White supremacists like Randy Gray rallied in Knoxville, Tenn., over the murder of Channon Christian. Other cases, including the murder this June of a pregnant white woman in Ohio, allegedly by her black police officer boyfriend, were similarly played up by the racist right. It wasn't long before David Horowitz's FrontPage online magazine, ostensibly a mainstream conservative publication, republished the American Renaissance screed. American Renaissance, a white supremacist journal, published a lurid account of the crime - "The Wichita Massacre" - that concluded that the lack of national press coverage reflected "a refusal to think about race," despite authorities' insistence that race played no part in the attack. In 2000, two black brothers in Wichita, Kan., attacked and sexually abused five white men and women, killing four of them. This is hardly the first time that white supremacists have attempted to twist a horrible crime story into proof that the "politically correct" media intentionally downplays or suppresses news of black-on-white hate crimes. Without acknowledging the source, some mainstream conservative commentators in recent months have been parroting the key white supremacist talking point, characterizing the Christian-Newsom murders as a black-on-white "hate crime." "Individuals of the White Race are being sacrificed on the altar of Political Correctness," added "Pastor Eli James" on another racist website.Īttempting to capitalize on the propaganda value of a gruesome crime, white supremacists have flooded the Internet and radio waves with false details concerning the purported sexual mutilation of the victims and held a rally in Knoxville to protest "black crime." Their lies - that the murders were a race-based attack and that the victims were horribly mutilated -are gaining traction. "We as White Nationalists cannot allow the Jewish media bosses to simply slip this story down the media hole," read one April 27 post on the racist online forum Stormfront. Murder victim Channon Christian was the focus of a rally by white supremacists in Knoxville, Tenn. But starting in April, a loud and growing throng of white supremacists began protesting what they call a conspiratorial media blackout, owing, they claim, to the fact that Newsom and Christian were white and their alleged killers black. On the national media level, The Associated Press and MSNBC reported on the murders shortly after they occurred. Knoxville-area television stations and newspapers have covered the story heavily since the bodies were found. She had been strangled and crammed into a garbage can. Three days after that, officers discovered the body of Christian in an unoccupied house. The next day, police discovered Newsom's body shot and burned along city train tracks. When they reached the friend's apartment complex, they were carjacked at gunpoint by three men and a woman who forced them to drive to an abandoned house where the assailants raped and murdered the young couple. 6, Knoxville, Tenn., couple Christopher Newsom, 23, and Channon Christian, 21, drove to a friend's house to watch a movie after a dinner date.
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