{"id":1599,"date":"2017-01-06T14:53:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2017-01-06T14:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:53:52","slug":"chicago-four-anti-trump-rhetoric-coming-home-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/01\/chicago-four-anti-trump-rhetoric-coming-home-roost.html","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Four: Anti-Trump Rhetoric Coming Home to Roost?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, there is scarcely anyone who isn\u2019t familiar with the repulsive video.<\/p>\n

Two young black men and their black female counterparts\u2014let\u2019s call them \u201cthe Chicago Four\u201d\u2014recorded themselves as they beat, bound, cut, kicked, and tormented a cognitively challenged white teenager over a two day period in Chicago.<\/p>\n

These monsters in human form punctured their terrorism with explicitly racial taunts.\u00a0 They forced their victim to declare his \u201clove\u201d for \u201cblack people.\u201d\u00a0 They also screamed, \u201cF**k Donald Trump!\u201d and \u201cF**K white people!\u201d<\/p>\n

The world is outraged (or at least behaving as if it\u2019s outraged) by this episode.\u00a0 This, though, is only because it has been made into a video that has gone viral. \u00a0Black violence, including and especially black interracial <\/em>violence, is as ubiquitous as it is horrific a national phenomenon, and it is has plagued the country for decades.\u00a0 To judge from the reaction of commentators to this latest story, one could be forgiven for thinking that the latter is an anomaly.<\/p>\n

Tragically, it is anything but this.<\/p>\n

Those who pretend otherwise are intellectually dishonest and, to be blunt, lacking in courage. Crime statistics consistently establish beyond the possibility of any credible doubt that in virtually every category blacks commit crime and engage in interracial violence at a far higher rate than do Hispanics, whites, and Asians.\u00a0 And the statistics coincide seamlessly with the mountain of anecdotal evidence that has accumulated from a staggering plethora of sources\u2014including the daily newspapers of cities and towns from around the country.<\/p>\n

Colin Flaherty, a fearless investigative reporter, has an entire Youtube channel devoted to doing the job that those in the media, both \u201cliberal\u201d and \u201cconservative\u201d alike, are unwilling to do.\u00a0 Several times<\/em> a day every <\/em>day he shares video <\/em>of black criminality and violence from all over America.<\/p>\n

In spite of all this, for years and years, leftist and alt-leftist<\/a> elites have peddled the Big Lie that it is white <\/em>racial violence that is the biggest problem.\u00a0 They have aggressively pushed the Big Lie that blacks are perpetual victims <\/em>of \u201cracism.\u201d A whole industry, what I call the \u201cRacism-Industrial-Complex\u201d (RIC)<\/a>, depends upon this lie.<\/p>\n

This being so, it is long past due for the promulgators of the Big Lie\u2014let\u2019s call it \u201cBig Racism\u201d\u2014to recognize that their hands are not bloodless.\u00a0 Even those who do not harp on the fiction of black victimhood but who are fearful of expressing the truth are culpable.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s high time for the rest of us to hold them accountable for aiding and abetting the likes of the Chicago scum on which the nation is currently focused.<\/p>\n

To those who would object to my implicating our \u201canti-racists,\u201d they should consider that in assuring generations of blacks that they are victims just by virtue of an accident of birth, \u201canti-racists\u201d\u2014RIC merchants\u2014have helped them to believe that however indecently or outrageously they behave, however evil their actions, blacks can do no wrong, for they are simply responding to a \u201clegacy of slavery\u201d and \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be sure, if <\/em>the Big Lie wasn\u2019t a lie at all but the truth, then<\/em> it would be irresponsible not<\/em> to pronounce it.\u00a0 In reality, though, the Lie is a lie, a gargantuan assault against the truth.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s worse is that it is a lie that undoubtedly has led to countless numbers of people, blacks and non-blacks alike, being harmed and even murdered.<\/p>\n

There is another point.\u00a0 It is not by coincidence that the very same \u201canti-racists\u201d who grease the wheels of Big Racism are one and the same people who are fanatically hateful toward Donald J. Trump.\u00a0 With respect to the President-Elect, they have been no more truthful than they have been with respect to American race relations.<\/p>\n

Many Democrats and other leftists, i.e. those who occupy the ranks of RIC, have taken to social media (and other media) to assure Americans that the Chicago Four, though spouting anti-Trump rhetoric, weren\u2019t motivated by any political animus.\u00a0 I agree with them. I\u2019d be willing to bet anything that not only were the thugs not in the least driven by political considerations; neither did they have any reason to think that their victim was a Trump supporter or a political partisan at all.<\/p>\n

At the very least, it is highly doubtful that anyone, regardless of race or party, would take issue with the verdict that the Chicago Four don\u2019t know a damn thing about politics.<\/p>\n

So, then, why would they scream obscenities about the President-Elect while acting with such hate-filled cruelty to an innocent human being?\u00a0 The answer is actually quite simple: Whether they believed it or not, the Chicago Four imbibed the hateful and cruel lies regarding Trump that have served as standard Democratic Party boilerplate for nearly the last year.<\/p>\n

Trump is a \u201csexist,\u201d \u201chomophobe,\u201d \u201cIslamophobe,\u201d \u201cxenophobe,\u201d \u201canti-immigrant,\u201d and, of course, a \u201cracist.\u201d This has been and continues to be the mantra of the left.\u00a0 To be fair, Republican \u201cNeverTrumpers\u201d have fueled these flames as well.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the Chicago Four have probably been treated to a steady media diet of the patent lie that Trump supporters have been roaming the countryside since their candidate\u2019s election in search of people of color to pummel.\u00a0 In addition, we now know that Democrats and their propagandists at the New York Times<\/em>, Washington Post<\/em>, and elsewhere have dehumanized Trump supporters by in effect justifying the violence to which the Democrats\u2019 rental thugs<\/a> have subjected them at Trump rallies.<\/p>\n

Is it such a stretch to think that the Chicago Four monsters noticed all of this along the way?<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to believe that this event of black-on-white brutality may help \u201canti-racists\u201d and the Trump haters to take stock of the toxicity of their words.\u00a0 The power of the Racism-Industrial-Complex, however, leaves me skeptical.<\/p>\n

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