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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Why We Must Talk ... About Race --- When We Talk About Crime Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Crime August 30, 2017 To emphasize race only when a white person or a police officer is the culprit nurtures the racial resentment of unhinged young men like Fredrick Demond Scott, the accused killer in south KC. On Tuesday, Royals pitcher Danny Duffy’s DUI pushed the arrest of the South Kansas City trail killer off the top of the Kansas City Star’s homepage. Google News also selected Duffy’s woes as day’s top story. On Wednesday, an ethics complaint filed against City Councilwoman Jolie Justus made the top of the Star (and more on that later). By any standards, the arrest of the man who terrorized south Kansas City for a year, killing five middle-aged men at random, should dominate the news. There is only one reason it does not. The accused killer is black. The five men are white. Were the races reversed, the story would be top of the page news not just in Kansas City, but in New York, Los Angeles, maybe London. This phenomenon is more than theoretical. In February of this year, a drunken loser named Adam Purinton shot and killed an Indian engineer in suburban Kansas City thinking the man was an Iranian. The media nationwide ran with this story and shamelessly tied the shooting to the rise of Donald Trump. The Kansas City Star posted more than 50 articles on this one crime alone. Three years earlier, the Star widely covered the story of a highway shooter who terrorized the metro for more than a month, hitting at least a dozen cars and wounding several people. Then the police arrested the shooter. The fact that he was black dimmed the enthusiasm in local newsrooms. The fact that his first name was “Mohammed” killed it. The story of highway shooter Mohammed Whitaker quickly disappeared, even from the local news. After Whitaker’s arrest, the Star made no effort to sort out his motives, talk to his family and friends, profile the victims, or even learn why he had renamed himself “Mohammed.” A Google search on Mohammed Whitaker nets exactly 688 results. A Google search on Adam Purinton nets 130,000. And therein lies the problem. To emphasize race only when a white person or a police officer is the culprit nurtures the racial resentment of unhinged young men like Mohammed Whitaker or Fredrick Demond Scott, the accused killer in south KC. In his highly observant book Antidote, black activist Jesse Lee Peterson describes how this thought process worked itself out in the short and tragic life of Ferguson’s Michael Brown. “In an age when fatherlessness is epidemic throughout the culture, many white young men enter the world no better prepared than Michael,” writes Petereson. “There is, however, a difference between those white teens and boys like Michael, a fatal difference. Michael had an excuse for his failings that they did not. Michael was black. From the time he was a little boy, the people around Michael were telling him that the white man kept the black man down. He heard this at home, among his friends, on television, at school, and maybe even at church. Barack Obama’s mentor, Jeremiah Wright, was far from the only preacher preaching hate. This hatred may have made Michael’s own failings seem less painful and less personal, but it was crippling him.” Kansas City has already passed the 100 mark for murders in 2017, a rate roughly thirty times higher than in Johnson County. Most of the killers are black as are most of the victims. The media have such a grip on the racial narrative, however, that neither whites nor blacks can speak honestly about the issue without fear of being denounced as a racist or an Uncle Tom. As they did in Charlottesville a few weeks ago, the media shamelessly use that narrative as a cudgel to beat conservatives into cringing submission. Tweeted Sen. Jerry Moran, “White supremacy, bigotry and racism have absolutely no place in our society, and no one–especially the President of the United States–should ever tolerate it (sic). We must all come together as a country and denounce this hatred to the fullest.” In this one unctuous tweet, Moran assured those of us paying attention that he will not advance any policy in the near future, no matter how beneficial to the minority community, that someone might interpret as racist. In the meantime, we will go about burying our dead and pretending we don’t know why they had to die. Poster Comment: To a hammer everyThing is a nail Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: BorisY (#0)
The editor of my local newspaper wrote a column and said they will no longer identify crime suspects by their skin color since it does little to identify them and unfairly generalizes their race. I wrote him a letter and sarcastically asked if he was going to identify them as male or female for the same reason. Short or tall. Fat or thin. Hair color. He didn't see the sarcasm and responded that those were legitimate physical characteristics. Well, so is race, but I wasn't going to convince a left-leaning newspaper of that.
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