Posted on 08/12/2020 4:22:12 PM PDT by Liberty7732
The media continues to be the primary driver of racial divisions in America. The most recent example makes the blood boil, but perfectly demonstrates how coverage, and lack of coverage, drives a false narrative that results in American cities burning for a lie.
Five-year-old Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his father’s North Carolina house on a sunny Sunday afternoon, riding his bike with his two sisters, eight and seven years old. He apparently rode onto the lawn of the neighbor’s house, where Darius Sessoms lived. According to police reports and witnesses, Sessoms came out of his house with a handgun, went up to little Cannon, put the gun to his head and murdered him while his sisters were watching.
Sessoms jumped in his car and drove away, but was captured by indispensable law enforcement and arrested within 24 hours.
This is just a gut-wrenching story at multiple levels. And yet the mainstream media outside of Fox News has refused to cover it. Doing searches for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, The New York Times, Reuters News Service and so on, you will not find a story on it. Only local media in North Carolina and some conservative outlets have covered it.
How does ignoring this story drive racial divisions? Compare the coverage of George Floyd’s death by Minneapolis police. That story could have been about a bad cop acting outrageously. Because that’s actually what happened. But because it was a white cop on a black man with video evidence, it became a giant national story and the media could not get enough.
The story of Cannon is more compelling in that he was not a convicted felon high on drugs and resisting arrest, not an excuse for the cop’s behavior but a bit of context. Cannon was a five-year-old boy executed for riding his bike. While white? That is what the media and Democrats would jump to if the races were reversed.
Some will argue that the Floyd killing represented the bigger issue of murderous police brutality against blacks. But that actually is not supported by the data.
A study by Roland Fryer Jr., a black professor of economics at Harvard University, found that there was not a disproportionate impact in terms of police shootings. Actually, the opposite.
After the 2014 Fergus, Mo., shooting of a black man by a white police officer, which touched off riots and destruction on a smaller scale after heavy media coverage of “hands up, don’t shoot” that never happened, Fryer and his assistants spent 3,000 hours assembling detailed police reports from several major cities. Their findings were that law enforcement officials “were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white.” Also, Fryer found that black and white civilians in these types of situations were equally likely to have a weapon on them.
After controlling for numerous other factors — so in basically similar situations — Fryer found that blacks were 27.4 percent less likely than whites to be fatally shot by police. Police have recognized, at least subconsciously, the higher negative impacts of shooting a black man than a white man for years now.
The media was fully aware of Fryer’s findings — which were subsequently reproduced — but after the Floyd killing, they went right back into the same mode. Meaning that they and their fellow-travelers in Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Socialist Party USA and other anti-American subversive organizations, ignored the data and focused on an anecdote that is duty-bound to whip up racial animosity.
But did you know that there actually is a major issue with violent black crime against white people?
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2018 survey of criminal victimization, the latest year available, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites last year. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent. That means blacks committed nine times more violence against whites than whites did against blacks. That’s a fairly compelling piece of data.
And while the media loves to make the fact-free claim that there is increasing Trump-inspired white supremacist violence against blacks, the opposite turns out to be true. In 2012-13, blacks committed 85 percent of all interracial victimizations between blacks and whites, while whites committed 15 percent. From 2015 to 2018, the total number of white victims and the incidence of white victimization have grown as well.
Interestingly, blacks are also much higher perpetrators of hate crimes by 50 percent, according to the Justice Department data from 2017. Whites are underrepresented at only 24 percent. This is particularly true for anti-gay and anti-Semitic hate crimes.
So absolutely none of the stories we see constantly from fatal police brutality to whites hunting blacks are true. In both of these cases, the opposite is true.
The actual story, and one that is uncomfortable and that the media will not report, is that black Americans are committing violent crime against white Americans at astronomically higher rates than the other way around. And police killings are so small as to be irrelevant.
If seeking a powerful anecdote to reflect a factual truth, the death of little Cannon is the proper one.
But better yet, the media and Democrats could just treat both the Floyd killing and the Cannon killings as individual bad people doing bad things where both were arrested and charged, and race does not play a role.
But the media does just the opposite. And American cities burn while large swathes of Americans think the lie is the truth.
They can’t cover everything. Besides, they have an agenda.
Bros are the master race. Little white boy was uppity./not serious, just parodying BLM’s true thoughts.
Of course the enemydia refused to cover such news, since the enemydia are traitors to the United States of America.
BTT
That is a phrase that could be weaponized.
Wish Whites would stand up for their own when appropriate.
As Gomer Pyle would say: “Surprise, surprise”.
You didn’t expect otherwise, did you? Seriously?
Outrageous.
What prominent Republican has even spoken about this??
Has Tucker, or anyone on Fox, covered this story??
Bookmark
time to loot the Dollar Store.
This story breaks my heart
The artcle writer has this to say about the Floyd altercation; “That story could have been about a bad cop acting outrageously.”
I stopped reading right there. Didn’t this guy see the video cam footage of the arrest exonerating the police? I just can’t stomach the twist-brained cowardly cucks from the “right” who confusedly try to argue what they consider a conservative viewpoint while accepting every cockamamie premise of the leftists. These backstabbing bastards are much worse than the bald faced Marxocrats who shout their evil intent directly in your face.
They are not in a position to cover anything up, only to make their case such as it is.
God,it never fails to find a sickening horror to outweigh other horror. Since Floyd, so many children have become dead. Life is cheap and selective in today’s America.
No. Today I contacted Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Greg Gutfeld challenging them to report this story, as it should be, to the National audience. We will see if they are brave enough to do so, if not, they are equally complicit. The fact that this execution of this child is intentionally being covered up by AP, REUTERS and other news sources is almost as disgusting as the murder of this child. Had this been a white man murdering a black child it would have been wall to wall on CNN, MSNBC and FOX, The Biden/Harris VP rollout today would have started with condolences to the family, a call for BLM to get involved and more cities would be burning. Anything less than this going National is a complete dishonoring of this little guys life because he was born white.
Yep. We don’t know anything about why the guy murdered the boy. Why do we assume it was because of race? It’s exactly what the Enemedia does.
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