Will the Root Report on This?

 
Most of the sites I visit are mainstream sources and political opposition opinion pages.  Like The Root.   In my humble conservative opinion, The Root is a race agitator as much as black American protector that feeds gasoline onto the racial divide that has been gripping this country for the last 10 years.  THEY are part of the problem as much as actual racists in this country.  They are adding to the noise and creating some of the very problems they think they are shining sunlight and Lysol onto. When your default reasoning is always racial injustice and institutionalized racism, you will always find what you are looking for; and when you only stand up for the defense of blacks even when they deserve none, you probably are creating racists by promoting the stereotypical “angry black man” by being angry all the time at only perceived injustices against blacks.

I have no convictions regarding the Ahmaud Arbery murder.  I wasn’t there.  And a 30 sec shaky video clip doesn’t tell the whole story from beginning to end.  Certainly Ahmaud should not have lost his life; and had someone been brandishing a shotgun while I was out jogging and if I feared for my life, I might have gone after the gun as well.  Of course, that ended up being an unwise decision for Ahmaud, every bit as much as it was a bad judgment call on the part of the father and son to go after Ahmaud in the manner in which they did.  But then again, I was not there.  We don’t know the conversation that transpired aside from a “they said” story.  And it may well be outrageous that it took media and public outrage to finally see the two suspects arrested.  We’ll see how this plays out in the courtroom.

Meanwhile the race agitators are at work pushing the “America is racist” slander.  And of course we on the right also have those of us quick to jump the gun and start looking for reasons to slander the murdered person by digging for dirt and make excuses of our own.  (Although in this instance, I do see plenty of conservatives also criticize the actions of Gregory and Travis McMichael, as well; just not pushing the racism angle without any facts).

So I’ve also been reading another ethnic advocacy rag, Asian Huffpo, pushing stories and “studies” about the rising hate crime against Asians due to the “Chink Virus” and using geographic labels.  It’s my belief that drawing media attention can sometimes shine needed attention; or create it. Sometimes making a mountain out of a molehill issue creates more of the same problems by inspiring attention seekers and idiots.

Yesterday, I read about an Asian woman in Minnesota who was kicked in the face by one teen and taunted/bullied by three.  These teens are apparently black.  Do you think The Root will report on that?  If it was a black woman kicked by 3 white teens, you know they would have a field day over another racially motive attack.  The incident might well have been racially motivated; but that’s not my default assumption.  The way it comes across in the short video and news description, I think they are just 3 teenage losers who would have done the same thing to any lone person at that train station if that person looked helpless and vulnerable.  They seem like they were just doing it to a random stranger for kicks to film and laugh about, thinking they’d be social media starts on YouTube or Instagram, or Twitter, or Tik Tok, or something.j

I do not believe America is a racist country.  No more so than anywhere else.  People are people.  However, I do believe that news sites and advocacy groups like The Root who promote the supposed interests of one special interest group based upon racial identity does promote racial and cultural discord and animosity.  Not quell it.