{"id":1997422,"date":"2023-08-11T03:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T07:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-montgomery-brawl-isnt-what-race-baiting-media-want-it-to-be\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T03:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T07:57:56","slug":"the-montgomery-brawl-isnt-what-race-baiting-media-want-it-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-montgomery-brawl-isnt-what-race-baiting-media-want-it-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Media&#8217;s portrayal of the Montgomery brawl is far from the race-baiting narrative they desire."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-montgomery-brawl-isnt-what-race-baiting-media-want-it-to-be%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><strong>My absolute favorite piece \u2064of writing this week is \u2064by New York Times \u2063charity case Charles Blow<\/strong>, who watched the <strong>hysterically funny \u200cMontgomery dock\u200c brawl<\/strong> and was nearly moved\u2062 to tears thinking about slavery.<\/p>\n<p>For the \u2064uninitiated, there was a blowout mob fight on an Alabama riverfront dock \u200blast Saturday after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-montgomery-brawl-isnt-what-race-baiting-media-want-it-to-be\/\" title=\"Media's portrayal of the Montgomery brawl is far from the race-baiting narrative they desire.\">mini cruise boat captain attempted<\/a> to move a pontoon parked in his vessel\u2019s way. The guy\u2064 reportedly tried to physically push \u2064the pontoon by hand after alerting its passengers that they were\u200c in his \u200bcommercial boat\u2019s spot, and video shows them \u2062\u2014 roughly \u200bsix people \u200b\u2014 responding by dogpiling \u200bthe captain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-363631135\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-758e94e3cdb7e66630929e3098050ada fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-758e94e3cdb7e66630929e3098050ada\"><\/div>\n<p>Because \u2062\u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d is all the rage, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-blasts-biden-for-totally-inappropriate-transgender-event-at-white-house\/\" title=\"DeSantis criticizes Biden over 'inappropriate' transgender event at White House.\">event intensified<\/a> by nature of the riverboat captain\u200d being black and the pontoon passengers all appearing to be white. In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naaeee__xx\/status\/1688196225709830144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video footage<\/a>, witnesses \u200bare heard \u200bscreaming, \u201cHelp your brother!\u201d and, \u201cThey wrong for that!\u201d\u2062 <\/p>\n<p>More \u200bpassersby, who were also black, came \u200bto\u2062 defend the captain. \u200bOne \u200dblack male, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2023\/08\/07\/brawl-erupts-in-montgomery-after-white-boaters-attack-black-city-worker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">identified<\/a> as a 16-year-old, was seen diving into the water from \u2063a separate nearby \u200dboat and swimming to the dock, presumably to defend the captain \u200das well. Video \u200dshows that eventually, black individuals outnumbered the white \u2063pontoon\u200c passengers in the brawl.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b entire thing is hilarious,\u2064 starting with the\u200c riverboat captain\u2019s \u200banimated toss\u2062 of his hat into the air before barreling into his opponent. It spawned a billion memes, and the \u2062online consensus is that \u2063the pontoon passengers got what they\u200b deserved for ganging up on a \u2062man who was almost \u2063certainly \u2062just doing his \u2064job. Some of the whites are being prosecuted for\u200d their\u200d misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t\u2062 funny for Charles Blow. He saw a \u2062historical comeuppance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c78c274b752c82c69247df0101f5a83b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c78c274b752c82c69247df0101f5a83b\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere, the righteous indignation of\u2063 a community found \u200can \u2063outlet when Black people came to the defense of a Black man under\u2064 attack,\u201d<\/strong> he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/09\/opinion\/montgomery-brawl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Wednesday<\/a>. <strong>\u201cThere was therapy in \u200bit for many who saw it \u200c\u2014 a sense of\u200d historical correction.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blow added that there \u2062was\u2063 a \u201cbit of\u2063 historical poetry, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/absurd-brawl-breaks-out-at-a-carnival-in-crazy-viral-video\/\" title=\"Absurd Brawl Breaks Out At A Carnival In Crazy Viral Video\">brawl happened<\/a> \u2063in \u2062Alabama\u201d because of its \u201chorrible history of\u2062 slavery and notorious convict leasing system, which Douglas\u200c A. Blackmon \u2063called \u2018slavery by another name\u2019 in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Sir, this \u2062is \u200ca Popeyes. Can \u200cI please \u200btake your order?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Black people on social media mostly\u2064 seemed to find \u200dit\u200c comical, rather \u2063than historical, but so long as\u2064 we\u2019re talking about \u201chistorical corrections,\u201d I hope Blow got to watch\u200b the video\u2063 of the Middle Eastern 7-Eleven clerk using a \u200cgiant \u2064stick to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eIFKtOsZl8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beat the crap<\/a> \u2063 out of \u200ba black man who \u2064was in the\u2063 process of robbing the store.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-49029084af9e6a8190294ccf67c65904 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-49029084af9e6a8190294ccf67c65904\"><\/div>\n<p>That event happened a week before the Montgomery brawl, this time in Stockton,\u2062 California. Video \u200bof the ordeal shows a black man with some kind of\u200d blue cloth covering his face as he \u200cshovels dozens and dozens of items off the \u200cshelves into\u2062 a rolling\u200c trash\u200d can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShut the \u200bf-ck \u2064up,\u201d he \u2063tells the clerk. \u201cI\u2019ve got a strap,\u201d he says, meaning\u200d a gun, as he motions \u200btoward his waist.<\/p>\n<p>As \u200dhe tries to push toward the other end of the store, one man grabs him and pulls him to the ground while another man wearing a \u200cturban comes at the\u200d looter with a wooden\u2062 pole, \u200brepeatedly \u200bwailing down at his legs, back, and behind.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the \u2014\u00a0what did Blow call it? \u2014\u00a0\u201chistorical poetry\u201d of the matter is that the butt \u200dbashing didn\u2019t \u2064come \u200duntil after\u200b the\u200b man video-recording it told the clerk, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing\u2063 you can do, man, until you\u2063 call the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, there was something he could do.<\/p>\n<p>This is\u200c in the\u200d context of retail\u2064 crime \u2014\u00a0both theft and violence \u2014\u00a0up more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jiawertz\/2022\/11\/20\/shoplifting-has-become-a-100-billion-problem-for-retailers\/?sh=4f2c12522d62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 percent nationally<\/a> in 2021 (it\u2019s at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/home\/downloads\/pdf\/office-of-the-mayor\/2023\/combating-retail-theft-report-may-17-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">double that<\/a> in cities \u2064like New York and Los Angeles). We\u2019re told we can\u2019t do anything, that \u200bwe\u200b have \u200bto stand by and watch, and \u200deven \u200cif a cop shows \u2064up, \u200bthe thug will almost certainly \u200dreceive a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/stockton-7-eleven-robbery-suspect-beaten-by-clerks-on-video-makes-court-appearance\/?intcid=CNR-02-0623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mental health\u200b evaluation<\/a>\u201d\u2063 and then be set free.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s time for more \u201crighteous indignation\u201d of that variety when it \u200ccomes to shoplifting. Or does only one side get to feel \u200da \u201csense of historical correction\u201d in a public beating?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b57b3c078049155c80846b5352250fc5 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b57b3c078049155c80846b5352250fc5\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My top pick this week is a captivating piece by Charles Blow, a New York Times writer. He witnessed the uproarious Montgomery dock brawl, which left him deeply contemplative about the history of slavery. In case you missed it, a chaotic fight broke out on an Alabama riverfront dock during a mini cruise boat event last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1997423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}