When it comes to race and crime or even racially charged incidents, not all headlines are created equal.
"Woman beats a 91-year-old Mexican man with a brick, tells him to ‘go back to your country,’" read last Monday’s Washington Post headlineabout the brutal anti-Hispanic hate-crime against Rodolfo Rodriguez.
Rodriguez had suffered two broken ribs and a broken cheekbone after accidentally bumping into a child while walking on a sidewalk and being repeatedly attacked by the child's concrete-brick wielding mother. And if that wasn't enough, the Post reports, several other "young men" came over and kicked the 91-year-old while he was down.
"Go back to your country!" the woman yelled.
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ReplyDeleteWords matter. Children "ripped" from their mother's arms accompanying a picture of a crying child. Turns out the mother had been carrying her was asked to put her down, so she could be patted down for weapons, mother said child was crying because she was tired & hungry. Mother picked her back up. Photographer didn't disclose this until 2 weeks later after the child was the poster child for children ripped from their mothers. By the way this was the SECOND time mom was caught breaking into the country. Sensational words stir up emotions, which cloud thinking, so people react emotionally and over the top
ReplyDeleteWhen this biotech yelled " go back to your country", the response should have been " you first"! Is it just me, or have some simply lost their minds nowadays?
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