Undiscovered Jew
August 14, 2013 at 8:48 PM
It wasn’t a hate crime. There were 8-10 black guys recording the attack with their cellphones, gleefully shouting “WURL STAR! WULR STAR HIP HOP Y’ALL!”
They weren’t committing a hate crime. They were simply making a video; modern day artists, enriching the culture.
depressed_danny
August 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM
That’ll teach white boy not to mess with the Ham Crazy Gang!
eightofcoins
August 14, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Usually it’s gay couples who are the first into a bad neighborhood. Assuming they don’t go anywhere alone, this probably helps their survival rate.
klejdys
August 14, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Can you imagine even 40 years ago talking about whites not being able to go into some neighborhoods in Minnesota of all places? This is not the Minneapolis of Mary Tyler Moore.
Bernie
August 14, 2013 at 1:53 PM
It’s a lot better to stay in your parents’ basement and be a loser than to rent out a hole in the ghetto, because you can’t afford to live independently in a nice neighborhood as to not risk your life.
JS
August 14, 2013 at 2:57 PM
This is why college educated 20 something women are more likely than men to live in places like Manhattan, DC, and Boston. Parents are more likely to subsidized their daugher’s lifestyle than their sons. Upper middle class parents would never tolerate having their daughters living in the ghetto.
superdestroyer
August 15, 2013 at 4:57 AM
Here is a story of a similar encounter earlier this summer:
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/23127373/st-paul-mayor-police-chief-attorneys-to-discuss-east-side-violence
ed
August 14, 2013 at 4:11 PM
I imagine liberals in general are apt to confront blacks on issues of crime because:
1) You can’t really reason with the violent elements of that population, liberal shaming tactics only works on those who are conscientious of the difference between right and wrong, along with those who have something to lose through shaming (i.e. a job)
2) The black upper class will protect it’s own, siding with whitey gives those bad ole conservatives further proof and would stop the handouts from flowing to them.
3) Liberals are generally cowards, they will feed the beast their brethren in hope of being the last to be eaten, those bad ole conservatives are expendable.
The Liberal media reminds me of the Ministry of Truth, from 1984..
Political Correctness = Newspeak
Racism = Thought Crime
In this particular circumstance: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Welcome to Oceania.
L
August 14, 2013 at 5:17 PM
“3) Liberals are generally cowards, they will feed the beast their brethren in hope of being the last to be eaten, those bad ole conservatives are expendable.”
Oh, shits yeah. If you raise a hand to a Puritan lib, they’ll wet themselves. The entire apparatus of leftism is extremely swishy. Even gentle organized physical force against these limpswishers would mean the end of leftism.
yerwrong
August 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM
Yea, right. this guy was just going “for a walk” at 11:30 at night. He was looking to score some weed.
E. Rekshun
August 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM
St. Paul is now a “sundown town”… for whites!
“Whitey, don’t let the sun set on you in St. Paul!”
Tarl
August 14, 2013 at 9:48 PM
The witness interviewed in the video says white women were mixed in with “the group.”
Also, his caringbridge page:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/raywidstrand
islandmommy
August 14, 2013 at 6:28 PM
“…white women were mixed in with “the group.”
They were probably mixed (or mixed-up) White women.
E. Rekshun
August 15, 2013 at 11:29 AM
True. I once read an article about an all-black public school in brooklyn where the teachers would field parental complaints about the “white kids” receiving favoritism. The teachers would have to point out there were exactly zero white kids in the school. But any child who was light skinned, or less dark skinned, was considered, somehow, “white.”
islandmommy
August 15, 2013 at 10:03 PM
Don’t move into bad neighborhoods
Even if it risks not getting admitted to an elite school?
The Undiscovered Jew
August 14, 2013 at 7:07 PM
Lion,
This Californian guy really knows how to live the good life as the boat is rapidly sinking. He’s probably saying, “f*ck you, all you Northeast status seekers toiling away, I have it better”. If you compare him with those hipsters moving into a black neighborhood in the Midwest and getting clubbed, they are the biggest suckers.
Dude lives in La Jolla, San Diego, no blacks, doesn’t work, plays in a band, hangs out in the beach, surfs, gets drunk, gets laid and gets $200 foodstamps a month to buy sushi and lobster.
Charles Murray (not in the video) reprimands him for seeing life as a picnic. Why blame him when only the most privileged gets the most out of life with their money?
JS
August 14, 2013 at 11:17 PM
This guy is a lazy clown and is just acting for the camera. He’s not living as well as he tries to make out. $200/mo for food is the bare minimum. He certainly didn’t pay for the Escalade, and probably doesn’t even own it. Schlepping from couch to couch for shelter doesn’t seem very comfortable. Still sponging off his parents in his late 20s. His nicotine addiction will get him throat cancer at 40.
E. Rekshun
August 17, 2013 at 7:24 AM
And how are guys/gals who moved to NYC to take on a measly job and are being partly subsidized by the parents because it’s so damn expensive to live in the Big Apple, any different?
Better yet, so what’s wrong with having rich parents in these tough economic times, as suggested by Lion?
JS
August 17, 2013 at 2:24 PM
Lion/Half,
Do a new post on http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/realestate/south-of-west-fourth-street-tracking-the-ghosts-of-bohemia.html?hp&_r=0
Do the math: even with rent control it costs 21,600/year just for rent to live in the “bohemian” area. With other cost of living, that means you need 50k+ gross income. Even being “bohemian” is out of reach for most of America (nevermind the rest of the world).
hello nsa
August 14, 2013 at 11:36 PM
Commentator TUJ once said the Northeast is behind rest of the country in trends. I agree with him as NYC is no longer uniquely better or substantially ahead of any other major American metropolis. If anything, the city has regressed because of the continuing liberal policies that has wrought havoc on middle class Whites, combined with the ignorant and parochial superiority attitude that forever pervades many of its residents.
Trademark foods of the Big Apple such as pizza and bagels are for the most part no longer of quality.
Most of its restaurants are subpar and its world class institutions are like stale bread.
Intellectual hubs which draws bohemian types are also attainable in other cities, which are probably better and superior (reasons: more interesting bookstores and cafes, lower cost of living with fewer inner city racial minorities).
Anyone who is connoisseur will also tell NYC has very few specialty stores that sells anything remotely better or different from other places.
JS
August 15, 2013 at 9:49 AM
Commentator TUJ once said the Northeast is behind rest of the country in trends. I agree with him as NYC is no longer uniquely better or substantially ahead of any other major American metropolis.
I don’t recall saying NYC isn’t worth it anymore. I’ve argued the only city in the Northeast worth living in is NY. The rest, like Boston, aren’t worth the money or they’ve been destroyed by non-white immigrants. Aside from NY, a perfectly good life could be had in wealthy suburbs outside the Northeast, though even those areas are being destroyed with the tidal wave of non-whites.
California is becoming a Mexicanized and Asianized statewide version of Detroit. According to Victor Davis Hanson, the white Silicon Valley execs are complaining of too many Asians in their schools. Florida’s being overrun with Carribean blacks and non-white Hispanics, though there’s a sizable white Southern American population in addition to the Cubans. It’s debatable how long the rest of of the Southwest can hang on.
The Undiscovered Jew
August 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM
NYC’s annual GDP is about 1.2 trillion. This is a larger economy than is had by all but a few countries on the planet. Only one city in the world, Tokyo, exceeds it. The next largest economy in the USA comes in at about 750 billion annual, a substantial decrease from NYC’s economy.
It’s hard to believe that this type of economy, and the resultant human activity, breeds a non-novel culture. The fashion, art, and food scenes here don’t lag behind other areas of the USA. In terms of trends, what other categories are you looking to evaluate? You might be surprised at what Bohemians often do to make it in NYC. 50k isn’t hard to make here, and this income can often be slightly exceeded in many waitstaff jobs. Although, I agree that urban Bohemianism, ironically, is ill-suited for people from poorer backgrounds. Proles need to make it, which would give them the chance to successfully raise offspring who can then lead a more carefree bohemian life with the safety net of Daddy’s dime, if they choose. Either way, most bohemians are inauthentic, making the idea of ‘successful bohemianism’ (ie: you live a non-miserable urban bohemian lifestyle with no help and without an early death) a bit of a farce.
Tom
August 15, 2013 at 9:38 PM
“I don’t recall saying NYC isn’t worth it anymore”.
That’s different than to say NYC is lagging, which in fact it is, when you compare it to smaller American cities with a White majority in quality education, progressiveness and even high culture. The fact that Wall St, BIGLAW, and the mediocre media outlets which were the main engines of economic growth of the past are ever becoming obsolescent, NYC is no longer uniquely better. Further, these industries are boringly conservative and stagnant, but are no longer lucrative for many, and this will be NYC’s undoing (along with the current lineup of inept politicos who are vying for mayorship).
JS
August 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM
@ Tom
NYC is a big city so of course its GDP boast impressive numbers. And yes, what I’m talking about is novelty and quality, which the Big Apple no longer provides substantially. It’s a city with many boring mom n pop shops that could be had in other cities (which are probably better) and also large box stores that are found elsewhere as well.
NY’s fashion scene isn’t homegrown, but imported internationally, so what you get here could be exported elsewhere. It’s food scene here isn’t all that remarkable or creative, given its immense size and scope. There seems to be the same boring restaurants and eateries in every street block.
“In terms of trends, what other categories are you looking to evaluate?”
My biggest gripe: Boring boutiques, crappy bookstores and guitarshops.
JS
August 16, 2013 at 12:18 AM
I had a hard time finding a Turkish restaurant in NYC, which serves great food and desserts, despite the numerous establishments here in the city. One visit of a Turkish restaurant in San Diego took care of my palate.
NYC boast quantity but not necessary quality!
JS
August 16, 2013 at 12:32 AM
And the Mexican food was better in Arizona.
And if you want Southwestern food, forget it, doesn’t even exist in NYC.
Lion of the Blogosphere
August 16, 2013 at 12:29 PM
And most of NYC’s Asian noodle shops don’t fare as well as this place in Upstate NY:
http://www.yumyumnoodlebar.com/
Don’t underestimate White chefs who cook Asian food. They can do it just as good if not better. This place proves it, if you compare it with what they make in Chinatown, which is subpar nowadays.
JS
August 16, 2013 at 1:05 PM
Gentrification is like the move westward with the Homestead Act. Assuming you can survive the frontier (ghetto) you may claim whatever land you like. The elites believed the savage was noble then too and that the “wrong sort of white people” should embrace him but frontiersmen like Andrew Jackson scoffed at the idea. When he was elected president it was payback time and he shut down the equivalent of our Federal Reserve to prevent north-easterners from acquiring too much national power/prestige. Lion would probably denounce Jackson as a prole today.
eradican
August 16, 2013 at 3:12 PM
“Don’t move into bad neighborhoods.”
One must get on a career track to be able to earn enough money to afford to live far away from bad neighborhoods (and the people that live in them, and everyone knows who they are).
E. Rekshun
August 16, 2013 at 9:45 PM
They aren’t many careers for youths nowadays that pay a decent salary, where you can live comfortably in a nice neighborhood. The other option would be taking up residency in a suburban wasteland free from blacks and low proles, and commute long hours to the city for work.
JS
August 17, 2013 at 2:30 PM