Reuters Wimps Out

See this Reuters story about "youths" burning cars in poor French suburbs. The U.S. equivalent of "poor French suburbs" is public housing. Notice they don't mention that the "youths" in question are Muslims from former French colonies. They burn cars because, in part, they cannot afford cars and in part because French society has shown them no way to become actually French. Most of these "youths" are also long-term unemployed.

Reuters apparently hopes that if they don't mention the racial and religious characteristics of the rioting "youths," those characteristics can be safely ignored. It is like Obama not wanting to admit the existence of The Long War.