Posted on 02/17/2006 1:34:30 PM PST by Graybeard58
The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby wrote an arresting column this week noting how reluctant so much of the news coverage has been to call the torching of 10 Baptist churches in Alabama an anti-Christian hate crime - or just a hate crime, period.
Imagine, Jacoby muses, that "unknown hoodlums had firebombed 10 gay bookstores and bars in San Francisco" or "10 Detroit-area mosques and halal restaurants." Not only would the burnings rocket to the front pages and remain there, politicians everywhere would be falling all over themselves to express solidarity with the victims.
The Alabama arsons haven't provoked anything like this level of public outrage, Jacoby notes. Indeed, "running through the coverage of the latest church burnings is an almost palpable yearning to cast the story in racial terms" - even though five of the churches were mostly white and five black.
As if to prove Jacoby's point, his own newspaper on the same day printed a lengthy article on the church burnings that was simply awash in racial angles. Readers learned, for example, that as "many white Alabamans cope with random attacks on their houses of worships, some in the most remote and segregated communities are experiencing an awakening (to racial sensitivity) that seems years overdue."
But give the Globe credit: About a third of the way into the 1,500-word article, the writer does manage to mention the words "hate crime." Once.
No doubt the work of the nefarious KKAACP.
THANK YOU! Dixie Ping!
You made me spill my orange juice. Good call though...
A bunch of churches where burned in AZ as well, which I didn't know, until I read it here on FR. Last night as a matter of fact. It seems like a nation wide problem.
New England yanks have no idea how far ahead of them in race relations us backwards-assed Southerners are.
Right on!
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