Posted on 02/28/2019 7:36:31 AM PST by Liberty7732
The final take-away from what follows is that America is a pretty frickin’ amazing country when it comes to racism and bigotry.
It’s so good, in fact, that a small but booming industry has sprung up creating hoaxes to perpetuate the illusion of a bigoted country when the fact that there are so many hoaxes is one of the strong proofs of how little there is in reality.
The Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax — he paid Nigerians to pretend to attack him, pour bleach on him and put a noose around his neck — is just the latest. It follows in a long line of hate crime hoaxes being perpetrated by the left, Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, creating an industry that was super fueled by the Trayvon Martin race hoax.
But Trayvon was only the start. Fuel was added in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere. And all of the straight up hoaxes or race-baiting misrepresentations and grew into wildfires with the belching bellows of a credulous, fellow-traveling media.
This running annual survey by Gallup Poll on race relations shows the damage done by a series of hate crime hoaxes starting in 2013.
What happened in 2013? It’s what happened in 2012 that led to 2013. George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, after Martin attacked him and knocked him to the ground. It was self defense. That was the initial State’s Attorney decision after interviews with witnesses and examining all of the physical evidence. No charges.
But 2012, you may recall, was an election year. Barack Obama was in the midst of his re-election campaign and had already shown himself more than willing to stoke racial tensions — both purposely and incidentally — for his own purposes. The national media, and we all understand they are aligned with Democratic politicians and were major allies of Obama, ginned up the story of outrage that a white man had killed a young black teen in cold blood and was walking away scot free. Pictures of Trayvon in the media were from when he was 13 and pretty young and innocent looking.
The problem was that Trayvon was 18 and a filled out man. His social media accounts showed a full-size young man brooding in a hoodie or giving us all the finger — pictures the media refused to run, sticking with the five-year-old photo of a skinny kid. The other problem: Zimmerman was not white. He was Hispanic.
The photo the media ran most often:
Photos of the young man who actually attacked Zimmerman:
No matter. The narrative was set. This is not to say it was OK to shoot him because of the photos. His actions apparently dictated that.
It is to say that the media was particularly egregious on this hoax, actively participating in it. Beyond just absurd credulity and using the wrong photo, CNN and NBC News were both caught manipulating Zimmerman’s 911 tape to twist him into a racist by badly taking things out of context and warping some of the words. ABC News actually airbrushed a photo of Zimmerman’s bloodied scalp to remove the wounds he received from Martin.
The narrative whipping up the public, prosecutors ended up charging Zimmerman with murder — a wild overreach that was doomed from the beginning. It went to trial and Zimmerman was duly acquitted after a full-fledged circus because while the race-inflaming industry had changed the narrative and the charges, the evidence itself had not changed.
But the damage was done. Florida was branded again as racist. America was racist. Black men were being gunned down on the streets. And the racial tensions that had been finally healing were cut back open again because it benefitted Obama and the Democratic, race-hustling machine let by Al Sharpton and the NAACP.
Gallup’s poll showed a plunge in American attitudes on race relations the following year when it was taken. All based on a hate crime hoax.
It got worse. In 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a black community, part of the St. Louis metro area, a black teen named Michael Brown was shot by a white cop and killed, his body laying in the street until paramedics arrived. The race-baiting industry, led by the media megaphone portion, went into high gear, including reporting that Brown had put his hands up and said don’t shoot. “Hands up don’t shoot” became the mantra of activists and many in the media. Riots ensued. The police officer went into hiding and Black Lives Matter was birthed.
But this too was a hate crime hoax. It turns out, when the investigation was done and all the evidence in, even Obama’s race-driven Justice Department found no cause against the police officer because “hands up don’t shoot” never happened. What actually took place was that Brown, always called a teen despite being a nearly 300-pound 19-year-old man, had just robbed a Korean grocery store and threatened the owner. It’s on tape.
When the officer responding to the call saw him walking down the street, he told him to stop. Brown ultimately ended up attacking the officer, punched him in the face and tried to take his gun. The officer shot Brown multiple times and killed him. There’s no disputing this as even Obama’s team had to admit this is what happened.
But the burning, looting and rioting that resulted from the irresponsible (at best) media hoax reporting had done more damage to American race relations. In 2014 and 2015, Gallup’s poll fell further. It leveled out at a much worse place by 2016 and has actually stayed steady at that point through 2018. So six years ago, the number of blacks who thought race relations between blacks and white was bad nearly doubled, from 29 percent in 2012 to 53 percent by 2015. It actually dropped a little by 2018 to 47 percent, but still very high. Whites track that trajectory.
Hoax hate crimes are nothing really new. They’ve been used to further the left’s agenda for decades. In 1987, Al Sharpton created the Tawana Brawley hoax, which claimed that four white men raped a black girl. It never happened, it finally came out. But riots and at least one actual death stemmed from the hoax.
Sharpton has been well-rewarded for lying and creating hysteria over the hoax. He got national recognition and displaced Jesse Jackson as the ultimate race hustler. He made millions of dollars, was given a television show, a talk radio show and even ran for president in 2004. Oh, and he was invited to Obama’s White House 82 times — to advise on matters of race. Frankly, it appears Obama took his advice.
The Daily Caller has compiled a list of 21 of the most egregious hate crime hoaxes just during the Trump administration. (Other sites have the total, including small ones, at nearly 400.) There are many more, but these are a few that stand out. They range from racist hate crime hoaxes to anti-gay hate crime hoaxes to anti-Muslim hate crime hoaxes. Basically, the full panoply of the left.
Note, that these all disappeared from the news immediately upon being determined by authorities to be hoaxes. But the media continues to jump on the next one. Remember way back to the Covington school boys hate crime hoax, before the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax?
Of course, unless you file a false police report, and the police decide to actually charge you with that — there is no downside to hoaxing and a lot of upside potential. The cost-benefit analysis for the hoaxer is very positive.
There will be more, and the media will leap to believe them. And American race relations and divisions will either remain bad or get deeper.
Wait, here’s one new hot off the presses. Two days ago, The Detroit Free Press reported that a transgender, gay-rights activist who had fought for a local anti-discrimination ordinance in Jackson, Michigan, and had his house burned down in 2017, blamed haters, was just charged with arson for setting the fire himself. It’s like clockwork.
Notice that the hate crime hoaxes are not just regarding blacks, although they are an important part of intersectional politics of the left. It is also gays, Muslims and so on. This has helped fuel intersectional politics, continuing the broad hoax that America is a racist, bigoted place.
The really ironic part is that progressive Democrats have to continually keep making up these hoaxes, because there is so little racism and bigotry left in the United States. Yet the perceptions are wildly different. We know why, and we know who benefits.
It’s remarkable how all hate crimes used to be true, but now so many are fake. Same media. Same narrative. But all of a sudden, with modern information and communication, hoaxes are everywhere.
The nose-dive in race relations began with the OJ verdict.
That’s not what the polls show
Trayvon may have given identity politics a big boost, but I remember hearing that stuff as far back as the 1980s (in college).
People disagreed about the case because there was room for disagreement.
The democrat party also sends fake letters to the (newspaper) op/ed sections - - signed by people who are NOT REALLY conservatives but who make conservatives look bad by saying all the racists things they project onto us.
They do the same within conservative internet sites.
This has been going on for years. They also make threats in our name. That Deep State thugs were able to pull up a 'white supremacist on cue to take the spotlight off Smollett is only part of what they do. The guy had probably been under surveillance for years.
The SPLC can pull them up at will and trot them out for public relations fund raising. We need to find out ... how long had they watched him? Was there any chance or change in his mindset that would point to 'action' ... not the words of a nutcase?
How can we stop the pogroms against conservatives when they're kept hidden? We have to confront each one.
What’s the last thing OJ said to Nicole?
The newly updated rules for reporting so-called Hate Crimes means the numbers appear to be rising substantially. So this “factoid” is included in any mention of the topic, sort of as is the “overwhelming consensus” about global warming. And anyone who tried to speak realistically about the topics are dismissed as knuckle-draggers. So frustrating.
This idea that so called ‘race-relations’ were good before X(Obama, Trayvon, OJ - take your pick) happened is a skewed or Utopian view.
Race relations for the most part have only been considered ‘good’ or at least moving in the right direction so long as whites kowtow, give in to demands based on ‘racism’, agree that all race groups but whites can have race based political, lobbying & social groups and that non-whites are awarded all kinds of considerations based specifically on race for jobs, school and just about anything else.
So this idea that race relations were truly ‘good’ is for the most part BS.
Let’s not forget the contributions of our post-racial President to the Trayvon affair.
He never heard of Tawana Brawley from the 1980s or Crystal Magmum (Duke Lacrosse) from years before Trayvon?
Rodney King, anyone?
Did Sharpton manage to get in on the Rodney King thing also?
I think it goes back to Rodney King! The media knew showing the entire video would be a non-story but they were desperate for something huge!
Trayvon Martin Michael Brown are both dead after being shot that is not a hoax
No comparison whatsoever to the stupid little panty waist smell it trying to make him self and do a hero
The hoax or the crime in the Trayvon Martin Michael Brown and the other case out of Maryland are that the media tried to state as white cop shoots helpless black teenager
In that case along with Obama the worst president ever they found the flames and created the entire thing hands up don’t shoot
Again both Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown are dead of gunshots OK so it’s not like they benefited
Trayvon and The Gentle Giant didn’t hoax anything. They were just thuggin’ or maybe trying to engage in trial by combat. Their deaths are very real, the narratives pushed were complete hoaxes. There are many such hoaxes, but they all seem to lead to the same place; YT evil. The fact that some part of the story is real doesn’t remove the hoax, it just makes it a little harder to out as a hoax.
This feeble recounting of the Zimmerman episode which does cover certain well publicized areas fails to hold Obama directly responsible for the results of the Obama decision to employ the use of a political device known as division. Which resulted in a score of killings and assaults. One of which I identify as an example of the press coverage that took place in http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm Scroll past Parkland story to 2nd article
Interesting comments on this thread. Yes, racial unrest began long before Travon and that fat thug in Ferguson.
But the one key ingredient that really escalated racial unrest and the recent race hoaxes is Barack Insane Obama.
He and his Just Us Regime purposely set in place a self destructive black racist agenda that - with the enemedia as a willing accomplice - has spiraled out of control.
Why are racial tensions worse now than they were some 20-30-40 years ago?
One easy answer: Obama.
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