“It is relevant – race matters – to say that they are African-American teens,” Rivera said about the case of the beaten WWII veteran, noting that describing criminal suspects accurately is important. “But I think what we have to be careful of is to imply that their race was the reason they committed this horrific crime.”
Rivera guessed that these teens come from “broken homes” and “exist like wolves,” getting their “values from rap videos.”
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Tucker Carlson agreed that drawing broad conclusions about society based on isolated crimes was inadvisable, but he said that this is exactly what has been happening recently. “You’ve seen a lot on the left, very much including the president, take interracial crimes to make larger points about racism in America,” Carlson said.
“I think that in the post-Trayvon era, where conservatives watched as liberals created a narrative — a false narrative — of a black boy being victimized by a ruthless white guy, a racist white guy, that was a false narrative in many ways,” Rivera said. “I think in the post-trayvon era, there is a perverse tug of war going on.”
He said conservatives are now asking where the media is when there is interracial crime but the victim is a white person.
When Rivera was asked about the fact that both the killers of Lane and the WWII veteran were men, he said that it is clear that there is a “disintegration of values” in some communities. He said that he wished President Barack Obama would “speak more about it.”
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