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In reply to the discussion: Is Newtown Making Such News Because The Kids Are Mostly White? [View all]alp227
(32,019 posts)110. "Solid red"? Newtown is in a (D) US House district.
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Race probably does have something to do with it but there are other factors even more important
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#6
If twenty kids at an all-black orphanage for troubled children were shot...
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#10
White and rich is certainly a factor, but the usual daily death toll, though bigger, is spread out
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#11
Disgusting OP. How about that IT WAS THE WORST MASS SHOOTING? Do you NOT remember ATLANTA?
WinkyDink
Dec 2012
#12
It wasn't the worst mass shooting. and even if it were, there had already been a "worst mass
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#15
This. And, I remember the worldwide horror at young girls killed in Birmingham church…
txwhitedove
Dec 2012
#17
Fine. It isn't exactly like Va. Tech went under the radar. The OP is STILL VILE.
WinkyDink
Dec 2012
#118
Please don't go there....kids are kids, regardless of race. Please delete this thread. nt.
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#28
"That many and more are killed in Chicago every day". 20 kids are murdered in Chicago every day?
Nye Bevan
Dec 2012
#38
You're right, but are those kids in Chicago gunned down inside of their classrooms.. I think that's
rainlillie
Dec 2012
#46
Acting as if race has NOTHING to do with it relative to the facts is a conservative way of approachi
uponit7771
Dec 2012
#81
They did ignore him until activist got involved!! You prove the OPs point in this post alone
uponit7771
Dec 2012
#82
The Trayvon Martin case didn't get attention until African American activist got involved.. People
rainlillie
Dec 2012
#47
BULLSHIT! Sharpton and Jackson became involved BECAUSE it was getting attention.
Buzz Clik
Dec 2012
#56
If it weren't for his family contacting Al and others the story would NOT have gone national
rainlillie
Dec 2012
#57
Seems I had read before about the media bias to select white victims especially kidnap victims
Puzzledtraveller
Dec 2012
#41
I think a big part of it is their age. With Columbine and other school shooters, they were older,
Brickbat
Dec 2012
#48
No. I think it's their age. If a mass school shooting happened in New Haven, Bridgeport or Hartford
Jennicut
Dec 2012
#49
It's already bad enough! And you have to bring race into it and change the conversation? For shame!
Auntie Bush
Dec 2012
#52
That incident did make news, and cause gun control to occur, which subsequent incidents have not. So
still_one
Dec 2012
#55
Gun Control California: Stockton School Shooting In 1989 Was Catalyst For Gun Control
still_one
Dec 2012
#54
I've been saying that for days. Even some of the parents and neighbors subscribed to the racism.
vaberella
Dec 2012
#73
****EXACTLY***** "This doesn't happen here = we're different from those other places"
uponit7771
Dec 2012
#87
How many people are interested in a serial killer who kills +/- 42 black women?
Quantess
Dec 2012
#76
I personally think white male victims would be even greater cause for a freak-out than white females
Quantess
Dec 2012
#125
You've got it backwards, I think. This DOES deserve all the attention it's gotten.
NYC Liberal
Dec 2012
#97
Yes and No. Remember that back in 1989, there was really no internet and the flow of news was
madinmaryland
Dec 2012
#105
WTF? Hello? Maybe it has something to do with 20 young children getting slaughtered
Zorra
Dec 2012
#115
uh, we didn't have social media and twenty-four hour news channels were just getting started in 1989
ibegurpard
Dec 2012
#117