Stephen L. Miller

Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery: a tale of two trials

Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery (Getty/Family photo)

Two consequential trials are currently underway in America. Both in some way relate to the events of last year surrounding police and the public debate about racism.

One trial is driving most of the media coverage online. One has been all but ignored.

So why is the national media almost singularly focused on what appears to be fabricating racial components in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three rioters in Wisconsin, killing two, and not at all in the trial of Travis McMichael and his two accomplices, who stand accused of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was gunned down while jogging last February?

We are being fed the fantasy that Rittenhouse was a dangerous, mass-shooting, pro-Trump militia member, out for blood on the night of the Kenosha riots in Wisconsin. We are also being told that he is a white supremacist. This claim has been pushed by MSNBC, and even by members of Congress, such as Ayanna Pressley who tweeted,

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