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At 5 p.m. ET on Sunday afternoon, I did a Google search for Frank James, who shot ten people on the subway in Brooklyn on Tuesday. There was a grand total of one news story posted about this crime on Sunday, a “what you need to know” video from WPXI in Pittsburgh. Before that, there were three articles posted Saturday, one by a site called Complex, one from the UK’s Daily Mail, and a New York Post article. These were sparse results for a mass shooting in the nation’s largest city less than a week ago, but they weren’t surprising: when a story doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, it tends to disappear quickly.
Remember Darrell Brooks, Jr.? On November 21, 2021, he plowed his car through the Waukesha Christmas Parade in Wisconsin, murdering six people and injuring 61. Remember Noah Green? On April 2, 2021, he rammed his car into a barricade at the U.S. Capitol, murdering one person and injuring another. You don’t hear very much about them nowadays, because their cases don’t fit the media narrative, either.
Brooks, Green, and James shared the same ideology: they were all black nationalists who hated white people and believed that they could never get a fair shake in an America dogged by systemic racism and white supremacy. In other words, they hewed closely to the standard Leftist worldview of today, but their violence didn’t fit the media’s idea of how you should perceive reality.
This is supremely important but not generally well understood. Many Americans still believe that the likes of The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, MSNBC, and the rest of them are still news sources, but that is not the case and has not been the case for many years. The establishment media outlets do not exist to disseminate news, but to spread propaganda that favors the interests of the political and media elites. Those elites are today propagating that white people are selfish, privileged oppressors, and black people are noble, aggrieved victims. Every news item must reinforce that narrative. If it doesn’t, it is ignored. If it cannot be ignored, like the violent acts of Brooks, Green, and James, then it has to be given coverage as cursory and glancing as possible, and then ignored. The specter of a black person mercilessly and savagely attacking innocent white people doesn’t fit the beliefs and views that powerful people want to inculcate in the American people, and so it doesn’t exist.
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Andrew Blackadder says
Just imagine if Will Smith was a white guy slapping Chris Rock because he insulted his Wife.
Meltdown, meltdown.
There have even been some white movie star bleeding hearts who are suggesting the media is pushing the narrative of black on black violence as being the norm in black American society…
But who is killing black people every day… The KKK?????
If black America wants equal treatment, and rightly so, then this is what equal treatment looks like.
gravenimage says
Yes–I mentioned myself what the reaction would be a a white actor had slapped Chris Rock. There would be no apologia, and no standing ovations (not that there should be for Will Smith, either).
Pierre Delecto says
Frank is the victim here. Whitey provoked him. Frank’s being punished for being aware of it.
Systemic racism has achieved immortality. Racial identity should guide wealth distribution as the sole palliative. I recommend the housing bereft White folks move to warmer climes or grow fur. Winter is coming. And remember: You have only yourselves to blame. [ Actually, some of y’alls ancestors. But we’ll keep the stuff anyway. That’s Equity at work.]
CogitoErgoSum says
The cockroach will probably be the last form of life to survive on Earth. Life doesn’t really require a large brain at all. In fact, once the brain reaches a certain point too much thought by it may actually be detrimental.
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious racially motivated hate crime committed by that to Back man was so hate- filled with vicious and deadly. Black hate crimes in different American States have been terrible ignored by the politically correct news media .
If the hate crimes had been reversed the media would have completely covered that race aspect of those crimes .This is unprofessional and biased double standard PC journalism, which is wrong and outrageous as well as a slap in the face of true race equity. Shame on that media.
Keith O says
+1
James Lincoln says
The excellent feature article by Robert Spencer makes many great points, two that are especially perceptive:
“Many Americans still believe that the likes of The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, MSNBC, and the rest of them are still news sources, but that is not the case and has not been the case for many years.”
“The establishment media outlets do not exist to disseminate news, but to spread propaganda that favors the interests of the political and media elites.”
gravenimage says
Brooklyn Subway Shooter Frank James Is Already Being Memory-Holed
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As soon as we learned that James is Black and Nation of Islam I thought this would happen.
Walter Sieruk says
hat vicious shooter in the Brooklyn Subway ,Frank James , out of his malice-filled hate for Whites shot wounded 29 White people including a a pregnant woman and a 12-year-old.
That a terrible malicious racist violent Black man, Frank James, has proven himself to be. This racist fiend, he admitted that he despises White people and that’s why he did it . So in addition to the other charges , his deliberate racially motivated hate crime ,its very appropriate that hate crime charges should be made against him. Why not ?
The answer is with the politically correct ideology that has infiltrated and infested the American legal “justice” system a despicable unjust and unfair double standard unjust is now the norm in the United States.
Likewise, there was no racially motivated hate crime charges made against the Black man, Darrel Brooks, drove his vehicle intentionally running down and murdering White people at that Christmas day parade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin even though he said he did it with the intention of killing White people.
Nevertheless, no Hate charges were filled against him, in addition to murder charges, but that should have occurred.
The list of such racially motivated vicious and violent and even murderous race hate attacks by Blacks against Whites with no fitting made those racist villains can go on , but this should be enough to prove the point that this both an affront and terrible wrong and also a slap in the face if true race equity.
gravenimage says
And this is not just black-on-white violence–bad enough–it is also inspired by Nation of Islam.
Hoi Polloi says
Fascinating to me just how little the left concerns itself with violence against women, all while women carry leftist water. Multiple memory-holed and burn-it-down for them men have attacked pregnant women and raped women and children. A press and a government asking that these men be seen in any light other than that of their extreme violence proves they’re all pure evil.
gravenimage says
Not all women are cluelessly leftist, Hoi Polloi–I’m not.
Hoi Polloi says
I agree, but you don’t suffer delusions about islam, as a start. Reading what I wrote, I see that the comment was broad and I know that many leftist sites marveled for years that women would ever be conservative. I think they’ve created many conservative female voters. I used to read all over the left and right until the left moved so far to the left that it felt like a trip to the asylum. Lo and behold, now it’s commonplace to see so many of their theories and pushes for policy (people will begin identifying themselves by gender and “I, cis-gender…..” will be the norm), ideas that left-leaning men and women commenters told them were unreasonable, are now loud-speakered 24/7. I intended that comment as directed to women who would support someone like Linda Sarsour of the women’s march, not all women. I am also female, fwiw. I know many female victims and I get a little quick on the draw on these issues as a result. I hope this clarifies.