Plus, black expressions of alarm and outrage have never garnered much attention in this country. That is why so many of our problems just fester and get worse. A crime becomes racially motivated if the principal reason for the crime is racial. If the principal reason is anything else, e.g. sex, money, drugs, etc., then the crime cannot be adjudged to be racially motivated. And any media, be it local or national, would be irresponsible in labeling it so.
Some whites are actually and honestly scared, and show it all the time.
Some pretend to themselves that they aren't scared, but they'll still cross the street to avoid a group of black people. And there are some whites who judge people as people, independent of skin color. The association of black people with criminality basically began with an onslaught of media images in the 1920s when blacks and Hispanics were shown as either house servants or razor-wielding maniacs. The debate continues about the portrayal of black people in the media. The truth is that crime rates correspond to poverty more than race, but we don't hear that message as often as we should.