Connect the Dots 101

Journalism 101– When is race a relevant detail?

17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse charged with homicide after two killed during Kenosha protests – The Washington Post Patient readers of the Washington Post have to wade eleven paragraphs into this story before anti-BLM teen terrorist Rittenhouse is identified as White. Why? The GOP and the Department of Justice have conflated  “BLM protester/protester/thug” and, according to AG…

17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse charged with homicide after two killed during Kenosha protests – The Washington Post

Patient readers of the Washington Post have to wade eleven paragraphs into this story before anti-BLM teen terrorist Rittenhouse is identified as White. Why?

The GOP and the Department of Justice have conflated  “BLM protester/protester/thug” and, according to AG WilliamBarr, “fascistic” since long before the murder of GeorgeFloyd.

“Democrat cities in flames” has been a TrumpFest talking point for two days.

Teen terrorist Kyle was neither a BLM protester nor likely a Democrat but he is a fascistic thug. And Whte.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/26/jacob-blake-kenosha-police-protests/

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