The TV news is sure spending a shitload of time on that Colorado cracker who whacked his family.
Story after story have been aired about this.
Meanwhile, about sixty people are being shot each weekend in Chicago, and that barely merits a mention.
Paper Thin Empathy
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Let’s see...white wife and two, photogenic, white little girls dead...
Or
Numerous dead black bodies...
That’s the mindset of the broadcast people, what gets more views? What “appeals” to our viewers? The blindspot in news coverage has been there for decades or more, and it remains. If you are missing a child, better hope the kid is white if you want news coverage for more than a few minutes the first day.
Maybe that's an oversimplification.
Chicago- the same story, day after day.
Colorado- particularly nightmarish, new (to me) disposal method.
The 'news' ONLY cares about ad dollars.
0_0, study after study shows the news shows missing or endangered persons who are white at a much higher rate than those who are brown or black, and those white persons have a chance of making national news (see the young lady in Iowa) while similar cases with darker skins languish with no press.
CP is correct. The press does cover whites being murdered much more often than blacks
But not, I think, because of racism.
Rather, when a white person (or group of whites) goes on a particularly heinous murder spree it is an anomaly. Black people (especially poor black people) have a subset of folks in the group that do so regularly.....and therefore it is not news.
Most of Chicago's murder and shooting issue is gang and drug related. Sadly, many of the people shot are innocent bystanders who are shot in the drive-by and indiscriminate spray and pray shootings done by the gang members....Of course, those same folks who are innocent bystanders "Didn't see nuthin'" so the cops don't get much traction stopping it either.
I don't know of any studies, just what "everybody knows", but anecdotally, my area has had too many kidnap/ murders over the years. One escaped her captor, one had her remains found a few years later; those still missing are presumed gone.
The only "white" one I recall had her presumed kidnapper killed by idiot sheriffs who should've known to not magdump until at least after questioning the mutt.
The others had plenty of coverage plus volunteers looking.
More stereotyping, B? I guess it’s easier than actually using facts and reasoning.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers%3fcontext=amp
Here’s an African-American who committed a similar crime, he doesn’t appear to be one of those “poor blacks” you proclaim would commit a similar crime.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/27/man-accused-shooting-killing-wife-two-kids-on-christmas-was-famed-vegan-chef-motivational-speaker-report-says.html
Your racism is incomprehensible and hilarious at the same time.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
You can't get past the racism thing, can you? It is your fall back position, but that card is worn out.
You should actually READ your own article. The first doesn't support your claim that I am wrong.
And I live in the greater Chicago area. Do you? Do you know that which you claim? I do. Do you ever interact with people in inner cities?
The majority of folks on the South Side are decent, hard working people. The gangs and the drug dealers (but I repeat myself) do the majority of the killings. And they do so mostly by shooting indiscriminately...trying to kill a member of another gang with unaimed fire. Folks get caught up in the crossfire, or get shot through their windows or walls. I've lived there, have you?
Fact is that most killings are by people of the same race. The fact that more, by percentage of population, happen with folks with more melanin than I have is something that is true, if distasteful to folks like you. The fact that few of those folks ever see anything ("I didn't see Nuthin'") is also part of the issue...kinda had to put the shooter in jail when no one claims to have seen who did it.
You always fall back to calling me a racist when you have no other argument. It grows weak with time.
There are more shootings of black people by other black people on the South Side of Chicago than there are of white people by white people in other parts of Chicago. There are more shootings when sorted by race as a percentage of population also.
If you don't like the facts, come up with some real data to refute that. You can't. Reading the stats in your own article shows that I am correct. Blacks kill blacks at a higher rate(by percentage of population) than whites kill whites. The reasons are many, but most of it can be blamed on gangs and drug turf.
I'm sorry those facts make you feel icky.
You talk about a subset of poor people. Those “facts” as you call them, aren’t the complete picture.
So give us (and especially me) the "complete picture".
I await your edification.
Edification is what you need, alright.
B., let us consider the following statement:
“Black people (especially poor black people) have a subset of folks in the group that do so regularly.....”
Now, why the need for the word “Black”? The statement is true of all races. When you take a general statement and aim it at a particular race only, that is called racism. You are attributing to a group, identified by race, a specific action or set of actions that are actually attributable across all races. You are suggesting that only this group has this issue, a textbook case of racism.
Here’s a quick reference: “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.” So your statement that a subset of the Black race is violent, without clarifying that you believe this of all races (which, from your statement, I doubt) you come off as a racist.
CP: Are you blind?
It isn't white people in the South Side of Chicago that are killing other people (generally, there are exceptions)...especially other black people. In fact, the areas in discussion are mostly populated by black people. The gangs that are shooting at each other are black gangs. The people they are killing are mostly t=the black people who live in those areas. I'm not "suggesting" that this group has greater issues, I am STATING it.....'Cause it is true.Sorry if you find that fact distasteful.
Now, how is pointing out that the gangs (that would be the violent portion of the population to which I was referring) are a subset of the (mostly) black population in the area, racist?
There are (mostly) white and (mostly) latino gangs in other areas nearby...areas populated by (respectively) mostly whites and latinos. Yet they have a much lower incidence of violence and an even lower number of innocent bystanders killed. Very poor neighborhoods, but lesser amounts of violent crime... Why is that?
How is pointing out the fact that the areas with majority black populations (and lower economic status) have a greater amount of violence, racist? Look at the stats. Look at YOUR OWN stats. There is a subset of that population that is more violent than others.
Please, explain how seeing reality is racist. I never said *all* black people are more violent......just a subset. In fact, most of the people in the areas to which I refer are good, decent people just like people in the area in which I live...mostly white. Poorer, perhaps, but no less decent.
Pointing out the fact of the violence does not make a racist. Were I to refuse to do business with people based on the color of their skin, or to think that they were lesser, or to think that they had less rights that me, then yes, that would be racist. None of those apply here.
I think you overuse the word in order to try to bully and hurt people...especially when you dislike their message but have no other argument. The thing is, folks like you overuse the word so much that it is no longer an effective insult. You've used it too much when it does not apply and people are no longer afraid of the word.
B., you take an area, in isolation, and pontificate about violent black folks and plead that you are speaking truth. Not buying it.
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