A lot of new stories involving young black men as the perpetrators of the crime clearly describe them as a black man. This may not seem problematic but when compared to a news story of a crime committed by a non black person, there is no racial description given. In the majority of these stories, the criminal has already been caught and jailed, so there is no need for such a description, it just furthers the negative representation of black people in the media.
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