Every death in this city is something to stop and think about. But a brutal murder this week is something that needs to be talked about.
Not least of all because it seems to tell us something we don’t want to hear.
O’Shae Sibley was a skilled dancer and choreographer. She was 28 years old.
Last Saturday night, he was stabbed to death at a gas station in Brooklyn.
The Post got video surveillance footage that shows Sibley and three of his friends stopped at a nearby Mobil station to fill up.
Sibley and one of his friends started “voguing” to Beyonce while they were there.
This made another group of men at the stop take notice.
Sibley was stabbed after words were said. People who didn’t know him called 911 and tried to help him.
But he died of bleeding on the street.
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But every week in this city, people are killed in terrible ways. Why do I think we should take our time with this one?
Sage O. Dumure, Versailles, via Facebook
First, because it’s strange that the killing of O’Shae Sibley hasn’t gotten more attention.
Every life is important. Sibley, on the other hand, was black and gay.
Usually, the media and political groups would pay close attention to either of these things, let alone both of them.
But even though the killing has been called a “hate crime” by many people, it is the wrong kind of “hate crime.” One that doesn’t fit the main story that’s being told right now.
If the people who attacked Sibley and his friends were white and shouted that they didn’t like gay people or black people, this country would be in chaos right now.
Every candidate for President would say it was wrong.
All the “community groups” whose job it is to fight against “hate” would be hard at work collecting money.
The New York Times would have had enough room on its pages to talk about this for days.
But it didn’t work out that way.
Here’s what the people who were there say happened.
One of Sibley’s friends, who was with him when he was killed, put a picture of the bloody curb on social media and wrote, “They hated us because we are gay!” We are Muslims, and we don’t like gay people! While we were pumping gas, you chose to stab one of us! #justice.”
Since there was only one eyewitness, maybe the media were just being careful about what they said.
A second person has said something to a neighborhood website, though.
A worker at the gas station said that Sibley and his friends’ “flamboyant” behavior had upset the other group because they were Muslims.
The gas store worker said, “These people said, ‘We’re Muslim, I don’t want you to dance.'” They didn’t want to fight, but they were gay.”
But these facts don’t make sense with the story. The person who died was black and gay. The person who did it was a Muslim.
Our time is crazy about “hate-crimes.” So much so that it sees them happening in places where they don’t.
Still, there was a hate crime in Brooklyn on Saturday. And the news isn’t telling us about it.
All because Sibley’s attackers weren’t KKK members wearing hoods or Republicans wearing “MAGA” hats.
Instead, they are part of another group that the news calls a victim class.
Because the men were Muslim, the media has been openly lying about what happened. Even though the story was being told everywhere.
The story has been written about in the New York Times. But it hasn’t thought to tell its readers why Sibley died on a sidewalk in Brooklyn.
If the Times had even the slightest idea that this was a hate crime committed by a white person against a gay person, they wouldn’t have waited for one eyewitness, let alone two.
They would have said everything, made guesses about everything, and asked what this said about this country and everyone in it.
But because the people who did it and why were an awkward part of that paper’s big story, the Times just hid the facts.
The Guardian made a mistake. That paper quoted Sibley’s friend, who I just quoted above, but they took out the part about the attackers being Muslim and what they said.
Again, it doesn’t fit in with The Guardian’s story.
The most that newspaper could say was that a witness said the people who did it said something about “defending their religious beliefs” during the fight.
It seems that some people’s religious views can be hurt by dancing to Beyonce.
Whose is it? You couldn’t ask the Guardian. It is happy to leave its readers with the idea that the killing could have been done by white Christian rednecks or Orthodox Jews.
The gay press has shamefully done the same thing. As usual, gay rights groups have turned their backs on the people they say they speak for by helping to hide the story.
Some gay groups have even tried to connect the killing to current discussions about transgender issues.
Ignoring the fact that the men at the Brooklyn gas station seem to have been more affected by the ideas of the founder of Islam than by the Governor of California.
Obviously, this kind of false news is another reason why so many people these days don’t trust the media.
But this cover-up also shows a terrible lack of courage.
Because we should be able to face the facts.
We should be able to deal with how hard the world is. “Reality,” as we used to say.
Because of who they are, no one should be killed. But a killer shouldn’t be able to hide because of who they are.
In particular, the media and activists who can’t deal with facts shouldn’t clean up their crime scenes for them.
In truth, life is more complicated than the lies we’ve been telling ourselves for the past few years.
There shouldn’t be different groups in America. Also, evil shouldn’t be put into groups.
Anyone could be hurt by hate. And someone from any group, even a minority, could do it.
Think about that, and we’ll give at least a little bit of justice to this one victim.
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