Imagine if the Victims Were Blacks and the Killers Were White

Then this news story would be everywhere. It would be on the nightly news every day for a while, and then every week--rather like the Duke athletes rape case. But this one is getting no national attention:

(CNSNews.com) - The national news media demonstrates a double standard in covering "hate crimes," as evidenced by the lack of attention given to the murder of a white couple in Tennessee last January, a conservative columnist charged on Monday.

However, a media analyst responded that a crime is not necessarily a hate crime simply because the victims are white and those accused of perpetrating it are black.

Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were out on a dinner date in Knoxville, Tenn. on Jan. 6, when they were carjacked, kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered.

According to published news reports, the two were tortured at length in each other's presence, strangled and shot. Newsom's mutilated and burned remains were found along a railroad track the following day. Two days later, Christian's battered and burned body was found in a trash bin.

Five men and a woman, all African-American, have been arrested and face up to 46 charges, including carjacking, kidnapping, rape, premeditated murder, theft and robbery.

And that account really does convey the barbarism of what was done to the Christian and Newsom. Michelle Malkin has a video presentation here that tells you more than you probably want to know.

It isn't like there's no local coverage of this horrifying crime for the national news media to use. Like here. If they really wanted to play up the white racism angle, there's this news story here, about white racists trying to stir up trouble with this. (It really says a lot about how far Tennessee has come. A crime this horrifying in 1950 would have probably led to a race riot and mass lynching.) And it seems to have woken the locals that they need to be ready to fight back:

Interest in self-defense has boosted inquiries about handgun carry permits in Knoxville, firearms instructors say, although Virginia Tech wasn't the main impetus.

"The carjacking really kicked it off," said Sgt. Mike Lett of the Knox County Sheriff's Office, referring to the January torture and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Lett teaches the required course for handgun carry applicants at the sheriff's training facility.

At news.google.com, "Christian Newsom" brings up 13 news stories--not a single one of them from the mainstream media.

Liberalism is a morally bankrupt and utterly depraved system of thought.