President Trump has permeated our country with hate and racism—we all know this to be fact.
It caused two race-based incidents barely two weeks from each other, on Jan. 18 and 29. On the 18th, a group of high school students from Covington Catholic High School surrounded a Native American and chanted racist insults like “build that wall.” On the 29th, actor Jussie Smollett, from the show “Empire,” was accosted by two anti-gay Trump supporters who used the phrase “this is MAGA country.” Then they put a rope around his neck and threw bleach at him.
All of this proves to us that there is a systemic racism in the U.S. that led to President Trump’s election. Except there is not and it did not. The two examples I just brought up were either misconstrued, in the case of the Covington kids, or faked, in Jussie Smollett’s case, to support the narrative that America is systemically racist.
There are two real issues that have led to these stories existing. One issue is the mass media’s willingness to run with stories without proper information; the second is the left’s willingness to accept these stories without question.
This is not new; it has been happening for years. In 1992, a woman in Portland, Oregon faked racist attacks on her home. She was caught the very morning before she led a group of 500 in a march on video, lighting ablaze a cross on her own back porch. After the police confronted her, she confessed to having faked all of the incidents. In 2017, an anti-Trump gay man faked a Nazi, anti-gay, pro-Trump vandalism in a church. He admitted to it and claimed that the 2016 election left him “fearful, scared, and alone” and he “wanted others to be scared with [him].”
I would urge you to watch the full video depicting the Covington High School students and Nathan Phillips. I do not want to spend too much time on that story, but the truth is out there for you.
Smollett claims that on Jan. 29, he went to Subway late at night and was attacked by two masked white men who began their attack by yelling “Hey, Empire.” They approached him and, before punching him, told him that “this is MAGA country.” Smollett said on an interview with ABC News that it was not until after the fight and their leaving that he noticed a rope around his neck. It was not until he got back to his apartment that he noticed bleach stains on his shirt and called the police. When they arrived about half an hour later, they found him still wearing the rope around his neck. He took them back to where he says the alleged attack occurred and pointed out a camera, telling them that he was glad there was a recording of the attack.
The next day, police spent hours sifting through the footage; they could not find the two white men Smollett had described, but did find two black men who were in the area. So, they used the camera footage to track where they went and arrested the two men. Not only were they not white, they were Nigerian, and one even appeared on the show “Empire” as an extra. The police released them the next day because they cooperated with the police. They told the police that Smollett allegedly paid them $4,500 each to stage the attack.
Obviously, before the news about the two Nigerian men came out, there were a lot of questions people like me had for Smollett. Why on earth would there have been two pro-Trump racists roaming the streets of Chicago, the bluest city in the bluest state of the U.S., with rope and bleach, but who also happened to have been watchers of “Empire”?
This was also during the cold wave that went through that area. That day, there was a high of 11˚F and a low of -9˚F. On top of it all, should I believe that they also yelled “This is MAGA country?” No one had ever uttered that before this story. If Smollett is convicted of falsifying a police report, he is facing at least a three year prison sentence.
It turns out there were rumors that Smollett’s character on Empire was going to be written off soon. It is alleged that he faked the incident to gain public sympathy to prevent his removal from the show.
Why did this story gain traction? I think that Michael Knowles summed this up well in his podcast when talking about the incident in 2017 involving the anti-Trump gay man I mentioned earlier: “So the 2016 election provoked fantasies in this man’s head. The leftist narrative is a fantasy and that’s why he’s scared, fearful, and alone. But other people are not because they are living in reality. So he wanted other people to be afraid, to be living in that fantasy with him. So what did he do? He took his fantasy and he tried to make it a reality. He tried to make himself “a victim … because if he’s living in a fantasy and he feels alone living in that fantasy, he wants other people to be in fantasy with him and he has to turn the fantasy into reality.”
I see this mentality on this campus. The narrative that America is rife with racism, and Trump is making it worse by bolstering their racism, is nothing more than a fantasy. The media spent months planting this fantasy in our minds.
Because stories were not happening involving Trumpian racism, people had to make it up. I am very sure that there are racists in our country, but not anywhere near to the extent that the leftist media makes it out to be, and I would urge all of my readers to be honest with themselves about that, to be willing to call these fake stories out as fake.
