Posted on 05/04/2007 10:10:15 AM PDT by Warhammer
“Equal and exact justice to all men...” —Thomas Jefferson
PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE Murder in Black and White
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were described by family and friends as a “clean-cut and faithful couple—good kids.” Channon was a senior at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she met Christopher. She and Chris went out on a Saturday dinner date, after which Channon called her mom and told her that they were on the way to visit friends. But Channon and Christopher never arrived at their friends’ house—or returned home.
The next day, the mutilated and burned remains of Chris Newsom were found along a railroad track. Two days later, Channon’s battered and burned body was recovered from a trash bin. Channon and Chris had been kidnapped after a carjacking, then brutally gang-raped and murdered. According to reports, they were subjected to lengthy torture in each other’s presence, injected with chemical disinfectants to destroy DNA evidence, then strangled and shot.
This appalling attack is more than a case study in sociopathic evil. It is also a case study in journalistic malpractice.
Unless you tune in to the local Knoxville news, you are most likely hearing about this heinous crime for the first time—even though it took place last January. True, there are some 17,000 murders committed in the U.S. each year, but this double murder was clearly far more barbaric, far more monstrous than most.
I spent six years in law enforcement and have seen my share of war-ravaged third-world nations, but the deliberate and abject inhumanity of this case, and what it says about our culture, certainly got my attention. Yet, this story has failed to attract the attention of the national media.
Could it be because the two victims were white and the five defendants are black?
Regrettably, there is nothing new about the racial aspect of this story. Although blacks represent just 12 percent of the U.S. population, black perpetrators are convicted by their peers in more than half of all murder and manslaughter cases. And, per-capita black-on-white crime is far more prevalent than the inverse.
The underlying social factors contributing to such racially unbalanced crime statistics have been delineated by many conservative black leaders and academicians. However, their solutions—most notably promoting individual responsibility and accountability rather than reliance on the nanny state and subscription to the “victimization” mentality—contradict liberal political objectives, which seek to maintain black folks’ status as wards of the state.
I draw your attention to this case not only to mourn the loss of a beautiful young couple, but also to call attention to a despicable double standard in our mainstream media.
In 1998, three white men in Jasper, Texas, beat a black man, James Byrd, then chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him three miles to his death. Not surprisingly, Byrd’s murder received national media attention—as it should have.
Of course, when the Leftmedia jumps on a racial issue, especially in the run-up to a presidential election, Democrat politicians will be rushing the podium—in this case, opportunistically calling for “hate crimes” legislation. Then-Governor of Texas George Bush said there was little need for such legislation—after all, two of the defendants were sentenced to death and the third received a life sentence.
That did not stop the NAACP from producing a political ad featuring the following voiceover from Mr. Byrd’s daughter: “My father was killed. He was beaten, chained and dragged three miles to his death, all because he was black. So when Governor George W. Bush refused to support hate-crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.”
Clearly, hate was a motivating factor in Jasper, but it was also a motivating factor in Knoxville, which leads us to ask: Why do white-on-black hate crimes invariably result in a media feeding frenzy, while black-on-white hate crimes receive nary a mention? It is notable that both the Jasper and Knoxville crimes occurred at about the same period in presidential-election cycles—which perhaps explains the deafening silence of the national media’s coverage of the Knoxville case.
On the other hand, for the last year, the Leftmedia was busy convicting three white Duke University lacrosse players for another “hate crime” —the alleged gang rape of a black woman named Crystal Gail Mangum. Millions of dollars in defense-lawyer fees later, it turns out that Mangum was a liar and the real victims were in fact the accused: David Evans, Reade Seligmann and Colin Finnerty.
Egg still fresh on their faces, the national media quickly moved on to Don Imus and his racially insensitive remarks.
In fact, the only black-on-white crime given as much media attention as the Byrd and Duke cases was O.J. Simpson’s murder of his ex-wife and her companion—but that story was an MSM mainstay not because of Simpson’s race, but because of his celebrity status.
So what about Channon and Christopher?
News of their murders was briefly posted on the AP wire by Knoxville news outlets, but major media outlets such as CNN, CBS, The New York Times and The Washington Post have yet to mention it, much less headline it. Clearly, there’s a double standard when it comes to the media’s coverage of interracial crime.
What about the double standard when it comes to race-hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (who fabricated the Tawana Brawley rape hoax)? The only difference in racists such as Jackson and Sharpton and those in the KKK is that the latter are not Leftmedia celebs. Is the NAACP ready to crank out some political ads on hate crimes? Are Teddy Kennedy and all the congressional race-baiters calling for additional hate-crimes legislation? Not for this case they’re not.
The five men charged with the rape and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom will make their next court appearance on 17 May. It’s safe to say that they will do so without a satellite news-link truck anywhere in sight.
Quote of the week
“The Left...views the world not as a conflict between good and evil but between white and black, male and female, and rich and poor... As a general proposition, subject to exceptions that accompany all generalizations, the Left has considerably more compassion for groups (racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and sexual groups it favors) than for individuals.” —Dennis Prager
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In fact, I am sad to say that I cannot remember the name of the other child.
This comparison speaks volumes. Obviously, both children were equally deserving of our care and attention as are all innocent victims of violent crime.
I do not mention this in order to contradict the points made in this article. In fact, I generally agree with what Mark Alexander has said.
I mention it to emphasize that innocent victims of violent crimes are equally deserving of attention, sympathy, and protection, regardless of race or anything else.
The Leftmedia, as Mark Alexander so astutely dubs it, is definitely racist, the two cases I have mentioned notwithstanding,
And this racism is only a part of the Leftmedia's contemptible and dangerous distortion, bias, prejudice, and selective censorship of the information that it reports to the public.
Truth for its own sake is of no more concern to the Leftmedia than it is to the Left in general, which has only contempt for truth.
The Left, supported by its Propaganda Machine, the Leftmedia, is much like a religion, with its own dogma. Like religions, the dogma tends to make no sense in any other context or paradigm. However the Leftmedia adheres to the arbitrary dogma of the Left as strictly as the faithful adhere to religious dogma.
Those of us outside the Leftist/Leftmedia paradigm recognize the absurdity and danger of the Leftist dogma, but do not expect Leftists to acknowledge it. They are the faithful, and they will faithfully uphold the dogma--truth be damned, and innocent victims of violent crime along with it.
It’s definitely the culture, and the culture is poisonous.
When white kids listen to the gangster rap, maybe it’s just rebellious flirting, and they’ll get jobs and get married and not commit crimes. But when you look at the white illegitimacy rate trailing the black by 20 or 30 years, and you envision what a couple generations of whites raised without fathers and the proper socialization of men would be like, it’s frightening.
When you read accounts of lynchings and the appalling lust for torture and death that some whites exhibited not 100 year ago, of the community festivity that a lynching could be - you know it’s not race, it’s the culture.
Mrs VS
Thanks for the correction - I think...
Lots worse than I thought....
Your posting is of the type that makes me continually grateful for alternative media. This is a terrible, tragic story that I had not heard a word about in any media outlet until now. That’s the danger of having an ideologically monolithic MSM. News like this story gets suppressed because the race of the victims and perps doesn’t fit the liberal notion of politically correct journalism.
Crime sats are not a Hobby but I do find that the 900% higher rate of murder by Blacks in this country to be of concern, especially when the real bigots from the Left and their mouthpieces try to convince everyone else that they are at fault for this evil.
Agreed. Dead is still dead, no matter the motives of the perpetrator.
This whole "hate crime" foolishness is positively Orwellian.
The author of this article is plainly an extreme bigot and a racist. Black on white crime is a myth like...like the Holocaust. /sarc
And I believe it happened during the same time period as Matthew Shepherd in Wyoming.
I doubt anybody reading this thread forgets that.
bttt
On the contrary, the person I replied to did forget, or never learned.
Mrs VS
Ditto. I think the media's silence on this as well as Wichita goes beyond malpractice. I consider it criminal negligence if not aiding and abetting.
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