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Sunday, April 22, 2007
The New Segregationists (Repost)
Fran here. This is an angry column on an ugly subject. If you have any vestiges of political correctness left in you, I can guarantee that you won't like it. Won't like it? You'll be appalled. You'll wonder what's come over me, one of the Web's premier voices of sweet reason. Over the days to come you'll await some sort of retraction or apology. You'll be disappointed.
You have been warned.
Natural laws cannot be repealed. Congress and other legislators will attempt it now and then, but even to delay their operation for a bit is like trying to sweep back the tide; ultimately, you're sorry you tried.
One of the natural laws, which should be so obvious as not to require saying, is that word gets around. Something that people in general would want to know is something they will know, eventually. If you assist them in learning it, you will earn their gratitude. If you retard their edification, then when they've finally learned it, if they learn that you were responsible for denying them the data they need, you will reap the whirlwind.
I'm a news hound. I read several news sources every day, plus dozens of blogs and commentators' sites. I do my best to be as well informed as I can possibly be -- and I assure you, my best is very good.
Atop that, I'm a thinker. My education was in mathematics and physics, and I labor as an engineer. I'm not afraid to look for patterns or to draw conclusions from them. I'm also not afraid to be proved wrong; I remain open to counter-evidence for all my convictions, and I acknowledge it when it happens by.
But even a powerful and inquisitive mind is incapable of reaching useful conclusions when the data he needs is denied him. When those responsible are the very organs of dissemination that he relies upon for such information -- that claim to hold the unearthing and transmission of important news to be a sacred trust -- he can be incited to an unparalleled rage.
That rage has been growing in me for some years now, courtesy of our beloved Old Media.
The print and broadcast media have been socked with a lot of criticism in recent years for their habit of framing the stories they report strictly in "politically correct" terms. They've deserved almost all of it. Admittedly, some stories don't need any framing to appear to support left-liberal pieties, but one gets no special credit for doing what one ought to do, particularly when it's compatible with one's own desires. It's the departures from ethical journalism that get our attention, which is as it should be.
Those who defend the leftist media usually reply to our objections to their slanted coverage with irrelevancies. Some of those replies are partisan: "You conservatives don't want to hear anything that contradicts your beliefs." Some of them are exculpatory: "Well, they have to choose some way to frame the story, and why shouldn't it be the way they prefer?" And some of them are tu quoque minimizations: "If you controlled the media, you'd be doing the same thing, except in service to your point of view!"
Painful as it is to admit, there's a grain of truth in all these replies. Not a large grain, mind you: when a man has presented himself as a servant of truth and its dissemination, there's no perfect excuse for doing otherwise. But still, one must admit that some conservatives are as willing to spin and distort as anyone in the Old Media, if it will serve their purposes.
What I profoundly hope a conservative journalist would never stoop to is the complete suppression of a newsworthy event because it contradicts his preferences.
Despite my voracity about current events, this item escaped me completely until this very morning:
In January of 2007, 21 year-old Channon Christian and her boyfriend, 23 year-old Christopher Newsom, were the victims of a horrific crime in Knoxville, Tennessee. During what appears to have started as a carjacking, the criminals decided to abduct the two and set in motion a disturbing series of events.The suspects allegedly tortured and raped the young woman for several days before killing her. The young man's life ended sooner but his treatment was no less brutal.
The amount of savagery that took place in this case is of such magnitude that bloggers and their readers are asking, "Where's the national media?" What happened to these two young people is right up there with Jeff Dahmer's deeds on the list of wicked things that people have done to each other.
Now, carjackings are nothing new. Rapes and murders are also fairly frequent. But the brutality of this particular crime appears to have probed new heights of savage inhumanity:
"It apparently started with a carjacking," said Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Rich Knighten. "They did some really nasty things to this lady."Subsequently Newsom’s badly burned and mutilated body was found in a rail yard. It turns out the five assailants did some “really nasty things” to Christopher Newsom before they killed him. Authorities know that he was raped, his penis cut off, and beaten before being set on fire and shot several times. It is believed they forced his girlfriend, Channon Christian, to watch.
Reports state that Channon Christian, was beaten and gang-raped in many ways for four days by all five assailants, including an eighteen year-old female named Vanessa Coleman. They also took turns urinating on her. Then they cut off her breasts and put a chlorine-based cleaning product in her mouth, ostensibly to eradicate any DNA evidence, then murdered her and left her body in a garbage can inside a house once occupied by two of the assailants.
What kind of subhuman could do such a thing to a defenseless human being, you ask? Who could regard another person as meat to be abused and tortured for the sheer pleasure of it? Who could bear to go on living after having participated in such a deed, even to the extent of witnessing it?
Apparently, these persons could:
I have said it before, and I'll say it whenever anyone asks, whether in public or in private: I am a racist. That is, I am persuaded that as statistical aggregates, the conventionally recognized races differ in ways that can be contextually significant. So any mealy-mouthed leftists in the audience who think they can cow me by calling me a racist already have my reply: Damned right I am!
Despite the differences among the races, Americans are expected to make a wholehearted attempt to treat one another as individuals, to be judged on our individual merits. This is a vitally necessary enterprise. It's the only way we can share this country in something approximating peace (i.e., "a state of tension that falls short of overt armed conflict"). The sole alternative is a process of racial cleansing after which the United States would be peopled exclusively by whites.
Don't kid yourselves. Were American whites ever to conclude that inter-racial peace is impossible, within two years there wouldn't be a black man left alive and free anywhere in this country. We're a numerical majority. We control the preponderance of the land, the wealth, and most important, the weapons. Our targets would wear their affiliation in their flesh. It hasn't happened -- and please God, may it never happen -- because we still believe, despite many disappointments, that inter-racial amity is achievable. Preserving that conviction is the one and only hope American blacks have for their futures, and for those of their children.
What would undermine that conviction?
- Clear and convincing evidence that American blacks are irremediably violently hostile toward whites, or:
- A groundswell of conviction that such evidence exists, but that our news organs have conspired to deny it to us.
The first condition has not been met. The second condition is being advanced by the Old Media themselves.
Word gets around. Something as atrocious as the rape-torture-murders of Christian and Newsom cannot forever be kept from the light of day. People talk: policemen, forensic investigators, neighbors, reporters, reporters' clerical assistants, cleanup specialists, garbagemen, the families of the victims, their neighbors, and their neighbors' kids. There's simply no hope that the story won't sooner or later be told. When it is told, after a long interval of silence, people will naturally ask one another, "Why haven't we heard anything about this before now?" They will suspect conspiracy.
It's easy to suspect conspiracies, and difficult to disprove them. Conspirators are secretive by nature, seeking always to conceal or disguise their identities and deeds. Successful conspirators are well prepared to deflect the blame for their crimes onto wholly innocent others. With this as the model, one who begins to suspect that he's being deceived has a long, hard road to travel to disabuse himself of the notion.
Journalists who downplay or conceal inter-racial crimes out of the mistaken notion that they're helping to avert further hostility are either deluded or hopelessly stupid. By furthering the conviction among private citizens that we're being lied to, they advance the concomitant conviction that "the other," about whose deeds we're being denied full and accurate reports, really is someone to be feared...someone to be located and destroyed, or cast out of our midst, for our own safety's sake.
Thus, whatever their conscious motives and intentions, politically correct journalists who spike stories about horrific crimes by black perpetrators are the new segregationists. It is their decisions about which stories should be emphasized and which ones must be buried that will persuade white Americans that their black neighbors cannot be trusted and must be expelled from the body politic.
I told you at the outset that this would be an angry column. I'm furious. I want the scalp of every journalist or editor who knew of the Knoxville atrocity but decided to pass over it in silence, but thought that Don Imus's "nappy headed hos" comment or the satirical "Caucasian Achievement Award" offered by College Republicans at the University of Rhode Island should get front-page prominence and column-inches. These persons, whether through their we-know-best arrogance or through simple cluelessness, are undermining the foundations for inter-racial peace. It is not clear whether the damage they've done is reparable.
Pray.
Comments
Fran -
When you read something like this, for what do you pray? My prayers to God just seem so insignificant in the face of such overwhelming evil.
I know He is there and I know He listens. I just wish that my faith were stronger so that after my prayers, I would find peace in my heart and the courage and desire to tackle life without what sometimes seems like an increasing weariness at the world.
It makes one long for what is promised us in heaven. But we all have work to do here on earth. I will pray that each of us will do what the Lord needs us to do with a courage and conviction that honors Him.
Blessings to you, Fran.
Posted by on 04/23/2007 at 01:05 AMFran, You said it, people don’t want to read this stuff: “you won’t like it. Won’t like it? You’ll be appalled.” It doesn’t sell newspapers. The media’s driven by money, not by telling people what’s really going on.
Posted by Ian Duncan Smith on 04/23/2007 at 02:12 PMI am appalled. This is one of the most heinous crimes I have heard of in quite some time, VT massacre aside, I cannot believe this didn’t even get a bleep on Fox News at least. I can’t believe it.
This needs to be talked about.
Posted by Heather on 04/23/2007 at 02:59 PMI had read about this, actually, back when it happened, but certainly it didn’t receive much more than local coverage, though it is as terrible a crime as has ever occurred, as terrible as can be CONCEIVED, as terrible as what the Nazis did. Just reading about it left me feeling a deep wound in my heart and a kind of dizziness.
As I’ve recently written, we must teach all good people to at least die fighting if possible. And thanks you Fran, for stating the truth about it, unflinchingly. Nothing else positive can be done, at this point, since the slow, agonizing, public death of the vermin that committed this crime is not legally available.
Posted by wahrheit on 04/23/2007 at 08:13 PMYou know, there is one thing that California doesn’t get credit for, and that’s for being one of the most racially-blended states in the nation. Take my hometown of Sacramento, which is one of the most blended cities in the US if not the world. The blacks live next to the Vietnamese strawberry farmers (yum) live next to the Mexicans who live next to the Filipinos who live next to the white folk.
I really didn’t understand “racial strife” growing up because it just wasn’t there.
And yes, in aggregate, certain racial types do figure more strongly in the criminal statistics. But— and this is important— the thing that figures most in the crime statistics is a certain mindset, buying into a particular lifestyle. It’s not the race, it’s the culture.
Have you ever heard of Dagger John? He was an Irish priest in America who determined that the Irish expatriate community had a lot of serious problems, and he worked to reverse those trends— and he did it so successfully that within his lifetime, the Irish went from being the criminal scum of the immigrant community to being the police and firefighters.
The so-called black community needs a Dagger John, and what they’re getting is gangsta rap. It’s no wonder that culture is poisoned— the successful ones are the ones who “act white” because the “white” community has survivable values!
Posted by B. Durbin on 04/23/2007 at 11:54 PMFran, regarding the details of this case (but not the fact of murder and dismemberment of the bodies) you may want to see this at Classical Values:
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2007/04/post_313.html
Posted by wahrheit on 04/24/2007 at 04:25 PMKNOXVILLE SUPERTHUG GETS BIG NOTCHES UNDER BELT WITH ADDITIONAL CHARGES
<a href=http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/7576042.html>Knoxville (WVLT) - A suspect in the carjacking and murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom faces new charges in connection with a robbery two days after the carjacking.
A Knox County Grand Jury indicted Davidson on 6 charges including aggravated robbery, attempted robbery, aggravated assault, and unlawful possession of a weapon.
According to the presentment signed on May 8th, Davidson allegedly robbed a Pizza Hut at gunpoint on January 8th.That same day, he allegedly attempted to steal a woman’s purse.</a>
These additional charges, I think, when coupled with his existing charges are the big notch under Davidson’s belt that may keep him in the <a href=http://www.svengalimedia.com/race/sexiest_black_male_felon_2006.html>Bragging Rights</a> #1 spot!
Lemaricus Davidson goes HARD!
Posted by shakespearejohnson on 05/18/2007 at 06:52 PMA very good piece Francis, straight to the point and very compelling.
To hide and deny, as ‘self censoring’ journalists are want to do today, only causes the ‘problem’ to simmer until it finally boils and bubbles over.
I sincerely hope that those of the ‘left’ that have read your post finally realise the folly of remaining silent on those issues that concern us all.
Posted by Nemesis on 10/17/2009 at 06:55 PM
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