With his burgeoning obsession with the alleged criminality of black people, Jack Cashill is swiftly turning into WorldNetDaily’s new Colin Flaherty, the race-baiter who saw “black mobs” everywhere (even when they were white or non-human). Cashill’s Nov. 22 column, though, began by invoking the “Charlottesville lie” lie:
When candidate Joe Biden launched his 2020 presidential campaign, he offered events at Charlottesville, Virginia, as his rationale for running.
Biden specifically cited Trump’s allegedly racist reaction to a 2017 dust-up in Charlottesville, shamelessly misrepresenting Trump’s comments about the violent clash.
As we’ve repeatedly noted when his WND compadres tried to similarly whitewash what happened in Charlottesville and Donald Trump’s “very fine people” response to it, the group that was protesting the removal of a Confederate statue and Robert E. Lee park renaming was American Warrior Revolution, which considers itself a militia and later effectively blamed liberal counterprotester Heather Heyer for her own death in getting mowed down by a car driven by white supremacist James Fields Jr. In other words, there wasn’t much actual “misrepresenting” going on.
Cashill went on to hype a sick-out by teachers at Charlottesville High School, allegedly because of incidents of student violence — which, of course, Cashill was quick to blame on black students, despite have no actual evidence to support the claim:
The night before the sudden Friday shut down, CHS counselor David Wilkerson took to Facebook to describe the mayhem that unfolded in the school on Thursday.
“Today, we had roving bands in search of the next fight, multiple fights from which to choose, and hundreds of kids filming and cheering,” Wilkerson wrote.
“We are infantilizing the kids who have neither the personal discipline nor the support from home to make healthy decisions and setting them up for horrific consequences in the near future.”
CHS is about 25% African American. The absence of any references to race, and the evidence from school fight videos elsewhere, leads the savvy reader to infer that the instigators are black.
Cashill didn’t explain why he thinks only black people are violent.
This then morphed into a promotion of his new book seeking to absolve white people of a racist motive in fleeing cities in the 1960s — which has been endorsed by the white nationalists at VDARE — and more lashing out at Michelle Obama:
This racially driven madness may be new to Charlottesville, but it is now new to inner-city America. As I document in my book “Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America,” chaos has been the norm in many city schools for at least 60 years.
When Michelle Obama was ready to start elementary school in 1969, for instance, her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, refused to send her to shiny new Dulles Elementary School just a block away.
From the Robinsons’ perspective, the problem wasn’t the school building. It was the school’s students, many of whom came from nearby housing projects.
Committing a Class C misdemeanor, the Robinsons used the address of Marian’s sister in Chicago’s middle-class South Shore neighborhood to enroll both Michelle and her brother, Craig, at Bryn Mawr Elementary, a 15-minute drive from Parkway Gardens.
[…]Ignoring her own experience, in 2019 Michelle condemned a largely white audience for the sin of “white flight.” Said Michelle, “I wanna remind white folks that y’all were running from us, and y’all still runnin’.”
Among the things that unnerved white people, Michelle imagined, were “the color of our skin” and the “texture of our hair.”
The posting of school fight videos online is making it harder and harder for race-baiters like Michelle to ignore the racial problems they and their political allies have helped nurture.
The graphic nature of these videos also make it harder for Michelle and her friends in the media to blame racial turmoil on people who flee to avoid it.
Cashill didn’t explain why he thinks only black people must be held responsible for “racial turmoil.”