8-Year Old Rape Victim Rescued From Trash
This story is all over the news. The perpetrator was living in the same home and first tried to spin a yarn about how some white guys in a station wagon broke into the house and abducted her (the victim and rapist are black). But you won't find any mention of the race of the imaginary home-invasion-abductors, though, in this story or in almost any other report. I must have gone through 20 links in Google News (try yourself) before I found one that reported it. Interesting.
posted by ziel | 5/23/2005 10:02:00 PM
5 Comments:
as a white person, i am enraged!!
Really. White people haven't gone into homes to kidnap black children for about 50 years now.
Is your point that if had been a white child and the "suspects" had been black it would have been much more widely reported (and in more "detail")? Me thinks Ziel is seeing the reality of American news reporting.
no harlem
hes saying that if it were the opposite and white people made up a fake story that black people came running into their house and kidnapped and raped an 8 year old girl...and later it was found out that they made it up, people would be screaming..discrimination! and why they gotta be black?
as a black person, i am enraged! i would hope that we've learned from the years of false accusations and imprisonment (still going on today just not as open as 50 years ago) the pain, suffering and wrong in doing that
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