New York Times Glorifies Black Identity Extremists Who Berated Covington Kids

If Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels were alive today, he would marvel at the U.S. mainstream media…

In another new low for the New York Times, the “newspaper of record” has stooped to doing public relations pieces for racist hate groups as journalism continues its transformation into leftist activism.

The Times was quick to jump onto the fake news story that the demonized Covington Catholic students had engaged in a racist encounter with a Native American “elder” during last weekend’s March For Life in Washington D.C. by helping to feed the outrage machine that led to threats against the teens, their families, and their school.

What wasn’t included in that selectively edited viral video clip that was promoted by the mysterious Twitter account @2020fight was the context of the encounter in which Nathan Phillips was the one who accosted the students and beat his drum in their faces.

Also omitted from the first video snippet was the hectoring and harassment of the teens by the black supremacist hate group calling itself the Black Hebrew Israelites which was only revealed when an extended version was posted online.

Well before Phillips faced off with student Nicholas Sandmann, the Black Hebrew Israelites were shouting obscenities and homophobic pejoratives at both the kids and the Indians which pretty much illustrates why even the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has identified them as a hate group.

But the New York Times is so enamored of these extremist bigots that it the Gray Lady published a fawning tribute that glossed over reality by legitimizing them despite the SPLC’s designation.

The following is excerpted from the NYT piece entitled “Hebrew Israelites See Divine Intervention in Lincoln Memorial Confrontation”:

They are sidewalk ministers who use confrontation as their gospel.

Hebrew Israelites practice a theology that says God’s chosen ones — black, Hispanic and Native American people — have strayed and need to be led back to righteousness.

So they post up on street corners in big cities, usually in predominantly black communities, wearing flashy garb — purple shirts or black robes, for instance. They shout, use blunt and sometimes offensive language, and gamely engage in arguments aimed at drawing listeners near.

The attention-grabbing tactics of five of their followers at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday resulted in spectacular consequences. The fringe theology landed in the national spotlight after a viral video surfaced of a group of black Hebrew Israelites profanely clashing with dozens of mostly white Catholic schoolboys wearing “Make America Great Again” caps. That video emerged only after shorter clips posted online showing a confrontation between the students and a Native American elder initially led to heavy criticism of the students.

Then the topper:

To many black people, Hebrew Israelites are a harmless part of their communities, said Todd Boyd, a professor of race and pop culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, one of many cities where the group can be seen working the streets. More alarming to many African Americans, he said, is “seeing a white guy in a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat.”

So like the rest of the leftist advocacy media in post-Obama era, the Times feels that it is perfectly acceptable to overlook anti-white racism from a documented black identity extremist group that has been identified as such by such an authority of the SPLC as long as they can spin it against Trump and his supporters.

Is it really surprising though?

Before the Black Hebrew Israelites, major media including CNN and NBC were providing coverage that was favorable to the black-clad violent ANTIFA fascists because all is acceptable when it comes to the running tantrum over an election that didn’t go their way.

But the left has always been enamored with thug culture, it’s just more obvious now.