Remember Ferguson

Splice Today ^ | August 28, 2015 | Todd Seavey

[OddLane]

Remember Ferguson—Colin Ferguson, that is. This year was the 20th anniversary of the conviction of the lunatic who, two years earlier, had killed six people on the Long Island Railroad. And it’s significant, I think, that he’s remembered primarily as a lunatic—not as a black man on an anti-white crusade.

The left is now filled (almost exclusively, it sometimes seems) with hair-trigger liar-propagandists happy to seize any opportunity to argue that the media constantly downplay crimes by white racists and play up crimes by blacks. On the contrary, I’ve worked in TV news at more than one network and can attest that they’ll go to extraordinary lengths to make minorities look good.

I’m reminded, for example, of the time I overheard two producers talking about finding information about a corrupt judge—but, alas, the corrupt judge was Hispanic, so they agreed it was best to keep looking until they found a similar case involving a white non-Hispanic. Wouldn’t want to make a member of an ethnic minority look bad if it can be avoided.