Op-Ed: Why the Liberal Media Is Erasing Black Identity Extremism

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The police arrested a suspect in a New York City subway shooting that left 23 people injured, 10 with severe gunshot wounds. The suspect, Frank James, is a 62 year old African American male who posted prolifically on social media and hosted a YouTube channel where he expressed Black Nationalist leanings and racial grievances.

But you wouldn't know this if you got your news from corporate liberal media. Not only did they fail to cover the trail of hate James left on social media, but many hesitated to refer to him as Black at all, even while an active manhunt was underway for the would-be mass murderer.

And this despite an overall obsession with racial extremism from those same corners. The Biden Administration's "war on domestic terror" announcement designated White Nationalism as the most ubiquitous threat to U.S. national security last year. Compare that with a headline from The Intercept last year: "The Strange Tale of the FBI's Fictional 'Black Identity Extremism' Movement," which made the argument that Black identity extremism like Black nationalism is a racialized myth.

For the liberal establishment, extremism and terror are now a function of your skin color.

It's no accident that the liberal establishment is willing to racialize extremism when it comes white Americans but downplays the same extremism that motivates acts of terror within minority communities. In the affluent liberal waters that New York Times and NPR consumers swim in, to be white is to be inherently guilty, while to be a person of color is to be innocent by virtue of your victimized status. Black Nationalism inverts the foundation of 21st century American liberalism.

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