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March 13, 2000 | David Horowitz ... is slowly sinking into the muck. He has begun to see almost everything through the prism of race. I led the investigation of the shooting of the 6-year-old first-grader in Mount Morris Township, Mich. Never once during this investigation did the issue of race ever get raised. Nor for that matter is it any factor whatsoever in this case. Our community is in pain over this tragedy. If anything it has brought the races together to mourn and to seek answers together. The type of irresponsible race-baiting that Mr. Horowitz suggests in his article and in his so-called seminal question of the sordid tale of the death of this little girl is completely beyond the bounds of decency.
David Horowitz David Horowitz's column appears on the News site every other Monday.
By the way, this was his question: "Why did it take the press days to reveal that the shooter was black and his victim white?" I say who in the hell cares? Mr. Horowitz proves to me that pundits and so-called experts like him are far removed from the reality of life in America. He is like an orchestra with two instruments: a computer and a lot of racial animosity.
Here is my reply: Dear Mr. County Prosecutor, I'm flattered but also concerned that you would take time out from your busy schedule protecting the citizens of Genesee County to wag your finger at me over alleged racial offenses in my Salon piece. If you had read what I wrote more carefully, you would see that the part about Kayla Rolland is not about race but the "moral idiocy of liberalism." Therefore, I am also indebted to you for providing a perfect example of this problem. In fact, I never once suggested that the killing of Kayla Rolland was racially motivated. I will come back to the question I raised about the media and race in a moment, but I hope you don't conduct all your prosecutions as irresponsibly as you have this persecution of me. Here are two remarkable sentences from your letter: "Never once during this investigation did the issue of race ever get raised. Nor for that matter is it any factor whatsoever in this case." Tell me something. How do you know that race is not a factor in a case if you never raise the issue during your investigation? I have another question: Why haven't you and your office filed charges against the mother, father and uncle of the little perpetrator of this tragic killing? Aren't there any laws in Michigan about child abuse? What about the social workers who knew this child was living with criminals in a crack house? Are they under investigation? Since the killer had already stabbed another first-grader, why is your office not investigating the school authorities and other public agencies who were obviously derelict in protecting Kayla, not to mention her killer? May I offer a hypothesis? Could it be that the liberalism that guides our municipal agencies has lost a certain moral sense of what is right and wrong, so that it has come to protect little offenders like this, bending the old rules to keep what we used to call "delinquents" mainstreamed with their potential victims? "60 Minutes" recently featured a case in which a district attorney in Alabama is attempting to have a disturbed and malicious youngster (white) removed from the public school system as a threat to other students. The D.A. is being strenuously opposed by liberal advocates of the "disabled," because the mental dysfunction that makes him a threat to others is, under current civil rights law, legally a "disability" that protects him from "persecution" by oppressors like the district attorney.
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