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The Last 7 Days: Media And The Reckless Push For Race War

Last week was a bad one for Democrats. First, video surfaced of a black man beating multiple elderly white people in a nursing home in Detroit. The attacks overwhelmed the senses of many who watched the videos. One wishes to un-see such blatant evil.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been roundly criticized for her decision to send COVID+ patients to nursing homes, one of several Democrat governors to do so.

Yes, the abuser was COVID-19 positive.

Jadon Hayden was known to have tested positive for the virus and was, unfathomably, under quarantine in the nursing home. Whitmer is earning her new nickname, “Heil Whitmer”, more and more with each passing day of the pandemic. As CDMedia has reported, the group of Democrat governors who specified that nursing homes had to accept COVID patients contributed to a rise in the virus death toll, and a slew of hospitals received more funding as a result.

An elderly woman was another of Hayden’s victims. Yes, we’ve all heard of elderly abuse in nursing homes, but this is a boxing match, not nasty comments or passive aggression.

From COVID-19 To Foot-In-Mouth Disease

The other very bad look for Democrats last week: Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” comment during an interview with rapper and social critic Charlamagne Tha God. The comment was part of the embattled presidential candidate’s opinion that if a black person votes for President Trump, they are somehow less black, less of a black person. It set off a three day-long Twitter trend of #YouAintBlack, and countless anti-Biden memes.

It was a tough few days for Biden, with no end in sight. Until…

Karen To the Rescue

Two things happened to change the national conversation on race. First, “Central Park Karen.” New Yorker Amy Cooper was playing with her illegally unleashed dog when Christian Cooper, who is unrelated, objected to her behavior and took a cell phone video of Ms. Cooper calling the police.

The media, and to be fair, most of the public, immediately sided with Mr. Cooper over Ms. Cooper. Her hysteria in the video contrasts sharply with Mr. Cooper’s calm voice. She fit neatly into a trending social class of white women who call the police on black men over trivial matters: “Karens.” He fit generally into an old, long suffering and troubled social class: the black male.

Ms. Cooper was fired from her job as a portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Investments, she has since surrendered her dog for adoption, and the city council is discussing banning Ms. Cooper from Central Park. For life.

Say what you will about Ms. Cooper’s actions, but she was vilified and tried in the court of public opinion based on a video that starts in medias res. “I know what I saw” was a common refrain from Twitter users. Really? Despite not seeing what preceded it?

Approached, videoed, and uploaded on Monday morning, jobless, pet-less, and receiving death threats by Tuesday afternoon.

Alas, it turns out the case isn’t so open-and-shut. After two days of reflection, people are beginning to ask some difficult questions. Not quite conspiracy theory-level difficult, but some details are awfully curious here. Mr. Cooper was out birdwatching when he decided to be a bit of a Karen himself, asking Ms. Cooper to leash her harmless dog.

When she explained why she didn’t, he threatened her. In his own words: “Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it.”

Then he produces a dog treat? Aside from the sheer oddity of carrying dog treats when you don’t own a dog, what was his intent? Why would he want the dog to come closer to him? “…but you’re not going to like it” must have been ringing in her ears.

For Ms. Cooper to call the police may have been an overreaction, but there are plenty of questionable characters in Central Park. Solo males with “treats” for other people’s dogs with whom they are arguing? Yes, that’s definitely on that list.

To complicate matters, Mr. Cooper is a progressive activist. As reported by NewsOne:

 

According to GAY USA, Cooper was a co-chair of the board of directors of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in the late ’80s, “at a time when GLAAD was still a grass-roots, New York-based group organizing protest rallies against anti-gay violence, actions against the New York Post for its homophobic coverage, and television appearances to correct misleading programming about LGBT lives.”

Chris also brought his activism to the comic book world. While he worked as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, he was the assistant editor to the comic book that featured Marvel’s first out superhero. He also is the creator of Marvel’s first lesbian central character. He eventually created and authored the Internet’s lamented LGBTQ superhero epic “QUEER NATION: THE ONLINE GAY COMIC”.

Christian also put in work on the governing level when he organized the political action committee (PAC) No More REPublicans Toying with Your Life (No More REPTYLs) in response to the continued suppression of basic LGBTQ legislation in New York State by the Republican majority in the state’s senate.

Sounds like Mr. Cooper has an axe to grind wherever he goes.

And yes, he did threaten her. And she threatened him. Ultimately, they’re both at fault. So why is he celebrated as a “black gay icon” and she’s now an unemployed “racist”? Because of the perception that police would “SWAT” Mr. Cooper. And, crucially, that Ms. Cooper would comprehend this danger: that the NYPD would have arrived and gunned him down…in Central Park.

The reality: police interaction in Mayor Bill De Blasio’s New York is far more peaceful than outsiders might expect. It is the NYPD who wear restraints, their powers curtailed by a mayor more interested in perception than reality. Violent crime is on the rise again in NYC. Cops there are suicidal, not homicidal.

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