Racial Bias in the Media - Just how bad is it?

[Gary84Clark]

The media has a clear racial bias. It feeds in to stereotypes. You ought to see the crimes white men do everyday. Child porn , child porn, child porn! Never see it on the 6 oclock news though. Black boy steals candy bar, font page. Some 13 and 14 year old black kids beat up an old guy. It's unfortunate he later died. How many times have these kids called the authorities to report fake crimes by 46 year old white men. Zimmerman called 100 times no one wa severy arrested. Did he ever pause and say hmm some of these black guys may be just walking home. No he is a psycho path, he assumed they all must have got away, all 100. He foreshadowed what he did to Martin. He was carrying around a gun like he in in a dangerous area. The only person killed in his area was killed by him. Psycho. That is how the kiling of the 13 year old matches to the Zimmerman killing. False accusations of criminal activity, paranoid of black men, can't win a fair fight, shooting an unarmed teenager. The reason for packing is to kill the black male, an existential threat in a psychopath's mind.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Gary84Clark

The media has a clear racial bias. It feeds in to stereotypes. You ought to see the crimes white men do everyday. Child porn , child porn, child porn! Never see it on the 6 oclock news though. Black boy steals candy bar, font page. Some 13 and 14 year old black kids beat up an old guy. It's unfortunate he later died. How many times have these kids called the authorities to report fake crimes by 46 year old white men. Zimmerman called 100 times no one wa severy arrested. Did he ever pause and say hmm some of these black guys may be just walking home. No he is a psycho path, he assumed they all must have got away, all 100. He foreshadowed what he did to Martin. He was carrying around a gun like he in in a dangerous area. The only person killed in his area was killed by him. Psycho. That is how the kiling of the 13 year old matches to the Zimmerman killing. False accusations of criminal activity, paranoid of black men, can't win a fair fight, shooting an unarmed teenager. The reason for packing is to kill the black male, an existential threat in a psychopath's mind.

wow , so in your mind Trayvon Martin did not contribute to the situation that lead to his own death , in anyway , not asking about Zimmerman but Martin ?

[Gary84Clark]

Originally Posted by Giantone

wow , so in your mind Trayvon Martin did not contribute to the situation that lead to his own death , in anyway , not asking about Zimmerman but Martin ?

Trayvon contributed to his own death by accidentally going to the store while George was prowling with his gun. Coming home from the store is contributing to your own death?

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Gary84Clark

Trayvon contributed to his own death by accidentally going to the store while George was prowling with his gun. Coming home from the store is contributing to your own death?

Now your catching on.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Gary84Clark

Trayvon contributed to his own death by accidentally going to the store while George was prowling with his gun. Coming home from the store is contributing to your own death?

In that little world that you live in what do normal people do when they know that someone is following them ,I ask because in the real world you would scream for help or run to a neighbor ..or ...hell even run away but no , the "teenager went and confronted a total stranger"...tell me how smart that was !

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Gary84Clark

The media has a clear racial bias. It feeds in to stereotypes. You ought to see the crimes white men do everyday. Child porn , child porn, child porn! Never see it on the 6 oclock news though. Black boy steals candy bar, font page. Some 13 and 14 year old black kids beat up an old guy. It's unfortunate he later died. How many times have these kids called the authorities to report fake crimes by 46 year old white men. Zimmerman called 100 times no one wa severy arrested. Did he ever pause and say hmm some of these black guys may be just walking home. No he is a psycho path, he assumed they all must have got away, all 100. He foreshadowed what he did to Martin. He was carrying around a gun like he in in a dangerous area. The only person killed in his area was killed by him. Psycho. That is how the kiling of the 13 year old matches to the Zimmerman killing. False accusations of criminal activity, paranoid of black men, can't win a fair fight, shooting an unarmed teenager. The reason for packing is to kill the black male, an existential threat in a psychopath's mind.

If your going to make a stupid post at least get your facts correct. Zimmerman call the police 46 times over 8 yrs. That's less then 6 times a year as a neighbor hood watch guy.

Have you ever look at the crime rate in that area.

"With a crime rate of 69 per one thousand residents, Sanford has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 14. Within Florida, more than 94% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Sanford."

[mooby]

Originally Posted by firstdown

If your going to make a stupid post at least get your facts correct. Zimmerman call the police 46 times over 8 yrs. That's less then 6 times a year as a neighbor hood watch guy.

Have you ever look at the crime rate in that area.

"With a crime rate of 69 per one thousand residents, Sanford has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 14. Within Florida, more than 94% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Sanford."

Wow look at FD bringing facts and statistics into an emotional argument.

(Borat voice): mmmm, very nice!

I think the way some politically aligned media reports the news do so in a manner that will bring them the most attention. It's unfortunate but a fact of life in today's society. And that's a big reason why I don't tend to pay too much attention to them, I mean I get my news from MSNBC but I don't really tend to listen to their opinion pieces, if it's anything big there's usually some angle they don't cover for a specific reason. If you are to form a reasonable opinion on a big story you really have to do your own homework these days to come to your own conclusions.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by mooby

If you are to form a reasonable opinion on a big story you really have to do your own homework these days to come to your own conclusions.

Sadly, very few people are willing to make an effort.

I did notice that yesterday's 'Welcome to the NFL, Rookie' on NFL Channel painted Luck in a far more positive light than RGIII AND he got 37 seconds more air time. Even the lighting on the interview shots were darker and more menacing.

/sarc

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Sadly, very few people are willing to make an effort.

I did notice that yesterday's 'Welcome to the NFL, Rookie' on NFL Channel painted Luck in a far more positive light than RGIII AND he got 37 seconds more air time. Even the lighting on the interview shots were darker and more menacing.

/sarc

Because they gave RGIII so much air time last year they are trying to cover their liberal bias by talking up the Luck this year.

[Gary84Clark]

Originally Posted by firstdown

If your going to make a stupid post at least get your facts correct. Zimmerman call the police 46 times over 8 yrs. That's less then 6 times a year as a neighbor hood watch guy.

Have you ever look at the crime rate in that area.

"With a crime rate of 69 per one thousand residents, Sanford has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 14. Within Florida, more than 94% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Sanford."

Since you are giving facts answer me this. Why leave out the sex cime statistics? Martin's reaction to getting followed was warranted. See, your little property crimes are not reason to kill people. Compared to the fear of becoming a victim to sexual battery. Fear of sexual battery is a real reason to react with violence. Those crime statistc maps leave out the sex crimes, they say to protect the victims. In actuality, all this does is leave out the white male dominated crimes and helps people like First Down paint a self righteous picture using half baked facts.

Note: Higher values mean more residents per sex offender higher number is better as far as less sex sex crimes per resident)
Seminole County: 1,213
Zip code 32773 (Sanford area): 676
Florida: 673


States with highest rate of sex offenders Rate / 100,000
Delaware 517
Oregon 473
Vermont 468
Michigan 403
Arkansas 396
Wisconsin 391
Minnesota 316
Florida 311

States with lowest rate of sex offenders Rate / 100,000
Pennsylvania 94
Maryland 136
New Mexico 140
Rhode Island 146
North Carolina 149
Connecticut 152
Washington D.C. 160
New Jersey 164

According to crime statistics, Martin had reason to fear Zimmerman following him and had reason to fear becoming a victim of a sexual crime. He was not looking for trouble, but he found because he was black and Zimmerman assumed he was a threat, and he defended himself with his fists. Zimmerman went looking for trouble with a gun. Martin assumed Zimmerman was a threat because of his actions, following him in a high sex crime area.

Notice in the highest sex crime areas: Arkansas, Vermont, Oregon not areas with high concentrations of black males.

versus

Notice in the lowest sex crime areas: Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina are areas with high concentrations of black males.


This story goes untold by the media, black males are criminalized but white males are not. Look at the sex crime stats. Point being, I can cherry pick facts to paint whatever narrative I want. If I want to criminalize blackmales I use car break-ins stats. If I want to criminalize white males I use child molestation statistics. Damn over 700,000 sex crimes committed in Oregon in a years time. WOW!!!

What about the highly publicized mass murders like in Newtown, Colorado etc. White males did these crimes not black males. The media did not make that up. You can not blame the media for that. First Down must want the media to harp on car break-ins. Common sense says of course the media is going to report the murder of innocent children over car break-in stats.