We all know what the headlines would say if a couple of white teenagers beat a black World War II veteran to death. I guess we’re supposed to be queasy about even discussing this obvious truth. That’s no way to conduct an honest “national conversation on race,” but of course, the conversation isn’t really supposed to be honest.
Since no guns were involved, the left-wing media has no idea how to spin this story. We must await the hopefully swift capture of the thugs who killed Delbert Belton to learn more about their motives, and why they chose him for a target. His heartless murder comes hard on the heels of anotherhorrifying thrill killing, the murder of Australian college student Christopher Lane. We all know what coverage would be like if several outrageous crimes that fit into a preferred liberal narrative occurred in rapid succession.
In the case of Lane’s murder, the mainstream press is laboring mightily not to report on evidence of a hate crime. The New York Post reports on the lively Twitter feed of 15-year-old James Edwards:
Edwards, who is black, tweeted in April, “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.”
Three days before Lane, who was white, was fatally shot last Friday while jogging, Edwards tweeted, “With my n—as when it’s time to start taken life’s.”
And one day before the murder, he wrote on Facebook, “I’ve never been this made in my life.”
In another post that day, he wrote cryptically, “Bang 2 drops in one day.”
The man who put authorities on the trail of Lane’s killers is firmly convinced the attack was not the result of boredom, as the teens have claimed, but instead was part of a gang initiation ritual:
Another Duncan resident, James Johnson, who is black, said he alerted police when the teens threatened to kill his son because the youth had refused to join their gang, an offshoot of the Crips.
Johnson called police, who quickly arrested the three teens in their black Ford Focus in the parking lot of a church near his home.
Johnson suggested one other explanation for the murder, claiming Lane’s death was an “initiation” rite for the gang. “I don’t think it was an initiation; I know it was an initiation,” he told Australian media. “My son told me that it was an initiation.”
Another Twitter message from Edwards, reported by theDaily Caller, implied that he randomly attacked several white people after the George Zimmerman not-guilty verdict was handed down: “Ayee I knocced out 5 woods since Zimmerman court!lol s**t ima keep sleepin s**t.”
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