by Selwyn Duke
After the spawning of Black Lives Matter, anti-white hate crimes surged. You wouldn’t know it from mainstream media reportage, though, a good example of which is the coverage of a recent heinous incident in Las Vegas. For while a 17-year-old white boy was beaten to death by approximately 15 black teens, the media are, predictably, mostly uninterested in the story.
In fairness, the murder of Jonathan Lewis has not been deemed a “hate crime” and may never be; authorities are far more reluctant to bring such charges in black-on-white incidents than when the races are reversed. But that doesn’t change the reality, say all those who haven’t been sleeping as long as Rip Van Winkle or lying as much as Pinocchio, that the crime’s national coverage would be wall-to-wall had it been a white-on-black assault.
The Daily Mail reports on the story:
The attack happened on November 1 near Rancho High School, when…Lewis was pummeled by around fifteen other youths.
He is said to have been targeted after standing-up for a smaller friend who’d just been robbed by the mob, according to a GoFundMe page set up by his family.
Police officers found him at about 2.05pm that day, bleeding from the head.
The teen was put on life support at University Medical Center, where he died Tuesday after doctors made several attempts to save his life.
‘All I can do is hope there’s a way that can find forgiveness in their heart and find a way to be able to come to terms with what they’ve done,’ the boy’s father, also named Jonathan Lewis, said of his son’s attackers.
…In the aftermath of the teen’s death, video circulated on social media showing the moment a fight broke out.
It shows a group of about a dozen youths kicking the 17-year-old as he lies curled on the pavement.
At least two teens stand nearby, filming the attack on their cellphones.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have initiated a homicide investigation, the Mail also relates, though no one has as yet been arrested (despite having the video and it being almost two weeks later). Lewis said that he was informed by investigators, however, that authorities intend to charge several of the attackers with murder.
Video of the incident is below.
Commenters under the above video bemoaned the racial double standard. “The left-wing media will never report on this because he [the victim] is white,” wrote Red Wave Media.
Respondents Paul A. Szypula and Daniel Roehm buttressed the point with the tweets below.
“I’m so sick of this,” tweeter “Eve” added. “No wonder millions are clueless. We do not have a free press.” (To be precise, the mainstream press is in bondage — to its own misbegotten ideology and agenda.)
Then, poster “Let’s Theorize” addressed another troubling social phenomenon. “Whiteness is being increasingly demonized, and it’s all by insidious design,” he noted. “We need to wake up and admit/address this by organizing and peacefully speaking out against it. I promise you this does not end well if we don’t.”
And it’s already not going well owing to slanted media coverage. After all, what will make blacks more bitter and angry than convincing them they’re uniquely targeted and under siege? This is what happens, too, when media showcase and magnify relatively rare white-on-black crimes — being sure to emphasize (or fabricate) the race factor in these cases — while mostly ignoring the more common black-on-white crimes and obscuring their racial components.
So these propagandized Americans likely won’t know that, “according to FBI data, from 2016 to 2020, black people were more than twice as likely to commit a hate crime as whites,” related The Western Journal last year. (Note: This number apparently includes Hispanics in the “white” category.) This slanted media coverage’s inevitable result is what has already occurred: increased violence — in the form of black-on-white “revenge” attacks.
Yet even more troubling here is the wider breakdown of civil society. Illustrating this, commentator Andrea Widburg provided a number of examples of today’s rampant violence in the videos below. The first:
Then there are the fights at airports:
And at sporting events:
Then at schools:
In keeping with this, there’s also the overall breakdown in child behavior, which I discussed earlier this year in “Our Little Barbarians.”
While black Americans feature prominently in the above incidents, none of this is inevitable. To illustrate the point, know that famed economics professor Thomas Sowell, 93, has mentioned that when he grew up in Harlem, he “never heard a gunshot.” What changed?
As Sowell once astutely put it, “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.” This civilizing process involves the inculcation of virtue (good moral habits), so that people can ideally become self-governing. Yet insofar as people don’t learn self-control — and some will always be lacking in this regard — they must be controlled from the outside.
Yet today, both internal and external control is wanting, the former due to our rampant relativism and the vice it justifies; the latter due to immoral left-wing authorities who, lacking in the virtue of Justice, won’t sufficiently punish actual criminals.
Just as tragic is that, to paraphrase economist Herb Stein, “if something can’t go on, it won’t.” Continuing moral decay guarantees that tyranny will rise and establish its own order, disordered though it may be. For when people won’t master themselves, masters will do it for them.
Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke) has written for The New American for more than a decade. He has also written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily, American Thinker, and many other print and online publications. In addition, he has contributed to college textbooks published by Gale-Cengage Learning, has appeared on television, and is a frequent guest on radio.
