This is not a hit on Black Lives Matter.
We have recently learned of four young, Chicagoan black youths who were kidnapped, scalped, called racial slurs, and forced to drink toilet water for somewhere between 24-48 hours by a lone white Trump supporter.
At least, that’s how the leftist media wished this had gone. Unfortunately, Trump and his supporters continue to elude the mainstream media narrative of universally being KKK members who are itching to cleanse the nation of non-whites.
Four Chicago youths kidnapped a mentally handicapped Trump supporter, tied him up, and tortured him for around 24 hours. They scapled him, chanted “F*ck Donald Trump” and “F*ck white people,” called each other racial slurs, and used homophobic language liberally. If you don’t believe me, you can see the portion they live-streamed on Facebook here.
After this racist and politically motivated crime, none other than Shawn King wrote a response to it in the Daily News.
“Black people can’t be racist.”
Racism is defined as “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” What these four did was motivated by dictionary definition racism.
“The dictionary doesn’t have the socially enlightened definition.”
If you’re using the dictionary to define “feminism” and you apply that definition to third wave feminism, then you’re being inconsistent and you lose your basis for your argument.
Regarding King’s article, what I find most disturbing is the way he avoids allowing the criminals involved to have responsibility for their actions. He simply says they will be punished, not that they earned the punishment.
He instead goes into a listicle of all the BLM martyrs. The over-simplicity of the presentation of these people’s situations is not new to BLM, and a concise response to it can be found here along with the references. He finishes his listicle with a case in which two white students assaulted a black mentally handicapped student and were not given jail time.
As unfortunate as these instances are, they amount to nothing more than red herrings. They distract from the issue at hand by pointing the audience in a different direction. They serve to help you avoid holding these four criminals responsible for what they have done. The same is true of the personal experience he wrote about, which he conveniently provides no evidence for.
Where is your evidence, Shawn King, that black people are sentenced to 10x the rate of selling drugs than whites are?
Where is your evidence for black people being held “super-responsible” for the crimes they commit? How do you respond to someone who disagrees with you like this black man?
Where are these thousands black people you’ve seen stand up for white victims of police brutality and toxic masculinity? I haven't seen them with BLM.
If you want to fault white people for not holding marches for white-on-white crime, then I fault you for not holding marches for black-on-black crime.
“What we are witnessing here is that fact that when particular African-Americans commit a crime, many whites use the crime to cast aspersions and stereotype all black folk. It’s a ridiculous double standard rooted in racism and oppression.”
Wrong. Hilariously wrong. Many whites, blacks and other races, want you, Shawn King, to take a look in the mirror and admit when your movement gives unstable people justification for extreme acts like this. They want you to explain how you can make this an isolated case and hypocritically march against what you believe is a culture of exclusively white on black police violence.
What’s the end thought we’re supposed to have after reading your article, Mr. King?
That it’s okay that these black youths acted out in violence and anger toward a white man because of the history of slavery in the United States? That what these black youths have done is okay because black people they have no connection to have suffered injustice? That these black youths are going to jail not because they did something heinous, but because they're black?
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot.
Is the culture to blame for these four youths as it is for Dylann Roof? Or, in your words, are they “particular black people?”
Can we expect a social movement to be started as it was for Trayvon Martin and have it blessed and defended by the mainstream media?
Can we expect this man's parents to receive an invitation to the White House?
Should small businesses and gas stations prepare themselves for the white rioters and looters who will be allowed to express their righteous indignation?
Can we expect a nationwide outrage or will the outrage only come from one side while crickets come from the other
Can we expect equal treatment in our social circles after the divisive language you have utilized?
