Two white men were recently arrested in the beating of a black man on Staten Island.
Perhaps the only thing remarkable about this incident was Al Sharpton’s revelation:
We cannot live in a city, state or nation where people cannot safely be in the streets or anywhere else because of the color of their skin.
Which, of course, is precisely why I generally stay away from east Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Some media outlets entertained the story not, as Mr. Sharpton might have us believe, because it is indicative of a problematic trend, but simply because it’s the opposite of the trend..
Hastily jumping to convict the defendants guilty of a hate crime, as Gothamist’s headline did, doesn’t help things much.
Never mind that the hate crime charges were subsequently dropped.
Gothamist’s follow-up post on the beating included no reference to their erroneous hed, but did pause a moment to make us remember that whites beat up blacks — it happened just last year!
That there is no mention of black-on-white crime for comparison is no surprise; lest they feel Sharpton’s wrath, defendants’ race is rarely reported. Except, as we’re seeing, to prove that 2007 New York is really 1828 Savannah.
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