The devastating flash flood that hit Ellicott City, Maryland, last Saturday night was so severe that meteorologists called it a once-in-a-thousand-years event. What conditions colluded to transform a quaint main street into a torrent of water in a matter of minutes? The Washington Post and WAMU radio both turned to Jeffrey Halverson, professor of geography and environmental systems, to explain.

Air currents from across the region converged over Ellicott City “in a manner that would literally squeeze moisture out of the atmosphere,” wrote Halverson in the Post. The extremely high humidity meant there was plenty to squeeze out. But what made it even worse was the large amount of buoyant energy feeding updraft currents. The more energy, “the more water vapor is lofted into the clouds and processed as rain,” says Halverson.

On top of that, a process called “back-building convection” resulted in several storm cells moving through the area, creating a much longer-lasting event than the traditional summer thunderstorm.

Perhaps the scariest part, though, is that even the most sophisticated computer models cannot predict the exact location of these events. “It becomes a ‘now-casting’ exercise,” says Halverson, “and there is almost never any lead time.”

But it’s not only the meteorological conditions that are to blame for the devastation Saturday night. “The flood was as much about the nature of the underlying land surface as it was about the large amount of rain falling from the sky,” Halverson told WAMU. The narrow streets, large amount of pavement, and valley geography of Old Ellicott City make it especially vulnerable to a flash flood.

“Ellicott City happened to be ground zero for a process that had very laser-like focus,” Halverson explained. “Humble rain, often gentle, is life-sustaining, nourishing, and thus benign 99 percent of the time,” he says. “But what we take for granted sometimes quickly turns deadly.”

UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski and Provost Philip Rous reached out to the UMBC community following the storm, expressing condolences to the families of two individuals who lost their lives, one of whom was an employee at University of Baltimore. Pres. Hrabowski also called on campus experts, like Halverson, to “share their knowledge and resources to help address issues to reduce future flood risk in the area.”

Recovery is a major, long-term process, but one that the area’s residents are already supporting through donations and volunteer service. As Pres. Hrabowski shared, “Ellicott City is a part of us.”

Image: Damage in Ellicott City following the July 31 flash flood; Brian Krista, Baltimore Sun Media Group.

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The Changing Racial Language of Our American Consciousness

Beyond a Colorblind America, an article appearing in the Christian Science Monitor, highlights how race as a concept is being reintroduced into our social, political, and economic consciousness.

The article title itself is both an implicit and explicit acknowledgment that something in America has changed. For native-born White Americans it suggests that the concept of race is being rekindled as a means for non-White American citizens to arrive at their own in-group interests at the expense of White Americans. It also suggests – albeit implicitly – that America, at one point, was not directed or motivated by racially conscious members of her society – a false claim.

The article starts out begging the question that there were (and possibly there still are) some who had hoped the Obama presidency would equal the ‘triumph of a colorblind America’? These politicians, pundits, and naïve citizens were (and for those who still hold this hope today) detached from reality and hopelessly ill-informed as to the American history and its racial past.

Obama’s presidency has been a guiding light for Blacks in America in moving towards their goal of reigniting race as a tactical political, social, and economic weapon against their political, social, and economic enemies.

The impression granted to Martin Luther King, that an ignorance of color is the best ‘racial unifier’ as a ‘core pillar of race relations’, is incoherent at best; to have race relations and use race as a metric for evaluating the general positive or negative status of one’s current racial relations demands race be an active and cognitively ever-present concept on all people’s minds.

Thus to claim ignorance of race as a means to increased positive race relations denies the very concept necessary for evaluating the aforementioned race relations. It becomes clear in recognition of this fact that the programs cited in the article (such as affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act) are antithetical to both King’s desire America ignore race as well as the fact that these specifically and centrally racially motivated programs are, at their ideological roots, incoherent with their stated goals and the foundations they’re built.

This says nothing to the fact that denying a society access to its racial roots, history, and culture is existentially fatal; without access to one’s past and the means and methods as to how they arrived at the present these individuals will falter in the face of other societies and civilizations who adopt them as core foundation to their own flourishing.

As can be seen, European and White American communities have been rendered utterly disoriented as they’ve become increasingly deracinated and diasporic with each other and their commonly shared racial and ancestral genealogies. Certainly our country has changed, to echo the words of Chief Justice John Roberts, but hardly any White American of European ancestry could claim it has been for the better – if not for them then for their children and in the future their children’s children.

In particular, and as the article lays out regarding the current racially conscious Black Lives Matter racial advocacy group,

"The Black Lives Matter movement, in particular, maintains that colorblindness has merely become a way for white Americans to ignore the deeper and more insidious forms of racism many blacks say are still rampant."

As we shall see, the inclination towards a post-colorblind American is merely a weapon of revenge to be exacted across the nation against White American men, women, and their posterity.

Citing them as ‘a new class of African-American thinkers’, Black Lives Matter is seeking a new ‘vision of race in America’. One which benefits Blacks at the expense of all others, but especially Whites, and is rooted in a ‘more clear-eyed’ racial ‘color consciousness’. It is claimed that this ‘open acknowledgment’ and ‘continuing importance’ of race will allow for the opposite of what is characterized as a ‘blithe dismissal of the central role’ race has – and always will – play ‘in society’.

Of course, what’s embedded underneath their stated goal is that race never ceased to be an important factor in the overall health of society and Black Lives Matter, as the representative of Blacks and Black in-group interests, intends to wield this goal as a tactical political, social, and economic plank going into the future.

The further claim regarding their desire for a ‘clear-eyed color consciousness’ extends only insofar as it views their own racially founded interests in a positive light which will confer an increased social, political, and economic benefit to Blacks while simultaneously denying this same platform to Whites since to do so would constitute an implicit propensity towards ‘problematic’ Whiteness, furthers institutional racism, and functions as a hegemonic impediment towards realizing their own racially oriented objectives.

The moment this current strategy reveals itself as a tool Whites can use for their own interests (such a phenomenon is currently underway) and can counter those of non-Whites, non-Whites will abandon this policy – at least superficially – and immediately criticize Whites (which is also occurring) for appropriating their tactics and demand Whites cease and desist immediately e.g. no White Student Unions or White advocacy groups.

This is why the media, and Black advocacy groups across the country, went into a frenzy over the popping up of White Student Unions on college campuses across the country and why when one asks for such an organization the response given is almost always, “You don’t need them but we do”.

The Huffington Post category which compiles their articles dealing with White Student Unions would be comical if it weren’t so indicative of the hostility towards White racial consciousness amidst the rise of Black and Hispanic racial consciousness currently underway in America.

An article appearing on the Harvard Crimson – Harvard’s campus newspaper – back in November 2015 titled ‘White Student Union’ Facebook Page Prompts Concern should tell you everything you need to know concerning the general public’s stance in denying Whites the very privileges Blacks and Hispanics are demanding for themselves.

Despite acknowledging Black Lives Matter’s recently published list of demands, only a vague reference to them is given in the Monitor’s article. Stating ‘Black humanity and dignity requires black political will and power’ the list of demands is framed in an explicitly hostile and anti-White pro-Black context.

There are six categories each of which are composed of their own separate list of demands under these categories. A select few demands from each category are listed below:

1. End the War on Black People:
   1. An immediate end to the criminalization and dehumanization of Black youth;
   2. An end to capital punishment;
   3. An end to money bail;
   4. An end to the use of past criminal history;
   5. Demilitarization of law enforcement;
2. Reparations:
   1. Reparations for the systematic denial of access to high quality education opportunities in the form of full and free access for Black people;
   2. Reparations for the continued divestment from, discriminations toward and exploitation of our communities in the form of guaranteed minimum livable income for all Black people;
   3. Reparations for the wealth extracted from our communities through environmental racism, slavery, food apartheid, housing discrimination and racialized capitalism in the form of corporate and government reparations;
3. Invest-Divest:
   1. Reallocation of funds at the federal, state and local level;
   2. Retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record expungement of all drug related offenses and prostitution, and reparations for the devastating impact of the “war on drugs”;
   3. A cut in military expenditures and a reallocation of those funds to invest in domestic infrastructure and community well-being;
4. Economic Justice:
   1. Federal and state jobs program;
   2. Restore the Glass-Steagall Act;
   3. Financial support of Black alternative institutions;
   4. A right to restored land, clean air, clean water and housing and an end to the exploitative privatization of natural resources;
5. Community Control:
   1. Direct democratic community control of local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies;
   2. An end to privatization of education;
   3. Participatory budgeting at the local, state and federal level;
6. Political Power:
   1. An end to criminalization of Black political activity;
   2. Public financing of elections and the end of money controlling politics;
   3. Election protection, electoral expansion and the right to vote for all people including: full access, guarantees, and protections of the right to vote for all people;
   4. Protection and increased funding for Black institutions.

We encourage readers to review the entire set of demands listed. However, it is clear from the language and characterization of these demands that they are explicitly targeted at the shrinking middle class (despite the allusions to ‘corporate’ organizations) given the largest tax paying demographic in the United States is White working class Americans.

This amounts to nothing less than the total economic, political, and social enslavement of Whites to Blacks.

Of course, none of this would be necessary were each individual racial demographic bloc returned, either peacefully or forcibly (and force is more than warranted here given the hostile nature of these demands), to their ancestral homelands; Blacks living and controlling Africa, Asians in China and Japan, Whites in Europe and North America, etc.

This begs the question, however, as to why this isn’t the option most desired by all parties involved. The answer is simple: they want what we have and see themselves as having a right to it. Conversely, we have no right to what is ours and must give it up as an eternal sacrifice.

Further, contemplate the language which describes this radical shift in public discourse amongst Blacks targeted against Whites by Blacks,

"The increasing momentum behind color consciousness among the African-American community and beyond marks an attempt to fundamentally change the American conversation on race."

The language afforded to Blacks in favor of positive views towards their race while applying a negative view towards the racial identity of Whites and Whites as a racial group is as stark as it is clear in its implications of what is to come should groups like Black Lives Matter achieve their aims.

The total, absolute and utter enslavement and impoverishment of Whites for the benefit of Blacks.

Heather Townsend: A Look Towards the Future in Store for Our Children

As an example of the rising tide of hostility towards Whites by Blacks in America, and the general predilections of Whites against viewing America in racial terms, the article presents us with Heather Townsend – a native of Atlanta, Georgia and the victim of racially motivated crime against Whites in America.

"Last year, two of her friends – young, white men – were killed during a robbery attempt near the hipster neighborhood of Little Five Points. Police charged three black men and one black boy with the murders. Though no hate crime charges were filed, many people in the neighborhood, including Ms. Townsend, felt that the killings had racial overtones."

It is interesting, given the current political rhetoric of social progressives and Black activists, that when the feelings and perceptions of Whites come into play they are utterly disregarded by Blacks and progressives. Yet, when we hear the voluminous cries from the Black community and their ‘allies’ regarding ‘White privilege’, racial issues, and ‘institutional racism’ Whites are expected to simply remain silent in passive assent. Special attention should be given to points five and eight.

More important, however, is how Ms. Townsend is described in the article in response to being a victim of Black crime through the lives lost of her two friends,

"But she doesn’t want to make anything of race, and she worries how the reaction to such incidents might shift if color consciousness became a more explicit part of the national conversation."

At the core of our modern crisis the above quote reflects the why of how White Americans arrived at our current perilous situation. Ms. Townsend knows what’s wrong, and she even knows the consequences of what her reaction would be if she were to publicize it.

But because Whites are currently under attack in America she is reluctant to both call attention to the surmounting problems or discuss possible solutions to these problems, as groups like Black Lives Matter advocate, being one where racial consciousness is mainstreamed into the American consciousness.

Ms. Townsend’s solution is to either ignore it or run away. Unfortunately for Whites like Ms. Townsend, myself, and all others across the country the choice has already been made for us. However, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As more Blacks are radicalized against Whites this means more Whites will come to see the reality of their situation and start to fight back against it.

This is already occurring.

Blacks, and non-White groups such as Jews, understand that when Whites get together and start advocating for their own racial interests they tend to be extremely successful in attaining them. The issue isn’t a matter of being reluctant, or at the most actually seeing, ourselves and others as distinct racial groups (as we noted above, this is already occurring) but rather whether, for Whites, this phenomenon will actually happen in a way that benefits Whites as a group.

Sometimes you don’t get to pick your enemies. Regardless, when they pick you, simply claiming they’re not your enemies doesn’t change the reality that they see you as a road block to their own aims.

A major tactic of anti-Whites and those who see themselves as advocating specifically for Black interests involves destabilizing, fracturing, and diasporizing White communities through integration and increased narratives about the positive economic and social benefits of forced diversity and multiculturalism.

Thankfully, the scientific research on the effects of multiculturalism, racially diverse, and ethnically diverse communities points to the reality that these things have extremely negative consequences for all parties involved.

For instance, more diverse neighborhoods have lower social cohesion, diversity increases psychotic experiences, diversity increases social adversity, a 10% increase in diversity doubles the chance of psychotic episodes, diversity reduces voter registration, political efficacy, charity, and number of friendships, ethnic diversity reduces happiness and quality of life, Diversity reduces trust, civic participation, and civic health,  ethnic diversity harms health for Hispanics and Blacks, and diversity primarily hurts the dominant ethnic group – to cite just a few studies.

If Ms. Townsend had access or knew of studies such as the ones above, she’d know just how on the mark her comment regarding treading the path of Black Lives Matter is. Not because racial consciousness is bad – indeed it comprises the totality of the basis for human group interaction between distinct groups and continues to do so even today amidst the claims of globalization and ethnic pluralism – but because what ‘going even further down that road’ entails as far as Black Lives Matter is concerned is the systematic and organized destruction of Whites, White society, and European historical achievements.

Even more concerning than the gleeful proclamations regarding the premediated, and often jubilantly violent, ending of Whites by Jewish professors like Noel Ignatiev affiliated with colleges such as Harvard, or the demand that White women intentionally commit miscegenation with Blacks as opposed to having White children, while White males ought to commit suicide at the behest of the very same Jewish professor, is the general attitude Whites have regarding their own dispossession and their critics.

Ms. Townsend’s attitude typifies this suicidal attitude most Whites have towards their own dispossession,

"Race remains an issue, a real issue, but I’m not going to fight it, because it’s only going to get worse […] I just walk away when [race] comes up. There’s no need to go dredging up the past in order to bring it to the future."

Again, echoing the sentiment that you don’t get to pick your enemies most of the time, whether Whites in America want to confront race, embrace it, or ignore it is now moot. Those who see us as objects in their path to be overcome in order to attain their own survival will adopt whatever method and strategy they can in order to do so.

Currently their best method is one which pits White guilt over the actions of our ancestors against these non-White aggressors in a way which denies us the moral or practical acknowledgment of race while at the same time demanding Whites privilege them the position to do just that.

Whites are actively blinding themselves to both their dispossession and their salvation.

Conversely Stan Robertson, an unemployed Black man in the same city as Ms. Townsend, predictably and rationally (insofar as he’s a rational actor working towards his own group’s interests) sees things in exactly the opposite light; acknowledgment of race and a color conscious America is the best avenue for him and Blacks like him towards their own prosperity through Whites.

Of course, why wouldn’t he? If your enemy hands you the launch codes to their own demographic and economic nuclear bomb you’d be insane not to punch in the key combination. Or at least hold the fact that you have those keys to their annihilation over their heads and demand everything you can extort from them before they finally decide self-enslavement is worse than total extinction.

In a utopian paradise where multiculturalism and diversity didn’t come with all the drawbacks it does and actually afforded such a society the benefits it’s proclaimed to afford, but doesn’t actually, the kind of feigned good intentioned ‘color consciousness’ being injected into the bloodstream of the American consciousness wouldn’t be an issue.

Logically, if multiculturalism provided the benefits it’s claimed to, this color consciousness wouldn’t even be necessary since the benefits would be so obvious and apparent that opposition to it would be nonsensical.

Instead, we live in the real world where the reality is such that race is used as a prop for the Black community to extract all it can for their own benefit from White communities while simultaneously bludgeoning Whites into their racial and existential grave.

This is what Ms. Townsend is running away from and what Mr. Robertson is actively in favor of.

The silver lining in all of this, and indeed the small glimmer of hope which has presented itself to Whites in America in the form of Donald Trump rests in the observed fact that all it takes is one strong man with a will to do what is necessary, to say what is obvious, and to push back against what is odious. This has the unique ability to blow the roof completely off the jailhouse which has become White Americas own panoptical prison.

Just imagine a committed and unified group of Whites working for their own preservation and the prosperity of their posterity.

Political correctness stands dead in the wake of Donald Trump while the way forward has been made immeasurably less strenuous insofar as Whites have a chance to wake up to their own destruction. In some sense, how we perceive the world around us starts to reshape and remold the actual fabric of reality. Donald Trump has lit the torch, and tapped into this long-dormant specter. For Whites, this represents a beginning towards seeing themselves as a legitimate group with legitimate interests – whatever they may be.

All that’s left for Whites in America to do is have the courage and strength to carry his torch forward into the future, embrace our risen specter, and work towards a new dawn in the post-colorblind America. In a very real sense, Donald Trump is our Barack Obama.

‘Hope and Change’ is within our grasp.

In a shocking and exclusive interview with Breitbart News, the father of a five-year-old girl that was allegedly raped by refugee children reveals that he watched 30 seconds of a video of the assault taken by one of the three boys charged with the crime. The father also revealed that the parents of the refugee children had urged him not to call the police when he first learned of the attack.

Additionally, new allegations against a ten-year-old boy who was involved in the June 2 attack were revealed in court on Thursday afternoon, alleging the boy both anally and orally penetrated the five-year-old, in addition to urinating on her, as revealed by the father in the clip below. Previously, it had only been known that a seven-year-old boy had orally penetrated the girl and urinated on her.

The little girl’s parents, concerned about biased media coverage as well as their own personal safety and that of their daughter, have not been interviewed on videotape until this Thursday’s interview with Breitbart News.

The father told Breitbart News how he’d gotten a call at work saying his daughter had been raped and left to see what had happened:

Victim’s Father: “I finally got covered and I ran across the street, from my work to my home, and there was just a whole bunch of people outside my apartment, from all families, and I just walked into the apartment and, uh… our… they had, a phone sitting there, and they said yeah, they recorded this, you know. You need to look at this real quick, and I pushed play on that. I watched like thirty seconds.”

Stranahan: “You watched thirty seconds of what?”

Victim’s Father: “I watched thirty seconds of a recording that was recorded by the refugee boys of what they…”

Stranahan: “So you’ve seen that video?”

Victim’s Father: “Yes.”

Stranahan: “Wow, that’s… I… I hadn’t heard that.”

Victim’s Mother: “I haven’t seen it. I just can’t.”

Victim’s Father: “With her anxiety and with her condition I did not allow her to see that. I did not watch the whole thing, like I said, I watched about thirty seconds of it. There was a lot more on there that I did not see. But what I did see is… is horrific for a father to watch for their… for that thing. And so after I watched all that, I came outside, trying to keep my composure because that whole family was still outside my apartment, you know, they were trying to stop us from calling the police, pleading with us.”

Stranahan: “The refugee family was trying to stop you from calling the police?”

Victim’s Father: “Yes. They were pleading with us, saying everything was okay, they did nothing wrong, you know – ‘No police! No police!’ – because they did not speak… they speak Arabic, so they had very few words that they can actually…”

Stranahan: “And had they seen the video?”

Victim’s Mother: “No.”

Victim’s Father: “Um, when I watched what I watched, the older brother of the boy that filmed it, or, one of the brothers to the boys, he came in behind me and watched what I watched as well.”

Stranahan: “Now how old is he? He’s an adult, or?”

Victim’s Father: “He looked like he was in his late teens.”

Stranahan: “Okay.”

Victim’s Mother: “But the mother had not seen it, no.”

Victim’s Father: “Yeah, nobody else had seen it. From [the victim’s mother’s] point of view, when they brought the video, the boy that did do the recording, he came to her with this saying, you know, he did nothing wrong – ‘Oh, hey, I filmed it, here you go, I did nothing wrong’ – you know, he stood outside my apartment the whole time – ‘I didn’t do nothing wrong, I just filmed it, nothing wrong at all’.”

Stranahan: “So you watched thirty seconds of the video and it was clear to you from the thirty seconds that you saw what was – thirty seconds was enough for you to see what was going on?”

Victim’s Father: “Thirty seconds showed them in the laundry room, they pulled my daughter around, pushed her up against the wall, pulled her pants off, he dropped his pants, he was trying to get her from behind, you know, they only… no, for the boy that was trying to do it he was, you know, he was only seven to nine years old, so not a lot of… he didn’t know what he was really doing, as you’d expect. My daughter didn’t really, was trying to fight him a little bit, she finally got away, pulled her pants up, ran around to the side of a corner, ran inside a washing machine, hunched down, shaking in fear, while he danced around with his pants down, laughing at her, pointing at her, with all the other boys – you could hear them in the background, doing the same thing – and that’s all I watched. Because after that I was just… man, I don’t want to see any more of this. If I do, I’m gonna do something I shouldn’t do.”

Stranahan: “Could you tell how long the clip was? You only watched thirty seconds, but did you see how long it was?”

Victim’s Father: “I didn’t check. I know it was a couple minutes.”

Stranahan: “A couple minutes.”

Victim’s Father: “I know there was a lot more that happened that was told to me by the prosecutor who had watched the video. More after that, you know, he went back to her, tried doing the front, he, um… oral sex with, you know, oral with her, he shoved it in her mouth…”

Victim’s Mother: “Which is considered a rape.”

Victim’s Father: “He peed all over her in her mouth, all over her body, her face, head… you know, totally defiled her, I mean…”

Stranahan: “Yeah.”

Victim’s Father: “So I know it had to be more than a minute or two for that to happen. And after he was all done, like I was saying, um, before the lady walked in and stopped him, the next-older boy had gotten– removed his clothes, and was getting ready to…”

Stranahan: “Join?”

Victim’s Father: “Join. And that’s when she walked in and stopped it.