The white hipsters of Austin want us to know that race
had nothing to do with the 200 black people who fought, destroyed property and
threw rocks at police a few days before Halloween.
White people do it all the time, said Katie Friel, who
writes for Culture Map in Austin. But the only time anyone calls it a
riot is if it involves a large number of black people, she says. She pointed to
a 2011 punk rock concert where mostly white fans tried to tear down the chain
link fence. Police sprayed pepper gas. No one said that was a riot, she said. “If Austin wants to grow into the creative, supportive,
progressive community we claim to want to be, we need to stop thinking, seeing
and reporting in black and white,” she said.
Which is strange because none of the local media reported
what witnesses, Twitter, Facebook, night-vision videos and other Internet sources
revealed: Everyone involved in the Austin mayhem was black.……….Read More »
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