Sharpton, Jackson, Media Silent About Hate Crime in S.C.

Six black men assaulted a white man outside a restaurant in Seneca, S.C. on March 17 after insulting him with a racial remark. Such was the severity of the beating and obvious racial motive that local police have referred the case to federal officials. However, contrary to their usual reaction in such matters, the national media have yet to jump on the case, and civil rights leaders have said nothing about it. The leftist media’s and “civil rights” groups' silence on the subject stands in sharp contrast to their handling of the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Florida. The media have provided non-stop coverage of that case, often distorting the truth about it, and black leaders are demanding justice — perhaps without knowing all of the relevant facts — for the young man.

According to the Anderson Independent Mail, “police say they are referring the case to federal authorities to see if the men might be charged with hate crimes. Seneca Police Chief John Covington said the investigation indicated that race was a factor in the attack, so the case file would be transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

The trouble for Terry Moore, a 32-year-old resident of Macon, N.C., began at about 12:50 a.m. outside the Applebee’s in Seneca.

“According to a statement given later by Moore,” the newspaper reported, “he had been fishing with friends in Oconee County all day on March 16 and the group capped the day by going to the Applebee’s.”

As the group left, Moore said, he went to the restroom while his companions went to their vehicles. When he went into the parking lot, Moore said, he was taunted by members of a group of 15 to 20 blacks who called him names such as “tree honky” and “cracker.”

One of the group hit him, Moore said, and as he reached for the alleged assailant, “everything went black.”

According to one of Moore’s companions, one of the assailants used a stun gun on Moore.

Moore said that he recalled being on the ground surrounded by feet and being beaten. According to one of Moore’s companions, one of those around Moore appeared to try to protect Moore's head from injury.

Police officers found Moore lying in the restaurant’s parking lot, the Mail reported.

Fox [News] Carolina offered more details about the police report describing the savage assault:

The report said that a woman told police that there were several black men attacking the 32-year-old white man, whose identity was redacted.

Upon exiting the restaurant he was jumped by a mob of individuals, and severely beaten about the head and torso,” said John Covington, the Seneca police chief. "The report was that racial slurs were being used toward the victim."

The man told police that he didn’t know what happened, didn’t remember coming to the restaurant and didn't know why he was attacked, according to the report.

Fox interviewed the victim, who has two black eyes and a swollen face. “He told us he was leaving the restaurant when a group of black men near the door called him a “tree honk,” the affiliate reported.

He said he had never heard that, but it “tickled” him, so he turned to ask them what it meant. He said that is when one man hit him, and another hit him in the head with a stun gun; he fell, and others began kicking him in the head.

Curiously, one witness stepped forward to claim Moore “was overhead inside the restaurant making racial comments about black people and using the “N” word,” Fox Carolina reported. Law enforcement officers could not confirm the report. “The person refused to give their name or a statement,” the police chief said. “Therefore, it remains uncorroborated.”

The six black men, who range in age from 18 to 25, are charged with assault and battery by mob.

Searching for “Seneca,” “South Carolina” and “beating” did not return hits on the websites of the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fox News, CBS, NBC, or ABC.

MSNBC, the main site for NBC News on the Internet, carried yet another two stories about the Trayvon Martin case and ran teasers about it on their homepage. The network did find the time to edit the recording of Martin's alleged assailant’s phone call with police to make Zimmerman appear to be a racist. It has since launched an investigation into the matter to find out what went wrong.

But observers have noted that the media’s voice isn’t the only one that seems stilled in the quest for racial justice. Nothing on the South Carolina case has been heard from, for instance, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others, who bill themselves as “civil rights” leaders.

On the other hand, they have been pushing the Trayvon Martin story nonstop for weeks, while members of Congress are flatly accusing George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon, of murder, a crime with which he has not been charged. An example is leftist Representative Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.): “I want America to see this sweet young boy who was hunted down like a dog, shot in the street, and his killer is still at large," she declared.

The Seneca beating isn’t the first vicious crime with racial overtones that the media have ignored.

The media have also been silent about the racial attack against a boy in St. Louis last February. As The New American's Selwyn Duke reported, the attack against Allen Coon, 13, was undoubtedly racial. “This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy,” Coon’s black assailants told him before dousing him with gasoline and setting him ablaze.

Another major crime the media ignored is the Wichita Massacre in Kansas. On Dec. 14, 2000, Jonathan and Reginald Carr wound up a week-long crime rampage by torturing five young whites and murdering four. The orgy of violence was so sadistic it nearly defies description. One victim escaped and helped bring the murderers to justice.

Yet another black-on-white murder case the major media left uncovered is the murderous frenzy known as The Knoxville Horror, in which a gang of black killers raped and murdered two whites in Knoxville, Tenn.

Aside from ignoring black-on-white hate crimes, the media also covers hate-crime hoaxes with remarkable intensity.

Three of the most famous shams involved what many observers have said the media should have known were preposterous charges. The first among them was that of Tawana Brawley, who claimed that white policemen in Dutchess County, New York, had raped her and covered her with feces. Al Sharpton, Brawley, and her attorneys even included the prosecutor in their list of perpetrators. The whole story turned out to be a fabrication, and the prosecutor won a defamation judgment against Sharpton, Brawley, and her attorneys.

A more recent example was that of the rape that did not occur during a lacrosse players’ party at Duke University. The case — which was given non-stop coverage by the media, particularly the New York Times — ended with the prosecutor being disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct.

Another hoax in which the mainstream media were involved with as the Jena Six case in Jena, La., which occasioned seven months of national news coverage, as the Weekly Standard noted, and mass protests in the small town. It was supposed to be, the Standard noted, quoting National Public Radio, the start of “America's next great civil rights movement.”

That cause célèbre fizzled when the facts proved that six black teenagers severely beat a white boy, and that its racial hatred component was on the side of the attackers.

Wikipedia notes: "Lady Justice, an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems … has often been depicted wearing a blindfold."

Most Americans have traditionally believed that champions of justice should also be blind to the color of those accused of crimes, and render their verdicts accordingly.

Does anyone know what a “tree honkey” is?

I’ve never heard that one before. :/

The left is tormenting their wild dogs, so they will terrorize their conservative neighbors, but they’ve made them too violent and dangerous to keep. When the neighbors are gone, the wild dogs will have to be put down.

Everyone knows that blacks can do whatever they want to get revenge on the white man for forcing their forefathers to come to America. If they feel that bad, why don’t they just go back to Africa so they can realize how good they have it now. I don’t see the need for the biterness. My forefathers were slaves at one time but that doesn’t affect me now. What a sham and I’m getting sick and tired of it. Our uniter President was supposed to smooth things over but he himself has made it ten times worse. Way to go mulatto!

Does anyone know what a “tree honkey” is?

I’ve never heard that one before. :/
More than two but less than 4?

I already knew Al Sharpton is a racist, at least dating back to the Freddie’s Fashion Mart murders he incited.

And Jesse Jackson has been a racist since when he used to spit in white people’s food at the restaurant where he worked.

But at least not since Jim Crow have we ever had a federal government that was openly racist in neglecting crimes against, or promoting crimes against an entire race — now being the race of white people.

Under Eric Holder’s DoJ and the Obama regime there is zero chance of white people getting fair treatment under the law.

The “HOME PAGE” of South Carolina, “The State” (news?)paper carried a 108 word Associated Press story on March 29th of the March 17th attack. Searching the online edition of the The Greenville Daily News, no returns were shown for these keywords. It looks like the paper in Anderson and the Greenville WYFF “broke” the 11 day old story on the 28th. The other South Carolina outlets returned on Google news is Spartansburg and Aiken. Guess the other papers and stations are no longer significant enough to be searched by Google. Looks to me that a story is not newsworthy unless...

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