Why are so many Bellaciao contributors afraid to describe these youthful French rioters’ ethnic background? Anyone who has kept up with the news coming out of these riots in the Paris ’suburbs’ (they are not suburbs in the American sense, not if you think the projects are ’suburbs’) knows that the vast majority of these rioters are Arabic, the children of immigrant families mostly from North Africa and the Middle East. Is Bellaciao afraid to admit that there might be a strong whiff of racism left in storied France?
No industrialized country in this strange & foolish world can claim to have a perfect or even an adequate record with all the different ethnic groups that make up their respective populations. But by not reporting all the facts, especially such important ones like the ethnic group that the majority of these rioters belong to, is not good or decent journalism. This kind of reporting only leads to confusion and misunderstanding, the opposite of what good journalism should try to achieve. How is this kind of reporting any different from the half-truths that the American mass media is prone to deliver on a daily basis?
Why are so many Bellaciao contributors afraid to describe these youthful French rioters’ ethnic background? Anyone who has kept up with the news coming out of these riots in the Paris ’suburbs’ (they are not suburbs in the American sense, not if you think the projects are ’suburbs’) knows that the vast majority of these rioters are Arabic, the children of immigrant families mostly from North Africa and the Middle East. Is Bellaciao afraid to admit that there might be a strong whiff of racism left in storied France?
No industrialized country in this strange & foolish world can claim to have a perfect or even an adequate record with all the different ethnic groups that make up their respective populations. But by not reporting all the facts, especially such important ones like the ethnic group that the majority of these rioters belong to, is not good or decent journalism. This kind of reporting only leads to confusion and misunderstanding, the opposite of what good journalism should try to achieve. How is this kind of reporting any different from the half-truths that the American mass media is prone to deliver on a daily basis?