Finally: A White Riot.
In Newark, Delaware in September of 2013, police disbursed more than 3000 rowdy teenagers who were just blowing off some steam at a “Shmacked Tour” party event.
Everyone was white. There might have been a few Asians and Hispanics here and there. But they don’t count. White was the color of this crime.
More than 1,000 people were partying in the backyard of a house, where a DJ was spinning. When police arrived, the crowd broke up, blocking traffic on South College Avenue and Main Street. Police say many of the students walked on the hoods of cars.
After the party broke up, the crowd -- mostly of students from the University of Delaware -- swelled to 3000, say police. Local media called it a “riot.”609
The New York Daily News gave it the full Five Star fire-alarm treatment: “University of Delaware students rampage at riot party.”610ABC national news could not decide if it was a riot or a near-riot, but it did report students destroyed at least one garbage can and others walked on a few lawns. They called that trespassing. Other network affiliates in Philadelphia breathlessly followed suit.611
News of the white riot should provide some comfort to pundits at MSNBC and other liberal outlets. They insist that my stories in WND’s, FrontPage, Breitbart, American Thinker and other places -- are distorted because the news site and book ignore racial violence from white people.
They are right on this: If white and Asians were doing it too, well, then this book would not exist.
But even the most devoted denier of black mob violence has to admit white mob mayhem is harder to find. Even so, contrasted with many of the more than thousands of examples of black mob violence in WND and White Girl Bleed a Lot and this book, this “riot” has to be considered something of a disappointment.
Tepid, even. Consider there were:
No fractured skulls.
No Apple picking.
No panicked calls to 911.
No bricks through storefronts.
No bottles thrown at cops.
No murders.
No stabbings.
No kick downs.
No bloody faces.
No broken jaws.
No one in the hospital.
No gunfire.
No locks in socks.
No permanent brain damage.
No racist threats.
No beating old people.
No grandmothers screaming their little boy was a good boy and just ignore the gang tattoos and gun pictures on Facebook.
No kicking pregnant women.
No baseball bats in the face.
No robberies.
No pushing people into moving cars on a busy street.
No toddler taunting.
No cop fighting.
No families showing up with weapons at the emergency room.
Just one measly car fire. And a couple of people jumped on cars.
There was some public urination. And a few guys dropped their drawers, displaying their tighty whities. Other than that, a few parents wondered what videos of their children acting stupidly were doing up on the Internet.
You call that a riot?
Come on, man.
The Shmacked Tour is organized by a video company that goes from college town to college town, filming college kids in their natural environment. The charge $20 to $75 a ticket. Think lots of beer and scantily clad college girls. Kind of a “Girls Go Wild” lite. The videos of the parties attract hundreds of thousands of viewers.
The company also sells t-shirts and other accessories.
On the bright side, they did have some pretty good excuses. The founder of the roving frat bash, Arya Toufania, explained it all to the Daily News after he learned his cameraman was one of three people arrested at the “riot.”612
"The real instigators of the riot were the police. They could have shut the party down, cornered it off, it just seemed as if they were, like, monitoring the riot."
At least they got that part right. The excuses, that is. And blaming the cops is the mark of a real veteran of this kind of thing. Well played, sir!
Meanwhile, the same night a few miles up the freeway in Chester, Pennsylvania, 100 black people were fighting in the street. Ten people were arrested. No one called that a riot. They called it a large fight. There was even some cop beating going on: “Several officers were struck, kick and punched while trying to break up the fight.”
By any measure: Way, way worse than the white riot down the road. Had it happened on a slightly busier news day, or had this story fallen into the lap of a columnist less gifted than Stephanie Farr, no one would ever have heard of this fight.
When Philly.com tracked down Chester Police Commissioner Joseph Bail Jr. to ask about that riot, he put it all in perspective:613
"We've had bigger."