Another Black-on-White Racist Attack and More Black Media Double Speak

Last week a 62-year-old white man was murdered by a 31-year-old black man who prior to the crime was heard to yell, 'I’m going to punch the first white man I see!'   The victim, Jeffrey Babbitt, merely had been walking along in New York’s Union Square, initially oblivious to Lashawn Marten, the murderer,  whose punch caused Babbitt to fall, strike his head, and die.   When Marten was apprehended he boasted, “You think I’m afraid of these charges? … I punched a police officer in Newburgh in front of a crowd of people and all his colleagues and I was out of jail in 168 hours.”

On the The Five, a Fox News show, Greg Gutfeld, commented how blatantly racist the attack had been.   His black colleague, Juan Williams, however, could not find it in his hard heart or narrow mind to acknowledge the obvious, and proceeded to dance all around the issue.

In apparent frustration, Gutfeld then tried to support his contention that the event had been racist by noting the stark reality:  that inter-racial crime overwhelmingly finds whites to be the victims of black aggression. 

So, how could Williams continue to avoid admitting the racial truth? 

Juan used two tried and true double-standard and double-speak techniques.  First, he reminded Gutfeld of the HISTORY of white-on-black violence, choosing to live in the past rather than in the present.  As if that were not enough, he then asserted that black-on-white crime is not racially based, it is ECONOMIC, merely due to the fact that the black population includes more “poor folks” than does the white population.

Juan Williams, therefore, implies that blacks are prisoners of the past, unable to perceive current reality and unable to treat current whites by the contents of their characters—as though blacks are capable only of dealing in anachronistic racial stereotypes.  Williams’ comments also suggest that financial poverty is moral poverty:  that poor black people are so helpless and depraved that they cannot control their aggressive, antisocial impulses.

I reject both of the aforementioned implications.  I know that most black people, like most white people, have the integrity and personality to see current reality; that they are not puppets of the past.  I know that poor black people, and poor white people, are neither helpless nor depraved.   I also know that America will not become racially rational until media propagandists like Juan Williams learn to acknowledge blatantly negative actions taken by blacks.