Salon / By Ian Blair comments_image 98 COMMENTS
Why Doesn't America Care About 2 Black Teenage Girls Who Were Killed?
Curious and shocking as it may be, this incident hasn’t made much more than a blip on the mainstream media’s radar.
白人の女性が黒人の男性に殺害されると大騒ぎになるが、黒人の女性が殺されても、女性も悪いところがあったなど、犠牲者が悪者にされる、と。
英米メディアの、米軍慰安婦問題と日本軍慰安婦問題の取り扱いとまったく同じですね。
Why Doesn't America Care About 2 Black Teenage Girls Who Were Killed?
Curious and shocking as it may be, this incident hasn’t made much more than a blip on the mainstream media’s radar.
Considering the ongoing coverage of the missing University of Virginia student, Hannah Graham, who allegedly was abducted by Jesse Matthew, a portly 6 foot, 2 inch, 270-pound black man with dreadlocks ― Matthew is wanted on suspicion of abduction with the intent to defile, according to Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo ― one might suppose that the lack of collective interest by the press is related, but not limited to, the intersection of the race and class of the victims. To this accord, Ebony senior editor, Jamilah Lemieux, penned an extremely blunt op-ed entitled “Black Girls Murdered (But Do YOU Care?)” posing these very questions ― questions that are sadly not new ― pleading for national media outlets, which include, among its ranks, this publication, to give the case of these two young, black, teenage girls the kind of attention and diligent reporting they deserve. And rightly so, their story matters. That Mangum and Ball were, if investigators’ suspicions are confirmed, brutally murdered and disposed of like roadside litter, serves as a tragic allegory to their treatment thus far by the national press and the American public.
白人の女性が黒人の男性に殺害されると大騒ぎになるが、黒人の女性が殺されても、女性も悪いところがあったなど、犠牲者が悪者にされる、と。
英米メディアの、米軍慰安婦問題と日本軍慰安婦問題の取り扱いとまったく同じですね。
