JoAnne Silver Jones
A white professor and anti-racist activist has been savagely beaten by an African-American man on the streets of Washington, DC just days before the inauguration of Barack Obama.
62-year old JoAnne Silver Jones was mugged on Jan. 16 while on her way to see her adopted daughter. Jones was beat on her head, arms and hands with a brick by her African-American male assailant during the attack, according to long-time friend Patricia Romney. “He beat her face so badly that she was unable to open her eyes, and one eye socket was torn by the blows,” she said.
Jones is an associate professor in the School of Human Services at Springfield College and director of the social work program. She has co-authored a paper titled, “Feminist Strategies for Teaching About Oppression” and was involved with “cross-cultural issues” including a 1999 incident at Amherst Regional High School where Puerto Rican students protested the school’s production of “West Side Story”.
Jones is still recovering at George Washington University Hospital after undergoing surgery on her skull and eye, but may be released this weekend, Romney said. “She can walk a little but is nauseous and headachy,” she said. “She’s a tough cookie, but this is totally traumatizing. It’s going to be a long way back.” Jones will need additional surgery on both hands, which are still bandaged from her elbows to her fingertips.
Romney said she is struck by what she termed the “paradox of it all” – a white anti-racism activist, the first African-American president and a mugger identified as African-American. To test Jones’ brain, doctors asked her the name of the new president, and she answered correctly. “This won’t shake any of her political activism,” Romney said of Jones. “She’s clear about what the issues are. This won’t sway her desire to keep fighting for social justice.”
Jones’ spouse Deborah King will be nursing her back to health. Jones’ assailant remains at large.
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Johann, ek sien ons voel lekker jammer vir onse self daar oor die see… :-)
Kom huistoe man, daar is fokof baie werk om te doen vir wit, swart, bruin en moffies ook om hierdie land in ‘n posisie te kry waar niemand weer ‘n blinde oog gaan draai na geweld en gesteel.
Walk into a nest of hornets and expect to get stung.
There’s no point in engaging a racist in debate.
It deeply upsets me to think there are such hateful people on the planet. Find something better to do, for God’s sake.
WOW!! It makes me sick to know that I actually share this great country of mine with such EVIL people like your selfs. How can you blame a whole race because of one bad apple, because Bernard Madoff (the man with the 50 billion dollar pyramid scheme) stole money are we to believe all white people are thieves, or because bush was one of, if not the worst presidents in American history, are we to never vote for another white man for president. You all make me sick!… FUCK YA’LL BITCHES, SUCK MY BALLS : )
You fucking bigots should watch American History X. At one point, someone asks Edward Norton if all this hatred has made his life any better. Guess what the answer was.
I also find it amusing that most rascists consider themselves to be hardcore Christians. What kind of backwards joke is that? I know you’re all too stupid to understand what your religion was trying to teach you, but come on. You’re all fucking delusional. *IF* Jesus existed, and thats pretty much one of the biggest ifs in the world, he probably wasn’t white. How many white people came from the middle east? Oh thats right, none.
There’s no point in even arguing with these people, none of them have finished school, most probably don’t even understand what we’re writing, and they have absolutely no logic for their hate. I fucking hate so many more white people than people of any other race, especially the cowards. They’re so fucking big on the internet, but put them 1 on 1 in front of a big black man not one of them would have the guts to say shit. Not one of them.
Oh, one last thing, boy do these comments make me FUCKING PROUD to be Canadian. FUCKING PROUD. I feel sorry for how these people make you Americans look. No wonder everyone hates your country. BTW, aside from the natives, you’re all fucking immigrants. Think about that.
Wow, Johann, you’re really intelligent, aren’t you?*
Your thesis on liberals is “They’re dumb because every smart person knows they’re dumb and I am smart and not a liberal, and thus, obviously, liberals are dumb.” Well done. No, really.
Now, I, on the other hand, CAN call you and your kind stupid because, well, your posts provide ample evidence (see above please). I can also infer you are stupid based on your babbling racism and simple-minded belief that because some black people have done bad or barbaric things, all are barbaric. Hate to break it to you, but white people and, believe it or not, all other races have done bad and barbaric things. That doesn’t mean you can paint them all with the same brush, even if it’s easy and doesn’t tax your poor brain. I shouldn’t have to be explaining all of this to you. Your parents should have when they realized you were a special needs child who was born without common sense or empathy.
You, sir, are a dipshit, and the greatest impact your life will ever have on this world and the people in it is to amuse me for this brief few minutes while I type up this comment and laugh at you. So savor the moment. This is the best you’re going to get.
*I was being sarcastic. Just wanted to make sure we’re on the same page and you don’t
Maybe I should call President Obama and tell him that the need to put broadbansd Internet in every cracker assed trailer park in America is not needed in the ARRP. It seems every bigot in every hamlet in America already has high speed internet.
I think it’s funny that most of you don’t have your own blogs, work for a blog or even self identify very well. You see that’s because the sort of bigotry you hold based on well nothing except being fucking ordinary white trash that feels someone else is getting something of yours that was never yours always ends up with you talking this sort of shit.
In simple terms you guys are all impotent because if you lift your heads the US goivernment will chop you off like a weed whacker chopping off dandelions. So you can don digital hoods and robes and come here and be big shot bigots but none of you cunts would be able to hold your bowels if I handed what you said to your boss or your banker. For all of your bluster and bloviating about race you are most angry because you know that your are fucked and your lives are owned by others who extend you credit and hand you a paycheck. In the end my college educated Jew ass is twice the man that any of you punks are merely because I have money and you don’t and I have the power of the pen in a posh office and you don’t.
I hope venting your racial animus makes you feel better because that’s all you are ever going to get, well, that and some fiction about race wars and shit like that. A good friend of mine always says, no matter who wins the election the government always wins. And white boys understand that all those tanks and guns the Army has shoot just as well in Arkansas and Georgia and Idaho as they do in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pax Terra
Shadow
sorry, jews arent white!
fuck you all. honestly, what would this country be without the “negros and mexicans?”
UNBELIEVABLE!
I have never heard such a load of racist BULLSHIT!
How can you lot even consider discriminating based on race!? It’s completely idiotic! Are you saying *all* black people are evil raping murderers?
You want to look at statistics? How many more crimes are committed by men than women? (I am a man, by the way) Should we all start hating men because they commit more crimes?
Fucking idiots…
@NotCrazyLikeYou – thankyou! Reading through these comments, your voice was a drop of sanity amongst a load of in-bread, war-mongering fuckers.
It is unbelievable how incredibly uneducated and ignorant the majority of commenters on this website are. They should be ashamed of their violent, childlike, and primitive in-group/out-group attitudes. Perhaps they live in isolated, homogeneously white neighborhoods and never stray too far from what they are comfortable with. Maybe a little trip to New York City might do them some good. There one can find a handful of people shouting racist nonsense, but they are generally covered in their own vomit and batsh*t insane.
To the commenters: it must be quite easy to vent your anger here, being anonymous and all, but I think you’d be better off with a trained psychologist. At least that way you might find some solace and be able to get on with a productive, happy life.
Good luck!
@Julie Hicks – There is no god.
@ the rest of the racists on here
people get mugged all the time. white or black. doesnt matter. its the element they are in. If you are raised to be a shitty person you will be a shitty person. Reading through these comments and you can tell 95% of the people on here are shitty people.
FYI, Racism is over rated. you get mugged walking through DC all the time. I think this article is more of a Ironic type of thing that a racially driven attack. If she was black i bet she would have been mugged also.
Incredible; if the comments on this site don’t prove that there is no god, I don’t know what does.
@ everyone here:
What century do you people live in? Some of these comments are so incredibly racist that you’re willing to let a 62 year old woman be raped and killed to try to prove a point. Some of you probably have the nerve to call yourself Christians too. I don’t know how you people sleep at night, but considering your paranoid fantasies about all black people being rapists and murderers, I’d imagine it’s gripping a sawed off shotgun.
Seriously, take some time to see the world, guys. Put yourself in other people’s shoes for a while and think for a second that maybe the world is not so black and white after all. I promise, you won’t regret it.
you peole are flat out ugly, stupid racists and you make me ashamed to live in the same country or even be the same species as you. I cant’ wait to see you all locked up and waterboarded in Gitmo. we’re all just going to laugh at you.
i hope she gets beaten again to near death and has “honkey” carved on her forehead with a knife. i wonder if she gets the clue.
How many of you have “White Power” tattooed on your forehead?
Anyway, the earlier comments on this site remind me of something funny and true I heard a while ago. “White supremacists are the greatest evidence against white supremacy.”
Or, in the words of a great American philosopher:
“YOU! Where the FUCK is your CHIN?”
Not that this is going to add anything positive to this so-called discussion, but the majority of the posts here give me the creeps. Most of the people posting here are racist bigots who should try procreating outside of their own gene pool. It gives good conservatives a bad name and an even worse reputation for humanity. Grow up.
I am native american Sioux and if I can still like you european americans (in spite of yourselves) then I don’t understand the stupidity of your comments. I’ve been in a lot of different situations with alot of different races and it’s not hte color of a persons skin that makes them good or bad. Obviously, because if it were I would think all whites as stupid as most of the people commenting here.
if Hitler would’ve been killing blacks instead of jews, do you think anyone would’ve stopped him?
Didn’t think so.
What is wrong with the world – do you people not under stand what “anti-racist activist” means? It means she is NOT RACIST and the author of this story seems to be implying that the women will turn out to be racist because of this attack but she seems to have overcome.
hitler waz here
This is clearly the most hate filled and disgusting line of drivel I have ever seen posted on any forum anywhere. A person stands up for the rights of all people and you applaud when she is brutally attacked.
niggerbeasts?!? I am not usually so harsh but I would say that it is not the black man who is the problem, it is under educated, hateful, racist wastes of skin that have posted the filth that I have read here this morning.
peace to all the free thinking individuals inthe world that realize that although not every individual is a nice moral peaceful person, everyone deserves equal rights and the law will judge them on their transgressions.
Repeat this in your head you morons:
“anti-racist activist” is not “a racist activist”.
The racist comments by bigoted trolls sicken me. I have never read such vitriol.
You know whats interesting about all of this? Is that the people that are being called hicks and niggers on here share so many of the same traits its insane.
Hmmm….let's see. Both tend to be stricken by poverty, both sound very similar when speaking, both take in the governments money (trust me i've seen it), both tend to have multiple children they can't afford, substance abuse is rampant in both, not to mention physical abuse, both tend to carry more weapons then the average citizen…..
The list goes on. I think you see where im going with is.
The point is, that right there tells you it has NOTHING to do with race but with social influences if this were not true then you would not see the SAME circumstances with BOTH races.
JoAnne Silverback Jones…. LMAO that's some funny shit.
You sick fucks.
But the poor, misunderstood negro only did it because of racism. What a crock!!!
You people are stupid. You're connecting the GOP with the comments made in this thread, yet nobody has said they're Republican. ASS-U-ming much, I think…..
Good. I hope the whole lot of them get to experience the joys of DIEversity first hand like this foolish woman. Or maybe they need to have it happen to them again and again and again a few times just like Whites Forward said he needed in his OV Thread "Confession of a former 'anti-racist'" .
Something has to wake these people up, and this kind of rude awakening is just what these white leftists need. No sympathy from me.
And fuck you whiny liberals.
What’s wrong with all of you?
You’re despicable.
You really are, the women was beaten, and it wasn’t her fault, stop saying she deserved it for trying to make the world a better place for those who are different than yourselves.
Being on the RIGHT, doesn’t mean being RACIST.
You are all disgusting, you’re enough to make someone hate the Republican party.
I really am curious to see how that stupid lesbo thinks when this is all over.
The one thing I notice with people who disagree with the reaction of conservatives or people on the political right to this story of JoAnne Silver Jones, is that they never address the issue. They’re so angry at all the wrong things. They’re outraged at postings wishing for the death of this woman or saying she got what she deserved etc. but let me break out my file on liberals wishing for the death of Republicans and conservatives who only dare to disagree with a liberal on any political issue and you wouldn’t believe it!! Another typical and predictable reaction is to label any conservative a “Nazi,” “skinhead” and any strong reaction as “hateful.” I’ve always said that liberals love the Nazi’s! The Nazi’s are the best thing that ever happened to the political left. Anytime they want to intimidate an opponent into silence they just invoke the term “Nazi” or “hate.” It’s an attempt to silence any opposition and put your opponent on the defensive. Who’s more hateful than the political left. Ever hear some of these left wing speakers at Democrat fund raisers. Ever hear Rosie O’Donnel’s rants? I have a whole file of vile remarks by libs! Maybe you forgot this one!
“Actress” Sarah Barnhardt once bent over and said:
“Kiss this Dan. Quayle!”
Years later, she was still at it when on September 19, 2008 during the presidential campaign, Barnhardt said: “If Sarah Palin comes to New York, she’ll be gang raped by her Black male friends.” (Announced on the Rush Limbaugh show 9/19/08)
What’s this? Liberals wishing for the rape of a White woman by Blacks? Sound familiar?
Or how about the latest example of love from the left during just-completed presidential campaign. Feast your eyes on the following.
During the presidential campaign of 2008:
? Two deranged thugs were arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at a McCain yard sign in the middle of the night.
? Obama supporters in Philadelphia sported “Sarah Palin is a (vulgar word for female genitalia)” T-shirts and yelled “Let’s stone her, old school”
? An Internet “artist” designated Palin an “MILP” – “Mother I’d Like to Punch” – and published a drawing of a man’s fist knocking a tooth out of the Alaska governor’s mouth and the glasses off her face.
? “ABORT Palin” graffiti sprouted on the sidewalks of Seattle, and “Abort Sarah Palin” bumper stickers were spread in Web stores.
? Palin-bashing Madonna performed before an audience of thousands, screeching and threatening to “kick her a–.”
? Getty Images published a photo of a man pointing a fake gun at the head of a cardboard cutout of Palin on display at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition building.
(N.Y. Post article titled “‘Rage’ on the Left; Media eyes only righty anger,” Wednesday, October 15, 2008, Page 33, Story by Michelle Malkin)
You libs better not look in the mirror — you’ll tun to stone!!
@ Fredrick Schwartz:
You sound like a Madoff relative. How much did you get from the fraud?
@ Critical Thought:
I don’t have to do a thesis on liberals having mental disorders. There’s enough good literature available already.
Absolutely no point in researching a proven fact.
@ Johann
If you’re a troll, and you’re doing this as a stunt, or for publicity, explain to me what purpose this has. Explain to me why you enjoy this type of publicity. Explain it to me, because I don’t understand. In a world where there is obviously already so much hate, ignorance, crime, poverty, rape, ect, how can you possibly derive any form of pleasure in exploiting that for your own sick form of benefit?
I think you need some serious mental help, because you’re either crazy, not a troll and seriously fucked up, or a sociopath.
You’re obviously good with words, persuasive, even charismatically amusing in your word choices. So why, why the HELL would you use those skills this way for publicity when you could be doing something else productive against such hate?
I really, really cannot understand you. If you have any goal in this at all, it should be to convey a point. So, what is your point?
I expect as eloquent a response that addresses all my questions as you have spouted garbage and nonsensical bullshit and cockwaving.
- Irena
Real Americans don’t hate, or wish harm on someone, black, woman or whoever.
All the pathetic 1st grade comments of hate and n-words, go back to school, get an edu-ma-cation, go get some false teeth, stop watching NASCAR and porn, put away the beer, and then EARN the right to be called an American. Until then, you are not one.
If this is what is means to be a right-winger, thank GOD I am not.
Hope this Jewbitch dies.
On second thought, hope she lives but is horribly traumatized by this. That would rock.
I live in Scotland, where there are hardly any black people at all. And yet, violence like this is a perfectly common, indeed obligatory part of everyday life here. When we Scots go into a grocer’s shop to buy some goods, you are expected to headbutt the shop owner as payment for your items.
A typical friday night out with one’s friends is not considered a success unless you achieve a visit to the Accident & Emergency department for some stitches to the head.
Here in Scotland we are proud that we can uphold such an impressively high level of street violence in spite of the fact that 1: We have no guns, & 2: We have no black people.
Wow you fucking scum bags. I hope someone does to your mother or sister what you think should of happened to her. I honest to god hope all of you fucking burn in hell you sick fucks.
Oh cry me a RIVER!!!! You whiny little fags are great for laughs!
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer or more deserving person.
As the Blacks say, ‘Stupid Biatch’.
I’m so glad that you hate-spewing ignorant pieces of crap have a web site where you can post your screed. Hope that you’re all smokers so maybe you’ll all die soon.
I’m not too happy she survived. Hopefully another nigger mugger will finish the job. These multicultural shitheads deserve the suffering they are so willing to put innocent whites through. I can’t hate a nigger for being a nigger, that’s just what it is. I hate the people who tell us they are just like us and put you in jail for speaking the truth.
@ Irena:
Don’t you just love the LLL (Leftist Loser Liberals for those not up to speed)?
Certain comments posted on this article clearly upset the delusional liberals. So what? Did we ask you to come and stick your noses where they don’t belong? Did anybody ask you to show your true nature with your vile language which is only appropriate in the gutter? Do you think we really care how you boast in your delusional little liberal circles to your “educated” loser friends how you are stuffing up the planet with your politically correct, human-rights-for-criminals-instead-of-victims, we’ll-swear-at-conservative-views-but-keep-our-vile-traps-shut-about-dictators-we-helped-put-in-office-like-in-Zimbabwe, we-marched-against-Apartheid-but-stuff-the-600,000-people-murdered-since-that-messiah-Mandela-created-his-democracy, we-like-Marxist-socialist-ideologies-and-who-the-hell-cares-about-the-200 million-people-dead-because-of-it bullshit?
Do you think we asked some loser liberal to take his middle finger out his nose long enough to link this article to sites where it can have maximum exposure? You see, unlike liberals, we don’t need the world to tap us on the shoulder to make us feel like we achieved something. We don’t need Olli-bama and his forty thieves to dish out Kool-Aid so we can get on a high and shout “Yes we can, yes we can… stuff up the world with our ideologies”.
I can’t help it that liberals are so delusional and filled with hatred that when they see my words, they turn into raging little Chihuahuas foaming at the mouth, pissing little puddles, gnarling and yapping, trying their best to make their antics look anything superior to farting in the wind. (Liberals should learn once and for all that when you want to play with the big dogs, you should be able to piss like one too.)
However, sitting back and observing these pissing little pests can only be amusing for a finite period, so you need to give them a whiff of the Kool-Aid again, so they can go into another rage. See, the problem with little pests is that you have to control the dosage, otherwise you have little pests turning into little Ozzies – you will hear shed loads of swearing, but nothing even worth responding to. And that’s not fun at all.
So I thought I’d throw a rat amongst the rabid Chihuahuas. Something which almost looked like it could be part of them. Something which almost sounded like it could be part of them and also pisses little puddles like them. But something which still confused them.
I merely said there is no such thing as bad publicity.
It was like injecting Koolaid straight into the brains of the little pests. And giving each an intravenous drip for good measure. They were off again, foaming at the mouth, pissing little puddles, gnarling and yapping. In this extraordinary frenzy they must have come close to popping the odd artery on the brain. Now it could be that the sudden rush of blood to the brain displaced the Kool-Aid, or the effect just wore off, but it obviously took them a while to realize that they looked, sounded and smelt the same as they did before the rat. Or even that they could also be rats. It just depends how particular you get.
You see Irena, that is the beauty of liberals. In their little frenzies they don’t realize they are the rats.
They are the ones responsible for the publicity in the first place. They took this article across the globe. I merely sat back and observed, took what they gave me in the first place, sprinkled some Kool-Aid on it and chucked it back at the little pests.
I am glad her “wife” is nursing her back to health. That is two less lesbians loose on the street.
He was just giving her an “Anti-Racist Initiation”, to welcome her to the repenting white anti-racist club.
What’s the definition of a conservative?
A liberal that got mugged.
Someday you will learn.
These anti-racist morons have been so brainwashed by the Zionists, they could get a thousand beatings by the negroids and still not know what the hell is going on.