While the identities of those behind today’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California remain unknown as of this writing, it still prompts the question of why white terrorists who carry out mass shootings are often more humanized in the media while black youth shot dead by police are vilified by those same publications. A survey of headlines
Media Humanizes White Terrorists While Demonizing People Of Color
The media is quick to justify the cause of a black teen’s fate but white terrorists are depicted as outliers from troubled childhoods.
