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Police say a crowd took the law into their own hands, beat to death a man who stole a car with kids

Yeah, right.

It's true that both parties and their media play on race. On balance, the left would be harmed more than the right if the concept of race in the media / government was banned. Beyond mere political "who would win without race" is the overall benefit of not enhancing genetic division between Americans.
 
No one has been charged after a crowd beat to death a man who stole a car with 3 kids inside - CNN

Erik Hood, 54, drove off with the car while the children's mother and father were in a store Thursday night, police said. The parents chased down the vehicle on foot and pulled the carjacker out of the car when he got caught in traffic, police said.
Hood assaulted the father and fled, but a large crowd stopped Hood and beat him, police said. He was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital, police said.


This was a lynching. The tone of the article is tepid, therefore there is no way a white mob killed Hood. The way the article is framed, I can only conclude that while Hood of course must be black, the mob that killed him is also black.

Why did CNN even bother to report this black on black crime?

Seems like your typical regular article. Mob justices typically make it to news. Nothing to do with race.
 
Seems like your typical regular article. Mob justices typically make it to news. Nothing to do with race.

You're partially correct. The event itself has nothing to do with race: mob kills guy that tried to steal car. No race here.

However, based on "how" this event was reported and the biased history of race reporting with CNN, I am able to say with extreme confidence that the mob was black. How am I able to say this when this event had nothing to do with race, and race was not mentioned in the article?
 
If I had my way I'd ban all mention of race from media outlets and government. I am against race-baiting "reporting" or "news", so I point it out when it happens at CNN.

But it didn't happen with CNN. No mention of race at all in their article.
 
But it didn't happen with CNN. No mention of race at all in their article.

I think his point was that it didn't happen because the relevant races of the actors didn't tell the racial story CNN would like to tell.



"Store Robber Attacks Cop Who Tries To Arrest Him, Grabs For His Gun, Is Shot And Dies" is a racially blind story.

But that's not exactly how CNN et. al. treated Ferguson.
 
Because there is no black outrage, or outrage period...

I am fascinated by this post. You made an account, picked a unique avatar, and filled out the details of your profile, all for the purpose of a one-sentence post, and a single like - Not even in response to the same post - and then you left. I want to know more about the kind of passion that provokes posting like this.
 
What if the headline says, "a black mob beats a white man to death for stealing a car with kids in it"? Or even worse, "a white mob beats a black man to death for stealing a car with kids in it"?
 
Why did CNN even bother to report this black on black crime?

The usual 'complaint' is that 'The media didn't cover it!' Usually by people who get their story from the Breitbart bubble which also tells them they won't hear it elsewhere, even if it's everywhere.

Now, let me get this straight, the media shouldn't have covered it even if they did?

Having hard time wrapping my head around this.
 
But it didn't happen with CNN. No mention of race at all in their article.

It's true that this article is a bit more nuanced with race. Why am I able to say the mob was black? Actually I'm able to say the mob isn't white with 100% assurance. No mention of race at all in the article, like you say.
 
Because you're clearly obsessed, man. What are you trying to accomplish here? Why is it so important to you that you preemptively prove that this dead guy was deaded by black Americans instead of white ones?

My obsession isn't the reason why I'm able to determine that the mob was nonwhite.
 
The usual 'complaint' is that 'The media didn't cover it!' Usually by people who get their story from the Breitbart bubble which also tells them they won't hear it elsewhere, even if it's everywhere.

Now, let me get this straight, the media shouldn't have covered it even if they did?

Having hard time wrapping my head around this.

The media definitely needs help with regard to reporting events without racial bias. It's unfortunate - the tepid response to this public lynching, because the mob isn't white, serves to lower expectations for black behavior.
 
I am fascinated by this post. You made an account, picked a unique avatar, and filled out the details of your profile, all for the purpose of a one-sentence post, and a single like - Not even in response to the same post - and then you left. I want to know more about the kind of passion that provokes posting like this.

Not exactly, gumshoe. I've been a user since 2018, this site wouldn't let me log in so I created a new account. I commented and yes I left because it was Sat. night and guess what I had **** to do besides sitting on a computer!! Happy?
 
Seems the only person injecting race here is you. Why is that?

It's interesting that I regularly see DP conservatives insisting that it's "the left" that makes everything about race, yet it's always the DP conservatives who try to make articles that don't mention race about race. Why is that?




This is the entirety of the article, small enough to be fully quoted:
(CNN)In an apparent act of mob justice, a man was beaten to death after he tried to steal a car with three children inside, Philadelphia police said. Erik Hood,54, drove off with the car while the children's mother and father were in a store Thursday night, police said. The parents chased down the vehicle on foot and pulled the carjacker out of the car when he got caught in traffic, police said.Hood assaulted the father and fled, but a large crowd stopped Hood and beat him, police said. He was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital, police said. "I'm not a fan of street justice," Philadelphia Police Capt. Jason Smith said at a press conference Friday. "I think everything should play out through us as it comes to criminal actions." Police have video footage of the encounter and are trying to identify the people who assaulted Hood, Smith said. No arrests have been made, he said. A spokeswoman for the district attorney's office said prosecutors are waiting for police to complete their investigation before commenting. The children in the vehicle were not harmed, police said.

Why is it important to you that this be about race?

The report would be very different if it was a white mob that killed (lynched) a black man. Based on the biased way this was reported, I can say with 99.99% assurance that this was a black mob. Why am I able to do this?

Because you're clearly obsessed, man. What are you trying to accomplish here? Why is it so important to you that you preemptively prove that this dead guy was deaded by black Americans instead of white ones?

I suspect we know the answer to that last question.

This is the same old wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean routine that certain groups of people use when they want to have a defense when someone says "gee, what you said sounds kind of racist". He wants to be able to retreat to a canned monologue about how really, it's the media that is racist. So he won't just come out and directly say what he wants to say.

The media definitely needs help with regard to reporting events without racial bias. It's unfortunate - the tepid response to this public lynching, because the mob isn't white, serves to lower expectations for black behavior.

Do you lower expectations for your white behavior if an article about a white person who committed a crime fails to mention that the person is white? Do you then behave more poorly? No? Then why do think it would affect black people and only black people that way?



Afraid to say what you really mean?
 
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I suspect we know the answer to that last question.

This is the same old wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean routine that certain groups of people use when they want to have a defense when someone says "gee, what you said sounds kind of racist". He wants to be able to retreat to a canned monologue about how really, it's the media that is racist. So he won't just come out and directly say what he wants to say.



Do you lower expectations for your white behavior if an article about a white person who committed a crime fails to mention that the person is white? Do you then behave more poorly? No? Then why do think it would affect black people and only black people that way?



Afraid to say what you really mean?

You haven't addressed why I'm able to say it was a black mob based on CNN's reporting, when race wasn't mentioned in the article.

My expectations across all races are the same. I expect all races to be as good at math as Asians are. I expect blacks to not kill people at 8 times the rate of white people. I expect Hispanics, if they are American, to speak English just like every other race in America.

White crime is reported in such a way as to be harsh on the accused. There is esteem for the white race, and the criminal defiled his race. Whites are expected to uphold a certain level of social performance. This however was black on black crime - a lynching, in fact. Tepid response - gee whiz they took the law into their own hands. The mob was jury, judge and executioner. Gee whiz, they really shouldn't have done that.

We know the outrage if the mob was white. It was black, so it's barely a blip on the radar. What do you think that does to the behavioral expectations of blacks?
 
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