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sorry i didnt see above where the amber/ levi's call was already posted..... about the little girls....
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lets see. how many murders are there a year in this country... 10, 20, 30, 40 thousand.. you cant put them all on the news......why does it have to be about race...
if they only put black , indian or asian victims folks complain, if you dont put any folks complain.
we just had a levi call, its ga amber alert. the victims are black in that case.... its on the national news.
maybe your only noticing the white girls....
have we already fogotten the young black girl that was raped at duke......
come on give me a break........
You know, if you aren't going to read my posts, I'm not going to respond to any more of yours. I've reiterated my position over and over and over again. I said more than once that it wasn't just about race, but that it was also about gender. We certainly don't hear much about young boys who go missing or teenage boys who get murdered, do we? The focus on girls, in my view, plays off all our culturally-based instincts to protect women, to view women as vulnerable and helpless. Boys can take care of themselves, girls and women need to be protected, blah, blah, blah. Gender is implied here just like race is.
And you're right - most murders each year in this country don't end up on the news. So maybe it's a worthwhile exercise to ask what sorts of factors go into deciding which ones the media will obsess about for hours, days, weeks, or months on end.
Would this have made national news if she weren't a pretty white girl? I mean, stuff like this is pretty awful, but I do ask myself if it's really national news. People get murdered every day, but we only hear about it nationally when the person is young, pretty, white, and female. Because that's what the media assumes we'll all identify with, i.e, that could be my daughter, that could be my sister. It's plays on our culturally-embedded sympathy for women or anyone else we deem to be helpless or more vulnerable. It's the same reason child abductions are all over the news (when the child is white, of course).
If a black girl in the inner city goes missing, how often is it on the national news? If two little Hispanic kids vanish from the bus stop in El Paso, does Fox put it on their site? Of course not. Missing white kids and missing pretty white chicks are national news - other missing and murdered people aren't. So annoying.quote
i did read your post and when i got to the last paragraph in your statement if was obvious your statement is about race.......
Well, you are right that the female or child angle is more dramatic because they are more vulnerable. I'm sure that has a lot to do with driving ratings.
i did read your post and when i got to the last paragraph in your statement if was obvious your statement is about race.......
Then why's it so hard to admit that race could often be a driving force too?
Well, then you read very selectively. Or else your own prejudices make you particularly sensitive to any hint that white people might get certain advantages in this country that other people don't generally get. I have nothing more to say to you.
Because white's are not inherently more vulnerable than other races.
Haha, to listen to some white people on this board talk about how persecuted they are, you'd never know it.
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