And the Answer Is:
Nothing they’d choose to use.
The Media and Black Homicide Victims
Cable mogul Evan Shapiro had a stunningly clueless Trayvon Martin entry on Huffington Post yesterday asking: Why doesn’t the media cover more black crime victims?
Shapiro, the president of indie cable broadcaster IFC, should pose the same question to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and every member of the black protest establishment: Why don’t you protest more black crime victims? The answer would be the same in all cases: Because the only black victims who interest the race industry and its mainstream media handmaidens are blacks who have been killed by “white” civilians, including honorary whites like Martin’s killer George Zimmerman, or blacks who have been killed or offended by the police (black officers will do here in a pinch).
Unfortunately, there are very few such victims. Ninety-three percent of all black homicide casualties from 1980 to 2008 were killed by other blacks, and are thus of no interest whatsoever to today’s race advocates, because they fail to support the crucial story line that blacks remain under siege by a racist white power structure.
The MSM are dutifully making every event that has the slightest possibility of a racist flavor, a national story. Obama’s 2012 campaign strategy is clear. Avoid discussion on achievements. Fixate on the evils of the right. Prevent those racist bastards from tearing apart the country. “OK, MSM, you have your orders. Now go get’m.”
Not all white on black crime is hyped however. Remember the wheelchair bound guy at one of the first Tea Party rallies in St. Louis. He was accosted by a bunch of SEIU people, called the “N” word and put in the hospital. Not one word from the MSM.