DELBERT BELTON, RIP - AD ASTRA

Coming on the heels of the vicious gunning down of young Australian baseballer Chris Lane in Duncan, Oklahoma, last week, the beating death of World War II veteran and Purple Heart holder Delbert Belton, in Spokane, Washington on August 21, resulted in growing sentiment across the land for appropriate action on racial violence in America.

The 89-year-year-old Belton survived his wounds from fighting on Okinawa, only to fall victim on Wednesday night to 2 teenage thugs who are suspected of pummeling Belton to death with flashlights, shortly after their victim left an Elks Club in Spokane.

DEMETRIUS GLENN 

One suspect, Demetrius Glenn,  has been apprehended by Spokane police, while the 2nd suspect, Kenan Adams-Kinard, is now the object of an intense search by law enforcement authorities.  The suspects, apparently ranging in age between 16 and 19, were intending to commit robbery when they encountered Belton, who had just returned to his car.

Belton, who was barely over 5 feet in height, was known as "Shorty."  At his advaced age, he would been physically no match for the thugs.

In the pages of Two for Texas, I have repeatedly referred to statistics that show black-on-white violence to be far more common than white-on-black attacks.  In fact, black violence is geometrical in proportion to violent attacks perpetrated by white Americans on black Americans.  But, this is a story that, out of its constant promotion of multiculturalism and political correctness, the major media outlets would rather keep mum.

"WILDERS" IN PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia Inquirer)

"Wilding" is a craze that dates back over 20 years.  In 1991, a mob in Boston went on a rampage, during which a woman was stabbed a total on 122 times.  On June 11, 2000, during a Puerto Rico Day parade in New York City, an out-of-control horde of young people began attacking, assaulting and groping women.  In 2008, in St. Louis, wilding groups attacked passengers at various stops in the metro train system.  In the spring of 2010, using social media in order to assemble, mobs in Philadelphia began attacking passers-by and destroying property.  In the following year, a multitude of black youth went "wilding" at the Wisconsin State Fair and began attacking fair-goers outside the fair grounds.  This year, in April, a throng of 400 black teens took over the Magic Mile in Chicago and began uncontrolled pillaging and violence.  The real story of these examples of wilding - the story that the media doesn't see fit to cover - is that the victims of these attacks were, in large proportion, white.

As disturbing as these examples might be, black-on-black violence occurs at a rate that staggers the imagination. Between 1979 and 2011, there were approximately 279,000 black murder victims in the U.S. Of those deaths, about 263,000 or 94%, resulted from blacks attacking blacks.  In effect, the black community constitutes the most violence prone group in America.

Incredibly, so-called "black leaders" spend their efforts in spinning tales of racism rather than in speaking out in calling for black America to respond to the challenge of rectifying the societal sickness that afflicts it. Concomitantly, we now have a racist government in power in the nation's capital, which is averse to any sort of even-handedness in racial matters.  It is a virtual certainty that neither the president nor the attorney general will speak out - as they did in the Treyvon Martin case - against the violence which percolates from black America and affects this nation as a whole.  And, for their reluctance to articulate the problem, the U.S. daily and increasingly becomes a land beset by tribalism and bloodshed.

My father was a veteran who served with distinction in World War II.  His fellows who are still alive deserve all the gratitude and honor which this nation can bestow upon them.  That an elderly veteran may be assaulted  and murdered by barbaric young thugs on our streets is an outrage!  In many ways, my father would not recognize the America of 2013, which has fallen so far from the ideals that once made it an exceptional land.  Delbert Belton could have been my dad!  Delbert Belton: RIP - AD ASTRA.