Posted on 10/08/2015 3:13:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
White Punks on Dope.
Govt money handouts are only supposed to be taken from working whites and given to blacks, you see.
Time to end all this kegal robbery from working folks.
It’s “Cocaine Condo”, you goof.
Oyley vey!
Someone never heard of Whitney Houston.
Dog bites man will always garner more coverage than the reverse. Just so, wealthy, successful white women who aren’t celebrities dying of drug overdoses in posh apartment lobbies are scarce and therefore newsworthy, while poor nonwhites of both sexes OD far more frequently, and thus rarely get mentioned anywhere other than the police blotter column.
Nothing to do with race. If she was a black “married doctor and mother of three” it would be covered the same way. If she were a poor white drug addict it wouldn’t be covered at all—plenty of them die all the time, and the papers don’t report it. Like they used to say in Journalism 101, “Dog Bites Man” is not a story, “Man Bites Dog” is.
I think you got that man/dog thing backwards.
Doh! Yes I did. Thanks.
The sole reason this stuff is newsworthy is because it is so rare and unlikely with the strata of society that has acted on the principle of ‘delayed gratification’ to study and work hard to get ahead. This is not the case, statistically, in the strata of society where drugs are so prevalent. Further, it is because whitey is standing on somebodies neck and holding them down. As this case clearly illustrates, stupid is as stupid does.
I believe the author makes some excellent points.
Person of no account dies and no account is taken. Not shocking.
Person of accomplishment falls from grace and dies, it’s got a hook.
It’s that simple. And please, look how much ink was spilt for St. Trayvon.
Two beautiful accomplished women with children who succumbed to their drug use. That was the story for both of them, for the most part.ob
Exactly. It is newsworthy when something like this happens to someone not usually involved in such matters, but it has nothing to do with her race. The victim mentality runs deep with the Amish.
She was also a doctor, that by itself makes it news worthy.
The authoress should stop whining.
I’m tired of being told I’m a bad person and “privileged” because I’m white.
Some “privilege.”
That’s right. At the end of “Boyz In The Hood” one character laments that his brother’s murder the previous day wasn’t covered in the news; who else would even care?
Too many have made themselves irrelevant (if not outright enemies) of those of us who get out of bed each morning and work our tails off...
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