Ahmaud Arbery and Darrell Brooks: race only matters when the perpetrators are white

The media’s bias was on full display this week. Race was a key detail in reports about the trial of three men – Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan – charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year because they suspected him to be a thief. The case fitted the media’s favourite narrative, that white people are inherently racist and black people are victims. But racism was not proved to be the key factor in the Arbery killing. The prosecutors never used that in his case, although it was clearly a possible motivator for the killers. But the same media outlets were conspicuously circumspect about the race and the motives of Darrell Brooks, who allegedly deliberately drove his car into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the weekend, killing six people and injuring many more. Meanwhile, CNN says, “There’s nothing more frightening in America today than an angry white man.” In fact, there is. It is the division and conflict that all this media-generat