Where is the Media outrage

[MdR Dave]

White folks is crazy.

For sheer ingenuity of brutality it's hard to beat a honky. We're peculiar that way.

[dezz]

it's different because most cases where the perp is black it usually ends in a conviction or at the very least goes to trial before it's considered "settled." false outrage will only get you so far. people were genuinely dumbfounded that someone could shoot an unarmed teen, admit to it, and face zero legal ramifications. show me a news report about an african-american who killed another person, freely admitted to it, and then walked away the same day. i personally know people who submitted a plea of self-defense, with witnesses to corroborate the story, and still weren't let go the same night with no trial

[dafame]

Just saying...

Great post Sunshyne because although it can be seen as admirable of you that you've pointed out the vast racial discrimination against white people in this country by the media, it gives the opportunity for someone to explain to you the obvious differences in these situations.

First of all if these allegations are true then this is an absolute horrible crime and they should be prosecuted to whatever the full extent of the law is in whatever state the took place in short of the "death penalty" (personal grievance).

However, you or whomever ever created this flyer didn't state any issues of the case. Was this a racially motivated crime? Was it financially motivated? Was there a relationship between the victims and the perpetrators?

There isn't an answer that's going to justify there murder but these answers could perhaps explain some of the reason that this case hasn't gotten as much attention.

With that said I'll explain to you Sunshyne what the main difference is. It's the fact that the people who murdered these people have all been arrested and will be brought to justice. I'm having a really hard time understanding how people aren't understanding that.

We're talking about a case where two people were murdered, there were arrests made and then a separate (can't really call it a case) situation where a 17 year old boy was killed on his way home from buying a bag of Skittles and no arrest made.

This country has a long history of racial profiling and racially motivated killings perpetrated against African Americans. As much as some whites may want to think that racially motivated killings is something that has equally been perpetrated against them it simply isn't true.

The vast majority of crimes including murder that are committed by African Americans are committed against other African Americans. Situations of murder that are perpetrated against whites are almost always financially motivated. This in no way means that there deaths are in anyway less meaningful but it is simply fact that this country simply doesn't have a history of blacks killing whites because of racial hate.

However there are differences in the medias coverage of crimes depending on race. For instance blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population. For all of the missing persons reports each year 60% of the reported missing fall into the category or white/or latino, and over half that number 31% are African American. I challenge you to name even one national news Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, JonBenet Ramsey or Elizabeth Smart type coverage about someone that was missing and black.

There is also a difference because of the backdrop of a controversial law. One that as it is defined gives a person the right to shoot and kill someone if there "perceive" that they are in danger. As it stands in this situation the law to this point granted a man the freedom to pursue and kill a 17 year old kid, armed only with a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona Ice Tea, who he perceived to be dangerous or threatening in some way, even after being told "do not follow him" and who he said "he's running away now".

It's a law that I was totally unaware of which I'm sure many black men were and I live in the state of Texas which is one of the states that this ridiculous law applies to. Not a comfortable feeling knowing that a person can kill me just for the fuck of it and say "oh well he was threatening me and coming towards me" or "he was saying he was going to shoot me and was reaching into his waste band" and as long as there are no witnesses to refute his story he simply goes home while my body is on the concrete getting cold.

I don't see how this law could be making anyone safer and one thing that I'm certain of is that although it may not have received as much attention from the media (who knows), I can assure you that if this situation would have happened on the flip side and instead of Trayvon and Zimmerman say a middle aged black man had killed a 17 year old white kid who he was on record of stalking and was told to "stand down", I can assure you he would have been arrested and would be awaiting trial as speak.

For some reason this post seems strange coming from you. I've never met you and don't know what's in your heart but something about the way you look maybe (really don't know what it is) surprises me that you'd be a person that would put up such racially divisive post.

But again this is a horrible situation that you've just pointed out here but before before we start crying foul about all the injustice being done to white people in this country, let's first get these situations on equal footing by having Treyvon's killer arrested and tried the way that justice was served for these monsters.

Just Saying...

[south ov da border]

that's crazy. WTF

[SFTB]

something about the way you look maybe (really don't know what it is) surprises me that you'd be a person that would put up such racially divisive post.
Just Saying...

And with that one sentence you tell us plenty about yourself. Unless of course you meant Sunshyne "looks" too sweet to make the post, or too innocent, I'm sure you didnt mean to say she looked ethnic....that would imply bias coming from you.

The point she made was valid. It wasnt about the trial, and conviction. It was about the vast disparity in media coverage in both cases. As in 24/7 in Trayvon and most networks refused to cover the Knoxville case. Or how the media has scewed the Trayvon case, labeling it murder, a hate crime, no witnesses, (when there are and they confirm Zimmerman was on the ground yelling for help) showing pics of Trayvon much younger than he was, labeling Zimmerman a white/hispanic, open season on Zimmermans past, damnation if you bring up Trayvon's past. "Zimmerman was arrested in his past, he's a violent man" But dont mention Trayvon with a backpack with 12 pieces of women's jewellry, a watch and a screwdriver, or painting graffiti, or suspended for drugs. Then youre trying to kill Trayvon's character, but knock yourself out on Zimmerman.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/2...t-trayvon.html

[Richctdude]

people are so fucked up.. Life is precious ..these people deserve the death penalty not 10 years from now the moment they are found guilty

[Nicole Dupre]

White folks is crazy.

For sheer ingenuity of brutality it's hard to beat a honky. We're peculiar that way.

Yeah, serial killers usually end up having been white people. The few black serial killers were militarily trained. But then, so were all the white ones.

[DarylWashington]

We had to pay whitey back.

[RallyCola]

i really don't understand why anyone cares about this case. it's old. they were convicted and will be re-convicted again. from what i read, the evidence is pretty damning and convincing.

people kill each other all the time. its just part of life...whether racially motivated or not. the important thing is that the killers are jailed and forcibly anally raped with out lube over and over again.

cases like the kid who was murdered for being black in a white neighborhood are far more important for media coverage because the dude wasn't even charged. that's the outrage here...that he can just say self-defense and get away with it.

if the people in this case said that they were defending themselves from being hit while raping the victims and therefore got off on the murder charges, then yes...media outrage...but they were tried, convicted and jailed for some time and there is little reason to believe a retrial will result differently.

this is just a case that is old news. so why the attention now?

[SunshyneMonroe]

The man that killed Treyvon didn't go around stalking every BLACK person that walked on his st and stalked EVERYONE even ppl that lived on his st sometimes....AKA a nutt job.....but some how becomes about race...black people rob steal and murder people everyday and it doesn't make headlines do you know why? It happens to often to be real news....and the news would be looked at as being bias... Im not saying take the fox news way of report but I am saying lets "keep it real people"