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12/22/12, 10:47 AM
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Another perspective on Newtown
I wonder how long the wall-to-wall coverage, and its aftermath, would have lasted if the kids had had names like DuQueenzia and JaQuavion. Yes, one black child and one Hispanic child died, but they were from middle-class families. You just know that people would be saying things like "16 fewer kids in the 'Beyond Scared Straight' program" or "16 fewer kids on welfare or in the foster care system", that kind of thing.
I have been told by people who lived in Denver at the time that had "Columbine" happened at a mostly black and/or Hispanic school, it probably wouldn't have even gotten on the local news.
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12/22/12, 11:08 AM
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To get that answer you need only look to Chicago where 319 school children were shot in 2012, 24 of them fatally. Where is the outrage from Obama and others on the left? Nowhere in sight because Chicago is a bastion of liberal politics and has some of the toughest gun control regulations in the country. If they brought the spotlight on Chicago, it would serve only to discredit their agenda and we all know they can't allow that to happen.
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12/22/12, 11:41 AM
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To get that answer you need only look to Chicago where 319 school children were shot in 2012, 24 of them fatally. Where is the outrage from Obama and others on the left? Nowhere in sight because Chicago is a bastion of liberal politics and has some of the toughest gun control regulations in the country. If they brought the spotlight on Chicago, it would serve only to discredit their agenda and we all know they can't allow that to happen.
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This was going on long before Obama got on the national radar. I really think that if those kids were white, Asian, or Indian-from-India, every one of them would be on CNN Breaking News.
I'm just waiting for someone to blame Obama for the Bath Massacre, which happened in 1927. 
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12/22/12, 11:43 AM
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This was going on long before Obama got on the national radar. I really think that if those kids were white, Asian, or Indian-from-India, every one of them would be on CNN Breaking News.
I'm just waiting for someone to blame Obama for the Bath Massacre, which happened in 1927. |
Yes, it has been a bastion of liberal politics and the home of very strict gun control laws long before Obama came on the scene, which is why the left can't be bothered to take notice.
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12/22/12, 01:22 PM
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My point was that if this had happened at an inner city school with mostly low-income, nonwhite students, it would have disappeared from all news media as soon as the school's demographics came out.
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12/22/12, 01:35 PM
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My point was that if this had happened at an inner city school with mostly low-income, nonwhite students, it would have disappeared from all news media as soon as the school's demographics came out.
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You're absolutely right. In fact, most of these never made the news anywhere except Chicago. Who's fault do you think that might be?
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12/22/12, 08:14 PM
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My point was that if this had happened at an inner city school with mostly low-income, nonwhite students, it would have disappeared from all news media as soon as the school's demographics came out.
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Perhaps YOU can enlighten all of us as to why the enemedia DOES'NT care about the deaths of non white children in Chicago.......waiting.....
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12/22/12, 08:20 PM
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I think you all are confusing school children with school AGED children.
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12/22/12, 08:22 PM
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I think you all are confusing school children with school AGED children.
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Assuming all of those kids in Chicago were truants, are their lives worth less than those who happened to be in a classroom at the time they were shot?
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12/22/12, 08:44 PM
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Assuming all of those kids in Chicago were truants, are their lives worth less than those who happened to be in a classroom at the time they were shot?
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Only in the perverted liberal mind......
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12/22/12, 09:00 PM
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I have been told by people who lived in Denver at the time that had "Columbine" happened at a mostly black and/or Hispanic school, it probably wouldn't have even gotten on the local news.
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Depends.
The media only dishes out, what the public wants to eat and black-on-black crime, is never on the menu.
If it was a white shooter, in a black school - even inner city, you betcha, it would have coverage, but from a whole different slant.
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12/22/12, 09:25 PM
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I wonder how long the wall-to-wall coverage, and its aftermath, would have lasted if the kids had had names like DuQueenzia and JaQuavion. Yes, one black child and one Hispanic child died, but they were from middle-class families. You just know that people would be saying things like "16 fewer kids in the 'Beyond Scared Straight' program" or "16 fewer kids on welfare or in the foster care system", that kind of thing.
I have been told by people who lived in Denver at the time that had "Columbine" happened at a mostly black and/or Hispanic school, it probably wouldn't have even gotten on the local news. |
The article's example of Emmitt Till sort of deflates their and your argument doesn't it? I mean, they're still talking about him after all these years. If your argument held any water he'd have been long since forgotten.
By the way, just where have you been hearing those negative remarks about dead children of color? Perhaps laying somewhere in the back of your own mind?
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12/22/12, 09:35 PM
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I beg to differ, since one black teenager's death nearly brought a country to the brink of civil war. Of course, if the assailant had been black in your scenario, then no, no coverage. If the assailant was white, than yes indeed, there would have been covereage. It is a sad state of affairs when blakc on black violence is ignored.
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12/22/12, 09:37 PM
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I beg to differ, since one black teenager's death nearly brought a country to the brink of civil war. Of course, if the assailant had been black in your scenario, then no, no coverage. If the assailant was white, than yes indeed, there would have been covereage. It is a sad state of affairs when blakc on black violence is ignored.
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It's a sad state of affairs when the race of a dead child is even noticed.
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12/22/12, 10:48 PM
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Sadly, these things aren't under reported on the basis of race. Sadly they occur most often with middle class white kids.
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12/22/12, 11:15 PM
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But, the outrage is admirable, and duly noted. 
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We almost found out several days ago in Atlanta.
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