My good friend Julia Millard(who is white and more to the point politically conservative) has recently drawn my attention to a news item in which two black youths beat to death an elderly white WWII veteran in Mississippi.
Why, she asks, do killings of blacks by whites( pace Trayvon Martin back in February by vigilante George Zimmerman) attract much commentary(even from current US President Barack Obama, who rarely comments on racial matters) and even more express condemnation(from everybody save maybe Rush Limbaugh and the Grand Wizard Of The Ku Klux Klan-not that I can see much difference between both- the Grand Wizard wears a hood and robes and Limbaugh a three piece suit), whilst racist assaults and even murders of whites by blacks is rarely a talking point outside the overtly racist white supremacist media.( She insists that she is not a bigot and I believe she is sincere)
Hm- I agree that "reverse racist" murders of whites by blacks in the US is in theory and practice possible( pace the notorious "Zebra murders" in San Francisco by a splinter group of the Nation of Islam in 1973-74), but available evidence suggests that these incidents are relatively rare(between 1880 and 1968, three thousand African American men(mainly), women and even children were lynched by whites.
It is not clear that the murder of the veteran in Mississippi was racially motivated at least as yet according to preliminary press reports( and anyway given Mississippi's notorious history of first slavery and then segregation-including lynchings, I am sorely tempted to chuckle over this allegedly "racist" assault- two wrongs do NOT make one right!) as tragic as it may have been.
I may be an outsider but I have detected no evidence of a racially motivated crime spree/pogrom against white victims by African American predators in the US!
Anybody else think as I do?
Terry
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