Posted on 09/12/2013 10:17:20 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Delbert Belton. Chris Lane. An unnamed 13-year-old boy riding a school bus in Florida.
What do these people have in common? They are all whites who have been violently assaulted by blacks recently. And on Mother’s Day of this year, 20 people were gunned down in New Orleans by Akein Scott, also black. All of his victims were black. Not white-blacks or white-Hispanic-blacks, but blacks.
Alas for these departed souls, unless you attract the narcissistic attention of Barack Obama, you’re unlikely to get the maudlin media mourning mash-up that Trayvon Martin received as a reward for beating George Zimmerman’s face into the concrete. Without a cue from the Telepromtered One, the television shows do not reveal the racial motivations behind crimes committed by non-whites. The talk show hosts do not fight back stage tears when the music turns somber and reflective. When the snake charmer’s flute is silent, the cobras don’t rise out of the basket to strike. Everything is copacetic, and it’s almost as though the slaughter and thuggery in black America don’t even exist at all.
Instead of a simple reporting of facts, what we get from the panjandrums at the New York Times and CNN are lectures on our desire to know the facts–scoldings for drawing natural conclusions from a preponderance of the evidence. This is not only one of many common themes of the media narrative–it is the defining characteristic of nearly the entire industry.
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Great piece. Stereotypes don’t make up themselves.
The Onion was great until Comedy Central got involved in the early 2000’s. They used to skewer a lot of sacred cows (Goolge “very special forces”) but around 2002 or 2003 it became a predictable, unoriginal, leftist bore. Conincidentally, the Onion was founded at University of Wisconson Madison.
“It would seem, in light of these and similar figures, that stereotyping, while perhaps not a pleasant practice to admit to, is at least grounded in reality. Or would it be better if we pretended that such statistics didn’t exist?”
The majority here in the US would prefer to ignore the statistics. To acknowledge them would surely make you a racist. The thing is, I just don’t care if someone calls me a racist or not.
Oh, BTW son, you can kiss that PHD goodbye.
Exceptionally well-written.
Stereotyping is how our powerful but limited brains process the infinite complexity of reality. See my tagline.
Excellent article.
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