The Swamp

Scottie wrote:No. It's because the murder victim was a White guy, plain and simple. Media can't, won't, exploit that.

A laughably, desperately, labelled "White Hispanic" kills 0bama's fantasy son? All you hear about for months. Wall to wall coverage. Meanwhile, at the same time, a Black woman abducts a 12-year old White kid, murders him with a welding torch and dumps his body in a trash bin. Media goes virtually silent on that; a capital murder case. Gee, I wonder why?

Gunpowder wrote:Where was the attention for John Spooner?

Scottie wrote:Are you suggesting that American media reports race crime, no matter the perp, in an equal and unbiased manner?

Gunpowder wrote:

Scottie wrote:Are you suggesting that American media reports race crime, no matter the perp, in an equal and unbiased manner?

No but I'm suggesting that it's not always as simple as that. There are many instances of black kids getting shot by white people that don't make the news. George Zimmerman got a ton of attention because the race angle was that you could just shoot a black kid, claim self-defense and skate. . . .

Scottie wrote:The White population is around 75%. Blacks are slightly less than 13% of the population and are 7.5 times more likely to murder a White person than vice versa.

howard wrote:

Scottie wrote:The White population is around 75%. Blacks are slightly less than 13% of the population and are 7.5 times more likely to murder a White person than vice versa.

We Shall Overcome!

Scottie wrote:No. It's because the murder victim was a White guy, plain and simple. Media can't, won't, exploit that.

A laughably, desperately, labelled "White Hispanic" kills 0bama's fantasy son? All you hear about for months. Wall to wall coverage. Meanwhile, at the same time, a Black woman abducts a 12-year old White kid, murders him with a welding torch and dumps his body in a trash bin. Media goes virtually silent on that; a capital murder case. Gee, I wonder why?

Keg wrote:

Scottie wrote:No. It's because the murder victim was a White guy, plain and simple. Media can't, won't, exploit that.

A laughably, desperately, labelled "White Hispanic" kills 0bama's fantasy son? All you hear about for months. Wall to wall coverage. Meanwhile, at the same time, a Black woman abducts a 12-year old White kid, murders him with a welding torch and dumps his body in a trash bin. Media goes virtually silent on that; a capital murder case. Gee, I wonder why?

I dont think its that simple. There's a ton of missing black/brown kids who never get reported by the media, but a white kid goes missing and we get wall to wall coverage on 20 different channels.

Keg wrote:

Scottie wrote:No. It's because the murder victim was a White guy, plain and simple. Media can't, won't, exploit that.

A laughably, desperately, labelled "White Hispanic" kills 0bama's fantasy son? All you hear about for months. Wall to wall coverage. Meanwhile, at the same time, a Black woman abducts a 12-year old White kid, murders him with a welding torch and dumps his body in a trash bin. Media goes virtually silent on that; a capital murder case. Gee, I wonder why?

I dont think its that simple. There's a ton of missing black/brown kids who never get reported by the media, but a white kid goes missing and we get wall to wall coverage on 20 different channels.

AB_skin_test wrote:

Keg wrote:

Scottie wrote:No. It's because the murder victim was a White guy, plain and simple. Media can't, won't, exploit that.

A laughably, desperately, labelled "White Hispanic" kills 0bama's fantasy son? All you hear about for months. Wall to wall coverage. Meanwhile, at the same time, a Black woman abducts a 12-year old White kid, murders him with a welding torch and dumps his body in a trash bin. Media goes virtually silent on that; a capital murder case. Gee, I wonder why?

I dont think its that simple. There's a ton of missing black/brown kids who never get reported by the media, but a white kid goes missing and we get wall to wall coverage on 20 different channels.

Weird. I thought all the black/brown kids on the milk cartons were the same one.

Scottie wrote:

Gunpowder wrote:

Scottie wrote:Are you suggesting that American media reports race crime, no matter the perp, in an equal and unbiased manner?

No but I'm suggesting that it's not always as simple as that. There are many instances of black kids getting shot by white people that don't make the news. George Zimmerman got a ton of attention because the race angle was that you could just shoot a black kid, claim self-defense and skate. . . .

Yet you are saying it is as simple as that.

The White population is around 75%. Blacks are slightly less than 13% of the population and are 7.5 times more likely to murder a White person than vice versa. Blacks are 136 times more likely to commit robbery against a White person than vice versa. That is a demographic 1/6th in size responsible for 7.5 times the inter-racial murders. In a 50/50 population, that murder comparison becomes 50-to-1.

So, again, do you believe that American media, in an unbiased manner, reflects this?

howard wrote:They found his brother:

AB_skin_test wrote:The most famous missing person ever is a white male, so stick all your conventions and your biases.

ZMan wrote:

AB_skin_test wrote:The most famous missing person ever is a white male, so stick all your conventions and your biases.

D.B Cooper just called. He's pissed he lost out to a toon.

AB_skin_test wrote:The most famous missing person ever is a white male, so stick all your conventions and your biases.

Scottie wrote:

Gunpowder wrote:

Scottie wrote:Are you suggesting that American media reports race crime, no matter the perp, in an equal and unbiased manner?

No but I'm suggesting that it's not always as simple as that. There are many instances of black kids getting shot by white people that don't make the news. George Zimmerman got a ton of attention because the race angle was that you could just shoot a black kid, claim self-defense and skate. . . .

Yet you are saying it is as simple as that.

The White population is around 75%. Blacks are slightly less than 13% of the population and are 7.5 times more likely to murder a White person than vice versa. Blacks are 136 times more likely to commit robbery against a White person than vice versa. That is a demographic 1/6th in size responsible for 7.5 times the inter-racial murders. In a 50/50 population, that murder comparison becomes 50-to-1.

So, again, do you believe that American media, in an unbiased manner, reflects this?

AB_skin_test wrote:

ZMan wrote:

AB_skin_test wrote:The most famous missing person ever is a white male, so stick all your conventions and your biases.

D.B Cooper just called. He's pissed he lost out to a toon.

I actually considered DB Cooper, but considering if he's out there sipping champagne, he probably doesn't want to be found.

It's funny how people will make excuses for their own actions and inactions, but won't admit the truth.

If you start pushing back on that your circle of friends begins to shrink -- and quite quickly at that.

But it's not because you're wrong -- it's because people are uncomfortable with reality, and you're refusing to put away the "real" card. You're removing the Facebook patina of perfection, of hedonism, of narcissism and self-delusion.

What am I talking about? The fact that each and every one of you reading this, along with myself, consent to all of the below list each and every day:

•Every single act of felony assault when a cop in Ferguson points a weapon at a peaceful protester and is not immediately arrested and charged with the crime of assault with a deadly weapon.
•Every single act of altering the timing of yellow lights to generate intentional bogus violations that cannot be evaded due to the laws of physics and, when you are entrapped by happenstance of your presence, you must pay not a legitimate fine for misbehavior but instead literally have funds extorted from you.
•The violations of your Fourth Amendment rights on the road, in the airport and on the sidewalk in NY, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and elsewhere.
•The refusal of our government to recognize your fundamental right to life, that is the right to self defense through the keeping and bearing of the only device known to man that is effective in that regard, everywhere and anywhere without permit, license or other constraint up until you actually commit a criminal act by misusing same.
•The bankster fraud games in Jefferson County Alabama that are still costing people doubled (or more) water and sewer bills and will forever into the future, featuring court-proved acts of bribery.
•The bankster fraud games on Wall Street (including selling securities they self-described internally as "vomit" to people just like you through their pension funds and elsewhere) that caused the housing bubble and subsequent collapse. Despite literal trillions of intentionally-bogus securities being sold and millions of Americans being dispossessed of their homes and personal wealth not one bankster went to prison for any of it.
•The bankster fraud games on Wall Street that are still going on with derivatives, high-frequency trading and more, all of which has the effect of counterfeiting the currency you carry and spend on a daily basis -- in effect committing what should be prosecuted as felony grand theft against you and counterfeiting against the nation each and every day.
•Hospitals billing people $10,000 for a $100 test without disclosing the price before the test is given, in many cases because the patient is unconscious and thus can't give meaningful consent, then suing to collect a ridiculously bogus charge.
•Hospitals billing a woman $60,000 for two $100 vials of scorpion anti-venom while preventing you from getting that anti-venom from anywhere else through threat of criminal penalty.
•Being forced to buy an "insurance" product (Obamacare) that isn't actually insurance under threat of government force and confiscation of your funds (theft again.)
•Being sold ownership in property that you never actually own as you must rent it forever from the local and state government, and despite this fraud entire industries continue to use the word "sell."
•Having your constitutionally-guaranteed freedom to travel trampled by demands that you be "licensed" to simply move your person and personal property by the ordinary means of the day.
•Having your 4th Amendment right to be left alone trampled by a government agency that lied directly to Congress about what they were doing, falsified the justification for same (that it "caught terrorists" when in fact it actually caught none), got caught in both lies (which is a criminal offense, incidentally) and yet nobody went to prison nor has the program been stopped and the data collected under said false pretense been purged.
•Having 3-4% of your purchasing power stolen each and every year on a compounded basis on average -- sometimes more, some less, but never, not even once since 1980, has it not happened for as little as three consecutive months.
•Ridiculous bloat in the public schools you fund such that half or more of the money spent, and thus a huge chunk of your property taxes (which you pay either in rent or directly if you "own") is literally stolen from you and given to people who perform no necessary service. In other words, you willingly allow yourself to be robbed each and every year.
•Ridiculous bloat in Universities such that your children get robbed again to the tune of 3, 4, 5 even 10x what it should cost to obtain a "post-secondary" education.
•Injury upon injury is also heaped upon your (adult) children, in concert with the previous point, through the inability to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy, declaring by statute that this "obligation" has literally the same status as child support before the law.
•A Federal Government structure that, in concert with the above and more, literally steals about 2/3rds of the funds that flow into it via taxes and doles them out as patronage. In other words you have 2/3rds of any taxes you pay being not put to the use claimed but instead are stolen, and all of this is done only because the government implies the threat of using guns against you if you refuse to pay - an act that by any reasonable measure is a felony committed against every one of you.

Need I go on? I could literally write a book on the outrages, frauds and thefts you suffer on a daily basis. Hell, I have -- I've written close to 8,500 such examinations and instances since 2007. Through all of this and more over the last decade you've seen your cost of living go up dramatically while the median family income has not improved at all. Not only has the technological advancement of the last 10 years, which should have resulted in you obtaining more purchasing power been stolen the theft didn't stop there; it is in fact even greater!