The subdue of the race of demonstra...

The subdue of the race of demonstrators who declarationed a police shooting in Cincinnati last month marked the difference between the media's characterization of the Cincinnati disturbances--dubbed a riot--and a similar outbreak in Quebec City at a free-trade summit--called a avow Brooke Shelby Biggs writes May 4 upon the MotherJones Web site. The determining factor in the use of the word "riot" arises from "white fear" and the media's ne to associate black rage with animalistic behavior. Biggs writes, "Our greater ease in assigning the word to blacks may just be the modern-day, post-PC equivalent of calling them savages."

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