Citing coverage of the shooting of Ralph Yarl, Clay Travis accuses media of creating a “racial war”
Travis: The media is “picking outlier stories and treating them as if they are representative samples of what goes on in a day-to-day basis in America today”
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From the April 18, 2023, edition of Premiere Networks' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
CLAY TRAVIS (CO-HOST): So, this idea of people behaving irrationally and crazily is not foreign to me, right? I've experienced it in my own life. But this goes to what the media is doing in the country. The media in this country is trying to convince you, and all of you out there listening know this, that identity trumps everything and that you have nothing in common with a Black guy or an Asian woman or a Hispanic woman if you are white. That you are in this identity politics battle and in order for one person to triumph somebody else has to lose. And, they have created this racial war by picking outlier stories and treating them as if they are representative samples of what goes on in a day-to-day basis in America today while simultaneously ignoring what truly is often the number one story. And this is why I say, and it makes people uncomfortable sometimes to have this conversation and unfortunately, I think as long as that level of discomfort exists, we can't make progress in anything. So let me be just straightforward and clear here: Black Lives Matter is not actually true. Okay? Black lives only matter when white people, by and large, are involved in taking them. Because if Black lives truly mattered then the massive rate of Black-on-Black crime, murder in particular, that has skyrocketed since the George Floyd protests began, would be front-page news every single day. A Black guy killing another Black guy gets no attention, barely even blip of radar. An 85-year-old white guy who doesn't even kill a Black kid, front page story on The New York Times. I'm sure they'll be marching. I'm sure it'll be the number one story for multiple days.