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The right’s black crime obsession
Salon ^ | August 23, 2013 | Brian Beutler

Posted on 08/23/2013 5:02:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Conservative media's total fixation on black-on-black and black-on-white crime isn't going to end. Here's why...

There are a few black people up to no good in this country and Fox News is on it! So is Drudge Report. Vigilantly on the lookout, 24 hours a day, for stories about black youths behaving badly.

This isn’t a particularly new phenomenon, but it’s intensified noticeably in the past year for at least two reasons. Conservatives, particularly white conservatives, feel a burning urgency to find a racial counterweight to the aftermath of Trayvon Martin’s shooting (including President Obama’s public comments about the incident), a logical response to the argument that things like background checks and an assault weapons ban are appropriate ways to reduce the likelihood of another Sandy Hook-style massacre, and anecdotal justifications for indiscriminate policing of dangerous neighborhoods.

But these are hopeless pursuits. The incidents they draw attention to fail by definition to underscore the things they believe. They all require projecting motives or details or both into tragic events, to create false dichotomies between shootings perpetrated by whites and blacks. They have the unhealthy effect of creating dueling tallies of white-on-black and black-on-white crime. And ironically they all tend to underscore the argument that more “stand your ground” laws and more racial profiling are off-point responses to these incidents....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: agitprop; blackkk; blackrage; chrislane; dnctalkingpoints; florida; georgezimmerman; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pravdamedia; salonstockdeathwatch; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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So when everyone on the Left and in the Racially Intense Grievance Group (RIGG) from the White House on down makes the Zimmerman case a cause célèbre for "racial justice" that's different, huh? Beutler? Beutler?
1 posted on 08/23/2013 5:02:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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“Vigilantly on the lookout, 24 hours a day, for stories about black youths behaving badly.”

Oh, and are such stories hard to find?


2 posted on 08/23/2013 5:03:20 PM PDT by River Hawk
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Yeh...stuff like that hardly ever happens.....
3 posted on 08/23/2013 5:05:31 PM PDT by clintonh8r (white Caucasian)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WOW, that is rich.


4 posted on 08/23/2013 5:06:05 PM PDT by In Another Time... (Robert Wone, Hate Crime victim)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slow day in the bath house, Brian?


5 posted on 08/23/2013 5:06:40 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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What a putz. Fox is reporting because no one in the liberal press (everyone other than Fox) is reporting. Those murders are “random” acts....not at all related to race or hate. Nah.....


6 posted on 08/23/2013 5:07:19 PM PDT by Jerry Attrick
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More progressive rhetorical diarrhea.

Bottom line - leftists really don't care who gets killed or how many as long as their political agenda marches forward.

7 posted on 08/23/2013 5:07:30 PM PDT by skeeter
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I clicked the link, the article comes up and then disappears.


8 posted on 08/23/2013 5:08:00 PM PDT by dforest
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When Blacks start killing Libs instead of 13 mo. old White toddlers in strollers and 88 year old White veterans, maybe morons like this writer will wake up.


9 posted on 08/23/2013 5:08:41 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: River Hawk

And just how many have gone unreported. Check out WND and that site has a list of crimes that have never seen the light of day elsewhere.


10 posted on 08/23/2013 5:09:09 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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Hard not to obsess when you’re the target!


11 posted on 08/23/2013 5:09:33 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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And ironically they all tend to underscore the argument that more “stand your ground” laws and more racial profiling are off-point responses to these incidents....

Huh?

12 posted on 08/23/2013 5:10:06 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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The major news outlets will not report black on white crime for two reasons: (i) because they are good leftists, and they don't want to admit it exists and therefore ignore it, and (ii) they probably don't consider it news, just like “dog bites man” is not news—it is only news if it is an out of the ordinary occurrence, like “man bites dog.” Since FBI stats show that in crimes involving blacks and whites, blacks are the perpetrators in 90% of the cases, black on white crime is not newsworthy because it is not “news.”
13 posted on 08/23/2013 5:10:35 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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Sorry, I got it to come up on IE.


14 posted on 08/23/2013 5:10:37 PM PDT by dforest
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Oh, and are such stories hard to find?

Well, yeah actually. Reported by the U.S. Mainstream Media, those stories are hard to find. They may be occurring at an alarmingly high rate, but our Media won't report it.

The author of this blathering screed ignores an important point -- you will never change behaviour, or fix a problem, if you don't identify the problem. Putting your head in the ground like the proverbial Ostrich is not going to make the situation better. Also, breathlessly blaring the opposite events (white on black violence - be it self-defense, or not) - which our depraved Media is want to do - will aggravate the problem. You need to highlight the issue. Best case, embarrassment and shame will set in to self-correct the problem. Worst case, more people are warned to be on alert.

15 posted on 08/23/2013 5:10:46 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Bo knows gangsta crime, yo.

16 posted on 08/23/2013 5:10:55 PM PDT by Amagi (God Save the Republic.)
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Hey, Brian baby—let us educate you (be sure to read the dates on this article, too, Brian—this crap’s been going on for quite some time. We have PC Crap—like you—to thank for it, in part.)

http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/culture2005/the_zebra_killings_and_why_pc_profs_dont_want_you_to_know_about_them.html


17 posted on 08/23/2013 5:12:38 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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Exactly—he’s projecting. Wants us to pretend that the Left’s manic obsession with Whites shooting poor unarmed Blacks doesn’t exist.


18 posted on 08/23/2013 5:12:52 PM PDT by rbg81
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Does this guy write for Saturday Night Live?

His trash is almost funny.

Lines like looking 24/7 for stories of blacks killing blacks. LMAO

Just pick up a paper in the morning, no need to look 24/7.


19 posted on 08/23/2013 5:13:01 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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50% of the murders are committed by 3% of the population...


20 posted on 08/23/2013 5:13:16 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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