Posted on 02/17/2019 4:47:37 PM PST by EdnaMode
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I wanted to believe Smollett. I really did. I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago and, if proved true, this would be just one more point on the list. I wanted to believe him with every fiber of my being, most of all because the consequences if he were lying were almost too awful to contemplate.
And yet I struggled with Smollett’s story.
I tried telling myself that it is possible that two assailants were walking around downtown Chicago at 2 a.m. in January in 10-degree weather, waiting for a black victim. In addition to that, they were stalking around with a bottle of bleach and a rope. And ultimately, the prey they selected was an actor on a show that they must’ve been somewhat familiar with, because they were able to not only name the show but also know that he played a gay character. Never mind the fact that he was likely bundled up because again: Chicago, January, 10 degrees. Also, after he fought to get away, he left the rope around his neck until he got to the hospital.
Perhaps I don’t want to believe him because this is a stark and scary reminder of the poor condition of the country (and city) that I call home. Maybe this story makes the boogeyman in my nightmares all too real, too close and too calculating. Maybe it’s because while I consider myself an ally to the LGBTQ community, I still don’t understand and appreciate the daily harassment that they endure. Or maybe even though I am a black woman, I still don’t know what it’s like to be a black man in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
WHich pundit said that about the supply of racism and bigotry, and the “demand” for it-—brilliant equation. An FR pundit?
A hate crime did take place.
The fake legacy media inciting hate against anything Trump or white or Traditional American values.
Yep. So much hate in the party of Jim Crow and the KKK. It never goes away.
Has he met Jared? The spokesman thing is a bit of a jinx, someone should tell him...
He was just doing the hate crimes that Trump supporters won’t do.
Why? Doesnt she value truth above everything else?
Yes I know she doesnt.
Maybe spend some time talking about how horrible people are for faking hate crimes and stoking discord and strife beween groups of peoples. Over staged fake incidents designed to turn them into martyr victims at the same time.
Talk abut them as the phony attention whores they are.
Godam crocodile tears to appear phony objective.
The writer is a nitwit . “Broke my heart”? The dishonest , racist loser should make her angry that he such an uncivil waste.
just another pantload from the compost
“Lincoln owned no slaves.”
At least not after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
You probably recall that the founder of the Los Angeles Four Square Gospel church, Aimee Semple McPherson, faked her own drowning at a nearby beach and ran off with her radio engineer in 1926.
Many people and dollars were involved in trying to find her body.
She later walked into the US from the Mexican desert in heels and un-sunburned. She said she had been kidnapped by a couple maned Steve and Rose. It was all blatant nonsense but she never confessed.
My point is ... suppose one of her friends said to the press, “I wanted to believe [that Aimee had drowned], I really did.” Would you think that person was some kind of creep?
“I wanted to believe him with every fiber of my being, most of all because the consequences if he were lying were almost too awful to contemplate. “
wow! she was HOPING and DESIRING for consequences too awful to contemplate ... further proof that leftism is indeed a mental illness ...
I wonder if the camera actually did pick up the video, and the cops are keeping it under wraps. I can think of a couple reasons why they’d do that ... to help them catch Hussie in a lie for example, but other reasons.
Because urban legend is her philosophy.
That sounds like how the NYT, referring to Dan Rather’s Killian documents on George Bush’s military record, described the material as being “fake but accurate.”
Anyone with half a brain knew this was a hoax from the start. A noose and bleach are the fantasy of liberal race baiters.
Brilliant FR poster.
It is extremely valuable stuff in modern America.
Since the left came up with the idea of victim groups, it has not been necessary to endure any actual unpleasantness to acquire victim status.
Victims can get away with murder. They are forgiven all their sins.
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