This is the header and image yahoo used on their main page on an article about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
They used an innocent picture with his brother and fellow terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev, along with a headline about him crying in court. He’s an adult, but they are using his child pictures.
In this article (which I won’t link to), not once do they call Tsarnaev a terrorist. The words ‘terrorist’, ‘terror’ or ‘murderer’ aren’t used once in the article. Not once. They did talk about him blowing kisses to his relatives and how his relatives testified about him being a warm and loving child, and that he cried while watching The Lion King, and that he had a special sweetness.
Even a terrorist and murderer like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will get better treatment than a Black child who was murdered by the police, like 12 year old Tamir Rice.
The humanity of Tsarnaev is recognized and amplified, despite him committing heinous crimes, inflicting mass terror and bringing a major US city down to its knees by not only bombing a marathon, but by also taking the authorities on a wild, violent, bloody and bullet riddled manhunt that lead to even more death, injury, carjackings, armed robbery and continued mass terror by inflicting fear in the people of Boston and surrounding areas. The city was on lockdown. Survivors will be maimed for life, many having to go on with missing limbs, and others with permanent disfigurement and horrendous scars that zigzag across their battered bodies. They have to live on like that for the rest of their days.
This person who committed these dastardly acts is a “sweet boy” you see. He’s tender and fragile. He shed innocent blood wantonly, but he’s “sweet” and yahoo upholds this lie by using a “sweet” picture of him. They didn’t have to do this, but they made that editorial decision. This does not happen by accident. This is a deliberate course of action. Understand that first.
Tsarnaev, the “sweet boy” blows kisses, cries and loved The Lion King.
I wonder what animated movies Tamir Rice loved. Will he ever get this level of compassion, understanding and humanity that is afforded to a terrorist and murderer, even as a victim of murder by the police at the ripe old age of 12?
Tamir won’t be blowing kisses to anyone. He can’t. This we know. Neither will Aiyana Jones, Mike Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride and the other murder victims who were younger than the now almost 22 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the time of their deaths. Operative words there being murder victims. Victims of murder. That can’t be emphasized enough.
The adult terrorist and murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is infantilized, while 12 year olds like Tamir Rice and teens like Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin are depicted as monsters.
In all this, Black children who are murdered aren’t afforded dignity, humanity or respect, even in death, much less shown a gentler approach and sensitivity in reportage due to their youth. Black youth is seldom recognized. Murderer, officer Darren Wilson even described Mike Brown as an unstoppable, raging beast that not only charged him, but was also somehow impervious to his bullets, until he shot him in the head at close range. Wilson said Brown looked like a demon.
The Black child is a threat that needs to be put down, while the adult Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is a terrorist and murderer is humanized and infantilized.
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