If you've missed this story, it's probably because you get your news from national press outlets. The story of a white father shot and killed by a black assailant who, according to witnesses, went on to dance over the father's body is local news fare at best. Why? Because it's a white father who died heroically blocking his child from the black gunman.
Had it been the opposite, a white gunman and a black father complete with gloating over the victim, you bet your damn bank account that this would be a national press narrative, even with Afghanistan blowing itself halfway to hell and the floods and fires we continue seeing on the national news cycle.
But it wasn't. One of the greatest evils the modern press has visited upon mankind has been to sanctify the idea that we should only care about human suffering if we can exploit that human suffering for our pet agendas. It's not new. This has been happening for years. Likely generations. All the news that's fit to print is just a way of saying all the news we choose to report on, versus the stories that we choose not to cover. I think nobody ever stopped to ask what the standards were for making such decisions.
Today, it's not hard to figure the standards. Can a killing be exploited to drive home the 1619 Project Narrative? Or perhaps the persecution of the LGBTQ movement? Or gender inequality? Guns, of course, are always a safe bet. But we can't let gun stories that bring questions about the above narratives get out of hand. So even if this might buttress the gun control narrative, a black man dancing over the dead white father he just shot could get the sheeple to ask questions about white privilege and white only racism.
So don't expect any household names out of this. I Googled the story and found only a couple national level outlets even mention the story. Most stories were either conservative outlets or local news outlets. It's the point where I can almost guess which stories will be ignored by the press based on the demographic identity of the parties involved. The worst part? I'm almost always right. And that is a scandal.
May God have mercy on the soul of the killer, and cover the victim's family with peace and strength. May the victim's son grow up to remember his dad as the hero he was, not as a body danced upon by a man seen as the real victim of his father's privilege. And may God have mercy on the twisted and wicked field of journalism that so doesn't care about anything or anyone, and increasingly gloats over the fact that we know this but can do nothing about it.
Sorry Dave but hate crimes are only committed by angry white guys who are racist from birth which means all of us. It doesn't matter how good a white man is it's only a cover up of their birth defect of privilege and racism.
ReplyDeleteIf I understand the FBI data correctly, homicides featuring a non-black perpetrator and a black victim were about 4% of the total 'ere 2014. That would amount to about 640 homicides, of which it's a passable guess that > 1/3 of the perpetrators were hispanics. So that would translate into a mean of just north of 400 blacks killed by white Anglos in a typical year. They're not all ending up on the national news, just the ones Ben Crump and Ryan Julison think they can make money off of. (Note, the number I quote suggests north of 1 such homicide per metropolitan statistical area per year. Adding non-justiciable police killings won't get you to two per year. The average metropolitan statistical area has about 850,000 people in it, if I'm not mistaken. These sorts of homicides are unusual to say the least. The issue is never the issue.
ReplyDeleteI think we need to lump Ashli Babbit's murder in with this story. Her killer, a cop, shot her without warning or provocation, had his identity protected until HE himself revealed who he was and then got an extended sit down interview with NBC where he said he didn't care that she was unarmed and claimed he acted "courageously." Meanwhile her family gets no semblance of justice from authorities or the press.
ReplyDeletePart of me wants to pray for these souls who seem to not know what they are doing (ultimately) and part of me hopes there's a special punishment in the after life for those who profit from and peddle outright deceit. The lack of outrage where there should be outrage, and the outrage where there should not be to that level, is so disturbing it's hard to keep one's peace at times.
Note: a black cop. If the races were reversed, consider what would have been the reaction. See George Floyd et al.
DeleteSBM I have always been of the opinion that when we pray for our enemies we are also praying for ourselves. Keep praying for their souls SNM. It's the right thing to do, though one of the hardest things to do
ReplyDeleteOC, Amen! Thank you! I definitely strive to err on the side of prayer. Our Lady's sad statement at Fatima rings in my mind often: "How many souls fall into Hell because they have no one to pray for them." And I should clarify, I pray for repentance and mercy before justice. I wish no one to go to Hell! Including myself ;)
DeleteHow do we know it wasn't a hate crime? It certainly wasn't a love crime, right?
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