Race-hustlers in news old and new
In 1994, South Carolina mother Susan Smith killed her 3 month and 14 month-old sons. It was a horrible crime whose investigation was monitored by a nationwide audience.
Smith initially sought to pin blame for the murders on a fictitious black man, confident that racial prejudice would inspire observers and authorities to buy her story without question.
Today, we have this new iteration of a crime participant counting on racial animosity to rally sympathetic public sentiment.
Recently, 7 year-old Jazmine Barnes, a Houston black girl, was shot and killed while a passenger in a car driven by her mother. Jazmine's family initially assured investigators that the shooter was a white man in his 20s or 30s.
But the man soon arrested for Jazmine's killing is black. His alleged wheelman is also black.
No white man was involved in the crime, though a bearded white pedestrian was reported to have fled the gunfire.
A Jan. 7 Infowars report advanced this theory: "The murder was likely the result of the killer targeting the wrong vehicle after a drug deal gone wrong. Citing claims that the killer might have been friends with the mother on Facebook, others have speculated that she was attempting to steal the drugs and merely blamed a white suspect because she feared for her life."
Like Susan Smith in 1994, Jazmine Barnes' family may have believed they could escape suspicion by playing on existing racial hostilities -- in this instance, white liberal guilt. They were, sadly, right.
Per Infowars: Shaun King quickly announced he would pay $100,000 for the claimed white killer's outing. The online Young Turks show had to delete four videos in which hosts had promulgated the false narrative.
At the same time, social media was rife with liberals supremely assured that, because white Americans are supposedly hate-filled (we did elect President Trump, after all), Jazmine's killer surely was of our dastardly number. No evidence required.
On Twitter, director/producer Robby Starbuck wrote: "All week, the media insinuated that the death of Jazmine Barnes was a hate crime committed by a white man. Now that it's proven not to be a white man who killed her, I notice that suddenly the race of the killers is not in the headlines, anymore. This is why so few trust the media."
This provides a choice opportunity for commentators like Cenk Ugyer, as well as street-level activists like Shaun King, to do some needed self-reflection. What does it say about them, that they are so eager to assume guilt based on a general, unproved racial assumption, and not on particular evidence that can be examined?
Or that Jazimine Barnes' family had their racial ambulance-chasing numbers?
In 1994, South Carolina mother Susan Smith killed her 3 month and 14 month-old sons. It was a horrible crime whose investigation was monitored by a nationwide audience.
Smith initially sought to pin blame for the murders on a fictitious black man, confident that racial prejudice would inspire observers and authorities to buy her story without question.
Today, we have this new iteration of a crime participant counting on racial animosity to rally sympathetic public sentiment.
Recently, 7 year-old Jazmine Barnes, a Houston black girl, was shot and killed while a passenger in a car driven by her mother. Jazmine's family initially assured investigators that the shooter was a white man in his 20s or 30s.
But the man soon arrested for Jazmine's killing is black. His alleged wheelman is also black.
No white man was involved in the crime, though a bearded white pedestrian was reported to have fled the gunfire.
A Jan. 7 Infowars report advanced this theory: "The murder was likely the result of the killer targeting the wrong vehicle after a drug deal gone wrong. Citing claims that the killer might have been friends with the mother on Facebook, others have speculated that she was attempting to steal the drugs and merely blamed a white suspect because she feared for her life."
Like Susan Smith in 1994, Jazmine Barnes' family may have believed they could escape suspicion by playing on existing racial hostilities -- in this instance, white liberal guilt. They were, sadly, right.
Per Infowars: Shaun King quickly announced he would pay $100,000 for the claimed white killer's outing. The online Young Turks show had to delete four videos in which hosts had promulgated the false narrative.
At the same time, social media was rife with liberals supremely assured that, because white Americans are supposedly hate-filled (we did elect President Trump, after all), Jazmine's killer surely was of our dastardly number. No evidence required.
On Twitter, director/producer Robby Starbuck wrote: "All week, the media insinuated that the death of Jazmine Barnes was a hate crime committed by a white man. Now that it's proven not to be a white man who killed her, I notice that suddenly the race of the killers is not in the headlines, anymore. This is why so few trust the media."
This provides a choice opportunity for commentators like Cenk Ugyer, as well as street-level activists like Shaun King, to do some needed self-reflection. What does it say about them, that they are so eager to assume guilt based on a general, unproved racial assumption, and not on particular evidence that can be examined?
Or that Jazimine Barnes' family had their racial ambulance-chasing numbers?
posted by DC Larson at
January 07, 2019
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