Making the rounds of the local news this morning was the report that two CMU students of "middle eastern descent" attempted to scale Gate 5 of Heinz Field and gain access to the playing surface at 2:00 AM. The students, ages 20 and 21, were filming a music video and thought that sneaking onto the field to film the final scene was a good idea.
Naturally, the local news reporters thought it was a good idea to stir up the public two days before national elections by identifying the nationalities of the suspects and give a detailed explanation of the security measures the staff at Heniz Field and the police in Pittsburgh were taking to ensure that the game would be incident free. Never mind the fact if it had been two drunk white men from Dormont, race/cultural background would have been immaterial.
The most galling part of this story is that the reporters got the students' nationality WRONG. The young men in question are United States citizens of Indian descent, from California and New York respectively, something that could have been easily ascertained if the reporters had taken five minutes to hunt down a photograph or actually READ the students' names.
References to the students' nationality have been scrubbed from news reports, except from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the only source to correctly identify the two young men.
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It doesn't really matter to them where they are from. If they have dark skin the media wants you to be afraid of them. Of course please don't point out that Timothy McVeigh was as white as he could be and a Christain fundamentalist. They go bonkers when you point that out to them. In fact, the MSM rarely, if ever acknowleges those two characteristics of McVeigh.
ReplyDeleteAs were John Brown and William Tecumseh Sherman, I hasten to add. Which fact is nearly as useful for starting bar fights in certain parts of the South as mentioning that Jesus was a Jew.
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