Scholar Gates 'outraged' after run-in with police

Why is the national media focusing on this trivial story, while COMPLETELY IGNORING two serious Black-on-White hate crimes that happened on the 4th of July! One happened on Long Island, and one happened in Akron, OH.

http://www.ohio.com/news/dyer/50698407.html

"Imagine what would be going on in Akron right now if a mob of 30 to 50 whites had launched a vicious, unprovoked attack on a defenseless family of blacks in a residential neighborhood in Firestone Park, chanting about white supremacy.

But the skin colors were reversed. The ugly mob that jumped four adults and two children June 27 consisted of black people, and they were attacking white people.

Fifteen years after the Akron Beacon Journal won a Pulitzer Prize for its yearlong study of race relations, this city and this nation still have a double standard — in media coverage, in law enforcement and in outrage.

''This is our world,'' the attackers yelled.''This is a black world.''

Yet the Akron Police Department still won't call this a hate crime. Now let's see ... 30 to 50 people, all of whom are black, attacking six other people, all of whom are white, while proclaiming black supremacy. If that's not a hate crime, what is?"

I'm sure you already know the answer. We need to stop the racial DOUBLE STANDARD.

mike h wrote:

I'm sure you already know the answer. We need to stop the racial DOUBLE STANDARD.

It's like the song says: "If you own the information, you can bend it all you want."

There are powerful people in this country who control information sources like the Chicago Tribune/WGN, and they are bending it to the breaking point.