The 3 Biggest Lies About the Central Park Five

A new Netflix series perpetuates the myths.

June 14, 2019 Jack Kerwick

The new Netflix series, This Is How They See Us, perpetuates the myth, which began circulating about 17 years ago, that the so-called “Central Park Five” (CP5) are innocent of the notoriously brutal attack on “the Central Park Jogger,” Trisha Meili, that occurred in 1989.

The CP5 have now entered the martyrology of the Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC).

This is How They See Us is racial fantasy and ideological propaganda designed to strengthen the RIC’s narrative of choice, the politically-advantageous fairy tale of unrelenting White Racism and Black Suffering.  

And when that narrative can be spun to score points against Donald Trump, it’s that much juicier.
That the CP5 are innocent victims of a rabidly racist New York Police Department is a Gargantuan Lie. Another lie, one that, because it is minor relative to the others, we can put out to pasture immediately. It is the lie that Donald Trump called for the execution of these innocent black “children” in the wake of the Central Park attack. In response to the lawlessness then engulfing the city, a barbarism epitomized by the CP5 and their roving band of acquaintances who hurt Trisha Meili and others in the park that eventful night, Trump did in fact take out two full-page ads calling for the return to New York of the death penalty. He also called for the return of the police.

He never mentioned the CP5

Far from being deserving of criticism, New Yorker Trump acted laudably, for he proved himself to be a rarity among his social class in using his resources in money and influence to give expression to the outrage and hurt felt by countless numbers of Americans, both in New York and beyond.

Within the bigger picture, however, the use to which the liars of the RIC are now deploying Trump’s ad from 30 years ago is a trivial detail. To prevent them from indoctrinating a new generation into their invidious species of historical revisionism, we need to expose this evil for what it is. And it is best to do so by exposing the three biggest lies about the case:

Biggest Lie #1: The CP5 Didn’t Do It. ............To Read More.....