[Augustine23651]

Huh? White people will ‘turn on’ black people if black-on-white hate crimes are reported as widely as white-on-black hate crimes? And white-on-black hate crime stories drag on longer because the perpetrators are more successful at fleeing from justice? I don’t buy this. There is a small minority of whites who hate enough to act it out, just as there is a small minority of blacks who hate enough to act it out. These people need to get as far away as they can from those they hate, and live in some little enclave where everyone is just like them. As for the rest of us, we’ve got enough to do managing our own lives, and we need to be working seriously on getting rid of little pieces of racism that might be floating around in our souls. (Having the courage to face this possibility is not easy.) As for the news media, it tends to be an idealistic calling (few journalists ever get rich) in which freedom of information, and thus freedom of thought, are paramount. That’s good. However, this tends to lead to a liberal view of the world, and from there, to a bias in favor of a liberal conception of social justice and righting of past wrongs. Therefore it’s not at all difficult to think that the media, taken as a whole, will downplay stories which make the ‘privileged majority’ look like the victim at the hands of the ‘underprivileged minority’. This principle applies to white and black, men and women, straight and gay, and so on. The stories of Jesse Dirkhising (young boy allegedly raped and killed by two gay men in Arkansas) and the two white girls killed in Fayetteville, North Carolina in an apparent hate crime were barely reported in the media. Yet these were just as ‘newsworthy’, if you ask me, as the Matthew Shepard story and the lynching in Texas.

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Name : Augustine23651, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 39, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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