Because of the lust for violence displayed in the video, I can't even settle my emotions enough to write an intelligent comment to this post. To condone this violent attack, to even suggest that there is justification in it, perpetrates racist stereotypes in the white mind. Mr. Qualls speaks with eloquence and wisdom in calling for strength in the black family. As a public school teacher, working with a majority population of students from impoverished families, I see first hand how our welfare system holds people captive with little incentive for upward mobility. We need a social safety net, but not one such that "idleness becomes the devil's playground"! Indeed we have great discrepancies in wealth under capitalism; however, we have freedom. The alternative to capitalism is bondage under government "distribution of wealth." Ironic, isn't it.
I tried not to make this issue about Liberals v. Conservatives, but the godless ideology of Marxism/Socialism and the traditional Christian culture that American blacks were lured away from with government “freebies”.
For 60-years the black community witnessed the two-parent family decline from 80 percent to approximately 80 percent fatherless homes - without one national initiative to reverse the trend.
Forgive me for not giving liberals credit about caring for values of personal responsibility, family values while they watched a cultural genocide happen in our lifetimes.
There hasn’t been an initiative by the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, the Urban League and definitely not by BLM.
That’s why we taken on this task with our organization, TakeCharge.
Every time I see one of these nauseating viral videos of violence with all the jubilant voyeurs with their cameras out. It brings me to tears of frustration, grief, anger, loss and rage. It doesn't matter whether it's black on black or black on white. Too few people are speaking this truth to power about this culture of self-destruction. Regardless of the skin color of the person who says it, the black mainstream response is always indifference, defamation or dismissal and then blame any bias, disparities or stereotyping on white supremacy. Culture shapes outcome. And it's spreading - we have a growing culture that celebrates and justifies assault or murder of white people, wealthy people, people they deem to be republican or conservative, and people who simply work for the industries they scapegoat. They let the perpetrators off the hook and make martyrs of them, giving free reign to anyone with the impulse to rage. Leaders are either silent, not condemning hard enough and even sanctioning it. We are not ok.
I would add that I chose to leave teaching. I was compelled to pay for graduate school which would compel me to teach against my moral beliefs. Kindergarten teachers are not allowed to call their students boys and girls. My 6th grade students were reading at 2nd grade level, but I wasn’t given permission to teach them how to read - admin chastised me for serving their needs instead of pushing them along in a system they were automatically allowed to graduate. Most of every classroom in every grade (K-8) was time wasted due to behavior. I decided to teach good manners, legible handwriting, and reading without screens or graphics. The students blossomed, they felt empowered, they began to imagine success. Instead, I was forced to teach to the administrators’ regimes based upon the state’s demands, as students continue to flail. The violence in MN can correlate completely with the failure of the public school system.
Voices like Love influence higher education more than one might think. Their anti-capitalism-anti-American philosophy silences opposing voices, which leads to teachers repeating the ideals of Marxism to new generations. The education system is a mess.
An outstanding article by the great Kendall Qualls! The yelling of racial slurs by the victims was wrong. But it didn't warrant a beatdown by a feral mob where the victims were left black and blue. The group of black people involved should've simply told them off or felt sorry for these folk's ignorance and hate they carry around with them and prayed for them. But you do NOT respond with unbelievably brutal physical violence! You have every right to be angry about being called a racial slur and stand up for yourself, but you don't have the right to beat that person to a bloody pulp, that's going WAY too far! The Civil Rights Movement for example called on the activists who participated in it to always stay non-violent. If a Civil Rights activist black or white, had beaten a Klansman or a Southern police officer to a bloody pulp and left him for dead how would that have looked in the eyes of everyday Americans including black people? It would have badly damaged the righteous cause of civil rights for all. If a group of black men had gone around lynching white Southerners in revenge for the lynchings that whites perpetrated on the black community, what would that have accomplished? Only to make the horrific racial violence inflicted on the black community in the South ten times worse, to reinforce the racist beliefs and fears about black people white Southerners had and to irrecoverably harm the cause of civil rights in this country. As M. Jae astutely notes, saying this was justified in any way only serves to reinforce negative stereotypes about black people in the white mind. High crime rates within the black community though it is not politically correct to talk about, is a very real problem. Black on white crime is at epidemic levels as is black on black crime. Why do young black men fall into a life of crime? For a variety of reasons. Poverty and lack of economic and educational opportunity are most certainly a couple of the factors behind this (not to use them as an excuse or justification) but they don't quite give us the whole picture.
The absence of a father in the home, a lack of morals and values instilled from a young age, poor individual choices, not staying in school and completing one's education, falling in with the wrong crowd, the glorification of gangs and drugs in rap and hip-hop music, being irresponsible in one's sexual activity, a desire to find a place to belong, and peer pressure I believe are also factors in why this happens. Kendall pretty much says it all here. Judeo-Christian values, the Protestant work ethic, the nuclear family, free-market capitalism, patriotism, waiting until your married to have sex, the importance of education, and staying away from gangs and drugs are all things that need to be instilled into black children and young people. Traditional black culture needs to be brought back, and the Christian church needs to play a central role in black life again. Black culture indeed needs to be returned to its foundational roots. If I were to give advice to a black child or young person I would say the following: stay in school, stay away from gangs and drugs, fear the Lord, love your country and do what you can to serve it, be a good man or woman and help make the world a better place, be proud to be black but never see that as all there is to you, if someone is racist towards you that is their problem not yours, you are a victor not a victim, nobody's owes you anything, go out and work for what you want, be non-violent, fight intolerance with love and understanding, wait until you're married to have a child, in an interaction with the police be polite, keep your hands on the steering wheel and if you feel you've been treated unfairly or with racial prejudice get a badge number and report it, don't try to fight the officer or call them names, take each white person on a case by case basis and don't judge them to be a racist until you've gotten to know them better, reject all forms of prejudice, and never accuse another black person of talking or acting white or being an Uncle Tom, and think for yourself and develop your own worldview. I also believe rap and hip-hop music needs to be shifted from being about sex, gangs, drugs, and money to focusing on celebrating black history, praising God, encouraging black education, condemning gangs, advocating messages of colorblindness and universalism, building good relations between black communities and the police, celebrating family and fatherhood, and ripping rioting and looting.
Holly said that they were “jumped” by these people. White people generally don’t run around issuing slurs without provocation. It ought to be clear that these people were blocking their way, like they block the subway doors, sidewalks, etc, and then if you don’t get permission by begging for your right to be there, they start harassing you because they’re looking for a REASON to beat you up.
The only provocation needed for some Whites these days to feel free to throw around the "n" word in the faces of Black folks is Trump's presence in the Oval Office. They've literally been saying as much.
Because we have literally seen White people on video casually tossing around the "n" word and saying it's permissible now that Trump's back in office. You need links?
And you are susceptible to propaganda? These are not Trump supporters; they are communist propagandists attempting to sow discord between black and white folks.
More good stuff. Thank you. It’s like the Black community is to the Progressive Left, like the Gaza residents are to Hamas. The more they suffer degradation and violence, the better, as far as these Leftists are concerned. Godspeed with your work.
Thanks for your words of wisdom. This anti-American movement has been cloaked in various forms since the mid-sixties. I'm glad at least a few are starting to realize what they have been exposed to over the decades, typically behind the veil of 'social justice'.
Kendall, you are a brilliant, empathetic, well-spoken man. I do so enjoy your columns!
Why would any Black leaders comment or condemn? They're just a couple of White folks, and White and Black have nothin'! in common. Whites are animals, every last one of 'em!
This is an excellent article in many aspects! It is well written, truthful, and courageous.
Much of our cultural decline can be attributed to the squeaky wheels clambering for attention in spectacular victim fashion.
Instead of calling out the whining and laziness of the left, most of us remained silent. We weren’t raised to stoop to their level of weakness. Instead, we thought we’d carry on and hope for the best.
The time has come to take a stand, using need-based language in a way to depict the facts of the matter at hand, the choices we have the opportunity to make, and the willingness to lead a way, however large or small, out of the apparent nihilism ailing us as a society in the hope of making our citizenry proud - as our previous generations did.
This concept is lost on the youth raised in recent public schools’ debilitating agendas, legalized or even weaponized, by the Department of Education’s licensing demands.
Mr. Qualls has my vote for Governor. Oh, to be proud of our beautiful state again! We have so much potential and so much at stake.
I hope his article will be printed in the StarTrib and St Paul Pioneer press as an op-ed. I intend to submit it to both and encourage everyone to do so.
I tried not to make this issue about Liberals v. Conservatives, but the godless ideology of Marxism/Socialism and the traditional Christian culture that American blacks were lured away from with government “freebies”.
For 60-years the black community witnessed the two-parent family decline from 80 percent to approximately 80 percent fatherless homes - without one national initiative to reverse the trend.
Forgive me for not giving liberals credit about caring for values of personal responsibility, family values while they watched a cultural genocide happen in our lifetimes.
There hasn’t been an initiative by the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, the Urban League and definitely not by BLM.
That’s why we taken on this task with our organization, TakeCharge.
Incidents like this are stark reminders that many of the challenges facing the black community today stem from harmful patterns within our own culture. Thank you for bringing attention to this reality. I believe much of our black elite operates within a “racial grievance industry,” enriching themselves by selling a narrative of perpetual black victimhood. A prime example is BLM, which ignores the fact that over half of U.S. murders are committed by black offenders, and over 90% of the victims are also black.
That said, as one of your followers and a center-left liberal, I — along with most liberals I know — fully embrace family values, personal responsibility, and the principles you advocate. We simply don’t see these ideals as belonging to conservatives alone. It was liberal thought and activism that helped free black Americans from the conservative institutions of slavery and Jim Crow — institutions now nostalgically championed by elements of the MAGA movement.
Because of this history, I believe we cannot successfully engage the broader black community through a partisan lens. The word “conservative” itself, for many of us, still carries the weight of a painful past and is enough to close minds before a conversation can even begin.
I am becoming increasingly more frustrated that black leaders and celebrities are not calling ANY black violence out—whether it’s black on black, black on white, black on anybody! I wish they weren’t silent as it could probably make a difference. I feel that we are reaching a critical juncture, and outside of praying and speaking up in my little sphere, I fear what’s coming down the pike. 🙏🏾
Because of the lust for violence displayed in the video, I can't even settle my emotions enough to write an intelligent comment to this post. To condone this violent attack, to even suggest that there is justification in it, perpetrates racist stereotypes in the white mind. Mr. Qualls speaks with eloquence and wisdom in calling for strength in the black family. As a public school teacher, working with a majority population of students from impoverished families, I see first hand how our welfare system holds people captive with little incentive for upward mobility. We need a social safety net, but not one such that "idleness becomes the devil's playground"! Indeed we have great discrepancies in wealth under capitalism; however, we have freedom. The alternative to capitalism is bondage under government "distribution of wealth." Ironic, isn't it.
Kendall Qualls
Kendall Qualls
just now
I tried not to make this issue about Liberals v. Conservatives, but the godless ideology of Marxism/Socialism and the traditional Christian culture that American blacks were lured away from with government “freebies”.
For 60-years the black community witnessed the two-parent family decline from 80 percent to approximately 80 percent fatherless homes - without one national initiative to reverse the trend.
Forgive me for not giving liberals credit about caring for values of personal responsibility, family values while they watched a cultural genocide happen in our lifetimes.
There hasn’t been an initiative by the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, the Urban League and definitely not by BLM.
That’s why we taken on this task with our organization, TakeCharge.
Every time I see one of these nauseating viral videos of violence with all the jubilant voyeurs with their cameras out. It brings me to tears of frustration, grief, anger, loss and rage. It doesn't matter whether it's black on black or black on white. Too few people are speaking this truth to power about this culture of self-destruction. Regardless of the skin color of the person who says it, the black mainstream response is always indifference, defamation or dismissal and then blame any bias, disparities or stereotyping on white supremacy. Culture shapes outcome. And it's spreading - we have a growing culture that celebrates and justifies assault or murder of white people, wealthy people, people they deem to be republican or conservative, and people who simply work for the industries they scapegoat. They let the perpetrators off the hook and make martyrs of them, giving free reign to anyone with the impulse to rage. Leaders are either silent, not condemning hard enough and even sanctioning it. We are not ok.
I would add that I chose to leave teaching. I was compelled to pay for graduate school which would compel me to teach against my moral beliefs. Kindergarten teachers are not allowed to call their students boys and girls. My 6th grade students were reading at 2nd grade level, but I wasn’t given permission to teach them how to read - admin chastised me for serving their needs instead of pushing them along in a system they were automatically allowed to graduate. Most of every classroom in every grade (K-8) was time wasted due to behavior. I decided to teach good manners, legible handwriting, and reading without screens or graphics. The students blossomed, they felt empowered, they began to imagine success. Instead, I was forced to teach to the administrators’ regimes based upon the state’s demands, as students continue to flail. The violence in MN can correlate completely with the failure of the public school system.
No state needs a change in the governance more than Minnesota. Mr Qualls exemplifies what is needed.
Voices like Love influence higher education more than one might think. Their anti-capitalism-anti-American philosophy silences opposing voices, which leads to teachers repeating the ideals of Marxism to new generations. The education system is a mess.
An outstanding article by the great Kendall Qualls! The yelling of racial slurs by the victims was wrong. But it didn't warrant a beatdown by a feral mob where the victims were left black and blue. The group of black people involved should've simply told them off or felt sorry for these folk's ignorance and hate they carry around with them and prayed for them. But you do NOT respond with unbelievably brutal physical violence! You have every right to be angry about being called a racial slur and stand up for yourself, but you don't have the right to beat that person to a bloody pulp, that's going WAY too far! The Civil Rights Movement for example called on the activists who participated in it to always stay non-violent. If a Civil Rights activist black or white, had beaten a Klansman or a Southern police officer to a bloody pulp and left him for dead how would that have looked in the eyes of everyday Americans including black people? It would have badly damaged the righteous cause of civil rights for all. If a group of black men had gone around lynching white Southerners in revenge for the lynchings that whites perpetrated on the black community, what would that have accomplished? Only to make the horrific racial violence inflicted on the black community in the South ten times worse, to reinforce the racist beliefs and fears about black people white Southerners had and to irrecoverably harm the cause of civil rights in this country. As M. Jae astutely notes, saying this was justified in any way only serves to reinforce negative stereotypes about black people in the white mind. High crime rates within the black community though it is not politically correct to talk about, is a very real problem. Black on white crime is at epidemic levels as is black on black crime. Why do young black men fall into a life of crime? For a variety of reasons. Poverty and lack of economic and educational opportunity are most certainly a couple of the factors behind this (not to use them as an excuse or justification) but they don't quite give us the whole picture.
The absence of a father in the home, a lack of morals and values instilled from a young age, poor individual choices, not staying in school and completing one's education, falling in with the wrong crowd, the glorification of gangs and drugs in rap and hip-hop music, being irresponsible in one's sexual activity, a desire to find a place to belong, and peer pressure I believe are also factors in why this happens. Kendall pretty much says it all here. Judeo-Christian values, the Protestant work ethic, the nuclear family, free-market capitalism, patriotism, waiting until your married to have sex, the importance of education, and staying away from gangs and drugs are all things that need to be instilled into black children and young people. Traditional black culture needs to be brought back, and the Christian church needs to play a central role in black life again. Black culture indeed needs to be returned to its foundational roots. If I were to give advice to a black child or young person I would say the following: stay in school, stay away from gangs and drugs, fear the Lord, love your country and do what you can to serve it, be a good man or woman and help make the world a better place, be proud to be black but never see that as all there is to you, if someone is racist towards you that is their problem not yours, you are a victor not a victim, nobody's owes you anything, go out and work for what you want, be non-violent, fight intolerance with love and understanding, wait until you're married to have a child, in an interaction with the police be polite, keep your hands on the steering wheel and if you feel you've been treated unfairly or with racial prejudice get a badge number and report it, don't try to fight the officer or call them names, take each white person on a case by case basis and don't judge them to be a racist until you've gotten to know them better, reject all forms of prejudice, and never accuse another black person of talking or acting white or being an Uncle Tom, and think for yourself and develop your own worldview. I also believe rap and hip-hop music needs to be shifted from being about sex, gangs, drugs, and money to focusing on celebrating black history, praising God, encouraging black education, condemning gangs, advocating messages of colorblindness and universalism, building good relations between black communities and the police, celebrating family and fatherhood, and ripping rioting and looting.
Holly said that they were “jumped” by these people. White people generally don’t run around issuing slurs without provocation. It ought to be clear that these people were blocking their way, like they block the subway doors, sidewalks, etc, and then if you don’t get permission by begging for your right to be there, they start harassing you because they’re looking for a REASON to beat you up.
The usual strategy in the no class playbook.
The only provocation needed for some Whites these days to feel free to throw around the "n" word in the faces of Black folks is Trump's presence in the Oval Office. They've literally been saying as much.
Baloney. Why bring Trump into this?
Because we have literally seen White people on video casually tossing around the "n" word and saying it's permissible now that Trump's back in office. You need links?
And you are susceptible to propaganda? These are not Trump supporters; they are communist propagandists attempting to sow discord between black and white folks.
Just to use one example, I'm pretty sure this is nobody's communist propagandist:
https://13thandsouth.com/kentucky-woman-says-under-trump-she-can-use-the-n-word-01dda69ae6ef
Please reply with a link to when & where this happened. IF true, is disturbing.
You'll find it at the link we provided.
You have actual tapes of these white folks uttering racial slurs unprovoked? Their voices?
More good stuff. Thank you. It’s like the Black community is to the Progressive Left, like the Gaza residents are to Hamas. The more they suffer degradation and violence, the better, as far as these Leftists are concerned. Godspeed with your work.
Thanks for your words of wisdom. This anti-American movement has been cloaked in various forms since the mid-sixties. I'm glad at least a few are starting to realize what they have been exposed to over the decades, typically behind the veil of 'social justice'.
I loved the sobriquet applied to Al Sharpton. Clever and accurate.
Right on point. Essentially no one in the long-establishment institutions of power listens.
Kendall, you are a brilliant, empathetic, well-spoken man. I do so enjoy your columns!
Why would any Black leaders comment or condemn? They're just a couple of White folks, and White and Black have nothin'! in common. Whites are animals, every last one of 'em!
... sound familiar?
This is an excellent article in many aspects! It is well written, truthful, and courageous.
Much of our cultural decline can be attributed to the squeaky wheels clambering for attention in spectacular victim fashion.
Instead of calling out the whining and laziness of the left, most of us remained silent. We weren’t raised to stoop to their level of weakness. Instead, we thought we’d carry on and hope for the best.
The time has come to take a stand, using need-based language in a way to depict the facts of the matter at hand, the choices we have the opportunity to make, and the willingness to lead a way, however large or small, out of the apparent nihilism ailing us as a society in the hope of making our citizenry proud - as our previous generations did.
This concept is lost on the youth raised in recent public schools’ debilitating agendas, legalized or even weaponized, by the Department of Education’s licensing demands.
Mr. Qualls has my vote for Governor. Oh, to be proud of our beautiful state again! We have so much potential and so much at stake.
I hope his article will be printed in the StarTrib and St Paul Pioneer press as an op-ed. I intend to submit it to both and encourage everyone to do so.
I tried not to make this issue about Liberals v. Conservatives, but the godless ideology of Marxism/Socialism and the traditional Christian culture that American blacks were lured away from with government “freebies”.
For 60-years the black community witnessed the two-parent family decline from 80 percent to approximately 80 percent fatherless homes - without one national initiative to reverse the trend.
Forgive me for not giving liberals credit about caring for values of personal responsibility, family values while they watched a cultural genocide happen in our lifetimes.
There hasn’t been an initiative by the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, the Urban League and definitely not by BLM.
That’s why we taken on this task with our organization, TakeCharge.
Incidents like this are stark reminders that many of the challenges facing the black community today stem from harmful patterns within our own culture. Thank you for bringing attention to this reality. I believe much of our black elite operates within a “racial grievance industry,” enriching themselves by selling a narrative of perpetual black victimhood. A prime example is BLM, which ignores the fact that over half of U.S. murders are committed by black offenders, and over 90% of the victims are also black.
That said, as one of your followers and a center-left liberal, I — along with most liberals I know — fully embrace family values, personal responsibility, and the principles you advocate. We simply don’t see these ideals as belonging to conservatives alone. It was liberal thought and activism that helped free black Americans from the conservative institutions of slavery and Jim Crow — institutions now nostalgically championed by elements of the MAGA movement.
Because of this history, I believe we cannot successfully engage the broader black community through a partisan lens. The word “conservative” itself, for many of us, still carries the weight of a painful past and is enough to close minds before a conversation can even begin.
Best wishes from California for your success in the election. Excellent article.
I am becoming increasingly more frustrated that black leaders and celebrities are not calling ANY black violence out—whether it’s black on black, black on white, black on anybody! I wish they weren’t silent as it could probably make a difference. I feel that we are reaching a critical juncture, and outside of praying and speaking up in my little sphere, I fear what’s coming down the pike. 🙏🏾
Thanks very much for the post.