Gofirstclass
Well-Known Member
Controversial thread following. If you are sensitive to racial issues I suggest you skip this thread.
I get a lot of my news from the internet. Youtube, news channels, etc. provide me with a lot of current info and it’s up to me if I want to watch/listen to it or not and after watching it it’s up to me to add a value to it. Or not.
One thing I’ve seen a lot of are the videos and news stories about crime. Smash and grabs, car jackings, armed robberies and that ilk.
The videos seem to accurately portray the action; it’s difficult to misrepresent what is recorded on body cameras worn by the police and the dash cams in their cars or by citizens recording with their cell phones. Those incidents are often also reported by local news stations and, again, they are reporting on what they see on the videos.
When the reporting is done they all seem to avoid mentioning one major thing and that becomes the 800 pound gorilla in the room. That unmentionable issue is race. The race of the criminals, and the race almost always seems to be black.
Have we, as a nation, become afraid to mention the race of the perp? Are we so afraid of BLM and similar organizations that we cannot report the race of the bad guy?
I’m not suggesting that we go overboard to single out a certain race, that in itself is obvious in the videos. I’m just wondering why if we’re reporting the news and wanting to make it as accurate as possible, why do we leave out that one critical factor?
What say you?
I get a lot of my news from the internet. Youtube, news channels, etc. provide me with a lot of current info and it’s up to me if I want to watch/listen to it or not and after watching it it’s up to me to add a value to it. Or not.
One thing I’ve seen a lot of are the videos and news stories about crime. Smash and grabs, car jackings, armed robberies and that ilk.
The videos seem to accurately portray the action; it’s difficult to misrepresent what is recorded on body cameras worn by the police and the dash cams in their cars or by citizens recording with their cell phones. Those incidents are often also reported by local news stations and, again, they are reporting on what they see on the videos.
When the reporting is done they all seem to avoid mentioning one major thing and that becomes the 800 pound gorilla in the room. That unmentionable issue is race. The race of the criminals, and the race almost always seems to be black.
Have we, as a nation, become afraid to mention the race of the perp? Are we so afraid of BLM and similar organizations that we cannot report the race of the bad guy?
I’m not suggesting that we go overboard to single out a certain race, that in itself is obvious in the videos. I’m just wondering why if we’re reporting the news and wanting to make it as accurate as possible, why do we leave out that one critical factor?
What say you?