The recent news story of a man in NY has been replayed ad infinitum in the media for the last year. It involves an alleged attack by a white youth against 3 black youths. While any kind of violent attack, racially motivated or not is wrong, I began to wonder why this story was given such a tremendous amount of coverage while crimes involving blacks attacking whites is not. I discovered Paul Sheehan's research, culled from the FBI published statistics on crime and was shocked that while the media seems obsessed with reporting white on black crime ad infinitum (think Howard Beach 1986 or the Texas dragging incident), it seems to all but ignore black on white crime. The statistics seem to indicate that black on white crime is is happening at a much higher level than the reverse. Some suggest the problem is so epidemic as to constitute "an undeclared race war". Yet, it seems largly, undetected and unreported by the media at large. Mr. Sheehan's report:http://www.naawp.com/crime_stats.htm
2006-06-06
04:07:36
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