The Media Desperately Wants You To Ignore This Horrifying Story

There are a few skills that are hard-wired into the brains of infants that are so fundamental, and so critical for survival, that they’re operative from the moment of birth — if not sooner. One of them is pattern recognition, which is how infants recognize their mother’s faces. Even the youngest child is capable of matching a new stimulus with an event that’s previously established in their memory, and alter their behavior accordingly. Of course animals do the same thing.

But a funny thing happened to pattern recognition, starting around the middle of the last century. Pattern recognition transformed from a fundamental feature of human psychology to something far more sinister. To paraphrase the author Steve Sailer, a “war on noticing” commenced. Over the past several decades, we have been told that we are not allowed to notice patterns of human behavior, and if we do notice them, we must pretend that we don’t. It’s not enough to say that all men deserve equal rights under our Constitution and that all men are created in God’s image. Instead, it is now incumbent on all Americans to affirm that their past experiences and observations should have no bearing whatsoever on their current thought process or future behavior. White Americans who observed that cities were becoming much more dangerous, for example, weren’t supposed to flee to the suburbs for the safety of their families. Rather than engage in white flight, they were supposed to stay put and enjoy the fruits of diversity.

This campaign has been going on for several generations and, as we all know, the cities aren’t any safer. They’re far more dangerous in every respect. But our leaders are undeterred. The mandate of total conformity — the war on noticing — is still underway.

That’s why you probably haven’t heard the story of a white 19-year-old Berkeley student named Seth Smith. Five years ago, Seth Smith was shot in the back of the head while he was out for a walk near campus. There was no warning. It wasn’t an attempted robbery or anything like that. In fact, Seth Smith still had his headphones on when his body was discovered. When investigators identified the killer and began questioning him, he complained, “A white kid gets killed and the damn whole world stops… F that white motherf*****.”

Seth Smith’s killer, as you might have guessed, was black. In response, there were no CNN segments about a modern-day lynching. There was no national outcry. Instead, a few months later, the Biden administration declared that “white supremacy” is the greatest threat facing the nation.

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Not long afterwards, a white Philadelphia parking enforcement officer named Tim McKenzie was nearly executed in a similar fashion. He was shot in the back of the head by a black man while he was on the job, the day after Thanksgiving. This wasn’t a robbery, or the result of some kind of altercation. Security camera footage shows that the two men didn’t interact in any way before the shooting. As Tim McKenzie crumbled to the ground — with a bullet lodged in his skull that would take surgeons 15 weeks to remove — the shooter immediately ran away. Again, the national media buried this story. You weren’t supposed to notice it had happened.

In 2023, there was a similar response — or lack thereof — when a white handyman named Lawrence Herr was murdered while he was fixing his elderly mother’s mailbox in a suburb of New Orleans. We talked about the murder on this show at the time, but no other major media outlet has ever been interested in the story. Two black men had taken the day off their jobs at I-HOP in order to find a white person to murder. That was their explicit goal, which they later admitted to police: They wanted to go hunting for white people. When they saw Lawrence Herr, they circled the block a few times before gunning him down and leaving him to die in the street. No words were exchanged. There was no altercation. The only motive was that Lawrence Herr was white. So these two black men decided that he had to die.

That same year, a white social worker named Leah Rosin-Pritchard was butchered with a hatchet while she worked in a homeless shelter in Vermont. Again, this was not a robbery, or the result of an altercation. It was a premeditated murder that was not provoked in any way. After the killing, a local prosecutor remarked, “What hits personally for me is that there are definitely larger community conversations that we need to have, but we can’t escape, and we can’t ignore.”

Whatever “community conversations” this liberal prosecutor in Vermont had in mind, it’s hard to say. Apparently, she can’t say either, because she never explained what she meant. But her general sentiment, at least, is absolutely correct. It’s time to talk about something that no one in mainstream politics is willing to talk about, which is why so many black people — young black males in particular — are committing violent crimes. And why they’re committing so many crimes against white people.

For years, it’s been obvious that this violence would only become more overt and intolerable, as a major political party in this county openly encouraged anti-white race hatred. And indeed, that’s exactly what’s been happening. The “lynchings,” as the media would call these killings if the races were reversed, are continuing in broad daylight. And they are becoming harder and harder to ignore, despite the best efforts of the media.

On Wednesday, as you may have seen, the latest instance of black-on-white homicide took place in Frisco, Texas, which is a short drive from Dallas. A white 17-year-old high school junior named Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death by a black athlete at a championship track meet, which was being held at a local stadium. Here’s how the local media is reporting on what happened:

It’s “senseless,” according to the local news station. There was “some kind of fight.” But what kind of fight was it, exactly? Did Austin Metcalf attack his killer first? Why exactly would someone bring a knife to a track meet? And where exactly did the murder take place? Apparently none of these questions seemed relevant to the local Fox affiliate that aired that report. Pretty much all of the reporting has been like this.

You’re supposed to gloss over details from the arrest affidavit, which states that the black athlete, Karmelo Anthony, was spotted in a tent that was reserved for Memorial High School — even though he was competing for a different school called Centennial. That’s when Austin Metcalf, who was running for Memorial High School, told Karmelo Anthony to get out of the tent. In response, one witness says that Anthony opened his bag and reached inside. Then he told Metcalf, “touch me and see what happens.” At some point, Metcalf reportedly grabbed Anthony (or his backpack) to get him out of the tent. And in response, according to the affidavit, Anthony pulled a knife from his bag, stabbed Metcalf in the heart, and ran away as Metcalf bled out. Police say he then threw the murder weapon into the stands in order to hide the evidence.

Those are facts that look a lot like premeditation. After all, bringing a deadly weapon into the opposing team’s tent during a track meet — and then daring them to touch you so that you can stab them — is exactly the kind of thing you’d do if you wanted to find a pretext to kill someone. And of course, if you had just defended yourself in any kind of legitimate way, you probably wouldn’t flee the scene and then throw the murder weapon away.

The local news stations don’t want to talk about these aspects of the story because they might lead to some unapproved conclusions. It’s the same reason they don’t show you Karmelo Anthony’s recent social media posts. Look at these two images:

As you can see, Karmelo Anthony has an evil grin while extending his middle finger towards the camera. In other images he’s hoisting a gun in the air.

By contrast, here are Austin Metcalf’s recent posts:

He’s celebrating that his hard work paid off, and that he won Linebacker of the Year in football, as well as team VP. And just a week ago, he was writing about his faith in God. The contrast could not be more obvious, or more predictable.

The reason these images aren’t being played in primetime by every news outlet is the same reason they showed you the childhood images of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin and so on, instead of the images where they’re wearing gold teeth or flashing gang signs. They’re trying to short-circuit your pattern recognition. You’re not supposed to notice that posing like a thug — and acting like one — is a commonly accepted aspect of black culture in this country. Everyone knows it’s true. But no one’s supposed to say it. 

But no matter how much the media tries to deceive us, the fact remains that pattern recognition is hard-wired at birth. And to prove that point, consider this hypothetical, which I posted yesterday on social media. A lot of people were very upset by this post, which is why I’m going to repeat it. Here’s the hypothetical. Imagine that I told you that a young man stabbed another young man to death for telling him that he was in the wrong seat, and then I told you that one young man in this altercation was white and the other black, and then I asked you to guess the race of the assailant. Without any more information, you would know the answer immediately, wouldn’t you? Every single person in the country would know the answer immediately. Young black males are violent to a wildly, outrageously disproportionate degree. That’s a fact. The “races reversed” scenario would almost certainly not happen. Black people don’t have to worry about being murdered in cold blood if they say something slightly irritating to a white person. White people have much more reason to worry the other way.

The statistics could not be more stark on this point. From 2010 to 2020, as one of my followers pointed out to me yesterday, there were a total of 14,689 black-on-white homicides. By contrast, there were just 6,148 white-on-black homicides. This is in spite of the fact that there are over 200 million white people in this country and only 40 million black people. This means that, adjusting for population size, a black person is approximately 12 times more likely to kill a white person, than vice versa.

When you look at violent crime in general, the disparity is even wider. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2019, there were 562,550 violent interracial incidents involving blacks and whites. A total of 472,570 of these incidents — 84% of them — were black on white. Adjusting for population size, that means that it’s about 28 times more likely that a black person will violently attack a white person, than the other way around. That includes robbery, rape, assault and so on.

To clarify: I’m talking about a very small subset of the population here. Almost all of the violent crime among black people (and people of any race) is committed by young males. There are 20 million black males in the country, which accounts for only about 7% of the American population. If we were to take out all the black males over the age of 36 from these calculations, you’d realize quickly that it’s a very small portion of the population that’s committing a hugely, astronomically disproportionate amount of violent crime. According to FBI statistics, the 18-34 age range dominates violent crime statistics, to the point that it makes up something like 50 to 60% of all arrests.

Overall, somewhere around 50% of the murders in this country are committed by black people, and about 35% of non-fatal violent crimes. Again: these crimes are being committed by less than 13% of the population. In other words, there is clearly a massive problem with black culture, specifically as it relates to younger black males. And contrary to what the media will claim, this is not a problem that can be solved by eliminating “systemic racism” or sending reparations to black communities.

The New York Times, of all places, made this very clear in its reporting a few years ago. Here’s what they wrote. This is one of the most remarkable statistics you’ll ever hear:

The sons of black families from the top 1 percent had about the same chance of being incarcerated on a given day as the sons of white families earning $36,000.

That sentence is worth reading again.

This means, pretty clearly, that the “legacy of slavery” or whatever does not explain the statistical propensity for violence we see among young black males. No amount of affirmative action or DEI can solve the problem. Reparations aren’t going to fix this. It’s a much deeper issue.

So what does explain these statistics?

We’ve discussed many times that roughly 70% of black children are born to single mothers. That’s far higher than any other demographic group on the planet, and it’s obviously a major contributing factor. No demographic group can remain productive and functional members of society if their children are routinely abandoned by their fathers. But at the same time, we still have to explain why exactly all of these black fathers are abandoning their children. We have to solve the cause of the problem, rather than talking about the symptoms.

Jason Whitlock wrote this on X yesterday:

Quit imagining if the ‘roles were reversed’ and reverse your role in the insanity. Boldly state there’s a problem with American black culture and that we ALL must reject and fight against a demonic culture that defines blackness as loud, violent, entitled, hedonistic, materialistic, ghetto, prison, victimhood, profane, matriarchal, and tatted. Loudly and boldly reject so-called black culture. It separates black people from Christ. … Reject the idols of black degeneracy… Snoop, Kendrick, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, Cardi B, etc.. All demons.

This is a black man saying this, of course. It’s probably worth paying attention to. Of course, much of modern culture across the board is, as Jason says, demonic. The glorification of materialism, hedonism, and so on, is not a feature exclusive to black culture. But these problems are obviously significantly more pronounced in the black community. And black culture is producing a lot of very angry, very violent young men who do not value human life — their own, or anyone else’s. This is a fact born out by both statistics and the individual experience of pretty much everyone in the country. This is a real problem. We all know it. We have to stop pretending that we don’t.

Is this the only cause for dysfunction in black communities? Of course not. Anyone who tells you that there’s an easy solution here is lying to you. The roots of this problem are deep and far-reaching and tangled in many different directions. But we know with certainty that we’ll never identify those roots if we can’t speak honestly about it. Every academic is required to believe that any negative statistic involving racial disparities in the aggregate — whether it’s SAT scores or violent crime — must be the result of systemic racism, and nothing else. As a corollary, we are required to believe that every statistical discrepancy can be solved with liberal social engineering.

This approach has been a disaster for this country. Too many people of all races have been killed because statistics and common sense and open debate are now effectively outlawed. We constantly hear about the need for an “uncomfortable conversation about race.” Well, this is it. This is the uncomfortable conversation. For Austin Metcalf’s sake — and the sake of countless other victims, both white and black — it’s time that we finally start having it.