Black Skin Privilege is a term recently introduced by former communist/left wing radical-turned-conservative activist David Horowitz. It refers to the free pass media give Black radicals, who seem incapable of saying or doing anything ugly enough to be criticized for it.
Matthew Vadum, writing for Horowitz\’s frontpagemag.com has provided a very worthwhile commentary on Black Skin Privilege, and its fallout. While I don\’t agree with everything Mr. Vadum says, I agree with enough of it to post this link so you can read his entire piece, and the following excerpts, to give you a taste of what is there:
It is a sad commentary on our nation that the mainstream media refuses to take a critical look at the increasingly violent, racist Black Lives Matter movement, and often promotes those activists\’ depraved view of America, the least racist nation on the face of the earth.
The outrageous, even genocidal, statements issued every day now by hate-filled black nationalists and their radical allies who are part of what is becoming an African-American “Occupy Wall Street” movement, are barely examined at all. In a case of defining deviancy down, these antisocial, anti-white sentiments are accepted by the media as normal, even admirable.
The media barely raised an eyebrow when Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a black Democrat, welcomed criminal gangs and radical groups into city government. Rawlings-Blake received hardly any media coverage earlier this year when she allied herself with race rioters. She\’s the one who proudly boasted that she protected the First Amendment right to protest by providing space to those who “wished to destroy” local businesses.
Racial arsonist Al Sharpton is treated with admiration and respect. He even has a talk show on MSNBC that he uses to spread his racist venom.
The media has only been barely interested over the years in President Obama\’s 20-year membership in white-hating, America-hating, Jew-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright\’s Trinity United Church in Chicago that is more or less a Christian version of the Nation of Islam. Wright and his ilk are no big deal the media assure us. They just speak in a different idiom that the rest of America is too ignorant and stupid to understand. In other words, white people can never “get” it because they\’re not black.
Holding black people who do terrible things and hold repugnant views accountable isn\’t fair, according to the media.
Does Mr. Vadum have a point? You bet he does.
Vadum is not saying racism does not exist in the United States. Which is correct: it absolutely does, and there is plenty of it.
He does, however, point out that there is less racism here than in any other country on earth (I don\’t know if the #1 ranking is true, but I am sure we are close), and that the racism which flows from #blacklivesmatter and its pals is ongoing and virulent….which it most certainly is.
I strongly urge you to read Matthew Vadum\’s entire commentary, consider the facts and opinions he puts up, and come to your own decision….
…because, given the one-sidedness of mainstream media, if that is all you use to come to your own decision, it won\’t be your decision. It will be theirs.
