{"id":568474,"date":"2021-06-19T11:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T15:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568474"},"modified":"2021-06-19T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T15:07:32","slug":"graham-nprs-ritual-shaming-of-tom-hanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-nprs-ritual-shaming-of-tom-hanks\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: NPR\u2019S Ritual Shaming Of Tom Hanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fgraham-nprs-ritual-shaming-of-tom-hanks%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=568474&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/8CB70511-D6C9-4E70-ABA3-BED999CF878E-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Few movie stars have been more exalted than Tom Hanks. You\u2019d never expect a guy with his nice-guy branding to get a strong slap in the face in the political arena. But Hanks penned a \u201cguest essay\u201d for The New York Times lecturing on racism, which opened him up for a shaming from the Left.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, Hanks boasted about how he bores people at parties with his historical knowledge but lamented growing up in the schools of Oakland and never hearing a word about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. It was \u201csystematically ignored, perhaps because it was regarded as too honest, too painful a lesson for our young white ears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He admitted they were taught about slavery and Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Ku Klux Klan. It wasn\u2019t a \u201cwhitewash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanks sounded like a liberal who makes documentaries for CNN: \u201cWhen people hear about systemic racism in America, just the use of those words draws the ire of those white people who insist that since July 4, 1776, we have all been free, we were all created equally, that any American can become president and catch a cab in Midtown Manhattan no matter the color of our skin, that, yes, American progress toward justice for all can be slow but remains relentless. Tell that to the century-old survivors of Tulsa and their offspring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk about constructing a straw man! Almost no white American who reveres the Fourth of July and feels proud about our racial progress since the Civil War or the Civil Rights Act suggests our history was all sunshine and roses and racial harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Then Hanks was lined up for the dunk tank. On June 13, NPR television critic Eric Deggans penned a piece for their website titled \u201cTom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It\u2019s Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist.\u201d Deggans proclaimed that he liked Hanks and his work \u2026 but as a subhead warned, \u201cHe\u2019s built a career playing righteous white men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deggans wrote, \u201cI know the toughest thing for some white Americans \u2014 especially those who consider themselves advocates against racism \u2014 is to admit how they were personally and specifically connected to the elevation of white culture over other cultures.\u201d He complained Hanks has \u201cbuilt a sizable part of his career on stories about American white men \u2018doing the right thing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, making movies like \u201cSaving Private Ryan\u201d and \u201cApollo 13\u201d and \u201cForrest Gump\u201d is aggressively defined as a malignant whiteness-elevating conspiracy: \u201cBaby boomer filmmakers have made fortunes amplifying ideas of white American exceptionalism and heroism.\u201d Now Hanks needs to make amends and be an \u201canti-racist\u201d and acknowledge Hollywood\u2019s responsibility \u201cnow lies with helping dismantle and broaden the ideas they helped cement in the American mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When conservatives mocked Deggans for hammering this \u201csystemic racism\u201d anvil \u2014 that it\u2019s never enough for white people to be \u201cnon-racist\u201d; you have to be \u201canti-racist\u201d with soul-cleansing, leftist-pleasing activism \u2014 his NPR colleagues rallied around his sermon.<\/p>\n<p>No one should expect NPR would allow an opposing point of view or an actual debate. Instead, on the June 15 edition of the hilariously titled \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d newscast, they offered Deggans five minutes to expand on his Hanks-bashing thesis.<\/p>\n<p>This underlines how NPR takes our tax dollars and uses them to enforce an ideological hard line that shames Hollywood and its liberal titans as insufficiently woke. NPR exists to \u201cdismantle ideas\u201d that whites in Hollywood \u201chelped cement in the American mind.\u201d Does that sound like journalism or activism comes first in \u201cpublic broadcasting\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few movie stars have been more exalted than Tom Hanks. 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