[TABLE="class: tborder"] [TR] [TD="class: tcat, colspan: 2, align: center"] Anyone agree? [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: panelsurround, align: center"] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Thread started at Forum 4 Politics on 04-03-2012 10:35 PM
Did any of you wonder why this story received attention throughout the entire country from the media? There have been plenty of other shockingly violent attacks of gangs of black youth on older men from an outside race. Rapes and murders are not uncommon in these types of incidences. But these stories are generally confined to the local regions. Even people within the same state never hear what goes on. Obviously this was a case of a black youth being racially profiled, which led to his death as a result. But the fact that we are even discussing this story in this forum is just more proof that the media is pushing a political/social agenda by being selective about what it does and does not show on televission. Even Florida is a very populated state. There are around 40 murders in the city of Orlando alone every year. We never hear about those. And we never hear about who commits these murders... http://jacksonville.com/news/crime (my point is that if you found this link offensive, perhaps you should ask yourself why you did not find it offensive that the media has been making such a big fuss about the story being discussed in this thread, this was a racially motivated murder also) Here is just one example of a story Americans never saw in their national media: http://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/melissa-missi-ann-mclauchlin-murder-123092/ I think we all know what would have been in the media had the a gang of white men done the same to a black...
