AP exploits black woman’s horrific murder to lecture America about racism– www.theblaze.com
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A young black mother was brutally murdered in Mississippi last month, but the Associated Press seems more interested in browbeating Americans about racism than in finding justice.
On Monday, the AP published a video on YouTube that uses the horrific murder of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old mother of four, as a pretext to revisit the history of racially motivated lynching.
‘I don’t think this was racist. I think this was something very personal.’
“The death of Tasia Fortune, a black Mississippi woman who was found hanging from a tree, has brought up distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings in the United States South,” Sarah Jones-Smith of the AP says to open the video.
“For many black people, the imagery of a rope and noose evokes the legacy of lynching and vigilante violence against black people in the U.S. and brings deep pain and trauma,” Jones-Smith continues.
The fact that Fortune was found hanging from a tree in the back yard of a vacant Jackson home on August 3 appears to be the only tie between her murder and previous racial lynchings.
In fact, a black man has already been identified as the suspected murderer. On September 11, police arrested 51-year-old Jarques “Jock” Ratliff and charged him with murder in connection with Fortune’s death.