Henry Wolff, American Renaissance, June 29, 2011
Last year, Alternative Right editor Richard Spencer wrote about an emerging pattern in black crime which he referred to as “Race Riots 2.0.” He noted that blacks no longer seemed content to riot in their own neighborhoods as they did during the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, but were bent on giving whites a direct taste of diversity.
Mr. Spencer was prescient. This spring has seen many reports of mass “teen” robberies, roving mobs of “youths,” and chaotic “urban” uprisings. Young blacks often organize with the help of social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The resulting groups are not only raiding department stores for sneakers, they are disrupting family vacations, attacking passersby, and straining the ability of many major cities to maintain order.
Just the past two months have seen “youth” activities in the following settings:
Vacation destinations
Families hoping to spend a pleasant day at the beach or an amusement park got more excitement than they had hoped for as bands of blacks raided popular destinations and intimated their guests. (Memorial Day weekend was particularly chaotic, as detailed here by Jim Goad.)
· At Long Beach, California, “a beach melee involving hundreds of people” broke out just before the beach closed around 6:00 p.m. It took police three hours to gain control of the situation.