Ferguson-like attack in Utah escapes media notice; race bias seen

[Abdullah the Butcher]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/25/critics-see-racial-double-standard-in-coverage-of-/

 

 

Critics say theres a reason for the discrepancy in media coverage: race. Mr. Brown was black and the officer who shot him was white. Mr. Taylor wasnt black hes been described as white and Hispanic and the officer who shot him Aug. 11 outside a 7-Eleven in South Salt Lake wasnt white.

 

The perceived double standard is fueling resentment and talk of double standards on conservative talk radio and social media, where the website Twitchy has compiled a list of Twitter comments asking why Mr. Browns death has been front-page news for weeks while Mr. Taylors was a footnote at best.

 

 

Black cop kills unarmed white male #DillonTaylor in Utah, says a Thursday post on Twitter by radio talk-show host Wayne Dupree, who is black. #LiberalMedia cant find [their] way to cover the story.

 

 

 

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[Abdullah the Butcher]

Tschu's likely response : it's a tragedy but hundreds of years of racial oppression and systemic racism make it different, white guilt.

[zoogs]

Probably because there are no riots in Utah.

[Junior]

Tschu's likely response : it's a tragedy but hundreds of years of racial oppression and systemic racism make it different, white guilt.

 

Well.... Doesn't it?

[Abdullah the Butcher]

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[StPaulHusker]

 

Tschu's likely response : it's a tragedy but hundreds of years of racial oppression and systemic racism make it different, white guilt.

 

Well.... Doesn't it?

 

Depends on who you ask I suppose. The fact that cops are killing unarmed, presumably innocent at the time, people of any color should warrant outcry. The idea that skin color makes one more concerning over the other is ridiculous.

[Junior]

 

 

Tschu's likely response : it's a tragedy but hundreds of years of racial oppression and systemic racism make it different, white guilt.

 

Well.... Doesn't it?

 

Depends on who you ask I suppose. The fact that cops are killing unarmed, presumably innocent at the time, people of any color should warrant outcry. The idea that skin color makes one more concerning over the other is ridiculous.

 

 

I don't disagree that cops killing unarmed people of any race is disturbing. But, does the Salt Lake City Police have a history of racist tactics against whites?

 

Have any of the SLC police said "Let's have a white day?" or "Let's make the jail less colorful?"

 

Additionally, the majority of the media coverage has been the police response to protests, rather than the shooting itself. There were no tanks and tear gas in Salt Lake City.

[knapplc]

...blacks are about three times more likely than whites to die in a confrontation with police.

[carlfense]

...blacks are about three times more likely than whites to die in a confrontation with police.

But that's because they're criminals! *rabble* *rabble* *rabble*

 

 

 

(Keep your context knapplc. It's not wanted here.)

[carlfense]

Why does the OP always play the race card?

[BigRedBuster]

It still gets down to the fact the problem needs to be worked on from both ends.

 

Yes, the police need to do everything they can to not unfairly target black or any group simply based on race.

 

Yes, we need to figure out how to reduce violent crime in the black community.

 

They are 12% of the population but commit 50% of all murders.

 

You fix both of those problems, one heck of a lot of all problems in the black community go away.

[Junior]

It still gets down to the fact the problem needs to be worked on from both ends.

 

Yes, the police need to do everything they can to not unfairly target black or any group simply based on race.

 

Yes, we need to figure out how to reduce violent crime in the black community.

 

They are 12% of the population but commit 50% of all murders.

 

You fix both of those problems, one heck of a lot of all problems in the black community go away.

 

Poverty, education spending on inner city schools, and decreasing the penalties for minor drug violations. That would make a huge difference. Instead we lock up people for smoking weed, let inner city schools crumble, and talk about reducing spending on food stamps so that we can lower taxes on the wealthy (and mostly white).

 

http://inequality.org/wealth-400-billionaires-wealth-41-million-africanamericans/

 

The U.S. has a persistent racial wealth divide, rooted in the legacy of discrimination in asset building, starting with slavery up to present day discrimination in mortgage lending. The homeownership rate for whites is 73.3 percent, 43.1 percent for African-Americans, and 47.6 percent for Latinos. But present-day inequality is the poisonous result of eroding net worth among African-American and Latino households and an exploding concentration of wealth in the top 1 percent, and within that, among the richest 400 billionaires. The average net worth of the Forbes 400 richest rose $800 million to a record $5 billion in the last year. African-Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, but have only 2.7 percent of total wealth. The median wealth for an African American household, according to a 2010 survey, is $4,900; for whites, it is $97,000.

[BigRedBuster]

Maybe legalize weed. Allow stores in these areas to sell it. Tax it. Keep that tax money locally by investing it in the schools.

[StPaulHusker]

Maybe legalize weed. Allow stores in these areas to sell it. Tax it. Keep that tax money locally by investing it in the schools.

Or let them open up casinos.

[StPaulHusker]

 

 

 

Tschu's likely response : it's a tragedy but hundreds of years of racial oppression and systemic racism make it different, white guilt.

 

Well.... Doesn't it?

 

Depends on who you ask I suppose. The fact that cops are killing unarmed, presumably innocent at the time, people of any color should warrant outcry. The idea that skin color makes one more concerning over the other is ridiculous.

 

 

I don't disagree that cops killing unarmed people of any race is disturbing. But, does the Salt Lake City Police have a history of racist tactics against whites?

 

Have any of the SLC police said "Let's have a white day?" or "Let's make the jail less colorful?"

 

Additionally, the majority of the media coverage has been the police response to protests, rather than the shooting itself. There were no tanks and tear gas in Salt Lake City.

 

I have no idea what the racial tactics of SLC police are. And I probably won't because the same media source that brought you all of the seedy stuff about Ferguson, doesn't care about a white man getting shot by a black cop. Did you know that Ferguson had a race issue with cops before this incident? Probably not. And no one in the media gave a damn either until now.