Yesterday, we aired our report on the horrifying murders of young Channon Christian and Chris Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite a virtual MSM blackout, the case has reverberated with blog readers and videoblog viewers across the country. I’ll co…

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.

>>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

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.

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/a-horror-story-the-msm-wont-tell/

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.

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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.

Early this year, a white couple was carjacked, tortured, raped, and murdered by a group of black thugs. Christopher Newsom ……

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.”

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?

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

Black men in America today are deeply divided over the way they see themselves and their country.

Black men report the same ambitions as most Americans — for career success, a loving marriage, children, respect. And yet most are harshly critical of other black men, associating the group with irresponsibility and crime.

Black men describe a society rife with opportunities for advancement and models for success. But they also express a deep fear that their hold on the good life is fragile, in part because of discrimination they continue to experience in their daily lives.

This portrait of the divided black man emerges from a survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University. The survey of 2,864 people, including a sample of 1,328 black men, aimed to capture the experiences and perceptions of black men at a time marked by increasing debate about how to build on their achievements and address the failures that endure decades after the civil rights movement.

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?