"Flash Robbery" at Wal-Mart

(youtube) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A flash mob recently overran a Northwest Jacksonville Walmart, damaging merchandise, as well as the store's security system. Police say over 300 people stormed the store. Police have not made any arrests yet.
KnivesOutsays...

When I was younger, they had a saying: "perpetrate'n", usually meant in the sense that someone was faking something, usually a gangster lifestyle, usually by acting thuggish. More accurately, I think these people are perpetuating.

As in, they are perpetuating a mythology and confirming stereotypes.

Also, I went to high school in Jax, and it was awful. Fuck Florida.

Velocity5says...

>> ^Trancecoach:

racism is the cause, not the effect.>> ^EMPIRE:
so...many...huh......racial...stereotypes.... must..huh......resist... urge... to.... make....racist...... joke.



Hmm... but Latinos are subject to racism (even codified into law, such as in Arizona), have greater linguistic challenges as ESL speakers, and haven't yet closed the US gaps in academic performance, but you never see Latino flash mob robberies, and the average Latino crime rate is actually (contrary to stereotypes) almost as low as the mainstream US crime rate.

At some point it becomes useful to talk about cultural differences and personal accountability, and how we can help kids get out of self-destructive cultures and improve their lives.

TheDreamingDragonsays...

Oh don't hate them for their race.Hate them for their Player Class--Gangsta,where anyone who figures out how to string a dozen words together in front of a microphone feels entitled to Phat Lootz,or they blame "the Man" for their failures and consider random acts of violence and theft their Just Retribution we somehow owe them. I can appreciate Good Music of any sort,and acknowledge the Art and Craft of its creating auible sculpture with sound and voice. However,I will say I can do so without buying into a whole subculture that thinks wearing your pants half off is a fashion statement. I don't see the Enya Posse in Blue Wold on their faces and sporting designer kilts running around(although we should!). To quote a line from Animal House "Stoned Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life,son.",and that's what the subtext of the subculture amounts to. Flashy glamour is nice,but none of it matters in the face of Real Work and the instinctual Need to get it done. This seperates the Artist from the Mob,wanting to devote time away from a constant party and to physical and emotional labour to conjure something meaningful magical and new. Stepping back to admire the fruits of your handywork is a high no mass of shiney strangers can ever hope to beat. Someone in that Flashmob has orginizational skills...300 people is quite a turn out. Wouldn't it be Nice if they had much enthusiasm for something Positive,like a neighborhood watch? twittering about crimes happening to the police can help keep their neighborhoods safe,which are crawling with drugs and shoot outs."Yo Dawg! The Bruthah from that Bodega Shooting is here on Main Street!" Maybe if the "Hood wasn't such a Scarey Place,businesses would come in. And if they didn't feel it was their right to steal,they might find good jobs from the new businesses and earn a living instead of demanding one.

But one has to have Morals for that. I see none in that video. People who don't mind rampaging in front of a sea of security cameras.Can you convince such people to Play Nice at all,or past the point when doing the right thing inconveniences you?Do people sometimes need the threat of Guns even to keep civil? Suddenly snide remarks about Evolution suddenly make SENSE. But its SOcial Evolution at play here,and at fault. WE are Rome trying to convince a native of the Province they conquered to kindly not shit in the street. Sometimes you need clubs for that. But something tells me these people need their lives managed for them. Maybe wall up a ten block radius of a poor neighborhood,move all the families out nd let them play hip Hop as a live action video game where the bullets are real and cameras everywhere record the drama Live! The ultimate Reality TV Urban Experience fully packaged and ready for heavy merchendising! They can compete for resources and earn fabulous prizes,and hopefully only shoot themslves instead of the rest of us just trying to get on with life.


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It'll happen. You'll see. It's very Roman.

KnivesOutsays...

Do you think Walmart, the corporation, really suffered at all from this? No, but I'll bet the people that work at that Walmart did, when they had to work extra to clean up that mess.

Also, how is this suddenly a political comparison to Citizen's United?

To summarize: GSAD.>> ^lantern53:

Walmart is a corporation, and we all know that corporations are not people, so really...who suffers?

Trancecoachsays...

Systemic racism applies to different cultures in different ways, places, circumstances, and extents. To suggest that the same solutions apply to the racism that is leveled against all cultures, races,and minorities is simply a different kind of bigotry, but bigotry all the same.>> ^Velocity5:

>> ^Trancecoach:
It's a question of systemic racism and in equality

Surely that would apply to Latinos as well? If not, why not?

Yogisays...

I say lets keep this up. Keep doing this, at every Walmart everywhere. Then take the merch and sell it at a mom and pop store and keep the money INSIDE the community. Build up your local communies. It may not seem right but I think it is, it's reclaiming stolen money from the community.

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