Today people have problems with fake news. Me, I have a problem with the real news. Especially news about black people. Nine times out of 10 the first local news
story you hear is about a black person being shot or a black person shooting
somebody. Then the accompanying film of
the story is always shot a nighttime, under dark, mysterious, murky conditions. It’s like they think black people only come
out at night like vampires. The black
person could be shot at 9 in the morning.
But, they send the film crew to cover the story 12 hours later at 9 p.m.
so everything looks gloomy and depressing.
So now I just refuse to watch the local news. Then the opposite story happens. Somebody is murdered in a European American
neighborhood. The news crew comes out in
the daytime under a bright sunny sky. A
European American couple is standing outside their $450,000 home on their door
step with their two smiling children by their side. The news reporter is talking about the “unfortunate
incident” that occurred as birds chirp in the background, and squirrels scamper
around playfully. It’s amazing how murders in European American neighborhoods
become “tragedies”, and “terrible accidents” while murders in black
neighborhoods are depicted as typical “black on black” crimes. So don’t worry about fake news. The real news is the fake news!
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