VOX: The NYT wrote about lynching by white people without using the word "white"

[kpete]

The New York Times' coverage of a new report on lynchings in American history in a piece published today failed to mention the race of the people who were responsible for these acts.

The report, released by the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, chronicles in painstaking detail, the "racial terror lynchings" of black people by white people that took place the South between 1877 and 1950.

But when it comes to those details, the Times' coverage leaves out one key word: "white" — and readers have noticed.

Imani ABL @AngryBlackLady

If you’re going to just mark sites of lynching w/o more, what is the damn point?
“A black man was hanged here.”
“By whom?”
“Oh, y’know.”

7:21 AM - 10 Feb 2015

https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/565168652589096961

The word "white" only appears in the article
to describe women and girls the lynched men were accused of attacking.

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/565134501664133122


MORE:
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/10/8012149/lynching-report-nyt-white
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.htmlDispute over Obama's prayer breakfast is not about ignorance, it's about bigotry trying to cover itself.
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/564929054777036801

[Scuba]

1. Another example white priviledge.

[cyberswede]

2. Maybe the NYT didn't want anyone to complain that they didn't say "some white people"