We May Never Know Who Frank James Hates

Police caught Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway attack. Excerpts:

The suspect in Tuesday’s subway attack in Brooklyn appears to have posted dozens of videos on social media in recent years — lengthy rants in which he expressed a range of harshly bigoted views and, more recently, criticized the policies of New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams.

“Harshly bigoted views”? Like what? Who did he hate? More:

The police also released a screenshot of Mr. James taken from a YouTube video posted by a channel belonging to the username prophetoftruth88.

The videos featured a man — who appeared to be the same man in a picture released by the police — delivering extended tirades, many of them overtly concerned with race and violence, often tying those subjects in with current events, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the policies of Mr. Adams. Two law enforcement officials said that Mr. James was the person featured in the channel’s videos.

“Many of them overtly concerned with race and violence”? What did he say? Who were the targets of his hateful tirades?

You can’t see the videos because YouTube has taken them down. I think we can be pretty confident about who it was that Frank James hates, if only because the Times is protecting a black violent bigot. It’s almost like if they said what James raged about, we would make a connection between that and the sophisticated anti-white bigotry that the Times and other liberal elites traffick in constantly.

Fortunately, Miranda Devine of the New York Post had a look at James’s videos:

The social media rants of the 62-year-old suspect reveal a man consumed with hatred of white people and convinced of a looming race war.

“O black Jesus, please kill all the whiteys,” was one meme he posted.

He’s not too complimentary about Hispanics, Asians and his own race, for that matter, and claims to have had long-term mental health problems. The 29 victims of Tuesday’s shooting were a multicultural mix, as you would expect in a crowded rush-hour subway train. Police say James detonated a smoke grenade before firing 33 shots on the Manhattan-bound N train. Police found a hatchet, three ammunition magazines, fireworks and gasoline. It’s a miracle no one was killed.

But whatever his psychiatric issues, James sounds very much like other ideologically fixated, identity-obsessed killers who have emerged since the BLM-Antifa racial movement of 2020 and the hate speech it unleashed.

James posted material on social media linked to black identity extremist ideologies, including the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army, BLM and an image of black nationalist cop-killer Micah Johnson.

“White people and black people, as we call ourselves, should not have any contact with each other,” James rants in one of hundreds of YouTube videos posted to a channel under the user name “prophetoftruth88,” from which police took a screenshot to identify him as a suspect, and which was removed from YouTube Wednesday.

In another video, he weeps over the news that new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is married to a “white man,” whom he described as the “enemy.”

If you read the Post story, you can see that the paper embedded an excerpt from James’s racist rants.

Do you think for one hot second that if the terrorism suspect had been a white nationalist, that the Times would be downplaying the nature of his online hatred? Please. We are not allowed to notice reality.

Look at this:

Every item in this SF Walgreens is under lock and key.

There’s practically nothing you can buy without having to call an associate to unlock something.

I’ve never been in a country that lives this way. pic.twitter.com/omFdoqH2CL

— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) April 13, 2022

I have seen lots of videos of thieves stealing from stores. If you are on social media, so have you. There is a racial angle there, undeniably — at least on evidence of the videos. What does it mean? Certainly not that “all black people are thieves” — that would genuinely be racist. But contrast the evidence of your eyes with the discourse in the liberal media about race, in which all the race-based evil in the world is the fault of white supremacy.

A white friend in America told me recently that she and her husband are moving out of their majority-black city, because they are afraid of the strong upsurge in black crime, including violent shootings now happening in their own part of the city. She’s afraid to admit why, and doesn’t even want to admit it to herself. But she’s afraid — and she’s pissed off that nobody is permitted to talk about it publicly. She told me that she’s sick of the dishonesty of media discourse around race, and the anti-white hatred. I asked her what she could possibly do about it. “I told you,” she said.”We’re moving. We want to live in peace and order.”

She added, “The liberals can blame us [white people] all they want for this, but I don’t care. At the end of the day, we have to think about our families. If they think we’re racist, so what?”

She told me that she and her husband, though conservatives, stayed in their majority black city even though a lot of their white friends moved to the predominantly white suburbs because they wanted to vote with confidence for a multiracial future for their city. They’ve lost that confidence now, and are getting out before the stampede starts, while they can still get a good price for their house.

We finished our text exchange with her saying that between the sharply rising violent crime (all caused by young black men in her city), and the unreality of public discourse about race in America, she and her husband no longer believe they have a future in their city. She said that she and her husband are more afraid of being robbed or shot than they are of having white liberals think badly of them.

You watch: a year from now, if there is any sort of measurable exodus of whites from crime-ridden cities, The New York Times is going to agonize over white flight. An American white liberal in 2022 is someone who blames themselves for their own mugging.

UPDATE: Wow. It’s almost like actual black Americans don’t care so much about what white and black media elites think they should care about:

Based on the media and social media, what do you think Black adults in the United States rate as the most important issue(s) facing the community that they live in?

Here is what new survey data shows: pic.twitter.com/l79PfnREkm

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) April 14, 2022

UPDATE.2: Charles Fain Lehman, in the Washington Free Beacon. Excerpts:

Frank James, the man arrested for Tuesday’s New York City subway shooting, is a black nationalist and outspoken racist who railed against whites, Jews, and Hispanics. A careful reader of the New York Times could be forgiven for overlooking that. In a nearly 2,000-word article on the attack, James’s race is not mentioned. The same is true for the coverage offered up by Reuters; the Washington Post only mentioned James’s race in relation to his condemnation of training programs for “low-income Black youths.”

Media critics on the right say that the conspicuous omission of James’s race from these news reports illustrates a trend among prestige papers, which deemphasize or omit the race of non-white criminals while playing up the race of white offenders. But is it a real pattern?

Yes. A Washington Free Beacon review of hundreds of articles published by major papers over a span of two years finds that papers downplay the race of non-white offenders, mentioning their race much later in articles than they do for white offenders. These papers are also three to four times more likely to mention an offender’s race at all if he is white, a disparity that grew in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 and the protests that followed.

The Free Beacon collected data on nearly 1,100 articles about homicides from six major papers, all written between 2019 and 2021. Those papers included the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis’s Star-Tribune—representatives of each paper did not return requests for comment for this article. For each article, we collected the offender’s and victim’s name and race, and noted where in the article the offender’s race was mentioned, if at all.

The data suggest an alarming editorial trend in which major papers routinely omit information from news reports, presenting readers with a skewed picture of who does and doesn’t commit crime. These editorial choices are part and parcel with the “racial reckoning” that swept newsrooms in the wake of Floyd’s murder, which saw journalists dramatically overhauling crime coverage to emphasize the view that the criminal justice system is racist at the root—perhaps at the expense of honesty about individual offenders’ crimes.

Read it all. The WFB documents what Steve Sailer has called the War On Noticing.

The post We May Never Know Who Frank James Hates appeared first on The American Conservative.