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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was hysterical;
Last night a far-right extremist group vandalized a statue of George Floyd in Brooklyn. A racist, loathsome, despicable act of hate.
The City Cleanup Corps is repairing the statue right now and a hate crime investigation is underway. We will bring these cowards to justice. pic.twitter.com/mTwzwIyG4z Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) June 24, 2021
City police and the Regime Media called it a “hate crime” [
The contrast with the reactions to the orgy of vandalism of Confederate statues some of which are sculptural masterpieces is breathtaking. Thus Virginia Governor Ralph Northam did nothing when Black Lives Matter rioters vandalized Antonin Mercié’s magnificent rendition of Robert E. Lee in Richmond. The war on Confederate images is moving along strongly and it s part of a war on America.
On Sunday night, this family of five – including Madiha Salman, 44, her husband Salman Afzaal, 46, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna Afzaal and Afzaal s 74-year-old mother – were on their daily walk when the man mounted the curb and ran over them in what police described as a premeditated hate crime that targeted them because of their Muslim faith.
What does a 20-year-old know of life to hate so thoroughly, to murder with such abandon? To plan for and enact such cruelty? To reflect and ponder and then destroy?
We probably will not reflect sufficiently on those questions. But we should, because the condemnations and the “we stand by you”s and the “this is not us”es all ring hollow. They always have. Every shooting at a mosque, every mass murder at a black church, every bombing and defacement of a synagogue, is a product of hatred, of social media and technology companies profiting off this rage, of trans-nationalist political ideology that weaponises racism and inequality
Actress Viola Davis (L) Golden State Warriors Steph Curry (R) | (Photo: Reuters/Mike Blake and Ken Blaze-USA Today Sports)
Golden State Warriors All-Star Stephen Curry and Actress Viola Davis signed on last week as executive producers for the documentary, Emanuel, which tells the story of the tragic 2015 church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
The celebrities announced their involvement as executive producers this week through their media companies, Curry by way of Unanimous Media and Davis via Julius Tennon (JuVee Productions).
The nine Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church members allegedly killed by Dylann Storm Roof, 21, on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, during a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina. | (Photo: Inside Edition video still)