By Clarence McKee |
Newsmax
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson
listens as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks about Chicago's weekend of gun
violence during a news conference at the Chicago Police Department 6th District
station August 6, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago experienced one of it's
most violent weekends of the year, after more then 70 people were shot, with 12
fatalities. (Joshua Lott/Getty Images
As I wrote in this space on October 15, 2015, in an
article entitled “Rahm
Emanuel Is Failing Chicago,” “Chicago is America’s Afghanistan.”
Three years later, America’s version of the “Killing
Fields” continues. According to the Chicago Tribune’s crime tracking team, as
of August 6, 318 people have been killed and 1,785 have been shot this year
alone.
This past weekend, of the reported 74 gunshot victims, 14 were under 18
including two of the reported 12 killed — an 11 and 13-year-old.
Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell, who is black
with family in Chicago, has been touched by the violence. He puts it in vivid perspective
in his recent opinion
article for Fox News:
“The gun and gang violence rampant in Chicago… is a
daily, piercing threat. Bullets are indiscriminate, and the death toll has a
crippling grip on Chicago’s black community that continually seeks help from
state and local leaders — only to be met with more disappointment and yet
another funeral… for black kids… going out to play in their own neighborhoods
or even their own backyards may be a life and death decision.”
Caldwell is not some casual observer. To him, it’s
personal.
During Memorial Day weekend last year, his younger
brother was sitting in a car with friends on Chicago’s south side when two men
fired 25 rounds into their car. His brother survived but his best friend died
in his arms.
The political and media reaction to such violence is, of
course, based on race and identity politics — the color of the skin of the
perpetrators and their victims. Just look at the following example.
A white man shoots and kills a black man in a fight over
a parking space in Clearwater, Florida. The Reverend Al Sharpton and all five
Democratic candidates for Governor show up at a church rally protesting
Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law.
The law was used by the local sheriff as a reason for not
arresting the white shooter. Even Trump endorsed Republican Gubernatorial
candidate Ron DeSantis — in a rare display of a Republican candidate appealing to
black voters’ concerns — jumped into the controversy. He criticized the sheriff
for misinterpreting the law saying he didn’t think he “analyzed the law
properly."
In stark contrast, the reaction from national and local
black and white Democrat officials to last weekend’s horrific violence has been
deafening silence. It’s the same silence and “see no evil” reaction they have
had to the outrageous ambush and harassment of Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk and
Candace Owens outside a Philadelphia restaurant Monday by so-called
anti-fascist "antifa" loyalists thugs — the Democrat Party’s new
“Brown Shirts.”
The latest shooting rampage comes two years after Emanuel
proclaimed in November 2016 that “you are safe in Chicago, you are secure in
Chicago… Chicago has in the past been a sanctuary city. ... It always will be a
sanctuary city…”
He was talking about illegal immigrants who feared a
Trump crackdown. He sure wasn’t talking to blacks on the South and West sides
of the city. For them, there is no sanctuary from violence!
Emanuel’s response to the weekend of blood and death:
“There is a shortage of values about what is right, what is wrong…”
Is he kidding?
This is the same Rahm Emanuel who said in 2012 regarding
the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain coming to Chicago: “Chick-fil-A’s values are
not Chicago values. They’re not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and
our family.”
My question is if Chick-fil-A’s Judeo-Christian values
are not Chicago’s values, what values is he referring to?
Don’t expect Reverend Sharpton, Chicago’s own Reverend
Jesse Jackson, or black and white national, state, and local politicians to
show up at any rally to protest the mayhem, mourn the dead and condemn the
killers.
Why? Because the shooters and their victims were black.
Although the killers have not been identified, that is the prevailing thought
given gang associations.
You can bet your boots that if these same black victims
had been shot by a group of Charlottesville-like white supremacist marchers;
or, if the protesters in Philadelphia had been wearing Trump hats and harassed
a black couple, all hell would have broken loose.
Jackson, Sharpton, Black Lives Matter advocates, antifa,
a scattering of entertainers and athletes as well as national and local
politicians would have rushed in to protest the racist violence.
You would
probably see several of the 2020 presidential wannabees knocking themselves
over getting to the nearest microphone and camera.
As I have previously written, based on their actions and
reactions, to many on the left and their political allies, a black life in
Chicago, Baltimore, and elsewhere has more value and gets much more attention
if taken by a white than if by another black.
Caldwell’s solution and recommendation: “President Trump
should direct Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Chris Wray to
come up with a comprehensive action plan to end Chicago’s status as a war zone.
I agree!
If the nation’s first black president Obama did not
choose to do anything to deal with the genocide of blacks in his
Democrat-controlled home town, maybe a white President Trump will.
Clarence V. McKee is president of McKee
Communications, Inc., a government, political, and media relations consulting
firm in Florida. He held several positions in the Reagan administration as well
as in the Reagan presidential campaigns. He is a former co-owner of WTVT-TV in
Tampa and former president of the Florida Association of Broadcasters. Read
more of his reports — Go
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