micdotcom: “Do you need any more proof of the racist double standard in the media? The white shooter in a rampage killing gets a smiling childhood photo and an uncritical look at how his actions were influenced by the Internet. A black man who saved...

micdotcom:

Do you need any more proof of the racist double standard in the media? 

The white shooter in a rampage killing gets a smiling childhood photo and an uncritical look at how his actions were influenced by the Internet. A black man who saved his own mother from a hail of bullets, though, has his “troubled past” highlighted. But wait, the treatment of the black man gets even worse.

Reblogged from demonic-lionfish