are white lives worth more than dark ones?

"Ridership on the city's public transportation network was lighter than normal on the morning following the attacks."

this pic and caption are in the nyt today.

firstly, have u ever seen 'ridership' in a sentence?

secondly, cnn was pushing the same story - showing pix of london streets beforehand showing that it was somehow a slow day - which kind of struck me as odd.

none of this would really matter - but the odd thing about the london bombings is that there were 'only' 50 or so people killed - ive been on those fucking train platforms - it would be difficult setting off a bomb and not killing lots of people. i reckon u could kill a bunch of people by simply setting off a flair like they explode at the football and causing a panic.

one thing that has struck me about these latest bombings is how little damage they caused. if u think that one suicide bomber in iraq can kill 20 police recruits in the open air, then it must be easy to do extraordinary damage in the fucking underground.

yet here we see 'mass bombings' around london, but without 'a lot' of damage, and we see the media trying to explain that there wasnt much 'ridership' as an excuse/explanation.

are white lives worth more than dark ones?

i dont mean to be flippant. but seriously.