You wouldn’t know that a Waukesha man drove his car through a crowd of Waukesha residents just days before if you were just getting up in the morning and flipping over the Sunday morning news shows. You also wouldn’t know that six people are dead and over 60 more are wounded, including children fighting for their lives. Likewise, you wouldn’t know that the assailant was out on a $1,000 bond for previously running someone over, had black supremacist postings, and that authorities have announced it was an intentional act.
You wouldn’t know any of that because the mainstream media have already dropped the story.
There are children still in critical condition from the Waukesha attack after six people were already murdered…and the media are just done. No investigation into his background, no search for a motive, no panel segments speculating on his racist views…they are just done.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 28, 2021
Unlike the Kyle Rittenhouse case, which spawned months of breathless coverage, including false accusations of “white supremacy” from top news outlets, the media have no interest in finding a motive here. They don’t want to hold countless panel discussions on the finer points of the Waukesha killer’s Facebook posts. They don’t care to speculate on his black supremacist calls for revolution. His rantings about murdering white people don’t even register.
We are expected to believe that Kyle Rittenhouse’s actions, which were a clear case of self-defense against three other white people, are more important and more worthy of discussion than the radical views of Darrell Brooks, who murdered six people with his SUV.
If that doesn’t add up to you, that’s because it doesn’t add up to anyone. This strange space exists where mainstream media feels the need to conceal black killers in order not to undermine their political narratives. That’s ludicrous and completely unnecessary. In fact, it actually does more harm, in the end, to pretend that a black mass murderer with openly racist views isn’t worthy of coverage, while a while teenager who just protected himself is.
While major news media were required to report on the tragedy over the last week, many of them chose to ignore the information they provide for other cases. We got insane headlines that painted the SUV as the culprit, didn’t mention the murderer’s race, didn’t show his mugshot, and insinuated that the massacre was an accident.
Let me be clear, I’m not saying that being black (or white) predisposes you to commit certain crimes. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, the assailant’s race here may only be relevant insofar as he had racist views. Yet, when the media rush to scream “white supremacist” about Kyle Rittenhouse but can’t even be bothered to keep digging into openly racist views of Darrell Brooks, something is really wrong.
Answers are due to the families of those who were hurt. They don’t deserve for this entire ordeal to be memory-holed. Hopefully, law enforcement stop stonewalling and release some information soon, but it’s the press’ job to investigate. That they are refusing to do so in order to demand answers is true “enemy of the people” stuff.
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