The MAGA Cult, which has for decades used the unborn child as a human shield for its racism, cruelty, sadism, and murder of the brown and poor is now using a little boy named Cannon Hinnant who was murdered by some black guy in order to weaponize his death against those protesting racism.
Here is how the kabuki works. First, lie that “the media” is refusing to cover the story the racist want to use to spread his racism.
This strategery is dumb but it works on dumb people. Why is it dumb? Because translated into simple English (the only kind the stupid people who do this understand) it boils down to this:
When a right wing racist moron tells you “the media” is not covering something, you can bet your life that the story he is blathering about is one he got….FROM THE MEDIA. Often the moron will include a link from the media to tell you about the story the media is allegedly “afraid to cover”.
As of this writing, if you google “Cannon Hinnant” you will get 770,000 hits on “the story the media is afraid to cover”.
So what is the purpose of this lie? Simple. What is being spoken here is that all blacks are guilty of the murder of this child and we need to stop paying attention to the systemic racism that killed George Floyd and many others.
Here is how to dispel that lie:
It is utterly characteristic of the MAGA “prolife” white fertility cult of death to cynically use the horrible murder of this child, not to work for the defense of children’s lives, but to work for the defense of racist murderers.
This boy was not murdered because his murderer was black and still less because all black people or the media are part of some plot to kill white children. George Floyd is not the opposite of this child. They were both victims of murder. And the media covered this story exactly as much as you would expect a murder should be covered given that the murderer was caught and not sheltered by a corrupt institutional structure.
What the racists behind such memes don’t tell you is that the real lesson here is that this man, like the slaughterer of children at Sandy Hook and the slaughterer of children at El Paso had a gun he never should have had.
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Brilliant column, mark.
Maybe you didn’t have to point it out, but you have in one victim a grown black man whose life doesn’t matter, because he wasn’t a Fine Upstanding Citizen,, whose life was terminated by a noble white man, versus a beautiful white child whose Whole Life Was All in Front of Him, murdered by a black guy in an orange suit.
What?
It seems he does not care for Shaun King.
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say or accomplish with your posts. Make some sort of CONSISTENT- a hint – argument or present a clear thesis or make clear connections. Maybe then responses will be less strident.
@ Andy
I, not as think as you stoned i am! No really. (Signed, be comsistent).
I am confused by your comments. During this year, literally dozens of children have been killed – by parents, by strangers, by blacks, by whites, by men, by women, by police, by whomever. Very few make the national headlines, very few are known even by well informed people outside their local area. As someone has said, one death is a tragedy, a million are a statistic. Many years ago, a newspaper, the NYT I think, did a front page photo op of the thousands of people of all colors who had been murdered using guns. Just as they did a few weeks ago of the victims of COVID19, just to put a human face on an insidious disease. Cannon is just one of many victims of adults killing children of all races. Unfortunately, the child is being used as a political prop by one side, as other children have been used by the other side. JUST STOP IT! The only good thing about this particular murder is that the perpetrator is known and will be tried. Far too many are not. And no newspaper or news outlet, not even FoxNews, can possibly headline all the murders of adults or children committed in this country every day. Which seems to be what you want?
jj
What? What “lie of the press” did Mark defend? Did you have a coherent point to your comment?
You wrote:
FALSE. Major media reported on the Sutherland Church shooting for months. You can google it.
You’re the one peddling bullshit, you do the work.
And you said a week not “months.” No shifting.
“Endless”? Bye, troll.
It would help if you would make your point about the relevance of Jazmine Barnes explicit. I can imagine some points you could make, connecting Jazmine to Cannon or Floyd, but I don’t know which one you might be thinking of.
This is made worse by your reference to Dylan Roof, as if his example is contrary to what Mark is saying, when it seems to me that it is parallel to Mark’s point about Cannon (both killers were apprehended within a day, justice be done).
Your argument would powerful if it were not incomprehensible gibberish.
More babble from the cult where accusation is always a form of confession. You are here for one purpose: to excuse weaponizing the murder of a child against the murder of a black man. You guiltmongering does not work. Goodbye.
As a gay Black man I can’t t=go out of my house without the fear of being hunted. I feel sorry for the boy but the right wing noize machine wants to claim this is the ‘new normal’ F them