Rittenhouse Rage: It’s Never Been About Racism

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Rage over the failure of the state of Wisconsin to convict Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t boil over – as many had feared and others had hoped – into widespread destruction and pandemonium. Why? Because, when all is claimed and achieved, the Rittenhouse trial had completely nothing to do with race. It is completely seemingly that these folks, excessive left-wing activists and politicians, who incited and orchestrated the riots, burning, looting, and in some circumstances, killings, that erupted throughout America in 2020 within the identify of so-called racial justice, awoke on the morning of November 20 with a way of disappointment.

The deflated feelings they could be feeling don’t stem from the acquittal on all costs of 18-year-old Rittenhouse, who was tried within the capturing deaths of two males and the wounding of a 3rd in Kenosha, WA. The actual disappointment for them shall be that the unrest seen in a single day in cities like New York and Portland, OR was, in comparison with final yr, comparatively gentle.

Kyle Rittenhouse (Photo by Sean Krajacic – Pool/Getty Images)

So, what occurred? Though a riot was declared in Portland – which lately doesn’t imply an excellent deal; one may nearly take into account that a median Saturday in that metropolis – the decision within the Rittenhouse trial didn’t evoke the identical degree of anger on the streets as final yr’s capturing of Jacob Blake in Kenosha or the deadly shootings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 and different killings of black males by police that supplied gas to the race-baiters and agitators.

Rittenhouse shot three white males and that in itself makes it a troublesome promote for extremists attempting to pour gasoline on the fires of discontent. Further clouding the problems and disrupting the racial justice narrative is that this younger man’s trial was about self-defense and, regardless of the most effective efforts of propagandists within the media and the halls of political energy, bore no relation to actual or perceived “systemic racism.” Rittenhouse didn’t go to Kenosha on that fateful night time in 2020 to take part in a racial wrestle. In reality, there isn’t any proof that he had any political or racial motivations by any means to place himself on the streets of that metropolis with an AR-15. He claimed to be there to guard native folks and companies from looters and nothing got here to gentle through the trial to counsel in any other case.

With astoundingly irresponsible lies and shrill hysteria, the individuals who seem hell-bent on tearing the U.S. aside have tried their degree greatest – each throughout and after the trial – to put Rittenhouse firmly on one facet of the race struggle they appear decided to result in. The avenue activists themselves, although – together with the numerous who’ve used unrest as a mere excuse to loot and destroy – clearly didn’t really feel the identical degree of shock as they apparently did following Brown’s dying or Blake’s capturing or different deadly encounters between police and black males.

Despite their greatest efforts to make the Rittenhouse trial an extension of the Blake capturing that triggered the Kenosha riots, these driving and stoking racial tensions in America have been unsuccessful. Even although sure left-wing media organizations tried onerous to downplay – and even to hide – the truth that the three males Rittenhouse shot have been white, it seems that almost all Americans, even those who want little or no excuse to trigger chaos, aren’t prepared to burn down cities as a result of one white man shot another white males.

No quantity of verbal contortion may make the Rittenhouse case right into a racial trigger. Perhaps a few of those that have been out on the streets on November 19 actually believed they have been there to battle for racial justice. They have been incorrect. Prejudice was not on trial in Kenosha; self-defense and the Second Amendment have been. Ultimately, that’s the reason the left wished Rittenhouse convicted; the true or imagined oppression skilled by black Americans has, as a rule, been merely an excuse to wage struggle on American values and freedoms.

~ Read extra from Graham J. Noble.