# Racist Coverage of Waco Biker Violence **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 20, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441 "2015-05-20T19:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/121 "2015-05-22T23:29:01Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > No. You should learn to read. Reading comprehension should be your next goal. Or not. You should learn to think. But I know that’s beyond you. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/122 "2015-05-22T23:31:03Z")
> [@The\_Understander](#): > > Make you a deal. I’ll go back to Yahoo when you go back to Stormfront, Why would I want to make a deal with a psychopathic personality such as yourself? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/123 "2015-05-22T23:33:50Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > You should learn to think. But I know that’s beyond you. Reading Is Fundamental. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/124 "2015-05-24T09:01:23Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [This is your brain on Whiteness: The invisible psychology of white American ignorance explained.](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/22/this_is_your_brain_on_whiteness_the_invisible_psychology_of_white_american_ignorance_explained/) The writer makes some good points especially how white male business leaders on Wall Street have stolen billions and gotten away with it while the press goes after some black people looting. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/125 "2015-05-24T12:05:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I know as much about rap/hip-hop as I know about Lithuanian jazz, but aren’t references to “thug life” fairly common? Very. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/126 "2015-05-24T12:18:13Z")
> [@The\_Understander](#): > > Once again you make idiotic assumptions as you people are wont to do. Accuses me of making “idiotic assumptions”. Idiotically assumes I meant “Eric Garner” when I said “Freddie Gray”. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/127 "2015-05-24T23:40:30Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > So I should take ownership of “thug life” because I am black? Nonsense, [thugs’re Indian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee). Biker gang members are [hoodlums](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodlum): > [@](#): > > A hoodlum is a thug, usually in a group of misfits who are associated with crime or theft.[1] The earliest reference to the word hoodlum was in the December 14, 1866 Daily Evening Bulletin. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/128 "2015-05-24T23:53:17Z")
If any of them shows up wearing a tin can for a hat, he gets called a hooligan whether he likes it or not. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/129 "2015-05-25T15:51:09Z")
[Here’s a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mGXbZHJFb8) in which Cenk Uygar and Kyle Kulinski very nicely demonstrate the racism in the mainstream media wrt coverage of black vs. white violence. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/130 "2015-05-25T16:42:27Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > The writer makes some good points especially how white male business leaders on Wall Street have stolen billions and gotten away with it while the press goes after some black people looting. Cite for a “white male business leader” “stealing billions” and “getting away with it”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441.md?page=6)