The Social Cost of False Media Narratives That Power the Political Power of Leftist Hate ...

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Victor Davis Hanson:

So far all that is clear is that there is a growing anger among African-Americans about a failure to immediately arrest the shooter that in turn is provoking an even greater backlash against the antics of Al Sharpton, the creepy bounty offered by the New Black Panther Party, and others who inflame for their own careerist advantage, and no one — not the president, not the media, not the civil rights leadership, not the politicians — seems willing or able to call for a time-out until all the facts are reviewed and released. We have collectively regressed to the days of Rodney King and the L.A. riots and the O. J. Simpson trial — or to something far worse. Hope and change came and went.

I lean toward something far worse... a repeat of 50's and 60's leftist racism. Whether it is blacks in the 50's or whites today, the left gains political power through hate.

When we look we find that racism in crime is not what is portrayed in the media. We find that Whites predominantly kill whites, blacks predominantly kill blacks and amazingly others predominantly kill others:

For visual proof of media racism we need only turn to the media narrative of Treyvon and Zimmerman. Here we find that there are two narratives, one that is years old and preferred by the media and another that is current and closer to the truth:

False narratives like this do not lead to national health. They, in fact, lead to racial division. Why? Because a group of Americans, blacks, are being told one story by the media and by the race hustlers like Shapton when the truth is much different. When this episode goes to court and if Zimmerman is found innocent blacks will feel disenfranchised due to a media lie. How much pressure will the court system feel to find Zimmerman guilty? How much did the same pressure work to OJ's advantage a decade and a half ago?

Then there is the other side, those forgotten by all but family and the courts, when our energies are focused on false racist media narratives and the battle with racist echo of a false accusation. They come from all races but most are a media footnote.

Liberals racism divides and weaken our nation.



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So is this whole Zimmerman thing starting to look like a cross between BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and the Richard Jewell affair?

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 Instapundit:

So is this whole Zimmerman thing starting to look like a cross between BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and the Richard Jewell affair?

Progressives, Spike Lee tweeting Zimmerman’s address, making death threats.

There has developed in our society a pattern of accusation based on the assumptions of leftist racial expectation rather than fact. This dynamic has resulted in the public media lynchings of innocent individuals and groups  before the diligence of time is able to reveal media leftist racial accusations  to be the falsehoods they are. In the end  the damage of the accusations remain, haunting society with the specter of racism that never was.






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Florida Shooter Was On His Back and Being Punched When He Shot Trayvon Martin..

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HolyCoast.com 

I bet you hadn't heard that so far in the flurry of media reports on the shooting.  All you know is a random whitish guy (who's actually Hispanic) targeted a poor black kid and shot him because of racism.  Does anyone wonder why no charges have been brought in this case?  Could it be there isn't yet evidence of a crime and that perhaps the shooter was in fact defending himself?  From Examiner.com:

All the way back on February 27th, the local Orlando Fox station interviewed the witness who dialed 911. Almost none of the thousands of articles since have mentioned any of the details described by the witness. Some, however, have attributed false statements to this witness. On March 16th, theSanford police department released new details to the Orlando Sentinel. Once again, these details have been ignored or changed by the media.

• The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.

• The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.

•  Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. 

•  He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.

• Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin's father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.

The neighborhood this took place in has seen a lot of crime. Would you be surprised to learn that there were eight burglaries, nine thefts, and a shooting just in the past year? In fact, the local homeowners' association reports that George Zimmerman actually caught one thief and aided in the apprehension of other criminals. The Miami Herald wrote about this on March 17th. None of the thousands of articles and cable news segments that came after, thought this was important.

In fact the Miami Herald goes on to interview neighbor, Ibrahim Rashada, who is black. Rashada ​confirms that there has been a lot of crime in the neighborhood and indicates to the reporter that the perpetrators are usually black.

It has been reported that Martin was on a 5-day suspension from school.  According to what I'm reading that suspension was due to tardiness and not other misbehavior.  The Examiner article above refers to the suspension but didn't have all the facts behind it.  It doesn't appear that this kid had a history of violent behavior, but that doesn't prove one way or the other who instigated the incident.
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It seems to be the way leftist racism works, you only hear the political truth that counts after being sifted on the bases of race..





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Why I Battle Leftist Racism Over at Ed Cone's, AlfonZo Rachel Provides the Answer...

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Because when racism exists more as an accusation than a provable reality it is those who accuse who practice racism.

For example,

Ngee, a self described black woman, without proof accuses Sal Leone of racism. My reply:

ngee's comments represent a teachable moment. Forums such as this, by virtue of anonymity, semi anonymity or simply the lack of visual and physical contact, are by nature as race-less an exchange of ideas any of us have come across.

Where is the appreciation of that near racial equality when ngee's first words in this thread are:

This thread is a PRIME EXAMPLE of how segregated the Greensboro blogosphere is. As a black woman (born, raised, went to school here)it AMAZES me how a candidate for office would PROUDLY post a racially charged comment on a racist blog.

Unfortunately, ngee shatters that near racial equality, that near raceless exchange of ideas, by needlessly introducing race.

Why make such an announcement in a racist society? One would think in a racist society such an announcement would be avoided, least one's words be ignored or ridiculed. The reality is that such an announcement is evidence of the recognition by ngee that in our society her race is to her advantage.

The end result is that ngee introduces racism for a personal gain in credibility so as to more forcefully make a dubious charge of racism.

Where are these "racist blogs" ngee referenced? None of the links in the thread lead to one that I could find. Where is the racism in Sal's comments? There was no mention of race, nor was there a reference to anything that was predominantly racial. Just what are the linkages ngee makes between Sal's comments and ngee's race?

ngee's charge of racism seems to rely entirely on accusation and a sense of personal racial credibility. However, the repercussions of the charge of racism are too great for proof to be casually cast aside. The weighty charge of racism requires a similarly weighty concrete foundation of proof upon which to rest. And what is ngee's proof? None was provided. I asked earlier in the thread for proof, but was ignored.

I don't know what to call the game ngee is playing, but the needless introduction of race into nearest thing to a raceless exchange of ideas most of us will ever experience to indignantly engage in baseless and unprovable character destruction is an ugly, ugly thing.

Example 2:
When given a choice between interpreting a term with racist intent by the author or without, a leftist racist  will choose racist intent and accuse the author of racism as we see in this thread.  Throughout the thread we can watch leftist racism in action as they attack me for the use of the word "mistral".   I reply to the charge over a handful of comments in the following way:

Okay, I googled up "minstrel" and found:

1. A medieval singer or musician, esp. one who sang or recited poetry.

2. A member of a band of entertainers with blackened faces who perform songs and music ostensibly of black American origin.

You chose option number 2.

When the greater influence in my life is Tull while the greater influence in your life is apparently "blackface" entertainment, then does that not say more of your racism than any lack thereof of mine?

Yet, you go there with your accusations. Apparently "blackface" is what comes to your mind when you see Obama and read the word minstrel. Be mindful that it is you making the connection when another could be chosen.

To jump from the term "minstrel" to racism is a bridge too far. It requires the assumption that the term is a reference to a nearly century old form of entertainment ("blackface") and then requires the application of that entertainment to a man that is neither white nor in "blackface" and then finally claim the whole convoluted process somehow says more of another's racist intent than your own.

Perhaps you should explore what darkness in you drives you to view Obama as a white man in "blackface" rather than the black man that he is.

I left the tread on this summation by Jim Langer:

So, the likely gambit was provocation. A successful one, too. Bravo. That level of intelligent discourse deserves acknowledgment.

Why do I go through the trouble? Zoe:

If the Democrats lose the black vote, they lose everything. This is why their hooks are so deep in the black community and have virtually hard-wired the black community to be loyal to them. The chains that Democrats used to put on their wrists and ankles have now been clamped onto their hearts and minds.

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Enjoy the New Racism and It's PC Too...

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It's transparent...

(h/t) Guarino:





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Examples of Leftist Racism...

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Example 1

After 5 minutes of being relentlessly berated by this fellow Charlotte Bergman who is running for district 9 in Tennessee politely throws in the towel on this "interview". On the way out she offers her hand to the interviewer but he won't shake Charlotte Bergman's hand for fear that her "whiteness" might rub off on him:




Example 2

Rep. Moran:

People like Mr. West, and Governor Brewer and so on, particularly Mr. West, is not only not representative of the African-American community or of the Republican Party, let alone of the American public. So what he says really is of little or no consequence, but it’s unfortunate.

Video here.


Example 3

Least we forget racism on the left is most frequently practiced as the accusation of racism were none exist.

Juan Williams:

The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are "entitlement society" - as used by Mitt Romney - and "poor work ethic" and "food stamp president" - as used by Newt Gingrich. References to a lack of respect for the "Founding Fathers" and the "Constitution" also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core "old-fashioned American values."

Juan gives examples of racist "code" such as "poor work ethic", "entitlement society"words", "food stamp president" with no proof of racist intent. It is, in fact, Juan Williams who, when presented with a choice between defining words by the context in which the words are used or defining them in the terms of his own racist assumptions, chooses racism.

Absent proof of racism, the only racism is Juan's accusation.

According to Chris Matthews even Juan's name is racist when Matthews applies his own racist assumptions to the use of Juan's name:

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The New Leftist Racism...

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H/T Bubba.


Dr. Sanity:

Real racism is indeed truly disgusting; and nowhere is it more real and objectively manifest than in the left's politically correct posturing and in the perpetual victimhood scams perpetrated by their compassionate policies--you know, the ones that infantalize other races and ethnicities and keep them "in their place" so that the truly superior denizens of the political left can manage their lives.

Dr. Sanity referenced this post in the NRO...

If you want to be disgusted, take a look at the front-page story in today’s New York Times, “On College Forms, a Question of Race, or Races, Can Perplex.” It’s about how selective colleges and universities are wrestling with the problem of how to deal with applicants who check more than one box for race and ethnicity: which mixes are to be most favored, whether it’s better to be mixed or pure, what do to about students who refuse to check any box, and how to tell if a student is really sincere in his or her self-identification or is just "gamming" the system. Now, maybe it’s just me, but I think a lot of people will find it really sickening to read about how these politically correct educrats sit around and give a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down to an 18-year-old based on his racial and ethnic mix. As for “gaming” the system, were we supposed to lament the fact that a black applicant 100 years ago might try to pass for white? I think our condemnation then and now should be more concentrated on the racially discriminatory system itself rather than on those who tried or try to game it.

There is another strain of leftist racism - the presumption of racism without proof, an example which would be the accusations of racism hurled toward the Tea Party.

The war on traditional racism has nearly been won and it seems evident that as the old racism fades into history, the proof of its existence fades with it. What is slower to fade, though, is the perception of political leverage gained from the charge of racism. What remains is the current sea of baseless charges of racism for political advantage. Furthermore, without proof that there is racism involved then merely labeling something as racist is indicative of viewing events through a racial prism.

When an individual charges racism where there is none, the charge of racism becomes an act of racism itself.

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