Tyre Nichols and the new black-cop white supremacy – The Spectator World

Initial news stories modified the usual mainstream media procedure/for reporting on police use of force against black suspects. Yes, the stories immediately announced Nichols s/race./But they deferred/mention of the officers race until five or six paragraphs into the article (or, in the case of television,/several minutes/into the transmission).

Had the officers been white, their race would have led every report/on the incident./But since all were black, such reticence bought time until a new racism reporting protocol could be developed.

CNN commentator and Obama White House veteran Van Jones initiated that new protocol./Connoisseurs of academic identity politics are familiar with the nostrum that only whites can be racist, since, according to black/studies ideology,/racism equals power plus privilege (and blacks allegedly lack both).

But that blacks can t be racist line has changed. Now we learn from Van Jones that blacks can be racist, too/ /at least as regards other blacks.

It s time to move to a more nuanced discussion of the way police violence endangers black/lives, Jones wrote on the CNN website last Friday./ It is the race of the/victim/who is brutalized, not the race of the violent cop that is most relevant in determining whether racial bias is a factor in police violence.

In other words: anything bad that happens to blacks/is a function of racism, determined solely by the race of the victim, not by the intentions or identity of the perpetrator.

Only cops are subject to this new the victim alone determines the reality of racism rule, however./Those black teenagers who shoot at their gang rivals on a near daily basis and who regularly take out young black/children as collateral damage are not deemed anti-black /by the mainstream media and its academic sources.

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