Posted on 08/20/2014 5:30:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
The late media critic Edwin Diamond once notably quipped that to the American news media, "10,000 deaths in Nepal equals 100 deaths in Wales equals 10 deaths in West Virginia equals one death next door."
When it comes to race relations, a similar rule applies. 400,000 civilians have been murdered in Darfur, but one death of a black man in Missouri, allegedly due to white police brutality, is infinitely more newsworthy. The national media are currently obsessed with Michael Brown's killing by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, just as they obsessed over Trayvon Martin's killing in Sanford, Florida.
Our media aren't in the news business. They're in the narrative business, and one of their favorite narratives is that America is deeply racist (something that electing a black president twice in no way disproves). In this liberal view, Ferguson is not atypical, but the rule. It's what white cops do to innocent black folks.
Leftist author and former Clinton aide Eric Liu exemplified the media's reckless racial kangaroo court on the PBS NewsHour: "In every town in this country, there are young people who, because of the color of their skin, are receiving brutal mistreatment by law enforcement. And there are communities all across this country right now where people across lines of race and class simply do not see each other, do not -- they may pass each other, but they don't really see one another."
PBS set the table by suggesting "every town in this country" is Ferguson. If you think the media are interested in peacemaking, you're incredibly misguided. The media are like Al Sharpton. Journalists arrive on the scene to exploit racial tension and build it, not to relieve it. Their presence in Ferguson is intended to pour salt in the wound, and push for more protest and disorder, not less.
It's why Rush Limbaugh famously dubbed them the "drive-by media."
The endless hours of national media obsession in Ferguson far outweigh the attention to much deadlier black-on-black violence, like we've recently seen in Chicago. Take ABC, for example. Over a three-day span in April, 44 people were shot. The ABC morning show gave that 19 seconds. Over the July 4 weekend, there were 82 shootings. ABC gave that 11 seconds.
The Chicago Tribune reported the number of shooting victims between this year through August 14 is 1,254, more than half the number of shooting victims (2,185) reported for all of 2013. There were 89 homicides Chicago this summer, with 11 of those occurring in the first two weeks of August. ABC finds all this violence far too boring to notice. Blacks killing blacks is not important.
Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jason Riley said it perfectly on "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "Let's not pretend that our morgues and cemeteries are full of young black men because cops are shooting them. The reality is that it's because other black people are shooting them. And we need to talk about black criminality. Blacks are only 13 percent of the population. But they're 50 percent of homicide victims in this country and 90 percent of those victims are killed by other black people. We need to talk about that. ... The same weekend that this went down in Ferguson, we had 26 shootings in Chicago. But Al Sharpton didn't head to Chicago. He headed to St. Louis because he has an entirely different agenda, which is to continue to blame whites."
The Sharpton agenda and the media agenda are identical. As Andrea Mitchell replied ridiculously to Riley: "That is actually not his agenda, because he's actually there on a peace mission today."
We do not know if the cop was right to shoot Brown. The investigation should give us the answer. The news media have rendered their judgment. Ignorantly and maliciously.
The incident that precipitated all events to follow was the racist violation of the civil rights of the shop keeper by the black criminal.
Unless that violation of civil rights is recognized first and foremost America can presume all that follows is a charade perpetrated by black political activists.
It is the black community that is violating civil rights wholesale in Ferguson Missouri
The day this fat ass racist loudmouths feet are off the floor for good race relations and humanity will be better served. That day can’t come soon enough.
Why is the death of a lone criminal in Ferguson a greater loss than the death of 7 and the wounding of 29 in Chicago in just one weekend?
And how many innocent black babies have been killed under the abortionists knives since Michael Brown died?Seven Killed, 29 Wounded In City Shootings Over Weekend
"CHICAGO — Seven people have been killed and at least 29 others wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, police said."
"On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States."
"This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life.
It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions."
Why? Because in Chicago blacks are killing each other that’s why
Correction: they're in the morbid business. There could be world peace and they'd find a open sore somewhere to film.
The agenda, as laid down by Sharpton, Jackson, Governor Nixon, and even our “injustice Department”, is clearly DEMOCRATS SUPPORT BLACKS. It is pandering for votes and working to lock in blacks as a voting block. Forget about facts, fairness, and the rule of law. Just give the mob what they want and we can continue to count on their vote.
Last night Megyn Kelly was interviewing a black community leader who had criticized Sharpton. The leader said that he spoke with Sharpton and was now agreeing with him. As soon as he said that, Ms. Kelly called him on it. The guy was outright caught in a lie and stumbled to get out of it. I thought the interview while amusing showed the corruption at the very heart of the matter. My speculation was the guy was bought off in some fashion in order to stop criticizing Sharpton. If the interview is on their website I will look for it later today.
Bring in the guy behind the Tawana Brawley hoax. What could possibly go wrong???
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