Douglass Mackey @DougMackey- 9h @ NEW YORK TIMES RACIAL HIERARCHY: Crime against Iryna Zarutska was committed by a capital ‘B” Black man against a lowercase “w” white woman: You are a second-class citizen After the video’s release, a number of influential conservatives also accused major news outlets, including The New York Times, of ignoring the story because the crime was committed by a Black man against awhite woman: “The reason for the media silence is racial;” Dinesh D’Souza; the right-wing commentator; wrote in an online post on Sunday “If the killer were white, this would coverage: Of course ifit were a white assailant murdering a Black victim; then it would be front- page headlines everywhere: The idea that mainstream news outlets downplay crimes committed by Black people has become more of a talking point in some conservative circles in recent years. The critique has emerged even as liberal critics of the news media haveargued that crime coverage by American news outlets is distorted by anti- Black bias In North Carolina, as in other Southern states, newspapers in the Jim Crow era often egregiously exaggerated stories about Black criminality: Among other things, such stories served as a precursor to awhite supremacist uprising in Wilmington, N.C,in 1898,in which at least 60 Black men were killed. get =