re: Ian Miles Chong brings national attention to Madison Brooks

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This has been national news. It’s been all over the news sites, not sure what people want.

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i dont know the details of this specific story, but i can tell you what people want is parity between the way a story is reported when a white person is the victim of black crime and when a black person is a victim of white crime.

if this was a story about a super drunk young black girl getting picked up and, let's say for argument's sake, not even raped but engaging in a consensual or quasi-consensual gang-bang with a bunch of white frat guys, and then left on the side of the road to be struck and killed by a passing car, it would be absolutely breathlessly reported on for literal years. there would be marches, hashtags, riots, wall to wall coverage, crying celebrities, murals, evening specials with solemn newscasters, documentaries, maybe even a movie or two. when it is reversed, even IF it makes national news, it's a day or two and done. no one knows the name Madison Brooks, but everyone knows the name of every single black victim (even when it turns out they arent victims at all) at the hands of white people from teh last decade.

PARITY. honesty. objectivity. good-faith reporting. that's what we want.