Give me the unfiltered facts

The Dallas Morning News is highly insulting to all legal immigrants who have come to the country lawfully when today they describe an illegal alien who murdered a Dallas police officer over the weekend as a “Mexican immigrant”. He is not – at least according to WFAA TV on Sunday who cited that he is here illegally. Can the DMN not see the distinction between immigrant and alien? Do words not have specific meaning?

Quit being so danged politically correct. This is similar to refusing to call the Paris rioters Muslim when that is exactly what most of them are. It is not racist. It is just the facts. When the IRA was in full battle mode in Northern Ireland, almost every story mentioned IRA and Catholicism in the same sentence. Why is the word Muslim so taboo?

It is not the job of the media to coddle certain groups of people. Give us the facts. I want to know if someone who commits a crime is here legally or not. It doesn’t have to be bold and centered, but just include it. We are told that illegal aliens don’t commit crimes for fear of deportation. Ok - if that is true, it shouldn’t be a problem identifying those “few” that do.

We are told that Islam is a religion of peace. Ok – it should not be a problem identifying those “few” examples of terror that are carried out in the name of Islam. No more sugar coating – it is driving me insane.

If race truly doesn’t matter then that’s ok. I can buy off on that. But make it the policy across the board to not identify anyone’s race or religion in a story. Unfortunately that is not the case. It is a selective process by which certain groups are not identified.

It won’t be long before I read a story like, “A person caused harm to another person in some neighborhood.” We can’t identify the attacker because they may be something other than a white male. We do not want to identify the victim for sound reasons that I cant argue. We can’t identify the neighborhood, because it might be some place other than the white suburbs and people would draw an inference on the neighborhood racial or religious makeup.

I want to know “who, what, when, where, and why”. I want the “who” to be descriptive and factual. I don’t want to read a story that is written under the assumption that I may suddenly become a racist if I read that someone other than a white male committed a crime. Give me the news in the news section. Give me your editorials in the editorial section. I do not want to have to decipher on my own whether I am reading a news piece or an opinion piece.