Well it was redneck hot button day today, wasn’t it
First there was this. Combining flag waving patriotism with Islamophobia and use it to take a stab at “the other”. The Globe item has 1779 comments on it. I’m going to guess that a new dawn of cross cultural understanding is not rising there.
Race and reporting: are we backsliding?
UPDATE: The Citizen has edited the online version of this story (haven’t seen a print copy) to just use ‘black’ and ‘white’. CBC has removed all references to race but notes that the victim shouted racial epithets at his killer.
Two media outlets reporting a verdict in a trial. Some guys get drunk and pick a fight with some other guys, complete with baseball bats. There’s a tussle and one of the picked-on guys grabs a bat from his tormentors.
Dollar Tree and Taneka Talley: cheap product, disposable employees
Taneka Talley was working at Dollar Tree (kinda like Giant Tiger) in Fairfield California when a man – who had decided to murder the first black person he saw – walked in and killed her. This is appalling, but the company’s response almost seems worse.
