08-25-2013, 11:36 AM
(08-25-2013, 06:48 AM)Duchess Wrote:
I don't think this murder had anything to do with race.
Have this exact crime go down the exact same way, but just flip the race of the perps and victim. Imagine if one of the perps involved had tweeted about hating black people, and was shortly thereafter involved in 'randomly' killing a black person.
Would it have anything to do with race then? Would the reaction and the response to the incident be different then?
The narratives, reporting, and activism are certainly adjusted based on the race of the perps and victims. Anyone who denies it isn't being intellectually honest or just hasn't been paying attention.
Or someone will just label me a racist for stating the obvious.
Seems to me if it would have to do with race in one direction, it has to do with race in the other direction.