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I agree with that to a large degree, but there is little doubt as to the role the media plays in stirring the pot whenever it can. Upbringing is and always will be the key ingredient, but to break the cycle is almost impossible when the media portrays black people the way it often does.
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Except that's complete bullshit. The media almost always skews in favor of minorities in it's reporting, or at least tries to remain as objective as possible for fear of upsetting the black community leaders. That's in part why the Zimmerman case made the national news and why you will never hear this story:
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The other day a friend of mine posted a story about a white girl getting raped by 5 black guys and then she wrote "Why isn't this an issue like T. Martin".
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Look at this shit - perfect example:
Not even one utterance of the word black in that entire news piece. No, it's just, "some out of control "flash mobs" are beating people half to death and robbing stores, you know how these teenagers are. What can you do?" Flash mobs - like it was a bunch of kids doing the YMCA in the fucking Gallery food court or something. What it really was was gangs of black kids beating and robbing white people who they percieved to be wealthy. Now whether that was a racial issue or a class issue is arbitrary and besides the point, anyway. The point is that it took the black mayor of the city coming out and basically saying, "Look, stop acting like a bunch of fucking porch monkeys. Pull your pants up and go get a job. And tell your parents to actually raise you" before anyone in the media would even acknowledge the racial aspect of it. And it needed to be said. It's just a shame that if it came from anybody else, it would just be "racist" - end of discussion.
Anyway, the Zimmerman case exposure has more to do with gun rights and this "stand your ground" law than any racial shit