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To: superdestroyer
>If it had been a white on black crime reported
>in the New Amsterdam News you would have asked
>the same question?

Yeah, in fact I would. That is, if I had the slightest idea what the New Amsterdam News was.

>If a white on black crime is reported on BET instead of
>CBS or CNN does it make it less of a crime?

That's a silly question. Of course not. I find the source's motivation to be highly suspect, and they spin the crime quite blatantly. Take the following quotation from the article:

It is true that Reginald Carr had a white girlfriend, and it may be that the race of the victims was unimportant to him. At the same time, Jonathan Carr wore a FUBU sweatshirt, a brand popular with black rappers that is said to stand for "For Us, By Us." Some blacks wear FUBU clothing as a statement of black solidarity if not outright rejection of whites.

Never mind that one psycho had a white girlfriend, the other guy had a FUBU shirt on!! He must be a racist! Puhleeze.

So suddenly we go from "two black males commit horrible racially-motivated massacre" to "two black males commit horrible massacre." Still a disgusting crime, for which these two bastards richly deserve death, but probably not racially motivated.

I suppose I should give the article's author credit for even mentioning the discrepancy in the first place. Frankly, it surprised the hell out of me.

Regards,
Snidely

36 posted on 07/17/2002 11:38:49 AM PDT by Snidely Whiplash
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