Riotous thugs pour into the streets of Columbus after the Ohio State Buckeyes won the first ever National Championship tournament in college football.
Wait? What? Those were not thugs! They were a crowds of revelers!
That is how the mobs of mostly white college students, residents and fans of the football team were described as they showered the city of Columbus with their lawless and disrespectful activities. Thousands were on the streets causing havoc as they celebrated the victory and National Championship.
According to reports, at least a 89 fires were set to cars, couches, dumpsters and more by fans who poured out of the local bars and homes in the area. They even rushed into the horseshoe stadium and tore down football goal posts. The scene was described as “intense”.
Police dawned riot gear and suited up to contain the "crowds of revelers" and "throngs of fans" in their ignorant activity of destroying public and private property, setting fires, and more. Numerous canisters of tear gas were fired into the crowds, as was copious amounts of pepper spray. A handful of arrests were made.
Not once mentioned was the word "thug", "deviant", "disrespectful", "criminals", "animals", or "pointless" from the throngs of national reports of white people tearing up property for no good reason. The closest they came was the police saying that "SOME of those arrested MAY" face criminal or, get this, "university" charges. Uh, oh. You in big trubble now.
However, boy, let black folks take to the streets in anger and frustration over unarmed black teens being shot and killed around the country, or just up and choked to death by the police, and they're called all of these things and more.
So, if you're angry and riot, and black, you are a lawless animal thug, but if you're happy and riot, and white, you are a jovial reveler.
America's hypocrisy at it's finest, mirrored courtesy of the mostly white press.
Keep this in mind throughout the week as you hear them talk about the jovial rioters, uhm, I mean revelers, tearing up their own community over a football game.
I think it's hilarious. Black folks, probably not so much.
Wait? What? Those were not thugs! They were a crowds of revelers!
That is how the mobs of mostly white college students, residents and fans of the football team were described as they showered the city of Columbus with their lawless and disrespectful activities. Thousands were on the streets causing havoc as they celebrated the victory and National Championship.
According to reports, at least a 89 fires were set to cars, couches, dumpsters and more by fans who poured out of the local bars and homes in the area. They even rushed into the horseshoe stadium and tore down football goal posts. The scene was described as “intense”.
Police dawned riot gear and suited up to contain the "crowds of revelers" and "throngs of fans" in their ignorant activity of destroying public and private property, setting fires, and more. Numerous canisters of tear gas were fired into the crowds, as was copious amounts of pepper spray. A handful of arrests were made.
Not once mentioned was the word "thug", "deviant", "disrespectful", "criminals", "animals", or "pointless" from the throngs of national reports of white people tearing up property for no good reason. The closest they came was the police saying that "SOME of those arrested MAY" face criminal or, get this, "university" charges. Uh, oh. You in big trubble now.
However, boy, let black folks take to the streets in anger and frustration over unarmed black teens being shot and killed around the country, or just up and choked to death by the police, and they're called all of these things and more.
So, if you're angry and riot, and black, you are a lawless animal thug, but if you're happy and riot, and white, you are a jovial reveler.
America's hypocrisy at it's finest, mirrored courtesy of the mostly white press.
Keep this in mind throughout the week as you hear them talk about the jovial rioters, uhm, I mean revelers, tearing up their own community over a football game.
I think it's hilarious. Black folks, probably not so much.
