So a black guy punches a white woman in the face because of an argument over what the black guy called "white privilege" and yet there is nothing calling the black guy out as being a racist in any article I can find on the internet.
I don't know if the guy is in fact a racist, and that's not really the point. The point is had it been a white guy punching a black woman in the face, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been on this quicker than you could say "hate crime." The assailant would have been lambasted as a hate mongering racist and the talking heads would have been all to happy to comment on how redneck racist teabaggers are ruining the country and sabotaging any hope of of becoming a post racial community. But no, here, it's simply "an unfortunate event." Kinda like when that white kid was beaten up on the school bus.
And, why isn't the great One coming to the defense of the black guy and commenting off the cuff about how stupid the white woman must have been for arguing about this, a la the Henry Gates incident?
I don't know if the guy is in fact a racist, and that's not really the point. The point is had it been a white guy punching a black woman in the face, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been on this quicker than you could say "hate crime." The assailant would have been lambasted as a hate mongering racist and the talking heads would have been all to happy to comment on how redneck racist teabaggers are ruining the country and sabotaging any hope of of becoming a post racial community. But no, here, it's simply "an unfortunate event." Kinda like when that white kid was beaten up on the school bus.
And, why isn't the great One coming to the defense of the black guy and commenting off the cuff about how stupid the white woman must have been for arguing about this, a la the Henry Gates incident?
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