http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/11/...holder-removes-death-penalty-four-cop-killers
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspects-in-viginia-police-officer-killing-will-not-face-death-penalty/
Once again, the outrage over the four gang members (one white, three blacks) who carjacked, kidnapped and brutally murdered this 15-year veteran cop is all but buried deep in the archives of newspapers and network news around the country!
Unlike the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, this murder, in March of this year, has vanished except for a recent news flash yesterday on Fox, where they reported that AG Holder removed the death penalty from the table regarding the four gang members being held for trial!
In America, it seems that if a white person is murdered by a person of color, it goes relatively unnoticed ... but if the gun is, in the other hand, it becomes a flash point story of gaining tremendous interest from all forms of media, and since 2008, the president himself!
If racial tensions are going to be seen as a two-way street, the media has to stop instigating and inciting near riot conditions, especially when a white cop is involved!
Last year, when a black cop went on the warpath and took aim at people related to the LAPD, it made news, but even when Dorner killed some white folks in his path of terror and death, you did not see the white community come out and protest, and demand justice.
Sure justice was expected with Dorner, just as with the four gang members in VA, but the community, especially the white community, is not putting on their KKK robes and protesting, vandalizing, and shooting "No justice, no peace!" The white community is not out on each corner of that small VA town, inciting a riot regardless of what the courts do with the four killers. And for sure, the media (the number-one instigator) is missing. And why are they missing? Not because this is not news worthy .... but because they know the white community is not going to get all riled up and excited, which leaves them without any news to write about, or flames to fan!
The white folks do not have their version of the good Reverend Jesse Jackson, or the vitriolic, caustic language of Al Sharpton to incite violence and unrest. So, why are there still a small group of black folks, trying to stir up trouble with every killing of a black person at the hands of a white person, especially if that white person happens to be white?
That is my question. And I'd like some honest views as to why the discrepancy, and when you think, the race card will cease to be played here in the melting pot of the world!
Please don't include the standard responses calling me a racist; or a hater of blacks. This is not true, and if you truly knew me and my professional background, you'd honestly be humbled with such accusations hurled my way!
I am trying to get some honest discussion as to what is at the core or waht is the root cause(s) of the flash-point responses in this nation when a white person kills a black person!
You don't even see this problem come up when a white person kills a person of any color skin, other than black!
Out here, in LA, there is some excitement when a Hispanic and a black person are involved killing each other, and I am hoping that it eventually chills out and never grows to the point that we have seen repeatedly here in America, when a white person kills a black person.
It has to stop, folks! Nevertheless, sadly, I don't have any hope of it happening in my life time! I was so encouraged over the years to see racial tensions become less and less explosive, and then along comes Cambridge, Zimmerman, and now Ferguson! It is a shame for all of humanity that one of the greatest experiments in melting races into one society has yet to put to rest the white on black issues!
Will it ever end? I guess that is also a question I am asking for views on! Thanks for responsible, not political, replies!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspects-in-viginia-police-officer-killing-will-not-face-death-penalty/
Once again, the outrage over the four gang members (one white, three blacks) who carjacked, kidnapped and brutally murdered this 15-year veteran cop is all but buried deep in the archives of newspapers and network news around the country!
Unlike the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, this murder, in March of this year, has vanished except for a recent news flash yesterday on Fox, where they reported that AG Holder removed the death penalty from the table regarding the four gang members being held for trial!
In America, it seems that if a white person is murdered by a person of color, it goes relatively unnoticed ... but if the gun is, in the other hand, it becomes a flash point story of gaining tremendous interest from all forms of media, and since 2008, the president himself!
If racial tensions are going to be seen as a two-way street, the media has to stop instigating and inciting near riot conditions, especially when a white cop is involved!
Last year, when a black cop went on the warpath and took aim at people related to the LAPD, it made news, but even when Dorner killed some white folks in his path of terror and death, you did not see the white community come out and protest, and demand justice.
Sure justice was expected with Dorner, just as with the four gang members in VA, but the community, especially the white community, is not putting on their KKK robes and protesting, vandalizing, and shooting "No justice, no peace!" The white community is not out on each corner of that small VA town, inciting a riot regardless of what the courts do with the four killers. And for sure, the media (the number-one instigator) is missing. And why are they missing? Not because this is not news worthy .... but because they know the white community is not going to get all riled up and excited, which leaves them without any news to write about, or flames to fan!
The white folks do not have their version of the good Reverend Jesse Jackson, or the vitriolic, caustic language of Al Sharpton to incite violence and unrest. So, why are there still a small group of black folks, trying to stir up trouble with every killing of a black person at the hands of a white person, especially if that white person happens to be white?
That is my question. And I'd like some honest views as to why the discrepancy, and when you think, the race card will cease to be played here in the melting pot of the world!
Please don't include the standard responses calling me a racist; or a hater of blacks. This is not true, and if you truly knew me and my professional background, you'd honestly be humbled with such accusations hurled my way!
I am trying to get some honest discussion as to what is at the core or waht is the root cause(s) of the flash-point responses in this nation when a white person kills a black person!
You don't even see this problem come up when a white person kills a person of any color skin, other than black!
Out here, in LA, there is some excitement when a Hispanic and a black person are involved killing each other, and I am hoping that it eventually chills out and never grows to the point that we have seen repeatedly here in America, when a white person kills a black person.
It has to stop, folks! Nevertheless, sadly, I don't have any hope of it happening in my life time! I was so encouraged over the years to see racial tensions become less and less explosive, and then along comes Cambridge, Zimmerman, and now Ferguson! It is a shame for all of humanity that one of the greatest experiments in melting races into one society has yet to put to rest the white on black issues!
Will it ever end? I guess that is also a question I am asking for views on! Thanks for responsible, not political, replies!
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