Here's a trick question-when is a riot NOT a riot? Compare the "lamestream"

(for once I agree with Sarah Palin here) media's approach to the recent disturbances in Waco on the one hand and its coverage of first Ferguson last August and Baltimore this very month.

Everybody from the mayor of Baltimore(along with the city's police chief) to the US President(all three admittedly being black/African American) used phrases like "thugs" to describe participants in the "uprising against police brutality" and of course the likes of Rush Limbaugh and other mouth breathing knuckle dragging racist troglodytes on FOX TV(pace Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly) put in their two cents about the "pathology of ghetto life" and our allegedsly paucity of "family values"( given that according to his Wikipedia bio Rush Limbaugh has been married- and DIVORCED_ at least three times, one wonders how he can sit and pontificate about others allegedl" lack of family values"???)

But when it came to the widely reported brawl between rival bikers at Waco, Texas, such characterizations were conspicious by their absence. Could this because bikers tend to be white and veterans of the US military( and ie seens as more like "us" as opposed to African American inner city- a high falutin' term for "ghetto" - dwellers? at least where the editors, reporters and readers of the press are concerned?)

I am aware that this hardly an original thesis but it is STILL owrth noting that where criminality is concerned, there has long been a racialized double standard in US news reporting with white criminals be they the James Gang, Billy The Kid or more recently Al Capone and John Gotti treated as folk heroes or at worst lovable rogues whereas their African American counterparts such as Willie Horton(remember him from the 1988 presidential election?) roundly demonized. Anybody think as I do?

Terry