The Left Versus the Realities of Race | FrontPage Magazine
By Jack Kerwick On January 17, 2014 In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
In almost every instance of the so-called “knock out game,” perpetrators have been black and their victims mostly white (and/or) Asian. There is one—andonly one—case in which the racial dynamics of this violence reversed course, an incident from Texas involving a white predator and a black prey. Not unsurprisingly, this is the only instance of “the game” that Barack Obama’s Department of Justice is choosing to pursue as a “hate crime.”
And it is the one and only incident regarding which Katie Couric unreservedly disclosed the respective races of the perpetrator and victim on her daily television show. As for the phenomenon generally, Couric was careful to convey the impression that it was racially-neutral, an activity in which “kids” of all races routinely engaged.
Couric’s take was all too predictable.
It is also a lie, a lie of omission, for like that of all of her colleagues in the left-leaning media, it is painfully clear that Couric’s objective is to manipulate the public into thinking that this phenomenon is something that it isn’t.
In reality, though, Couric is simply doing with this racial issue what leftists have been doing with the issue of race for a long, long time.
Consider slavery, the lynchpin of the narrative underwriting racial politics in America.
To know only the conventional account of slavery is to know worse than nothing. It is to know next to nothing—just enough truth, however miniscule, to make one think that one knows the whole truth.
According to the conventional narrative, whites originally kidnapped blacks from some idyllic African paradise for the sake of reducing them to a lifetime of servitude in America.
In other words, only white Americans were slave masters and only blacks were slaves.
In reality, slavery is an institution that is as old, and as universal, as humanity itself.
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And it is the one and only incident regarding which Katie Couric unreservedly disclosed the respective races of the perpetrator and victim on her daily television show. As for the phenomenon generally, Couric was careful to convey the impression that it was racially-neutral, an activity in which “kids” of all races routinely engaged.Couric’s take was all too predictable.
It is also a lie, a lie of omission, for like that of all of her colleagues in the left-leaning media, it is painfully clear that Couric’s objective is to manipulate the public into thinking that this phenomenon is something that it isn’t.
In reality, though, Couric is simply doing with this racial issue what leftists have been doing with the issue of race for a long, long time.
Consider slavery, the lynchpin of the narrative underwriting racial politics in America.
To know only the conventional account of slavery is to know worse than nothing. It is to know next to nothing—just enough truth, however miniscule, to make one think that one knows the whole truth.
According to the conventional narrative, whites originally kidnapped blacks from some idyllic African paradise for the sake of reducing them to a lifetime of servitude in America.
In other words, only white Americans were slave masters and only blacks were slaves.
In reality, slavery is an institution that is as old, and as universal, as humanity itself.
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