One of the factors leading to Tucker Carlson’s firing from Fox News is a series of texts. One in particular was sent after the January 6 insurrection.
The text reads in part:
“A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington,” Carlson texted a producer. “A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s**t out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it.”
I wouldn’t have guessed that Carlson was an expert pugilist, but he demonstrates his expertise by clarifying “how white men fight.”
By inference, Carlson is saying that White men fight honorably.
They don’t gang up on people.
They observe rules of decency.
A clear example of how white people fight happened on New York’s subway system.
Jordan Neely was a 30-year-old Black man who was well-known on the subway as “The King of Pop.” He often dressed to look like Michael Jackson and would entertain his fellow riders.
He was also mentally ill. He had been arrested for erratic, and sometimes violent behavior.
But on Monday afternoon, reports say that he was not violent.
His only infraction was loudly announcing that he was fed up and hungry, tired of having nothing, and was ready to go to jail so he would have food and shelter.
A 24-year-old White man, a former Marine, came up from behind Neely and put him in a chokehold. Two other men approached, one trying to pacify Neely, and the other helping to subdue him.
After being held in the chokehold for approximately 15 minutes, Neely fell unconscious and police and medical personnel were summoned.
Neely was dead.
The ex-Marine used his hand-to-hand combat training in subduing Neely, and it could be construed as an unfortunate accident.
Except for one important fact.
Given his training, the unnamed jarhead would have known that the proper application of the chokehold would have rendered Neely unconscious after six or seven seconds.
Seconds.
Not 15 minutes.
This is why many large police forces have stopped using these chokeholds.
Because of the potential to overuse and cause deaths.
Sometimes embarrassingly public deaths.
Jordan Neely wasn’t assaulting anyone.
He was mentally ill.
He was loud and noisy.
He was causing a scene.
None of that warranted his death.
The 24-year-old subduer was questioned, then released.
The coroner’s report on Neely’s death confirmed that the cause of death was neck compression due to strangulation.
These findings should result in some type of second-degree murder or manslaughter charge.
So how do White people fight?
White people have lynched thousands of Black, Brown, and Red people.
There’s a reason that people who lynch are called a mob.
They aren’t called lynch individuals.
Lynching is a group exercise.
For some reason, there isn’t much evidence of Black American lynchers.
Or Brown.
Or Red.
But there’s lots and lots of historical evidence of White lynchers.
White people tend to casually kill or injure People of Color.
Some were lynch mobs.
Some wore badges.
Some were “standing their ground.”
Regardless of their reasons,
This is how White people fight.