Four suspects, aged 17 to 19, have been charged for shooting eight high school students at a Philadelphia bus stop. Notably, this incident received little media attention, raising questions about public perception. If the assailants had been white, the narrative would likely focus on the dangers of white men and gun control. The current discourse often overlooks that many mass shootings are gang-related and committed by minorities, creating a misleading impression of the situation. This selective reporting contributes to the narrative that portrays all black individuals as victims and emphasizes white supremacy as the primary threat, while ignoring the complexities of gun violence in America.
Speaker 0: Four suspects, including a 17 year old, 2 18 year olds, and a 19 year old, have all been charged with opening fire at a bus stop in Philadelphia last weekend and shooting 8 high school students, including one who was hit 9 times. All 4 of these guys are black, by the way, which frankly should not amount to a hill of beans because evil is evil and that should be that, except for the fact that this story did not make the national news. Gunmen opened fire on a bus stop and hit more than half a dozen high school students, and it didn't make a ripple on CNN or MSNBC. Why? Because you know if this had been a white guy with an AR 15, we'd be hearing nothing but the evils of whiteness, how white men are menaces to society, and how we need to ban all AR 15s.
This is how public perception gets so skewed. When Corinne Jean Pierre stands up there at the White House podium and rambles on about how there have been more mass shootings than days so far this year, but she doesn't point out that most of these are committed by minorities and are often gang related, it creates the illusion that at least once a day some crazy dude is going into a Walmart and lighten it up with a long rifle, which isn't true. But the media doesn't report the truth about the real epidemic of mass shootings in this country. Why? Because it doesn't fit the preferred narrative.
The narrative that all black people are inherently victims, the narrative that, the greatest threat to minority communities and the nation at large is white supremacy, the narrative that if we could just do away with all of the sporting rifles, there would be peace on earth.