Real Clear Politics
 

The Left Only Sees White Evil
By _Dennis Prager_ 
(http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/dennis_prager/)  -  September 1, 2015
 
 
In the past week, two television reporters in Roanoke, Va. -- Alison Parker 
 and Adam Ward -- were murdered by a black man who hated whites, and a 
white  police officer in Houston -- Darren Goforth -- was murdered by a black 
man.  Neither crime has been labeled a hate crime. And no mainstream media 
reporting  of the murders attributes either to race-based hate. 
For the mainstream media, the Roanoke murders were committed by "a  
disgruntled former employee," and regarding the Houston policeman, the media  
report that, in the words of The New York Times, "a motive for the shooting  
remained unclear." 
The disregard of anti-white hatred as the motive for blacks who murder 
whites  even when the murder is obviously racially motivated comes from the 
same 
people  who denied that the Islamist Nidal Hasan's murder of 13 fellow 
soldiers at Fort  Hood was religiously motivated. These people -- all on the 
left -- have an  agenda: to deny black racism and Islamist-based violence 
whenever possible. Only  white police and other white violence against 
non-whites 
is clearly racist --  even when not. 
Thus, President Barack Obama convened a "White House Summit on Countering  
Violent Extremism" rather than a "White House Summit on Countering Islamist  
Violence." Though the summit was convened the month following the Islamist  
massacre of the Charlie Hebdo staff in Paris, the words "Islam," "Muslim" 
and  "Islamist" did not once appear in the White House's 1,668-word fact 
sheet on the  summit. The Obama administration went so far as to label Hasan's 
murders of his  fellow soldiers "workplace violence." 
So, too, the mainstream media depicted the black murderer of eight white  
people at a Connecticut beer warehouse in 2010 as a man who had been angered 
by  white racism, not as the white-hater he was. Under the headline 
"Troubles  Preceded Connecticut Workplace Killing," a New York Times article 
reported: "He  might also have had cause to be angry: He had complained to his 
girlfriend of  being racially harassed at work, the woman's mother said, and 
lamented that his  grievances had gone unaddressed." 
And a Washington Post headline read: "Beer warehouse shooter long 
complained  of racism." 
The fact was that the man was fired for stealing beer from his workplace, 
and  there was a video of him doing so. 
The left denies black racism in another way. When a white racist murdered  
nine blacks in a Charleston, S.C., church this past June, the left and the 
media  correctly stressed the murderer's racism. Indeed, whenever blacks are 
killed by  whites -- which, it is worth noting, is many times less likely 
than a white  being murdered by a black -- and especially by white police 
officers, the left  attributes the killings to racism. But when blacks kill 
whites, the left  attributes the killings to guns. This is all reinforced by 
the 
left's position  that only whites can be racist, because only the powerful 
can be racist, and  whites have all the power. 
Parker's grieving and enraged parents provide an example of this thinking.  
They have entirely ignored the racism of their daughter's murderer and  
concentrated exclusively on the issue of gun control. 
How tragic that the Parkers would not channel their grief and rage into a  
different campaign, one that actually addresses the reason for their 
daughter's  murder and might prevent future murders: a campaign against the 
fomenting of  anti-white hatred among black Americans. 
After a lifetime of studying and writing about evil, I have come up with an 
 equation that explains most of it. Coincidentally, the equation actually 
spells  the word. The equation is Evil = Victimhood + Lies. Or E=V+L. 
Either victimhood or lies is enough to produce great evil. Together, they  
constitute the components of ultimate evil. 
The left has been supplying both victimhood and lies to black America. The  
lies are that America is a racist society -- as the president of the United 
 States himself has said, racism is "still part of (America's) DNA" -- that 
the  greatest problem facing young blacks is racism, and that white (and 
even black)  police routinely kill blacks for no reason other than racism. One 
of the best  examples of this lie is the left's use of the word "Ferguson" 
as an example of  white police killing innocent young black men. The 
extensive investigation into  what actually happened in Ferguson (by both local 
authorities and the U.S.  Department of Justice led by then-Attorney General 
Eric Holder) revealed no such  thing. Yet even Obama continues to use the term 
"Ferguson" as an exemplar of  police racism. 
Those lies in turn produce the anger-inducing victimhood that pervades too  
much of black life. Just this past weekend at the Minneapolis State Fair, a 
 "Black Lives Matter" group chanted, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like 
bacon." 
Some blacks -- as in Houston this past weekend and in Louisiana two weeks  
earlier when a black man murdered another white policeman -- are taking this 
 message literally and randomly murdering police officers. And some other 
blacks  just want to kill whites, whether or not they are police. Such is the 
power of  victimhood and lies. 
There is a lot of blood on the left's hands. And there will be  more. 

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