{"id":583,"date":"2013-07-01T02:16:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T06:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:43:52","slug":"you-dont-have-to-be-black-to-riot-by-stacy-swimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2013\/07\/01\/you-dont-have-to-be-black-to-riot-by-stacy-swimp\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Have to Be Black to Riot, by Stacy Swimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-584 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/swimp_sm-5.jpg\" alt=\"swimp_sm\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>On July 4, a Tea Party activist and aspiring humorist named &#8220;Wild Bill&#8221; posted a video on YouTube entitled &#8220;White Guy Riot.&#8221; In it, he suggests, &#8220;rumors are flying in Florida that if George Zimmerman is acquitted, blacks will riot all across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">&#8220;And it has been suggested,&#8221; Wild Bill adds, &#8220;that if George Zimmerman is convicted, that whites should riot.&#8221; He continued: &#8220;When I heard that, my first thought was that someone would have to teach us how.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">Trying to be funny, Wild Bill, who is white, goes on to suggest only a few whites would actually show up, would forget to bring a lighter to start fires and &#8220;as soon as they broke a few things, they would feel bad, go to the hardware store, buy stuff and go back and fix what they broke&#8221; before apologizing for their rioting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">Whether he meant to or not, Wild Bill&#8217;s video promotes the concept that whites don&#8217;t riot, and therefore are inherently more moral than blacks. Such a sentiment does a disservice to the Tea Party movement he claims to represent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">In light of the fact that some black radicals posted online comments promoting rioting and physical harm toward white Americans in the wake of a Zimmerman acquittal, should one occur, I don&#8217;t fault people for wanting to arm themselves. What I don&#8217;t agree with is Wild Bill&#8217;s false notion that &#8220;rioting is not for amateurs like [whites].&#8221; This is absurd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">While the video may be intended as satire, it is in bad taste at best and racist at worst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">Perhaps Wild Bill should review the riot mentality of the Occupy Wall Street protestors, who not only were overwhelmingly white and certainly knew how to riot but also created an environment in many encampments where women were reportedly raped and property was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">There are plenty for historical examples of proving that white Americans can riot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"style3\">White socialists helped spark the May Day Riots of 1894 in Cleveland, Ohio that advanced the cause of organized labor in America.<\/li>\n<li class=\"style3\">Whites in the post-Civil War south formed the Ku Klux Klan during reconstruction and rioted in several southern cities, terrorizing both whites and blacks who sought to vote and conduct lawful business.<\/li>\n<li class=\"style3\">Whites rioted in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, burning down an affluent black community that was called the &#8220;Black Wall Street.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"style2\">Outside of the United States, lots of whites regularly riot at European soccer games as well as against the police in London, England in 2011. The English band The Clash had their first hit in 1977 with the song &#8220;White Riot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">If still not convinced, go to &#8220;Google Images&#8221; and type in the search term, &#8220;World Trade Organization riot.&#8221; What do you see?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">In none of these examples are there reports of rioters returning later with supplies to fix what they broke. Wild Bill&#8217;s claims that whites would feel guilty after rioting is unsupported by substantive evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">Black conservative blogger Talitha McEachin notes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">I am a black American who grew up in and still lives in a predominantly black community. I have heard no one in my community speaking of rioting if George Zimmerman is acquitted, nor have we ever had a single riot since I&#8217;ve been alive. Instead of making such wild accusations based on race and the threats of a few morons (whom I disagree with strongly) who do not represent the majority of black people, Wild Bill needs to get out more and actually start asking us how we feel. We are no less apt to respect the structure of law and order than any law-abiding white citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">Wild Bill, whose YouTube channel has over 20,000 subscribers and more than 7.5 million views of his hundreds of videos, may not have meant to sound racist. He may not be aware of the hateful and divisive nature in which his message can be viewed. But there is a significant difference between good intentions and unintended consequences, and his video commentary is irresponsible, immature and reckless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">The Tea Party movement, which I support and have spoken to at rallies, already has enough trouble dealing with false and exaggerated accusations of racial insensitivity. There is no need to provide what some could claim is proof of such insensitivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2 style1 style3\" align=\"center\"># # #<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2 style1 style3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/bios\/P21Speakers_Swimp.html\"><strong>Stacy Swimp<\/strong><\/a> is a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network. Comments may be sent to <a href=\"mailto:Project21@nationalcenter.org\">Project21@nationalcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\"><span class=\"style2 style1 style1 style1\">Published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/index.html\">National Center for Public Policy Research<\/a>. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. New Visions Commentaries reflect the views of their author, and not necessarily those of <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/P21Index.html\">Project 21<\/a>, other Project 21 members, or the National Center for Public Policy Research, its board or staff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 4, a Tea Party activist and aspiring humorist named &#8220;Wild Bill&#8221; posted a video on YouTube entitled &#8220;White Guy Riot.&#8221; In it, he suggests, &#8220;rumors are flying in Florida that if George Zimmerman is acquitted, blacks will riot all across the country.&#8221; &#8220;And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,60],"tags":[84],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You Don&#039;t Have to Be Black to Riot, by Stacy Swimp - 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