CNN published a front page op-ed in the aftermath of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict titled, “There’s Nothing More Frightening Today Than an Angry White Man.”
The timing of the article is somewhat awkward given that a black career criminal just ploughed through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin, killing at least five and injuring dozens more, some of them children.
The op-ed, which is written by John Blake, attempts to smear Rittenhouse by lumping him in with QAnon radicals and others who took part in the January 6 raid on the Capitol as well as white supremacists who attended the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville.
In the piece, Blake decries “a vision of White masculinity that allows some White men to feel as if they ‘can rule and brutalize without consequence.'” Read more…