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Originally Posted by tjinaz
What I am saying is the media coverage is influenced by the location. Those that say sterotyping and profiling are bad do exactly that. If a white man shoots an unarmed black in Mississippi they are pretty much already guilty in the press. He is guilty because he is a white man from mississippi and therefore racist and he got off because the police force is racist, as they have done that before. You say a hispanic man kills an unarmed black man in LA and the tone of the coverage is completely different. Racism will likely not even be mentioned. I think if Zimmerman's name was Figueras and he was listed as Hispanic, especially in Florida, the coverage would be much different. That is my principal disagreement with how all this happened. If you are against profiling and sterotyping be uniform in your reporting.
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What do you think the coverage would be like if this was a white child killed by a black man?
It's humorous that you think the press is going out of it's way here due to the shooters race when there is a long history of cases involving white victims becoming national stories while cases with nearly identical facts and minority victims barely make the local paper.
There is certainly a racial element to this story, although whether or not race played a role in Zimmerman's actions is a completely different issue, to expect the press to ignore it is naive.