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Originally Posted by blueash
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: |
Most of us have common sense. Some prejudge everyone. Some do not.
But we have to do a little prejudging or assessment to keep ourselves safe.
It isn't wrong to do that. We all think we don't. But we all do. Some feel that all old, solvent, white people from the midwest who go to church are lacking perceptive abilities that old white people born on the east coast with more letters after their name have.
Yes you do.