I can obviously see why there is so much wrong with a father threatening to kill any students regardless of race, but there was a comment on the interview that kind of struck me as strange. The mother said that, “if a black man threatened students more action would be taken.” Now, I am not saying that this issue has nothing to do with race, but lets face the facts here, there is nothing to back that statement up. Not to mention an audience already goes into this situation with certain connotations, I mean come on white guy threatens black kids in Alabama. Of course we can see the white guy being wrong, but once again I play devils advocate. I feel like, as we have learned, that race and therefore racial issues are created by society. With that in mind I feel that there is a certain bias created in the scenario and I am not saying that the father was in any ways right, he wasn’t he is stupid for his actions, but I feel that perhaps a racial tension is created by the media in this one. The father said, “I am gonna kill you,” to the students, not, “I am gonna kill you black kids.” He could have just been upset that anyone was talking to his young daughter, but considering already generated stereotypes and a general media influence, I feel a plausible xenophobic ideal is generated.
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