Posted on 01/10/2017 11:49:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week, four young blacks -- two males, both 18 years old; and two females, 18 and 24 years-old -- kidnapped a mentally disabled 18-year-old white boy and tortured him for 24 hours. Among other things, they kicked him, beat him, cut his scalp, made him drink from the toilet and made him kiss the floor while saying he loves black people. During the beatings, the suspects yelled out, "F--- white people, boy" and "F--- Donald Trump."
The victim was found by police on Jan. 3rd.
There are five important lessons to be learned from this episode.
1. Even after largely ignoring the story in the beginning, the mainstream media have barely covered it. And when they started to, the racial element was first ignored and then downplayed. The original Associated Press report not only did not mention the racist outbursts but it also never mentioned the race of the perpetrators or the race of the victim.
Under the headline "Chicago police investigate video beating," the AP report began: "Chicago police said Wednesday that they're investigating a video circulating on social media that shows several people beating a man at a residence. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said at a news conference that four suspects, two males and two females, are in custody."
What makes the mainstream media's reporting a moral scandal is that every honest person living in America knows that if four whites had kidnapped a black, tortured him for hours, made him say "f--- Barack Obama" and "f--- blacks," and made him bow down to the floor and say, "I love white people," the story would have been on the front page of The New York Times and every other liberal and left-wing newspaper in the country; and it would have been the lead item on all news broadcasts and the subject of virtually every editorial and left-wing column. It would have been portrayed as more proof that America is racist, and that hate has taken over America since the election of Donald Trump.
For example, since the election of President-elect Trump, The New York Times has run a weekly column titled "This Week in Hate." In the Jan. 5 column, there was no mention of the crime. The lead story of the column involved a black transgender man who was attacked on the subway.
On Jan. 6, the Times finally had a feature article on the attack, but it had no mention of the central role that race, the hatred of whites and the hatred of Trump played in the incident. Titled "Beating of Disabled Teenager Highlights a Crime That Often Goes Unpunished," it portrayed the crime as a hate crime against the disabled.
It began saying: "The appalling video seized the nation's attention this week: A group of young people kidnapped, bound, beat, slashed, gagged, humiliated and threatened to kill a teenager with mental disabilities over nearly three days, and laughed about it as they carried out their acts."
And the left talks about right-wing "fake news."
2. The Chicago police also downplayed the most obvious aspect of the case.
The police spokesman, Commander Kevin Duffin, said at a news conference: "Kids make stupid decisions -- I shouldn't call them kids; they are legally adults, but they're young adults, and they make stupid decisions."
And Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the act could not be labeled a hate crime: "I think some of it is just stupidity, people just ranting about something that they think might make a headline. I don't think that at this point we have anything concrete to really point us in that direction, but we'll keep investigating."
After the Chicago Police Department was attacked nationally for such remarks, it eventually concluded that it was indeed a hate crime.
3. Aside from the media's reaction, imagine what black America's reaction would have been had the races been reversed. The NAACP, the Black Lives Matter movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the white left -- led by the irresponsible Southern Poverty Law Center -- and the mainstream media would have led an outburst of national hysteria about Trump-unleashed hate. And there would have been riots in Chicago and many other major American cities.
4. The most frightening aspect of the crime was that the racist sadists who committed it broadcast it live on Facebook, laughing all the way through. In this regard, they share something frightening with the Islamic State group. Unlike the Nazis and Communists, who tried their best to hide their atrocities, radical Islamists and these young blacks made every effort to inform the world about them.
This is actually a new low in the long, dark history of human evil. It is horrific enough to commit great evil. But to be proud of it to the point of wanting the world to know about it, that is a new level of evil.
5. A universal root of modern evil is the belief that one -- or one's group -- is, more than anything else, a victim, especially when it is based on a mostly false narrative. There would not have been a Nazi movement without the belief that the Germans were victims. That gave them the green light to hurt others with impunity. So has the vast lie that permeates the Islamic world -- that it is a victim of the West. And the same goes for individuals whose primary identity is that of victim.
The left's narrative that says blacks are victims more than anything else -- of "systemic" racism, racist police, racist banks, racist universities and white privilege -- will inevitably lead to more violence on the part of blacks. People who see themselves as victims lose their conscience -- especially when they aren't.
It is yet another way in which Democrats and the left have worsened the state of black America specifically and worsened the state of America in general.
This was Holdering violence, as approved by
O-terrorist and his ultracorrupt DO”J” and FB”I”.
CBS ever dared to blame whites, claiming a
black child was attacked by conservatives.
So why does CBS still have an FCC license?
I think the only thing disturbing to liberals is that it was caught on video.
I think most of us already know this happens and will continue to happen so long as there are race baiting opportunists out there. Liberals make much of the KKK; how many black organizations are out there which are stronger than ever? How many organizations translate to ‘The Race’? And will they ever accept that these organizations have membership in the millions, while their vilified organizations have membership in the thousands if not hundreds.
“The left’s narrative that says blacks are victims more than anything else — of “systemic” racism, racist police, racist banks, racist universities and white privilege — will inevitably lead to more violence on the part of blacks.”
That has been the lefts goal for decades. As far back as the 1930’s the Communist Party was talking about using blacks to destroy American institutions. This communist effort was incorporated into the democrat party at least since the 1960’s. The alt-left media also has been attempting to stir up a race war for years, with a large increase in their effort over the last 3 years. Unfortunately, they have people in the White House who are aiding them in this effort.
All I have to say is: Charles Manson must be so proud.........but a little jealous that it wasn’t him that started the all out race war against Whitey.
This is a weekly occurrence and has been going down for decades. I personally have 3 good friends that were all beat up by blacks with one exception. Two attacks occurred when MLK got popped. One was beaten unconscious by a gang, one was attacked by two but Ken picked up a canister and rendered one of them unconscious and the other ran, and the 3rd was attacked in Ferguson Mo back in the 70s. This is why white flight occurs—civilized people don’t like African behavior so they leave usually to protect their kids. And for the record, it has absolutely nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with the content of their character.
Yes, but it’s OK because they vote for Democrats.
The women look somewhat remorseful. I suspect it’s for being caught though. Look at the two guys.
Thankfully these men and women will be sentenced and serve their terms after Obama is a faint nightmare.
If four Whites pulled this on a poor innocent black kid with mental a mental disability, I’d be asking for a thirty year minimum behind bars.
That’s what these animals deserve as well.
For months or years, and it would have been used to excuse the riots, pillaging, and rapes which would inevitably follow.
Estimated population of Africa in the coming decades exceeds a billion. Think about that for a minute.
They still have a license because they didn’t outright claim that the victim was black and the attackers white. They implied it, through creative editing. They merely said that the victim had been called the “n” word, and that the attackers were shouting about Trump. Without the proper context, it becomes easy to infer that the attackers *supported* Trump, and that the victim was black; it’s only when you add in the missing pieces that it becomes apparent that the victim was only referred to by the “n” word as a generic term for any person, and the Trump shouting was actually all anti-Trump.
It’s all easily refutable with a minimum of research, but it muddies the water just enough for the predominantly-Leftist CBS audience that when the truth comes out, it is easier for them to dismiss with “old news, move on”.
And that one on the far left, his name will become Shaniqua She-naynay in short time behind bars.
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
They’re already north of 800 million over there. However, luckily they don’t seem to be very good at organizing. The only way they’re going to get out of Africa and into the 1st World is if someone else transports them there, and with Trump taking office and likely changing the tone of things worldwide, I suspect that such initiatives will meet with very little support for a long time to come.
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This is a heinous crime....not a stupid crime. If torturing someone for three days is not monstrous crime, a horrific crime, an abhorrent crime, these Negros
are guilty of a Hate Crime....the face of Black Lives Matter...Obama's world.
The biggest threat to the country is the WHITE LIBERAL
They control the schools and the MSM
I would love it if some talented people could, in the vein of James O Keefe and Project Veritas, release a video of the exact same thing but with the races reversed, as if it were a real breaking news story. Every Polar Bear, Knockout Story, etc. needs to be trolled hard this way. With CGI I am sure it could be done in such a way that no real person was ever hurt or mistreated and no one would know until it was time to reveal it for maximum impact.
In the 21st century, “Nigger” is a state of mind.
Dennis Prager is great. His videos (”Prager U”) at his website are brilliantly short and to the point on nearly every single subject of concern to conservatives under the sun. I go there when I need to learn a little more about something I am ignorant about.
And I use the same tool he does when I see stories like this: I turn them around, turn white to black and black to white, word for word, and dwell on how it WOULD be played out in the media, versus how it IS played out in the media. It makes their bias and dissembling liberalism stand out like a red dye marker on a unblemished white snow field.
On this story, this is what I said last week:
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4 in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live
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I read the story. The police don’t think it was politically motivated.
I always like to switch the roles as a litmus test, and when you do it in this case, the absurdity of the double standard is appalling.
Four white people kidnap a mentally handicapped black man, tie him up, cover his mouth with duct tape, cut his scalp, force him to drink toilet water, beat him, all while chanting “F**k Obama!”, after which a white chief of police says it was not politically or racially motivated, just young people trying to get attention.
How appalling does that sound???? If the roles were reversed, this would be the major story of the entire year, and the year is only a few days old. We would see it on the evening news, night after night, for the next five years.
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I don’t post to say how ahead of the curve I am with respect to Dennis Prager (Rhetorically, he would good naturedly crush me like a bug!) but instead to point out how valuable that tool is. It really illustrates the unbelievable bias and double standard of the media.
The estimate is actually four billion.
Obviously, the ecosystem does not have that carrying capacity, but...
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