This morning's newspaper in the "News Feed" section ran an AP short squib "Detroit 1 dead, 9 others shot at a block party"
I'm sure this caught my eye due to the other 9 -an immediate reference to the events in Charleston.
But upon reading the entire piece (admittedly short) there was no mention of race or ethnicity which in America is so unusual as to merit interest.
I went online, dug out a Detroit TV station which had also covered it and found additional details - there were 400 people at a birthday party at the basketball courts at Dexter and Webb, Detroit West Side. No mention again of the ethnicity of the attendees.
However a little further digging implied that the Detroit West Side is a hotbed of drug dealers. Since the Detroit population is largely black a cognizant reader would know all too well what wasn't said (and I leave that to your individual imaginations) and for which I say: God bless the AP for finally getting it right. Their headline could have read, "1 dead, 9 others shot at a BLACK block party"
Onward, AP!
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