Black mob violence is ruining their business, say the owners of a popular nightclub. Just like it ruined the businesses of 15 other nearby nightspots that recently closed.
Except this is not in America. These hot spots are in London.
This declaration of racial violence came in 2014 from the owners and managers of the Fridge Club, an iconic three-story venue where as many as 300 people can be found staying up all night to dance, drink and often use drugs. But lately violence is ruining the buzz:
The absolute majority of people who have disrupted these venues are black men and increasingly some black women. There, I said it. It is true, I have witnessed it and there is both anecdotal and empirical evidence that what I say is true.369
The post lists 15 South London clubs that recently closed because of black mob violence: “Almost every single venue has closed because of violence, the threat of violence, disrespect to their staff and coming to the inevitable conclusion that it is better to close than putting up with that bullshit,” they said. “Unless and until young black people (18-35) learn to conduct themselves in a civil manner then the night time economy will be closed or severely restricted to you.”370
I know some will say that it is a 'minority' doing the damage but I disagree. The minority knows that they have the support of the majority who fail to call them out when their behaviour becomes awful. I spoke to the owner yesterday of one of Brixton’s best known venues that has had serious problems since Xmas and he has now secretly put the place up for sale. He does not want to be construed as 'racist' by stating the blindingly obvious about where the majority of the trouble is stemming from.
The post spread through several large English news sites, including the London Evening Standard. The Huffington Post UK edition was among the first to send out the “shocking” news of the “explosive rant.” But if the liberal web site was expecting a tsunami of condemnation, its editors would soon be disappointed:
“The owners of Fridge Bar are black,” she said. “Most of the staff, event organisers, security team and fund-providers, are black. Anyone who regularly raves in South London (as I do, including in Fridge Bar) can acknowledge some validity to the points raised in the original post.”
Others pleaded for understanding because the perpetrators of the violence may have been “dealt bad cards.” Skant Chandan said the violence is perfectly understandable because it is the result of “colonial invasions.”
Scholars of Critical Race Theory in the United States often say slavery is the cause of disproportionate amounts of black mob violence and black on white crime. But slavery was almost non-existent in England. The slave trade was outlawed in 1807. An anti-slavery legal judgment from 100 years prior to that declared black people are “free; one may be a villein in England, but not a slave.”