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Default Uninvestigative Journalism—The MainStream Media And Minority Politicians

Uninvestigative Journalism—The MainStream Media And Minority
Politicians

"The challenge of dealing with minority officials who run afoul of the law is a pre-eminently Democratic problem" wrote Ross K. Baker with reference to Charles Rangel's various scandals. [The Burris problem, USA Today, February 25, 2009]


The other way of putting this it's because the Democrats have so many
minority pols that they will continue to have corruption scandals. See
Democrats Ignore Minority Corruption In Congress, by Michelle Malkin.
(The headline is ours, not Michelle's—the column appeared elsewhere
under the title Cold Cash, Hot Democratic Mess.)

But it's the fashion to report the scandals of minority politicians
without mentioning their race.

For example, you wouldn`t know from reporting on the recent kerfuffle
about kids being taught in school to chant in praise of Obama that
Charisse Carney-Nunes, [email her] was African-American, [Picture]
although that`s a major part of her motivation in leading this chant.

Same with Mark Lloyd, Obama's FCC Diversity Czar. [Photo] Some of the
reporting on him quotes a speech in which he plays the race card
himself ("There are few things, I think, more frightening in the
American mind than dark-skinned black men. Here I am.") But most of
it just says that he's "suffered a recent barrage of criticism from
right-wing commentators," without mentioning that he's black, although
that has a lot to do with his career as Diversity Czar. Part of his
background, after all, includes being a Martin Luther King Jr.
Visiting Scholar at MIT, so it should be mentioned.

Another example:

"After the last presidential debate, during which John McCain invoked
Joe the Plumber's anti-socialism shot heard 'round the world, several
taxpayer-subsidized employees in Ohio immediately rifled through
government databases in search of damning information. The Columbus
Dispatch identified Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services, as one of the dirt-diggers. She
also happens to support Barack Obama and contributed the maximum
amount to his presidential campaign."

Helen Jones-Kelley also "happens" to be black. [Photo] I suspect the
director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is always
black, certainly the man who replaced her is. But isn't that an
important thing to mention when she's caught spying on a white middle-
class opponent of Barack Obama?

Then there's Dianne Wilkerson—a crony of Governor Deval Patrick—who
was famously caught on video by the FBI stuffing cash into her bra
during a luncheon. [Photo] Coverage of her rarely mentions that she's
black—except to play the race card.

Even negative coverage of these scandals, as in Michelle Malkin's
column The Democratic Culture of Corruption [December 9, 2008] doesn't
mention it. In fact, that column says

"Democrats and the media can no longer rest on the old rationalization
that Blago is an exception to the ‘we're cleaner than thou’ rule. 2008
was the year of Democratic Reps. William 'Cold Cash' Jefferson,
Charlie ‘Sweetheart Deals’ Rangel, and former Detroit Mayor Kwame
'Text Me' Kilpatrick. It was the year Democratic Massachusetts State
Senator Dianne Wilkerson got caught stuffing bribes from an FBI
informant down her shirt."

Except for Blagojevich, every corrupt Democrat in that paragraph was
African-American.

It's not only politicians and criminals. In the infamous Pearson v.
Chung "pants suit" case, in which District of Columbia administrative
law Judge Roy L. Pearson sued some Korean dry cleaners for $67 million
over a disputed pair of pants, almost ruining their lives, almost none
of the coverage mentioned that he was black. [Photo]

After massive publicity for his crazy lawsuit, Pearson failed to be
reappointed to his office as administrative judge at the end of his
ten year term—and he sued about that. A judgment [PDF] dismissing his
lawsuit noted that he'd written an email about his struggle to save
his job, saying

" As an African American however, I am conscious, that the ‘risks’ I
take pale in comparison with the life and death consequences my
forbearers [sic] in struggle faced in speaking truth to power…"

Of course this posturing as an African-American victim becomes
ridiculous when you consider that his struggle is within the DC
government, which has always had an African-American mayor, ever since
the district government was established, and that the Chief Judge with
whom he was locked in a life or death struggle for administrative
survival was actually named Tyrone.

But it brings up the fact that while no one in the media will mention
that a malefactor is black, they will mention it when a politician
wants to use it in his defence.

Here's something I wrote when I was just starting at VDARE.com eight
years ago

“’If necessary’ means that you never mention anyone’s race, sex, or
immigration status if you can avoid it. I just found out, five years
after I first heard of him being sent away for having sex with an
underage girl, that Congressman Mel Reynolds is black. [Photo] No one
mentioned it, so I didn’t know until I came across a story where he
mentioned it himself. ‘In classic Clintonian style, Reynolds smeared
his young accuser as a “liar” and “nut case.’ A diverse jury of six
blacks and six whites believed the troubled girl, not the conniving
Rhodes Scholar. Yet, Reynolds bitterly blamed racism in a 40-minute
courtroom tirade: ‘When they shackle me, like they shackled my slave
ancestors and take me off to jail, nobody in this room will see me
crawl.’ [Mel and Bill: bosom buddies, By Michelle Malkin, January 31,
2001]

I was particularly surprised to hear this, since the only color that
had been mentioned was the color of the girl's underwear, discussed by
Reynolds in a tape made by the FBI.

This started me on my path of trying to find out what the journalists
are trying to hide from the public, a feat made much easier by Google,
which connects us all to local journalism and online video. A recent
online video can be seen here, of the African-American mayor of a
small Southern town who had ordered police not to chase criminals,
largely for insurance reasons, but partly because she doesn't seem to
take the concept of crime seriously.

"Race is destiny in American politics," as Peter Brimelow has
repeatedly pointed out. It means that minorities will have different
voting habits and traditions, as well as different activities in
office.

The press isn't doing the America any favors by refusing to mention
race."

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