Sheila Jackson Lee [D-TX] Says the Unthinkable About Killing of Black Girl by Black Man

www.westernjournal.com ^ | January 10, 2019 at 6:28am | By Benjamin Arie

[Red Badger]

A tragic death that was wrongly held up as a racial attack has forced many on the left to quickly backpedal, but a Democrat congresswoman is bizarrely doubling-down on her inflammatory rhetoric.

Back on Dec. 30, a 7-year-old girl named Jazmine Barnes was shot and killed in Houston. Barnes was black, a fact that should not matter but quickly became a major factor in the case.

At first, authorities thought a white man may have been involved in the crime. They posted details about a person of interest in the case, but made it clear that this was only one of several angles they were looking into.

As it turns out, two men have been arrested in the case and charged with capital murder in Jazmine’s death, according to USA Today. Both men are black, and authorites now think the killing was a case of mistaken identity.

The first arrest was announced Sunday. The second on Tuesday.

But before those arrests were made, and apparently eager to push a specific narrative, voices including “social justice” activist Shaun King used online platforms to openly declare that a racist white man had murdered the black girl, despite the fact that this was nothing but speculation.

“A 40 y/o white man w/ a beard … pulled up on 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes and her family near a Houston Walmart and shot and killed her,” King posted on Jan. 1 to over a million followers from his verified Twitter account.

URGENT. ALL HANDS ON DECK.

A 40 y/o white man w/ a beard in a red pickup truck pulled up on 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes and her family near a Houston @Walmart and shot and killed her and injured others.

I am joining the search for her killer and have a $25,000 reward.

Need him NOW. pic.twitter.com/ugfA2nJ1k8

— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 1, 2019

Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee quickly jumped into the fray. During a news conference on Friday, she declared that the girl had been the target of a racially motivated hate crime.

“I believe – and having written hate crime legislation, knowing the criteria, I believe that this should be looked at as a hate crime,” the outspoken liberal declared. “We don’t want to have on the street someone who is willing to kill children and possibly kill them in the name of hate.”

She said similar things the next day, saying “do not be afraid to call this what it seems to be — a hate crime,” according to ABC News and The New York Times.

An attorney working with Barnes’ family echoed the same theme, and seemed to blame the girl’s tragic death on widespread racism in America. “(W)e do believe that (the killing) was racially motivated in part because our nation at this moment is highly racially charged,” he declared, according to Fox News.

That narrative, of course, quickly fell apart with the arrests of the first black suspect.

Incredibly, however, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee refused to acknowledge that she may have wrongly rushed to call the incident a hate crime and essentially pin it on white America — when a black man had been arrested for the death.

“Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, when asked Sunday by a reporter about some of the comments made in the aftermath of the young girl’s death in Houston on Dec. 30, said it was ‘absolutely not’ irresponsible to make that suggestion,” Fox News reported.

“(N)othing is irresponsible when it comes to the loss of a precious 7- or 8-year old,” the Democrat pushed back.

Nobody disputes that the girl’s death was tragic and senseless, but for a sitting congresswoman to say that “nothing is irresponsible” when pushing potentially inflammatory narratives about a matter of life and death is an appalling statement.

Really, nothing is irresponsible, ever? What she’s essentially saying is that the ends always justify the means, at least when a victim happens to be a certain race.

What if a man had been wrongly linked to a crime he didn’t commit because people like Jackson Lee refused to wait before all the facts had come in? What if people incorrectly believed that racism was behind the girl’s death, and a wedge of hate between Americans was driven even further?

The fact of the matter is that yes, there is a point where this is very irresponsible. When someone is killed, what they and their families deserve is calm and clear-eyed justice, not widespread speculation and race-baiting.

Jumping to the wrong conclusions and making everything about race — facts be damned — is exactly how shameful lynchings used to happen in our country’s darker times. That was deeply wrong then, and would be just as wrong now even if the skin colors involved were switched.

We need less inflammatory rhetoric, not more. We need the patience to wait for facts, not a rush to push narratives over reality. Yet liberals like Jackson Lee seem to view everything through the lens of racism, even when it’s not there.

That’s sad … and if she truly wants a better America for all races, she should acknowledge that her words sowed seeds of division, and think carefully before fanning racial flames. We can all be better than that.

[Figment]

She’ll be out there raising hell when the killers are scheduled for execution

[L,TOWM]

Two Confederate Generals, actually.

[deport]

Had ONLY one more vote in I believe it was in each TEXAS county, gone for BUTTO, Cruz would have LOST. Close call, in that example.

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Please explain your comment above.

Cruz .......4,260,553	50.9%
O'Rourke ...4,045,632	48.3
Dikeman ....   65,470	 0.8

254 Texas counties

[cotton]

Since it was not a white killer; they now think it was a case of mistaken identity. The poor black killers were aiming to kill some other 7 year old black girl, which is not a hate crime. Is that now the story???

[main st.]

Absolutely a prefect statement,she is one sleazy b!tch!!!!

[Texas resident]

Imagine if you were a skinny white guy in a red pickup truck.
Not paying attention to the news and driving around.

Sheila would be leading the lynching.

[ClearBlueSky]

She'a right about one thing, it WAS a hate crime.
The shooter HATED who he thought he was shooting at. He saw they were black-as are the intended targets- and he HATED them enough to want to kill them. Black on black HATE. Is she suggesting that the perps LOVED who they intended to kill?
It happens on the streets every day and night-blacks killing blacks-it is NEVER gangs of racist white boys from the suburbs leaving bodies in the hood.
Blacks hate other blacks, they hate THEMSELVES. I contend they hate their blackness. Self hate is evident from the revenge shootings to the straightened and dyed hair and their preference for lighter-skin. Death for disrespect is the result of self-hatred so deep that the least 'offense' means violence.

[Red Badger]

That needs to be fixed.....................before the next election................

[Red Badger]

Hers is the 18th District. Looks like a big AH..................

[deport]

That needs to be fixed.....................before the next election................

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That won't happen. That is a court ordered redistricting plan from years back

Barbara Jordan	Democratic	January 3, 1973 - January 3, 1979
Mickey Leland	Democratic	January 3, 1979 - August 7, 1989	Died
Vacant		August 7, 1989 – December 9, 1989
Craig Washington	Democratic	December 9, 1989 - January 3, 1995
Sheila Jackson Lee	Democratic	January 3, 1995 – Present	Incumbent

[Red Badger]

Find another court.......................The Dems do..............Maybe the two Gerrymandering cases now before the SCOTUS will provide some relief.................

[CharlesWayneCT]

The story I would like to see the media pursue, because it would be real news, but they never will.

Given that in this case (black 7-yo supposedly murdered by white man), there was immediately over $50,000 raised in a gofundme charity drive for the mother of the dead child:

What percentage of those donations were from people who support democrats? I’m guessing most.

And the better question: How many gofundmes have run over the past year for families of children shot in cities? How much have they raised? How much have democrat supporters provided? What is the breakdown in this giving based on the race of the attacker?

I’m guessing, but nobody has provided any statistics, that a liberal is much more likely to give money to a black family if they are the victim of a white criminal, and that there is almost NO charity giving for black families who are victims of other black families.

Bonus: Do liberals give any money for gofundme families of dead children who are white?

[Red Badger]

Given that in this case (black 7-yo supposedly murdered by white man), there was immediately over $50,000 raised in a gofundme charity drive for the mother of the dead child:

It was started by her father, ostensibly to cover 'funeral expenses'.

It is now:

$84,442 of $6,500 goal

Raised by 2,963 people in 10 days

https://www.gofundme.com/justice-for-my-daughter-jazmine

And people are STILL DONATING AS OF A FEW MINUTES AGO..........

[Antoninus II]

Here's Sheila's district.

When they did the last district redrawing District 18 gobbled up my neighborhood. It was previously Ted Poe's 2nd district for many years. I was pissed!! That bitch doesn't represent me!!

[RitaOK]

Maybe it was *precinct*?

I should have made a phone call before muddling the different political lines of voter populations.