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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (37426)	3/9/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 67261

>…I would say that the news coverage puts the focus in such a way as to almost exacerbate the racial divide.< Agreed. I suspect media attention to the Black circumstance is due to the historical fact that Blacks in both the north and south have been historically assaulted, intimidated and even killed by Whites for no reason than that they were Black. Between 1889 and 1918 alone 2,522 Blacks were lynched, burned alive, or hacked to death simply because they were Black, and no one was punished for these crimes until 1918. One can claim this all ancient history if one pleases, but the fact is it is not. Jim Crow laws only recently were abolished. When a White kills a Black today for racial reasons, it refers to our recent barbarous times, causing many people to think we are yet racial barbarians. It causes others to want to distance themselves from the barbarity-- hence the attention racial crimes receive, especially when it is Black on White crime. Unfortunately, this history clouds the minds of many in the media such that they emotionally respond by illogic, vigorously reporting modern injustices against Blacks by Whites and half-heartedly, if at all, reporting injustices against Whites by Blacks. Obviously this, as you say, exacerbates the racial divide. >I found that it was very interesting that in Jasper, TX, the black population there did not want outside "instigators" like the New Black Panthers coming in trying to foment more racial division.< This is precisely as it should have been. The news media should have portray the Black Panthers in as equally a brutal light as they did the KKK. Both groups represent a philosophical denial of humanity. Yet it seems history has allowed the press to virtually ignore the Panthers while properly castigating the KKK. The Blacks in Jasper rejected both groups because they had confidence in their community. That confidence would not have existed at all had the Whites in Jasper roundly claimed that White on Black violence receives too much attention. >It seemed that the reaction of the white population to the dragging death of that poor man gave them confidence that justice would be done.< LOL. I literally did not read this before I wrote my response above. I have gotten busy so I am responding on the fly. Good madam, you are very sharp. This is precisely why the Blacks of Jasper rejected the Panthers. They did not want their hate, they simply wanted the justice of the community. The Whites of Jasper were appalled by the murder, as any good people should be, and so the Blacks of Jasper understood that those Whites could be trusted. This is how it should be nationwide. Should a Black murder a White in Jasper in like manner, I have little doubt that the Blacks of Jasper will strongly denounce the murder and help mete out justice. >And indeed there was justice. But I don't recall I lot of media focus on that fact. It wasn't nonexistent, but came across to me like a "postscript".< Agreed. >No, in a way, the "greater" story of Jasper is that there was universal condemnation of the perpetrator by whites and blacks toward the unrepentant killer of the innocent black man. Now his fate is sealed according to the law and his final disposition is between him and his Maker.< This is precisely what I have been trying to say. You have said it much better. The Whites of Jasper, despite centuries of racial strife, have risen to exact justice on the basis of principle. We should all learn from their example.