Posted on 03/29/2016 7:34:00 AM PDT by grundle
I’d like to think that a journalism professor would be very much interested in telling the truth, and very much against lying.
However, that’s not always the case.
In October 2015, professor Dorothy Bland, the dean of the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism and the director for the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas, wrote this column for the Dallas Morning News, where she claimed that the police had stopped her for “walking while black.”
However, a dashcam recording (shown below) proved that the police stopped her because she had been walking in the street, in the same direction of traffic, and blocking traffic, all while wearing earbuds, even though there were sidewalks on both sides of the street.
The police expressed concern for her safety.
Since blocking traffic is a misdemeanor, they asked for her ID.
Since she was wearing a hoodie, long sleeves, and long pants, and the police approached her from behind, the police could not have known her race before they stopped her.
Corinth Police Chief Debra Walthall said the police in the video handled the situation so well that she would start using the video to train police about the importance of using their dashcams.
Please keep in mind that professor Bland is a journalism professor. She teaches journalism students, who then go on to become journalists, news writers, and news reporters. How many hundreds, or even thousands, of these journalists, news writers, and news reporters have been brainwashed by professor Bland’s insistence on seeing racism in situations where there actually is no racism? And then, how many thousands, or even millions, of readers and viewers of these journalists, news writers, and news reporters will go on to unknowingly and falsely believe that racism exists in situations where it actually does not exist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_OvluMqxI
this is 4 months ago.
I was once stopped for “Walking While Looking Terrific”.
I was 24, but looked underage, and the cop didn’t believe me until I showed him my ID. (He said I looked like a runaway.)
Ahhhhh...those were the days! LOL!
The video blows her right out of the water.The cops were the very model of politeness and respect.
She is a racist looking for racial bias.
A sad and dangerous human being with way too much exposure to innocent minds.
And yet she faces no disciplinary action for LYINGand BIGOTRY.
I wonder why...
Over four months old and covered here already -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3354416/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356498/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356577/posts
...but don’t let that keep you from your epic journalism.
Gooch.
More than that, how many aspiring journalists are being taught that it's OK to lie in reporting so long as it advances one's preferred narrative?
Jail for the liar.
Clearly, the video is racist
That,s president liar too you.
Yep. The hoodie, ignoring laws, disrupting traffic and just being a thorn in society’s side.
She was picking a fight.
Imagine the psychology that goes into the actions of the professor - she is royally f’d up and not living in the real world.
Well, I'm afraid you're 180 degrees out of phase there, bud.
Wouldn’t the police know that she was black because of the hoodie? Or at least assume that she was?
I'm white and I wear hoodies when the weather calls for it.
Great point!
I was joking. I also have a couple of hoodies (but rarely wear them) and am not black...nor white Hispanic for that matter (although I did take Spanish in high school: “Que abra’ por almuerzo? Albondigas. Es verdad, hoy es mie’rcoles.”)
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