In the immediate wake of yesterday's on-camera murders of two white reporters by a bitterly jealous, hair-trigger angry, self-obsessed, racially aggrieved, gay black news anchor-wannabe, Dexter Thomas of the race-baiting, putrid Los Angeles Times asks the disgusting question, "Are We Afraid to Watch White People Dying?"

Thomas looks at examples of murders caught on tape that the media choose (or don't choose) to air, and he concludes that the media are "simply less troubled by the deaths of black people, and thus making the rest of America so."

The suggestion that the leftist media are untroubled by black deaths is laughable. On the contrary, what they are utterly untroubled by, and what they purposefully ignore, is black-on-white crime and black-on-black crime, because neither one highlights and promotes anti-white racial grievance.

While conceding that white deaths are shown in the media, and that there are myriad and complex reasons for showing - or not showing - graphic deaths on the air, Thomas claims that the news media is overly sensitive to white viewers, and that they should be more sensitive to black viewers as well:

Every time a police killing of a black person begins to circulate on social media, there is a small but vocal population who ask their friends not to share the videos on their timelines. They know the story already, many say — they just can't bear to watch another one.

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[T]he question remains: What of the millions of black people who have watched the on-camera deaths of so many of their own?

What of their trauma?

Thomas' ugly and frankly racist assumption here is that Americans are only disturbed by witnessing the deaths of victims their own color. But that's part and parcel of too much of the media's habit of seeing everything through the lens of racial grievance.