I saw the smoke signals hovering over Menomonee Falls last week and immediately surmised they were part of a new warning system for ‘outer ring suburbanites.’
The man-made cloud was one of several ‘warning’ devices utilized in the last few months in anticipation of an eventual ‘foreign invasion.’
And I’m not talking about Chinese, Russians, or Trump’s Toxic Troopers.
Instead, the alert signaled another arrest of a brown-skinned brother who thought he could sneak a television under his shirt at the Germantown Walmart.
In itself, that arrest signifies little.
But when reports reveal that while the small G-town police force was escorting the punk to their station, a dozen other thugs and thugettes escaped the net, you begin to understand why suburbanites are concerned.
And it’s not only because they know their property taxes will skyrocket to address the growing shoplifting tsunami.
It’s more so a fear that the invasion of ‘colored culprits’ thievery may signal a pending incursion of the ‘Milwaukee Mau Mau’ (MMM)—crazed and impoverished ‘Negriods’ who have been incited by Critical Race Theory propaganda, intoxicated on drugs obtained from poverty pimp organizers, and inspired by liberation theology clerics who advocate the green grass and clean streets of the outer core suburbs could compensate as reparations for slavery and 150 years of second class citizenship.
OK, OK, I might be exaggerating…a tad! But you can’t deny the irrefutable concern of White and Black suburbanites that their once safe communities are being devalued by a wave of ‘nonviolent’ crimes, most clearly illuminated by record shoplifting, 95% of which are being perpetrated by Milwaukee’s Minions who apparently think they are in the export business.
Think about it:
This tsunami has reached the point where every other day, a different alert of an arrest interrupts their day.
Those church bells ringing during mid-week? They were not foretelling Sunday school classes.
And if you think that toxic cloud supposedly originating from Canada a couple of months ago was Mother Nature burping? Well, guess again.
In fact, I have also surmised the so-called Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Alert System warning last week had nothing to do with a pending disaster but, instead, to allow time to replace stolen products at several outer core department stores targeted by the ‘M&Ms’.
Now, each of those ‘alarms’ is, in truth, part of a coordinated warning paradigm for suburbanites to practice procedures in which they lock their doors, load their guns, and put their daughters in chastity belts because, as Sidney Poitier once declared: ‘guess who is coming to dinner?’
Today, it’s unprecedented and resource-draining shoplifting. Tomorrow, it’s carjackings. Next week, it’s home invasions.
The ‘Mau Mau’- the propaganda and conservative trouble makers are telling the suburbanites—is coming.
As a child of Black parents who taught me the power of reading (a lost art), I can decipher the tea leaves. And they saw a growing problem that is reaching its apex.
A couple of years ago, the Washington County publication isolated a small corner of the weekly publication to crime —drunk driving, speeding, and occasional drug (one joint) arrests.
Today, that column has grown into an entire page with, sadly, most of the crimes reportedly committed by outsiders (Milwaukee Minority Minions).
So, I’m not recuperating from the contact high I received while entering the corner grocery across the street from the newspaper I write for (the one you’re now holding). Nor am I exaggerating as I did when I told my blind date—now my wife– that I was 6’2″ and had a washboard stomach.
The truth is, the outer core suburbanites are telling authorities that something must be done before this situation gets out of control. And they won’t have to scream too loudly, as ‘special interests’ are using the scenario to create cultural chaos and, indirectly, solidify the strong lock conservatives have on suburban politics.
You can call it fear-mongering. But you’d be hard-pressed to convince the retirees, including Black professionals, who left Milwaukee for the safety of the suburbs that their lifestyles and security are being jeopardized (again) by an onslaught of Black criminality.
The uptick in hiring of armed security at businesses outside Milwaukee is not merely the result of corporate decisions to lower unemployment figures. They are, in fact, a response to escalating shoplifting and other ‘nonviolent’ crimes, much of which are being perpetrated by members of our tribe (or a subset).
Several months ago, I relayed my confusion about the hiring of black-clad armed guards at Woodman’s grocery store on the border of Milwaukee and Menomonee Falls, 104th Street, just south of Brown Deer Road. That’s different from the other Woodman locations in Waukesha and Oak Creek.
Somewhat confused, I asked a Black employee about the hirings, and she confirmed—sadly—that they were ‘necessitated’ by a tsunami of shoplifting, including punks running out of the store with carts full of groceries to waiting cars.
The Walmart on Appleton Avenue in Germantown has a regular police presence and unarmed— predominantly African American—guards patrolling the aisles.
Again, I quizzed a chocolate employee who echoed the Woodman staffer.
This time, my conversation arose after I asked why the men’s underwear was now under ‘lock and key.’
Much to my dismay–and embarrassment–she revealed that the new policy was undertaken after numerous thefts.
The employee brought some levity to the scenario, stating, ‘The low riders (wearing pants below the thighs) want to impress the chicks with clean drawers.
As much as I tried, I couldn’t hide my laughter from the joke, although the disingenuous nature of the scenario was not lost on either of us.
Even the Marcus Theater down the street from the Walmart isn’t immune. Taking advantage of their senior discount, I parked next to an unmarked squad car Friday evening. I noticed an armed ‘security’ guard (I assume an off-duty cop) scanning the crowd while stationed in the bar area.
I assume he wouldn’t shoot someone stealing the theater’s overpriced popcorn.
More to the point, I wonder if there are similar gun-bearing guards at theaters in Pewaukee or Mequon.
Then again, maybe the gun-totting guard was stationed at the location as the last line of defense for a joint police (Menomonee Falls/Germantown) task force to catch the ‘bullet bandits’ who necessitated the nearby Fleet Farm from putting their ammunition out of reach.
A couple of years ago, I learned the hardware store was a prime target for punks and punkettes stealing ammunition and jetting back to the safety of Milwaukee.
Two decades ago, it was harder to find a Black person in Germantown than it is to find an 18-year-old virgin on Vliet Street.
Today, G-town is becoming increasingly diverse.
But that reality can’t explain why 77% of the faces at the Appleton Ave. Walmart are African American.
Most of the Black customers are Milwaukeeans. Ironically, they travel out of their way to get to G-town, not because that store has better bargains, but instead because they feel safer.
The Walmart on Capitol Drive has a history of daytime robberies. Along with its sister store on Brown Deer, is reportedly on the list of locations that might be closed because of excessive losses from coordinated shoplifting.
That’s why, we assume, the Miltown and, most recently, the Silver Springs locations were closed.
In fact, the primary reason for Milwaukee becoming an entertainment and department store desert (outside of downtown and the Third Ward) is related to our city’s cultural image, exasperated by nation-leading poverty.
Justify or excuse away that reality all you want, but you can’t deny facts. Among them, we are forced to spend a significant amount of our hard-earned money outside the city because corporate America sees investments in the town as something other than economically viable. Or safe.
It is not a coincidence that the only major grocery chain serving our community is Pick N’ Save. Meijer, Sendiks, and Piggly Wigley have built around, above, and beyond the city despite the Black community’s $1 billion Black consumer market.
You don’t need a marketing degree to figure out why. You need to realize it is related to the fact that there are no major department stores, movie theaters, or entertainment venues in our community.
It’s why I had to travel to Waukesha for a skating party for my grandson or drive 20 miles away to accommodate my granddaughter’s desire to play laser tag.
Allow me to connect the dots:
In case you haven’t figured out why an ultra-conservative organization is spending mega bucks on that disingenuous and misleading ad of the young ‘brother’ and his daughter condemning Critical Race Theory, it is rooted in a scheme to exploit fears and create (further) division among ethnicities.
I’ve even heard a couple of Black suburbanites expressing concern about ‘them’ as if the poor are a different breed or tribe. Maybe they are.
I can righteously say that the prejudices that have followed us since our ancestors were brought here on a slave ship disingenuously named Jesus are totally without merit—they are not only unfounded but rooted in a ploy of White Supremacist.
Obviously, we are not lazy or ignorant as their racist epithet ‘nigger’ (n-word) implies. In truth, we literally built this country with our sweat and blood.
We invented most trademarked creations attributed to Whites, from electricity (the filament in the light bulb that makes it work seemingly forever) to the Afro pick.
Given equal opportunity, we excel in every field and have done so while ice skating uphill backward during a midnight snow storm.
Poverty and educational inequality are the reasons for criminality. And you can contribute our cultural dysfunctionality to our willingness to allow white liberals and political paradigms to steer our freedom train in circles with rest stops at the welfare office and ‘government schools.’
I blame our plight on our gullibility, the remnants of a slave mentality and miscegenation with a Eurocentric, materialistic, and faithless culture.
The further away from our African roots, themore likely we are cast in the desert of culturalirrelevancy.
Despite that reality, you should be able to understand the trepidation of suburbanites who feartheir property taxes will increase to address crimeoriginating from outside their communities orthat something more serious is on the horizon.
You need to know that many suburbanites include all shades of chocolate, including sugar-free (political independents).
And while they are caught between a rock anda hard place, the words of State Rep. JanelBrandtjen reverberate with each warning systemalarm: Seven years ago, a Menomonee Falls politician threatened to fight against revenue sharingfor Milwaukee if then-Mayor Tom Barrett didn’tdo more to stop the Milwaukee Mau Mau frominvading her community.
State Rep. Brandtjen’s remarks came after ahighly publicized carjacking led to the arrest offive Black punks that prompted local residents topurchase security devices, including bazookasand tanks.
Ironically, Brandtjen attended Marshall HighSchool in Milwaukee.
I proudly recall my mother and other protestersdemonstrating outside the school during its construction because the Milwaukee School Boardplanned to keep Black students out of the newschool.
Maybe, if Brandtjen’s parents had participatedin those protests, more Black children could haveavailed themselves of a better education. Instead,they were trapped in failing, segregated, andunder-financed schools, joined the Culture ofPoverty, and bred the gangsters now runningcriminal enterprises and scaring the hell outtaouter core residents.
Hotep.
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