{"id":111477,"date":"2017-01-10T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111477"},"modified":"2017-01-10T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:23:19","slug":"disturbing-lessons-from-the-chicago-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111477","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Lessons from the Chicago Beating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Last week, four young blacks \u2014 two males, both 18 years old; and two females, 18 and 24 years-old \u2014 kidnapped a mentally disabled 18-year-old white boy and tortured him for 24 hours. Among other things, they kicked him, beat him, cut his scalp, made him drink from the toilet and made him kiss the floor while saying he loves black people. During the beatings, the suspects yelled out, \u201cF\u2014 white people, boy\u201d and \u201cF\u2014 Donald Trump.\u201d
\nThe victim was found by police on Jan. 3rd.
\nThere are five important lessons to be learned from this episode.
\n1. Even after largely ignoring the story in the beginning, the mainstream media have barely covered it. And when they started to, the racial element was first ignored and then downplayed. The original Associated Press report not only did not mention the racist outbursts but it also never mentioned the race of the perpetrators or the race of the victim.
\nUnder the headline \u201cChicago police investigate video beating,\u201d the AP report began: \u201cChicago police said Wednesday that they\u2019re investigating a video circulating on social media that shows several people beating a man at a residence. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said at a news conference that four suspects, two males and two females, are in custody.\u201d
\nWhat makes the mainstream media\u2019s reporting a moral scandal is that every honest person living in America knows that if four whites had kidnapped a black, tortured him for hours, made him say \u201cf\u2014 Barack Obama\u201d and \u201cf\u2014 blacks,\u201d and made him bow down to the floor and say, \u201cI love white people,\u201d the story would have been on the front page of The New York Times and every other liberal and left-wing newspaper in the country; and it would have been the lead item on all news broadcasts and the subject of virtually every editorial and left-wing column. It would have been portrayed as more proof that America is racist, and that hate has taken over America since the election of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

For example, since the election of President-elect Trump, The New York Times has run a weekly column titled \u201cThis Week in Hate.\u201d In the Jan. 5 column, there was no mention of the crime. The lead story of the column involved a black transgender man who was attacked on the subway.
\nOn Jan. 6, the Times finally had a feature article on the attack, but it had no mention of the central role that race, the hatred of whites and the hatred of Trump played in the incident. Titled \u201cBeating of Disabled Teenager Highlights a Crime That Often Goes Unpunished,\u201d it portrayed the crime as a hate crime against the disabled.
\nIt began saying: \u201cThe appalling video seized the nation\u2019s attention this week: A group of young people kidnapped, bound, beat, slashed, gagged, humiliated and threatened to kill a teenager with mental disabilities over nearly three days, and laughed about it as they carried out their acts.\u201d
\nAnd the left talks about right-wing \u201cfake news.\u201d
\n2. The Chicago police also downplayed the most obvious aspect of the case.
\nThe police spokesman, Commander Kevin Duffin, said at a news conference: \u201cKids make stupid decisions \u2014 I shouldn\u2019t call them kids; they are legally adults, but they\u2019re young adults, and they make stupid decisions.\u201d
\nAnd Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the act could not be labeled a hate crime: \u201cI think some of it is just stupidity, people just ranting about something that they think might make a headline. I don\u2019t think that at this point we have anything concrete to really point us in that direction, but we\u2019ll keep investigating.\u201d
\nAfter the Chicago Police Department was attacked nationally for such remarks, it eventually concluded that it was indeed a hate crime.
\n3. Aside from the media\u2019s reaction, imagine what black America\u2019s reaction would have been had the races been reversed. The NAACP, the Black Lives Matter movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the white left \u2014 led by the irresponsible Southern Poverty Law Center \u2014 and the mainstream media would have led an outburst of national hysteria about Trump-unleashed hate. And there would have been riots in Chicago and many other major American cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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