Discussion for article #246517
How come when a black person shoots something up we read their race in the article, but in this case we don’t?
“Race”? Like in “human race”? R U saying “black” is a different “race” than “human”? Or a different ‘type’ of “human”? Or not as much “human” as, say, you? R U saying we need, you need, someone needs, as RELEVANT NEWS, to know how this person’s skin cells react to light? How if you know he’s “black” you somehow ‘understand’ this news so much more acutely? How we “need” to know the precise shade of his skin pigment or else we all won’t be ‘fully informed’ or ‘fully realize’ what’s gone on?
Too much: I’m asking too much of you. So, let’s go back and start again, this time small, with a fundamental: How do you define “race”?
Is “human” a race? Who all are in that “human race”? Is Muhummad Ali in that race? Is Chris Rock in it? Is President Obama in the “human race”?
Is Chinese a “race”? Is it the same “race” as in Taiwan? Is Korean a “race”? Is North Korean a different “race” than South Korean? Is Japanese a “race”? How about the thousands of different ethnicities among the hundreds of millions in in Indonesia, Sumatra and Micronesia: are each of those a “race”? Are “Indian”, “Pakistani” and “Bengali” different “races”?
Is this snark?