Your media guide to the differences between #Ferguson and #pumpkinfest

[kpete]

Many on Twitter noted the people clashing with the police in Keene appeared to be white.

They compared the media coverage to that of the rioting that broke out in Ferguson following the shooting death of black unarmed teenager Michael Brown.


https://twitter.com/MattTW/status/523833164758675456/photo/1

MORE HERE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/whites-riot-over-pumpkins-in-nh-and-twitter-turns-it-into-epic-lesson-about-ferguson/

and HERE:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-riots-keene-nh-pumpkin-fest

[d_r]

1. don't forget west virginia

[KittyWampus]

2. this contrast is pretty "in your face". It is an academic example

and should be discussed broadly.

[malaise]

3. Same with Katrina

Whites found food in supermarkets - African Americans looted supermarkets.
Racism has long been promoted by the media.

[JEB]

4. Institutional racism. eom

[Nye Bevan]

5. As the most senior ranking white person in the country, why oh why doesn't Joe Biden step in,

and make an attempt to bring his people under control?

[2naSalit]

6. White

privilege... it's what's on the menu of late.



You can rest assured that those injured white kids will have all the plastic surgery and other cosmetic remedies their parents can buy so they can get the good jobs later in life. Folks with scars (along with skin color) don't have these benefits to carry them beyond those youthful indiscretions... that is if they actually survive their youth.

[SamKnause]

7. What a disgusting display

by Ruth Sterling the festival coordinator.