“A strong message to Black Street” — VOICES for REASON:
The day after Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years for committing a massive financial fraud, I saw the following big, bold headline in the Los Angeles Times:
A strong message to Wall Street
Think about what this headline implies. The conviction of one particular financier is regarded as a message to all financiers. That is outrageous.
Imagine if there were a mass-conviction of Mafia members and the LA Times wrote
A strong message to Italian-Americans