American Renaissance posters too young to remember the Woodstock Festival in 1969 have probably read about it. 400,000 young people, nearly all of whom were white, met at a dairy farm in New York State for a four day rock concert. There were no fights. No one was killed. The few blacks who attended were perfectly safe.
What would have happened if 125,000 mainly black young people had met for a rock concert lasting only a day? You do not need to wonder about it. This is what The Washington Post had to say:
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1975 Human Kindness Day’s cruel violence
By — Jenny Pike, Silver Spring September 4, 2011
But plans were made for Human Kindness Day IV, May 10, 1975. Stevie Wonder was the main attraction, scheduled to close a show that included performances by Graham Central Station and other bands.
The crowd was huge, an estimated 125,000 people stretching from the Washington Monument west to 17th Street NW. There were sporadic assaults early in the day, but the real violence didn’t start until after Stevie Wonder’s performance.
A 22-year-old man from Vienna was standing near the base of the monument when a group of men grabbed his wallet. He gave chase and was struck in the mouth with a club. An 18-year-old from Annapolis was jumped by a group of 20 teenagers who beat him and threw bottles at him until he was able to run to an ambulance. The worst injury was to Steven Laine, who was stabbed in his right eye while cutting across the Mall on his way home from work at the Agriculture Department.
“I said, ‘Help me,’ and there was no response,” Laine told a Post reporter from his hospital bed.
By the time it was over, there had been about 500 robberies and 600 injuries, and 150 people were treated at hospitals.
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The article does not say it, but nearly everyone present was black. Most of the victims were white. A friend of mine attended. He said that none of the blacks did anything to protect the whites who were attacked. They seemed to approve of what was happening.
American Renaissance posters too young to remember the Woodstock Festival in 1969 have probably read about it. 400,000 young people, nearly all of whom were white, met at a dairy farm in New York State for a four day rock concert. There were no fights. No one was killed. The few blacks who attended were perfectly safe.
What would have happened if 125,000 mainly black young people had met for a rock concert lasting only a day? You do not need to wonder about it. This is what The Washington Post had to say:
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1975 Human Kindness Day’s cruel violence
By — Jenny Pike, Silver Spring September 4, 2011
But plans were made for Human Kindness Day IV, May 10, 1975. Stevie Wonder was the main attraction, scheduled to close a show that included performances by Graham Central Station and other bands.
The crowd was huge, an estimated 125,000 people stretching from the Washington Monument west to 17th Street NW. There were sporadic assaults early in the day, but the real violence didn’t start until after Stevie Wonder’s performance.
A 22-year-old man from Vienna was standing near the base of the monument when a group of men grabbed his wallet. He gave chase and was struck in the mouth with a club. An 18-year-old from Annapolis was jumped by a group of 20 teenagers who beat him and threw bottles at him until he was able to run to an ambulance. The worst injury was to Steven Laine, who was stabbed in his right eye while cutting across the Mall on his way home from work at the Agriculture Department.
“I said, ‘Help me,’ and there was no response,” Laine told a Post reporter from his hospital bed.
By the time it was over, there had been about 500 robberies and 600 injuries, and 150 people were treated at hospitals.
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The article does not say it, but nearly everyone present was black. Most of the victims were white. A friend of mine attended. He said that none of the blacks did anything to protect the whites who were attacked. They seemed to approve of what was happening.