JD Lasica wrote an article about AlterNet which is kind of interesting until AlterNet’s Don Hazen gets going about Tim Wise’s ridiculous article claiming that whites ignore violence in their own community.
Haze says that “Wise’s article would never have appeared in the mainstream media because it was so in-your-face. We try to let writers use language that’s as strong as they need.” Actually it never would have appeared in mainstream media because no editor would have been stupid enough to run such an inane article.
And, isn’t it weird that a nominally Left media outlet is running around saying we need to stop worrying about violence in the black community and spend more of our time obsessing about the relatively small risk faced by white youths? This, of course, already happens in the real world. It is almost pointless to call the police in my neighborhood. Call them from a house a few blocks away, however, and they’ll be there very quickly (I once waited several hours for a cop to show up after reporting a death threat made by my neighbor).