To Trent Lott accused of Racism
by the Black Caucus
BLACK RACISM:
Justice Department reports 85% of all inter-racial violence is committed by blacks
against whites
The story of the "Wichita Massacre" was barely reported and went unnoticed due
to the liberal agenda of the main stream media. David Horowitz reported the story of the
Wichita Massacre on his web pages two years ago at the time it happened.
Outside the local Wichita press, however, virtually the only media to report this hate
crime were Frontpagemagazine.com and the American Renaissance newsletter. While the
federal government rushes to Los Angeles to investigate an incident in which a handcuffed
youth was slammed into the hood of a car and punched by an officer, a pall of silence
still blankets the horrendous racial murder of four young people whose murderers are now
on trial. The difference in the responses to these two stories can hardly be attributed to
anything other than the skin color of the perpetrators and the victims involved.
Apparently the sexual torture and brutal executions of four promising youngsters is of no
interest to the nation's moral guardians, because the victims happen to be white.
Stephen Webster's account of these events provides a revealing window on the disturbing -
not to say disgusting -- state of the civil rights delusion in America. The U.S.
Justice Department has reported that 85% of all inter-racial violence in
America is committed by blacks against whites. But there are apparently no black
hate crimes; and there is certainly no white civil rights movement to create sympathy for
the victims.
Nor can there be one in the present atmosphere of racial hypocrisy, where the mere
expression of concern over attacks on white people would itself make an individual a ripe
target for racial witch-hunters.
Because they are black, the Wichita killers have been protected from national scrutiny and
have not even been charged with a hate crime. The entire apparatus of local government in
Wichita - abetted by the national press -- has worked overtime to keep the public ignorant
of what happened. If the truth came out, it would threaten a national melodrama in which
only blacks are victims, only blacks are persecuted and only whites are racists. Within
the framework of this melodrama, the only acceptable meaning of civil rights is
retribution for blacks -- retribution for any and every crime, real or imagined, ever
suffered by black people however remote in the past. "Reparations" is just the
nom de jour of the new civil rights package.
What would happen if, instead, we returned to the idea of individual accountability, and
gave up the totalitarian fantasies of reparations and "social justice," in which
oppressed classes exact retribution from their age-old oppressors? What if we returned to
the real world in which individuals commit indefensible misdemeanors (Los Angeles) and
monstrous crimes (Wichita)? What if we revived the idea of making the punishment fit the
actual deed? Think of all the people who wouldn't know what to do with themselves if that
were to happen.
The fact is that the Wichita horror is but one of many spectacular lynchings of white
people by black racists, which the nation's moral watchdogs choose to ignore.
Everybody in America, for example, knows who James Byrd is, and that he was brutally
murdered by three whites in Jasper Texas four years ago. Byrd's lynchers offered him a
lift in their pickup truck, beat him and chained him and dragged him to his death. An
entire nation was outraged and guilty. The President issued a statement, legislators wrung
their hands and the media keened over the inhumanity of the act and what it portended for
the country's future.
Four years later - this year in fact - a white man named Ken Tillery, hitched a ride in
Jasper, Texas. He was given a lift by four black men who then murdered him to a deafening
national silence. Like Byrd, Tillery was held hostage and beaten. Then he was run over and
crushed to death. The copycat nature of the crime made it a natural news story. But there
was none, save a modest account in the Houston Chronicle, to which nobody paid any
attention. This savagery was apparently nothing. The pigments were politically incorrect.
It was only some white guy, whose ancestors probably owned slaves.
We make no apologies for expressing outrage over these facts or printing the story of the
Wichita slayings. We would like to see the trial of these killers reported on Peter
Jennings' World News Tonight. We would like to see the story of the murders retold on 60
Minutes or 48 Hours. We would like to see Spike Lee direct a Hollywood feature or Jesse
Jackson conduct a pilgrimage to Kansas to plea for racial peace.
But we know these things won't happen. To begin with, Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee don't
have the moral intelligence to take these steps. Nor does Peter Jennings. We're regret
that this is the case. But we are certain there will not be any bright future for race
relations in this country until silences like these are broken.
Black Racism The Hate Crime That Dare Not Speak It's NameBy David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com
David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography, Radical Son,
which has been described as “the first great autobiography of his generation,”
and which chronicles his odyssey from radical activism to the current positions he holds.
Among his other books are The Politics of Bad Faith and The Art of Political War. The Art
of Political War was described by White House political strategist Karl Rove as “the
perfect guide to winning on the political battlefield.” Horowitz’s latest book,
Uncivil Wars, was published in January this year, and chronicles his crusade against
intolerance and racial McCarthyism on college campuses last spring
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