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  • Black lives matter, until they’re ended by black people

    Black lives matter, until they’re ended by black people

    Meanwhile, closer to home...

    On December 30, seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes was killed in a brazen drive-by shooting in Houston while in her family car, driven by her mother. Barnes’s teenage sister provided the sole description of the shooter to media and police: ‘He was white and had blue eyes.’ In interviews, the family expressed fears that they had been targeted because of their race. The response was immediate: national media, celebrities, politicians, and activists launched a crusade to find the racist white killer.

    Within days, activist Shaun King and his attorney Lee Merritt used social media to raise $100,000 as reward money for information leading to an arrest. Houston Texans star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins committed one of his paychecks to the Barnes family. Shaquille O’Neal pledged to pay for the funeral. A GoFundMe page raised over $82,000 — far surpassing its initial goal of $6,500. On Twitter, celebrities and racial justice activists tweeted about the murder using the hashtag #JusticeforJazmine and #SayHerName.

    The public outcry had an impact. Over the weekend, Harris County police announced a major breakthrough in the case: two men had been arrested — one charged — on suspicion of murder. Yet neither have blue eyes, nor white skin. Both are black. Whereas the family believed they were victims of a hate crime, suspect Eric Black Jr. admitted before investigators that mistaken identity was to blame. What’s more, in the wake of this surprising turn of events, those who made the loudest cries for justice became conspicuously quiet....
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    Silly CP. It's still racially motivated:

    Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/1/10/18175589/jazmine-barnes-shooting-houston-texas-race



    Conservative writer Heather Mac Donald made a similar claim in a recent column, arguing that the Barnes story showed how “Fantasies about white violence against ‘black bodies’ are a distraction from what is actually happening on American streets.” That Barnes’s death was connected to racism and that speculation of a possible hate crime pushed her story further into the national spotlight, the argument goes, is further proof of how racism is incorrectly attributed to too many things.

    But that argument fails to grapple with the very real fear and anxiety that led so many to speculate about a racist motivation in the shooting so quickly.

    African Americans and other communities of color have repeatedly expressed anxiety about what they see as an emboldening of racism in America. These concerns of being under attack have been amplified further by FBI data showing a rise in reported hate crimes and high-profile incidents like the 2015 mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

    This context suggests that the initial reaction to Barnes’s death cannot simply be brushed off as some sort of mass delusion about racism. Rather, it shows just how powerful concerns about racism in America have become.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
      Silly CP. It's still racially motivated:

      Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/1/10/18175589/jazmine-barnes-shooting-houston-texas-race



      Conservative writer Heather Mac Donald made a similar claim in a recent column, arguing that the Barnes story showed how “Fantasies about white violence against ‘black bodies’ are a distraction from what is actually happening on American streets.” That Barnes’s death was connected to racism and that speculation of a possible hate crime pushed her story further into the national spotlight, the argument goes, is further proof of how racism is incorrectly attributed to too many things.

      But that argument fails to grapple with the very real fear and anxiety that led so many to speculate about a racist motivation in the shooting so quickly.

      African Americans and other communities of color have repeatedly expressed anxiety about what they see as an emboldening of racism in America. These concerns of being under attack have been amplified further by FBI data showing a rise in reported hate crimes and high-profile incidents like the 2015 mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

      This context suggests that the initial reaction to Barnes’s death cannot simply be brushed off as some sort of mass delusion about racism. Rather, it shows just how powerful concerns about racism in America have become.

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      Because the death of a little girl doesn't matter to the MSM. Just "racism" matters. As long as a story can promote "racism" - especially against blacks, then it is news. A little girl being killed is just the seed that gets some sympathy. Her death doesn't matter unless it can promote the racism narrative.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
        Because the death of a little girl doesn't matter to the MSM. Just "racism" matters. As long as a story can promote "racism" - especially against blacks, then it is news. A little girl being killed is just the seed that gets some sympathy. Her death doesn't matter unless it can promote the racism narrative.
        She's like the Red Shirts on Star Trek.
        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          Because the death of a little girl doesn't matter to the MSM. Just "racism" matters. As long as a story can promote "racism" - especially against blacks, then it is news. A little girl being killed is just the seed that gets some sympathy. Her death doesn't matter unless it can promote the racism narrative.
          The horrifically high rate of black-on-black murders in places like Chicago barely get a mention in the MSM (typically a sentence devoted to nothing more than a statistic such as "five were killed over the weekend" at best) because they cannot be exploited to push an agenda.

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