Charles Barron Calls for Racial Warriors

It was only a matter of time before Charles Barron ended his flirtation with inciting a race war in New York and started openly calling for violence in the streets. That declaration came during the December 6th protest against the shooting of three unarmed men in Queens on November 25th, including the death of Sean Bell. Flip Pidot captured Barron's speech to the crowd in Downtown Manhattan (though Barron is from Brooklyn, not Queens, as the video states):




Later during the protest, as seen on the video, there was also an explosion against a man that took pictures of the protest. Why express rage in the fact that people were taking note of the protest by capturing the moment on film?

As for Barron, he has spent less time serving in his role as City Councilman and more time trying to build an army to combat those he has declared as enemies.

In case anyone could not completely hear Barron's words on video, Flip provided a transcript for digestion:

NYC Councilmember Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn)

Brothers and sisters, Kelly must go. Kelly must go. Kelly must go. Kelly must go.

What we need here is a regime change. What we need here is a radical, up, down, turn upside down – this police department is out of control.

Any time, in any institution in America, racism permeates every institution in America. And the police department is no exception. And we don’t care whether the shooters were Black, Latino, because the Negroes who were in – the house Negroes during slave time, they were Black too. But slavery is still racist. So just because we got some house Negroes that will shoot us at the behest of their masters, once some of those police officers joined the police department, White, Latino or Black, they all turned blue. And because the victims are Black, we are under a racist, out of control police department.

I don’t care what they say about me. They say Charles, you’re a [undecipherable] radical. Charles, if you call for an explosion, that I’m the one that’s calling for violence. Let me tell you something. We need to let the system know that they have to fear us. They have no fear for us. And once you put the fear into some people’s hearts, whether it’s politically, economically, or physically, they will leave you alone.

So brothers and sisters, I want to say to you today, just as we said over and over again, if we don’t get justice in this case, don’t ask us to demonstrate again. If we don’t get justice in this case don’t tell us to be cool, to be calm.

Don’t blame me, as a social forecaster, for forecasting an explosion, just like you don’t blame the weatherman for forecasting the storm.

We’ll let everybody know that we’ve had enough. Enough is enough is enough. We’re fired up. We won’t take no more.

And just because the shooter’s skin color is like yours, the racism is that the victim’s skin color is always ours. If those were three white guys, they’d be alive today. Enough is enough.

Brothers and sisters, forward ever, backward never, we’ve got to stick together. Forward ever, backward never. Thank you very much.

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Not content merely with desiring to slap a white person for his mental health, Barron has dropped not-so-subtle hints that he will not be satisfied until more people have shed blood. Three of Barron's highlights soon after the incident are featured on Alarming News.

"We're not the only one who can bleed."

If that isn't a call to arms, I don't know what is.

"Don’t blame me, as a social forecaster, for forecasting an explosion, just like you don’t blame the weatherman for forecasting the storm."

Cut the crap, Charles. Calling for violence in reaction to the shooting and killing that early morning then trying to hide behind his own disclaimer that he should not be held liable for any violence that may occur, for he is merely making an observation...and then repeating that observation over and over, each time louder than the last.

It's akin to a weatherman reporting a 60% chance of rain while performing rainmaking rituals during the report. Don't blame the weatherman even though he is actively trying to force a certain outcome.

His disclaimer gives him the perfect excuse not to take a hand in the fighting he created. We will not see Barron on the front lines of the war he started because he will be too busy inciting it further while denying his own involvement. Should anyone act on Barron's call to arms, Barron should be charged as an accomplice, at the least.

"And we don’t care whether the shooters were Black, Latino, because the Negroes who were in – the house Negroes during slave time, they were Black too."

"House Negroes" like incoming Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith and City Councilman Tom White? Not content to lash out against his perceived racial enemies, Barron has also attacked those who would rather wait for the facts of the case to be presented before waging a crusade against the authorities.

""People like Malcolm Smith and Tom White, who we don't normally see on these issues, are now trying to provide leadership and they could misguide our community if they don't listen to those of us who are veterans of this."

Except that these representatives were elected by their communities. White is on his second stint serving in the City Council, having been term limited in 2001 and coming back to defeat incumbent and successor Allan Jennings in the 2005 primary. Given their public office records, how are they not "veterans of this" as well? Issues of this type did not surface only recently.

White, while wanting to avoid a public feud with Barron, did suggest that Barron return to finding solutions to make life better in his own district, where he was elected, and which has a high crime rate.

As for the police officers involved in this shooting, if there is some indication that the officers were trigger-happy because of the race of the victims, then by all means, prosecute and push for a reformation of thought and tactics in the NYPD, if need be. If this is merely a case of police officers acting recklessly and with, as it definitely seems, excessive force, then prosecute.

Justice will not erase the events of that early morning nor will it bring Sean Bell back nor will it undo the injuries suffered by the two others. But justice is not calling for the blood of other innocents to be shed. More than eight million people in New York City had no hand in this act and surely the far majority of them do not approve. There is absolutely no reason to call for the blood of those people to be shed to satisfy delusional dreams of a racial war. There is work to be done and that will not be accomplished, nor will the conditions of his community improve, nor will crime decrease in Barron's district, or any other, if Barron is focused on making repeated calls to arms.