The right-wing obsession over the death of Cannon Hinnant, a white 5-year-old, allegedly caused by a black neighbor has so obsessed right-wing media that even the Media Research Center felt the need to weigh in. Meanwhile, WorldNetDaily — no stranger to race-baiting — weighed in as well, in the form of an Aug. 21 column by Barbara Simpson, who’s mad that we can’t blame all black people for this, despite the fact that no motive has yet been released and even the boy’s parents have said race was not an issue:
It’s an incident that’s made for headlines and screams for justice.
Except this is 2020, and that’s not the way things are because of one issue – race.
The little boy was white, and the man who shot him is black. There is no doubt who did it – the issue so far is why he did it. His parents speculate their son was high on drugs at the time.
So far, there are no reports of problems between the two families, and in fact, there is the report that Sessoms had dinner at the Hinnant house the night before.
While the legal wheels turn to investigate the case, the fact remains that the killing of Cannon Hinnant in North Carolina has been virtually ignored by media – broadcast and print. My local newspaper has not printed one word about it, nor have most print outlets, and as for broadcast, forget it. It’s been almost totally ignored.
What is there about this case that would lead media to ignore the horror of such an unprovoked murder? Do you think it has anything to do with race that media are afraid to report the deliberate killing of a white child by an adult black man?
[…]Mainstream media are ignoring the horror of this case, and it seems to me the issue IS race. I have no doubt that had the races been reversed, and a black child was killed that way by an adult white man, it would have been, and would continue to be, headline news. This is a sad reflection on what has happened in this country as media take sides on racial issues, and “Whitey is always guilty.”
Simpson conveniently omits the fact that there is no issue of injustice here, as there has been with other cases. Nobody is seriously defending the accused killer. But she’s off to the races, blaming Black Lives Matter even though the group has absolutely no involvement here:
Never forget the name “Cannon Hinnant” – the little white child sacrificed on the altar of Black Lives Matter. His life didn’t matter because he was the wrong color, and the media ignored his death for that reason, although they will never admit it.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the killer, how he is charged and what kind of “justice” he ultimately faces.
I’m not expecting much.
Given that Simpson likes to fearmonger about black unrest, we weren’t expecting much from her.