A Sociologist Explains The Charleston Church Shooting And Racism In The U.S.

Everything they see, they see in racist terms.

After reading your post I began to think that maybe they are merely engaging in psychological projection of their own perceptions onto society at large.

I wonder how they bridge the infinite logical gap from the individual to societal racism.

They have that membership card.

Maybe that is their 'logical' bridge.

His definition of racism certainly fits your apt description of it:

"I would define racism as a system of social advantages and disadvantages doled out based upon group membership..."

Cordially,

they let a lot slide don’t they in their reporting......99.999% of people don’t even know about the Knoxville murders....

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, were a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee. They were raped, tortured, and murdered after being kidnapped the evening of January 6, 2007 when Christian's vehicle was carjacked.[1][2] Five people were arrested and charged in the case. The grand jury indicted four of the suspects on counts of capital murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape, and theft, while a fifth was indicted at the federal level.

Of the four charged at the state level, three (Letalvis D. Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, and George Thomas) had multiple prior felony convictions. After a jury trial, Lemaricus Davidson was sentenced to death by lethal injection and Letalvis Cobbins and George Thomas were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Vanessa Coleman was sentenced to 53 years in prison for facilitating the crimes and Eric Dewayne Boyd was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for being an accessory after the fact to carjacking.

The state convictions were all initially set aside because of misconduct by the presiding judge, since disbarred. Retrials were originally slated for the summer and fall of 2012, but the orders for retrials of Davidson and Cobbins were subsequently overturned, and their convictions and sentences stand. The Coleman and Thomas retrials resulted in convictions, but with reduced sentences. Coleman's sentence was reduced to 35 years, and Thomas' sentence was reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Much of the publicity surrounding the case concerned whether or not the US media underreported the original story, and whether there was a racial motivation, as all of the attackers were African American.

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