The Media’s Color-Coded Parenting Standard

[SVPete]

The Media’s Color-Coded Parenting Standard

https://www.city-journal.org/school-shootings-color-coded-parenting-standard-of-the-media?skip=1

On April 19, 2021, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski suggested in a text to Chicago’s mayor that the parents of two children recently killed in Chicago’s gang activity had “failed those kids.” Kempczinski’s text became public in November 2021, prompting widespread accusations of racism and calls for his resignation. Kempczinski confessed to his white privilege and apologized profusely for holding parents responsible for the fate of their children.

On December 3, a district attorney in Michigan filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley. The 15-year-old Crumbley allegedly killed four fellow students during a shooting rampage at his Oxford, Michigan high school on November 30. The prosecutor based her indictment of Crumbley’s parents on the fact that they had allowed Ethan to access a legally purchased handgun and ought to have known that the boy was primed to kill his classmates. The press, Democratic politicians, and gun control advocates greeted the homicide charges against the Crumbley parents with ecstatic approbation.

The divergent reactions to the Kempczinski text message and the Crumbleys’ indictment illuminate the different standards to which minority parents and white parents are held. When black juveniles perpetrate street violence, the press and public officials almost never ask: where were the parents? The less involved a parent is in a child’s life, the less society expects of him. These double standards may have a benign intent, but they enable a cultural dysfunction whose effects are thousands of times more lethal than school shootings.

I'm skeptical of the prosecution of the Crumbley parents, because it seems, to me, a possible political abuse of prosecutorial power, akin to the Rittenhouse prosecution. I am, however, persuadable by evidence of culpability. Mac Donald, IMO, makes a valid point in her article. Un-PC corners of the Commentariat aside, few ask, "Where were the parents?" when a thugling gangbanger goes on a murder, rape, or theft spree.

[Eupher]

I don't think there's any doubt that minorities get a pass on all manner of things. And it's almost a crime to be Caucasian any more.

When I look at the Ilhan Omars, the Ayanna Pressleys, the Kim Gardners, and the rest of the entitled elite who wallow in their hypocrisy, I don't see accountability at all -- though they're the first ones to scream at real or imagined injustices.