Truly tragic and all the racists are gonna pin it on black people in general. They already labeled it the BLM Kidnapping. & Trump is soon to enter office so who knows what's next
This race war is so...needs to end :/
Right, this is an issue on both ends of the spectrum. They need to stop associating all blacks with crimes comitted by blacks and all whites with crimes commited by whites. It only propagates more hatred and division between the races.
At the same time, the media has to acknowledge this has a hate crime, because that's what it is. I've been surfing all over the media to see who's been covering this story, online, tv, social media, twitter, etc. And this is barely getting any attention, which pisses me off. Had the tables been turned and the script was flipped, we probably wouldnt hear the end of it, till maybe 2018. If the kidnapee was black, he would have been the new Mike brown.
When these stories dont get acknowlegement from the media, some whites feel disenfranchised, and it allows groups like the alt-right to make use of this story to fuel their hatred. There are BLM members on twitter either ignoring this or are more concerned with the name "BLM", then the actual incident that happened. It's dumb shit like this that makes me hate BLM, it's as if they can't show empathy for another human being that isnt in their racial group, and I'm not saying all, but the figure heads on top. I honestly don't care if BLM gets blamed for this, the movement needs to stay in 2016 and be reborn and retitled as something else in 2017. It only generates hatred and racial division.