Powerful Hashtag Brilliantly Destroys How the Media Portrays Murdered Black Men

[MohRokTah]

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown

Powerful Hashtag Brilliantly Destroys How the Media Portrays Murdered Black Men

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Witnesses claim one thing: His hands were raised in surrender when a Ferguson police officer gunned him down on Saturday. Yet officials paint him as a violent troublemaker who lunged into a police car and assaulted the officer before fleeing.

Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, says the 18-year-old had just "graduated high school and ... didn't bother nobody," according to CNN.

All this is heartbreaking. But one thing is certain: It helps the killer's case to portray Mike Brown as a villain.

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How would the media portray them?









We all know which of the pictures the media would run with.

Can the same be said of white men, whom we all know will have similar dichotomies in photographs?

[Fred Sanders]

1. Can I say that many in the media are racists? And cause for more damage because they carry

this message into their work....can I say that?

Racism in the Media.

Think the media will discuss racism in the media?

[bettyellen]

3. when they are forced to discuss it, they are *shocked, I telll ya* that it happens

[nxylas]

10. They're probably not even aware of it

Self-awareness is not the pundit class's strong point.

[MohRokTah]

8. Trayvon Martin proved that.

They even used a picture of a rapper to say it was Trayvon Martin.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. They discussed a right wing bias once with a panel of RW media types that agreed there was none.

[DetlefK]

2. No. Also, white mass-murderers are never domestic terrorists. They have psychological problems.

[malaise]

5. No no -- they are lone wolves n/t

[DetlefK]

6. What does the term even mean?

One cannot be a terrorist if one acts alone?

[malaise]

7. Of course they are terrorists but you'll never hear that narrative from the establishment

They have never been influenced by the RW narrative either - lone wolves I tell you whatever the fugg that means.

Look if Bundy was an African-American or a Muslim he'd be dead and buried ages ago.

[Mr Dixon]

4. Agreed

This is nothing new, some people just choose to ignore the Facts as always.

[LynneSin]

9. Just like the photos from after Hurricane Katrina

The white people carrying goods found them whereas the black people carrying goods they found actually looted them.

[cyberswede]

12. Wow.

This makes me very sad.