Visual Perceptions and Racial Realities

Visual Perceptions and Racial Realities

Okay, I admit that I don’t see nearly as well as I’d like to, especially at night in the car when those damned approaching headlights look more like halos than halogens.

Still, visual perceptions aside, my declining vision tells me that either youngun reporters and reporterettes out there are either more blind than I or they refuse to report on what they see, or that they censor or are forced by politically correct editors to censor what they witness.

That PC myopia also extends to police departments, some of which seem to suffer from an inability to stick with just the facts, ma’am and trust the perceptions of their own officers.

A case in point involved a racial explosion last August in and around the Iowa State Fair grounds in Des Moines where chants of “Beat whitey night!” filled the air and bands of marauding teens and young adults of both sexes wreaked havoc, were involved in stabbings, injured two cops, and three were arrested.

Initial DMPD reports referred to “racial overtones.” The Des Moines Register headlined its 8-26-2010 story, “Police Say It’s ‘Very Possible’ Attacks Near Fairgrounds Had Racial Overtones.” That description soon became “unconfirmed” and it was subsequently reported by another source that, “Des Moines police said Wednesday that they do not believe fights near the state fairgrounds were racially motivated or connected,” http://tiny.cc/4vnkf

Stabbings + marauding teens and young adults + on-duty officers + “Beat whitey night.” It seems pretty cut and dried, no? Blacks would seem to have engaged in violent hate crime attacks against whites, no?

Apparently, no. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3302)