The other night, Joy Reid, a race hustler on MSNBC, thought it appropriate to point out that the story of murdered young Gabby Petito is actually not a story about the unfortunate demise of a young promising 22 year old Internet influencer, but a story about race. This is because to Joy Reid, EVERYTHING is about race.

Joy commented, “the way this story has captivated the nation has many wondering, why not the same media attention when people of color go missing?” In other words, let’s completely shipwreck this story and turn it into yet another racially charged story to beat up on white people. People like Joy and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have made lucrative careers out of race baiting. It helps destroy our society but it lines their pockets.

What a cruel, rude thing to interject into the story of poor Gabby. 

Well, why did her story go viral so fast? Maybe it was because:

1. She was an up and coming Internet influencer who had 83k followers and millions of views on Youtube, Instagram and Facebook. When she went missing, literally millions of people noticed.
2. She and her boyfriend organized a 4 month trip across America that she planned to document on her platforms. Everyone was watching.
3. Then the Moab police released their hour-long body cam footage of Gabby and Brian being pulled over because of a 911 call for domestic violence.
4. When Gabby went missing after watching the Moab police agonizing over how to handle the “dispute” between Gabby and Brian, all eyes and ears perked up.

This is just human nature. A perfectly natural reaction considering the circumstances.  It’s not racial at all. Going viral is like lightning striking. It happens very seldom.

Well what about missing people of color that didn’t go viral? I would answer, “What about the 320,000 white people who went missing in 2020 that didn’t go viral?

Yes, you read that right. Three hundred twenty thousand. Assuming half of those are women, that’s 160,000 missing white women that did not go viral. According to the same statistics, there were about 91,000 black women, 5,000 Asian women and 5,000 Native American women also.

And one young woman who was an Internet influencer with a following went viral. Is there any valid point to Reid’s argument? I don’t think so. I think she is just a race hustler looking for a racial angle to ANY story, not just this one.

What do I think? I think we would do well to be Americans first and at least try to pull together instead of being divided and pulling apart. I think that any time someone asks, “What’s in it for my group as opposed to other groups,” in America, a big red flag should go up. It is a divisive and poisonous spirit that looks for these divisions and fans the flames.

We used to talk about the melting pot when I was a kid. I haven’t heard that analogy used about America for decades. It seems the race baiting has worked.

I would recommend listening to this video of Christian Voddie Baucham explaining the newest phenomenon of race baiting in our country; Critical Race Theory and how poisonous it is.

The first 15 minutes or so addresses a specific CRT issue happening in the Southern Baptist Convention (yes, it’s seeping into the church), then he gets into the meat and potatoes of what CRT is all about and where it came from. Should be required listening to every American and every Christian. We need to stop the racial fighting in our country and in the church.

https://youtu.be/VEt-Lk42Sx8?start=3225