UPDATED: Hubbard says he was target of racial incident in Soulard
State Rep. Rodney Hubbard says he was the target of racial intimidation in a lunchtime incident at Soulard today.
After media inquiries, Hubbard’s campaign released a statement saying that Hubbard was at Johnny’s on Russell Boulevard, eating lunch with his twin brother,Rontonyo Hubbard-Bey, and businessman Sam Salama, who owns a market near Hubbard’s home in Carr Square.
According to the statement, shortly after their arrival, two “visibly intoxicated” male patrons told them that they were in a “white bar.”
Hubbard, according to the statement from his campaign, left the restaurant and called police form outside.
“It is ironic that just one day after Sen. Barack Obama reminded the nation that its racial wounds have not yet healed, that I am personally reminded that our city’s racial divide is still very much alive,” Hubbard said in the statement.
“I know that the actions of these two men are not indicative of the vast majority of people,” Hubbard stated, ”but if an elected official like myself, a businessman like Mr. Salama, or a man like my brother experience this kind of blatant discrimination in 2008, it is clear we still have a lot of work to do.”
Police would not reveal details of the incident, but did confirm there was a “disturbance call” made and at least one summons for disturbing the peace issued.
We’ll post more info on this episode as it comes available.
UPDATE:
The owner of the tavern, the eponymous Johnny Daus, says his staff have informed him that there were no racial comments directed at the Hubbard brothers or Salama. Daus was in the restaurant at the time, but in the downstairs office.
“I have two girls who were standing there the whole time and say nothing like that was said,” Daus said.
Rodney Hubbard, center, with Russ Carnahan


You’ve only listed isolated incidents….what about every day and I mean every day on the news another shooting in North St. Louis….Yes, St. Louis tops NY, LA, and Detroit in murders…I’ll scope the references to back it up, hold on…….It’s been on the news and in the papers for two years now, though. I’m just surprised you never heard this before.
SUZY—Ask and ye shall receive:
The hard truth—(the mentally ill boy that lived in an apt. in West Co is a very isolated case):—-
The Color of Crime: Study on Racial Differences Released
By Nicholas Stix (10/06/05)
Imagine if one demographic group in America were 33 times more prone to commit crimes than another group. How would you feel about the relatively crime-prone group? The relatively crime-free group? Wouldnt you want to know about such differences?
But we dont have to imagine anything. The above contrast was not a hypothetical case, but rather the statistical relationship of black to Asian crime in America, as detailed in the new report, The Color of Crime, released by the New Century Foundation, the organization that sponsors American Renaissance magazine.
* between 2001 and 2003, blacks were 39 times more likely to commit violent crimes against whites than the reverse, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
* Between 2001 and 2003, blacks committed, on average, 15,400 black-on-white rapes per year, while whites averaged only 900 white-on-black rapes per year.
* Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
But there are five-and-one-half as many whites as blacks. If anything, the numbers should be reversed. After all, as leftists always tell us, all groups are supposed to be equally represented in all categories, for good or ill. (Well, not really. Leftists never call on the NBA and NFL to institute racial parity for white players.)
* Nationally, youth gangs are 90 percent non-white. Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely.
* The only crime category in which Asians are more heavily represented than whites is illegal gambling.
* Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
But how can that be, when for years commentators of all political persuasions have insisted that the majority of the victims of black crime are themselves black? But it has been true for some time, because blacks increasingly target whites based on the color of the latter skin. The commentators have been guilty variously of lying or laziness.
* Far from being guilty of racially profiling innocent blacks, police have been exercising racial bias on behalf of blacks, arresting fewer blacks than their proportion of criminals: blacks who committed crimes that were reported to the police were 26 percent less likely to be arrested than people of other races who committed the same crimes.
* ¦ police are determined to arrest non-black rather than black criminals. (I have seen this practice in operation on the streets and subways of New York.)
* Blacks] are eight times more likely than people of other races to rob someone, for example, and 5.5 times more likely to steal a car.
Well, as everyone knows, innocent blacks get rounded up by the police all the time, so we can safely ignore such statistics. After all, isnt that what the NAACP, Village Voice, New York Times, and countless black activists and prominent academics have been saying for years? And although the folks insisting on the reality of racial profiling have no facts to back up their claims, they enjoy political prestige and moral authority. The Color of Crime, meanwhile, is based merely on lowly facts. As we shall see, prominent people are already saying that we should ignore The Color of Crime, because it wasn’t produced by the right sort of people. (And of course, the right sort of people never tells the truth about race and crime.)
* Charges of racial profiling, which maintain that police target innocent black motorists for traffic stops notwithstanding, a 2002 study by Maryland’s Public Service Research Institute found that police were stopping too few black speeders (23%), compared to their proportion of actual speeders (25%). In fact, blacks were twice as likely to speed as whitesi n general, and there was an even higher frequency of black speeders in the 90-mph and higher range.
* the only evidence for police bias is disproportionate arrest rates for those groups police critics say are the targets of bias. High black arrest rates appear to reflect high crime rates, not police misconduct.
* Blacks not only commit violent crimes at far higher rates than non-blacks, but their crimes are more violent than those of whites. Blacks are three times as likely as non-blacks to commit assault with guns, and twice as likely as non-blacks to commit assault with knives.
* Blacks not only commit violent crimes at far higher rates than whites, but blacks commit white collar offenses — fraud, bribery, racketeering and embezzlement, respectively — at two to five times the white rate.
* The single greatest indicator of an areas crime rate is not poverty or education, but race and ethnicity. Even when one controls for income, the black crime rate is much higher than the white rate.
Things are actually much worse than the above notes suggest. As The Color of Crime notes, the feds inflate white crime statistics by counting Hispanic offenders as white; at the same time, Hispanics are a [hate crime] victim category but not a perpetrator category. If someone attacks a Mexican for racial reasons, he becomes a Hispanic victim of a hate crime. However, if the same Mexican commits a hate crime against a black, he is classified as a white™ perpetrator. Even more absurdly, if a Mexican commits a hate crime against a white, both victim and perpetrator are reported as white. Thus, the number of white perpetrators is exaggerated, while the number of white victims is constricted by the federal double-standard.
And as the study fails to note, with black-on-white male prison rape an institutionalized sport among black inmates, hundreds of thousands of white men have thus been victimized but never counted by the government. Meanwhile, white-on-black male prison rape is virtually non-existent.
Some of the study™s many sources were the FBI™s Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs); the feds™ National Crime Victimization Study (NCVS), in which 149,000 people across the country, in statistical proportion to all demographic groups, were called; the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS); and Supplemental Homicide Reports (SHRs); State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS); National Youth Gang Survey; the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP); and National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP). The succinct report slays dragons in the course of mere footnotes, such as its nailing of tenured California State University criminology professor Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld, who in her book Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls and Controversies, the reality of interracial violence be damned, depicted whites only as perpetrators, and not as the victims of hate crimes.
The Color of Crime not to be confused with a 1998 piece of propaganda of the same name by tenured University of Maryland professor of criminology, Katheryn K. Russell — is the most scientifically rigorous research on crime and race available. It’s the state of the art.
And the mentally ill boy-white lived in an apartment so his father could continue to work as a greeter at the Chesterfield Wal-Mart.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/06/national/main532163
(AP) St. Louis has become the nation’s most dangerous city, snapping Detroit’s three-year run with that inauspicious label, according to a Kansas company’s yearly ranking.
A spokesman for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said the city expects to fall farther down the list in coming years.
“Basically, we’re not surprised that’s Detroit fallen from the top of the list like that,” Jamaine Dickens said. “We found that while crime is going up in other parts of country, in Detroit it’s going down.”
On the heels of St. Louis and Detroit among the nation’s most-dangerous cities were Atlanta, Gary, Ind., and Baltimore, according to Morgan Quitno’s rankings, now in their ninth year.
The rankings are based on a city’s rate for six crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. All cities of at least 75,000 residents that reported crime data to the FBI for the six crime categories were included in the rankings.
MOST DANGEROUS 25:
1
St. Louis, MO
2
Detroit, MI
Well, those are some stats. But they are NOT stats to back up your 50-75% of Blacks are the committers of crime. Not comparisons to other skin color. Not comparisons to other cities.
Show me the stat that backs up that statement that either 1 in 2 African Americans or 3 in 4 African Americans are committing these crimes!
The “fact” is that you CAN’T put your money where your mouth is, because no such statistic exists.
Ha!
Nicholas Stix? A ”conservative” rants from his blog is hardly unbaised material. Scott should move to Norway where he will not be bothered by all the scary Black people.
If you want to refute the FBI crime statistics, then you are guilty of racism against whites. That is the only racism that is ocurring…just look at the stats.
With those stats, Suzy, you figure out the actual percentage of blacks who are guilty of wrongdoing…it certainly outpaces the white percentage…probably 30 times more likely given that it is already 7 times more likely not taking into effect the large numbers of the white population compared to the relatively small population of blacks—-yet the smaller population of blacks is 7 times more likely to commit violent crimes. There’s just no disputing that.
Maybe you are one of the non-statistics, Suzy..and I applaud you for that.
#47 Dave: “Maybe you are one of the non-statistics, Suzy..and I applaud you for that.”
Oh, that’s mighty white of you Dave. But, humorous.
Again, nowhere in these “stats” did they back up Scott’s claim that 50-75% of the Black population is committing crimes. In addition, he didn’t produce FBI statistics. He produced an “article” written by someone who references a report that is supposedly based on some crime statistics. This is 3rd hand information. It is academic laziness at its best. Probably the result of a Google search, not true research.
For all we know either the article or the report cherry picked statistics to prove their point.
That aside, the underlying thing was that Scott claimed to not be posting generalizations but facts. He has not proven that. I believe it is because he cannot prove his outlandish and outrageous statement. Thus, I am done debating his “nothingness”.
Sure, Suzy Q, can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
ALL FACTS BY THE FBI. HARD, COLD FACTS.
If it makes you feel better, just ignore them and move on. BUT WE ALL KNOW THE FACTS NOW.
CBS NEWS stories-I guess we should not listen to either–2nd hand information.
Do you have any first-hand information you researched by yourself to support anything to the contrary? I think not. Point made.
East St. Louis and North St. Louis are so safe. I think I’ll have my preschool children have an outdoor slumber party there tonight. They’ll be perfectly safe I’m sure with all the sweet non-gang member non-dealing drug addicts who happen to be I’m not sure what color. I’ll have to drive up there to look to see what color they are–I forgot, maybe Suzy knows—she can look out her window.
When the truth hurts and makes you look bad, move on. That’s Suzy’s philosophy. Blacks don’t commit any crimes–only whites do because there aren’t any first-hand studies on it. HA!
#Justice Dept. crime findings do not “cherry pick” or lie; they just state the findings#