The Media’s Race War Playbook
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During Donald Trump’s first term, the American media launched a psychological operation against the country. The country that had previously and overwhelmingly voted for a black president had suddenly, as if by magic, become a nation seething with racial hatred, especially toward black Americans.
The media worked overtime to push a terrifying but false narrative: that black men were being hunted by police and racist violence was surging unchecked. Beyond the overt violence, through implicit or systemic racism, all white Americans were now complicit in the oppression of African Americans. Not being racist was no longer the acceptable standard; self-flagellation in the forms of confessions of privilege and white guilt drenched apologies for ancestral crimes became the new norm for the enlightened white man or woman. Even the descendants of Irish peasants who arrived in the 1900s were now as guilty as those whose lineage came from the plantations, simply due to their lack of pigment.
We saw the dishonesty in the coverage of Michael Brown. “Hands up, don’t shoot” became a national rallying cry, even though forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony confirmed that Brown had attacked the officer during the incident. We were told Breonna Taylor was shot while sleeping in bed, a “frontline EMT” gunned down for no reason. But the facts were different: her drug dealer boyfriend fired first, striking a police officer, and the officers returned fire. Still, the media fed the illusion that the police simply barged in and murdered her in cold blood while tucked away in bed. The same script was followed repeatedly and formulaically: selectively edited videos, emotional interviews, and zero context.
Understanding of statistics and research methodology vanished, like so many profile pictures, into blackness.
Certain data points, such as interactions with police or crime data, became taboo. The mere act of citing FBI crime data was called a “far right” conspiracy theory. Logically, if one group commits a disproportionate percentage of violent crimes, it follows they’ll have more encounters with law enforcement. But acknowledging that would ruin the narrative.
The manipulation is not limited to police encounters. Time and again, outlets cite “record increases” in hate crimes without explaining the underlying data. Most of these claims rely on voluntary reporting, vague definitions, and tiny sample sizes. A “40% spike” in a category that saw five incidents the previous year is statistically meaningless—but it makes for a terrifying headline. Stats such as police killing unarmed civilians could be drastically changed with 4 or 5 occurrences, meaning that forming conclusions about systemic violence across America would be academically irresponsible and anti-intellectual. This is where statistical power matters: without a large enough sample size, data lacks the sensitivity to distinguish real patterns from random noise.
Despite pushing statistical generalizations anyone who took an undergraduate statistics course could easily debunk, universities blindly followed the script they were provided. In their usual fashion, acceptance of the narrative became a prerequisite of being enlightened. Refusal to accept communal guilt had become a sign of ignorance.
The rhetoric eventually reached an inevitable conclusion: genuine anger over fictional trends. The campaign of racial narrative warfare exploded into one of the most destructive periods in modern American history. In the summer of 2020, following the death of a repeat felon George Floyd, dozens of American cities descended into riots disguised as protests. Entire neighborhoods were reduced to ash. Police stations were set ablaze. Businesses, many black-owned, were looted and destroyed. Over two billion dollars in property damage swept the country, making it the most expensive period of civil unrest in U.S. history. The destruction was ignored by the same politicians and media companies that fueled the anger and confusion.
At least 25 people were killed during the BLM riots. Some were innocent bystanders. Others were trying to protect their homes and businesses. Among them was retired police captain David Dorn, a black man, gunned down on a Facebook livestream while trying to stop a robbery at a friend’s pawn shop in St. Louis. His death barely registered in the national conversation, as if his particular black life didn’t happen to matter. That which does not further the goal of creating discord and racial tension was brushed under the rug.
The media response was as grotesque as its attempt to cause the riots to begin with. CNN famously stood in front of a burning building and called the scene “mostly peaceful.” Reporters nodded along as shockingly inarticulate activists justified arson as a form of “speech.” Democrat politicians knelt in kente cloths but couldn’t be bothered to denounce the destruction of their own cities. And anyone who dared question the violence was labeled a racist or fascist. The message was clear: your safety, your business, and your city are all expendable if they interfere with our helter -skelter narrative.
This wasn’t an organic uprising. It was the result of relentless psychological manipulation. The media whipped people into a frenzy, insisted every tragedy was proof of systemic evil, and then washed their hands when the fires started. They got their clicks, outrage, and votes before leaving a mountain of wreckage behind.
And while cities burned and emotions ran high, few followed the money. Black Lives Matter raised over $90 million in 2020 alone on the back of media-fueled outrage. But where did that money go? Not surprisingly, it didn’t go to families of victims or to rebuilding the neighborhoods destroyed in the chaos. Instead, a disturbing portion of it was funneled into political activism and Democratic Party-aligned causes. The donation platform used by BLM, ActBlue, is the same fundraising arm that processes donations for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. It became clear: BLM was just a financial engine for the political left. The movement was the bloodiest and most divisive campaign fundraiser in global history.
BLM leaders purchased luxury homes, corporations paid indulgence fees to signal their support, and Democrat candidates rode the wave of unrest into power. The movement claimed to fight injustice but functioned as a laundering machine where raw emotion was turned into political capital. It wasn’t grassroots. It was AstroTurf with a blue tint.
Now, in 2025, the playbook hasn’t changed a bit. With Trump back in office and the population already primed to accept that a fascist takeover had occurred again, race baiting has returned as the number one priority. A young man named Karmelo Anthony stabbed another teen to death, and the press calls him a “good kid.” A father, Rodney Hinton Jr, ran down a random police officer in cold blood because his son pointed a gun at a police officer and was shot dead, and he’s called brave and righteous. The effort to invert morality is relentless. Victims become villains. Criminals become saints.
When real racism fails to materialize at the levels the media and activist class need, many take matters into their own hands, fabricating hate crimes to validate the narrative. Again and again, these hoaxes are paraded as proof of systemic white supremacy until they quietly unravel. And when they do, no retractions nor apologies find their way into the national dialogue. The public is left with the initial lie, and the damage is already done. Every false report reinforces a culture of suspicion and hostility, turning neighbors into enemies and law enforcement into presumed villains.
Take the case of LaTarsha Brown, a black employee at Allentown City Hall in Pennsylvania. In 2024, Brown claimed someone had left a noose on her desk. The claim sent shockwaves through the city. Officials launched a full-scale investigation, public statements were made, and solidarity marches were held. However, when surveillance footage and forensic evidence came in, the truth emerged: Brown had placed the noose there herself. Not surprisingly, the charade became just another example of a lie quietly swept under the rug because it didn’t serve the preferred storyline.
These aren’t isolated incidents. From fake graffiti and burned churches to staged assaults, the list of hate crime hoaxes continues to grow. But the media rarely covers them once they’re exposed. Why? Because acknowledging the truth would unravel the very illusion they’ve spent years constructing: that America is a nation soaked in racial hatred, where black Americans live in constant fear. If outrage has to be manufactured, so be it.
Hollywood plays its part in keeping racial tensions alive, endlessly rehashing slavery, segregation, and racism on screen. Instead of offering perspective or unity, these films repackage pain as entertainment and push narratives of victimhood and guilt. By fixating on past injustice while ignoring progress, Hollywood traps audiences in a cycle of resentment and division.
What we’re witnessing isn’t empowerment. It’s programmed hatred. The black community has been fed a steady diet of victimhood and vengeance, taught to see themselves as perpetual targets and the system as irredeemably evil. The celebration of people like Karmelo and Hinton reveal how deeply the media and activist class have succeeded in radicalizing people against their own neighbors. When murder becomes a form of protest, when vengeance is mistaken for justice, and when hatred is mistaken for strength, a community doesn’t “rise up.” The ones lighting that fire aren’t in the streets. They’re in newsrooms and faculty lounges, sipping lattes while the world burns.
There’s something deeply wrong with teaching kids they’re racist just for being white, yet that’s exactly what’s happening in schools and media today. Children are told to “check their privilege” and carry guilt for sins they never committed, branding their identity as inherently shameful. Psychology tells us guilt is a powerful tool for control, and when used on children, it leaves scars: anxiety, low self-worth, and fear of speaking their minds. Education has become ideological conditioning, more akin to abuse than enlightenment.
The modern narratives surrounding race are mechanisms of control. By weaponizing guilt, activists and their political enablers create a population that is more compliant, more apologetic, and less likely to resist radical change. The psychological manipulation of children isn’t an unfortunate side effect, it’s the point. And when this entire sick system is being pushed to secure voting blocs, to shore up party loyalty through fear and shame, it becomes one of the most grotesque abuses of power in modern politics.
Imposed guilt over historical wrongs can lead to depression, anxiety, and alienation, eroding mental health rather than fostering empathy. When people are endlessly accused of privilege or racism for things they didn’t do, it breeds quiet humiliation and lasting psychological harm. What’s become clear over the past 15 years is that no amount of acknowledgment, money, or apologies will ever be enough for those who seek a future of racial division.
But a reckoning is stirring. After years of enforced silence under the threat of moral denunciation, many white Americans, who are tired of being scapegoated for every social ill and shamed for the mere fact of their existence, are beginning to shed the burdens of imposed guilt. More than ever, young white boys are gravitating toward conservatism as a response to a culture that increasingly portrays them as villains by default.
It’s not just happening in America. Across Europe, populist and nationalist movements are surging. From France to Germany to the Netherlands, more and more Europeans are voting for parties the media labels “far right.” But their message is simple: stop the unrelenting wave of non-consensual immigration, protect national identity, and end the endless guilt-tripping over colonialism, racism, and history. People are tired of being told they must sacrifice everything for people who hate their way of life.
Americans and Europeans are told, over and over again, that the West must atone for the sins of its past. In this twisted moral framework, the demographic replacement of populations is not an accident—it’s a form of penance. Europe, we’re told, “deserves” its unchecked migration crisis. America “deserves” the social upheaval. Western nations must endure cultural dilution, rising crime, and social fragmentation because their ancestors explored, conquered, and built empires. Never mind that most living citizens had nothing to do with colonialism. Never mind that these same empires also built hospitals, infrastructure, and legal systems still used today. Never mind the billions of dollars spent fighting slavery and poverty in the global south. The message is simple: your culture must die so others can thrive.
This is revenge dressed up as virtue. The very idea that a nation has the right to protect its cultural norms is now treated as dangerous extremism. Meanwhile, immigrants are encouraged to keep their languages, customs, and political ideologies intact, no matter how incompatible they may be with the host culture. The double standard is glaring.
So here we are: lectured by liars, ruled by cowards, and guilt-tripped by ideologues who peddle division like a sacrament. What began as a plea for justice has decayed into a cult of retribution that exalts grievance, punishes dissent, and calls it progress. If we lack the courage to call this manipulation by its proper name we’ll be hollowed out by our own self-loathing.