Some rapes get swept under the rug


Why if the accused are white it makes the front pages, but if the accused are black it barely gets mentioned?

And why can't whites talk about this without being accused of racism?
LaShawn Barber compares two rape cases. It's disturbing.

Of course, the slavery thing again. A black woman who strips for a living and cries rape reminds us all of “200 years of concern over exploitation of black women by white men of privilege.” So what should we be reminded of when we hear about black men gang-raping a white woman? Decades of disproportionately high black crime rates? The black-men-lust-after-white-women stereotype? (Don’t go there!)

What about black men allegedly gang-raping an 11-year-old child? What era can we harken back to and cite to explain this? I wonder how many writers are working on broad social commentary on black criminality? I wonder if Newsweek is working on a story titled, What Happened In That Apartment?

An underage girl is allegedly gang-raped by at least two, maybe 10 men, and the stories are few and far between. But journalists can’t stop writing about a grown woman who voluntarily stripped at a house party and cried rape four months ago.

Though they’d never admit it, journalists are attracted to the Duke case because it’s salacious. The alleged gang-rape of the child by several black thug-types is…I’m almost tired of even thinking about the concept…dog-bites-man stuff. Let me be clear: There is nothing nor should there ever be anything titallating about brutalizing a child.. That’s sick. But I contend that black-on-black rape or black-on-white rape or black-on-latino rape isn’t a fraction as interesting to the media unless the black perpetrator is a celebrity of some sort (ala Kobe and O.J.).

Why?

I’ll bottom-line it for you. There is something about the idea of “privileged” white men that, for lack of a more eloquent way to put it, “turns on” the media. If we assume that a majority of newspapers and media companies lean left, what does that say about the left-leaning editors who send the reporters to cover the stories? Why are they more interested in white-on-black violence than other types of violence? Steve Sailer posits an answer in Unequal Justice: Duke Lacrosse Team vs. Three (!) Minority Football Heroes. There’s more going on here than just selling newspapers.

It’s all sick, but I’m only reporting what I perceive, people. Don’t kill the messenger.

The lady has a point. Several of them actually. The press was more than willing to crucify the accused in the Duke "rape" case, but if the accused are black, the story barely gets noticed.

I really, really hate this whole of idea of races based on skin color. Cultural differences I can maybe accept, but distinctions based on "race" are wrong.

Does this mean that we hold blacks to a lower standard of behavior and responsibility because of their race?

Do some people actually think they are less than human?

Crime is crime, violence is violence. Treating it different because of skin color is wrong.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - July 18, 2006 at 04:48 AM  Tag


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