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Old 12-31-2014, 12:22 AM
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Why has the word thug suddenly become so frequently used? And seemingly it only applies to black men? When white kids riot they are not called thugs. Check the news coverage of student riots after football games, or in the story this fall in New Hampshire where cars were overturned and fires set

Officials seek to make Pumpkin Festival safer after all-day riots - NY Daily News

NY Daily news, no mention of thugs.

To see how the media has conditioned us all to view the actions of white people doing exactly the same thing as black ones but with blacks being criminals and whites being not, see if you can spot the difference in these two photos of people carrying soda and groceries through the Katrina flood waters:
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