BRA Not Going So Well in KCMO

KCMO

Let’s set this music to some lyrics.

Twerps That Twerk

KCMO

This got a little rowdy.

And by “a little rowdy,” I mean five people shot at three in the morning.

If you don’t know what “twerking” is, you can search YouTube for yourself.  But let me warn you:  Once you see it, you can never un-see it.

 

Rough in the Diamond

KCMO

And someone tried to tell me once that there’s no such thing as genetics.

P-D:

KC man becomes fifth convicted murderer in his family

A 37-year-old Kansas City man whose family includes four other convicted killers has been found guilty of second-degree murder in a 2009 robbery attempt.

A Jackson County jury also convicted Diamond Blair of robbery and armed criminal action Friday night in the death of 22-year-old Montague Kevin Ashline on June 24, 2009, outside a Kansas City apartment complex.

The Kansas City Star reports Blair, whose uncle is serial killer Terry Blair, already is serving 23 years in prison for other convictions.

His mother was charged with murder twice and convicted once for killing her drug-dealing boyfriend in 1989.

Diamond Blair has a lengthy rap sheet that includes robbery, kidnapping, assault and weapons violations. His first arrest came when he was 6 years old.

And for the rest of the story, including a big phat and predictable mugshot, head on over to the Star.

Notice the mention of Terry Blair. I thought serial killers were all white.

This one, meanwhile, got going at the age of six.  His career track should have been perfectly clear from that moment, and I don’t mean the tenure track, or the Presidential track.

Plus One, Minus One

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Wichita Eagle:

A pregnant woman’s water apparently broke after she had been dancing at a nightclub early Saturday, sparking an argument that ended with a shootout, Kansas City police said.

A 40-year-old man was critically injured in the 12:40 a.m. shooting outside E.B. Bar & Grill, 3015 Main St. A man not involved in the dispute was struck by a bullet in the buttocks as he sat in his vehicle, police said.

Investigators said the pregnant woman’s situation prompted some people to make unkind comments about why she was at the club, which sparked an argument between two groups of men.

The dispute spilled outside, where gunfire was exchanged between a group outside the club and a group in a sport utility vehicle. Police found the critically wounded man in middle of the street. Friends of the man had been yelling, “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!” witnesses told police.

Officers patrolling nearby stopped the fleeing SUV. Gang-squad investigators later recovered a gun near 27th and Main streets. They think someone tossed the gun from the fleeing vehicle.

On Monday, the U.S. attorney filed a felon-in-possession charge against Cyrano R. Irons, 23, saying he fired a .40-caliber gun from the SUV. He was on probation in Missouri for aggravated assault, according to court records.

Daily Mail has pics.

The actual census tract is 97% white but very lightly populated, but it’s about halfway in between KCMO’s solid ghetto the closest community college to the ghetto, and the census tract itself contains a sports park which includes a skate park.  The tract itself also includes part of a major cemetery, which almost gained a new permanent resident.

Only among ghetto people does the prospect of gaining a new life almost cost someone else’s life.

Just Another Wacko

KCMO

There was a time in this space when I did cite a certain black sports columnist whose home paper is the Star in a laudatory verve, because I thought he was one of the few blacks who had a lick of sense.

Not only do I not think any longer that he has any sense, and has recently and as late as today exposed himself as the typical unhinged wacko black kook that he probably was all along, I’m not even going to state his name anymore, because I think he’s running his mouth saying a bunch of stupid shit just to get publicity, in the wake of Jovan Belcher murdering his girlfriend (as a result of ‘Roid Rage, IMHO).  I’m not good at a lot of things, but I think I have become adept at recognizing purely publicity-seeking behavior and not rewarding it in earnest.  Note that you have not yet read the actual name of the Nutbars of Tucson, Aurora, or Norway in this blog, and you never will at least from me, and I will edit or delete any comments that names them.

The Nutbar of Kansas City is now saying that NRA = KKK, which is involved in a vast conspiracy to truck in drugs and guns to ghettos in the hopes that black people kill each other.  If the NRA/KKK trucked all those drugs and guns to my house, who would I kill?  It would be as easy for me to defeat the vast conspiracy of the NRAKKK with a two-letter word that starts with “n” and ends with “o.”  Or simply refusing in my mind to murder anyone with all my new guns and refusing to snort, smoke or inject the poison into my body.

This was about the reaction I had to the news that the CIA was involved with crack trafficking. (*)  Defeating a CIA conspiracy was as easy as people refusing to use crack.  In fact, it was so easy to defeat this CIA conspiracy that by law you’re required to do that which defeats it!  I also had a similar reaction with Operation Gunrunner (“Fast and Furious,” which, for those of you new here, I use “Gunrunner” instead of “F&F” because F&F is the title of a movie and therefore misleads people) — If all the “walked” guns would have been “walked” to my front door, exactly zero new violent crimes would have occurred for it.

Racial differences and HBD cannot be ignored here.  Ironically, I’m not making a big deal of race in the Belcher murder because, while the roach motel nature of relationships with black men is TNB, black men having enough shame to commit suicide after committing murder is atypical for them.

(*) – I’m also on record as saying that if the CIA did finance its secret black hat black suitcase budget on the backs of black crack addicts, that I was fine it it in that most blacks bought their crack with welfare checks, and I would have rather had the Feds recoup its own welfare money to fund secret CIA budgets than hide it behind supposed $700 screwdrivers for the military.  I can refuse to buy crack, but I can’t refuse to pay Federal taxes.

Some Kansas Citian Is $290 Million Richer

Kansas City

And that’s too bad.

But the good news is that he or she will blow it all almost as fast as it comes in.

The Soft Bigotry of High Expectations

Kansas City

Jason Whitlock, writing in Fox Sports:

10. The “information bubble” is the No. 1 obstacle/hindrance for black NFL quarterbacks.

This bubble creates delusion, erodes self-awareness and unwittingly undermines a black QB’s chance of sustaining success.

Cam Newton is a victim of the information bubble. Robert Griffin III is the bubble’s next target.

Let me explain. We’re in our political season. Democrats and Republicans both have their respective information bubbles, MSNBC and FOX News, respectively. They can lock their televisions on a single channel and avoid hearing their perspectives challenged in a credible way and hear their critics’ lambasted. It’s comforting. It’s polarizing. It’s unhealthy for intellectual growth and our democracy.

Black sports fans and black pop-culture media (not sports media) have created a loosely-formed-but-influential social-media and talk-radio information bubble for black QBs. This network of groupthink roars on sports-talk radio, black-owned radio stations, Facebook and Twitter, pumping out the message that Newton, Griffin and others can do no wrong and any criticism of them is rooted in racism. Fear of backlash from this network of well-intentioned enablers causes many mainstream sports analysts (media and fans of all colors) to avoid being totally honest about black QBs.

That’s how a career-killing, information bubble is formed.

IOW, black QBs are failing or might fail because black football fans expect too much of them.

I thought George W. Bush said that black students fail because we expect too little of them.

Whitlock, whose home paper is the Star, hence my datelining this blog post in Kansas City, must not realize that the genesis of this information, or more accurately, adulation bubble, that black QBs have, isn’t black football fans, but the lamestream sports media.  So if black football fans left their supposed bubble, they wouldn’t hear anything different.

Au Contraire. There Was a Reason.

KCMO

“Absolutely no reason?”

Somewhere My Love

KCMO

5:

Kansas City to debut new gunshot-detection system

Kansas City police are set to begin using a new gunshot-detection system that pinpoints the location of gunfire.

Police say in a release that the new ShotSpotter Flex gunshot detection system goes into effect in Kansas City by Oct. 1. The system is described as a partnership between police and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.

The system covers about 3.5 square miles and uses multiple sensors to pick up the sound of gunshots and pinpoint their location within a few feet of the actual shots.

Police aren’t saying where they’ve installed the equipment, which will also identify the address of gunshots, the number of shots fired and the number of weapons used.

“Police aren’t saying where they’ve installed the equipment.”  Duh, like we don’t know?  It’ll be somewhere east of Prospect.  The parts of town colored dark blue on the NYT Census Explorer race breakdown.

What they’ll find is that there are way many more shootings than get called in to 911.

Not All Is Well In Gigabit Nirvana

KCMO

Turns out Google Fiber in Kansas City is running into a little bit of a social problem:

The fact that Prospect Avenue is the proverbial railroad tracks.

I guess these will be the grounds to derail the whole thing, because Chocolate Kansas City won’t or can’t get it.  What do they want with a gigabit tier, anyway?  Are mahogany mobs not being organized fast enough at megabit speeds?

The Machiavellian part of me hopes this fails, at least until there’s some effort to clear all the bandwidth-eating junk from webpages.  All that will be accomplished by rolling out pervasive gigabit tiers right now would be just the opposite:  Webpages will be loaded down with even more junk.

That’s Not the Lesson

KCMO

Star:

For immigrants who qualify, policy keeps American dream alive

High school senior Adrian Morales and his friends have been hearing the same message ever since their parents brought them illegally to the United States and to Kansas City as young children:

Work hard, do well in school and someday, if luck and politics allow, some form of the American Dream of job and success might be yours.

That’s not it.

It goes more like this:

Sneak into the country, wait for the political stars to line up in the right direction, and gringo’s treasures will be yours.

And also…Viva La Raza.

Passion? I Would Call It Something Else.

KCMO

More like a low level c***pout.

Beaver Cleaver amps it up when lauding the teachers of the Hickman Mills District.  That district serves the areas around the Bermuda Trangle, (no, I will never get used to calling it the Three Trails Memorial Interchange), in the south-to-southeast parts of KCMO proper and Grandview.  The residential areas in and around there are significantly black, so the schools in the Hickman Mills district have to be heavily black.  As it is, Great Schools does not provide student racial data for any school in HM, but their 1-10 rankings are 1 for the only public high school in the district and 2 for both middle schools.

Beaver Cleaver wonders why we pay wide receivers $20 million a year (who?) and we don’t pay starting teachers even $50,000 a year.  The answer is simple:  A lot of people will pay money either directly or vicariously to watch an NFL wide receiver drop balls all over the place, while a starting teacher has only between 25-30 students staring him or her in the face at any one time most of the time.

Hint:  The top paid NFL player this year at $20m is Drew Brees, the top WR, Calvin Johnson, will be paid $18.8m this year.  By “paid,” I mean the prorated total contract amount per year of the contract.  Base salaries are a different matter and significantly smaller.

Crime Scree

KCMO

You read “rape” and “elderly” early in the word count.  What else?

Thanks For Noticing

KCMO

Damien Johnson notices that the new CD-5 makes Beaver Cleaver very vulnerable in a red wave election year. Like this one could be.

Mr. Johnson must read some really good blogs.

H-1B: Not Just For Silicon Valley Anymore

Kansas City

If it happens in Kansas City, then it’s happening in a lot of other major metropolitan areas.

Yet, according to the Brookings Institute, there aren’t enough H-1Bs.

This article says something that I didn’t know, that academic institutions aren’t subject to H-1B caps, which means they can sponsor as many H-1Bs as they want.  Native born white Americans can forget about the tenure track, I guess.

When You Care Enough to Send the Very Worst

KCMO

I have had no use for Hallmark since they shoveled money against CCW in Missouri in 1999.

Cake, meet icing.

FNC:

Does Hallmark Card Bash Tea Party?

Lennie Jarratt’s children had gone to Walmart over the weekend in search of a gradation card for a family friend. But instead they found a Hallmark card that has generated outrage within the Tea Party community – along with calls for a national boycott.

The card, published by Hallmark, features an image of President Obama on the cover declaring, “You graduated! Time to go to a lot of parties!”

The inside of the card reads, “But avoid those tea parties if you can. Trust me.”

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I Disagree

KCMO

Mother of the Closet Daughter of Kansas City.

It is said that she has two other daughters who were well fed and clean.  Yeah, but that doesn’t mean they’re out of the woods — They’re direct descendants of their mother.

No “MO” Snitching

KCMO

Star:

Missouri to launch task force on urban violence, victim cooperation

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said Friday that he expects to launch a statewide task force next year to examine urban violence and victim cooperation problems, including ones outlined in a recent Star series, “Many Bullets, Little Blame.”

The Star’s analysis found that 60 percent of shooting victims wounded last year did not cooperate with Kansas City police, who then shut down the cases. Because so few cases were fully investigated, just 10 percent of shootings last year resulted in criminal charges. Jackson County prosecutors said that in most cases they need victims’ cooperation to pursue charges. But when shooters figure out they can get away with shooting people, authorities lose any deterrent effect, national experts told The Star.

Then the CA should subpoena them, and if they don’t cooperate, then the judge should find them in CoC and send them to the can.  That’s where most of these “victims” have been and/or will go anyway.  Truth be told, most of these “victims” are the same kind of thugs as the perpetrators.

The Star prepared this map of shootings in KCMO proper as part of their aforementioned analysis:

For comparison, call up the NYT Census Explorer, filter to black population and search for Kansas City, Missouri.  You just might find a striking similarity.

Inside Joke

CBS:

Royals catcher Humberto Quintero makes racial gesture during in-game interview

Now, I’m sure Royals catcher Humberto Quintero didn’t have any malicious intent toward Bruce Chen, but the lack of intent doesn’t make the racial gesture pictured above during Saturday’s Royals-Pirates game excusable.

Chen, a native of Panama of Chinese descent, is an affable, likable player and it’s unlikely Quintero was meaning to insult him. However, his actions were nonetheless offensive. While it’s common for such insensitive joking to occur in the clubhouse, that doesn’t make it right or make it appropriate for national television.

Chen, it must be noted, took to Twitter to note he was not offended by the actions.

Sorry, CBS.  Nobody’s buying your effort to try to make a mountain of this molehill.  The dork in Orlando with a fax machine would ordinarily be chomping at the bit, but the reason this isn’t quite in his wheel house is because Humberto Quintero isn’t white, and can’t be passed off as a white Hispanic.

Can’t Teach For Kansas City

Long spread in the Star about TFA in the KCPS.

If they’re doing so well, why is the KCPS on the verge of at least a state takeover and possibly even dissolution?

These are the great teachers that screeds like Waiting for Superman say will cure all our problems.  Remember that.

They Done Gradumafacated

What to do the night after the KCPS gives you a diploma you probably can’t read?

You guessed it.  You might call it a kcpshighschoolgraduateout.

You people in Blue Springs and Lee’s Summit better hope that Jane Dummyham doesn’t get her way, or these worthies will be going to your schools.

I Predicted It

Toadyaso.

Beaver Cleaver is sweating out his new Congressional district.

I saw this coming when the first proposed redistricting maps were released.  As it was, there wasn’t much change in the new CD-5 between the first map and the final map, so my opinion didn’t change.  I thought the NAACP would drag this map into court over CD-5 having a lot more white people all of a sudden.  Yet, the NAACP and Beaver Cleaver himself were cool with it.

Addition By Subtraction

Star slideshow on East High.  The angle is all the wonderful diversity as a consequence of immigration.

OTOH, considering that the new vibrant students are replacing the old vibrant students that like to throw around buckets of acid, East High had nowhere to go but up.

Afrikan Skoo

I’m going to summon the soft bigot in me and say that I’m not expecting much of anything from this school.

It’s already starting out with a handicap — They (deliberately?) misspelled the English name of that continent.

What might fall out of the design is that a Kansas City Afrikan student hanging around Skoo Afrika is one that won’t be in Blue Springs or Lee’s Summit if Jane Dummyham gets her way.

Leonard Zeskind is a Dork in Kansas City with a Fax Machine

File that away for future reference.  I will eventually update the FAQ to indicate that.

“Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights?”  Translation:  A fancy logo, a fax machine and a ‘Dex full of media and academia contacts in some low-rent warehouse room in the West Bottoms.

It reminds me of the dork in Orlando with a fax machine, aka Richard Lapchick and The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports.  Same deal:  A fancy logo, a fax machine and a ‘Dex full of media and academia contacts.

With any luck, IREHR and TIDES will merge.  Zeskind and Lapchick can share a fax machine!  Imagine how much money they’ll save!

“Escalate Their Protests”

That’s a nice, public relations-y way of saying “riot.”

Mayor Sly James and UMKC right in the thick of things?  There’s a shock.

In case you were wondering, they’re going to riot escalate their protests over Trayvon Martin, not three local black teenagers setting a white teenager on fire.

I Blame Jane Cunningham

KCMO businesses are fleeing to Johnson County, Kansas like there’s no tomorrow.

Why are they choosing to cross the state line and not at least relocate to better parts of Jackson County, Missouri?

There are a lot of reasons, but I think one of the taboo reasons is that they’re worried that Deseg Jane is going to get her way, that is, the KCPS is dissolved and its low IQ blacks and Hispanic students divided among the Jackson County suburban school districts.  It won’t be good business to be based anywhere in Jackson County if this happens, so the businesses figure they might as well follow what will be the white exodus in residential patterns.

I Went to Charter Skoo, and Learned to Be a Charter Foo

Eight big megabucks viva the KCPS payable to three Afrocentric charter fools (oops, I meant schools) can’t be accounted for.

This news totally confounds me, because blacks aren’t known to play fast and loose with the books…cough cough…Franklin Raines…cough cough.

Why exactly did the KCPS itself fund three charter schools?  First, it was redundant with the KCPS’s own schools, and second, remember that until a handful of years of ago, a Federal judge forced Missouri taxpayers to dump billions on this district to build lavish schools to attract suburban whites.

We’ve Seen the Bait

I’ve had the story of the two teenage blacks burning the white teenager in Kansas City in my stack for a few days.  I held it back because I got the feeling AR would cover it.

The first thing that crossed my mind when I first read the story is that all three young men attended the same KCPS high school, and therefore, if Jane Dummyham gets her way and the KCPS is dissolved and neighboring districts get to carve up KCPS territory, then worthies like these two junior necklacers will be going to school in suburban Jackson County white flight territory like Lee’s Summit and Blue Springs.

Then comes this news in the Star late last night:

Missouri House OKs bill for immediate takeover of Kansas City Public Schools

JEFFERSON CITY Legislation giving the state authority to immediately replace the school board of the unaccredited Kansas City district with a new governing structure won unanimous approval Thursday in the Missouri House.

It now goes to the Senate, where a similar bill cleared the Education Committee last week.

While you will read further down that Jane Dummyham wants to try to gum up the works in the Senate until her dissolution language is added, the general tone of the article is that she’s on the outside looking in, and any bill that gets out of the General Assembly this session relating to the KCPS will involve only a state takeover.

Now I’m beginning to think that all this talk about KCPS dissolution was nothing more than a bait and switch.  They were floating a radical idea (dissolution) to make a relatively difficult and controversial idea (state takeover) seem more palatable.  DESE saw the controversy when St. Louis’s Lizz Brown type community activists and militants stirred up when it took over the SLPS, so to avoid the same row on the other side of the state, they’re having a surrogate mouth off about dissolution so that nobody will get mad when “only” a state takeover occurs.

Before this gets out of hand, though, I must, Obama-style, make something perfectly clear:  I don’t think Jane Dummyham is in cahootz with DESE.  I think she actually believes the KCPS should be eliminated and surrounding districts should divvy up their territory, because she believes in deseg with all her “heart.”  I think that those who want a mere state takeover do find the circumstances of her advocacy to be fortunate, because now they really can bounce their moderate switch off her radical bait.

The KC Star Wrote an Official Op-Ed

That’s dog bites man.  Man bites dog is that I agree with it:

The Star’s editorial | Dismantle this plan on KC schools

Something surely needs to be done about the Kansas City Public Schools. But the latest idea to come out of Jefferson City — dismantling the district and piecing it out to neighboring districts that may not even want to participate — is a formula for interminable resentment and blame.

In fact, state Sen. Jane Cunningham’s idea ought to provide a catalyst for Kansas City’s political and civic leaders to pull together and come up with a better plan.

It could include annexations by neighboring districts, but they should be done only with the consent of voters who live in the receiving districts and the portions of Kansas City that would be annexed. A solid plan would also include a more accountable form of governance for schools in Kansas City that wouldn’t become part of other districts.

What moron thinks it’s a good idea to disperse the KCPS black dummies to other districts, as if having fewer crabs in every bucket means they’ll no longer act like crabs?  The answer is Jane Dummyham.  I know there’s a big brouhaha going on about redrawing the State Senate districts — I wish they’d move her district to Pluto.