It is amazing, that 4 white men could kidnap this unsuspecting black couple and brutally rape them for days, then kill them, and yet the media is virtually unaware.  Where is the outrage?

Oh wait.

It was 4 black men and a white couple.

Never mind.

I find it a disgusting aspect of political correctness, that in scenario (a) above the media would be running item 1 stories, and the most common call would be the death penalty for the hate crimes committed.

Yet in the reality of scenario (b), they apparently just dismiss it as urban unpleasantness.

LaShawn has this to say:

Early this year, a white couple was carjacked, tortured, raped, and murdered by a group of black thugs. Christopher Newsom (23) was gang-raped, shot and set on fire. There are unconfirmed reports that the killers cut off his penis while he was still alive. The going-to-straight-to-hell murderers made Channon Christian (21) watch, and then they gang-raped her over four days and left her to die. There are unconfirmed reports that her breasts were cut off while she was still alive. (Also see this story and the Wikipedia entry)

I’ve noticed that mainstream media are reluctant to report this story, especially when it first happened. In light of the blanket coverage the Duke “rape” case received, the paucity of coverage in this case seems a bit unbalanced. I mean, isn’t the brutal, black-on-white gang-rape, mutilation, and murder of two people more than or at least as newsworthy as a white-on-black gang-rape (which obviously was phony)? Even if the stripper’s allegations had been true, why was the Duke case burning up the airwaves while the Christian-Newsom case barely emits a spark?

What’s up with the lack of blanket media coverage? I’m not talking about a story here or there with case updates. The media should be swarming around this story. What happened to Christian and Newsom should be all over the airwaves and printing presses.

What’s up with the stunning silence of feminist types and hate-crime proponents? Forget Newsom. He was a white male. But what about Christian? Where are the pot-bangers and wanna-be castrators?

Have so-called black leaders said anything about what those thugs did? They have so much to say about everything else.

Now to be Straight Up, I don’t agree to the following conclusions.

Every time someone starts telling the truth about black crime, someone else comes out of the woodwork to remind everyone that a “few” black criminals don’t define the black community. From my perspective, it’s difficult to argue that point with a straight face. Of course, the murderous deeds and thuggish ways of black criminals shouldn’t define all blacks. But if you try to pretend that it’s not a serious problem that blacks commit a disproportionate share of crimes — an incontrovertible fact — or that the lack of blanket media coverage and outrage has nothing to do with race, you’re being willfully blind and foolish.

She may or may not be right, I am not a crime statistician.  but in my eyes this is not about denying the crimes of blacks, it is about appeasing the demands of the black community to be victims.

To rephrase it, when blacks are victims of white crime, the demand by the black community leaders is that it must be racially motivated, and therefore it demands more attention.  So in that respect part of the problem may be underreporting of black on white crime, but an equal problem is overreporting and demagoguing of white on black crimes, and as she notes, the Duke lacrosse case is a prime example.

As I see it, black crime is so commonplace that it’s just not interesting to white liberal journalists, especially black-on-white crime. And white liberal feminists are more outraged when white men use a so-called sexist term than they are with black-on-white rape statistics. I have yet to hear a feminist condemn what was done to Christian.

Now the feminist angle is an interesting one, because she is right, the feminists you would think would be all over this brutality.

I’m disgusted by the whole incident, which is why I haven’t blogged about it. But I’m publishing this post and opening comments for people who want to discuss it. Be civil.

Update II: Glenn Reynolds writes: “My earlier comment on the [Christian-Newsom] case has had me excoriated by some white-supremacist sites for covering up a hate crime…Well, to be a hate crime, the motivation has to be hate. I haven’t seen any evidence of that so far. It’s certainly true, of course — as LaShawn notes — that if the races were reversed the press would be all over this case and lots of people would be confidently pronouncing it a hate crime without any evidence other than the races of the perpretrators and victims, but since it’s black-on-white crime they’re making less noise. That’s the press.”

Well, while I think he is right, I hate dismissing it as just “the press”.  What it is, is the problem with letting political correctness override justice and common sense.

That’s the problem with “hate crimes.” All crimes are motivated by hate, but crimes committed by a perpetrator who utters a slur are considered worse than other crimes. What difference does it make if a thug is motivated by hatred of blacks or hatred of rich people?

I tend to agree, I am not a big fan of hate crime legislation.

More at Hot Air.

Overall, this is typical, not a rare excepting, so the outrage is limited.  But it does bother me that more media attention is spent on Paris Hilton going to jail then on a young couple tortured and murdered.

As a society, our priorities SUCK.

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