Dear readers, imagine if Thursday’s massacre had been committed by a white, right-wing, conservative, Christian man. Imagine if such a murderer had targeted Black Lives Matter protesters, expressly stating that he wanted to kill as many black persons as possible. Imagine if he was affiliated with white racial nationalism. Do you suppose the Sunday shows might spend appreciable time examining such a murderer’s motives? Do you suppose such an attack would be connected to Donald Trump, Republicans, and America’s broader freedom movement?
Micah Xavier Johnson was driven by left-wing racial politics. This week’s Sunday shows spent little-to-no time examining his political motivations. Ideological connections between Johnson and the broader left were almost completely ignored by this week’s episodes of Meet The Press, Face The Nation, This Week, and State of the Union. An examination of Johnson’s motives would be politically inconvenient for most of the media’s preferred presidential candidate.
Meet The Press spent time indulging the neo-Marxist racial narratives of Michael Eric Dyson, a sociology professor at Georgetown university who teaches such courses as Hip Hop Culture: Origins, Meanings, and Consequences, Hip Hop: Urban Theodicy Jay-Z, and Barack Obama and Race. Mary Matalin, the sole Republican panelist, did not challenge Dyson’s premises of black oppression.
Consider the following demagoguery from Dyson that went unchallenged:
“I was pleading, really, with white brothers and sisters to understand the difficulty, the circumstances that we confront, the extraordinary assault upon black life, the repudiation of any sense of civility when it comes to the interactions between police forces, which most African-American people regard with respect and authority, but whose authority has spilled over into terrorizing impulses and impacts upon African-American culture. And I wanted to talk about the vulnerability we feel. Even when you were interviewing Chief Bratton, a remarkable man to be sure, but he wanted to draw a false equivalence between talking to his son and Jeh Johnson speaking to his son.
“This is the very polarizing and brutalizing vulnerability that we feel that we are trying to express to white Americans who love and appreciate justice. Do you understand how difficult this is?”
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, a Democrat, said nothing about Johnson’s political motives when invited to do so by Face The Nation’s John Dickerson. Dickerson did not press Johnson for details following the mayor’s deflection. When presented with decontextualized (and unverified) statistics from NAACP President Cornell William Brooks, Dickerson offered no rebuttal. The narrative of black grievance was accepted without challenge.
Guest-hosting for This Week, Martha Raddatz opted not to examine Johnson’s murderous motives. Trump, however, was criticized by panelists Sunny Hostin and Matthew Dowd for not having been quick enough to condemn the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. No analysis was offered of Johnson’s politics of racial grievance.
State of the Union‘s Jake Tapper likewise refused to examine ideological connections between the Dallas murderer and the broader left. Instead, time was dedicated to presenting Trump as racially divisive and incapable of mending racial divisions. Left-wing racial agitation as a driving force of the Dallas mass murder was ignored.
The Sunday shows refused to meaningfully identify the politics of Thursday’s racially-motivated terrorist attack in Dallas. Left-wing media is attempting to exonerate President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and itself from complicity in the deadly consequences of racial agitation. Five more police officers have now paid the price with their lives.
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