I have been highly critical of the race 'equality' industry before. Reading a recent case of torture, rape and murder again brought its pernicious influence to mind.
Via Instapundit I came across an horrific story of a terrible crime in Tennessee. The crime itself is sufficiently covered in that blog post and the stories it links, so I will only recount the barest details relevant to my point.
A young couple, Chris Newsom and Channon Christian, were taken at gunpoint. He was tortured and killed , she was tortured, raped and killed over a period of 24 hours. During her captivity the young men involved left the house where Channon Christian was trapped and went about their daily business before returning to repeat their crimes. During this time at least one woman was present in the house, probably more than one, and knew that Channon Christian was there, although with no direct involvement in the crime.
Katie, the blogger who posted the Mamapundit story linked above, suggested that there was no evidence that race played a role in the crime. I think that it is possible that on one level this is not about race, not about blacks killing whites per se.
I think that on some level this is about young blacks killing people of a different race, and how identity politics that make it increasingly likely that one race does not identify with another. The ‘equality’ industry has a vested interest in emphasising differences, in pulling communities further apart.
I don’t think that is why the men carried out vicious crimes. That was evil. What I think it explains is how they could be so sadistic, how they could go about their normal lives in between, and even more clearly I think it is how Vanessa Coleman, the woman who admitted to being in the house, could be there yet do nothing for Channon Christian.
Vanessa Coleman has been told over and again by the race industry, by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, even by the Democrat Party, that she is a black first. She has been told that whites are different and don’t care about her, in fact that white people are responsible for her problems (of course to socialists Miss Coleman certainly is not responsible, nor are her parents). With all that propaganda dehumanising both Miss Christian and Miss Coleman, why should Vanessa Coleman care?
I have written about the logical conclusions of the race industry, and these aspects of the case are, sadly, not entirely surprising to me. There are better responses to racism, and they can be very promising. We just need to defeat the lies behind Critical Theory before a rational response becomes normal.
2 comments:
I think you are on to something there. Part of being able to do horrific things to the enemy is not viewing them as human. If blacks are being brainwashed into believing white people are the enemy then it only logically follows that they won't see whites as human. That's the outcome of all the race mongering and divisiveness promoted by race hucksters. Their motive I think is equally reprehensible. They are selling their own race a false bill of goods designed to keep them disempowered so that they themselves can remain in power. Disgusting.
Indeed, and encouraging that from the paternalist whites is political correctness and Critical Theory, as detailed in the PJTV video I linked a couple of days ago. The motive for that is equally nasty, a bizarre adherence to the discredited ideology of communism.
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