Posted on 05/09/2013 6:29:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Three young Cleveland girls missing and presumed dead turned up alive and in good health. A hero of the story is a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, a black man who helped free the girls from the home in which they were apparently imprisoned for some 10 years.
Among other things, Ramsey said: "I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Either she homeless or she got problems. That's the only reason she run to a black man." Presumably the black man the "pretty white girl" ran up to was Ramsey himself.
But a check of The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Cleveland Plain Dealer shows that while the papers quoted Ramsey, none saw fit to include his observation that "a pretty white girl" running up to a black man means "something is wrong here." Looking uncomfortable, the television reporter, from local Channel 5, an ABC affiliate, promptly broke off the interview. No follow up, as in, "What, you've never seen a Shirley Temple movie?" (Kidding, just kidding.)
News sometimes makes reporters feel uncomfortable. So what? Ramsey's comments reflect how the Good Samaritan felt -- which makes it news. If Ramsey's other comments get reported, why not that one? Besides, Homeland Security tells us, "See something, say something," But when this particular citizen does, many in our establishment media do not want to tell us what he said?!
Question: Assume Ramsey were white and said: "I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into my black neighbor's arms. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway." Does the comment get removed, excised or cleaned up? Not likely, for a favorite media narrative is that racism remains a major problem in America. Put Ramsey's comment in a white man's mouth, and voila! In the soul of this otherwise Good Samaritan, we have "stereotyping," if not "bigotry" or "racism."
When athletes, for example, say "ain't" or use double negatives, sportswriters sometimes clean up the language, presumably to avoid making the players sound uneducated. That's one thing. But when you ignore comments like those of Ramsey, then media serve as a public relations bureau, not as a conveyor of "news."
In 1991, researchers for the National Race and Politics Survey asked both blacks and whites if they agreed with a series of politically incorrect statements about black people: "Blacks are aggressive or violent"; "Blacks are boastful"; "Blacks are complaining"; "Blacks are lazy"; and "Blacks are irresponsible."
In almost every case, more blacks agreed with the negative statements than did whites. While 52 percent of whites, for example, agreed with the statement, "Blacks are aggressive or violent," 59 percent of blacks also agreed. On the question of blacks being boastful, more blacks than whites agreed, at 57 percent and 45 percent, respectively. On, "Blacks are complaining," 51 percent of blacks agreed, while fewer whites, at 41 percent, agreed. Fewer whites (34 percent) than blacks (39 percent) agreed that "blacks are lazy."
Stanford University's political scientist Paul M. Sniderman and survey research specialist Thomas Piazza examined the 1991 survey. They write: "In every case, blacks are at least as likely as whites to hold a negative view of blacks. ... Indeed, when it comes to judgments of whether blacks as a group exhibit socially undesirable characteristics, where there is a statistically significant difference between the views of blacks and whites, it always takes the form of blacks expressing a more negative evaluation of other blacks than do whites."
Years ago, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page story about black tradesmen who work in predominately wealthy white areas like Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. All experienced instances of racism. One said a woman refused to open her door when he, a suspicious looking black man, came to answer her service call. Another talked about the time someone sicced dogs on him.
I discussed this article with a non-reporter friend who works for the Times. I told him a white roofer recently did work for me and told me that someone shot at him as he tried to repair the roof on a building in Compton, a predominately working-class black and Hispanic neighborhood in the Los Angeles area. The roofer told me that he experienced other instances of mistreatment that could only be attributed to anti-white racism.
"Where are the stories of white tradespeople working in predominately black and brown areas? What about their stories?" I asked my newspaper friend. "You won't get that story," he admitted. "Too many people would be upset. But a story about how badly whites treat blacks offends no one."
Whites, he said, remain deeply guilty about white racism -- and feel comfortable about being called on it. Stories about black or brown racism against whites can spark angry calls and letters from the "civil rights establishment," ever vigilant for examples to show the "persistence" of white racism.
As for Ramsey's comments, our racially sensitive major media find it easier to excise this black man's provocative remarks rather than explore what Ramsey meant. Dead giveaway...
I think it’s wonderful she ran into a good man’s arms.
Charles could have chose to do nothing like so many do nowadays. He could have thought it wasn’t any of his business.
He could have called the police who may have taken too long to get there.
I think Amanda Berry snapped because her daughter was next; Charles saved a child as well....he has a place in Heaven for that alone.
I am also glad he spoke about us white women running into a strange black man’s arms because it’s true.
Most of the crime where I live is done by black thugs and yes-I have to judge that book by it’s cover. I do have black neighbors; they are just regular, working people and don’t instill the fear/caution in me that a baggy pant wearing gang looking thug does....
But if I had been held prisoner by an evil bastard for 10+ years and my own child may be next, I would have hugged anyone who helped me-God Bless him-he chose to get involved.
I do hope BamaOsama calls him-I mean I know he probably isn’t gay, but he is the right color to be high- fived by the vacationer-in-chief.
Good thing that there were a lot of people in that neighborhood on welfare and unemployment otherwise there might not have been anyone there to hear her screams.
Yep. Very refreshing.
The triumph of Honesty over PC pretense.
A guy has three women chained up in his basement for ten years, and the brothers didn't know about it? If they visited the house at all, then they knew about it.
May God bless folks like Clarence Thomas.
Wasn’t deleted on tv or paper here.
Have you not noticed that “trashing” is the unofficial FR sport anymore??????
I saw Ramsey’s long interview on Greta - he was awesome. I posted that previously. Good for the fellow that sent him $5 as that’s what my husband and I said we should do.
As for being trashed - I was ....gasp.... nastily called a Liberal the other night by some loon on FR for offering my opinion on a thread. Go figure. Totally insulted. My right arm would fall off if I ever voted for a Dem. EEEUUWWWW
What about the neighbors who supposedly reported 3 men leading 3 women around on leashes in the backyard? I hope the police are keeping that in mind.
I don’t think they were with him when he was arrested. I read that he was arrested at McDonalds, one of the other brothers was arrested at their mother’s house, then the third brother was arrested at another location.
anymore?...you must not be a Mormon...or Catholic...or ask any hard questions
You, too.
Give me the guys email or address and I’ll send him $5 for beer right now! He’s the first person I’ve seen on the media in years that wasn’t trying to spin something!
Pierce Morgan? Bwahahaha
He does resemble Al Sharpton.
Excellent
Goodness gracious! This man, who seems like a very likeable fellow, intuited that something bad had happened to that little girl and asked him to help her. He was animated and seemed ebullient. His facial features, when he spoke with the reporter, tells us he was making a joke. He smiled and raised his eyebrows and drew in a little closer. I never once thought he was making a racial statement. Now the PC police come out to tell us what to think about what we saw.
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