Why is race even an issue in this case? Am I going to have to get all my news from NPR?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205837)
Walnut Creek, California
April 17, 2023 9:38pm CST
I woke up to a news story on AOL this morning about a teenage kid who went to the wrong house and got shot by an old man answering the door.
The story did not have any information about what the old man or kid said before the old man discharged his weapon. Obviously it's a tragedy, and probably the result of mistaken house/mistaken identity. Thankfully, the kid is expected to survive, and the old man is OK, and has not been "taken into custody."
But the news article I read DID mention the race of the kid and the old man. Why is race even relevant? Any interaction between two people involves much more than their respective races. Does race "sell"? If so, are news sources (on both the Left and the Right--forget you political predispositions for a moment) making money by creating political and racial divides?
Hmm.
The shooting of a Black teenager who rang the wrong doorbell after mistaking the residence for one a block over has sparked outrage on social media, a weekend protest and calls for the shooter’s arrest.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
18 Apr 23
Well I think that the hate mongers would make race an issue.
Maybe it was an issue.
Who knows.
Could the shooter have known the young guy was black?
Anyway, another tragic shooting.
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@yukimori (10144)
• United States
18 Apr 23
The prosecuting attorney for the county this happened in said that there was a racial component to the case at a conference earlier today. From what's been reported so far the shooter fired at the victim through a glass door, so I think it's likely he did know the victim was Black before he did it.
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
18 Apr 23
True another shooting living people to question what the hell is going on with human beings
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
18 Apr 23
@yukimori
Doesn't mean race was an issue.
Who cares anyway.
Until they change the whole system this will happen time and time again
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@rebelann (111195)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Apr 23
I think the media likes to create problems for us instead of letting us decide just how stupid that old man was for shooting a kid. How the hell did that old man know who that was before he answered is what I want to know and then why couldn't that stupid old man ask 'who is it' before answering.
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
18 Apr 23
Imagine the media is so boring nowadays and it leaves me wondering now am left questioning if at all they give us correct information. I stopped watching news cause of the maddness and how information is crafted and relayed to us
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@TheHorse (205837)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Apr 23
@Laurakemunto I only know what I've read in handful of articles.
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
18 Apr 23
He should be arrested because that's totally wrong
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@Deepizzaguy (94594)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
18 Apr 23
What I know from the alternate media reports on the internet is that the media likes to paint the portrait of White people shooting Black persons out if racism attitudes that is being crammed down our throat to keep the races to kept separate.
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@MarieCoyle (28619)
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18 Apr 23
Honestly, in many shootings, at least here in the midwest, race is often an issue. I read this one awhile ago---
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/us/kansas-city-teen-shot-wrong-house/index.html
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@MarieCoyle (28619)
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18 Apr 23
@Laurakemunto
And it's practically a daily occurrence. Wrong in every way there is.
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
18 Apr 23
This is what is killing humanity I hate that so much but it's the sad reality
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@Treborika (17270)
• Mombasa, Kenya
18 Apr 23
It's now an issue in every where across the globe
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
18 Apr 23
I hate the fact that news or other people would disclose this race that race. What has race got to do with a mistake or crime committed? Whatever race one is, when one is on the wrong, they should be charged accordingly, human dignity is a component for all humans it has no race priority whatsoever. This is sad news.
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@TheHorse (205837)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Apr 23
@Laurakemunto Maybe I'll search to see if there's more info about this one.
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
19 Apr 23
@TheHorse it's bad and with such situation getting to the bottom of such matters becomes hard
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@BarBaraPrz (45500)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Apr 23
At least they reported that much. I still haven't seen an official explanation of what caused the 7 hour standoff across the street a few weeks ago.
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@BarBaraPrz (45500)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Apr 23
@TheHorse
March 25, 2023
So I look out the front and there's at least a dozen swat guys out there ordering people out of #11 across the street, both ends of the street are blocked off,...
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@Treborika (17270)
• Mombasa, Kenya
18 Apr 23
I don't know why they journalists would not do the news of other incidents
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@Jenaisle (14079)
• Philippines
18 Apr 23
It's sad that the land of liberty and democracy I looked up to as a kid is still now battling discrimination. I presume discrimination will always exist anywhere in the world. Especially discrimination based on race. No offense meant. I'm just sad.
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
18 Apr 23
Yea you are right race is something that is pulling humanity back
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@wolfgirl569 (95259)
• Marion, Ohio
18 Apr 23
Many times race don't need mentioned but is. I think it does sell
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@TheHorse (205837)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Apr 23
@wolfgirl569 Will someone write a book showing that the Walter Cronkites of our childhood were full of beans too? I hope not.
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@Treborika (17270)
• Mombasa, Kenya
18 Apr 23
I think this thing has increasingly got popularity nowadays. The news reporters use the sensitive parameters to make the news articles more appealing and catchy by seizing the races, political ideologies among other factors to make the news more marketable whenever unprecedented incidents like this happen.
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@Treborika (17270)
• Mombasa, Kenya
19 Apr 23
@TheHorse I think these folks are in to doing business
@Friends25 (50)
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18 Apr 23
Hopefully the kid will not have any severe injuries and the man should just be arrested.
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