{"id":18421,"date":"2021-08-26T06:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18421"},"modified":"2021-08-26T06:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:29:18","slug":"overnight-news-tonight-on-nbc-black-washing-the-murder-of-ashli-babbitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18421\/overnight-news-tonight-on-nbc-black-washing-the-murder-of-ashli-babbitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Tonight on NBC: Black-washing the murder of Ashli\u00a0Babbitt."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWhy do you ask \u2018Who ate all the ham?\u2019 when you know the cat didn\u2019t do\u00a0it?\u201d<\/p><\/div>I’m going to give you a brand-new term: Black-washing.<\/p>\n

Black-washing is racially-motivated white-washing.<\/p>\n

The term \u2018diversity hire\u2019 is a \u2018dog-whistle\u2019 denoting a persistent beneficiary of black-washing. Consequential errors by people of preferred racial categories are dismissed, ignored or lied about. To address the error as would normally be done would call both the original hiring decision and the very idea of \u2018diversity hiring\u2019 \u2013 racial preferences \u2013 into question.<\/p>\n

You’ll be able to see an example of all this tonight on television, I expect, as \u2018diversity hire\u2019 Lester Holt interviews \u2018diversity hire\u2019 Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Leroy Byrd about Byrd’s murder of Ashli Babbitt \u2013 which turned out not<\/em> to be criminally-negligent-homicide (we are told), and yet somehow is not an act of heroism worthy of a medal and a ceremony. In other words: Black-washed.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I wrote a list of questions Holt will not ask:<\/p>\n

1. Did you once abandon your firearm in a washroom?
\n2. Did you observe strict trigger discipline until you fired your weapon?
\n3. Were there members of your own team in your line of fire?
\n4. Were you given seven medals and a banquet by Congress?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re not really fair questions, since I already know all the answers: Byrd did leave his weapon in a washroom some years ago, and, but for black-washing, should have been fired then. Byrd not only had his hand on the trigger the whole time his weapon was drawn, he was weighed down by freight \u2013 a huge pile of documents \u2013 in his other hand. Byrd fired without issuing any warning, and without any obvious reason for shooting, with his own teammates in his line of fire. And, of course, he was ‘exonerated’ without getting any medals, his identity concealed for months, because all of these crimes are being black-washed.<\/p>\n

Walking away on his firearm might require a special black-washing effort, but I expect the others to be ignored. So what’s the point of doing the interview at all? Bryd risks self-Smolletting, after all: Drawing explicit attention to the black-washing by Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhy do you ask \u2018Who ate all the ham?\u2019 when you know the cat didn\u2019t do\u00a0it?\u201dI’m going to give you a brand-new term: Black-washing. Black-washing is racially-motivated white-washing. The term \u2018diversity hire\u2019 is a \u2018dog-whistle\u2019 denoting a persistent beneficiary of black-washing. Consequential errors by people of preferred racial categories are dismissed, ignored or lied about. 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