On my way to Lawrence yesterday to smoke cigars with a friend and former KU and NBA player, I got a call from a real estate investor I’ve known for years…
He probably handles more Freddy Mac foreclosures than anyone in the city and is representing a home on 40th Terrace in 64130. He had a closing scheduled for yesterday with a white, single mom, desperately trying to reestablish a life for herself and her son.
However prior to having sold the house, there was a good deal of clean up and maintenance to be done. His first visit to the home found him in a conversation with the next door neighbor, a middle aged black man, who informed my friend,
“I hope none of your types buy this or make it a Section 8 rental.”
Bear in mind, this zip code is the home to more convicted murders and more crime than most of the rest of the metro combined.
Now move the clock forward…
My friend had met this mother at the home site on multiple occasions and she’d had conversations with the neighbors. We’re talking about a woman trying to buy an $11,000 home and start over.
Their closing scheduled for yesterday, but yesterday morning, my friend got a call telling him that he should come look at the house. Overnight, it was spray painted the entire length of the back of the house with:
NO WHITE BLM – NO WHITE BLM
The first thing he did was call 911 and report the crime. So what did 911 tell him? They could not respond for about 4 hours. Why? It was a property crime and they had bigger fish to fry.
I’m currently working with a local TV station with the intent of turning this into a feature, multi night piece. What do you think would happen if this was painted on a home in your or my neighborhood with the phrase:
NO BLACKS – WHITE LIVES MATTER
The Webster definition of racism, right there…..
Nail ON head!
That term gets so over used. Criticize Obama, you’re a racist!
Talk about inner city problems – RACIST.
As you so clearly pointed out, Webster had a different definition of what the word truly means –
Noun: a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacist
Adjective: having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
It’s become a word who’s definition doesn’t matter and turned into a debate ender – toss out “You’re a RACIST” and the average person cowers….
Thanks for being one of the smart ones!
I’ll buy coffee any time, any where, Mr Lib!
Thank you, Paul!
I don’t see what the big deal is. There are racist people EVERYWHERE you go. I was reminded of this in my formative years as I tried as a white youth to gain entry in a black strip club called ‘The Pink Slip’ in East St. Louis when the doorman reminded me and my friends, “You ain’t welcome here white. Go home to ya mamma.” We proceeded to take our dollar bills to the next ballet club down the street that was more accepting of our whiteness. Lesson learned.
Dude is right. I don’t know how many times my friends and I had Tee Times at Swope Park and waited 45 minutes to over an hour to get on, because black people came in, with NO Tee Times and got on in front of us.
The guys I was with, were pizzed as hell. The people working the counter made NO effort to hide what they were doing. I thought it was a good lesson to see how it felt back in the days of Jimmy Crow. I sat there and tried to get mad, but it just wouldn’t come and I have a little bit of an anger issue. Now and then. Kinda. You know…
Anyway, I told the guys, “Forget it fellas, it’s Chinatown”. They didn’t get it. Anyway, there are plenty of golf courses all over and we just quit going there. I love to play golf, even though I suck and the last thing I need, is drama. I played there (Swope Park) once last year and once the year before in charity tournaments. The place is in PGA, US OPEN shape. Manicured. Perfect.
Great course, I miss it, but not that much.
In the end, I thought, why, why in the world, would you really want to hang around with people who don’t like you?
Just for clarification (Sorry) this took place around 12 to 15 years ago.
Interesting information anyway Paul.
Oh and I am not saying, of course, that this is an apples for apples comparison.
Chuck, I get to Swope once or twice a year and this has never happened to me. Maybe you got the wrong guy or something but give it another try. You want some racism,my mother- in-law once ordered a McRib at the McDonald’s on Main by Linwood and the black girl working said they were out. The next guy in line was black and ordered a McRib and he got one.
It’s true we quit going after it happened way back when. It happened about 4 times. I will give it another try.
🙂
She might have just been extra kind to your mom. Didn’t you ever wander what a McRib really was?
Bovine embryos!
[thats why they’re so tender]
Maybe your “thang” is black strippers in East St. Louis. And if so, I’m sorry you were so horrifically oppressed and denied your liberty. Hopefully you just got horribly lost on your way to a Cardinals game and, you know, no harm no foul.
I knew where I was. This kid didn’t discriminate when it comes to ballet clubs or ballet dancers or women in general. One of my coworkers recommended the joint so I wanted to see it for myself.
Isn’t it nice you can sit there and make fun of the fact that I was discriminated against and denied entry to a public drinking establishment. Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of who or where it happens.
I used to go across the river to East St Louis. A friend of mine was CEO of the Casino Queen. Just off the property was a little dive bar we hung out at, owned by a 70 year old white couple, and the bars name was Whitey’s!
It was a great little place!
Well the money’s pouring down
And the people all look down
And it’s floating out of town
I hit the second deck
And I spent my paycheck
And my wife that I just met
She’s looking like a wreck
Casino Queen
My lord you’re mean
I’ve been gambling like a fiend
On your tables so green
One more thing, if you are interested in the truth about Black Racism, then read Heather Mac Donald, Colin Flaherty (“White Girl Bleed A Lot” – “Don’t Make The Black Kids Angry”), Pat Buchanan, Jack Cashill and for a preview of what awaits us, check out “Into The Cannibal’s Pot” by Ilana Mercer.
Jammed full of statistics, and irrefutable facts with videos, news reports and personal anecdotes from the families of the dead, raped and wounded, these authors don’t drill down deep. They don’t have to.
On Drudge, right now, there is a video, of “protestors” about 10 of them, beating and stripping some poor white dude while he begs for mercy, who, as Harley has warned us, should have NEVER gone into a parking garage. Harley is right. That violence is repeated on a daily basis all over America.
Hey Harley, for once, you are right. Stay out of those parking garages.
You are right. I see it all the time, usually after tripping over the dead bodies stacked like firewood (I think that’s how they are stacked) on the curbs.
“Dead bodies stacked like firewood” is a metaphor for the dramatic increase in murder victims here in KC, Chicago, Baltimore and throughout the nation since the “Ferguson Effect” gave carte blanche to thugs in “inner city abattoirs” to effect ever increasing violence in the absence of the “Rule Of Law”.
You’re welcome.
WTF????????????????????????????????????????????
I look at this story and I see a lot of really odd things
in it.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA….crybaby!!!!!!!!
Who in their right mind would want to see a single
white mom and her young son starting out live in this
neighborhood if it was infested with murderers and
rapists as portrayed in this story?
A single white woman and her son in that house.
An 11k house can’t have too much to offer and why
would someone want to see that woman and her
young son in this type of house.
An 11k house can’t have too much to offer. According
to the neighbor he wanted to move out long ago…
and he’s a African American male probably able to
protect himself.
Why would a caring person even consider putting
this woman in this house.
From the pic….the windows appear to be the
cheap $159 window made of vinyl.
NO SECURITY LIGHTING! The door appears rather
flimsy….and for 11K the woman won’t be getting
much in the way of a home….and to put her in that
type of neighborhood? Who was doing this?
I talked with some of my friends who are real estate
agents at Plaza 3 during the plaza art fair. Of course
there agents only deal in 600K and above priced
homes.
They said they would never put a single woman and
her son in that neighborhood. When Iwas a part
of big brothers and big sisters we avoided that area
and I can’t comprehend the thought of a single
white woman and a son living in that part of this
city.
Even the neighbor warned against buying the house
or using it for section 8. Even the neighbor said
essentially the area was horrible.
I would never let a single white woman inthat
area. She would be in serious jeopardy there……
and everyone who I talked with said the same thing.
Of course we come from upscale neighborhoods…
we still could see that this was nothing but a serious
problem waiting to happen.
I’ve got good friends who own rental property and
they said in good conscience would never sell that
house to a single white woman and her son who
were just starting over.
They mentioned that 11K probably didn’t include the
costs of rehabbing the home….adding security items
like outdoor lighting/heavy duty locks/security windows
and doors/and they said if you probably walked in there it would need lots of work to be a decent place for this
woman and her son.
My god….what is this world coming to?
We are pulling the mls sheet on this home to see
the condition. Someone should have thought about
what danger this woman and her son might be in
located in that type of home.
I can’t believe a human being would do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched that. Pretty sickening.
I’ve read it. Best primer out there for why we need to be going after this issue for the farce it is!
I live in a nice neighborhood. My neighbor listed his house and it sold the first day. A executive looking single, black mom with a teen girl looked at it.
Let’s suppose I spray painted Steves garage doors with
NO BLACKS – WHITE LIVES MATTER
what do you think would have been done to me? It would be national news.
KCMO PD took hours to get there, said it would be 24 hours before they could tell Gerry anything…..because it’s just a low level property crime!
Property crime?
Anywhere else it would be an instant hate crime with vigils in my front yard!!
I’m tired of the double standards.
100% agree
Your well coiffed scribe broke this story. Watch tonight at 5&6 on KCTV5 as Jonathan Carter does his first segment on it. He interviewed my friend, Gerry Harris, this morning.
And don’t forget, you heard it here first.
Next segment, if she gets over the scare this put in her, you’ll hear the mom explain her side tomorrow.
I’ll be pursuing this to be prosecuted as a hate crime and a full investigation. I’m tired of the double standards…
In 2009, Eric Holder testified in front of Congress and said that there was no such thing as a Black on White Hate Crime and NO criminal prosecution of such presumed actions would be forthcoming.
“Holder: Whites and Ministers will not be protected by proposed hate crimes legislation. Attorney General Eric Holder testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 25 and gave startling testimony that means Christian ministers and whites will not be protected under the hate crimes statute proposed by the Department of Justice. Holder says that the proposed statute would only protect “traditional” victims of hate crimes, and then he goes on to name a series of Democratic Party constituencies.
Then Holder goes on to list the only groups intended to be protected by the proposed law. This is racial identity politics taking a sinister turn. Holder explicitly says the proposed law only protects classes “where there is a history” of violence against those groups. “What we are looking for here in terms of expansion of the statute are instances where there is a historic basis. See, groups of people who are singled out for violence perpetrated against them because of who they are. I don’t know if we have the same historical record to say members of our military have been targeted in the same way that people who are African American, people who are Jewish, people who are gay, have been targeted over the many years.” (minute 73:00-74:00)
Based on Holder’s testimony, it is clear that the law would not protect white victims who were attacked because of their race by racial minorities. Holder’s testimony explicitly excluded prosecution of the gay activist who attacks a Christian minister or priest because of his sermon on homosexuality, but the legislation protects the gay activist when he is attacked. This is a dangerous development to our laws and our nation. One of the most fundamental principles in the founding of this nation was that all are created equal. A bloody Civil War was fought to sustain it. No group enjoys privileged status over the other. Once the Department can decide to protect certain individuals for crimes, and not others, those not protected will lose faith in the system. Loss of faith in the system is more than a simple inconvenience. Confidence that laws are enforced fairly and equally preserves peace and prosperity. Lawlessness ensues when the law is perceived as a weapon against certain groups for the benefit of other groups. It is not enough to simply point to a bundle of statistics or history…”
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This is the fish, rotting from the head down, in real time. These sentiments, that “Fundamental Change” is exactly why the schism between the races, exacerbated by the “Pen and Phone” ideologue in the White House, who never missed an opportunity to further the specious narrative of encompassing white racism while lying about black victimhood in violent racial confrontations, is ever widening while our cities burn and our cops die.
And no, you DON’T get to keep your doctor.
The Feds ain’t comin Paul.
She is white.
Forget it Paul, it’s Chinatown.
Doesn’t stop me from hating the double standard. Doesn’t stop me from fighting the system…
Yeah, I’m an idealist.
🙂
They did that woman a favor. Don’t buy that shit hole among those people. She will have no peace living there. If that’s all she can afford move out to somewhere like Linwood, KS. It’s poor white people but they’ll leav you alone.
Agreed. She’s pulled out of the sale, my friend is getting her earnest money deposit back. I’m now in the process of finding her legal representation for civil rights violations. Actually, picking among who’s come to me already….
I’m going to see to it this girl is taken care of and back on the right track.
You should see the next segment tonight.
Good on you for that.
Wislon:
I am willing to donate the paint to repaint this womans house.
If needed just tell us where to drop the paint off and how much.
What were these idiots thinking. What are any of these idiots today thinking.
chill out for gods sake everyone.
She’s not buying the house, and good for her. Hope she lives somewhere where she’s wanted. Besides, it should be the racist scumbags who vandalized the house that buy the paint, and repaint the house. Having someone donate the paint, just lends to covering up the crime.
Thanks, Guy, he never reads for content. He only scans so he can move straight to personal insults and self grandiosity, which is why I don’t bother to respond.
You are correct. Freddy Mac already has the bid to paint the house but will wait till all investigations are complete.
Next time would be bullets from a drive-by.
without a doubt. but oh, not a hate crime…
pw…most folks don’t get the chance to have singular impact in this way, and help make a difference. some would just shake their head and move on. good on you for helping shine a light on it.
There are some things, some times, if you listen to your internal compass….you just have no choice. But thank you for your comment.
We really do have a problem in this country. “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men (and women) are created equal.” So, why in the “F” do you need to know whether I am white, black, red, purple green or even Italian on the form from Medicare? If it is unisex coverage, why do you need to know what sex I am, outside of the fact, like most people, I like it? Actually, my father was adopted, so I have no idea as to half of my heritage, and judging by what I see, I can’t tell the difference between black, half black, quarter black, or high cheek-boned 1/8 Cherokee. I am not transparent or even translucent, so perhaps I should join the NAACP. After all, I have color.
In reality, it was never about race and still isn’t. It is about committing a crime, and getting away with it, with the thought that if there is no prosecution, violence will be avoided, a poor assumption, that has yielded little benefit. When laws are not enforced, whether its prosecutorial discretion or mob rule, we all lose. So, whether it is a mob in Charlotte, Baltimore, or Ferguson, the sheriff has to protect the law from mob rule, as do the prosecutors. It is not a Democracy, as a Democracy does not protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. If all of your neighbors vote to ignore the Constitution and enslave you for their benefit, that’s Democracy. It does not matter whether the perpetrator is black, white, green, or blue, and if the prosecution decides not to prosecute for any reason, perhaps the presumption of innocence is somewhat challenged, as justice has been short circuited. So, from Hillary to Trump, to the looters in the street, we have laws. If you get away with it, in my mind, it doesn’t make you innocent, especially when someone has put their fingers on the scales of justice for any reason. it is the trial that removes the presumption and makes one innocent. To me, if there is no trial, you lose that presumption of innocence. But more important, you damage the perception of justice just a little more each time.
Well said.
Hey Paul, I am out of work. Can you get me a job? I promise to never speak my mind again. I promise to avoid the truth and suspend any inclination to use common sense.
I would like to apologize to the Black Lives Matter movement, the Seattle Mariners and ESPN. Right now, I am writing checks to the Black Panthers, the SPLC and (This is important!) the Federal Government. Yep! I am cutting a check and sending it to the umbrella organization that has made these noteworthy, singular institutions possible.
Again, I apologize and would like to thank The Federal Ministry Of Truth Government, King Obama and the unbiased, metaphysically objective media for letting me see the light.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL COMMISSARS!!
That made so little sense I’m assuming you channeled Harley to write it?
He should sue the Seattle Mariners until the sun goes Nova.