"BRPD were able to arrest Kenneth James Gleason for the brutal
murders of Bruce Cofield and Donald Smart last week."
Quick question: hypothetically if a black man targeted two white men
to murder them because of the color of their skin, what are
the odds he'd be called ‘CLEAN CUT’ in the headline of a newspaper?
Pretty damn unlikely, huh?
It’'d be a safe bet to take your pick between “thug,” “thug” or “racist thug.”
But remaining consistent in their efforts to stoke racial fears and perpetuate stereotypes,
the NY Post reminds us of their scumbaggery and why racial
perception remains such a pervasive, intractable problem
in this country, the type of problem that has racist white
killers described in a headline like what you would expect from
a god damn Tinder profile.
The suspected killer the NY Post is flirting with here is 23-year-old Louisiana man
Kenneth Gleason, who was taken into custody Tuesday and charged
with two counts of first-degree murder in the ambush murders of
two black men.
But to the fine gents at the Post, they thought it best to shy away from all
that stuff about the suspected racial agenda, or the brutal
killings involved you know and deemed it the utmost importance
that ‘CLEAN fucking CUT’ be the first character description readers set their eyes upon.
Yeah they felt that it was critical that this dapper individual got humanized from the get-go,
rather than be seen as the accused killer.
But if you know The Post, this should be as surprising as Melania Trump rocking
Louies in a tsunami.
The Post is already known for its ever-so-charming descriptions of white
supremacist terrorists.
Remember a few months back when I did the story on how they did a full bumble breakdown
of the ‘dapper man,” “suited up in a large black overcoat, brown dress
shoes and dark-colored pants,” and “well groomed. Oh and who
by the way had traveled from Maryland to New York hellbent on
killing black people as practice, resulting in the death of Timothy Caughman.
Who BTW - amidst their glorification of the white supremacist - they thought it
essential to describe the victim as some sort of career criminal for committing
the horrendous act of get this turnstile jumping.
Well thank god the dapper individual with his suave overcoat and brown shoes was
there to rid the world of this menacing, marijuana-smoking, modern-day Al Capone,
am I right?
Time and time again we see racial stereotypes cloud the way individuals
are portrayed in the media, and it’s disgusting, disingenuous and downright racist.
Here we have the same somehow-still-respected news
outlet openly regurgitating racial bias in it’s portrayal of
evil white terrorists, but yet it’s the victims who are
dehumanized in a way that almost justifies the actions of the
dapper and clean-cut killers.
It is these perceptions that fuel racial bias- just open your eyes
and you will see it. The New York Post is just one example.
But remember the way Fox News portrays every single black
victim of police brutality?
Yeah, you don’t need to go scouring the internet to find an
example of Fox reporting a clean-cut black individual
accused of a crime- I'll save you the time- there is none.
Instead, they do everything in their power to make it seem that
black people are the aggressors in every situation, even when
they are the victims- and justify the actions of the police officer.
"Hands up don’t shoot was a lie and that Michael Brown was the aggressor."
When Freddie Gray was killed by Baltimore police, Fox focused on
the fact that Gray had minor drug arrests.
"Mentally he was not really with it and possibly he was on drugs."
As if that had anything to do with the fact that police neglecting to secure
him inside the police van after his arrest so that he was tossed
around like a rag doll and sustained a fatal spinal cord injury.
Or another example, the way police officers described Terrence Crutcher as a bad dude.
"That looks like a bad dude too, might be on something,"
before the officer shot him dead.
It’s sickening.
Just as Timothy Caughman was the innocent victimof a racially-motivated terrorist attack,
so were 59-year-old Bruce Cofield and 49-year-old Donald Smart in Baton Rouge-
that should be the focus of the story- not the online dating application of the fucking white
supremacist suspected of committing the crimes.
Once again, we see the publishers of the New York Post
value racism over common decency.
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