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 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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
https://townhall.com/columnists/bernardgoldberg/2018/05/29/the-racism-liberals-dont-recognize--their-own-n2484478
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
https://townhall.com/columnists/bernardgoldberg/2018/05/29/the-racism-liberals-dont-recognize--their-own-n2484478
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