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A pattern has emerged in the mainstream media in dealing with "hate crimes”: i.e. violent criminal acts motivated by bigotry. The unspoken, unwritten ethic appears to be: If a white commits a violent crime and the victim is a minority, that is by definition a "hate crime” and worthy of front-page headlines, complete with lead stories on the national TV news shows.
On the other hand, if a minority commits a violent crime and the victim is white, that does not make it beyond the local media.
That is the inescapable conclusion of a NewsMax.com survey of events over a period of months.
The Wichita Rampage
The most egregious recent example concerns a crime rampage in Wichita, Kan.
Two young black brothers, Reginald and Jonathan Carr, have been charged with a quadruple homicide.
The Shreveport Times, one of the few out-of-state media outlets to give this story any publicity at all, described the chronology of the crime in which the two men abducted five white young adults and shot them execution-style, according to the allegations in police reports.
According to police:
It began on a night in mid-December when they kicked in the door of a home shared by three young professionals. Two women were there for an engagement party. While one held the five people at gunpoint, the other loaded up a van with two TVs, a computer, dishes, bedding, luggage, credit cards, and wallets.
They also found a diamond ring.
"That was for you,” Jason Befort told one of the young women. "I was going to ask you to marry me.”
The Carr brothers then forced the young people to take them to automatic teller machines and withdraw money.
So that’s a sheer case of robbery, right? Where’s the "hate crime”?
There’s more. Apparently not at all satisfied with the heist, the Carrs then drove their victims to a soccer field and took turns raping the women, while the three men were forced to watch. Then the men were forced to commit homosexual acts on each other. Then each was forced to have sex with the women while the Carr brothers drank beer and laughed.
Still nude, all five were ordered to kneel in front of the car’s headlights in the snow. Each was shot in the back of the head execution-style before the brothers drove off and left them for dead.
Four of them did indeed die. But the fifth, Jason Befort’s fiancée, feigned death, then got up, bleeding from head to toe, and walked a mile in subzero weather to the nearest house, where an elderly couple called 911.
It was later learned that this was the last stop on a crime rampage wherein the two black men had robbed a convenience store, kidnapped a man the next day and pistol-whipped him after forcing him to withdraw money from an ATM before letting him go, and violently robbed a 55-year old cellist with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and shot her in the spine. She died about three weeks later.
The district attorney in Wichita has concluded none of these crimes was motivated by racial hatred.
That has drawn a howl of protest from many in the community. Aside from the fact that the victims were of a different racial group than the perpetrators, they note the following:
1 — The extreme sadism and violence went way beyond what was necessary to successfully complete a robbery.
2 - As far as anyone knows, there was no warrant issued to search the residences of the accused to determine if they may have been motivated by racial hate literature.
3 - There is no record of questioning close friends, family, neighbors or associates to determine if the two brothers had at any time expressed anti-white bigotry. NewMax.com asked the local newspaper, the Wichita Eagle, to send us the original story of the violence involving the Carr brothers, which was done. However, when we later asked for any information as to possible controversy on the "ethnic” or "cultural” angles to the crime, the newspaper did not respond.
The question is relevant in light of the coast-to-coast, wall-to-wall, night-after-night coverage of the outrageous murders of Matthew Shepherd, a gay man in Wyoming, and James Byrd Jr., a black man in Texas. In both of these cases, law enforcement authorities went the extra mile to establish that a "hate crime” had been committed. Why, critics wonder, has there been no publicly acknowledged similar investigation in the Wichita case?
Ignored by the Media
When justice fails, enacting a protected special group can, in the end, only make the problem worse. The pendulum swings
to and fro. The only answer when justice fails is to pursue it with an even greater vigor.
I read this article on Newsmax earlier while FreeRepublic was down. It is incredible. Some things cited I had heard about, but only here, some I had not. There is a definate double standard, and perhaps we need to speak out to the media,and the authorities. Although I am against hate crime legislation, if it is to be applied to one, then it should be applied to all.
BTW I feel some of this violence that I understand has escalated in the 90's of black on white crime is the direct result of the deliberate dividing of the races by the Clinton/Gore administration. They played the race card the entire time, and we now must live with the result.
BUMP! This has gotten so obvious that it is being noticed by newsmedia all across the country.
Hi Ladyinred, I was just about to flag you. It is really timely with what happend in Seattle and the shooting oday. Again, when the prepetrator's race/description is mentioned it is typically white. No mention of identity and one can confidently conjecture that it means....? If you CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION WITHOUT ME WRITING IT, THERE IS A PROBLEM.
oday???= today
Chris Darden was discussing this with Bill O'Reilly re: the Senator Byrd comment. Their point was that if it had been a conservative, there would have a been a riot with Jesse & all the so calld black "leadership" leading the mob.
In this case, I feel that the extreme left wing liberals are beginning to damaged themselves with this. Why? Because their tactics have been so over-the-top and extreme to the Republicans that even the American masses are seeing through their lies. And now when accused of reverse racism and INJUSTICE (which is the point) they cannot claim otherwise. After the ad trying to portray GW implicated in that dragging death, the democrat/naacp hate mongering is NOT passing the "smell test" BIG TIME!
BUMP
There was a post last week about a young man who made and wore a sweatshirt to school that said "Straight Pride". According to the article the school "mandates "gay pride" stickers and posters be placed on walls and doors designating so-called "safe zones" for homosexual students." The boy was forced to go home and change his shirt because it might incite anger from the gay community.
To the boy's credit, he made another one that said, "Help. I'm being repressed!"
Moral of the story. Never get on your knees when confronted by a thug criminal. Always fight That works for thug agents or thug politicians.
For your continuing education.
Wow, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I'm still reeling from the outrage the black community leaders are expressing at the media repeatedly showing the footage of the black men beating up white people at the Mardi Gras. The media did the same thing with Rodney King. The black leaders are asking why they are not concentrating on the white men who were fighting, damaging property a couple of days earlier.
I'll tell them why, because a young man was killed by one or more of those black men. That is the difference!
I had hoped that the black leaders would denounce the actions of these thugs. What a shock!
How many different ways would you like to kill these scumbags? If this story wasn't true, I'd swear it was the plot to some B horror movie.
Why, critics wonder, has there been no publicly acknowledged similar investigation in the Wichita case?
Simple enough. White lives aren't of any value. All the White community will do is whimper about forgiving the perps. The police will say "It was just a robbery." We'll spend millions to make sure the scum have a really good defense. We'll treat them humanely start to finish..
Note that other racial groups would not accept such a crime quietly. No prosecuter's office would dare dismiss murders in this manner.
Unless and until Whites become truly angry, genuinely enraged, and furious, such matters will continue. One may deplore the behavior of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, but at least they are advocates for their people. Have we anyone of which the same can be said? Apparently not!
They might try to bury the Seattle beatings and call it the whims of the newscycle. I doubt the Santee shooting gets buried in the newscycle. The Santee shooting is a terrible tragedy that will be mined for political points. Count on the gun control angle to get more play from this.
death, by oogala boogala.
Did I miss something in the Santee shooting? Was there a racial motive or aspect?
No apparent racial motive. Another badgered kid coming to the end of his rope and losing it. The media might play it up because it fits into their fear of guns.
Is the media biased ? Yes they are. Do they report more white on black hate crimes than the other way around ? Yes they do.
Do Free Republic post more articles about black on white hate crimes than the other way around ? I'm afraid the answer is yes. Is Free Republic becoming as biased as the mainstream media only from the opposite viewpoint ? I am afraid the answer is yes.
I believe it is time to end our bias. The fact is interracial crime is a small percentage of crime. Most murders are blacks killing blacks and whites killing whites. Why does not everyone just leave this issue alone. Let's be better than the mainstream media.
Excuse me, but this is a news and discussion forum isn't it? Is there some type of quota system that says if one discusses a particular type of issue/crime/whatever that you or others feel 'balances' out the topic we're not supposed to post similar items?
It makes me really sick to see that political correctness should so influence reasonable people that you would make a comment like this.
Do me a favor, go read this article and come back here and tell me that the young people who were slaughtered should have no one speak for them. I find what you are asking to be only a little less terrible than what happened to them in the first place. I don't care what color any of them were a crime is a crime is a crime and none of it is done out of love!
But remember the "hate" crime laws are what are racist and biased and anything but justice and that is why most people commenting are commenting. Take your own 'racist' colored glasses off and try the truth for awhile!
"hate" crime laws are what are racist and biased and anything but justice ..
I agree. Also, post 18 asks if there was a racial aspect of Santee shooting in CA. I heard that the kids hit were minority races and had taunted the shooter. I DO NOT KNOW if this is true.
Note to Staytrue, sorry but the latest statistics relased from the FBI state black on white crime much greater than white on black. Also, blacks suffer most from black on black crime. I feel that any protected class will sooner or later abuse that position. Just as whites abused power against blacks earlier. However, if it isn't corrected by ever greater pursuit of JUSTICE, the pendulum will swing the other way and off we will go again with abuse from another set of protected people.
In discussing this issue it is not my intention to blame race, but to point out the stupidity of HATE CRIME LAW, and how it is being implemented unevenly. That DENIES MY RIGHT OF EQUAL TREATMENT under my government and I PROTEST!
The reality is that there is a great disproportionality in crime statistics whether you wish to put your head in the sand or not.Black on white crime is heavy and the obverse is neglible.
, sorry but the latest statistics relased from the FBI state black on white crime much greater than white on black
You fact may be true, but it has not been normalized properly. That is if a black man randomly robs people, he is 5 times more likely to rob a white person than a black because there are 5 times as many whites as blacks. If a white man randomly robs people, he is also 5 times more likely to rob a white. So when blacks attack whites more than the other way round, that is normal.
It is newsworthy when a hate crime far worse than the James Bird murder is covered up. If ABCNNBCBS will not cover it, Free Republic has a legit reason to. Matthew Shepherd and James Bird were mega-covered already.
The james byrd murder was overcovered by the media. So does free republic have to be as biased as the mainstream media and over cover black on white hate crimes ?
I cannot answer for all of FR, Staytrue, but from what I have read there is building anger over the basic injustice of the law "hatecrimes" (as if there are any committed in love) and due to the *BREAKING events in Seattle (my area) and attacks yesterday by the mayor and minority leadership on "Hate Radio" (conservative talk) and uneven application of law - we are PROTESTING. It is not against a race, but the situation. And no better time than when it is happening. I do not see a reason to be sensitive to our discussion.
So when blacks attack whites more than the other way round, that is normal
Anybody attacking anybody is NOT NORMAL!
btt
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