OPINION:
Well, itâs official. The only cheap gasoline that President Biden seems to like is the stuff he keeps pouring on the bonfire of racial grievance politics.
âEvil will not win,â he said during his speech in Buffalo in the wake of the supermarket mass murder of mostly Black victims by an unhinged nutcase, white supremacist suspect. âWe have to refuse to live in a country where fear and lies are packaged for power and profit.â
Great. But, if thatâs the case, we need to move somewhere that isnât saturated with the sort of ânewsâ promulgated by The New York Times, The Washington Post and the âlegacyâ networks. They abandoned mere liberal bias years ago and have been fomenting division and lying to us as brazenly as their comrades in the old Soviet media.
The Buffalo shooting wasnât the work of a self-described âfascist,â weâre told. It was caused by Americaâs âsystemic white racismâ and more specifically by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson. He and others have expressed concern over Americaâs wide-open southern border as millions arrive and are targeted to become cogs in the Democratsâ dependency machine.Â
So, support for an enforceable border, along with honest elections, adds up to egging on some creep to shoot up Black people.Â
Donât try to find the logic. This is being shoveled out as part of the leftâs scabrous identity politics.Â
But itâs nothing new. In 1963, some commentators cited the âright-wingâ political climate in Dallas as incubating John F. Kennedyâs assassination. The shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was an avowed communist who revered Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro and visited the Soviet Union. Jackie Kennedy lamented that her husbandâs life had been taken by âa silly little communist.â
Yet, somehow it was the fault of conservative activists. Joining in, a Soviet commentator claimed that future GOP presidential nominee Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater was responsible for JFKâs death due to Mr. Goldwaterâs conservative rhetoric.
In 2013, during the 50-year anniversary of Kennedyâs assassination, The New Yorker ran a piece by George Packer, âLeaving Dealey Plaza.â He blamed the city of Dallasâ then-conservative climate and cited current Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Louie Gohmert as âthe spiritual descendantsâ of ânut country.âÂ
In 1998, virtually the entire national media blamed Christian, pro-family groups for the murder of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard, who was left to die after a busted drug deal. Prior to Mr. Shepardâs death, several pro-family groups had taken out full-page ads in major newspapers in a âTruth and Loveâ campaign offering hope for spiritually fostered change to people who wanted to leave the LGBTQ lifestyle.Â
NBCâs Katie Couric and others absurdly suggested that this compassionate outreach was the underlying motivation for the two druggies who beat up Mr. Shepard and left him tied to a fence.Â
More recently, the death of George Floyd has been used as a symbol of âsystemic white racismâ by Black Lives Matter and Antifa as an excuse for rioting, looting and attacks on the police.Â
Weâve seen other tragic events in recent months, including the Nov. 21, 2021, massacre of six white people and injuries to more than 50 others in a Waukesha, Wisconsin Christmas parade. Among the murdered victims was an 8-year-old boy. The driverâs Facebook page praised Black Lives Matter and called for violence against white people.Â
No clear motive here, the media decided. The story quickly faded, and Mr. Biden declined to blame the murders on the anti-white rhetoric that animates BLM, much of the media and, yes, his own speeches.Â
In June 2020, at the height of rioting and the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1,000 health officials issued an open letter stating that people should continue to gather for protests, because, âWhite supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19.â
If you want to know what happens when an entire race is blamed for anything that goes wrong, it might be worth seeing Dachau in Germany or Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Or you can visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
The antidote to hate is not more hate or being silenced. It is speaking truth in love. It is standing up against those who peddle hate while claiming to be tolerant.Â
A rising number of courageous, conservative minority Americans are speaking out, running for office and flatly rejecting the leftâs victim mentality and diabolical plot to divide us by race.
They love God, America and their families and want to preserve this blessed and irreplaceable nation.Â
⢠Robert Knight is a columnist for the Washington Times and a senior fellow for Bishop E.W. Jacksonâs Staying True to Americaâs National Destiny (STANDamerica.us). Mr. Knightâs website is roberthknight.com.