Ralph Yarl, 2023’s Emmett Till.
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Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D- AZ) has condemned the “gun violence and injustice” surrounding the shooting of a 16-year-old sub-Saharan boy in Kansas City on April 13, 2023. Giffords was shot in the head by a mentally ill man in early 2011 and is now a gun control advocate. FOX News blamed American Renaissance for the shooting — a deliberate act of misinformation used against white advocates by mainstream conservatives.
The sub-Saharan in this “gun violence and injustice” morality play, Ralph Yarl, was shot for “ringing the wrong doorbell” by an 84-four-year-old white man named Andrew Lester. The mainstream media, liberal politicians such as Giffords, and sub-Saharan racial activist groups have turned the situation into an Emmett Till narrative, which is a type of media-fueled story that is filled with omissions of facts and half-truths dealing with a young sub-Saharan who is killed or injured by “mean” white(s).
We first saw this type of morality play in 1955. That is when Emmett Till, a young sub-Saharan, was killed in Mississippi by “mean” whites. Photos of Till invariably depict a cherubic child, rather than the more dangerous young man that he was. Till’s death led to an uproar in the media and influenced the 1956 presidential election, pushing “civil rights” to the forefront of the national conversation. Hyping Till’s death proved an effective way for the Leftist establishment to advance the policies that they favored in the mid-1950s, and such Emmett Till-style morality plays continue to be utilized today.
An Emmett Till narrative has three basic aims: furthering some agenda of the Leftist establishment, scaring sub-Saharans into voting for the Democratic Party in the next election, and/or distracting the public from an ongoing disaster that they don’t want widely noticed. It involves only telling part of the truth about an altercation between a white(s) and a sub-Saharan(s). Emmett Till, for example, was said to have “wolf whistled” at a white woman in Mississippi back in 1955. What he really did was seize a white woman and try to rape her.[1]
In addition to omitting the sub-Saharan’s criminality in these narratives, the media usually selects older photos rather than more recent ones of the alleged victim — those which give more of an impression of innocence. During the Trayvon Martin affair in 2012, the media used photos of Martin from when he was 12, despite the fact that he was 17 at the time of his death. Martin’s social media profile, by contrast, showed a young man who was affecting a convincing gangsta persona. Martin was shot while hitting a neighborhood watchman. One media outlet then altered the watchman’s 9/11 calls to make him appear to have been stalking Martin, giving the impression that he was a racist vigilante.
When it came to Michael Brown in 2014, the media published photos of Brown wearing a graduation cap and gown, implying he was an “honor student.” Brown, however, was not a scholar. He was a wannabe rapper who wrote lyrics containing violent, anti-police lyrics. Further, despite the fact that Brown was killed by a police officer while attempting to grab his gun. Brown had been stopped after he was walking in the middle of the street while high on marijuana after having just robbed a store. The media nonetheless claimed that he had been shot while on his knees with his hands up, as though begging for his life.
Then, in the 2020 Ahmaud Arbery case, the shooters were convicted despite the fact that the slain Arbery had had a long history of crime, and that he was likely casing a worksite in order to steal tools. All of this was ignored in the media and in court, however.
In the case of Ralph Yarl, the media’s story is that the sub-Saharan merely “rang the wrong doorbell” before being shot. The important facts are again being omitted, however. Some reports suggest that Yarl was in fact trying to open the door; this happened at 10 PM, when it is dark. Moreover, it is entirely possible that the shooting was not a criminal act under Missouri’s “castle doctrine” and “stand your ground” laws. There are also some other odd facts about the incident. Why were Yarl’s siblings out at 10 PM on a school night? This isn’t criminal activity, but it is unusual. And why didn’t Yarl use his cell phone to find the correct address with? The media and politicians who are presently hyping up the Ralph Yarl shooting are very aware that evidence of criminal activity by Yarl could very well emerge, given that he was in the demographic that commits the most crime.
In today’s environment, it is best to call 911 to report a suspected break-in before shooting. If violence becomes necessary, one should stay on the phone so that everything can be recorded. The shooter will be faced with legal problems regardless of the circumstances, so this is essential. If you are a gun owner, you should read Massad Ayoob’s considerable body of work about the legal ins and outs of using firearms in self-defense.
You can buy Greg Johnson’s In Defense of Prejudice here
The Emmett Till-style narrative being spun around Ralph Yarl is unusual because of its timing, however. The next election is too far off for that to be the rationale. So why push the story now?
Those elements of the United States government that supports the “civil rights” agenda is the same group that supports aggressive American intervention in far-off conflicts. This has been true since the Kennedy administration threw US military advisors into Vietnam. The Biden regime is likewise a “civil rights”-promoting administration with an aggressive anti-Russian policy as well, although without the necessary ability to deter Russia.
The war is going poorly for Ukraine. There are reports of Ukrainian ammunition shortages, and military casualties are certainly higher than are being reported. Likewise, Ukraine’s continuing hold on Bakhmut is far from certain. The cheery headlines about Ukraine’s plucky resistance there are beguiling. The Russians are making steady advances, which is clear by comparing photos of the frontlines around Bakhmut in late July with those from today. The ongoing Battle of Bakhmut is becoming a Verdun or Stalingrad in political significance. Should the Russians capture Bakhmut in its entirety, the political ramifications for Ukraine will indeed be terrible.
The anticipated Ukrainian spring offensive has the same likelihood of succeeding as the German attack on the Kursk Salient in 1943. The Russians have employed an army of Central Asian workers to build defense-in-depth fortifications, which will result in high Ukrainian casualties in any counterattack. It therefore might be time for the Ukrainians to consider negotiations, including offering a guarantee not to join NATO. This would be a severe blow for the Biden administration, however, being the second military disaster of his term. Thus, they may see this as an opportune time to spin an Emmett Till narrative to hide the scale of the debacle.
There may also be a push on the part of the Leftist establishment to disarm white Americans out of fear. They may be growing wary of the increasing hostility that American Majority whites have for their policies, and this could be why “stand your ground” laws are under a coordinated media attack, since they offer legal protection to whites who defend themselves.
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White advocates may be able to use the Yarl shooting to develop successful countermeasures against future Emmett Till narratives. Our internet sleuths should figure out who lives at the house where Yarl’s siblings were said to be at the time of the shooting. Do the residents there even know the Yarls? Will cell phone records show that Yarl’s siblings were actually there at the time? Moreover, Yarl’s background needs to be thoroughly investigated. Did he have a criminal record of any sort? Was he really an “honor student?” Was he involved in bad behavior at school? Has Yarl ever been seen in other neighborhoods where he claimed to be at the “wrong house” while looking for his siblings?
Conversely, why aren’t flattering photos of the white shooter, Andrew Lester, being shown in the press? White advocates can acquire photos of Lester as a young man holding his small children and disseminate them online. If Lester was in the military, he should be shown in uniform.
White advocates should watch this case carefully. Lester will go through several legal processes before finally going to trial. Understanding this process can show where white advocates who are civically involved in their local communities can position themselves in order to help their people. They should seek to become judges, not stand before them in court.
The Emmett Till narrative is a tried-and-true method for the Left, but the tactic is nearly 70 years old. It is only a matter of time before it will become obsolete due to changing circumstances. White advocacy is a movement with enough maturity and talent to defeat this latest such narrative — as well as the next.
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[1] Till’s father, Louis Till, was offered the choice of either joining the US Army or going to prison during the Second World War after he was arrested for beating his wife. Opting for the former, he continued his criminal ways and was ultimately executed by the Army after he was convicted of rape and murder. Young Emmett was merely following in his father’s footsteps. In fact, he was only in Mississippi in order to stay with relatives because he had been causing trouble in Chicago, where he was from.
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I believe that the way to deal with this is to discredit the MSM. Then when they spin their false narratives, nobody will believe them. It’s easy to demonstrate that for any of these causes-of-the-month, when the facts inevitably come out, the MSM consistently lied like the devil since the story broke.
One other thing about the Trayvon Martin case is that the guy he tried to beat to death (unfortunately for him, bringing fists to a gunfight) is Hispanic rather than White. Still, the MSM hung onto their White-on-Black narrative with that one well beyond the point of ridiculousness. It’s glaringly obvious that the MSM does things like this out of a malevolent anti-White bias. All that remains is to expose them as the lying sons-of-biscuits that they are.
The Gentle Giant, the Jogger and now the Chemist/Scholar. What will they come up with next?
The Birdwatcher a couple years ago in Central Park got a white woman in serious trouble by accusing her of being a Karen. The Organic Farmer, the Mountain Climber, the Kayaker, the Kremlinologist, the Bagpiper, they’re all waiting in the wings.
Sounds like a bastardized version of The Village People.
Unfortunately for Greg and Travis McMichael and Roddy Bryan, the defendants in the Georgia case, the outlook is very bleak. They have been convicted of murder in a state court trial that was blatantly stacked against them, and of hate, in the double jeopardy prosecution by the DOJ, with life sentences for both. The Republican governor and attorney general are both as flaccid as any conceivable Republican president would be, so appeals are their only hope. I contribute to their defense fund (https://givesendgo.com/McMichaeldefense) if only just to let them know that they are not forgotten. Greg, the older McMichael, while he was in the Navy, saved a black man from drowning by pulling him from the water and giving CPR; amazingly, his son Travis, while a teenage lifeguard, did the same for a black kid.
In the situation for which they were convicted, they were trying to detain the suspiciously behaving Ahmaud Arbery until the police arrived. They had 911 on the line throughout the incident. The shotgun went off because Arbery was insanely trying to pull it away from Travis, who had been trained as a boarding officer in the Coast Guard to never surrender his weapon.
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother can console herself with over two million dollars in donations; Leigh McMichael, wife of Greg, now has her husband and son both in prison for life two times over; her grandson will grow up without a father. She is mortgaging her house to pay for an appeal.
It is possible that one of the Left’s goals in the Yarl case is to get Missouri to repeal or restrict “stand your ground” or “castle doctrine” defenses the way they got Georgia to repeal their citizen’s arrest law in the wake of the Arbery killing. It is not likely to happen. The Arbery case occurred in the Floyd maelstrom, and the political situation is Georgia is very different from that in Missouri. It is quite possible that Andrew Lester will be acquitted; and if not, that an appeal would be successful. Even a pardon is not unthinkable if a local K.C. judge and jury railroad him. However, his life will be destroyed with a ruinous lawsuit and horrible publicity. And the DOJ could bring hate charges against him in a federal court.
One thing about the Trayvon Martin episode has been a longtime question for me –where did this kid get the money to get on a bus in Miami (one afternoon after being ‘sent home’ for misbehaving in class — yet again) and going clear up to Orlando, about 230 miles north, to see his dad — probably hoping his dad would take his side in this school dispute.
When I was a simple little 12-year-old White girl in the early 1960’s, I would be terrified if I was kicked out of school in the middle of the day and sent home, trembling the whole day inside until my mom would get home and whip my fanny! I had an allowance of 50 cents a week, and had no idea how to get on a bus that would take me 200 miles out of town.
This is a perfect expose of the difference, in black and white, of how we two ‘equal’ people are in no way ‘equal’. We were not equal in 1960 and we are not equal now!
Travon Martin is the poster boy of what happens when a person lives in a country that has laws which that person sees fit to flaunts cheerfully. And again, how did he have that much money with him? Did his mom give it to him? If so, that is indeed part of the problem.
We really have to be separated.
Readers from Britain will be familiar with the case of Stephen Lawrence, a young Black British ‘aspiring architect’ murdered ‘at random’ by a gang of ‘white racists’ thirty years ago. This killing (which some allege to have been drug-related) and the ‘bungled investigation’ by an ‘institutionally racist police force’ has had an immense impact. The ‘lessons’ are expounded to the young in schools and the case, which is not closed, continues to make headlines to this day. The centuries-old legal prohibition on ‘double jeopardy’, that no man may be tried more than once for the same accusation, was junked to secure a partial conviction of the perpetrators, and the mother of the unfortunate youth, a bitter and truculent woman, was raised to the House of Lords. Despite its having no basis in prior British jurisprudence, a new doctrine has been instituted that the opinion of a single person suffices to raise an offence to the heinous category of ‘hate crime’, which attracts an enhanced penalty if proven. Though Black-on-white crime is an order of magnitude more common, I think I am correct in saying that none have ever been identified as such, whereas instances of the reverse are always given saturation coverage in the British press and by the BBC. Naturally the effect of this invidious and sinister subversion of criminal justice has been to demoralise the police and greatly to incentivise criminal activity by Black Britons. This problem is chronic, severe and in the form ‘county lines’ drug gangs is metastasising from the nation’s increasingly dilapidated and alien cities to the once idyllic countryside. And yet still the activist media maintain omertà over excess Black criminality and work steadily to undermine the police and prison service for attempting to enforce the law and protect the public. And this is merely a single dimension: I have not touched upon the dumbing down of education, the coarsening of our culture, the pollution of our nation’s history, the toleration of noise and mess that are enjoined upon us in order to pacify this recalcitrant minority. And of course it is never enough, for now comes the wail for ‘reparations’ to rectify centuries-old grievances. O Poles and Hungarians, learn from the error of Britain! Do not listen to the siren voices urging ‘compassion’: never allow this devouring scourge to take root your lands!
There’s no way this 16 year old was picking up siblings and went to the wrong door. Won’t matter once the narrative falls apart, just like it didn’t matter in Georgia when the felon’s friends and relatives all swore he went jogging in workboots all the time through White neighborhoods. How many months did we have to deal with negros and their Pale supplicants pretending to be Mikey Brown, kneeling and holding their hands up? Riots and juror intimidation will be used in this case, as it was in all the others. Hopefully Mr Lester comes through it okay.
Sad to see so many in the DR so heavily engorging on the Scott Ritter/Douglass MacGregor coolaid. Putin’s gamble and the subsequent criminal retardation of Russia’s armed forces were the worst thing to happen to Russia in the last 30 years; and the best to happen to NATO since the Gulf War. Considering how a little over a year ago >95% of all Western experts were predicting for Russia to just steamroll over Ukraine, I’d say the war is going better for NATO than its most wildly optimistic expectations.
While we’re on the “teachable moment” of Emmet Till, let us not forget the 2013 case of melanated youngster Kendrick Johnson ─ a cause nobly advanced by the same racial-grievance attorney Benjamin Crump. This is the man who handled the St. George Floyd riots, and the Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Jacob Blake shootings, and now the Ralph Yarl shooting and possible Summer of ritoting and probable efforts to legislate “common sense” gun-control.
Kendrick Johnson wasn’t shot by a cop or a scared elderly White man. He was an aspiring High School sportsball player without a mix-tape who while trying to retrieve his gym shoes stashed in some rolled up wrestling mats stored vertically in the corner of the Lowndes High School gymnasium at Valdosta, Georgia just before his weightlifting class, got hisself all trapped upside down and positionally asphyxiated.
It was a pretty horrible death and young Kendrick scarcely had the time or the ability to whimper a breath before he was irretrievably caught and squeezed in the tight space by the force of gravity and perished, likely in less than a minute.
Some other Whypipo in the Gym likely never noticed him clamber up there from the bleechers, vainly showcasing his jungle fitness ─ let alone did they hear anything over the din of ongoing PE activities in the middle of the school day.
Hard to believe it, knowhatimsayin, but White people not only do not want to run their fingers through long weaves of nappy hair, but they just do not consider Negroes to be the center of the world. Oh, if only “invisibility” were really their strong suit.
Not only did White people not notice, but this actual incident was (suspiciously for some) not in range of CCTV view in the old Lowndes HS gymnasium ─ but all throughout the school, some cameras didn’t work, the video time codes and clocks were not always correctly set, and all according to a sterling CNN fact-finding commission (thus proving a CIA/FBI/GBI/KKK conspiracy of the highest order just to lynch another dumb innocent Negro).
The wrestling matts when rolled up and placed vertically on their ends in the corner were only about six-feet tall, so the tall and athletic Kendrick likely thought he could just climb up there and lean down into a top opening narrower than his shoulders ─ and with some contortion, reach down inside the roll for the shoes dropped down into the bottom for safekeeping.
Many students reported sharing gym shoes in staggered gym classes, and stashing them somewhere instead of paying da White Man money fo’ a gym locker.
But there was an unusual number of gym mats stacked into the corner in early January because janitors had rolled them all up and stacked them layers deep into the corner for the Christmas break, and they had not been unpacked yet in the first days of 2013. This meant that Kenrick J. had to do a little alley-oopin’ and apply some slightly arboreal skills to get back there and earn his Darwin Award.
In short, the athletic Black teenager does something dumb (as teenagers are wont to) and loses his life in a freak accident. But the sub-Saharan family refuses to accept this reality and they bring in the professional civil rights agitation attorney and hire a scammer to perform a second autopsy.
Crump Conclusion:
─ Whypipo murder young Kendrick J.
─ White people all be cover it up an’ sheeit.
─ Ev’ry Whypipo in da worl’ conspire to deny they Justus.
Mr. Crump and the Johnsons even went so far as to accuse two White students of “the Kendrick Johnson murder” who had solid alibis being in actual classes at the time. Somehow they must have teleported their Hate and then covered it up since their father was an FBI agent.
The Kendrick Johnson family had no problem accusing any White people of a lynching, and they went so far as to release open-casket decomposition photos in true Emmett Till style.
They hired out a second autopsy from somebody who would cast just enough doubt to convince dumb Negroes, and to allow endless corporate media shills to ingenuously imply that there was a beating, when in fact there was only pooling of blood, and neck and facial hemorrhaging entirely consistent with falling into a narrow space and being wedged in by the force of gravity.
Rayciss White people did not hear no screams from the Black man because there was literally no way that he could have done more than a grunt for a few seconds as his air was cut off and his veins were popping from the pressure bearing him down. Truly horrible, so Whitey did it.
There is a lot of factual information and honest analysis available on this case with just a modest amount of searching. And there are many more cases like it. However, any suspicious Negro death is boldly made out to be a Klan pogrom by the corporate news media, and this one was particularly stupid.
I think that we should study such things to understand how the enemy operates and to devise countermeasures consistent with lancing a proverbial boil that has frankly existed for hundreds of years in this country.
The fact is that if a Negro trips on his own shoelaces on the sidewalk and then overdoses while attempting suicide by hot wings and malt liquor, it will still be the White man’s fault. Woe betide the cop or 911 Karen who has to respond.
Many parents have a hard time accepting that their precious player could get killed in a freak accident while being dumb.
Blacks are especially gullible in this regard ─ and with Crumb’s help the family went right for the race-card.
Thankfully, the Kendrick Johnsons did not prevail with any of their lawsuits, and they did not get anyone convicted of being White.
>> On August 10, 2017, Georgia Judge Richard Porter ruled that Johnson’s family and their attorney had to pay more than $292,000 in legal fees to the dozens of respondents in their civil suit, writing “testimony shows that they had no evidence to support their claims […]” IBID <<
The Kendrick Johnson case was finally closed as an accident in 2022. The Feds will not be pursuing Hate Crimes charges.
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My closest friend is a highly intelligent, worldly-wise man, who is also sympathetic to White Nationalism; even so, like far too many people, he consumes the first news Narrative that the mainstream pushes. (He is fair-minded enough to consider evidence to the contrary.) Unfortunately, most people like him, living a busy life full of distractions, do not stop to critically examine a message when it is being pushed from all media sources that are considered “legitimate” — even the so-called “conservative” ones. There is also a vast population of gullible news consumers whose attitude is one of, “It wouldn’t be on the nightly news if it wasn’t true!”
I fear this information stranglehold is not going away anytime soon.
Great piece. Optics and narrative are the twin pillars of the MSM.
They have overdone the Emmitt strategy. Most common-sense people know to be suspicious when they hear these black-victimization stories. It is middle-class white women who are the targets and often fall right for it. Everyone else tends to know better at this point.
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