Donald Trump and the White Mainstream Media

The white mainstream media consists of a slugfest between two warring factions. The white racist media and the white propagandist media. At least that’s what some in the progressive and the black community perceive.

To them, the brawl has become more ferocious since Donald Trump entered the Republican presidential campaign, but not in a way where blood and teeth, skin and muscle litter the political ground.

Both the racist media, such as FOX News and The New York Post, and the propagandist media, such as CNN and NBC, have gone out of their way to bow like butlers and maids to the man they love to hate. You could say they are now nothing more than the groupies, the suckers, the crawling, creeping cubs of a sloth bear that may eat her cubs if they are diseased or deformed.

And that is what Trump has just done.

An article published by NPR titled "How the Media Failed in Covering Donald Trump" seems to uphold this conclusion. Written by David Folkenflik, the article criticizes mildly, I should add, how the mainstream media did not do what it is supposed to do.

But, in fact, it did do what it is supposed to do.

To protect yourself from mosquito bites and bee stings, it’s natural to spray on your arms and legs insect repellant. And when your laser printer prints documents whose words have faded, who would not drive to a Walmart or Kmart to buy toner, instead of printing until the words don’t show at all?

Similarly, if white supremacists protest gunless in black neighborhoods, blacks can counter-protest nonviolently. But if the KKK or white Christian evangelical racists show up with shotguns and rifles, why should black protesters respond with only placards, singing and yells of “Black Lives Matter”?

If you’re going to get shot, it doesn’t hurt to protect your family and friends from getting shot too. If a neo-Nazi fires at you with his shotgun, you could delete one less white supremacist from the database of neo-Nazism by returning fire with an AK-47.

Thus, the armed response by South Dallas blacks to the gun-carrying racists was not only prudent, but necessary.

President Barack Obama finds it so necessary to protect America from the brutality of ISIS that he authorized sending military special forces and beginning a bombing campaign on ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria.

Russia was so alarmed by the U.S. and European Union instigation of a coup in the Ukraine, which overthrew the legally-elected leftist government and replaced it with a neo-Nazi-infested rightist government, that it took back Crimea from the Ukraine and armed Russian-Ukrainians in East Ukraine so they could protect themselves and eventually establish their own government.

Are blacks so passive as to think that the Republican Party, white Christian evangelical racists and the KKK are any less brutal, any less terrorist, any less solemnly committed to lynching and hacking off the hands and feet of blacks and Latinos with machetes than ISIS or the neo-Nazi government in the Ukraine do to gays and Russians?

The blacks in South Dallas don’t think so. The winds of armed defiance carried the aroma of apple incense and the sweet freshness of an Hawaiian Breeze air freshener from distant continents to South Dallas’s warm, cozy community.

As such, along with necessity, that act of bravery also demonstrates common sense.

Employing the strategy of common sense, the Kurds of Iraq, Turkey and Syria have learned how to deal with extremists who threaten their existence. They slit their throats. May the sun continue to shine his rays on their example for their children and the black community to emulate.

Or rather, we should ask, is it better for black America to follow the example of the Kurds? For some, it’s better to drive a Humvee at full speed through a mob of white supremacists than to suffer one more day of indignity locked in the prison of a docile mind. Others might find it more advantageous to act like the Charleston nine just before racist and neo-Nazi Dylann Roof gunned them down with his Glock 45.

Whatever the choice, courage to resist, prudence to implement, necessity to defend and the loveliness, the rose and pearl, of common sense earns the blacks of South Dallas a wreath of honor that racism can never erase.