Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Zimmerman-Martin.

There's a lot of feelings flying high in the aftermath of that trial. The media's gone out of their way to sensationalize and polarize things. Don't get me wrong; something is not right here, but a larger issue is that some "events" get sensationalized while other get little to no coverage whatsoever such as the Kermit Gosnell trial recently, or even the arrest of three black men in St. Louis for a "kill whitey" crime spree. Other heinous crimes where whites were the victims such as the murders of Channon Christian & Christoper Hewsom back in 2007 never seemingly made the news outside of Knoxville Tennessee.They were a white couple that were kidnapped, gang raped, tortured and murdered by a group of black men.

I was attacked because I was helping homeless people as an expression of my faith. But since it's a christian church, it wasn't ever going to make the news. But if' I'd been Buddhist and attacked by someone claiming some sort of christian connection I can't help but think that the media would have had a field day with it. Seriously, isn't this as much a hate crime as any other?

No comments:

Post a Comment