CNN ran no less than 3 gazillion segments about a supposed “surge” in violence against Asian Americans this week, but there was something really strange about each one. Though the anchors and reporters were careful to note the race of the victims, they studiously avoided saying even a word about the race of the attackers.

It’s not really that strange. It’s because the suspects seen on video in each of the attacks were black. Do you think CNN might have showed more urgency in identifying their race had they been white? I do!

Americans have been targeted for their Asian ancestry more often in recent years but the incidents remain rare. There were 158 anti-Asian hate crimes reported in 2019 by police agencies to the FBI, up from 148 the year before. The FBI won’t release its 2020 data until the fall but in 16 of the country’s largest cities, according to an analysis by researchers from California State University (CSU) in San Bernardino (pdf), there was an increase to 122 incidents in 2020 from 49 the year before. The data has come to the forefront of media attention after a 21-year-old man killed eight people in several massage parlors in the Atlanta area on March 16. Six of the victims were Asian women. Many such parlors are known to illegally offer sexual services and are most commonly staffed by Chinese immigrants, many of whom have fallen victim to human trafficking rings. Authorities said …

According to documents released Friday, the two massage parlors targeted by a deranged gunman in Atlanta Tuesday had both been subjects of prostitution stings by police, despite claims to the contrary by Atlanta’s mayor.

“As far as we know in Atlanta, these are legally operating businesses that have not been on our radar,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said after the shootings. “Not on the radar of [the Atlanta Police Department].”

Between the two parlors, 12 people were arrested in the busts. The latest prostitution sting happened in 2013.

“Almost all the arrests came in undercover stings where an officer paid for a massage and an employee offered sex or a sex act for more money,” the Washington Post reported.

Police visited the two massage parlors 21 times, according to the records.

The prevailing narrative pushed by the political left is that the shootings, which left eight victims dead, six of whom were of Asian descent, were a “hate crime” against the Asian community. But the gunman, 21-year-old Robert Alan Long of Woodstock, reportedly confessed that he targeted the massage parlors because they fed into his own sexual addiction, not because of the race of those operating them.

The third massage parlor attacked by the lone gunman was in Cherokee County, and does not appear to have run afoul of the law the way the others did.

However, according to one report, all of Long’s targets “have detailed recent reviews on an online site that leads users to places that provide sexual services.”

Still, the political left is running with the racism narrative.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Asian American leaders in Georgia Friday.

Georgia State Rep. Bee Nguyen, a Democrat and the first Vietnamese American member of Georgia’s general assembly, described the shootings as the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia.”

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Pete D’Abrosca is a contributor at The Georgia Star News and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter. Email tips to dabroscareports@gmail.com.
Photo “Police Tape” by Tony Webster. CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Atlanta massage parlor shooting suspect 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long has been charged with “malice murder” and aggravated assault, a county sheriff announced Monday. Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that Long, who is accused of opening fire at three spas, killing eight people including six of Asian descent, could still face further charges. “Working with jurisdictions across Georgia, Robert Aaron Long was quickly apprehended and now faces malice murder and aggravated assault charges in our jurisdiction,” the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Malice murder is an offence in the state of Georgia that alleges express or implied malice. Long took “full responsibility” for the shootings on the night of March 16, officials said last week, adding that the 21-year-old may not have targeted the parlors out of a racially motivated animus but because he wanted to end his sexual addiction. Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds told reporters last week …

The alleged gunman who shot up three Atlanta-area spas, killing eight people including six Asian women, “may have frequented” some of the locations and had a “sex addiction,” it was revealed on Wednesday.

The man suspected of killing eight people, including at least four Asian women, in three separate shootings in Georgia allegedly admitted to the killings and told authorities they were not was not racially motivated.

The suspect, Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, said the shooting, at three spas outside of Atlanta, were connected to his “addiction to sex,” authorities said.

by Thomas Catenacci

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the filibuster racist Thursday, months after she filibustered Republican Sen. Tim Scott’s police reform legislation.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the filibuster is both racist and shouldn’t be permitted in the Senate since it gives the minority veto power, according to Axios. The legislative filibuster, which dates back to the 1800s, is a rule that requires 60 votes for most legislation to pass in the Senate.

“The filibuster has deep roots in racism, and it should not be permitted to serve that function, or to create a veto for the minority,” Warren told Axios on Thursday. “In a democracy, it’s majority rules.”

Warren added that the founders didn’t intend for the filibuster to be implemented in Senate legislative procedure, according to Axios. Rather, it was designed to give southern states the ability to veto any anti-slavery or civil rights law they opposed, Warren said.

Warren first announced her opposition to the filibuster in 2019, CNN reported.

However, Warren filibustered Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s police reform bill in June, CNN analyst Scott Jennings noted. After Democrats blocked his bill, Scott criticized them, saying he was “amazed” by their actions.

Given how often Warren filibustered when she was in the minority, does this make her a racist? Anyone who covers this without mentioning her record is not telling the full story. https://t.co/RshVmFZBOC

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) March 18, 2021

“If my colleagues had issues with the legislation, they should have accepted that we were willing to give them multiple amendment votes so that we can make the necessary adjustments to get this across the president’s desk,” Scott said.

Calls to eliminate the filibuster have gained momentum since President Joe Biden took office as legislation continues to pass in the House but stalls in the Senate. Biden along with many congressional Democrats have endorsed removing the procedure.

Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have repeatedly said they oppose killing the filibuster.

Manchin recently explained that removing the filibuster effectively removes the involvement of the Senate minority in legislating.

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Thomas Catenacci is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Senator Elizabeth Warren” by Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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Genevieve Roth believes that all white people are ‘rife with internalised racism and unconscious bias’. She is the founder of Invisible Hand, a ‘female-led diverse team’ based in New York.

Evanston, Illinois, has become the first city in the United States to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery. The Chicago suburb’s City Council voted 8 to 1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible Black households, with qualifying residents receiving $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property. The program is being funded through donations and revenue from a 3% tax on the sale of recreational marijuana, and the city has pledged to distribute $10 million over 10 years. “There’s no way to express how significant this is,” says Danny Glover, an actor and activist who is a member of the National African American Reparations Commission. “Imagine how that resonates beyond Evanston, Illinois. Imagine the kind of discourse that happens, the discussions in community by ordinary citizens about reparations.” We also speak with Robin Rue Simmons, a member of the Evanston City Council and reparations advocate, and Dino Robinson, a historian and executive director of the Shorefront Legacy Center, the only community archive for Black history on Chicago’s suburban North Shore.

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Joe Biden rambled his way into the debate over eliminating the senate filibuster this week. According to Joe it’s a relic of the Jim Eagle Jim Crow era. He didn’t have a good answer when asked, if he really feels that way, why not call for its elimination now. Jen Psaki didn’t have a good answer when challenged if Biden thought the filibuster was Jim Crow adjacent all the times he supported the filibuster. Funny how the rhetoric changes with the wind. Like all the Democrats calling the filibuster racist in 2021 after using the filibuster to block Sen. Tim Scott’s police reform bill in 2020.

If you’re quick to point out the OBVIOUS hypocrisy there, you are not alone. Tim Scott agrees.

Tim Scott blasts Dems overuse of ‘racist’ to describe opponents’ politics

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It was a frustrating, irritating moment where the Democrats used the filibuster to block police reform that would have positively impacted disproportionately African American communities. Here’s what we know about the Democrats. They were for the filibuster before they were against the filibuster. I keep asking myself, will the real Chuck Schumer please stand up?

[Democrats] use the word racist whenever they’re trying to scare people into their corner.

I saw somewhere on Twitter the argument that “historians” and “fact-checkers” agree that the filibuster is a legacy of the Jim Crow era. The clear implication that anyone who supports it is raaaaaacist. For the fecal matter and giggles of doing so, let’s say they are sincere in their belief. The obvious question is if Democrats were celebrating the legacy of Jim Crow all the times they used the filibuster. Tim Scott is an example. The multiple times they filibustered crucial coronavirus aid comes to mind as well. I also wonder if Donald Trump’s predecessor was a Jim Crow stan when he supported the filibuster as U.S. Senator. These all seem like obvious questions to challenge the left on.

Unless — and I’m just spitballing here — Biden, Democrats, woke supremacists, “historians” and those “independent” “fact’ checkers all know that they’re full of sh!t. We should consider that as an option.

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