Raising Awareness: media images & racism

[vitafelix]

I saw this on Facebook and had to share here after lioness13's post this week.

[cl8badb]

Its amazing how different photos can change things.

[sctiger]

It's amazing the spin the media puts on crimes. Most of the people involved in these big shootings (Charleston, the one recently in LA) are white men, yet you don't see their mug shot plastered everywhere.

[vitafelix]

Jul 31, 2015 14:30:58 GMT -5 sctiger said:

It's amazing the spin the media puts on crimes. Most of the people involved in these big shootings (Charleston, the one recently in LA) are white men, yet you don't see their mug shot plastered everywhere.

And when you do it's almost always in the orange jumpsuit looking crazed with headlines about mental illness.

[sctiger]

Jul 31, 2015 14:34:50 GMT -5 vitafelix said:

Jul 31, 2015 14:30:58 GMT -5 sctiger said:

It's amazing the spin the media puts on crimes. Most of the people involved in these big shootings (Charleston, the one recently in LA) are white men, yet you don't see their mug shot plastered everywhere.

And when you do it's almost always in the orange jumpsuit looking crazed with headlines about mental illness.

Yeah, why is it that we make excuses for white men (mental illness) but black men are just criminals or thugs?

[stargazer763]

This goes right back to that I, Racist article.
Whites are shooters, blacks and Muslims are murderers / killers.