Truth Before Narrative

 We are a little more than two months from the midterms. When the policy argument is thin, some Democrats reach for the older one: America is still that country. The one that hangs people from trees.

Jon Ossoff talks as if the Klan is on the ballot in Georgia. Ayanna Pressley says the Confederacy is alive and well. Jasmine Crockett points to “mysterious deaths” in Mississippi — people “found, hung or otherwise” — and says we can no longer rely on the Justice Department to look. The implication is not subtle. Vote our way, or you are choosing the noose.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

Ben Shapiro spent part of a recent show on the cases that keep getting cited as proof. His column on the same argument is here.

Ms. Rachel is Rachel Accurso, the toddler YouTube host behind Songs for Littles. About 20 million subscribers, a Netflix kids show, the pink headband and overalls. Parents of two-year-olds know her as the person who teaches Wheels on the Bus. She started the channel in 2019 after her own son had a speech delay. She has a master’s in music education from NYU. TikTok is one of her platforms. It is not the source of the following.

She has spent the last couple of years putting politics in the same feed as the nursery rhymes. Gaza. ICE detention. In March she told NBC News, “I am political.” This week she put the hanging claim in its cleanest form: please listen to the Black community. Black people don’t hang themselves from trees. There have been at least seven this year.

The history that sentence is pointing at is real. The medical examiner reports and the surveillance footage are also real. Those two things are not required to cancel each other. They just have to be looked at in the same paragraph.

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Here are the specific ones Shapiro named.

The Side of the Story They Buried — Tou Thao, Minneapolis Police Officer

 Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao gave a long-form interview on the Yada Yada Gold podcast and spoke with unusual directness about four things that still get little sustained attention: the plea deal he rejected, what he was doing and thinking on May 25, 2020, the reality of federal prison, and the incentives that reward those who adopt the preferred narrative.

Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao in 2020 via ABCNews

Trump Targets "Woke" Smithsonian Museums

President Donald Trump continues pressing the Smithsonian Institution to shift away from what he calls divisive, overly negative portrayals of American history — even as the nation reflects on its 250th anniversary.

Key Trump Statement (Truth Social, August 2025):

Via Truth Social

In more recent coverage, The White House released a detailed report on July 4 criticizing the National Museum of American History for “extreme political activism.” It accuses leadership of ideological capture and undermining faith in American institutions. See full context in this Washington Post article.

Rosa Parks: Orchestrated Icon? Williams & Walsh Break It Down

In a recent PBD Podcast, Patrick Bet-David spoke with Andre Williams about “Black fatigue,” the Karmelo Anthony case, and tough truths facing Black America. Williams pulls no punches — and openly discusses the backlash he faces for saying these things.

I value conversations that cut through simplified narratives despite the cost.

Rosa Parks vs. Claudette Colvin: The Orchestrated Choice

Williams argues the Rosa Parks incident was orchestrated by the NAACP. They picked her as the symbol because she presented a more “respectable” image — lighter-skinned, from a respected family. He contrasts this with Claudette Colvin, the 15-year-old who refused her seat nine months earlier. Colvin was dark-skinned and working-class, and later became pregnant by an older married man (an encounter she described as statutory rape).

Williams points out the feared backlash: in the 1950s climate, Colvin’s status as an unwed teenage mother (from what she later called statutory rape) could have been twisted by opponents to smear the movement and distract from segregation itself. Leaders chose the “safer” symbol in Rosa Parks to avoid that risk.

This ties into his broader point about shaped narratives that can downplay internal community challenges.

Personal note: Learning about Claudette Colvin years ago was eye-opening — all I really knew back then was that a pregnant teen had done essentially what Rosa Parks did later. I had no idea at the time how strategically Parks was chosen or that the iconic imagery around her was more of a photo-op. It puts Williams’ point in even sharper perspective.

Watch the key clip: [VIDEO]

The Facts About Emmett Till According to Matt Walsh

CONTENT WARNING: This post discusses the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, including details of violence, alleged sexual assault, and related historical claims. Reader discretion is advised.

Matt Walsh recently released a short from The Matt Walsh Show that challenges the standard narrative around the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. This case has been treated as sacred history in American education and media for decades. Walsh argues that key details have been sanitized or altered over time for propaganda purposes.

Watch the clip here for the full context: [VIDEO]

The familiar story taught in schools goes like this: A 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago visits relatives in Money, Mississippi. He whistles at a white woman in a grocery store. She tells her husband a more serious version of events. The husband and his half-brother then abduct, torture, and murder the boy. The case becomes a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Later, the woman (Carolyn Bryant Donham) supposedly recants and admits she lied about the encounter.

Walsh examines the original testimony, court records, and other sources to present a different picture.

#Tucker: Talking about the Jan 6 footage the public hadn't seen

 [VIDEO] As you might have seen on Glenn Beck the video before, Tucker Carlson has discussed this on his program this week. And as you may also know you get Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) denouncing what Tucker has been doing. Indeed Schumer has gone further calling for Tucker to be deplatformed, taken off the air.

Basically releasing more footage from January 6, 2021 is proving to be dangerous for them. Again are we being manipulated?

Glenn Beck: Proof Jan. 6 committee lied to us

 

[VIDEO] That whole situation on January 6, 2021 when Donald Trump before he left office rallied his supporters and urged them to peacefully protest at the US Capitol as the US Congress counted all the electoral vote has become the "insurrection". 

If you watch people like Glenn Beck or even Tucker Carlson and others you see that it became a reason to hold a number of people for months without a trial. It became a means to try to impeach a President who left office. It became another means to further demolish political opposition as so-called insurrectionists.

However, as you might have seen from Tucker Carlson or as you see from Beck now we see that the public has been manipulated. That was a scary day and it's shocking to see American citizens forcibly enter the US Capitol breaking windows and what not. And then we see that perhaps what might've been reported on CNN or any other liberal news network isn't what we thought it was.

Believe me, I supported Trumps efforts to challenge the 2020 election but then there was hardly anything that could reasonably be done to change the results of that election. Unfortunately the former President wasn't able to flip those disputed electoral votes from states such as Georgia & Arizona especially.

Still January 6th was a scary day, it seemed Americans lost control in a year of a pandemic or even horrible rioting during a pandemic. I hope we don't see that again. At the same time, Americans doesn't deserve propaganda, but the truth and true justice.

How does one threaten truth?

 

[VIDEO] Matt Walsh is interviewed by Zuby on YouTube. Walsh as you know did a documentary earlier this year entitled What is a Woman? The discuss the danger radical gender ideology and it's not just the assault on children - that is weak parents that allow or even want children to transition to another gender - it's the assault against the truth.

I would say this is a philosophical discussion that goes a bit over my head, however, what is one truth many generations of people held men are men and women are women. Radical gender ideology holds that you are what you feel.

I can say I feel like a Vulcan and try to mind meld with people, of course, on this world Vulcans were created in a fictional entertainment franchise. They're not real and I could probably get a fat lip for my invasion of someone's personal space.

So basically from radical gender ideology, truth becomes what you want it to be. It can be anything you think it is. Truth becomes children can consent to make irreparable changes to their bodies with weak parents who will allow it. Truth becomes women lose their identities and privacy. Perhaps the loss of truth becomes the loss of right & wrong.