Starkville Daily News

Charging racism to unify America?

- DANIEL GARDNER

Media coverage and comments from elites have been exceptiona­lly biased against Kyle Rittenhous­e from the beginning, and continued well into his trial until the evidence shed new light on what happened. Even then the hardcore woke/left crowd continued to blast Rittenhous­e much like they had blasted Nick Sandman, the white teenaged boy who wore a MAGA cap on a high school field trip to the 2019 March for Life.

Why does the LEFT continue to jump to conclusion­s and pile on more and more personal attacks to reinforce their narrative? Their narrative, which has many story lines, cannot stand scrutiny. More than two years after the incident, Nick Sandman has won hundreds of millions of dollars against so-called “news” organizati­ons for their slanderous coverage. Ironically, those wins, and the wins Kyle Rittenhous­e is likely to have against the same “news” organizati­ons elicit charges of “white privilege” from the losers.

Charges of white supremacy and racism are the Covid vaccines against gun violence. If white people use guns for defense, they are automatica­lly labeled white supremacis­ts AND racists, as if redundancy makes a cocktail tastier. “If a little bit’s good, a whole lot’s better!”

Kyle Rittenhous­e looked like a poster child for the LEFT: white teenaged male carrying an AR rifle with a 30-round magazine in the middle of a protest over police shooting a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

So, of course all the LEFT jumped simultaneo­usly! After the incident in Kenosha, Presidenti­al candidate Joe Biden essentiall­y labeled Rittenhous­e a white supremacis­t in a tweet after one of his debates with President Trump: “There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacis­ts on the debate stage last night.” Biden posted a video with the tweet of a Q&A between the moderator and Trump in which the President said he saw most of the rioting and destructio­n coming from the left wing.

Let’s face it, 2021 has been a bad year for the LEFT. President Biden has mishandled everything that has come across his desk. He opened up our southern border to millions of illegal aliens, untold amounts of fentanyl and Covid infections and sex traffickin­g. Responding to Biden’s invitation, thousands of children, mothers, and families have died before getting to the border.

Then there’s Biden’s decision to shut down large parts of the oil and gas industry. Surprise! Gas prices are soaring! Biden and the LEFT are dumping trillions of dollars into the economy. Surprise! Prices jump when too much money is chasing too few products! Inflation is increasing. Mandating vaccinatio­ns is forcing first responders, frontline workers, and other essential employees to leave their jobs, and is dividing our nation even more.

Then there’s Afghanista­n where hundreds of American citizens are still stranded, fearing for their lives. If not for veteran groups, volunteers, and other non-government­al organizati­ons going there and bringing them home, they would be Biden’s collateral damage from a botched withdrawal.

The only superlativ­e marks Biden and the LEFT have garnered in 2021 have been their ability to degrade and disrupt every aspect of American life in the briefest amount of time. While they continue to wreak havoc, they will double-down blaming white supremacis­ts and racists for all of America’s problems. The LEFT: charging racism to unify America.

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