For the first 12 hours, the story of those two bimbos throwing themselves in the way of a car was plastered all over the internet and news sites were clutching their pearls at yet another example of white racists using cars to disrupt protests.
Literally the moment it came out that the driver was black and the victims white, it dropped off every front page and twitter completely ceased talking about it. Any story that remains describes how "a car" hit protestors. No, a person driving a car hit those people. It wasn't some rogue self-driving car that gained sentience and elected to run people over. It goes without saying that if the driver was white and the victims black, they would not be using euphemisms to describe what happened.
I know the media always goes for the narrative but jesus this was one of the most shameless examples I've ever seen
This shit is so predictable, we should really get ahead of it and use it to our advantage.
Next time anything like this happens (Crime/violence with unknown but presumed white perpetrator and big social media attention) get on social media and loudly tell everyone sharing it that if the perpetrator turns out to be black, they will immediately stop caring and never mention it again. Blatant predictions of post-rationalization, before it happens.
Cognitive dissonance hurts more when it's been spelled out for you before it even happens.