Chicks on Right: Not every attack is racially motivated
The victim, Dorothy Dow, lived for three weeks and was able to recount the details of her attack to her family and authorities before succumbing to her injuries.
According to police, Justin Pierce Grady, 38, had three accomplices, all under the age of 20. Grady had a criminal history, but Dorothy opened her home to him regardless. He did work around her house, met her family and even shared a few meals with her before the attack.
Had the tables been turned, and had it been four white people who had brutalized an elderly black woman, imagine the outrage. Imagine the meltdowns that members of the Black Lives Matter movement would have. Imagine the protests. But Dorothy Dot was a white woman, and her attackers were black. While the attackers have been charged with murder, there are no “hate crime” charges. No one is decrying the horrible murder as racist.
According to people like the folks who write for the website Everyday Feminism, white people can’t experience racism. There’s a difference between racism and prejudice, and only white people can be racist because they wield the power. They say, “…reverse racism is not real because racial prejudice directed at white people doesn’t have the weight of institutional oppression behind it.”
Progressives tend to ignore stories like Dorothy’s, choosing instead, like the Everyday Feminism folks, to focus on semantics. According to them, there’s no such thing as reverse racism. If they say that enough, write it enough and indoctrinate the brains of young people enough, they hope that it’ll simply be so.
Dorothy didn’t wield the power when she was brutalized. So, shouldn’t we conclude that she was a victim of a hate crime or of reverse racism? And if not, why not?
The answer is simple. Dorothy Dow’s attack likely had nothing to do with race. Just like many of the incidents that BLM members label as racist or hate crimes have nothing to do with race.
Yes, racism exists. We do not deny the experiences of people who’ve felt racial prejudice. But not every attack perpetrated on a black person by a white person is motivated by race. Similarly, not every attack on a white person by a black person is free of racial motives.
Sometimes, people commit horrible crimes against one another irrespective of race. That’s the point. And it’s a point too often missed by the Black Lives Matter movement and its supporters.
Amy Jo Clark is known as Daisy and Miriam Weaver as Mockarena. They are authors of Right for a Reason, write a blog (www.chicksontheright.com) and host the Chicks on the Right show on WIBC-FM (93.1), Indianapolis.