The Buffalo Massacre is Bigger Than Right-Wing Media

Millions Have Died in America’s Battles Over Black Americans

Thoughts and prayers have poured out to the Black American community after Payton Gendron, a self-avowed anti-Black mass shooter, murdered 10 grocery shoppers in Buffalo New York. Yet the absence of significant public condolences from the Right is as deafening as the Left’s hysterical calls to cancel Tucker Carlson while, once again, Liberals leverage Black death for the cause of so-called “minorities,” defending mass immigration, and pushing for “gun control.” For a generation or so, left leaning pundits have celebrated the fact that more white people are dying than are being born, globally — while right leaning media has stoked anxiety. Our political parties and institutions, including media, are complicit in anti-Black race massacres that are the reaction to alleged loss of power and deep-rooted racial bias. The political Left and Right must lean into this moment so we can unite our nation through meaningful policy and mindful messaging. I call in the Right because they are mine.

The Republican Party should be embarrassed that, by a long shot, Liz Cheney (WY) and Adam Kinzinger (IL) were the first Republicans to acknowledge Gendron’s racially motivated attack. That Cheney and Kinzinger were ahead of most Conservatives shows the Right does not know how to speak to or about Black Americans, let alone provide right-leaning political advocacy on behalf of…