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New York Times Staff Revolts at Cotton Op-Ed: Plays the Race Card

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Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton wrote an Op-Ed for The New York Times. What could go wrong?

Here’s the headline from Fox News: NY Times writers in ‘open revolt’ after publication of Cotton op-ed, claim black staff ‘in danger’

The story says:

“The New York Times is facing backlash, some of it from the paper’s own reporters, after publishing an op-ed in which Sen, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., called on the federal government to send in the military to quell violent uprisings over George Floyd’s death.

‘NYT reporters in a rare open revolt over the opinion side running Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling to deploy the military to ‘restore order,’’ tweeted Politico’s Alex Thompson, who cited posts from writers Taylor Lorenz, Caity Weaver, Sheera Frankel, and Jacey Fortin.”

Amazingly op-ed writer Roxane Gay tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/rgay/status/1268330942675824640?s=20

Say what?

Memo to Ms. Gay.

This is former St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn.  Here is the headline from CNN:

Retired St. Louis Police captain killed after responding to a pawnshop alarm during looting

Captain Dorn was a 77-year old black man.

Retired St. Louis Police captain killed after responding to a pawnshop alarm during looting
Retired St. Louis Police captain David Dorn killed after responding to a pawnshop alarm during looting

Then there’s Patrick Underwood, 53, who worked in the Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service guarding the Ronald Dellums federal office building in Oakland, California. Mr. Underwood was also black and was shot to death by rioters.

Newsflash to Roxane Gay and her fellow Times colleagues? One can agree or disagree with Senator Cotton, but it is entirely possible if not probable that both Captain Dorn and Mr. Underwood would be alive and well if the US military had been there to protect them.

Or in other words? The black staff of The New York Times – not to mention the rest of the paper’s staff of all colors – would be infinitely safer then they are right this moment if the military was standing outside its glassy doors to protect the journalists inside.

Not to mention the Times staffers, well aside from exemplifying their intolerance of different points of view, studiously ignore some serious history.

In 1968 Washington, DC exploded in a serious riot in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Thirteen people died, 900 businesses were destroyed or damaged, many of those black-owned businesses. An angered President Lyndon Johnson, he the liberal Democrat of the day, ordered 13,000 troops into Washington to occupy the city and restore order. There were iconic photos in the day of the U.S. Capitol surrounded by rifle-toting soldiers, as here and others that show a soldier with a mounted machine gun pointing out from t6he steps to the U.S. Senate. LBJ did the right thing – and order was restored.

In fact, as this video from The New York Post clearly shows, all those stores looted in the middle of Manhattan in the last few days would not now be boarded up to hide smashed windows and looted insides had there been LBJ-style federal troops protecting them in the first place.

Disgracefully, the Times reporters in “revolt” are really signaling two things. First, as Senator Cotton himself says: This is the hypocrisy of “the ‘woke progressive mob’ in their own newsroom.” Indeed it is.

And two? It is the elitism of well to do left-wing journalists who don’t give a damn about black lives if those lives don’t have the right economic or social status.

Unbelievable – but typical.

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