Where’s The Fox News Outrage Over The University of Kentucky Riots?
Saturday night was disappointing for fans and students of the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team. The Kentucky Wildcats, who were heavy favorites to win the NCAA tournament, were defeated 71-64 by the Wisconsin Badgers. Wildcat fans reacted in a way that unfortunately, is all too common in the sporting world. They decided to become destructive. According to NBC News, multiple objects were set on fire in the streets of Lexington, Kentucky. While several people were taken to the hospital for minor injuries, no one was seriously hurt. Thirty-one arrests were made and by Sunday morning, Lexington police had the situation under control.
Let’s compare the reaction of this incident with the reaction to Ferguson, Missouri. In August of 2014, black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer. Ferguson, being a predominantly African American community, reacted with an emotional protest to the unwarranted shooting of Michael Brown. During the protest, several fires were started.
Conservative America went full on racist, referring to the fire starters in Ferguson as “thugs.” When confronted, these conservatives stated that anyone could be a “thug,” and stated that referring to them as ‘thugs’ was not based on them being black, but that destructive actions of that nature warranted the “thug” label regardless of the color of the perpetrators.
So what are we hearing now that a predominantly white crowd decided to set fire to objects in their own community? Crickets. Where are the conservatives waiting on hold with their local right wing talk radio show to quickly label the perpetrators in Lexington as “thugs?” They aren’t. Because when white people set things on fire in their own community, they are just kids having fun, right?
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