Chgo Sun-Times: Violent White Men 'Not Held Accountable for Their Actions'

Mary Mitchell is sure of it, if you aren't

by: warner todd huston | published: 07 10, 2008

Did you know that violent white men are never arrested for their actions? The Chicago Sun-Times' Mary Mitchell is sure of it, if you aren't. In another of her typically race baiting articles, Mitchell this time says that any time a white man is engaged in violent behavior, he is let off "to go on his merry way," never to be "held accountable" for his actions. Race monger Mitchell is sure of this, see, because she saw a traffic scuffle between two "old white guys" where no arrests were made by Chicago police.

Two "old white guys" let go without arrest after a traffic altercation? Wow, case closed, racism exists, eh?

Mitchell claims she saw a traffic altercation where one white guy jumped from his car and verbally abused another white man in the car behind him. The Chicago police were called and, in the end, both drivers were told to "go on their merry way," as Mitchell put it. No arrests were made. Then again, no real violence occurred, either.

Mitchell claims she and other witnesses were stunned.

Then, things fall apart. Honda is back in the car and drives away. What? We witnesses don’t understand. Shouldn’t this guy remain on the scene, or be escorted to the police station? Don’t the cops need to write up some kind of report or dispense some tickets for traffic violations? (Obstructing traffic, for starters.)... Then the cuffs are taken off of Explorer and he, too, is allowed to go on his merry way. No ticket. No arrest.

The police explain to Mitchell that the man accosted did not want to press charges, so the incident was over.

But, this didn't stop Mitchell from imagining she saw racism in this incident... of course, Mitchell sees racism in everything under the sun. After explaining what she saw, Mitchell goes off on a tired-of-the-man-keeping-me-down rant that is just as silly as it is unsupported by any real facts.

Not equal justice:

This is American justice for white men. The other side of what is typically picked up by the media. Images of black and Latino men, young and old, who get yanked from their vehicles, strong-armed, handcuffed, frisked, and physically held, sometimes by the bottom of an officer’s shoe, on the street until they are loaded into a wagon and carted off to the nearest holding pen.

This is how white men are (not) held accountable for their actions. I can imagine how this whole scene would have been dealt with by authorities had the brawlers been men of color.

Not one of the cops I saw held their hand instinctively, protectively over their weapons, a hair trigger away. I suppose everyone knows that old white guys, even when they’re perps, are just not that scary.

"Justice for white men?"

Mitchell is the Sun-Times' resident race monger, a large portion of her columns seem to have been dredged up from 1956, but this one is poor even by her low standards. I mean, is she serious that this anecdotal evidence is enough to state a thing as fact? All black men would be jailed in an exactly similar incident? Apparently so.

Did Mitchell offer any statistics to buttress her wild claim? Did she show any studies or police reports? Not a one. She just made the wild leap of logic to comply with her prejudices.

Her capper is a piece of work, too.

Still, I wouldn’t take any chances. Beware of an angry white man driving a Ford Explorer, who thinks, and now knows from experience, that he is entitled to do whatever he wants whenever he wants to whomever he wants with little fear that there’ll be consequences or repercussions.

In light of this line of “reasoning,” how many black athletes can we point to where this line applies? Has there not been many a black athlete who has repeatedly broken the law on many levels but felt that he was "entitled to do whatever he wants whenever he wants to whomever he wants with little fear that there’ll be consequences or repercussions"?

Should I look at the example of black athletes and make that an excuse to say that all black men can get away with anything they want, that they are never held accountable for their actions? If not, why not?

I wonder what race-monger Mitchell would say to that?

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  April D

  I'm a white female and it doesn't take a genius to know that Chicago cops are racist against blacks. Cops in Chicago pull over blacks all the time and arrest them for no reason. I lived in Chicago and experienced this first hand. White men rarely get punished for violence, crime and pedefilia (for example republican congressmen). They have a sense of entitlement and think they can get by with crime because they always have -and they DO! They love to claim that black men are the "bad guys" because of statistics. Duh! I wonder why! Blacks are the main target of cops, so stats are higher with blacks. I see white guys at my apt. complex smoking weed on their balcony, yelling profanity and disturbing the peace and the cops don't do a thing. Black guys would automatically be arrested. I was raised in a small mid-west town and saw wife-beating, dirty, child-molesting white men that the cops just greeted with a smile and had coffee with. When men rarely get punished. I totally agree with Mary.

  
  

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  Debra B.

  How dose this woman even get to be on a news paper? she is nothing but a racist ! the only reason racism is still alive is because people like her ,Jessie Jackson, Al Shapton and so Obama keep stoking the fires as long as people like this keep doing racism will never go away !!!

  
  

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  Joseph

  I don’t have to look at the article. The claim that white men get away with murder in law enforcement is proven in our media. Tiger Woods has been given hell by the public for doing something that David Letterman did around the exact same time. Not only was Letterman’s backlash significantly less severe but he was seen as the good guy by many because he exposed his adultery for the sole purposes of ratting out someone who was blackmailing him. Woods is still in the media having to make apologies and such meanwhile Letterman is cracking jokes while the majority white public doesn’t have a word of repraoch for him. I might also like to add that on websites where guests can post to and where Tiger Woods was the topic, I saw countless anti-black slurs. This was not the case for Letterman.

  Kanye West was treated as if he had committed a homicide in around September of last year when he interrupted a white teenager at an Award show; meanwhile, Joe Wilson had interrupted our half-black president and not only did it strike up nearly as much public backlash, but half the public was praising him for it if you looked internet community feedback. Wilson also received no anti-white slurs like Kanye West did and any black celebrity seems to elicit when they do something wrong in the media.

  On the previous season of The Real World, a minority girl named Ayiia was constantly at odds with a white boy named Joey. Even though Ayiia’s behavior was unacceptable, Joey was always the troublemaker, spitting in Ayiia’s food, telling her to cut herself knowing she had issues with that. Despite all this, Ayiiia received harassment and hate mail from fans all over youtube, her personal myspace e-mail as she constantly had to close it, etc. Joey was praised and complimented all over the place.

  Even white women are constantly hassled by the media. If you reflect on the previous decade, white women were always in the media for doing something wrong and rarely if ever a white man: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Rosi O’Donnell, etc. The one time a white man was in the media for doing something wrong, he was a gay white man: Clay Aiken and that was because he put his hands on someone and wasn’t out about his sexuality.

  The Serena Williams incident regarding her cursing out a linesman saw a backlash full of anti-black remarks in the Internet world. This is something white celebrity’s don’t have to deal with like black celebrity’s and the entire black community for that matter.

  The only way white men can get in trouble in the media is if they do something as objectionable as making anti-black comments and that’s it. Even still, the backlash isn’t all that bad for white men who make anti-black slurs because the majority white public just responds to it with “If a black person did something like this, they could get away with it but let a white person do it and all hell breaks loose!”, “Blacks need to stop thinking they’re owed something!” “Oh cry me a river! Big deal he called the black guy a jiggaboo. It’s just a word. Blacks are always crying racism!” “Oh so he called him the n word! Stop playing the race card!”
  As an example, John Mayer was asked if black women hit on him. He answered by stating that he wasn’t attracted to black women so much so that you could group him up with anti-black hate groups and public figures (white supremacist and some famous KKK leader). He polished that off by then using the n word later on in the interview. Even though he went racial, this hasn’t turned into what Kanye West did and half of the public is sympathizing with him despite his anti-black commentary during Black History month.

  I mean, to see that white men are able to get away with murder, you don’t even have to look at the 5 century long era of anti-black cruelties from the 1500s through the 1970s (slavery era 1500 to 1865 / legalized racial discrimination and cruelties from 1865 through the 1970s) when whites weren’t considered criminals for all their grisly acts against blacks. You can look at today and how blacks are racially profiled by law enforcement and receive severer penalties than do whites. There’s a such thing as white privilege and white men have it more than any other group, including white women!

  
  

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  Joseph

  I don’t have to look at the article. The claim that white men get away with murder in law enforcement is proven in our media. Tiger Woods has been given hell by the public for doing something that David Letterman did around the exact same time. Not only was Letterman’s backlash significantly less severe but he was seen as the good guy by many because he exposed his adultery for the sole purposes of ratting out someone who was blackmailing him. Woods is still in the media having to make apologies and such meanwhile Letterman is cracking jokes while the majority white public doesn’t have a word of repraoch for him. I might also like to add that on websites where guests can post to and where Tiger Woods was the topic, I saw countless anti-black slurs. This was not the case for Letterman.

  Kanye West was treated as if he had committed a homicide in around September of last year when he interrupted a white teenager at an Award show; meanwhile, Joe Wilson had interrupted our half-black president and not only did it strike up nearly as much public backlash, but half the public was praising him for it if you looked internet community feedback. Wilson also received no anti-white slurs like Kanye West did and any black celebrity seems to elicit when they do something wrong in the media.

  On the previous season of The Real World, a minority girl named Ayiia was constantly at odds with a white boy named Joey. Even though Ayiia’s behavior was unacceptable, Joey was always the troublemaker, spitting in Ayiia’s food, telling her to cut herself knowing she had issues with that. Despite all this, Ayiiia received harassment and hate mail from fans all over youtube, her personal myspace e-mail as she constantly had to close it, etc. Joey was praised and complimented all over the place.

  Even white women are constantly hassled by the media. If you reflect on the previous decade, white women were always in the media for doing something wrong and rarely if ever a white man: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Rosi O’Donnell, etc. The one time a white man was in the media for doing something wrong, he was a gay white man: Clay Aiken and that was because he put his hands on someone and wasn’t out about his sexuality.

  The Serena Williams incident regarding her cursing out a linesman saw a backlash full of anti-black remarks in the Internet world. This is something white celebrity’s don’t have to deal with like black celebrity’s and the entire black community for that matter.

  The only way white men can get in trouble in the media is if they do something as objectionable as making anti-black comments and that’s it. Even still, the backlash isn’t all that bad for white men who make anti-black slurs because the majority white public just responds to it with “If a black person did something like this, they could get away with it but let a white person do it and all hell breaks loose!”, “Blacks need to stop thinking they’re owed something!” “Oh cry me a river! Big deal he called the black guy a jiggaboo. It’s just a word. Blacks are always crying racism!” “Oh so he called him the n word! Stop playing the race card!”
  As an example, John Mayer was asked if black women hit on him. He answered by stating that he wasn’t attracted to black women so much so that you could group him up with anti-black hate groups and public figures (white supremacist and some famous KKK leader). He polished that off by then using the n word later on in the interview. Even though he went racial, this hasn’t turned into what Kanye West did and half of the public is sympathizing with him despite his anti-black commentary during Black History month.

  I mean, to see that white men are able to get away with murder, you don’t even have to look at the 5 century long era of anti-black cruelties from the 1500s through the 1970s (slavery era 1500 to 1865 / legalized racial discrimination and cruelties from 1865 through the 1970s) when whites weren’t considered criminals for all their grisly acts against blacks. You can look at today and how blacks are racially profiled by law enforcement and receive severer penalties than do whites. There’s a such thing as white privilege and white men have it more than any other group, including white women!

  
  

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  Frank C.

  I guess all crimes must be treated equally, regardless of severity. Getting out of the car, yelling at a motorist must be punished with the same penalty as selling drugs, armed robbery, evading police, or other activities that currently warrant the bottom of a cop's foot on your chest.

  
  

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