Posted on 08/23/2013 5:56:58 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
On Friday, Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera was asked to dig into a story out of Seattle in which an 88-year-old World War II veteran was beaten to death by two African-American teenagers. In coordination with the senseless murder of Australian college student Christopher Lane, Rivera was asked by the hosts of Fox & Friends if there is a racial thread to both crimes. Rivera said that the “false narrative” of racism in the case of George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin has given conservatives a license to see racism where it may not exist but it is hard to blame them for it.
“It is relevant – race matters – to say that they are African-American teens,” Rivera said about the case of the beaten WWII veteran, noting that describing criminal suspects accurately is important. “But I think what we have to be careful of is to imply that their race was the reason they committed this horrific crime.”
Rivera guessed that these teens come from “broken homes” and “exist like wolves,” getting their “values from rap videos.”
Tucker Carlson agreed that drawing broad conclusions about society based on isolated crimes was inadvisable, but he said that this is exactly what has been happening recently. “You’ve seen a lot on the left, very much including the president, take interracial crimes to make larger points about racism in America,” Carlson said.
“I think that in the post-Trayvon era, where conservatives watched as liberals created a narrative — a false narrative — of a black boy being victimized by a ruthless white guy, a racist white guy, that was a false narrative in many ways,” Rivera said. “I think in the post-trayvon era, there is a perverse tug of war going on.”
He said conservatives are now asking where the media is when there is interracial crime but the victim is a white person.
When Rivera was asked about the fact that both the killers of Lane and the WWII veteran were men, he said that it is clear that there is a “disintegration of values” in some communities. He said that he wished President Barack Obama would “speak more about it.”
Watch the clip below via Fox News Channel:
It's untrue to say it's just Conservatives blowing back, however. Most white Independents and even a small minority of white Democrats are becoming extremely fed up with the false narrative and media lop-sided coverage of race issues and are now blowing back as well.
Gee, even Whorealdo gets it right once in a while.
Colin Flaherty who writes for WND has a running compilation of these black on white crimes.
Broken clock.
Lane and Belden were murdered by young black males because a vastly disproportionate number of murders are committed by young black males.
In most communities, if a hazardous situation is allowed to develop and the person responsible fails to address the matter, the authorities step in to deal with it. Murderous feral males are overwhelming urban communities and no adult males are taking them to heel. It is long past time for others to take them to heel. There is still time to acculturate these dangerous people; I believe in redemption but time is short.
Perhaps true and I've seen similar comments regarding O'Reilly's recent extensive discussions about race, but I'll give Geraldo and O'Reilly credit where credit is due. Very few mainstream TV personalities have shown that they have the integrity or stones to speak out on race in a non-PC manner, but these two are doing it.
What the libtards worry is getting out, is that fear of young blacks is completely justified and black culture is in full meltdown and is the fault of liberal policies. To see where black culture is headed and almost always ends up, just look at any warring country in Africa. Nine year olds carrying AKs, and encouraged to do so by the adults. Most smart people already get it, and know that carrying a gun and killing them in self defense, is the only option open to them.
The race-baiting grievance hustlers (0bama/Holder/Jackson/Sharpton) have truly ....
Jumped the shark;
Crossed the tipping point;
Crossed the Rubicon;
Cried wolf; and
So blatantly overplayed the hand …
That the mainstream average American is ready to participate in a backlash and blowback against this false national narrative about racism being perpetrated upon this county by BHO and his DNC-run propaganda arm of ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSPMS/NYT/WAPO......
What the hell is “false narrative”? Is that an elitist word for a lie? Sounds like what I used to see come out of the back of cows when I worked on a diary as a youngster.
When you read about these types of crimes every day, by what perverted measure can they be considered "isolated". STFU Tucker.
You live by pimping racism you die by pimping racism.
'S about time they worried about it. Anybody with a few functional brain cells has known these things for years. The "real" thing the libtard are in fear of is that said bad things are starting to spill over into their supposedly protected enclaves.
Backlash hell, - TSUNAMI!
A "lie" is a single falsehood. A "false narrative" is a bunch of falsehoods strung together.
"Sounds like what I used to see come out of the back of cows when I worked on a diary as a youngster."
Well, we only had the one milch cow (Jersey, but she was "alpha cow"), but beef cattle emit the same stuff.
The left is constantly on the lookout for that ONE act that would “prove” that this is still a racist country. They’ve tried it from Tawana Brawley to the Duke lacrosse team to George Zimmerman. All three of these situations suffered from varying degrees of mendacity in attempting to prove their progressive narrative.
The problem, as I see it, is that their entire premise is flawed. Suppose that, instead of the facts that we now are sure of, Tawana Brawley really was raped and abused by white men, the lacrosse players raped and abused a young black student who was freelancing as a “dancer,” and that George Zimmerman walked up to an innocent Trayvon Martin who was merely carrying a bag of Skittles, and called him the “N” word before shooting him in the heart. My question is, if those things really happened the way liberals wanted us to believe that they happened, what, exactly would that say about white racism in this country?
Do the bad acts of three white people, or small groups of white people, accurately describe the animus of the 200 million or so white folks who didn’t commit these crimes? Does it say anything about how White coaches treat Black athletes or how White teachers mentor Black students or how White legislators have set up a system called Affirmative Action where Blacks automatically get a leg up in employment and educational opportunities?
The left loves to make the inductive leap from the specific to the general when it furthers their narrative. But when the shoe is on the other foot, they are quick to visit each incident in isolation. Obama does the same thing with Muslim terrorists. One White (Hispanic) who kills a Black “youth” (in clear, self-defense) means that each and every one of the 200 million plus whites in this country wants to bring back slavery, or at least Jim Crow laws. But hundreds, if not thousands of instances of black on white crime, including murder, must each be looked at separately. It’s never due to Black on White racism, any more than Ft. Hood was anything other than workplace violence, despite intercepted emails between the perp and his terrorist mentors, and the fact that he was screaming “Allah Akbar” while mowing down innocent Americans.
And so, even if a Black youth yells “honky mutha f**ka” while shooting an infant in a stroller or an 89 year-old war veteran, the crime is never due to racism. And just because the youth posted numerous anti-white diatribes on social media, he really isn’t a racist. He’s just bored or misunderstood, the product of a broken home.
The gigantic backlash we are witnessing in the post-Trayvon era is the sound of 200 million white Americans screaming that the Emperor has no clothes. We’re tired of the lies.
A “false narrative” is larger in scope than a lie. A lie is usually about a particular instance like Hillary is doing with Benghazi. A false narrative, however, is grander in scale and persistent. In this case the false narrative is the fairy tale that white Americans are irredemptively racist and minorities are oppressed and this dynamic affects all racial interactions.
Because the trumped up false race card game has lost it luster and the gravy train has stopped and Geraldo even see’s the writing on the wall.
“False narratives” kill. The consequences are foreseeable and those who perpetuate them have blood on their hands.
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