We are sheep
 

The news media decides what we see & what we should be outraged about and it’s all about their ratings. If the cop who killed George Floyd was black, would it still have made the national news? Probably, because they could still tout it as police brutality against blacks and that makes for a salacious story. But if he was white, his story wouldn’t even have been picked up by the national news.

Nope.

It's surprising to me that whenever a black person is attacked, assaulted or killed by a white person so many jump to the conclusion that it was racially motivated.
Not all crimes against blacks are racially motivated.

Perception Management is a Propaganda technique that involves carefully altering the perceptions of a target audience to suit the objectives of the sponsor, and is an essential part of modern Information Warfare

agreed but to some people why waste the opportunity to promote racial hatred.

Which is done quite often here on TOTV by a select few.

It's interesting to watch so many members here post 1 or 2 times about how they don't agree with what happened to George Floyd, then spend their next 10-20 posts...pushing all of their 'BUTS.' :ohdear:

In fact, FBI statistics show that the lowest percentage of crimes agaist blacks are racially motivated.

Search on "crimes against blacks" and you will find numerous articles, most with adequate citations, like this one

What New Research Says About Race and Police Shootings

You must be on the wrong thread. This is about how the media is using Floyd’s death for their own ratings. The national networks wouldn’t even have reported his death if he was white. However they did sensationalize his death because perpetuates their false narrative that blacks are subject to more police brutality than whites.

you have a point that you express again and again and again. Do you really think anyone will change their minds?

Interesting how some posters who don’t like the subject matter of the original post, but can’t refute it, try to change the subject instead...

Unfortunately the media has reached the point where only a few corporations control almost all of the content of newspapers and tv and radio.

In Roanoke where we lived for 29 years the local paper was owned by a very liberal corporation. As a result only liberals were ever endorsed for public office and the widespread opinion was the Roanoke Times never heard of a tax they didnt endorse..

Some years ago our conservative congressman was endorsed. The joke was how long before the endorsement was cancelled. Took 48 hours and shortly there after a new publisher was named to run the paper.

It’s actually a perfect example of control of what we get to see, albeit on a small scale.

If the same thing that happened to Floyd happened to a white man, the national news would have ignored it. They want to fan the flames of hatred, because those stories are good for ratings.

It's because there are a lot of legitimate "BUTS".

What happened to George Floyd was horrendous. But we don't know the whole story. But, we don't know that it was racially motivated. But it doesn't mean that all cops are bad cops or racists. But it doesn't mean that every we still institutional racism in this country. But it doesn't justify people rioting, looting and burning down businesses. But it doesn't mean that every one of us should have to apologize for being white.There are probably a lot more legitimate BUTS but the most important is that we should wait for our justice system to work. I'm sure that this cop is going to be convicted or something and do some time in prison.

I'm sure that there are a lot more legitimate BUTS so what is wrong with pointing them out.

I'm sure that you wouldn't be happy if a group of these so called protestors set your house on fire because of the actions of one bad cop in Minneapolis.

Well said. A lot of these people who are protesting what happened would change their mind real quick if they were a victim of the looting or destruction