This Is What White Privilege Looks Like: The Pumpkin Fest White Riot — No Damning Speeches by TV Pundits Or Hand-Wringing By Big Media

To be sure, we won't be subjected to weeks of "what's wrong with these people" and "let's cancel this event and ban them from the town" commentary like we would get if these youth were black.

Teens rip down a parking sign - just for the hell of it. (Screen capture YouTube video)

By Chauncey DeVega
White supremacy structures how the news media frames and reports events in the United States (and elsewhere). There are so many examples of this fact that the difficulty is not one of finding them, rather, the challenge involves which examples of white racial framing to discuss and detail.

Saturday's riot by white college students at Keene State College's annual Pumpkinfest is a priceless example of white privilege and white racism as a type of social practice and habit.

Police kick back and enjoy the fun. (Screen capture YouTube video)

It was high comedy. Twitter had great fun with mocking and calling out the foolishness of the white pumpkin rioters.

It doesn't take a cop to murder an unarmed teen for some whites to riot - just a little beer and pot.

It was also deadly serious. Fires were set, cars destroyed, bottles and other dangerous objects were thrown at random people, and the police were attacked by the white students at Keene's pumpkin festival.

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In a stark and clear manner, white privilege and white supremacy color how the obnoxious and violent behavior of the white rioters at Pumpkinfest is described by the media.

Kinda reminds you of another time in American history.

Black folks who are protesting with righteous rage and anger in response to the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson have been called "thugs", "animals", and cited by the Right-wing media as examples of the "bad culture" and "cultural pathologies" supposedly common to the African-American community.

Privileged white college students who riot at a pumpkin festival are "spirited partiers", "unruly", or "rowdy".

Right-wing propaganda sites such as the Drudge Report pander black beast rapist negrophobia to their racist audience with grotesque images of "black crime" and "black criminality" as a standard theme. By contrast, the violent behavior of white college students is met with relative silence save for a description of the events in Keene, New Hampshire as "extreme partying".

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