Why the Mainstream Media Doesn't Give a Damn About Black Kids

The reason this type of story doesn't get more press is because it's so common ... and that the media barons don't give a shit about black people. They are props for their stories. And the story is always the same: brutal white repression of black folk.  It's why they were so indignant that the Zimmerman trial didn't go their way.  They are tools for their political ends. They are disposable... I was going to end that last sentence with the words "...like slaves." But that's not right. Slaves were valuable property to their owners. To the media, black people are worthless as individuals. Less than slaves. And that's not right.

 

And the blacks in the press?  They know what they have to say to stay to stay in their role.  The black members of the media, with a few exceptions have a good gig, like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who make millions with their acts.  You can always find a few people who know the truth but are willing to sell out for the chance to appear in print or get face-time on the air.  There was a name for that one time.  What was it?  "House-something?"

While the mainstream media lavished endless attention and emotion on the George Zimmerman trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin last weekend, the body of a 17-year-old black boy was discovered on basement stairs, face down, behind a boarded-up house in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. His body was so badly decomposed that local news reports originally suggested that he had died of blunt force trauma. An autopsy demonstrated that he had in fact been shot to death. His family blamed his death on his refusal to join a gang at school.

The boy's name was Darryl Green. Thus far, no non-local media outlet has told the story of Darryl Green. That's because Darryl Green was likely killed by another black person.

This is the world in which we now live: a Hispanic man kills a black boy, likely in self-defense, and the media portray the killing as evidence of a brutal white power structure looking to reinstitute Jim Crow. Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC laments that the not guilty verdict in the Zimmerman trial means it's OK to kill innocent black children. Commentator Andrew Sullivan suggests that the verdict means a return to "the era of lynching." The cover of the New York Daily News links civil rights martyr Emmitt Till to Trayvon Martin. As John Nolte of Breitbart News tweeted, we now live "in a country with a twice-elected black president and the media acting like Mississippi is still burning."

The sad fact is that the media do not care about dead black Americans, unless those blacks are murdered by whites. Never mind the fact that blacks constitute 13.1 percent of the American population but 49 percent of murder victims. Never mind the fact that black life in the inner cities is plagued not by white people stalking down black kids, but by black kids hunting down other black kids.

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