A Double Standard Exists

As a young lady who just graduated from college with a degree in Journalism, it’s safe to say that I’ve studied and become familiar with how our media system works. Media outlets produce and cover stories that meet a certain predisposing belief or idea that the majority of people will react to.
A story about a couple who were brutally beaten, raped and killed back in 2007 went under the radar in news coverage. Recently, a young black teenager was shot and killed by a Police Officer and this has caused chaos and an outcry from people all over the country. Since that unfortunate event happened, people have started claiming that the news story from 2007 was under reported. If I may say so myself, I am one of those individuals who believe this story received less news coverage than it deserved.
Let me begin by saying that I am not racist in any way, shape or form. In all honestly, I have a low tolerance in general for people who don’t act like ladies and gentlemen in public, who act as if proper English is a foreign language to them, and who act like their race should be handed what they think they deserve in life without having to work for it. That goes for any person. It doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, red, yellow or blue.
With that being said-
In 2007, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were brutally beaten, raped and killed by not one, but five black individuals. To just give a brief history of the case, Newsom was raped and beaten before he was forced to walk barefoot to a nearby railroad track where he was shot three times. He was shot in the neck and back and then in the head execution style. If that wasn’t enough, they then set his body on fire. Unfortunately, Christian was tortured for a longer period of time. During this time, she was raped by more than one individual which caused her to suffer from injuries that are just too unbearable to mention. After these individuals sexually assaulted her, they realized that their DNA was now in this young lady so they forced her to drink bleach and then scrubbed her body with bleach. If that weren’t enough, they tied her arms and legs together, put a grocery bag over her head, wrapped her body in five trash bags and left her to slowly suffocate in a trash can in the house this all took place at.
Tell me that isn’t one of the most brutal hate crimes you’ve ever heard of and yet, most people are just now hearing of this awful, gruesome murder story seven years later.
A young black teenager was killed almost a week ago and it has made national news. He was shot. Point blank. The bullet killed that young individual immediately. I’m not saying that what happened was right. I wasn’t there. I’m not the officer that pulled the trigger and I’m not one of the people who claim to have witnessed the shooting.
But then you have a 23 year old male and a 21 year old female who were kidnapped, brutally raped, beaten and murdered and this story was under reported and overlooked.
Please tell me what is wrong with today’s society. You can make an enormous deal out of one individual being shot and killed by a white officer and then completely ignore what five black individuals did to a young white couple. I realize these two incidents are completely different. One individual was shot and died a quick death whereas two individuals lived out their last final hours in agonizing pain and horror. How can you rally for one individual and let two others, who suffered far worse, just be brushed under the rug as if it isn’t a big deal? That is not right. Not by a long shot. You cannot allow a race to play the victim card every chance they get and then brush it under the rug when that said race becomes the culprit.
I’m not a racist, but I’m not one of those people that just turns a blind eye to the ‘Reverse Racism’ card. It irritates and irks me when people act as if they’re always the victim when in reality; your race does just as much damage to the other race.
There is a double standard when it comes to racism and you can give the media a round of applause for that.
You see, the media knows exactly what stories will cause an uproar and the media has an agenda that they will push. The media likes to play the ‘Reverse Racism’ card as often as possible. That explains why most stories with white victims who were violated by black individuals aren’t covered quite as often as black victims who were violated by white individuals.
Everyone says that racism in this country needs to cease and desist but how can it when the media plays the ‘Reverse Racism’ card so well? How can racism in this country cease and desist if we let ourselves give into these predisposed beliefs? How can racism in this country cease and desist when we pull apart as a country every time an incident like the Michael Brown incident occurs? How can racism cease and desist when people are always pointing the finger at the other race?
Racism is going to exist for decades to come because the media is always going to have an agenda that they’ll continue to push on you. Racism is going to continue to exist because those beliefs are already learned and taught without us even being aware of it. Racism is going to exist because you will always have groups of people within every race that will urge us to pull apart from each other and who will always point a finger.