“The State of Georgia rejects hatred, the State of Georgia rejects bigotry, the State of Georgia rejects neo-Nazism, the State of Georgia rejects the Klan,” so said Dem Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, hoping Georgians overlook the anti-Semitism driving his party and fall for the plot line the Dems have been selling for at least the last 30 years.
To make the sale, Democrats and their media allies have sought to find a concrete example of the hate they claim to be combatting. This year, with the Southern Poverty Law Center sidelined, they have yet to identify a marketable victim.
In June, despite months of manufactured outrage, the nation failed to erupt after black Texan teen Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years for the murder of a white teen. In the last two months, their proxies have embarrassed themselves trying to find a great white culprit for the likely drowning death of black teen Nolan Wells. Apparently, Mississippi Burning 2.0 doesn’t play well among affluent friends on pricy motor boats.
Wells’s friends left the white sheets behind to go swimming
Of course, 2020 was a banner year—George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor—but veteran Dems have to savor the memory of 1996 when they managed to fuel a national outrage without even producing a dead body. The coordination was breathtaking.
In February of that year, the NAACP sent a letter to Bill Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno asking her to investigate what the Washington Post described as “a string of suspicious fires at predominantly black churches.” In one charred Tennessee church police allegedly found racial slurs spray-painted on the walls. “For many people,” said the Post reporter, “the attacks conjured up dark memories of the most violent days of the civil rights movement.”
The National Council of Churches (NCC) and the Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) pushed the story hard. To give it legs, they held a joint press conference in March 1996 at which they released a report on the “huge increase” in black church burnings. “You’re talking about a well-organized white-supremacist movement,” claimed the Rev. Mac Charles Jones, a CDR board member.
The CDR had evolved out of an outfit called the National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN), a group described by the radical publication Workers Vanguard as a loose coalition of Southern ministers and “the remnants of the pro-Peking Stalinists.” According to its own literature at the time, the CDR worked “with progressive activists and organizations to build a movement to counter right-wing rhetoric and public-policy initiatives.”
The NCC was one such progressive organization. In his invaluable book, Disinformation, former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Mahai Pacepa identified the NCC as an affiliate of the World Council of Churches, an organization that had been “infiltrated and effectively controlled by Russian intelligence since 1961.” Not one for hyperbole, Pacepa described the NCC and CDR as “two secretly Marxist organizations headquartered in the United States.”
As the church burning saga unfolded, it became increasingly clear which specific targets the CDR and the NCC hoped to brand. “There’s only a slippery slope between conservative religious persons and those that are really doing the burning,” said the Rev. C.T. Vivian, the CDR’s chairman.
According to a New York Times article headlined, “Link Sought in An Epidemic of Terror,” Vivian’s take on things was pretty much the norm among black church leaders, Jesse Jackson included. For the seemingly hostile atmosphere in the South, they blamed “the assault on affirmative action and the populist oratory of Republican politicians like Patrick J. Buchanan.”
The message hasn’t changed, and Ossoff seems to have learned from the master. President Bill Clinton, also up for re-election, used a June 1996 radio address to warn America of the “disturbing rash of crimes that hearkens back to a dark era in our nation’s history.”
Lest anyone think that he, as an Arkansas native, had anything to do with that dark history, he reminded the audience that he was a boy at the time, and even then his heart was in the right place. Indeed, he was still haunted by “vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.”
Unfortunately for the Clinton narrative, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette could find no record of any black church being burned in Arkansas during the civil rights era. As it turned out, the epidemic of racist church burnings proved no more substantial than Clinton’s memories. A month after Clinton’s radio address, Fred Bayles of the Associated Press reported his agency’s analysis of six years of federal, state and local data.
Among Satanists church burning has long been a thing
What Bayles and colleagues discovered was that there had been more fires at predominantly white churches in the south than black churches, that the totals for 1996 were within the normal range, that the number of fires had dropped off considerably since 1980, and that there was “no evidence . . . of a conspiracy or of a general climate of hatred.” The suspects included both blacks and whites, insurance scammers, devil worshippers, drunken teenagers, and even bored fire fighters.
Unfortunately, the media were not inclined to un-tell the dramatic story they had been telling all spring and summer. Reporter Michael Fumento, who helped expose the fraud in the Wall Street Journal, asked whether it was “too much to expect any of the pundits and public figures who seized on the CDR’s report as a vehicle for scoring points against their political opponents to register the fact that it was in essence a fabrication.”
Media have shown little interest in worldwide epidemic of church burnings
Apparently, it was. The New York Times, for instance, mentioned the church burnings in more than one hundred stories but declined to mention the fact-checking done by the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, or any other responsible party.
So the narrative stood through November 1996. Racist church burners were still terrorizing black America. Church burners and conservative Republicans were cut from the same white sheets. And all that stood between the terrorized southern blacks and the Republican night riders was their stalwart Democratic president.
The strategy worked well enough. Bill Clinton got seven black votes for every one that Republican Bob Dole got, and the National Council of Churches raised a bundle of money. The strategy has endured, but if there is any one major difference between then and now, it is that Clinton’s commie allies were still in the closet, Ossoff’s aren’t. Georgians need to be reminded.
I believe this is called The Fallacy of the Red Herring. Gin up fake outrage, fake statistics to support your fake outrage and publicise fake crimes against the Criminal Class as truth, so people won't think about the real crime statistics, the real airport chair-throwing riots, the real twerking on McDonalds' countertops, the running gun battles, the complete ignorance of how to behave in public.
A YouTube video has gone viral of a woman walking the streets of Osaka, Japan, in the wee hours of the morning - in perfect safety. Why is that, you ask? Because Japan is a homogeneous culture that has never succumbed to "Diversity," and you don't have swarthy predators looking for a pretty girl to rob and rape.
"Lest anyone think that he, as an Arkansas native, had anything to do with that dark history, he reminded the audience that he was a boy at the time, and even then his heart was in the right place. Indeed, he was still haunted by 'vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.'"
Thank you, Jack, for the reminder (as if one were needed) that Dems/Libs/Progs/Commies are liars. It's what they do. But of course they don't lie ALL the time, only when it's convenient and furthers their agenda.
Bubba Clinton was/is one of the most facile of liars; besides "I did not have sex with that woman," I'll never forget the Arkansas native declaring, "Some of my most memorable times have been mornings in a duck blind with my rifle."
And as to the "revelation" that groups like The National Council of Churches (NCC) and the Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) were “two secretly Marxist organizations headquartered in the United States,” it all just goes to prove that "Tailgunner Joe" was right!