White Suspect Confesses to Deadly Attack

TheRoadDog

It's headlines like this that prevent America from overcoming Racism. If there is crime committed on one ethnicity from a another person of that same ethnicity, the press does not declare the ethnicity in the headline.

Kind of a shame, really.

Sensationalism gets attention.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/white-suspect-confesses-to-deadly-attack-on-black-us-church-cnn/ar-AAbMfvy

_incogNEATo_

I saw an argument today on Facebook that read:

"South Carolina's government has now had more than 24 hours to reflect on the tragedy that has occurred there. The SC Governor has said they'll never understand what motivates people to do things like this...

Meanwhile, the banner for that motive still flaps in the breeze directly above their heads."

shoppingmaniac86

Yeahhh

yopeeps025

You seems surprised OP?

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fr3smyl

I have to agree with you, OP. If it sells. ...it will get played up. You find an angle and exploit it so people get riled up that's how you sell papers.

_John_

What responsible parent gives their unstable kid a handgun? Also, he reloaded like 3 times...thought and prayers go out to that church and community. Horrible.

_John_

Compounding anger over the incident, the South Carolina capital continues to fly the Confederate battle flag, that was the symbol of the pro-slavery South during the U.S. Civil War.

well, technically it was during reconstruction that a lot of the flying of the flag (as is the negative connotation of the flag) came about.

CJisinShape

Hey Road Dog,

There is a lot of sensationalism going on in the press. A person has to sift through the facts to see what matters in the story.

In this case, race seems to be at the basis of this story. He publicly identified with white supremacist/hate movements and killed black people in a church.

LAMCDylan

Divide and conquer. Too bad so many idiots fail to realize this.

for_ever_young66

The guy told the police that he wanted to kill some black people. Therefore, race matters in this story.

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TheRoadDog

ready4_50 wrote: »

The guy told the police that he wanted to kill some black people. Therefore, race matters in this story.

I know it matters. I just feel like over the past couple years the press is going out of it's way to PROMOTE racism.

Oh, and by the way, the people are all saying they forgive this man. I don't get it.

A man enters a church and, unprovoked, kills 9 people. However, a Policeman shoots a man, who was committing a crime, and we have nationwide riots.

CJisinShape

TheRoadDog wrote: »

ready4_50 wrote: »

The guy told the police that he wanted to kill some black people. Therefore, race matters in this story.

I know it matters. I just feel like over the past couple years the press is going out of it's way to PROMOTE racism.

Oh, and by the way, the people are all saying they forgive this man. I don't get it.

A man enters a church and, unprovoked, kills 9 people. However, a Policeman shoots a man, who was committing a crime, and we have nationwide riots.

This is how I understand the situation. I may be wrong - I've been wrong before - so don't think I know it all. Here's how I see it.

The police situation is a problem of long standing abuse by police toward black people. In addition to this, the prison system is unequal and unjust, in that people with white skin or money or a combination of both have been given preferrential treatment in sententencing.

As an egregious example, a white teen was driving drunk 3 times the legal limit, killed 4 people and got probation. There are black males serving jail time for weed possession or parking tickets.

These are patterns of systemic abuse and inequality that seriously affects families and ultimately communities. People have had it, hence the protests.

CJisinShape

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Timshel_

TheRoadDog wrote: »

If there is crime committed on one ethnicity from a another person of that same ethnicity, the press does not declare the ethnicity in the headline.

The subtlety of it is engrained. You will read things like this all the time:

"Dr. Harold Jones, a black scientist, has recently published...."

THAT is the subtle racism and profiling that will be the hardest to overcome.

We were at a restaurant with a friends grandmothers and looking around she says, "This used to have mostly white people here, but it is nice to see black people doing well and able to afford it now." That was her idea of NOT being racist. Again...it's subtle.