When TV or print gets around to such a story, why does it always have to be cast as “suspicious”?

A raging fire that one fire official called “definitely suspicious” gutted a Dix Hills home owned by the Grammy-nominated rapper 50 Cent Friday morning, sending six people inside the house to the hospital.

The home at 2 Sandra Dr., purchased by the rapper in January 2007 for a reported $1.4 million, is one of the largest in Dix Hills — and has been at the center of a lawsuit between 50 Cent and his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins.

Among the injured, all of whom suffered smoke inhalation according to fire officials, were Tompkins, and their 11-year-old son, Marquise, her two other children, her aunt and aunt’s child. They were all treated at Huntington Hospital and later released.

At the hospital Friday, Tompkins said she was in an upstairs bedroom when she said she heard something crash through a window downstairs — and she scrambled to wake everyone and get them all out of the burning house.

The above-mentioned fire chief then explains his suspicion: “The rapid movement of the fire. The volume of the fire … It was engulfed. The home was totally gutted.” (Though not quickly enough for all six inhabitants to get out with relatively minor smoke inhalation injuries.)

No sense in acting like other suspicious evidence hasn’t been listed completely and categorically in this article. Could be a setup by anybody—Fitty, his ex, Big Daddy Kane. Because let’s face it: black families hate their kids, America.

But even as much as I loathe 50 Cent, reading this “straight” news report made my stomach turn. Press outlets, please send a memo when you cast the flaming engulfment of a white celebrity’s house in the same blatantly negative light.