Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama

  24. C. Clark Kissinger, Discover the Networks: A Guide to the Political Left, available at http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1386.

  25. “Victim Claims No Robbery Plans: Mother Says No Hard Feeling,” Associated Press, January 11, 1985.

  26. United Press International, “Goetz ‘Looked Like Easy Bait,’” Chicago Tribune, November 27, 1985.

  27. Esther Pessin, “Goetz Says His Alleged Victim Was ‘Stupid to Commit Crime,” United Press International, October 31, 1985.

  28. See, e.g., Selwyn Raab, “4 Youths Shot by Goetz Faced Criminal Counts,” New York Times, January 10, 1985; George P. Fletcher, A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (University of Chicago Press, 1990) at 107.

  29. Todd S. Purdum, “2 of Those Shot by Goetz Face New Jail Terms,” New York Times, April 9, 1986.

  30. William Johnson, “Subway Vigilante Struck a Nerve,” (Canada) Globe and Mail, January 18, 1985 (citing Daily News poll). According to a New York Newsday poll, both groups favored Goetz, but whites were more favorable, supporting Goetz 56 percent to 26 percent, compared to 45 percent to 33 percent, among blacks. Robert D. McFadden, “Poll Indicates Half of New Yorkers See Crime as City’s Chief Problem,” New York Times, January 14, 1985 (citing Newsday poll).

  31. Phil McCombs, “The Vigilante Mystique: Exploring an American Phenomenon, from Gunslingers to Goetz,” Washington Post, January 17, 1985.

  32. Paul Galloway, “Bearing Arms: The Rewards, the Risks,” Chicago Tribune, February 24, 1985.

  33. John Leo and Jack E. White, “Behavior: Low Profile for a Legend Bernard Goetz,” Time, January 21, 1985.

  34. Carol Vecchione, untitled article, United Press International, February 23, 1985.

  35. Galloway, “Bearing Arms.”

  36. David E. Sanger, “The Little-Known World of the Vigilante,” New York Times, December 30, 1984.

  37. Tom Morganthau with Lynda Wright, “A Goetz Backlash,” Newsweek, March 11, 1985.

  38. Richard Cohen, “What Was Goetz Thinking?” Washington Post, March 2, 1985.

  39. Untitled article, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, January 2, 1985.

  40. Margot Hornblower, “Wounded Youth Denies Intent to Rob New York City ‘Subway Vigilante,’” Washington Post, January 11, 1985.

  41. Esther B. Fein, “For Goetz Victim’s Mother, Worry and Self-Doubt,” New York Times January 12, 1985.

  42. Ibid.

  43. George P. Fletcher, A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law at 182–83.

  44. Kirk Johnson, “Youth Shot in Subway Says He Didn’t Approach Goetz,” New York Times, May 20, 1987.

  45. Fletcher, A Crime of Self-Defense at 182–83.

  46. Joseph R. Tybor, “Message of Fear: Goetz’s Acquittal Reflects American Beliefs,” Chicago Tribune, June 21, 1987.

  47. Ibid.

  48. David E. Pitt, “Blacks See Goetz Verdict as Blow to Race Relations,” New York Times, June 18, 1987.

  49. Ibid.

  50. McWhorter, “Why Blacks Don’t Need Leaders.”

  51. Grutter v. Bollinger 539 U.S. 306 (2003), et al. (Thomas J., concurring and dissenting;) (quoting “What the Black Man Wants: An Address Delivered in Boston, Massachusetts, on 26 January 1865,” reprinted in 4 The Frederick Douglass Papers 59, 68, (J. Blassingame and& J. McKivigan, eds., 1991).

  52. Bill Keller, “Mr. Diversity,” New York Times, June 28, 2003.

  CHAPTER 7: LIBERAL-BLACK RELATIONS: THEIR LANDLORD AND THEIR FRIEND

  1. See, e.g., Michael Barone, “The New Continental Divides,” U.S. News & World Report, November 6, 1994 (noting that the Irish have done well in hierarchies, but “haven’t fared as well in free-market commerce”).

  2. Jonathan Eig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season (Simon & Schuster, 2008) at 7.

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

  4. Michael Moore, Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (Regan Books, 2004) at 79.

  5. Chris Dixon, “Vows: Sarah Staveley-O’Carroll and Michael Matthews,” New York Times, April 1, 2010.

  6. Mary Vespa, “Tom Wicker & Pam Hill: A Mixed-Media Marriage Changes Their Luck,” People magazine, April 28, 1975.

  7. Patricia McCormack, “Kids Lean to Reagan, Anderson, Informal Polls Show,” United Press International, November 1, 1980. Reagan also won nationally in high schools and junior high school polls. Meanwhile, the Washington Post called the elderly “a bedrock of Carter’s southern base.” See Edward Walsh, “Carter Says Reagan Can’t Be Trusted With Presidency,” Washington Post, October 11, 1980.

  CHAPTER 8: RODNEY KING—THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EDIT IN HISTORY

  1. KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, “Rodney King: Videotaped Beating.” Peabody Awards, Winners, 1990s. Available at http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_ 1990s.php.

  2. Lou Cannon, Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (Basic Books, 1999) at 39.

  3. Cannon, Official Negligence at 25.

  4. Trial Testimony of Rodney King, available at Los Angeles Police Officers’ (Rodney King Beating) Trials, University of Missouri School of Law. Available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingownwords.html.

  5. Cannon at 43.

  6. Unable to use intermediate force, female law enforcement officers are much more likely to shoot civilians than their male counterparts. John R. Lott Jr., “Does a Helping Hand Put Others at Risk? Affirmative Action, Police Departments and Crime,” Economic Inquiry, April 1, 2000.

  7. Cannon at 38.

  8. Karl Vick, “Another Acquittal Would Be No Surprise,” (Florida) St. Petersburg Times, August 6, 1992.

  9. Sergeant Stacey Koon, Presumed Guilty: The Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair (Regnery Publishing, 1992), quoted in Los Angeles police officers’ (Rodney King beating) trials, University of Missouri School of Law, available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingownwords.html.)

  10. “Nightline: In the Mind of the Jury,” ABC News, March 8, 1993.

  11. Roger Parloff, “Maybe the Jury Was Right,” American Lawyer, June 1992.

  12. Cannon at xix–xx.

  13. Walter Williams, “TV Deception in Rodney King Case,” Dallas Morning News, January 2, 1993.

  14. Official Negligence at 21 and 23.

  15. Address to the Nation on the Civil Disturbances in Los Angeles, California, Public Papers of the President, May 1, 1992.

  16. “Two Juries, Two Verdicts,” ABC News, April 27, 1993.

  17. John Hurst and Leslie Berger, “Four Officers—Their Paths to Trial,” Los Angeles Times, February 3, 1992.

  18. “Nightline: In the Mind of the Jury,” ABC News, March 8, 1993.

  19. News Conference with the Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies and Home Box Office re: Comprehensive Assessment of Views of African American Electorate in the 1992 Presidential Year, Federal News Service, July 8, 1992.

  20. “The Times Poll; ‘Moral Leadership’ Needed in Inner Cities, Voters Say,” Los Angeles Times, May 23, 1992.

  21. Three officers were acquitted, and the jury failed to reach a verdict on the fourth officer.

  22. David Whitman, “The Untold Story of the LA Riot,” U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1993.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Edward J. Boyer, “In Bradley’s Wake, a Heated Rivalry Boils,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1993.

  25. Eugene Yi, “LA Riots, in Our Own Words,” KoreAm April 29, 2012. Available at http://iamkoream.com/april-issue-la-riots-in-our-own-words/.

  26. Douglas P. Shuit, “Waters Focuses Her Rage at System,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1992.

  27. See, e.g., Robert Rector, “The Size and Scope Of Means-Tested Welfare Spending,” The Heritage Foundation, August 1, 2001. Available at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Testimony/The-Size-and-Scope-Of-Mea
ns-Tested-Welfare-Spending; Chris Edwards, “Food Subsidies, Cato Institute: Downsizing the Federal Government,” July 2009. Available at http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/agriculture/food-subsidies.

  28. David Whitman, “The Untold Story of the LA Riot,” U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1993.

  29. Brandi Hitt, “From the KTLA Vaults: The Rodney King Beating, 20 Years Later,” March 3, 2011. Available at http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-rodney-king-20-years,0,6945898.story.

  30. Brandi Hitt, “From the KTLA Vaults: The Rodney King Beating, 20 Years Later.”

  31. Cannon at 22.

  32. Richard Horgan, “Idiot Box: Lingerie Models Warm Up KTLA Morning Forecast,” February 14, 2012. Available at http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/ ktla-morning-news-mark-kriski-henry-dicarlo-fredericks-hollywood-valentines-day_b53211.

  33. POW Pledge from ABC, May 1993, http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1993/05b.html.

  34. Jim Newton and John L. Mitchell, “Symbolism Alters Image of Suspects in Denny Beating, Los Angeles Times, December 27, 1992.

  35. John McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (Free Press, 2000) at 69.

  36. William Hamilton, “King, Denny Cases: To Many, a Contrast in Black and White,” The Washington Post, February 25, 1993.

  37. Cannon at 609.

  38. Jay Nordlinger, “Shrill Waters; Move Aside, James Carville: Big Bad Max Is the Loudest, Toughest, Meanest Clinton-Defender of Them All,” National Review, January 25, 1999.

  39. Editorial: “The Crown Heights Acquittal,” The New York Times, October 31, 1992.

  40. See, e.g., John R. Lott Jr., “Analysis: Reckless Mortgages Brought Financial Market to Its Knees,” September 18, 2008, available at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424945,00.html#ixzz1ulnTqidV.

  CHAPTER 9: THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY: MARK FUHRMAN’S FELONY CONVICTION

  1. PBS Frontline: “The O.J. Verdict.” Available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/view/.

  2. BBC, “On This Day, 1995: O. J. Simpson verdict ‘Not guilty.’” Available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/3/newsid_2486000/2486673.stm.

  3. See, e.g., Michael Sneed, Chicago Sun-Times, September 27, 1995; Timothy Appleby, “Mistrust of Police Simpson’s Big Hope,” (Canada) Globe and Mail, September 25, 1995.

  4. See, e.g., Will Bunch, “The Great Divide,” Philadelphia Daily News, October 4, 1995.

  5. Bill Smith, “Moment in Time: Verdict Broadcast Grips St. Louis,” (Missouri) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 4, 1995.

  6. “Students Charged in Attack after O.J. Verdict Read,” (Missouri) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 6, 1995.

  7. “Racial Division Appears Deep at O.J. Verdict,” (Tennessee) Chattanooga Free Press, October 4, 1995.

  8. “O.J. Verdict Sparks Beating in Colo.,” United Press International, October 6, 1995.

  9. Mark Fuhrman, Murder in Brentwood (Regnery Publishing, 1997) at 122–23.

  10. Fuhrman, Murder in Brentwood at 268–71.

  11. “Sex in Sacramento,” Newsweek, April 3, 1995.

  12. Cochran compared Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler, saying:

  “There was another man, not too long ago in the world, who had those same views, who wanted to burn people, who had racist views and ultimately had power over people in his country. People didn’t care. People said, ‘He’s just crazy, he’s just a half-baked painter.’ And they didn’t do anything about it. This man, this scourge, became one of the worst people in the history of this world, Adolf Hitler, because people didn’t care or didn’t try to stop him. He had the power over his racism.” Nightline, ABC News, September 28, 1995.

  13. Fox Butterfield, “A Portrait of the Detective in the ‘O. J. Whirlpool,’” New York Times, March 2, 1996.

  14. Butterfield, “A Portrait of the Detective in the ‘O. J. Whirlpool.’”

  15. Ibid.

  16. “Panel Discussion on the Perjury Trial of Former Los Angeles Detective Mark Fuhrman,” Rivera Live, CNBC, October 2, 1996.

  17. “Simpson Jurors Speak Out on How They Reached a Verdict,” ABC News, October 4, 1995.

  18. “Fuhrman Plea-Bargain an Outrage That Taints Criminal Justice System,” (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) Sun-Sentinel, October 4, 1996.

  19. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Tap on Wrist,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 4, 1996.

  20. “Fuhrman Plea Is a Travesty,” Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville), October 4, 1996.

  21. “Disgraced Cop in Simpson Case Deserved Jail,” Buffalo News (New York), October 4, 1996.

  22. “Editorial: Mark Fuhrman, His Own Tangled Web,” (Durham, NC) Herald-Sun, October 4, 1996.

  23. “Another Injustice from O.J. Simpson’s Murder Trial,” (Idaho) Lewiston Morning Tribune, October 5, 1996.

  24. William Raspberry, “Justice Deferred and Denied,” Washington Post, October 07, 1996.

  25. Carl T. Rowan, “A Slap on the Wrist,” Chicago Sun-Times, October 6, 1996.

  26. “Ex-Juror Predicts Simpson Deadlock; Court Investigates Allegations That Panel Improperly Discussed Case,” Washington Post, April 7, 1995.

  27. “Excerpts of Testimony Given by Dismissed Juror to Judge Ito,” Associated Press, April 13, 1995.

  28. Bob Pool and Amy Pyle, “Case Was Weak, Race Not Factor, Two Jurors Say,” Los Angeles Times, October 5, 1995.

  29. “Will the Real Mark Fuhrman Stand Up?” The Geraldo Rivera Show, April 23, 1997.

  30. “Fred, Patti and Kim Goldman Discuss the Simpson Trials and Their New Book,” Rivera Live, February 17, 1997.

  31. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Perjury Revisited,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 4, 1996.

  32. “Fuhrman Plea-Bargain an Outrage.”

  33. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Tap on Wrist.”

  34. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Price for Perjury Doesn’t Cover the Harm Done,” (Indiana) South Bend Tribune, October 13, 1996.

  35. Editorial: “Mark Fuhrman, His Own Tangled Web.”

  36. See, e.g., Rowan, “A Slap on the Wrist” (“The judge in the civil trial now will probably find it impossible to deny Simpson’s lawyers the right to tell the jury about Fuhrman’s role in citing alleged evidence of Simpson’s guilt.”)

  37. Stuart Taylor Jr., “Prosecute Him for Perjury?” Legal Times, February 10, 1997.

  38. “The Tale of the Tape: O.J. Speaks, Panelists Discuss Simpson’s Just-Released Videotape Proclaiming His Innocence,” The Geraldo Rivera Show, February 22, 1996.

  39. “Panel Discussion on the O.J. Simpson Criminal Trial,” Rivera Live, CNBC, May 28, 1996.

  CHAPTER 10: POST-OJ VERDICT: PARADISE

  1. See, e.g., Jeff Jacoby, “Bradley’s Homage to a Race-Baiter,” Boston Globe, December 6, 1999.

  2. See, e.g., Jay Nordlinger, Power Dem; The strange rise of a hatemonger, National Review, March 20, 2000.

  3. Michael Slackman and Marjorie Connelly, “Sharpton Claims Success But Reassesses,” New York Times, March 3, 2004.

  4. See, e.g., “Dean Bears Brunt of Opponents’ Vitriol in Debate Aimed at Minority Voters,” The Bulletin’s Frontrunner, January 12, 2004.

  5. Gayle White, “Yale Roommate Vouches for Dean on Race,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 15, 2004.

  6. Dudley Clendinen, “U.S. a Cathedral for Jackson Speech,” New York Times, July 19, 1984.

  7. “Decision 2000: Democratic National Convention,” MSNBC, August 15, 2000.

  8. See, e.g., Larry McShane, “After a Decade, the Tawana Brawley Case Goes to Court,” Associated Press, November 9, 1997.

  9. Ronald Sullivan, “Defendant Told of Jogger Rape, Detective Says,” New York Times, November 28, 1990.

  10. Cathy Connors, “Tawana’s Team Sued for 30 Mil,” New York Amsterdam News, March 2, 1996.

  11. Alan Feuer, “Adviser in Tawana Brawley Case Pays Off Defamation Award,” New York Times, November 7, 2001. (“Mr. Sharpton paid off the judgment against him in June with the help of a group of supporters tha
t included Percy E. Sutton, the former Manhattan borough president, the lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. and Earl Graves Jr., the president of Black Enterprise magazine. [T]he check that satisfied Mr. Maddox’s debt was signed by John Beatty, the owner of the Cotton Club, a nightclub in Harlem.…”)

  12. Fred Siegel, The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life (Encounter Books, 2006) at 104.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Turnaround : How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic (Random House, 1998), chapter one at http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bratton-turnaround.html.

  15. Siegel, The Prince of the City at 104.

  16. Alison Mitchell, “With Defense of Police at Mosque, Giuliani Moves to Isolate 2 Critics,” New York Times, January 15, 1994.

  17. James C. McKinley Jr., “Praise of Innis Wins Rebuke for Giuliani,” New York Times, January 22, 1994.

  18. Editorial: “Tests for Mr. Giuliani, New York Times, January 18, 1994.

  19. Clifford Krauss, “New York City Crime Falls But Just Why Is a Mystery,” New York Times, January 1, 1995.

  20. “Editorial: Re-Elect Mayor Giuliani,” New York Times, October 26, 1997.

  21. Chris Matthews, “Cheap, Plentiful Gas and an SUV in Every Garage: Do Americans Want It All for Nothing?” MSNBC: Hardball, May 18, 2001.

  22. James Traub, “Giuliani Internalized,” New York Times, February 11, 2001.

  CHAPTER 11: LIBERALS ARE THE NEW BLACKS

  1. Neil J. Young, “Equal Rights, Gay Rights and the Mormon Church,” New York Times, June 13, 2012.

  2. Judge H. Lee Sarokin, a Democratic-appointed federal judge, ruled that discrimination against smelly, frightening homeless people violated the equal protection clause because it had a “disparate impact” on people who refuse to bathe compared to those who bathe regularly. Kreimer v. Bureau of Police for the Town of Morristown, 765 F. SUPP. 181 (D.N.J. 1991), REV’D, 958 F.2D 1242 (3RD CIR. 1992).

  3. Peter Singer, Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002) at 80.

  4. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Charge Statistics FY 1997 Through FY 2011, available at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/charges.cfm.