Are Race Riots News?

[joe bloe]

I'm posting a link to an editorial written by Thomas Sowell, an economist with the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. It's similar subject matter the video link I posted of the flash mob looting of a Walmart in Florida.

Excerpted from the editorial:


Are race riots not news?

Ignoring racial violence only guarantees that it will get worse. The Chicago Tribune has publicly rationalized its filtering out of any racial identification of attackers and their victims, even though the media do not hesitate to mention race when decrying statistical disparities in arrest or imprisonment rates.

Such mob attacks have become so frequent in Chicago that officials promoting conventions there have recently complained to the mayor that the city is going to lose business if such widespread violence is not brought under control.

Most blacks and most whites in the United States today get along with each other. But what is chilling is how often in history racial or ethnic groups that co-existed peacefully for generations -- often as neighbors -- have suddenly turned on each other with lethal violence.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thoma...ts_news/page/2

[Jackie S]

Mayor Rahm is in a rather peculiar predicament. He knows what is needed to stop all of this violence, but he won't dare lest he be the subject of the wrath of those who insist that it is everybody's fault except the thugs who are engaging in all of the thuggary.