Conservative activist, Candace Owens
Posted on 04/25/2021 1:21:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
Raise your hand if you’re fed up with people on social media posting stories on Instagram or tweets on Twitter that seem to immediately virtue signal the moment news of another shooting occurs.
Me too!
Especially when the level of information about the alleged victim is thoroughly unknown—minus some baby picture—the media mysteriously has its hands on usually within what seems like only seconds after the incident.
The unspoken assumption in it all is that these woke—usually white suburban females—who literally know next to nothing about the difficulty of police work in troubled neighborhoods—are trying to “out-care” the “hardened” hearts of everyone who hasn’t posted something about said incident.
I was thumbing through social media, contemplating that very phenomenon when all of a sudden Candace Owens smacked me upside the head with the baseball bat known as reality.
@RealCandaceO doing the media’s job for them, shaming the actual wrong doers, and convicting woke suburban keyboard warriors who don’t have the guts to live in cities where police have the toughest jobs in the roughest neighborhoods. #MadPropsCandace! pic.twitter.com/ZN41ODQW2v— RadioNightLIVE w/ kevin mccullough (@RadioNightLIVE) April 25, 2021
A simple social media post, written as less of a statement, and more as practicality. As a journalist with her new show on The Daily Wire, she’s busy trying to fill the blank page each day with a compelling narrative.
Not to be completely unexpected she’s looking for the untold stories, or the very “well known” story told from a completely opposite angle. This is great storytelling 101. It’s also what journalism used to consist of genuine intellectual curiosity.
But the words said so much more:
“Wish I could score an interview with the woman George Floyd robbed at gunpoint, or the one Jacob Blake digitally raped, or the one Duante Wright physically assaulted and robbed, or the one Ma’Khia Bryant tried to butcher...
Anyone got a contact?”
Wouldn’t you be genuinely interested in hearing the true-life account of these four persons?
Shouldn’t we all?
Without even trying to Owens throws down the gauntlet on conscience in a way that literally no one has to date.
You know it’s true.
You know it’s true because you don’t know the name of even one of these persons. The press has been so negligent in their duties that Owens herself is having difficulty finding them in the annals of nexus-lexus, the associated press, and Google.
The rest of the universe has been too busy trying to blame officers for a non-existent surge in police violence that no one ever stopped to ask the questions of context, facts, and personal first-hand accounts of events that in at least three of the four instances—truly mattered.
We’ve come awfully close in recent days to labeling evil as good. Even if we don’t actively participate, far too few of us are willing to let suburban-woke-know-nothings pass unmitigated pronouncements on social media, and in the process slander, tear down, and desecrate those who wake up each morning—with no guarantee that they will return home that night—and put on the uniform to serve and protect.
Isn’t it time to return to asking the truly most important questions? Isn’t it time to get to the truth?
Thank you Candace for the upper-cut to the far-too-complacent wake-up call.
I hope that you not only get your interviews but that journalists across the spectrum would be so inclined to think differently because you did.
Because clarity is preferable to unity!
Always.
Wouldn’t you be genuinely interested in hearing the true-life account of these four persons?
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Sorry, that information does not fit the left’s narrative.
Pretty soon the leftist slime media will be telling all of you the Candace Owens is not really black, kind of like a “WHITE HISPANIC”!
Very smart, and very pretty, woman.
I think LeBron James may be a white suburban female.
Candace Owens needs to be hired as a managing editor as some newspaper... where she can direct reporters... She's one of the few who 'gets' what's happeing.
He’s a total POS loser.
At my Saturday Bible Study ZOOM meeting (of which, I’m the only one who no longer lives in Austin), they mentioned a shooting near the church where there were three fatalities. The assailant was also still at large.
You would think it would create big headlines with the media’s sudden preoccupation with crazed gunmen. It didn’t. It had broken on a quiet Sunday morning and some churches (including the one my friends attend) were evacuated because the killer was on the loose in the area.
Well, the following day, they captured the shooter. Lo and behold, he was a black guy known to law enforcement because he used to work for the sheriff’s department. This was allowed to spiral down the memoty hole because the media template is that all mass shooters are white right-wing crazies who are NRA members.
Seems lately whites are the MINORITY of mass gunmen.
Love it.
Isn’t that great pictorial summary of police shootings these days?
Certaimly sounds like one.
No marches, no protests, rarely a quick mention in the national msm.
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, which only tracks single victim / single offender murders, there were 566 Whites murdered by blacks in 2019.
A White victim every 15 1/2 hours.
We know it's actually much worse since this report does not track multiple victims and / or multiple offenders and relies soley on data volunteered by individual departments.
Lucia Bremer, Cannon Hinnant, Julie Eberly, Paul & Lidia Marino.
They get a brief or no mention in the msm, yet a White victim is murdered by a black at least every 15 hours in the US.
Far more Whites are murdered by blacks than blacks killed by Whites and the police combined.
“The press has been so negligent in their duties that Owens herself is having difficulty finding them in the annals of nexus-lexus, the associated press, and Google.”
Negligent? This is precisely their duty, to ignore anything that doesn’t advance the leftist agenda. This goes back as far as Walter Lippmann. Just read Public Opinion, in particular the bit about manufacturing consent.
But I definitely agree, there needs to be interviews with the victims of those guys.
I’m doing it too, maybe it will catch on.
b/W, W/b, b/W, W/b.
YES; to both.
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