Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama by Ann Coulter

  62. “In 2 Other Assault Cases, No Resolution Yet,” New York Times, October 26, 1987.

  63. “Mayor Gets Angry Reaction at Howard Beach Church,” Associated Press, December 29, 1986, Monday, PM cycle.

  64. “Police Report Racial Attack in Brooklyn,” Associated Press, December 29, 1986, Monday, AM cycle.

  65. “Racial Incidents on Rise,” Washington Post, January 7, 1987.

  66. “8 Blacks Attack White Cabbie in N.Y. Race Retaliation,” Chicago Tribune, December 25, 1987.

  67. “New York: 2 Black Men Assault White Wife of Officer,” Miami Herald, January 4, 1988; “Police Say Robbery Was Racially Motivated,” New York Times, January 3, 1988.

  68. Dirk Johnson, “Slain Woman Found in Pool of Connecticut Home,” New York Times, December 12, 1986, (511 words); Howard W. French, “2 Held in Connection with Death of Woman at New Canaan Home,” New York Times, December 15, 1986 (363 words); “2d Murder Charge Filed in Drowning,” New York Times, January 1, 1987 (113 words).

  69. On July 23, 2007, ex-cons Joshua Komisarjevsky, 26, and Steven J. Hayes, 44, assaulted and bound Dr. William A. Petit Jr., 50, in his Cheshire, Connecticut home and proceeded to sexually assault his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and one of their daughters before murdering Mrs. Hawke-Petit and both daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. The men set the house on fire and were caught fleeing the premises. Both were given the death penalty. In response to the heinous crime, idiot Democrats repealed the death penalty in Connecticut: Peter Applebome, “Death Penalty Repeal Goes to Connecticut Governor,” April 11, 2012.

  70. See, e.g., “Woman Meets Flaming Death at Hands of Tormentors,” Associated Press, October 4, 1973. Available at http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19731004&id=0T5PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WyQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7073,3010511).

  71. Kathryn Shattuck, “What’s On Today,” New York Times, February 17, 2011.

  72. Associated Press, “Tennessee: Killer Sentenced to Death,” New York Times, October 31, 2009.

  73. Column reprinted in Nelson George, Buppies, B-boys, Baps, And Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture at 223–40.

  CHAPTER 4: HEY, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT STORY…

  1. Dan Jacobson, United Press International, March 23, 1987.

  2. Thomas Morgan, “50 Arrested in Anti-Racism Protest at Columbia,” New York Times, April 22, 1987.

  3. “23 Seized in Protest on Columbia Clash,” New York Times, April 8, 1987.

  4. “Racial Bias Protest at Columbia,” New York Times, April 5, 1987.

  5. Barbara Kantrowitz with Bill Turque, “Blacks Protest Campus Racism,” Newsweek, April 6, 1987.

  6. Robert Marquand, “School Colors: Uneasy Gray Between Black and White,” Christian Science Monitor, June 14, 1988.

  7. “Emory Students Hold Rally for Hospitalized Student,” United Press International, April 13, 1990.

  8. “Police Say Racist Threats Were Faked,” Chicago Tribune, June 3, 1990; “Misspelling Is Cited in Threat.” New York Times, June 2, 1990.

  9. “Racial Attacks Leave Freshman in Severe Shock,” New York Times, April 22, 1990.

  10. Editorial: “Discipline in Black and White,” Boston Herald, February 23, 1993; “A Test of Racism Produces an Uproar,” New York Times, February 17, 1993.

  11. Jodi Wilgoren, “Christian College Secludes Students after Hate Letters,” New York Times, April 23, 2005.

  12. See, e.g., “Black Student Sends Threats, Police Say,” (Ohio) Akron Beacon Journal, April 27, 2005.

  13. Sydney H. Schanberg, “Scoop-Hungry Press Fans the Flames of Hate,” Newsday (New York), March 15, 1988.

  14. Holly Planells, United Press International, February 27, 1988.

  15. “‘We, the Grand Jury:’ Text of Its Conclusions in the Tawana Brawley Case,” New York Times, October 7, 1988.

  16. Les Payne, “Tawana Made It Up,” (New York) Newsday, April 27, 1989.

  17. Michael Winerip, “Hidden Victim in Brawley Case Is Civil Rights,” New York Times, October 11, 1988.

  18. “Al Sharpton Defends Himself Against Cocaine Deal Charges,” CNN Crossfire, July 23, 2002.

  19. See, e.g., Dave Goldiner, Sharpton on Drug Sting Tape, Daily News, July 23 2002.

  20. Reverend Al Sharpton discusses various political issues, NBC’s Meet the Press, August 25, 2002.

  21. Michael Winerip, “Our Towns: As a Mob Howls, One in Yonkers Pleads for Sanity,” New York Times, February 2, 1988.

  22. James Feron, “Yonkers Housing Advocate Held in Fake Death Threats,” New York Times, December 1, 1988; “Yonkers ‘Lone Voice’ Admits Fake Threats,” New York Times, April 27, 1989.

  23. Maria Newman, “Officials Pledge Drive to Counter Bias Attack,” New York Times, January 8, 1992.

  24. See, e.g., White Teens Paint Black Children White,” United Press International, January 6, 1992.

  25. Peter Moses, “2 Sides Clash over Bias Puzzle,” New York Post, February 7, 1992.

  26. Joseph A. Gambardello, “White Trio Beats Latino Boy,” (New York) Newsday, January 14, 1992.

  27. Maria Newman, “Police Puzzled by Lack of Leads in Bias Attacks on Black Youths,” New York Times, February 6, 1992.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Peter Moses, “2 Sides Clash over Bias Puzzle”; “The Bronx Bias Investigation,” New York Post, February 7, 1992. Moses also says there was a porno theater across the street from the location of the attack and the security cameras on the outside of the building indicated that no such crime had occurred. (Phone call with Peter Moses, July 28, 2010.)

  30. Maria Newman, “Police Puzzled by Lack of Leads In Bias Attacks.”

  31. “Leads Have Run Out in Youth Bias Attacks,” New York Times, May 10, 1992.

  32. Maria Newman, “Victim of Bias Attack, 14, Wrestles with His Anger,” New York Times, January 9, 1992.

  33. Jim Dwyer, “Race Victim’s Mom: I Wanted a Better Life for My Kids,” (New York) Newsday, January 8, 1992.

  34. Anna Quindlen, Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private (Ballantine Books, 1994) at 12–13.

  35. Frank Wolfe, “Others Don’t Recall What Clinton Does,” (Little Rock) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 9, 1996.

  36. Michael Fumento, “The Great Black Church-Burning Hoax, 1998.” Available at http://fumento.com/racism/column8.html.

  37. “Clinton’s Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination for President,” New York Times, August 30, 1996.

  38. “Remarks by President Bill Clinton at Boys and Girls Nation Ceremony, the East Room, the White House,” Federal News Service, July 18, 1996.

  39. “Transcript of Remarks by President Clinton to Northern California DNC Gala, July 23,” U.S. Newswire, July 24, 1996.

  40. “Transcript of Remarks by President Clinton to Little Rock, Ark.” U.S. Newswire, September 3, 1996.

  41. “Army OKs Discharge of Soldier Accused of Painting Swastikas,” (Quincy, Massachusetts) Patriot Ledger, December 18, 1996.

  42. Sonya Ross, “Jackson Says He Is Ready to Return to Civil Rights Stage,” Associated Press, January 21, 2001.

  43. Bill Press, Tucker Carlson, The Spin Room, CNN, January 18, 2001.

  44. Hannity & Colmes, “Did Jesse Jackson Misuse Rainbow/PUSH Funds?” FOX News Network, January 24, 2001.

  45. Mary A. Mitchell, “Jackson Should Slow His Speedy Recovery,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 23, 2001.

  46. Marc Santora, “Columbia Professor in Noose Case Is Fired on Plagiarism Charges,” New York Times, June 24, 2008; Murray Weiss, “Noose ‘Ties’ Eyed,” New York Post, March 31, 2008.

  47. Wayne King, “FILM:Fact vs. Fiction in Mississippi,” New York Times, December 4, 1988.

  48. Joan Biskupic, “Hate Crime Laws Face Free-Speech Challenge,” Washington Post, December 13, 1992.

  49. Lynda Richardson, “61 Acts of Bias: One Fuse Lights Many Different Explosions,” New York Times, January 28, 1992.

  50. See, e.g., Dennis Hevesi, “Girl Is Raped in Bias Case, Police
Report,” New York Times, January 15, 1992; Richardson, “61 Acts of Bias.”

  51. Tom Collins, “Cops Find Car in Bias Rape,” (New York) Newsday, January 17, 1992.

  52. David Kocieniewski, “Cops Call Bias Attack Report a Lie,” (New York) Newsday, January 18, 1992.

  53. Mary B. W. Tabor, “Police Say Brooklyn Man Faked Bias-Attack Story for Attention,” New York Times, January 18, 1992.

  54. Alison Mitchell, “Police Find Bias Crimes Are Often Wrapped in Ambiguity,” New York Times, January 27, 1992.

  55. Anemona Hartocollis, “‘It Could Happen to Me,’” Newsday (New York), January 19, 1992.

  56. Sheryl McCarthy, “Hey Guv: Only the Players Are Different in This Game of Hate,” (New York) Newsday, January 20, 1992.

  57. Glenn Smith, “‘He’s Getting Off Free in a Way,’ Father Says,” (Charleston, SC) Post and Courier, December 2, 2008.

  58. Jim Finkelstein, “Police Arrest Final Suspect in 1992 Race-Based Slaying,” Detroit Free Press, October 20, 1994.

  59. “N.Y. Defendant Keeps His Own Counsel,” Washington Post, January 27, 1995.

  CHAPTER 5: THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC

  1. Dudley Clendinen, “The Electoral Evangelism of Pat Robertson,” New York Times, September 21, 1986.

  2. Chris Hedges, “Feeling the Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters,” Harpers, May 30, 2005.

  3. James Kirchick, “Where’s the Outrage? Blacks Lifted Calif.’s Anti-Gay Rights Measure,” USA Today, November 12, 2008.

  4. Jake Tapper, “The Skeletons and Suits in Sharpton’s Closet,” Salon.com, June 21, 2003.

  5. “US Legislators Set to Vote on Same-Sex Marriage Bill,” Agence France Presse, July 12, 1996. Clinton himself had given an interview to the gay magazine the Advocate in which he blamed Republicans for the “divisive” law, but was able to avoid charges of simultaneous flip-flopping by virtue of the press not reporting that. His full interview is available only at the Web site of the Queer Resources Directory. “A Letter from President Clinton” dated August 15, 1996, available at http://www.qrd.org/qrd/usa/federal/doma/1996/clinton.letter-08.07.96.

  6. Randy Jurgensen and Robert Cea, Circle of Six (Disinformation Co., 2007) at 51.

  7. Jurgensen at 45–46.

  8. See generally Jurgensen and Cea, Circle of Six; Sam Roberts, “The Mosque, the Mayor and Great Moments on the Playing Field,” New York Times, October 29, 2006.

  9. Jurgensen at 233.

  10. Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy, “Inside Peoples Temple,” New West, August 1, 1977, available at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/JonestownPDF/newWestart.pdf.

  11. Rebecca Moore, “The Demographics of Jonestown,” in “Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple,” Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (Adapted from “Demographics and the Black Religious Culture of Peoples Temple,” in Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America (Bloomington: Indiana Press University, 2005), 57–80, eds., Rebecca Moore, Anthony Pinn and Mary Sawyer, available at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JTResearch/demographics.htm.

  12. See, e.g., Sid Moody and Victoria Graham, Associated Press, November 26, 1978.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Stephen Frazier, “The Onliest One Alive,” CNN, August 10, 1997.

  15. Stephen Schwartz, “Deaths in Waco Recall Jonestown Nightmare,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 1993.

  16. Robert Lindsey, “Jim Jones: From Poverty to Power of Life and Death,” New York Times, November 26, 1978.

  17. Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy, “Inside Peoples Temple.”

  18. Robert Lindsey, “Jim Jones.”

  19. “Inside Peoples Temple.”

  20. Lindsey, “Jim Jones.”

  21. Wallace Turner, “Little Attention Paid to Warnings by Sect’s Leader,” New York Times, November 21, 1978.

  22. Lindsey, “Jim Jones.”

  23. Genoa Barrow, “A Survivor’s Story,” Sacramento Observer, March 18, 2010.

  24. Sid Moody and Victoria Graham, Associated Press, November 26, 1978.

  25. Kenneth L. Woodward, “Temple Trouble.” Newsweek, August 15, 1977.

  26. “U.S. Congressman, Four Others Killed in Guyana Ambush,” Facts on File World News Digest, November 24, 1978.

  27. Charles A. Krause, “Bodies in Guyana Cause Confusion.”

  28. Peter Arnett, Associated Press, November 27, 1978.

  29. See e.g., Michael Taylor, “20 Years Later, Jonestown Survivor Confronts Horrors,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 2, 1998.

  30. Lindsey, “Jim Jones.”

  31. Fielding M. McGehee, comp. The Death Tape, Jonestown Audiotape Primary Project: Transcripts, available at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042.html.

  32. See, e.g., Sid Moody and Victoria Graham, Associated Press, November 26, 1978.

  33. “Garry Visits Jonestown: I Have Been to Paradise,” The Sun Reporter, November 10, 1977, available at http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JonestownReport/Volume9/efreinBefore/images/efreinBefore3-4A.pdf.

  34. Associated Press, “Chas. Garry, Attorney for the Black Panthers,” Los Angeles Times, August 17, 1991.

  35. Gerald Nicosia, Home to War (Crown Publishers, 2001) at 221; Richard Stacewicz, Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Twayne Publishers, 1997) at 294–95.

  36. “Nation: Messiah from the Midwest,” Time, December 4, 1978.

  37. The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, November 14, 2008.

  38. Lester Holt, “Thirty-Year Anniversary of Jonestown Massacre,” NBC Nightly News, November 9, 2008.

  39. “Jury Acquits 2 Members Of Philadelphia Cult,” New York Times, July 23, 1981.

  40. Lee Linder, “MOVE Defendant Accuses Court of Racial Prejudice,” Associated Press, January 2, 1980.

  41. See, e.g., Selwyn Raab, “Philadelphia Officials Vary In Explaining Siege Tactics,” New York Times, May 19, 1985; Bill Peterson, “Huge Fire Destroys House of Philadelphia Radicals: Police Helicopter Drops Explosive Device,” Washington Post, May 14, 1985.

  42. Dan Blake, “Sharpton, Others Call for Indictments in 1985 MOVE Bombing,” Associated Press, November 5, 1988.

  43. Jamal E. Watson, “Louima, Others Decry Police Brutality,” Boston Globe, December 10, 2000.

  44. Michelle Cliff, “Street Justice,” Village Voice, September 15, 1998.

  45. “Supporting the MOVE Prisoners,” Earth First!, June 30, 2002.

  46. See Andrew Sullivan: “The Daily Dish: Wright in Context,” the Atlantic, March 21, 2008, “The Daily Dish: The Polling on Wright,” March 21 2008, “The Daily Dish: Two Wright Decisions,” March 14, 2008, “The Daily Dish: Theology, Politics, Wright and Obama,” March 16, 2008, “The Daily Dish: The Evidence on Wright,” March 16, 2008 and passim.

  47. Editorial: “Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage,” New York Times, March 19, 2008.

  48. Maureen Dowd, “Black, White and Gray,” New York Times, March 19, 2008.

  49. Janny Scott, “A Candidate Chooses Reconciliation Over Rancor,” New York Times, March 19, 2008.

  CHAPTER 6: PEOPLE IN DOORMAN BUILDINGS SHOULDN’T THROW STONES

  1. John H. McWhorter, “Why Blacks Don’t Need Leaders,” City Journal, Summer, 2002.

  2. Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Basic Books, 1996) at 158.

  3. Ramsey Clark, Crime in America: Observations on its Nature, Causes, Prevention and Control (Simon & Schuster, 1970) at 220; (cited in Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Basic Books, 1996) at 23.

  4. Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed at 27.

  5. Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed at 26.

  6. Editorial: “A Man Who Can Be Mayor,” New York Times, May 13, 1965.

  7. Vincent Cannato, The Ungovernable City, (Basic Books, 2002) at 64.

  8. Robert D. McFadden, “John V. Lindsay, Mayor and Maverick, Dies at
79,” New York Times, December 21, 2000.

  9. Fred Siegel, The Future Once Happened Here (Encounter Books, 1997) at 4.

  10. Jan M. Chaikan and Marcia R. Chaikan, “Varieties of Criminal Behavior,” RAND Corporation, August 1982, at 215 (cited in Attorney General William Barr, “Remarks to the Young Republican National Federation,” J. W. Marriott, Federal News Service, March 20, 1992).

  11. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, “Protecting America: The Effectiveness of the Federal Armed Career Criminal Statute,” 1992.

  12. Bob Sipchen, “Putting a Price on Violence,” Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1994.

  13. John J. DiIulio, “Activist Judges Earn Dunce Caps for Their Prison Caps,” Philly.com, October 31, 1994. Available at http://articles.philly.com/1994-10-31/news/25870404_1_prison-cap-prison-violence-crime-bill.

  14. “Truth in Sentencing in State Prisons,” U.S. Department Of Justice, January 10, 1999.

  15. John J. DiIulio, “Activist Judges Earn Dunce Caps For Their Prison Caps.”

  16. “The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan,” Daily Beast, May 3, 2008. Available at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/05/03/the-left-starts-to-rethink-reagan.html.

  17. Quoted in Michael W. Flamm, “‘Law and Order’ at Large: The New York Civilian Review Board Referendum of 1966 and the Crisis of Liberalism,” The Historian, March 22, 2002.

  18. Joseph P. Viteritti, “Police, Politics, and Pluralism in New York City: A Comparative Case Study” (Beverly Hills, 1973), at 12. (Cited in Michael W. Flamm, “‘Law and Order’ at Large.”

  19. Confidential survey for Roy Wilkins by John F. Kraft Inc., August 1966, “Harlem, 1966–67,” Box 32A, Group IV, NAACP Papers, LOC. (Cited in Michael W. Flamm, “‘Law and Order’ at Large.”

  20. Spiro T. Agnew, Statement at Conference with Civil Rights and Community Leaders, reprinted in ChickenBones: A Journal, available at http://www.nathanielturner.com/agnewspeakstoblackbaltimoreleaders1968.htm.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Quoted in “’68: The Fire Last Time,” Part 4 (narrated by Sunni Khalid). See, Baltimore ’68: Riots & Rebirth, available at http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr/archival-resources/documents/wypr-part-4.pdf.

  23. Marvin Olasky, “History Turned Right Side Up, World magazine, February 13, 2010. Available at http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16346.