Media’s ‘Existing While Black’ Coverage of Crime Merely Twists Facts and Worsens Racial Divide in US
The shooting of a teenager in Kansas City, Mo., has added “knocking on the door while black” and “existing while black” to the list of activities that allegedly put blacks at daily risk of their lives in white supremacist America.
Meanwhile, the actual configuration of interracial violence is assiduously ignored.
On April 13, at around 10 p.m., 16-year-old Ralph Yarl went to the wrong address in a Kansas City residential neighborhood to pick up his younger brothers. Yarl rang the doorbell, summoning the 84-year-old homeowner, Andrew Lester, from his bed.
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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops. Adapted from City Journal.
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