Posted on 05/28/2018 11:08:51 PM PDT by Kaslin
Commentators, almost always from the right, have documented liberal media bias for many years now. And the response by the perpetrators of this bias has been both constant and predictable: Circle the wagons and blame the accusers. Accuse us of bias for seeing their bias.
The bias we've been talking and writing about is usually about partisan politics and hot social issues like abortion. But there's one kind of liberal media bias that hasn't gotten much attention. It's a bias that liberals both in and out of the media often attach to conservatives, but almost never to themselves. It's racial bias.
My friend Lee Habeeb, a conservative radio executive who appears on cable TV from time to time, has written a piece in Newsweek about how too many journalists have played down -- and often downright ignored -- the murder of young black men in places like Chicago.
"In Chicago, it's Parkland every week," Habeeb writes about a city that had more than 1,400 homicides in 2016 and 2017. And in just the first week of May 2018, 84 people were shot -- nine of them wound up dead.
Journalists, of course, care very much about young black men who are shot -- when the person doing the shooting is a cop. Then, news organizations, even those based a thousand miles away, report the names of the dead -- like Michael Brown who was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri -- and (rightly) give as much information as possible about their deaths.
"But Americans know none of the thousands of innocent young black men and women killed by other black men in our nation's third largest city -- and across America," writes Habeeb. "There's a reason. A young black male's life is not worth reporting when it is taken by another black male. That's the real racism that prevails in America's newsrooms. The marginalization of black urban life."
Habeeb believes that liberal journalists don't like the storyline. "Journalists and activists can't blame the deaths on assault style weapons like the AR-15. Or the National Rifle Association."
It's true. Black on black murder doesn't fit the liberal journalists' template -- and not only because assault weapons aren't involved. Liberals journalists don't feel comfortable when it comes to reporting dysfunction in black neighborhoods in places like Chicago. If white kids in tony suburbs were being gunned down in such horrific numbers, you can be sure that the liberal media would more than simply take note. They'd run stories on Page 1 for days on end.
Does that mean that liberals think white lives matter more than black lives? It's not that simple -- not when you introduce paternalism and white liberal guilt into the mix.
When it comes to the slaughter of black young men, liberal journalists fear that playing up this kind of bad news could give ammunition to bigots, who might use the information to bolster their already nasty opinions of African-Americans.
And since much of the killing is the work of fatherless young men, that's another important story the national media would rather play down, and for the same reason. More dysfunction amounts to more ammo for the bigots.
"About 20,000 people live in my hometown of Oxford, Mississippi," Habeeb says, "and there are probably as many guns. But I can't remember the last murder spree in the local paper. That's because my town has lots of guns, but lots of fathers, too."
Too many on the left, whether they're in the media or not, worry about their "good racial manners," a term that Shelby Steele, a black conservative scholar came up with.
And it would be anything but good racial manners to give black on black murders the space the story deserves in the national media. Playing down uncomfortable truths about crime and dysfunction in places like Chicago is how liberal journalists show how decent they are, how protective of black people they are. But mostly, it makes them feel noble -- about themselves.
Liberal whites, Shelby Steele says, "must always imagine blacks outside the framework of individual responsibility." It's how white liberals redeem themselves from "America's racial shame," as Steele explains it.
But as the headline over Habeeb's column in Newsweek points out: "America's real racism? Ignoring the senseless killing of our black fatherless boys."
It's not just America's racism in general. It's also the media's racism in particular.
Recognize = Admit
Sucker, that's not why. They simply don't value black lives unless they can be used for political purposes.
There is another Black statistic that goes completely unreported...
Only 40% of Black murders result in a prosecution.
In other words, 60% of Black murders are not solved.
In sharp contrast, 80% of white murders are prosecuted.
The fact that so few Black murders are solved is an open invitation for a higher murder rate.
Liberal privilege!
That, too, is largely a cultural issue, and not racism by the police.
Snitches get stitches is a thing.
It's been like that for a very long time. At least since 1861.
The idea is to blame Whitey whenever possible. In the streets of Chicago, there are no Whiteys to blame, so news of the deaths is suppressed. Whenever a White cop shoots a non-Whitey, it’s all over the news, 24/7, with race baiters like al sharpton yelling and screaming. When a Black cop shoots a non-Whitey, the media NEVER say it, but deliberately and intentionally make people think that it’s a Whitey.
The destruction of families leads to dysfunctional young men. This is as true for black young men in America as it is for poor white young men in the UK. The same dysfunction cause dby the destruction of the family
Excellent post.
Liberals and Leftists constantly pidgeonhole people by their race.
“where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” - MLK
MLK would sh*t on these Liberal and Leftist hypocrites
Great stat to use, can you site a source for it?
Theg never let a “superpredator” go to waste.
The Racist History of the Democratic Party by Wayne Perryman
BTW, if you should notice the related link, it was added years later. The piece it links to is...interesting.
Racism is a 20th century neologism, frequently sourced to Trotsky, without fixed meaning and therefore “correct” whenever and however applied.
“There is another Black statistic that goes completely unreported...
Only 40% of Black murders result in a prosecution.
In other words, 60% of Black murders are not solved.”
Yup, the ‘no snitchin’ rule is why.
Exactly and as long as it is ‘racism’ and ‘racism’ that apparently only whites are capable of with both the left and the right pointing fingers at each other then blacks don’t have to do anything because they are not responsible.
The trouble is, Bernie, is that don't (rightly) give us as much true information as possible about their deaths. In fact, they tend to hide and skew the truth about these killings.
Leftists are indeed more racist. The overwhelming majority of abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods, and white leftists tend to live in white majority neighborhoods. Many of them believe that minorities can’t succeed without their “help.”
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