Ryan Palmeter’s despicable homicide of three is spun to help the declare white individuals are the black neighborhood’s worst enemies
Final Saturday, 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter, armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a Glock handgun, killed three black folks at a Greenback Normal retailer in Jacksonville, Florida earlier than committing suicide. Because it grew to become instantly clear from the information stories, Palmeter was a radicalized white male and deeply racist, of that there may be little question. So right here now we have a tragedy that reinforces the concept white People, by their inherent ‘supremacist’ nature, are attacking black folks en masse. Is there any fact to this narrative?
First, it’s necessary to grasp that the overwhelming majority of crime in the US is intra-racial, that means that crimes towards white, black and Hispanic individuals are dedicated overwhelmingly by members of their very own race (The notable exception is the Asian-American inhabitants, who’re extra usually victimized by members of different races). Nevertheless, the mainstream media hardly ever if ever mentions the interracial crime statistics between white and black folks, and for good cause.
In response to statistics by the Bureau of Justice, there have been 562,550 whole acts of nonfatal violence between black and white folks within the yr 2019. Of that quantity, 472,550 of these legal acts, or 84%, have been black folks assaulting white folks. In the identical yr, there have been 89,980 incidents of white folks assaulting black folks, or simply 16% of whole legal acts reported between the 2 races.
The state of affairs almost about homicides paints no much less of a disproportionate image. In response to the FBI, 3,299 white People have been murdered in 2019. Of that quantity, 2,594 of the victims (79%) have been killed by white perpetrators, whereas 566 of them (17%) have been killed by black perpetrators. In the meantime, 2,906 black People have been murdered in 2019. Of that quantity, 2,574 (89%) have been killed by black perpetrators, whereas 246 (8%) have been killed by white perpetrators.
To know the demographics at play, there are about 235 million white People and about 47 million black People dwelling within the US. Which means one out of each a million white People killed a black individual within the yr 2019. In contrast, 12 out of each a million black People killed a white particular person in the identical yr. Now, if the US have been actually affected by an epidemic of ‘systemic racism’ towards black folks, one would count on these numbers from the ‘white oppressor’ class to be a lot larger. And that’s why the media shifts into overdrive anytime a white individual commits a violent crime towards a black individual: it doesn’t need its viewers to suspect that murders impressed by racism of the type simply witnessed in Jacksonville are extraordinarily uncommon occurrences.
A method the media hypes such tales is by focusing consideration on the race of the suspect – however provided that the suspect is white. For instance, right here is how CNN reported on the legal case involving Andrew Lester, who shot a black youth in April: “A White 84-year-old house owner who allegedly shot and wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, after the 16-year-old went to the flawed dwelling to choose up his siblings, will face two felony prices, Clay County Prosecuting Lawyer Zachary Thompson introduced early Monday night.”
It’s arduous to pinpoint precisely when the mainstream media’s fashion information modified, however gone are the times when you’ll learn in a information article: ‘police are searching for a black suspect.’ But by refusing to talk the reality in an effort to assist the authorities observe down fugitives, the media is working towards the perfect pursuits of the neighborhood it’s speculated to serve. Not surprisingly, because the mainstream media is closely invested in liberal ideology, there’s a important political part to this agenda, as clearly witnessed in Jacksonville.
In its report on the Jacksonville taking pictures, the Related Press couldn’t resist dragging politics into the dialogue.
“Elected officers mentioned racist assaults like Saturday’s have been inspired by political rhetoric focusing on ‘wokeness’ and insurance policies from the Republican-led state authorities headed by [Governor Ron] DeSantis, together with one taking purpose on the educating of Black historical past in Florida.”
What AP failed to say, nonetheless, is that the black historical past course that DeSantis rejected from Florida’s School Board was to incorporate “Black Queer Research,” arguments for reparations, avenue activism and demanding race idea, which denigrates all white folks as oppressors whereas designating all black folks as helplessly oppressed victims. It will be troublesome to think about the rest that aggravates tensions between the races greater than that college-level curriculum. In any case, for AP to recommend simply in the future after the crime had been dedicated that Ryan Palmeter was someway incited to kill because of the insurance policies of the Republican administration is the peak of journalistic recklessness.
In the meantime, conservatives are noticing a putting distinction in the best way the media is overlaying the Jacksonville taking pictures in contrast with the Nashville taking pictures. On March 27, Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man, indiscriminately shot and killed three nine-year-old youngsters and three adults on the Covenant College, a personal Christian college within the suburbs of Nashville. Hale was a former scholar on the college.
Whereas the mainstream media was fast to explain the Jacksonville taking pictures as a ‘hate crime (right here, right here and right here),’ which it most actually was, the identical label didn’t apply when six Christians have been murdered in chilly blood by a transgender individual.
“We now have opened a federal civil rights investigation and we’ll pursue this incident as a hate crime,” mentioned Sherri Onks, an FBI particular agent. “Hate crimes are at all times and can at all times stay a high precedence for the FBI as a result of they don’t seem to be solely an assault on a sufferer, they’re additionally meant to threaten and intimidate a whole neighborhood.”
Are we speculated to imagine that the Christian neighborhood, which largely opposes the transgender motion, didn’t really feel threatened and intimidated by Hale’s heinous act, particularly contemplating that it occurred simply days earlier than a deliberate ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ protest was scheduled to occur in Washington, DC?
But, as an alternative of the media discussing the main points of the Nashville taking pictures and its Christian victims, it targeted consideration on the transgender neighborhood. NBC Information, for instance, carried a narrative with the headline, ‘Worry pervades Tennessee’s trans neighborhood amid deal with Nashville shooter’s gender id.’ The article talked about a transgender drag performer, Denise Sadler, who mentioned she must rent armed guards following the “anti-trans rhetoric spawned by the taking pictures.” Not a peep, nonetheless, about how Christians have been coping with safety points.
In the meantime, CBS Information reportedly went so far as to bar the phrase ‘transgender’ from its protection of the Nashville shooter, although the police had recognized Hale as transgender virtually instantly. Now try to think about CBS reporters writing up the Jacksonville taking pictures story with out mentioning the time period ‘white supremacist.’
All issues thought-about, the institution media is the principle purveyor of hate and worry that’s sowing discord between the races. Whereas there may be actually a small group of people within the US, from each the black and white communities, who could possibly be described as racist, the statistics don’t help the declare that the nation is affected by ‘systemic racism.’ In truth, judging by the best way the media handles such tales, it might be extra right to say the US suffers from ‘systemic propaganda,’ and the type that evokes mentally deranged copycat attackers. The US media actually must get its details straight on US race relations earlier than it singlehandedly sparks irreversible civil discord between black and white folks.
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