Sometimes I send an email to TV news directors saying ‘Hey: Lots of black mob violence in your town, if you want to do a story on it, let me know.’ Which is what I did in Louisville after writing about the Waterfront riot.
Comes now Jennifer Keeney from Louisville TV news. She says I got it all Wrong!!!!!
Colin,
You have wrong information about what happened in Louisville. The violence that happened here last week was NOT racially motivated. There were white teens within the mob, and there were black victims who were attacked.
The media is not being silent. We are being factual. I suggest you change your web site to reflect the same.
Jennifer Keeney
WDRB News- Louisville
Take that, Colin. Ouch!
I got to thinking about a story I wrote about a black man who was unjustly convicted of trying to kill his white girl friend. This got him out of prison. It was a big deal at NPR, the Los Angeles Times and other outlets. His name was Kelvin Wiley.37
After the success of the podcast Serial, I featured the story of Kelvin Wiley on my own podcast called “How to REALLY get a guy out of prison.”38
During the first minute while I was talking to the woman who manufactured the story against Wiley, I had a very strong impression: ‘Oh God, I have the whole thing wrong. She could not have lied and put Wiley in prison. No way.’
But then I literally felt something on my shoulder, whispering in my ear all the ways this woman had lied and lied and ruined this man’s life and sent him to prison unjustly. That snapped me out of my temporary insanity.
But that did not happen here. Sorry Jennifer.
So let’s take my reply to Jennifer one piece at a time:
"The violence that happened here last week was NOT racially motivated," quoth the Emmy Award-winning Jennifer.
I do not use the term "racially motivated." Mainly because I cannot read people's minds. Apparently I am the only one in America afflicted with this affliction.
But what I do say is this: If large groups of black people in Louisville beat tourists, harass locals, destroy property, defy police, and generally terrorize the downtown on a regular basis, that makes a pattern.
The pattern is the evidence. It is ridiculous to say these actions are random.
Unless, of course, you are a news director in Louisville named who is covering up large-scale white and Asian mob violence in Louisville. If that is the case, send me some videos; we’ll spend the rest of our lives in comfort selling gajillions of books from the comfortable couches at MSNBC.
But that is the point: For news directors like Jennifer, unless the miscreants start issuing press releases saying 'Let's Kill Honkies,' they will ignore the victims, the witnesses, the video tapes and the crime reports. They will ignore the central organizing feature of the people who commit the crime and violence. Race.
Glenn Singleton says black people talk about “racial matters daily, if only among themselves.” But white people “are conditioned not to do that.”39
In a few pages we’ll find out more about Glenn Singleton. And how he is spreading the story of relentless white racism and black victimization to hundreds of thousands of school children in hundreds of school districts around the country.
Back to Award Winning Jennifer: “There were white teens within the mob, and there were black victims who were attacked.”
Hmm, 17 attacks, that we know of. Lots of videos. Lots of witnesses. In the grocery store where they looted and beat the workers, you can see a white person there. That person was a victim. Not part of the mob.
I understand how she might confuse the victims and the predators. Actually I don’t. So please explain, Jennifer: Why do reporters constantly confuse victims and predators?
This was a black event. Not just Saturday. But many times before. Recently. I issued a challenge to her: Put me on one of your sleepy Sunday afternoon public affairs shows. Get your nastiest reporters and your slimiest community activists. And you.
And let’s see if you have the guts to say on the air --to your audience-- what you said here to me. Just tell them they can take down the conservative hero with the bestselling civil rights book in America.
If you’re right, it should be easy. Real easy. Then you will be a hero. If not, well, we already know how that would make you look. Like an apologist. A denier of the worst kind whose willingness to ignore racial violence put people in danger every day.
While we wait for Jennifer’s reply, let’s head over to Rochester, New York. Where they have lots and lots of Jennifers.