Sep 24, 2007

A hater who doesn't get much attention

Have you heard about this hater in the News ?
This guy assaulted about 20 indian-looking students near the univerzsity of New Mexico. So far, a Google News search on Turan Johnson only list 13 news pages about him. Out of these 13 pages, 9 are simple reproductions of the same article. And this article forgets to mention Turan Johnson was a Black man. Which mean most readers will assume he was a white man. Out of the four remaining articles, two do not precise his race either. The remaining two actually bother to show his picture so one can know he was black : these are Indolink and KOB new Mexico. I find this kind of information important because if race is not mentionned, people will believe he was white.
Actually, 13 articles is a lot for a hate crime commited by an "african american". That's because the victims were indians. Had the victims been whites, in my experience, there would have been only one or two articles - unless the white victim was killed or very severely injured.

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