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The guy flipped out after he got slam dunk caught stealing beer. Obviously it's the honky's fault for not being more understanding. They clearly deserved to get shot for being white.
http://article.nationalreview.com/43...-prager?page=1
The le of this column seems unbelievable, but it is in fact what happened in America this past week. And almost no one has noticed.
After 50 years of being inundated with stories of white racism, and being taught in college that in this white-dominated society only a white can be a racist, the American public has been properly brainwashed into accepting the otherwise incredible: A black man murdered eight white people at his place of work because they were white, and the media story is about the murderer’s alleged experiences of racism.
Here’s the Associated Press report from August 7, four days after the murders. It was reprinted in the Washington Post and throughout America:
To those closest to him, Omar Thornton was caring, quiet and soft-spoken. . . . But underneath, Thornton seethed with a sense of racial injustice for years that culminated in a shooting rampage Tuesday in which the Connecticut man killed eight and wounded two others at his job at Hartford Distributors in Manchester before killing himself.
“I know what pushed him over the edge was all the racial stuff that was happening at work,” said his girlfriend, Kristi Hannah.
“He always felt like he was being discriminated [against] because he was black,” said Jessica Anne Brocuglio, his former girlfriend. “Basically they wouldn’t give him pay raises. He never felt like they accepted him as a hard working person.”
Thornton changed jobs a few times because he was not getting raises, Brocuglio said.
The New York Times’s August 3 headline read: “Troubles Preceded Connecticut Workplace Killing,” and in the second paragraph, the Times reported: “He might also have had cause to be angry: he had complained to his girlfriend of being racially harassed at work, the woman’s mother said, and lamented that his grievances had gone unaddressed.”
On August 7, the Washington Post’s headline read, “Beer warehouse shooter long complained of racism.”
In fact, just before he started shooting, Thornton had been told he had the choice of quitting or being fired for stealing beer, and there was video proof of his doing so. But this fact — the one indisputable and most pertinent pre-murder fact — got lost within the larger context of Thornton’s claims of being a victim of whites.
Those preoccupied with Thornton’s charges of workplace racism might wish to reflect on this: Racists and otherwise bigoted murderers always blame their victims. Medieval Christians who murdered Jews blamed the Jews for poisoning wells, using Christian children’s blood in making their matzo, or some other terrible crime. Whites who lynched blacks blamed those blacks for rape or some other terrible crime. Nothing is new about the Thornton racist murders except that the society in which they occurred concentrated on the racist’s excuses rather than on his murders.
Just as leading liberals would not ascribe Islamist motives — until there was no possibility of denying them — to recent Muslim attacks on Americans, so the liberal media — i.e., almost all news outlets in America — are not branding these Connecticut murders for what they are: racist. Thornton actually told the 911 operator, “I wish I could have gotten more of the people [i.e., whites].”
We are repeatedly told by liberals — both whites and blacks — that America needs an honest dialogue on race. Needless to say, they don’t mean it, because the moment a white or a black says anything critical of black behavior, he is labeled racist or Uncle Tom. So most nonliberal whites and blacks just keep quiet.
One result is this morally upside-down reporting of the murders in Connecticut.
Another example is the liberal narrative on blacks in prison: “There are more black men in prison than in college.” Every decent American regards this fact as a major tragedy. But most Americans believe that the fault lies primarily with the black criminals, not with a racist society. Most Americans believe that blacks who mug, rape, rob, or murder commit those crimes for the same reason whites do — they lack a sufficiently strong conscience.
But the dominant liberal narrative is that while white criminals are criminals, black criminals are largely victims.
Another example was the liberal narrative of the 1992 “Rodney King riots” in Los Angeles. It was perfectly expressed by the major newspaper of that city, the Los Angeles Times. During the riots, in which innocent Koreans, whites, and others were beaten, maimed, and killed and their businesses burned to the ground, the daily special section on the riots in the Times was led “Understanding the Rage.” When blacks riot, whites are the reason. When a black murders eight whites in Connecticut, whites are the reason.
One terrible consequence of this liberal at ude toward black violent crime is that too many blacks come to believe that less is expected of them morally than from whites. And the truth is that most Americans on the left do expect less from blacks.
But saying any of this gets us nowhere because it is simply labeled racism. If you don’t believe me, check leftist reactions to this column on the Internet.
Most liberal leaders want an honest dialogue about race as much as they want to honestly describe the murders in Connecticut.
The guy flipped out after he got slam dunk caught stealing beer. Obviously it's the honky's fault for not being more understanding. They clearly deserved to get shot for being white.
Wow. Dude even has a "Omar Thornton is a Hero" video.
This is a needlessly polarizing take on a terribly tragic workplace event.
"white criminals are criminals, black criminals are largely victims."
I can tell that you believe this.
le is already racist enough. No need to read the content.
THese quotes are tragic.
2+2=Racism now. Reality is Objective, if the media is focusing on the racism part and not taking in all the facts, then this is a travesty.
Wha? It's just a polarizing piece. Prager manages to bring up Christians killing Jews, Moslems killing Christians, Rodney King, yada yada... while trying to make a point about prevailing black on white racism.
Honestly I didn't think Prager was that looney.
wrong. Both sides are focusing on racism and forgetting there are 8 bodies on the ground regardless of their color, or the color of the shooter.
the writer of the article is racist as well as the media he is critizicing. sad.
Whenever there's a murder-suicide rampage like this one, there's always post-facto analysis of what could have triggered such behavior. Happened with the VT massacre also, and has nothing to do with skin color.
That you find triggering events, doesn't implicitly mean that the ensuing criminal events are justified. You CAN be a victim of racial discrimination at work and also be a psychopath. They're not mutually exclusive, but they're normally an explosive combination.
Should he have not committed suicide, he would have been charged with murder.
The OP's opinion piece is obviously a pretty lame attempt to both stir the racial pot and blame the 'liberal' media.
Cry Havoc wrote the article.
How is this different from reports that the Columbine shooters were allegedly bullied?
Just because the media reports on the possible motive doesn't mean they're condoning it. What is the alternative? Bury the story?
This column is just racial opportunism.
You're right. It's best not to talk about it.
LOL @ Dennis Prager is "looney".
Why does this myth of those guys being "bullied" persist?
Is it possible for people to just be bad apples?
That's idiotic, that wouldn't make someone a racist.
It was alleged they were bullied. This was reported. The public was free to decide whether or not those allegations had any merit or relevance, as they are free to decide in this case. In that case, as well as this case, most people are likely to say that neither excuse is a valid reason for murder. Some wackos will think it is. But it's a free country.
The media has no responsibility to cater to racial sensitivity.
That turned out to be a false allegation.
You miss the point.
prager's just looking for a reason to complain about black people and the media.
possible motives or reasons do not equal legal or moral justifications. when something horrible happens, the normal response is "how could this happen?" it's human nature to seek for motives or reasons. it's reprehensible to suggest that the victims got what the deserved; and I haven't heard anybody claim that yet.
Sure, ten years after the fact. It was still news at the time.
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