Reply #59: That is sheer nonsense. [View All]

[Tomee450]

Whites commit more crimes than black people but it is the blacks that the media focuses on. I quoted Tim Wise above. He aslo writes the following:

"The media overyhpes crime news generally, coverage has exploded in recent years even as crime has been plummeting--and especially crimes in cities committed by people of color. Despite the occasional focus on white school shooters or white guys who kill their families because their stock crashes, studies confirm that not only does crime take up huge amount of overall news, but crimes with black perps and/or white victims are the most hyped of all. Think Central Park Jogger, for example. In general,media has a tendency to inflate public fears of black people."

He goes on to cite an example in which Good Morning America thought it important to show a scene in Milwaukee in which three black women were hitting a car with a baseball bat. Wise wondered why it was necessary to report this incident since the car did not belong to a prominent local or national figure and thus was not that newsworthy. It was just another way to instill fear of African Americans. Wise reports that " three days after the above incident was shown on national television, "white college students at the University of Cincinnati celebrated Cinco de Mayo by taking to the streets, overturning cars, throwing sofas out of windows and setting them on fire. Yet, there was no footage of the mini-riot on GMA the next day, despite the fact that such an event surely must have provided some exciting video."

African Americans do not commit more crimes than whites. Their offenses, however, are widely reported unlike those committed by whites people.