White People In The News
The following are two segments from the Rueters and Associated Press coverage of a porch collapse in Chicago that killed 13 people:
“The accident occurred behind an apartment building in the upscale North Side neighborhood.”
“The collapse occurred about 12:30 a.m. Sunday during a party at the apartment building in an affluent neighborhood popular with recent college graduates”
Now re-read the above but substitute “all-white” for the words “upscale” and “affluent.”
Both reports could have easily been written with those words omitted. They don’t serve to further clarify the facts of this terrible accident nor do they add any vital or necessary information. ABC news online, for example, simply reported, “the accident occurred on Chicago’s North Side.” But there is a good reason “upscale” and “affluent” are used here. The respective reporters (oh so delicately) need to inform their national readership of the true magnitude of this disaster. You see, this tragedy is even more tragic because the accident occurred in a nice white neighborhood. This wasn’t a horrible event in just any neighborhood, this horrible event occurred in an upscale and affluent neighborhood! The mere presence of these words is an indictment in itself.
When the dead and injured are white college graduates (not filthy migrant workers or worthless black teens) the story takes on immediate gravity. The plot naturally becomes more compelling, the deaths more horrible, and the loss more heartbreaking. White America childishly holds onto the belief that money and class can keep death from wrecking the big party – so when something bad happens in Pleasantville it makes for delicious drama. Covering the tragic deaths of niggers and spics has obviously grown tedious for the media. It’s completely understandable why these weary reporters jump when a fresh tragedy occurs in the white man’s world. Similar stories from low-income, minority neighborhoods happen too frequently to be deemed “news.” What’s so “new” about some crack head being raped or a kid taking a stray bullet? Boring. I don’t blame the reporters individually – they have to find the most popular stories to impress their bosses – besides would their editors really give a damn if a bunch of lazy malt liquor drinking niggers die in a backyard accident in some Detroit slum?
A white girl being kidnapped from an affluent suburb of Salt Lake City is a lead story… a little white beauty queen strangled in her Colorado Mansion spawns a global media circus…a murder in a “sleepy” town gets a 20/20 investigation… but a black child kidnapped from a tenement? Or a black toddler abused, tortured and killed in a foster home? Ho Hum. Yawn. It just doesn’t scare white America enough to pump up the heart rate or the ratings.
The following are two segments from the Rueters and Associated Press coverage of a porch collapse in Chicago that killed 13 people:
“The accident occurred behind an apartment building in the upscale North Side neighborhood.”
“The collapse occurred about 12:30 a.m. Sunday during a party at the apartment building in an affluent neighborhood popular with recent college graduates”
Now re-read the above but substitute “all-white” for the words “upscale” and “affluent.”
Both reports could have easily been written with those words omitted. They don’t serve to further clarify the facts of this terrible accident nor do they add any vital or necessary information. ABC news online, for example, simply reported, “the accident occurred on Chicago’s North Side.” But there is a good reason “upscale” and “affluent” are used here. The respective reporters (oh so delicately) need to inform their national readership of the true magnitude of this disaster. You see, this tragedy is even more tragic because the accident occurred in a nice white neighborhood. This wasn’t a horrible event in just any neighborhood, this horrible event occurred in an upscale and affluent neighborhood! The mere presence of these words is an indictment in itself.
When the dead and injured are white college graduates (not filthy migrant workers or worthless black teens) the story takes on immediate gravity. The plot naturally becomes more compelling, the deaths more horrible, and the loss more heartbreaking. White America childishly holds onto the belief that money and class can keep death from wrecking the big party – so when something bad happens in Pleasantville it makes for delicious drama. Covering the tragic deaths of niggers and spics has obviously grown tedious for the media. It’s completely understandable why these weary reporters jump when a fresh tragedy occurs in the white man’s world. Similar stories from low-income, minority neighborhoods happen too frequently to be deemed “news.” What’s so “new” about some crack head being raped or a kid taking a stray bullet? Boring. I don’t blame the reporters individually – they have to find the most popular stories to impress their bosses – besides would their editors really give a damn if a bunch of lazy malt liquor drinking niggers die in a backyard accident in some Detroit slum?
A white girl being kidnapped from an affluent suburb of Salt Lake City is a lead story… a little white beauty queen strangled in her Colorado Mansion spawns a global media circus…a murder in a “sleepy” town gets a 20/20 investigation… but a black child kidnapped from a tenement? Or a black toddler abused, tortured and killed in a foster home? Ho Hum. Yawn. It just doesn’t scare white America enough to pump up the heart rate or the ratings.
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