Now that Democrats have taken control of the Imperial Palace, NPR can get away with saying anything they want. Things like defending looting or promoting terrorism. It’s funny how “National Public Radio” only seems interested in talking to the liberal part of the nation.
NPR does it again
NPR took so much heat from the conservative side when they advocated burning books written by White authors that they’ll never ask anyone to “decolonize” their bookshelf ever again.
That doesn’t stop them from saying even more outrageous things. Last August, they were hyping a book called “In Defense of Looting.” This month’s Book Club segment on their “Politics Podcast” features “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.” Oh, just groovy.
The interview between NPR host Danielle Kurtzleben and liberal author Elizabeth Hinton says it all. The first clue to conservatives that this will make your blood boil comes from the writer’s credentials. She’s “a radical professor of African-American studies at Yale.” Over at their Law School no less.
Ms. Hinton was “super pumped” to be on the air. The progressive interviewer was equally ecstatic. “I’m pumped, too. I love doing these episodes. This is so exciting. this book is so excellent.” Burning and looting is such a wonderful subject, as long as you call it “rebellion” instead of “riot.”
White people aren’t allowed to have a rebellion, that’s been trademarked by Black Lives Matter™. When White folks get “uppity” it’s called “insurrection.” To Black folks, looting is simply “reparations” and arson nothing but “protected free speech.”
NPR got the ball rolling by asking, “you talk about these clashes as rebellions… and quite pointedly, not as riots. It’s a very meaningful choice. It really kind of shapes how the reader perceives these clashes. Tell us more about how you made that choice?” Hinton was so glad she asked.
Revolution comes back around
The movement is dead. It goes a certain distance and it stops, hence the name. Revolution, on the other hand, keeps coming back around in your face. It all started in the sixties. Along with all the really intense and un-stepped on LSD, Bob Marley was wailing about “A burning and a looting tonight” while Frank Zappa warned there’s “no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day.”
Way back then, Frank pointed out, “all that ‘you don’t understand me’ and the other jazz they hand me” is just “mass stupidity that seems to grow more every day.” At NPR they turned on the black lights, tuned in to Antifa® rhetoric, and dropped out of reality.
According to Ms. Hinton, “So much of why we’ve been stuck in this, you know, in this policy cycle is the response to these incidents of collective violence when they emerged in the mid-1960s and language is really important in understanding the true kind of meaning and motivations behind this form of violence, so that we might be able to respond to it more effectively.”
She told fans of NPR it all started “in Harlem in 1964, after a 15-year-old black high school student was killed by a New York city police officer.” Funny how everyone forgot all about it until now, when defunding the police is suddenly trendy.
Back then, she says, Lyndon Johnson was totally wrong to call that “violence.” Worse, he said it’s “linked to crime and delinquency problems in our cities. It’s lawless, it has nothing to do with the civil rights movement, it’s crime.” Hinton is crystal clear that she “thinks it’s wrong to describe looting, burning buildings, and violence against police as ‘crime.’ Clearly, she thinks violence is an important driver of social change. She’s insulted that the violent rioters aren’t recognized as idealistic advocates for progress.”
NPR agrees and gives her a soapbox to spew her propaganda. “So like the mainstream civil rights movement, the demands of those who embraced these sets of violent tactics were rooted in a demand to end police violence, of course, protection from white supremacy, decent jobs, expanded educational opportunities, and housing. And instead of recognizing these larger drivers, Johnson and other officials insisted this is criminal, and therefore the only response is more police, which is precisely the things the residents were protesting against.”
