Police have captured a suspect in a multi-stabbing at an Orthodox Jewish rabbi's home in the DC suburbs, and after arresting a suspect in Harlem, are now turning their investigation into a hate-crime investigation. One person was seriously injured. No word yet on the suspect's race or religion. I assume they will tell us if he is not white, so that fears of white supremacy in this country are not overblown, with generic Whites in the Midwest being blamed in what might be a Black-on-White-Jewish east coast crime here.
This lady's quote, about living in one of the wealthiest suburban counties of DC -- and growing! -- caught me by surprise, an indication perhaps, of what "meme" the allegedly intelligent people in the old-school organized-media marketplace will be pushing now.
“It’s very scary,” she said, of being Jewish in Rockland County.
Like Rahm Emanual taught in Chicago -- before black voters kicked him and his reform to the dirty curbs in favor of authentic black leadership, after Rahm overcame his residency issues and became the first Jewish mayor that Daley had appointed his successor when the other Daley brother got the temporary Commerce job in the Obama administration: never let a good crisis go to waste. Make it pay off, somehow, for your people. Already, the actions of this one individual in the DC stabbing are international news; politicians are falling over themselves to assign manpower, money and special resources to this particular crime...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin also condemned the attack, saying on Twitter that a collective effort is needed to stop future incidents.
“Shocked and outraged by the terrible attack in #NY and praying for the recovery of those injured. #Antisemitism is not just a #Jewish problem, and certainly not just the State of #Israel's problem," he said.
Do #JewishLives just matter more, in some circles?*
If splitting the blacks and Jews in America seems to be beneficial to some people politically -- not "Quien es muy macho?" but "Who is the Biggest Victim?" -- then will will see Big Boys (and Girls) competing for the title.
Nobody wins, but the "Whites" lose, is the hope of the minority groups, I think. We've seen this scenario played out in urban areas across the country, but one wonders what turn it will take in the nation's capital, with all the taxpayer money floating freely in the economy, up for grabs by the Victim's Group fundings that seems to be never-ending, until one day the victims collectively wake up, and it is no longer there for them.
Good luck to the police investigating the stabbing crime, let's hope they put the hate-crime determination on the backburner until they learn if everyone is indeed safe now, and what instigated the dispute in the first place.
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* Why are there no outcries for justice internationally every time a black person is killed or injured in America? Don't the Israeli Jews care about peace on earth for humanity, justice for all?
Does Christ's message even penetrate and elevate the discussion in Israel with its dwindling Christian population, that we are all the sons and daughters of God? Oh, and are sexx crimes, including underage rape by Jewish men against non-Jewish women somehow a lesser crime than a stabbing that superficially wounded four -- skin lacerations -- and seriously injuried ONE?
Maybe if the allegedly woke Jews work for justice outside their group affiliations they would not need special protections or to be singled out for the hate-crime enhancers? Better to work for justice within the communities as a whole in America than to advocate that special resources be taken from other communities to serve your ethnic/religious group here in America.
We don't discriminate like that, and in time, these hate-crime enhancers will be found illegal and unconstitutional in America, I suspect, preferencing this particular group over that one, not in working to eliminate crime so much, but to shore up attention to victimization memes and to ensure that certain victims get special treatment allowing them a special escape of the seemingly growing economic violence endemic in the community and country as a whole.
This too is the face of inequality, and perhaps the consequence of not evaluating by the content of character, but of artificial and ethnic and religious distinctions. (Be careful what you wish for, one intelligent saying goes...)
