Cable mogul Evan Shapiro had a stunningly clueless Trayvon Martin entry on Huffington Post yesterday asking: Why doesn’t the media cover more black crime victims?
Shapiro, the president of indie cable broadcaster IFC, should pose the same question to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and every member of the black protest establishment: Why don’t you protest more black crime victims? The answer would be the same in all cases: Because the only black victims who interest the race industry and its mainstream media handmaidens are blacks who have been killed by “white” civilians, including honorary whites like Martin’s killer George Zimmerman, or blacks who have been killed or offended by the police (black officers will do here in a pinch).
Unfortunately, there are very few such victims. Ninety-three percent of all black homicide casualties from 1980 to 2008 were killed by other blacks, and are thus of no interest whatsoever to today’s race advocates, because they fail to support the crucial story line that blacks remain under siege by a racist white power structure.
The coverage of New York City’s West Indian Day Parade in September 2011 exemplifies this rule. The New York Times and other local outlets spilled an enormous amount of ink on an altercation between a black city councilman, Jumaane Williams, and the New York Police Department. Williams had tried to cross a police line, and, when he was not allowed to pass, got into a scuffle with some officers. He was then handcuffed and held until the police verified his identity. The city’s Public Advocate, a New York State Assemblyman, and Williams charged the police with racism, claiming that the treatment of Williams exemplified the “siege mentality” with which the police treat black men in New York City. To this day, the Williams detention is regularly mentioned by the New York Times in its constant coverage of the alleged racism of the NYPD.
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3 comments:
Professional race baiters and haters like Al sharpton and jesse Jackson make a handsome living off of inciting blacks--and yet they live in gated white communities and owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. They could care less about the actual plight of minorities, they only care about keeping themselves "relevant" in the media by exploiting tragedies like Trayvon Martin for their own monetary gain. Hell, even Obama tried to cash in on the "hoodie" thing by selling them on his re-election site immediately after the shooting. But so many people are conditioned to not working and getting "free" (yeah for them but not for us taxpayers) stuff they sell their soul. They haven't thought out what happens when there is no longer enough money to support the freeloaders-then the real Communism unfolds.
No why dont they talk about Black on White crime. It doesnt sell media. White people cant stick together on any issue. We are a Nation of Cowards. Bullied into supression by a Black minorty that owns the right to cry over any issue,burn the neighborhood over any issue. Why because we the people allow it. I for love all Americans. I do not care for any American that calls themselve Italian, African etc.. We are Americans period. When we start living that way we will become the great nation we are.
When we start living that way we will become the great nation we are.
April 3, 2012 10:41 AM
Those days are over and will never be again.
What was that you Posted Joe, 25 years and this will be a muslim country/culture?
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