Sally Redux

If a Muslim man had shot a white family, it might have played differently. Don't know; it's hard to separate the wanton gun violence from other factors.

Leslie

It would be World War ****ing 3

Sally Redux

It would, wouldn't it?

Pulaski

I wouldn't be so sure. ISIS has managed to murder, in some of the most gruesome ways imaginable, several Americans as well as British, French, Japanese, and recently a Jordanian, among many others of various nationalities, without unleashing more than a half-hearted air campaign.

Yorkieabroad

I suspect there may be more of a reaction if it happened a bit closer to home..

Yorkieabroad

Sad to say, but I think there are just too many murders on a daily basis for every single one to get airtime on the evening news - I'm not sure we even get all of our own cities murders reported. Although a triple murder no doubt should elevate its reportabilityness....

Sally Redux

I wonder if people ever consider that we do have Muslim members of the site.

sir_eccles

But why isn't the white community condemning this murder?

Pulaski

Well most of, well everyone, didn't see it even reported.

Bnet36

This is true although my local news are good at reporting all the gang/drug related murders when they happen.

scrubbedexpat091

Probably more to do with it then anything else. Can't report every murder in an hour, and if something more pressing happened in say a west coast city its not likely a murder on the east coast would make the news.

Murders happen so often that the news sometimes barely even report them.

This may or may not have been a hate crime all depends what they end up digging up on this guy, just because its a white guy and the victims are Muslim does not make it an automatic hate crime.

I've seen so many murders reported over my lifetime, I've pretty much stopped paying attention to the reports on the news and more or less don't even read or watch the news except for business section and local section, no need to watch the rest and its better for my mental health to limit my news intake as well, too negative.

Yorkieabroad

Totally agree. There seems to be a massive rush to classify crimes as "race related" whenever different races are involved....there almost seems to be a reluctance in some quarters to accept that people can have differences quite unrelated to the color of their skins. In this case however, there does seem to be some background of this guy making racist statements and threats. Plus my earlier post ref wife not doing him any favors in her press statement!

sir_eccles

Hmm, if a news story happens and Pulaski doesn't read about it, did it really happen?

saraanderson

I have seen it on the news here in Missouri. The local NBC station has been following it.
Who is N.C. shooting suspect Craig Hicks? | National News - KY3.com
They have been reporting it even thought the story dominating their time has been about a police officer in Springfield by a man that was arrested earlier in the day, then released. He was a convicted felon, and should not have been allowed to own a gun. Here in Springfield the gun debate is going once again.

amideislas

No surprise, as everyone knows, the US is the single most racially-intolerant country on the planet.

We know that for sure because whenever there's any news about racially-motivated crime, minority leaders speaking out against it, or mass anti-racist protests, it always comes from there.

You rarely see news about racism coming from any other country, do you?

A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries