Corporate Media BLOWS UP the Ole Miss "Monkey" Female Student Story To Try to Push Racism Narrative — Transcript

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1. 0:00There's a real question about
2. 0:02why this story would be making national
3. 0:05news. Why does the media think this is
4. 0:07so important that they need to bring
5. 0:08this to you on ABC Nightly News
6. 0:13and then again on their morning program?
7. 0:16One one does wonder.
8. 0:18They are so desperate for stories of
9. 0:21white-on-black racism that they're going
10. 0:24to feature it all over ABC News when
11. 0:26they think they found one alleged
12. 0:28instance of it. They're so excited.
13. 0:32I mean,
14. 0:33the number of crimes committed by black
15. 0:36defendants on white victims where, in
16. 0:40particular, white women, but also white
17. 0:43men and white boys are being murdered by
18. 0:46black defendants is
19. 0:48deeply disturbing.
20. 0:50The numbers are they will they will
21. 0:53rattle you to the bone. And most of us,
22. 0:56out of like
23. 0:57a sense of decorum and politeness, don't
24. 1:00go there. We're not looking to ratchet
25. 1:02up a sense of racial grievance or
26. 1:06target any particular group by reporting
27. 1:09its crime stats
28. 1:11on a day-to-day basis. But
29. 1:14the mainstream media doesn't feel that
30. 1:16way when they find what they think might
31. 1:19be a white racist. They don't give a
32. 1:22about the whites being murdered by
33. 1:23blacks, just to be clear. They don't.
34. 1:26What they care about is black victims of
35. 1:29white racism, especially if the white
36. 1:32perpetrator happens to be an attractive
37. 1:34young woman. Then it may lead world news
38. 1:37tonight. It may lead Good Morning
39. 1:39America. They they found a live one.
40. 1:42Or did they?
41. 1:44Um, it's just it's genuinely upsetting
42. 1:47because we do have stories of
43. 1:50kids being killed,
44. 1:51kids being killed, white kids by black
45. 1:55defendants, and they they don't feel the
46. 1:58need to go in all in on stories
47. 2:00at all.
48. 2:01But they do like this one a lot.
49. 2:03Happened at the University of
50. 2:04Mississippi,
51. 2:05University of Mississippi, where they
52. 2:07are currently investigating a video that
53. 2:10shows three white women, only the first
54. 2:13two you're going to see on this video
55. 2:15are at issue. The third to travel along
56. 2:18in the video is not accused of doing
57. 2:19anything racist as far as we know.
58. 2:22Three white women outside a black
59. 2:25student's apartment, and just as I read
60. 2:27this from the ABC write up, of course,
61. 2:29because they changed the style guide, uh
62. 2:31the AP did back in 2020 and now all the
63. 2:33media goes along with it, black is
64. 2:35capitalized. White is not capitalized,
65. 2:38but black is capitalized. You have to
66. 2:40cap I don't do it. I'm not cap
67. 2:42capitalizing black or brown or anything.
68. 2:46Like it it's it's a color.
69. 2:48Stop.
70. 2:49And by the way, if you say something
71. 2:50like black culture, they'll accuse you
72. 2:52of being a racist. Well, what which is
73. 2:54it?
74. 2:55Is it like a special group that's get
75. 2:56that gets a capital letter? Cuz I just
76. 2:58see them as my fellow Americans.
77. 3:00I don't see them as particularly more
78. 3:02dangerous, less dangerous, dumber,
79. 3:05smarter,
80. 3:07more prone to receive racism or to give
81. 3:09it than anybody else.
82. 3:11It's just this is weird woke language
83. 3:14manipulation
84. 3:16that requires the capital. Okay.
85. 3:19Uh a video showing three white women
86. 3:21outside a black student's apartment
87. 3:22Friday evening. This just happened with
88. 3:25two of them allegedly making racist
89. 3:27noises and gestures captured on ring
90. 3:30camera footage. Quote, the incident is
91. 3:32being actively investigating
92. 3:34investigated by the appropriate
93. 3:35university offices, says the vice
94. 3:37chancellor of the university.
95. 3:39Uh our staff have reached out to the
96. 3:41students directly impacted to offer
97. 3:42support, listen to their concerns and
98. 3:44connect them with available resources.
99. 3:46We'll continue to support them as we
100. 3:47work through this process. The two women
101. 3:49in the video, which was posted posted to
102. 3:51TikTok, are seen briefly stepping toward
103. 3:54the door camera, beating their chests
104. 3:57while grunting and cooing like monkeys,
105. 3:59reading here from ABC. The third woman
106. 4:01glanced toward the camera, but she did
107. 4:03not appear to make any gestures or
108. 4:05monkey noises. The school said in its
109. 4:07statement that it was investigating the
110. 4:09incident. Here is the video, which is
111. 4:12now been viewed over 12 million times.
112. 4:16WATCH.
113. 4:21>> WAIT, [snorts] IS IT ON SPEAKER?
114. 4:31>> OKAY, THAT'S IT. THAT'S all we have from
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139. 5:30school confirmed that uh
140. 5:34the students
141. 5:35sorry, that the women in the video are
142. 5:38students at Ole Miss. It did not respond
143. 5:41to ABC News's question about whether
144. 5:42disciplinary action was taken
145. 5:46citing the Family Educational Rights and
146. 5:47Privacy Act, meaning they have privacy
147. 5:49rights there. But
148. 5:52there
149. 5:53the the the one of the students and one
150. 5:55of the students' mothers. So like a
151. 5:58student and one of their moms appeared
152. 6:01on GMA and
153. 6:04sorry, CBS
154. 6:06and spoke to this. Actually,
155. 6:09provided more detail about the alleged
156. 6:12incident. Let's watch part of that.
157. 6:15>> Who was first to discover this video on
158. 6:17the ring camera?
159. 6:18>> Me.
160. 6:20>> And what did you do?
161. 6:21>> We actually went outside
162. 6:24and tried to like approach them and like
163. 6:27have them get them to like explain why
164. 6:29they did that. One girl was apologizing.
165. 6:32She was like, I'm sorry. We did that to
166. 6:35like four doors. And mind you, we didn't
167. 6:36see anyone in those doors. It was just
168. 6:38ours that was targeted. And she was
169. 6:40like, we didn't mean any harm.
170. 6:45>> Okay. So that was the girls who lived in
171. 6:46the apartment and their moms.
172. 6:48And
173. 6:50you could hear them say that they
174. 6:53they there tried to approach the
175. 6:55students who made the noises and there's
176. 6:58they went on. Let's play the next one.
177. 7:02>> They say the first person seen in the
178. 7:04November 6 video, Elena Kunez,
179. 7:07apologized. But the second person who
180. 7:09they say lives in their complex doubled
181. 7:11down off camera.
182. 7:13>> She continued to make the gestures after
183. 7:15the girl was apologizing. It was like a
184. 7:16slap in the face. Like you don't care.
185. 7:18>> did you guys say back when she
186. 7:20continued? Because now I would imagine
187. 7:23it's really hard for you to keep your
188. 7:25cool.
189. 7:26>> Yeah, I had said that I don't think they
190. 7:29should go around. Even if they did go to
191. 7:31other people doors and do that, I don't
192. 7:32think they should do that because it's
193. 7:33very disrespectful.
194. 7:34>> Do you forgive her?
195. 7:37>> And I feel like
196. 7:38no matter like who we are or if she knew
197. 7:42our race or not, but the gestures and
198. 7:45the noises, I feel like it still was
199. 7:47very disrespectful. I just have mixed
200. 7:48feelings about it.
201. 7:50>> I appreciate the the apology, but I feel
202. 7:52like it still doesn't change what
203. 7:54happened on that Friday cuz it's still
204. 7:57hurtful and it's still devastating.
205. 7:58That's the one who come to our camera
206. 8:00and do that.
207. 8:03>> Okay. So the girls and their moms
208. 8:05speaking out saying that they had a
209. 8:07confrontation with these girls after the
210. 8:10alleged doorbell incident or door
211. 8:12camera, whatever.
212. 8:13Um and that the second girl shown in the
213. 8:16video made the gestures again. Let's
214. 8:19watch the videotape one more time.
215. 8:25[laughter]
216. 8:34Okay. So they're claiming that the
217. 8:36second girl doubled down and did it
218. 8:38again, which is relevant because
219. 8:42I believe it's the first girl
220. 8:44um who is denying that she knew
221. 8:49that these were black girls in this
222. 8:50apartment.
223. 8:51She says to the women she's issued a
224. 8:53statement. Her name is Elena Kunez.
225. 8:56She's a freshman at 18.
226. 8:57She she writes and this is the first
227. 8:59woman you see in the videotape making
228. 9:01the sounds and beating her chest. Quote,
229. 9:03to the women I offended and to the Ole
230. 9:05Miss community, I sincerely apologize.
231. 9:07Before the incident on November 6th, I
232. 9:09never met the women involved and was
233. 9:12unaware of their race. However, I
234. 9:15recognized my actions were insensitive,
235. 9:17inappropriate, and deeply harmful. I
236. 9:19would have never intentionally made
237. 9:22those noises or gestures toward a person
238. 9:24of color. I have apologized to the women
239. 9:27and I pray they will forgive me. I can
240. 9:29never truly understand the pain I've
241. 9:30caused them and it was never my
242. 9:31intention. These girls deserve to feel
243. 9:34seen and understood and what I did is
244. 9:36not a reflection of who I am trying to
245. 9:37become. Over the past several days, my
246. 9:39family and I have received death threats
247. 9:40and harassment. I'm grateful for the
248. 9:42authorities working to ensure our safety
249. 9:45as I intend to cooperate fully with the
250. 9:46university's investigation. I ask for
251. 9:48privacy for my family. I understand the
252. 9:50seriousness of the situation and remain
253. 9:52committed to taking responsibility and
254. 9:55learning from this embarrassing ordeal.
255. 9:58The student, that first girl, has also
256. 10:00withdrawn from the university according
257. 10:03to a source. So she's out. But again um
258. 10:08the suggestion is that
259. 10:11one apologized, one of these girls
260. 10:13apologized. I don't know which one.
261. 10:14That's what the the girls who live in
262. 10:16the apartment said. One was apologizing
263. 10:19and
264. 10:20they say uh
265. 10:22yeah, they say it was her, the first
266. 10:24girl. They said the first person seen in
267. 10:26the video apologized, but the second
268. 10:28person who lives in their complex
269. 10:30doubled down
270. 10:32off camera.
271. 10:34Just want to be sure cuz they're using
272. 10:35different names here.
273. 10:37The statement is from Alena Kounes,
274. 10:40who's a freshman, who says I had no idea
275. 10:42that they were black women who lived in
276. 10:44there.
277. 10:45Uh CBS is reporting that the first
278. 10:48person seen in the video is Alena
279. 10:50Kounes, who apologized. So it could be
280. 10:53that the second girl, forgive me, I just
281. 10:55don't know um was the girl who issued
282. 10:57the statement and has withdrawn from the
283. 11:00university. Look, here's here's the
284. 11:03bottom line as as far as I see it. Um
285. 11:07I do find it a stretch to believe these
286. 11:10girls were randomly making monkey noises
287. 11:13and gestures outside of any old
288. 11:16apartment door. That that seems like a
289. 11:18stretch. I mean, why why? I need more if
290. 11:21you want me to believe that. Like what
291. 11:24what made you do monkey noises?
292. 11:26And if the one girl actually lived in
293. 11:28this apartment complex, I also find it a
294. 11:30stretch to believe she had no idea that
295. 11:32there were black girls living
296. 11:33downstairs. I mean, I don't know how big
297. 11:35it is. That's also a fact that we need
298. 11:36to find out, but if it's relatively
299. 11:38small and, you know, they're freshman,
300. 11:40so it's still relatively early in the
301. 11:42year, um
302. 11:45I think you'd know, but we need to know
303. 11:47more.
304. 11:48Um if it is true that the one girl
305. 11:50continued
306. 11:51who doubled down after the black girls
307. 11:54came out of the apartment to say, what
308. 11:55are you doing? And she then
309. 11:58made those noises or gestures, that's
310. 12:01ball game.
311. 12:02That's there's no question that's racist
312. 12:04and we have a racist incident on our
313. 12:06hand and it's unambiguous.
314. 12:08Um
315. 12:09so we need to know, but I do think the
316. 12:12bottom line about this story, to me, is
317. 12:15why is it getting so much attention?
318. 12:19The media is delighted with this story.
319. 12:22They they can't give us enough of it.
320. 12:25And yet, as I pointed out, we just had
321. 12:27an incident just just recently. Um do we
322. 12:31have it here of a young a young white
323. 12:35boy
324. 12:36being murdered
325. 12:37by
326. 12:39by a a group of black assailants. His
327. 12:42name was Austin Payne.
328. 12:44And it got no no attention whatsoever.
329. 12:47Todd Starnes, my old colleague from Fox
330. 12:48News, was posting this.
331. 12:50It's um it happened on Halloween. Austin
332. 12:54Payne called his mother on Halloween
333. 12:56night. He was only 15 years old to tell
334. 12:58her that he'd been shot. By the next
335. 13:00morning, he was found dead inside an
336. 13:03abandoned apartment in Georgia. He's
337. 13:05white.
338. 13:06His assailants were black. Four of them.
339. 13:08Now all four have been charged with
340. 13:10murder.
341. 13:11Albany, Georgia police announced the
342. 13:13arrest three days after Payne's body was
343. 13:15found on Cameo Lane in Albany. The
344. 13:18charges are against uh Jenz Quincy
345. 13:22Donaldson, 15, Omari Marion, 15,
346. 13:26Adarius Wallace, 16, and Deltra Vion
347. 13:30Parker, 22.
348. 13:32Witnesses told officers that armed
349. 13:34individuals allegedly approached a group
350. 13:37walking with Austin Payne, ordered them
351. 13:40to hand over their belongings, and fired
352. 13:43shots
353. 13:44the night of October 31st, according to
354. 13:46an initial incident report. Didn't hear
355. 13:49about that one, did you?
356. 13:51You have no idea who Austin Payne is, do
357. 13:53you?
358. 13:55Do you know it's spelled p a y n e? Do
359. 13:56you know what he looks like? Looks
360. 13:58actually very sweet.
361. 14:00Do you have any idea
362. 14:01what the story is around these
363. 14:02defendants? No. No one does.
364. 14:05Because the media won't tell you about
365. 14:08stories like that. Now you tell me which
366. 14:10one is more offensive. Um the murder of
367. 14:13of
368. 14:14year old on Halloween
369. 14:16by a gang of others, or
370. 14:20two girls behaving completely
371. 14:22inappropriately if this is actually the
372. 14:24motivation
373. 14:25to black girls whose feelings would
374. 14:27obviously be deeply hurt and they would
375. 14:29be rattled by it, but they were alive.
376. 14:33I mean just in the relative scale of
377. 14:34sins, which if you were a news
378. 14:37organization would be a bigger story.
379. 14:39And let me tell you why there's no big
380. 14:41story on the four black kids killing the
381. 14:44white kid. Because the media
382. 14:46understands, unfortunately giving the
383. 14:48the crime statistics, that that is a dog
384. 14:51bites man story.
385. 14:53And they know, whether they'll admit it
386. 14:55or not, that the
387. 14:58actual racism, if that's what this is
388. 15:00and again we need some more facts just
389. 15:02to make sure,
390. 15:03um is more of a man bites dog story.
391. 15:06It's very hard to find.
392. 15:09You've got to really look for it and
393. 15:11when you find it, it's like the pot of
394. 15:12gold at the end of the rainbow if you're
395. 15:14ABC or CBS. They're thrilled.
396. 15:17It confirms the narrative they've been
397. 15:19spinning all along. Aha, latent racists
398. 15:23everywhere in America.
399. 15:25And we are three two one from them
400. 15:27trying to get to these girls social
401. 15:29media posts and look for anything that
402. 15:31bears a MAGA hat or suggests
403. 15:35conservatism is in their family, right?
404. 15:37We've all been through the drill. We
405. 15:38know exactly how this goes.
406. 15:41Um so I object. I object to the whole
407. 15:43thing. I object to the fact that I know
408. 15:45these girls' names,
409. 15:46um that I don't didn't know the name
410. 15:48Austin Payne or the names of any
411. 15:52of the white kids who were killed by
412. 15:55black gangs or others
413. 15:58day to day in this country.
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