:59:00
- I just love these boulevards
down here, though.
:59:02
You don't get this
in most of L.A.
:59:04
South Central
Los Angeles
:59:05
- How come whenever
I'm out here, though,
:59:07
I turn on the 11-o'clock news
and I hear, you know:
:59:10
"Tonight in South Central,
drive-by shooting."
:59:12
Or: "Tonight in South
Central..."
:59:14
Prof. Barry Glassner
Author, "The Culture of Fear"
:59:17
...this, that or whatever. I mean,
they're not making that up, are they?
:59:19
- No, they're not making it up,
but they're choosing
:59:22
what they're covering. If you
turn on the TV, on the news,
:59:26
what are you gonna hear about?
:59:28
Dangerous black guys, right?
Unnamed black guy who, you know,
:59:32
accused of some crime or...
- Right.
:59:35
- You're gonna see pictures
of black guys doing bad things,
:59:38
and hearing stories about black
guys doing bad things.
:59:41
And we've heard this
our whole lives.
:59:43
- Now, the suspect is a black
male in his twenties.
:59:45
We are told he has
a large afro, sideburns,
:59:47
he was wearing a
silver chain at the time.
:59:50
- Police say the suspect
is a black man.
:59:52
Six foot one, 160 to 180 pounds,
about 35 years in age.
:59:56
- Suspect is a black male,
age 16 to 18.
:59:59
- The suspect is
African-American.
1:00:01
Police believe--
- Police say--
1:00:03
- The black man--
[ several ]: Suspect--
1:00:05
- The suspect is a black male
- A black man.
1:00:07
[ various voices ]:
A black... black... black...
1:00:10
- A black man.
1:00:11
- Susan Smith drowns
her two children.
1:00:14
She tells people a black guy...
- Correct.
1:00:16
- Stole the car
and stole the kids.
1:00:19
And everyone, at first,
bought it.
1:00:22
- Some guy jumped into her car,
with her two kids in it.
1:00:25
Then he took off.
That's a black guy, she says.
1:00:28
- Black male?
- Yes, Ma'am.
1:00:30
- And I told them I loved them.
I hollered I loved them
1:00:33
And it's just a tragedy.
1:00:35
- The anonymous urban -
which means usually black -
1:00:39
male, comes by and does this.
1:00:41
It's the excuse
for all kinds of things.
1:00:44
- Charles Stewart,
a lawyer in Boston...
1:00:45
- Right, exactly.
- ...kills his pregnant wife,
1:00:47
says a black guy did it;
everybody buys it.
1:00:50
- The suspect described as a
black male about six feet tall.
1:00:53
Chuck and Carol Stewart
were robbed at gunpoint
1:00:55
as they left a Lamaze class.
1:00:57
It seemed the ultimate
urban nightmare.
1:00:59
- You know, the thing I love
about this country of mine,