November 2, 2013

Shooting of Renisha McBride

Renisha McBride crashed her car at a street in Detroit, and then walked to a neighborhood in Dearborn Heights where she knocked on the door of a house. The homeowner, Theodore Wafer, opened the door and immediately shot McBride with a shotgun.

HOW DOES THIS CONNECT TO STRUCTURAL RACISM?:

While McBrade knocked on the door to ask for help, Wafer said he assumed his house was being broken into. This is an example of how the overrepresentation of African Americans as criminals in the media can lead to extreme racial violence against African Americans.