Lies kill.
It wasn’t even three weeks ago that I wrote about how the “media’s skewed reporting actually leads to interracial violence.”
“Imagine you’re a black person living in America, and all you hear from media are stories about whites killing and abusing blacks,” I explained. “Might you not become angry and start to believe our country, and whites, are irredeemably ‘racist’? Might you not, if you were the right (wrong?) type of person, lash out in anger and perhaps even violence?”
Now comes a story about just such an event. As PJ Media reports, “On Tuesday morning, a 19-year-old black man in Columbus, Ga., allegedly entered an AutoZone and stabbed a white employee in the neck. Police arrested the suspect, Jayvon Hatchett, on Wednesday.
“At his arraignment Thursday morning, Hatchett reportedly said he decided to stab a ‘random’ white man after watching videos of police shootings.”
WLTZ First News reporter Robbie Watson provided further details (Facebook post below).
SHOCK: Jayvon Hatchett stabbed Auto Zone employee 7 times after “watching Facebook videos of police shootings”. Hatchett…
Posted by Robbie Watson on Thursday, August 27, 2020
National File also added to the story, writing, “Police said that Hatchett had watched videos of police brutality and ‘felt the need to find a white male to kill.’”
The good news is that while the hapless white male, a 51-year-old victim identified as Mike, is in critical condition, he is expected to fully recover.
As for Hatchett, he “is currently being held without bond at the Muscogee County Jail until his case goes to the Superior Court,” National File also informs.
PJ Media points out that the “stabbing follows multiple episodes of looting and rioting in cities across America, from Portland and Seattle to Chicago and Kenosha, Wisc., ostensibly inspired by protests against police brutality following police shootings of black people.”
To be precise, however, the looting and rioting (and the stabbing) were inspired by one-sided, deceitful mainstream media (MSM) reportage about alleged “police brutality following police shootings of black people.”
This sounds like opinion, but really isn’t. As The New American and other honest outlets have long reported, more white than black suspects are shot by police every year, cops are actually more likely to shoot whites relative to the races’ different homicide rates and the rates at which they feloniously shoot police, a study showed that cops are more willing to shoot whites, and there’s no shortage of local news stories and videos (example below) illustrating these facts. Yet incidents reflecting them never become cause célèbre national news.
And most black suspects’ deaths should receive no more attention. After all, whether it’s Michael Brown in Ferguson, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Rodney King in Los Angeles decades ago, or some other lawbreaker, that a criminal was shot or treated roughly while resisting the police isn’t exactly a man-bites-dog story. The mainstream media (MSM) agree, too.
Thus do they report these incidents deceitfully, painting them as reflecting a fatally flawed nation beset by “systemic racism” and “white privilege” — because that’s a story — or at least a tale.
To facilitate this deception, the MSM avoid adding perspective by faithfully omitting facts such as those I presented three paragraphs above; they’ll also never relate how police shootings of black suspects have declined 75 percent over the last several decades and how 90 percent of violent, black/white interracial crime is black-on-white.
There’d be far less anger and far more people still alive if they did. There’d be fewer problems still if the MSM simply treated the police shootings of black suspects the way they treat the shootings of white ones: as only local-story worthy.
This is why it’s absolutely fair to say that the MSM are complicit in the Columbus stabbing. It’s also why learning the often-suppressed motives in black-on-white killings matters: It reveals the breadth of MSM complicity.
A possible example of such suppression is the August 9, execution-style murder of five-year-old Cannon Hinnant by his 25-year-old neighbor, Darius Sessoms (pictures below). It’s almost three weeks later — the police surely have interviewed the killer extensively — and they still, suspiciously, have released no information on motive.
Why does George Floyd’s life matter more than Cannon Hinnant’s? https://t.co/nyS24p2hll pic.twitter.com/b3zD4SVgjs
— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) August 11, 2020
As for my second-paragraph “prediction” of black-on-white violence, it required no great prognosticative abilities but only the recognition of man’s nature and a recording history. For we’ve already seen media-stoked “revenge attacks” on whites (and sometimes other non-blacks), such as in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin incident’s wake.
Then, of course, there’s also the rioting, looting, murder, assault, and general unrest of the last months. It’s unthinkable that this could have occurred with an honest MSM.
And “honesty,” a virtue, is the point. If people commit violence in the name of Truth reported by media — e.g., a random attack on a Boy Scout leader after legitimate reporting on pedophilia in the BSA’s ranks — evil has been perpetrated. But the onus is only on the attacker. Death and destruction catalyzed by deception, however, leave blood on the deceivers’ hands.
For speaking Truth is an obligation. But lying is an sin — and, as is apparent, kills.
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Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke) has written for The New American for more than a decade. He has also written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily, American Thinker, and many other print and online publications. In addition, he has contributed to college textbooks published by Gale-Cengage Learning, has appeared on television, and is a frequent guest on radio.
