Charleston shooting not ‘individual’ incident as media wants people to think
It is more “convenient” for the US media to cover racial incidents such as the recent Charleston shooting that left nine black people dead as “isolated” events while they are actually part of a “broader psychosis”, says a political scientist.
“Race doesn’t actually exist. It is an artificial construct that was created by Europeans in this country in order to justify enslaving people of color,” Wilmer Leon, political scientist and SiriusXM satellite radio host, told Press TV on Monday, noting, this is what many have to understand about racism.
Leon likened the African Americans’ situation to the “poor white”, saying there have been attempts by “the wealthy” in the United States to divide the two groups based upon race to break up their “coalition”.
In order to discuss racism in the US, “first of all, we have to understand that the concept of racism was created by white people,” said the African American.
The political scientist referred to last Wednesday’s mass shooting, which took place after Dylann Roof, 21, joined the Bible study at the Emanuel AME Church. He stayed with the eventual victims for an hour before removing a gun from a small pack he was wearing. The white man went on a shooting rampage, killing eight African Americans on the spot. Another victim died in hospital later.
“It is very convenient for mainstream media to discuss these issues as isolated, individual incidences because then they don’t have to talk about the broader psychosis that is infecting this country, particularly the white people, around the concept of race,” noted the Washington-based analyst.
Roof would have been “immediately” categorized as a terrorist if he was a Muslim and this would have been used to “rationalize” the US “hegemonic, imperialist intervention” around the world, Leon said.
So long as the Charleston shooting is depicted as an isolated event without considering “the entire racist culture”, the phenomenon would continue unabated, he added.
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