Wednesday, November 12: Read about another torture-murder. Plenty to go around.
Tuesday, May 22: For more coverage of the Duke case, see the latest post, Journalists’ Rush to Judgment.
Wednesday, May 16: Michelle Malkin covers the Christian-Newsom murders over at Hot Air.
Later…Fellow BC Baldilocks comments about the Christian-Newsom case at Hot Air (emphasis in original):
“Shades of the Wichita massacre (those perverts even mutilated the dog). And, yes, I saw no MSM coverage of that evil incident either.
“As many observers have noted, crimes committed by blacks — regardless of the race of the victim(s) — do not fit the MSMs standard narrative of black people always being the victim. Such crimes don’t even fit Fox News’ narrative.
“In the runup to Stanley “Tookie” Williams’ execution, I said that we black people do not need other people to listen to and cater to the psychopaths in our number because it gives such monsters encouragment and it infantilizes black people as a whole. Well, I think that, by ignoring massacres like this one and like the one in Wichita, the MSM entities, through their inaction and cowardice, are doing just that. It’s one of racism’s sneakier and more insidious manifestations.”
Tuesday, May 15: Wow. *** [letter removed from site - letter writer said he forgot to include link to my post - I believe him] lifted an entire paragraph from this post for his letter to the editor at Chattanoogan.com (last paragraph). (Hat tip: Matt Sheffield)
Also, several people in the comment section mentioned that “white supremacist” and “neo-Nazi” sites have taken up the Christian-Newsom murder case as a cause. What that has to do with the main focus of this post — the media blackout and feminist non-outrage — is a mystery to me.
In a free society, unpopular speech is protected. That’s why we have something called the First Amendment. That some people are using this case to further their nefarious goals, whatever they may be, is called life. Deal with it. People of all colors do things to manipulate and influence — for positive and negative reasons.
That so-called white supremacists may use this post or the Christian-Newsom case to bolster their movement or whatever won’t stop me from calling things as I see them. It’s the risk we take in a country that allows freedom of speech. Well, it’s a risk I take.
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I’ve been dragging my feet on this one, but it’s time to step up.
Early this year, a white couple was carjacked, tortured, raped, and murdered by a group of black thugs. Christopher Newsom (23) was gang-raped, shot and set on fire. There are unconfirmed reports that the killers cut off his penis while he was still alive. The going-to-straight-to-hell murderers made Channon Christian (21) watch, and then they gang-raped her over four days and left her to die. There are unconfirmed reports that her breasts were cut off while she was still alive. (Also see this story and the Wikipedia entry)
I’ve been getting e-mail about this case since it happened, but I’ve been hesitant to blog about it. Flopping Aces published a big post about the case last night, which probably accounts for why I received a few more Christian-Newsom e-mails this morning. Here goes!
I’ve noticed that mainstream media are reluctant to report this story, especially when it first happened. In light of the blanket coverage the Duke “rape” case received, the paucity of coverage in this case seems a bit unbalanced. I mean, isn’t the brutal, black-on-white gang-rape, mutilation, and murder of two people more than or at least as newsworthy as a white-on-black gang-rape (which obviously was phony)? Even if the stripper’s allegations had been true, why was the Duke case burning up the airwaves while the Christian-Newsom case barely emits a spark?
What’s up with the lack of blanket media coverage? I’m not talking about a story here or there with case updates. The media should be swarming around this story. What happened to Christian and Newsom should be all over the airwaves and printing presses.
What’s up with the stunning silence of feminist types and hate-crime proponents? Forget Newsom. He was a white male. But what about Christian? Where are the pot-bangers and wanna-be castrators?
Have so-called black leaders said anything about what those thugs did? They have so much to say about everything else.
Every time someone starts telling the truth about black crime, someone else comes out of the woodwork to remind everyone that a “few” black criminals don’t define the black community. From my perspective, it’s difficult to argue that point with a straight face. Of course, the murderous deeds and thuggish ways of black criminals shouldn’t define all blacks. But if you try to pretend that it’s not a serious problem that blacks commit a disproportionate share of crimes — an incontrovertible fact — or that the lack of blanket media coverage and outrage has nothing to do with race, you’re being willfully blind and foolish.
As I see it, black crime is so commonplace that it’s just not interesting to white liberal journalists, especially black-on-white crime. And white liberal feminists are more outraged when white men use a so-called sexist term than they are with black-on-white rape statistics. I have yet to hear a feminist condemn what was done to Christian.
I’m disgusted by the whole incident, which is why I haven’t blogged about it. But I’m publishing this post and opening comments for people who want to discuss it. Be civil.
Update: Remember the international outrage over the beating and murder of a homosexual named Matthew Shepard? There was a TV movie and everything! I doubt Hollywood will touch the Christian-Newsom case.
A commenter linked to this. I don’t remember reading anything about that case.
Update II: Glenn Reynolds writes: “My earlier comment on the [Christian-Newsom] case has had me excoriated by some white-supremacist sites for covering up a hate crime…Well, to be a hate crime, the motivation has to be hate. I haven’t seen any evidence of that so far. It’s certainly true, of course — as LaShawn notes — that if the races were reversed the press would be all over this case and lots of people would be confidently pronouncing it a hate crime without any evidence other than the races of the perpretrators and victims, but since it’s black-on-white crime they’re making less noise. That’s the press.”
That’s the problem with “hate crimes.” All crimes are motivated by hate, but crimes committed by a perpetrator who utters a slur are considered worse than other crimes. What difference does it make if a thug is motivated by hatred of blacks or hatred of rich people?
In order for “hate crime” charges to be added to the Christian-Newsom case, somebody had to have used a racial slur, and a witness would have to come forward. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter who said what in the Christian-Newsom case or any other. Hate crime laws are redundant, not to mention nonsensical.
I call hate crime laws by their proper name: thought crime laws. They were devised to penalize certain people for thinking nasty thoughts about certain “protected” groups of people.
(See Hate E-Mail and Hate Crimes and links under “Related Posts”)
Update III: A commenter writes:
Because of the Duke non-rape case I looked up some National Crime statistics on the internet. It appears that about one-third of white women who report being raped say the attacker was black. But of the over 30,000 black rape victims in, as I recall 2005, none reported being raped by a white man. The percentage of blacks raped by whites is probably not zero, but it is certainly low. Statistics also indicate that black men are about 8 times as likely to commit murder as non-Hispanic white men. I kept some statistics here in Tarrant County a few years ago (before the huge influx of Mexicans, who seem to kill each other with great frequency) and came up with statistics that indicated that about half of the victims were killed by someone they knew. Of the half of whites killed by strangers, about 90% of the time the killer was black. On the other hand, of the blacks killed by strangers, none were killed by whites other than policemen. Most of these cases were barely reported in the news. But, some years later when some whites did kill a black man for no apparent reason it was national news. (By the way, I suppose everyone already would guess it, but women rarely ever kill a stranger.)
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Darkstar, once again, your response didn’t seem related to what I wrote which was simply to point out that the media has painted a picture around the world of whites preying upon blacks (though I think that the internet is reversing some of this as folks can look at studies and information that was not available before).
Batyah put it correctly when she said; “[PC] it puts people in jeopardy by witholding from them the truth about the world they live in.”
As far as your contention that it doesn’t matter what race is involved in crime, I suppose you would have to tell it to the child who had racial epithets carved into her thighs and stomach with a pocket knife.
In a broader sense, we look at racially defined statistics to see trends, as those do matter. The race,in and of itself, is of no significance.
Question: Can anyone explain to me why Nifong was reelected. He had very low approval ratings until he went after the Duke lacrosse players. By the time the election took place, the knowledge that the case was unraveling was widespread.
Yet, Durham residents voted overwhelmingly for a man that they did not approve of before the case.
To me, this is more pertinent than Jackson or Sharpton, though I also question why corporations will crater to the demands of Jackson, if he really holds no sway.
Also, I would just note that if posters here get to determine what most blacks think based upon their personal experiences, then I would also note that I have never heard a white person use the “n” word in my presence, I have no family members that use it, and had never even heard of a white supremacist web site until last year. No one I know even talks about race and virtually every person I know could care less about the subject. In fact, the only place where I discuss it is on this board.
All of the kids I know have friends of every race under the sun, and I know of countless mixed marriages.
So, do I get to determine what white folks really think cuz I gotta tell you, much of the “whites are racist” that has been stated on this board in various permutations by some doesn’t square up with what I know of the white world.
After all, what is good for thee should be good for me.
As far as your contention that it doesn’t matter what race is involved in crime, I suppose you would have to tell it to the child who had racial epithets carved into her thighs and stomach with a pocket knife.
Speaking as the person who had a gun pointed at him for riding a bike through a white neighborhood, as someone who almost started a race fight because a white teenager called my Jewish classmate a name and then followed up by calling me the “n-word”, and as someone who was run off of the road by a white man driving a pickup truck who stopped to yell some “nice words” at me, I would say, yes, it doesn’t matter. Otherwise, you hate everyone of the general description even though they had nothing to do with the criminal.
The funny part is that in the recent poll aking blacks who the most important black leader is, no one individual received more than 15% of the votes and the top two were Jackson and Rice with Powell close behind in third place. Sharpton was way behind folks like Obama and Oprah with a measley 2%. 21% couldn’t decide and 13% said no one.
Yep. Now look at batyah’s reply:
Thanks for the poll results. Interesting. But there’s a reason why Al and Jesse are front and center all the time. If they are as unpopular as you say among blacks, I wonder that we don’t hear more protests.
I wrote it before, but I’ll write it again: The media are lazy. They go for the same people all of the time. And as I wrote before, you appear to also be lazy because what Shade posted is easily available.
Washington Post Poll About Black Men
Did you know about that one? Read the entire article and the link to the poll. Or not.
But I’m not going to buy into your assertion that the media is telling a complete lie about the political and social beliefs of black America. As other posters have pointed out, it’s not JUST Al and Jesse, but numerous local black leaders and black citizens interviewed about race issues who present a pretty anti-white point of view.
I didn’t say complete lie, but the mainstream media and the conservative media do lie. Anyone have any comments about Sharpton being presented as a “leader” yet only winning one majority Black voting district? Chris Wallace LIED when he said they did research but couldn’t find information about Sharpton protesting against filth in rap. I did a quick Google search and found plenty.
If they are as unpopular as you say among blacks, I wonder that we don’t hear more protests.
Because you ignore Black media. Fact: Emerge Magazine, the same magazine that presented a picture of Clarence Thomas as a lawn jockey and another as “Aunt Jemimah,” also had a long piece on the “leadership” of Jesse Jackson, Sr and Lewis Farrakhan. The article blistered both. Black talk radio that I am familiar with, is no stranger to strong criticism of media appointed Black leaders, Black Dem politicians, and Dems in general. So, if you don’t see or hear it, it’s because you don’t want to hear it.
Exactly right on about the virulently anti-white rhetoric taking place on our college campuses today. I wonder why none of our black commenters responded to your point on this?
From personal experience, it is not as widespread as conservative pundits want to make it. I know of a few Black people in college who were vocal in putting forth Black issues on campus, and each one was told by people who worked for the college, payback would come when business recruiters came on campus. The Duke college professors are not typical.
Why have I never before heard of this poll?
Because you didn’t want to know about it. That poll was written about in Black and some white media.
The answer is that those “folks obsessed with Jesse and Al†of whom you spoke are the liberals who run the major networks and the major daily newspapers.
Then why did those same people not print when Al Sharpton denounced rappers YEARS ago? This is what I found doing a quick search. I made it available as a Google Notebook.
Chris Wallace couldn’t find this information?
So, do I get to determine what white folks really think cuz I gotta tell you, much of the “whites are racist†that has been stated on this board in various permutations by some doesn’t square up with what I know of the white world.
After all, what is good for thee should be good for me.
Go to the Free Republic boards and find conversations about race and watch the results.
Next, why did the online paper disable comments on Obama? OH, they said so. The comments were pretty rude and racial.
But that doesn’t matter, right?
redbeard wrote:
Why have I never before heard of this poll?
It’s an Associated Press poll. It was on Townhall:
http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ContentGuid=78f6762d-2802-49b2-90a7-5fd91d4ae770
CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/15/national/main1321719.shtml
Here is an excellent commentary on the poll results:
http://www.roanoke.com/columnists/flowers/wb/wb/xp-53890
Excerpts from other sites:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2506/black_leadership_wanted/
“Only 18 percent of those polled said that African-American leaders were doing a ‘very effective job.’
Most intriguing, however, was the silence. About one-third of respondents declined to offer up a name.”
From:
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-5226409_ITM
“According to the AP-AOL Black Voices poll*, no single individual emerges as the clear leader of the African-American community today. Asked in an open-ended question who the most important black leader in America today, the four mentioned most often were Jesse Jackson (15%); Condoleezza Rice (11%); Colin…[Powell and Barack Obama]“.
From:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVMillerRice90506.html
“This success is undoubtedly why Dr. Rice finished second in the 2006 AP-AOL Black Voices Poll to identify the most important black leader.”
Darkstar;
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Once again, you seem to have missed my point which is that if you get to say that your own personal experience is more valid than what we see depicted, then it should also be true that my own experience is equally valid. That’s all.
You continually try to construct my statements into something that they are not.
And for the record, of course there are racists in the world, of every race which has absolutely nothing to do with my point.
Shade and Redbeard, if I let facts and an open mind cloud my judgment I would turn into a well rounded person.
So am I to assume, Shade and DarkStar, that you do not believe the mainstream media liberals are skewing coverage based upon their leftist and/or PC agenda?
Look, I’m trying as hard as I can to make the point that the conflict we need to be concerned about is between agenda-driven liberals and the rest of us, not between black and white. Is that point being lost in the heat of this discussion?
We need to stop driving wedges between us based upon skin tone. We’re in a culture war, sure enough, but it has nothing to do with our melanin content.
If we get get back to the media issues, how do we get more notice from the MSM? Has someone already started a letter writing campaign to the media, victim support groups, politicians, etc.?
I suspect somebody mainstream will pick it up now that Michelle’s covered it at Hot Air:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/a-horror-story-the-msm-wont-tell/
This has been an informative read from comment #1 on through to #169.
I am struck by the defensiveness in so many comments. If we were practicing to be a color-blind society and if we were attempting to judge people on character and merit rather than skin color, these perverted thugs at the bottom of the heap of human debris would have found no sanctuary.
Instead, we learn that reporting a story of this nature is akin to inviting psycho white racists out of their Klan meetings to lead untold numbers of bigotry-prone whites into a race hating rage.
I am astounded. If one is not secure enough in his own skin to stand up to pure evil, what will he stand for? That scares me. It is too much like the “moderate” Muslim who is too afraid, too invested or too indifferent to face down radical Islam.
Redbeard…
>>the conflict we need to be concerned about is between agenda-driven liberals and the rest of us, not between black and white. Is that point being lost in the heat of this discussion?>>
Yes. If you read these two articles(links below) that were posted just this am, you see the same sort of selectivity going on – no race involved. We’ve gotten off the track. The question isn’t who’s good and who’s bad, the question is what is the media’s agenda, and why it makes the choices it makes. What goal do they achieve by highlighting white on black crime, and ignoring black on white crime? _Is_ there a goal, or is the media simply so blind that it is unable to focus on actions that don’t fit it’s preconceived ideas? In other words, is the inequity by design or by stupidity? Is there anything – short of buying a newspaper chain – that can be done about it?
I found a comment somewhere – I’d have to hunt for it – that listed the owners of newspapers and radio stations of certain size. It was shocking to me to learn that there are very few independent newpapers any more. Most are owned by the same chains. Likewise the radio stations. It might be that the answer to the problem is to move for legislation that would prohibit ownership of more than x numbers of newpapers – or newspapers that covered more than xxx square miles or something.
I could also go into my opinion that much of this is driven by the communist agenda which is still very alive and active in the universities and the press, but I’ll spare you.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007546.htm
http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-victorians.html
Once again, you seem to have missed my point which is that if you get to say that your own personal experience is more valid than what we see depicted, then it should also be true that my own experience is equally valid. That’s all.
But Jan. Broad generalizations made about the character of whites on this blog are very rare if not practically non-existent. Seldom does someone who comments on this blog attribute some negative quality to most whites.
On the other hand, we routinely read how hatred of whites is widespread in the black community, how most blacks follow Sharpton and how black criminals are overwhelmingly specifically targeting whites (which is disputed in Robert O’Brian’s study), etc. etc. What we basically have seems to be some white posters who feel that they know more about black people than black people themselves. That is one reason why discussions on race between blacks and whites are usually futile.
And with that, we’ll close it out. Thanks for participating, everyone.
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