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Just some food for thought here.


Posted: May 1, 2015

just heard about this. Why aren't we rioting in the streets? Why are these killings not reported just as well as black killings? If this is true, I think the focus should be on why there are so many across this country every year of all color. Not just black. ;

Criminals are shot and killed all the time - sm

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The point isn't that white people are killed by police, too. The point is whether the use of lethal force by law enforcement is or is not warranted. Rest assured: If police were shooting white people in the back, or white people were mortally injured while in police custody, there most certainly would be a hue and cry.

Good point, all police brutality should end. However, I do think racial profiling for routine stops - does occur too often, resulting in violence or not

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Regardless of whether or not injuries actually result from routine stops, I do think racial profiling for routine stops is problematic, but I do like your point, the media often makes things even more racially charged than they already are.

I also wonder why when a white person kills several in a movie theater, or a young white couple kills several while riding across country, it's called a "spree" and makes national news, but when a couple of black people do the same thing, whether gang-related or not, that story is lucky to make local news as "suspected gang-related violence."

If a person or persons killing several other people is enough to make news, it should be given equal news time regardless of whether those people are black or white, and such events should never be called a "spree" by the media, under any circumstances. (What is that anyway, like a shopping spree? That's just weird)

It is reported if a black person kills a number - of white people

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but all too often, the media does not report the black people killing blacks, I think because the victims are not important to the society the media is performing for.

And still, the media never calls it a "spree" like they do white crime - definition of "spree"

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True, unfortunately black-on-black crime isn't considered newsworthy. Some have argued that it's because to do so would be glorifying it as any PR is good PR for gangs. Others may say it occurs so often we're desensitized to it. May be truth in all those theories.

Though I agree with the OP that the media is biased for a good story by either creating racism when none is there or adding fuel to the fire, they're actually still the best proof we have that racism still exists in our society, only not in their actual stories, but by their language usage. For example, out of sheer boredom after I wrote the above comment, I looked up the actual definitions of the word "spree", a word only used to describe white crime and murders:

Google says:

"A spell or sustained period of unrestrained activity of a particular kind.

Example: "He went on a six-month crime spree"

Merriam-Webster says:

"A short period of time when you do a lot of something: an unrestrained indulgence in or outburst of an activity

Examples of SPREE: "They went on a killing spree."

So what does THAT mean? Like, one day they were completely normal and then the next day they woke up and said: "Bye dear, a spell has come over me, I feel like going on a random killing spree today, be back to normal soon?"

Why doesn't the media use that term for black crime? Seems to me the definition would better fit the rioters since they didn't do this every day until now.

The logical assumption would then be that the term "spree" is only used by a largely white-majority media who considers white crime as some sort of "temporary binge" and "unusual for whites," but black crime is a chronic, permanent condition?

But as any FBI profiler will tell you, going back for decades, most serial/random/rampage killings in our society statistically are performed (or at least master-minded) almost exclusively by white, middle/upper-middle-class males; from Manson to the McVeys, from Connecticut to Colorado (Columbine), from Dahmer to Dahlia.

So there goes the whole persistent-but-completely-scientifically-and-statistically-unfounded theory that blacks as individuals are somehow genetically or sociopsychologically more predisposed toward violent "tribalistic" behavior than whites.

Regardless, I think the use of the term "spree" is wildly inappropriate to describe either, and its usage is a telltale sign that we are still a racist society when our media only uses that word to describe white crime.
PS interesting, it's the return of the namecallers - and we were all doing so well :(
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Yeah, I think when the namecallers return this afternoon (under other threads), that's my cue, so let me just say thanks to everyone for the gentler discussion and even jokes the past few days, nice to leave on a good note.

Oh, and don't mistake my leaving for fear, it's just I much prefer having conversations, disagreements even, with basically nice people with clearly good will and intent towards others, who are more interested in solving problems than creating them. Oh, and despite the timing, if they disappear shortly afterwards again too? Take care not to make any false associations, as is a possible intent with the timing;)
Probably for the same reason they say rain forest instead of - jungle, to convey a certain
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way of thinking.

White lives don't matter to the media - Truthhurts

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It doesn't sensationalize a story. When blacks are killed, the media knows it might bring about protests and riots and that is what they want to do.

I watches some of Sean Hannity last night and he disgusted me because he kept egging the reporter to ask questions that he KNEW would aggravate and agitate the protesters. Sure enough, it did, to the point that one guy started yelling at the cops (that's a no-no) after the curfew and he was arrested. I turned him off and watched a little bit of Lawrence O'Donnell.

I read something once about postmodernism - and how it reduces

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individuals to puppets of social forces. The implication is that people hold certain ideas not because they have good reasons but because they are black or white, a man or a woman, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever.

Seems relevant now.

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