What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear....

The media has an interesting double standard, which in fact, points out their bias and probably underlying racism or at the very least elitism.

When news items relating to men on planes "acting strangely", removed and questioned, they have no problem stating the origin or ethnicity of the men involved --Middle Eastern-- which is code for Arab.

But when a black or Hispanic (not Asian) is possibly involved in an alleged incident or crime, the media go out of their way to avoid ANY reference to race or ethnicity. When a few houses were broken into in a nearby neighborhood, the Evening News told us everything about the man (5'7, brown hair) but the detail that would be helpful--are we looking for a brown, black or Asian looking person? He obviously wasn't a Caucasoid: I've noticed they don't have an issue pointing out the race of white perpetrators.

It seems to me that the News folks don't see other races as people, equal --they deny the existence of race by not looking at it-- "we must not point out their racial makeup" because in doing so, we are being racist. But by not, aren't they in fact being what they think they are not--pretending to not see the obvious and going out of the way to avoid it?

Messed up.