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Chapter 1: What are the media narratives around interracial crime in America?
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Head on over to dailywire.com slash subscribe and join right now. It's always fascinating to determine which stories are national news stories, according to the legacy media, and which are local news stories, according to the legacy media. It's particularly true when it comes to national crime stories.
Now, every crime story is, in its essence, a local story because every crime story involves the perpetrator and the victim. And all of that happens locally. So unless you can identify a broad national trend springing there from and basically that local news story is the hook for a discussion of the broad national trend. No local story on its own should be a national story.
But it's fascinating what kind of crime stories particularly are the ones that spark national discussions about, for example, race in America. So according to Legacy Media, the only kinds of crime that ought to spark discussions of race in America are crimes where the alleged victim is black and the alleged suspect is white. Those are the only ones that you will ever hear about.
Whether you're talking about George Floyd, whether you're talking about Daniel Penny, whether you're talking about... George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, whether you're talking about Michael Brown, anytime you have a racial conflagration, it is always on one side of the racial ledger, according to the legacy media.
Because again, the narrative that the legacy media would push is the idea that America is a systemically racist place against black people. And so the kind of crimes they like to cover are, of course, the ones where a white person or in the case of George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic person kills a person who is black.
However, the reality is that unfortunately, on a proportionate level, it is far more common for young black men to kill people of other races than the other way around. Now, let's be real about this. Just statistically speaking, the vast majority of murders are intraracial, meaning that most black men who are murdered are murdered by black men.
Most white men who are murdered are murdered by white men. I believe the only race in the United States for which it is not true that the plurality or majority of killings inside the race are committed by other members of the same race are Asians. I believe that for Asian men, the preponderance of killers are outside the Asian race. However,
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Chapter 2: What is the case of Carmelo Anthony and its implications?
Apparently, as they were walking to the squad car, the suspect was emotional and said he put his hands on me. I told him not to. He said, I did not question the suspect about the incident while he was escorted to the patrol vehicle. So another officer named Alan Fisher talked to the brother of the victim. He said, I asked him what happened.
He stated they were all sitting on the bleachers under a Memorial High School tent when another male who he did not know walked over and sat under the tent. Apparently, this person then said Austin, the victim, told this male that since he'd not got a memorial, he had to leave the tent. Austin, the male, went back and forth. Then Austin stood up and pushed the male to get him out of the tent.
At this point, during the time of arguing, the male was reaching around in the bag he had. It was this time the male took out a knife and stabbed Austin and then left the scene. Now, again, this sounds like a confrontation that escalated to the point where Carmelo Anthony pulled a knife out of his backpack and then stabbed Austin Metcalf to death.
Now, the case presumably he's going to be making in court is that it was self-defense, that he was in fear for his life because another student was pushing him. That's going to be a very difficult case to make. He had a knife in his backpack. He pulled out the knife. That is a deadly weapon. Pushing is not a deadly weapon.
But the sort of more sympathetic case to Carmelo Anthony would be that he was sitting there and somebody told him to leave, pushed him. He turned around. He stabbed him. And it was because he felt that he had to in order to defend himself. Okay, here's where it starts to get very dicey. Not just in terms of the criminal case.
It starts to get very dicey in terms of the GoFundMe that was then set up for Carmelo Anthony. So a GoFundMe was set up for Carmelo Anthony and it immediately raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, imagine a reverse scenario in which the races were reversed here and a GoFundMe was set up for the family.
Would there be any doubt the media would be all over it talking about how terrible it would be for a white student who stabbed to death a black student after being pushed to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in GoFundMe money? Apparently, the money was then used, according to the New York Post, for a wide variety of goodies,
According to the New York Post, Carmelo Anthony is holed up with his family at the pricey home inside the gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas, after he was released from jail Monday on a reduced $250,000 bond for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf earlier this month. The home had a white Suburban, a black Acura, and a third sedan in the driveway on Tuesday, according to the outlet.
A neighbor said the family had just bought a new ride. He got a new car, the resident told the outlet. Residents in the gated community were allegedly unaware the family was living at the home until Anthony was released on Monday. Another neighbor told the outlet that Anthony's family is not poor if they live in a gated community. It's unclear how long they've been living at the home.
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Chapter 3: What do crime statistics reveal about interracial violence?
According to Alan Beck of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, quote, relative to their share of the U.S. population, 60%, white people were underrepresented among offenders in non-fatal violent crimes overall, 52%. They accounted for 45% of offenders involved in aggravated assault and 31% of offenders involved in robbery.
Black people were overrepresented among offenders in non-fatal violent crimes overall, 29%. Relative to their share of the U.S. population, 13%. Half of all offenders involved in robbery, 51%, a third involved in aggravated assault, 34%, more than a fifth involved in simple assault, 23%, and rape or sexual assault, 22%, were black.
According to Pew Research Center, black men are the most likely to go to prison. There were 2,272 inmates per 100,000 black men in 2018, compared with 392 inmates per 100,000 white men. In 2018, black Americans represented 33% of the sentenced prison population, nearly triple their 12 to 13% share of the US adult population.
Whites accounted for 30% of prisoners, about half their share of the adult population. According to another study printed in the journal Science Advances, quote, Lifetime risk of imprisonment for black males rose from more than 1 in 5, about 20% in 1986, to nearly 1 in 2, about 49.6% in 2004, before falling to roughly 1 in 6, 16.2% in 2016.
Even though the current number is way lower than the prior numbers, it's still way higher than ever recorded among white men. So, why is this happening? Why disproportionate crime in the black community? The single most obvious factor correlating with violent crime is lack of fathers in the home.
According to the Institute for Family Studies, only 37% of black children are living in a home headed by their biological parents. 72% of black fathers have had a child out of wedlock. Studies show the number of fathers in a neighborhood can actually help alleviate the problem of lack of fathers directly in the home. There's a network effect, a neighborhood effect.
But it's rare to find a black neighborhood with a lot of present fathers. As a study from Harvard, Stanford, and the U.S. Census Bureau found, just 4.2% of black kids currently grow up in areas with a poverty rate below 10% and more than half of black fathers present. That compares to 63% of white kids.
Now, there are those who will argue that it's white racism that's causing the absence of black fathers. That's a weird argument given the fact that in 1960, when white racism was really a serious American problem, less than a quarter of black children were born to unwed mothers. Today, that number is like 72%.
So as racism in the United States plummeted, the rate of single motherhood in the black community went up. Blaming racism for the rise in single motherhood makes no sense statistically speaking. Differential crime rates don't have anything to do with inborn racial differences. This isn't actually about race. It has to do with behavior. When you incentivize father absence, crime goes up.
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Chapter 4: How does family structure affect crime rates in the black community?
What I condemn is the violence of our system, and I would love for you to acknowledge that.
I'm not asking you to condemn the system. Taylor, do you condemn people that call for assassination?
Gosh, you're going to ask if I condemn Hamas next. This is crazy. I would love for you to acknowledge what I'm actually saying, Sean, and we seem to be talking past each other. I want to talk about the fact that half of all adults... No, I hear you loud and clear. because of cost. We need to talk about this.
70% of Americans, by the way, believe that the insurance company practices are responsible in part for Thompson's debt.
These are signs of an unhealthy... You want to put a rationalization. I am saying anybody that wants to assassinate any innocent person is wrong. I don't care if it's a Democrat or Republican or a father or a husband. That is a simple truth that anyone with a heart would easily say on national TV that you're having a hard time with.
Okay, so again, this is the left justifying violence on the basis of the politics. And this is the theme. Okay, the running theme of today shows that depending on whom the violence is, directed at, and whom the violence, who perpetrates the violence. We can tell who the media will side with, whether they will ignore the story or whatever.
Another great example of this, just this week, targeting a Democrat, by the way, not targeting a healthcare CEO. So it turns out that the person who set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence on Sunday indicated that he was motivated by his views on Israel and Gaza, according to the Washington Post, and believed that Josh Shapiro needed to stop the killing of Palestinians.
Now, Josh Shapiro is the governor of Pennsylvania. He's not the president of the United States. He has zero plenary power over foreign policy of the United States, even if you were to agree with this guy. But the reason that the media aren't playing this up as an act of politically motivated attempted murder is because much of the media agrees with this guy.
Imagine if this were a right-winger Trump supporter who had decided to try and kill Josh Shapiro. That would be a narrative for the rest of the year, minimum. You would never hear the end of it. It would be right-wing violence being bred by the podcast sphere in order to target people like Josh Shapiro.
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Chapter 5: How does the media handle politically motivated violence differently?
Van Hollen headed down to El Salvador to try and visit a prison at which illegal immigrants are being held, deported illegal immigrants. Chris Van Hollen said, they won't let me talk with the deported man. He went down there to apparently make a show of his sympathy for this wonderful deported man. We'll get to the details on the deported man in a moment.
So I asked the vice president if I could meet with Mr. Abrego Garcia. And he said, well, you need to make earlier provisions to go visit Seacott. I said, I'm not interested at this moment in taking a tour of Seacott. I just want to meet with Mr. Abrego Garcia. He said he was not able to make that happen. So I asked him if I could get on the phone.
either video phone or just a phone, and talk to Mr. Abrego Garcia. He said he could not arrange that. He said maybe if the American embassy were to ask, maybe that could happen.
So much sympathy for Kilmer Abrego Garcia. Now, again, if you want to protest lack of due process, you should be standing in front of the courts. You should be standing in front of the White House, flying down to El Salvador to show sympathy for a man who, according to the UK Daily Mail, is violently accused by his own wife of beating her up multiple times. Bad look for Democrats.
But again, that's the sort of stuff that gets brushed under the rug in service of a larger narrative. Apparently, according to the Daily Mail, Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration over connections to MS-13. His wife accused her husband of violently beating her multiple times in a 2021 court filing exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail.
In November 2020, he hit her with his work boots. In August 2020, he hit her in the eye, causing her to get a black eye, according to her petition. That same day, Abrego Garcia started driving quickly, scaring his wife as their one-year-old was in the backseat. She said she was afraid to be close to him.
In May 2021, after an argument at a gas station, the Salvadoran migrant punched and scratched his wife, leaving me bleeding. Remember, this is a person who was pitched by the media as Maryland father. Maryland father. It sounds like a wonderful, wonderful person.
It turns out, by the way, that according to Robbie Starbuck, Tennessee Highway Patrol caught the same Abrego Garcia in 2022 driving without a license and suspected him of trafficking the seven people inside. When they called Joe Biden's FBI because he was on the terror watch list, the FBI told them to photograph everybody and let them go. Sounds like a wonderful person.
So glad that Democrats have decided precisely where to place their sympathies. What kinds of crime are worthy of reporting on and which kinds of crime are not worthy of reporting on?
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Chapter 6: What is the controversy surrounding the deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia?
And his answer was that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador, the government of El Salvador, to keep him at SECOT.
Again, multiple things can be true at once. One can be that the due process concerns that are being raised by the courts are legitimate concerns and the Trump administration should deal with them.
The other is that Democrats have politically decided to spend their empathy and sympathy on some of the worst people in humanity, truly, and to ignore particular types of crime that don't fit the thing they are attempting to push.
Now, speaking of the due process concerns, yesterday, Judge James Boasberg, you'll remember him from the hearings where he suggested that planes of migrants from Venezuela needed to be turned around midair, and then they were not. And the Trump administration claimed, well, we did keep some planes on the ground. Other planes were already in the air. There was nothing we could do.
It was an oral order. It wasn't a written order and all the rest. Now, Boasberg says he's going to launch proceedings to determine whether any Trump administration officials defied his order not to remove those Venezuelan migrants from the country.
Now, this is kind of a weird filing by Boasberg in the sense that the Supreme Court has already decided that the Trump administration can use the Alien Enemies Act in order to deport people. We'll get to more of this in a moment. First, self-care routines can seem overwhelming, time-consuming. What if the most transformative self-care upgrade required zero daily effort?
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Chapter 7: What legal actions are ongoing related to migrant deportations?
Nonetheless, Boasberg is now trying to suggest that he is going to hold in contempt members of the Department of Justice for not listening to his judicial orders. Democrats, of course, are celebrating all of this because they are saying it just underscores the unwillingness of the Trump administration to follow the law. Attorney General Pam Bondi fought back against Boesberg yesterday.
Here's what she had to say.
And Will, he came in on an emergency basis on a Saturday with very, very short notice, if any, to our attorney to run in the courtroom. You know, and this has been a pattern with these liberal judges. You just spoke about that. It's been a pattern with what they've been doing. This judge had no right to do that. They're meddling in foreign affairs. They're meddling in our government.
And the question should be, why is a judge trying to protect terrorists who have invaded our country over American citizens?
Okay, so again, that's going to be the angle from the Trump administration. And it isn't a terrible angle, specifically because Democrats picked the exact wrong people to defend. And meanwhile, the State Department continues to do good work in terms of deporting many of the worst people in the United States.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, joined us online yesterday to discuss all of this, to talk about what the State Department has been doing.
Not only has the State Department been deporting people who come to the United States on things like student visas and lie about their actual belief systems and what they are here to do, but also the State Department yesterday shut down a branch of the State Department that is specifically designed very often to target American information that the left doesn't particularly like.
Here's my interview with Secretary Rubio. Joining us on the line, Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Secretary Rubio, thanks so much for joining the show. Really appreciate it.
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Chapter 8: What changes is Secretary Marco Rubio making at the State Department?
Thank you. Thanks for having me on.
So let's talk about this major move that you just made at the State Department, getting rid of a big chunk of the censorship bureaucracy that had been created and pushed a while back, but then exacerbated over the course of the last few years, hidden. What's the story with what you are doing over at the State Department to get rid of the body formerly known as the Global Engagement Center?
Yeah, I think you have to understand the history behind it. It's real brief. You know, they started it by saying, you know, Al Qaeda, ISIS, all these terrible groups are radicalizing people online. We should do something about it. And, you know, back when they came up with that 12 years ago, whatever it was, people are like, you know, it makes sense.
And then it metastasized and it's like, oh, there's foreign interference in our elections. We need to start going after that. Well, then by 2020, it became a movement to go after voices inside of American politics and begin to label people.
And they put a guy in charge who basically was going around saying Trump speaks just like these foreign terrorists, his supporters speak just like these foreign terrorists. So now you have an individual running a State Department entity that was labeling American speech by Americans as foreign interference.
And then really the kicker was not only were they doing all that formally from the State Department, but they were taking State Department money and they were giving it to these third-party groups who were supposed to be like independent, you know, verified arbiters of what's true and what isn't, what's good and what's bad.
And these groups were deliberately targeting – I believe you were one of the ones they targeted. I think the Federalists began putting labels on people. Now you may say, okay, well, what's the importance of label? Well, that's not just the issue here. The issue is not only did they put labels on people, that was then used to go to social media companies.
It was used to go to outlets and say, you have to de-platform these people, or you have to cut back on how much views they're getting. You have to go after them. In essence, silence them. So in essence, it metastasized and the metamorphosis into a government run entity that was targeting political speech in America, labeling it disinformation,
and silencing it, all paid for by the American taxpayers directly and indirectly. And that ends. So what happened when we took over, right before we took over, they got rid of this Global Engagement Seminar, they renamed it and moved it somewhere else. But, you know, renaming something doesn't change it. You still leave the thing around.
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