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"Who the hell cares?" | page 1, 2
One reason I asked the question as to why the press was so colorblind in this case was that I couldn't imagine a parallel situation where if a little black girl in a class with an overwhelming majority of whites had been shot by a white youngster that the press would have no interest in those facts. Particularly since the killer had committed a violent act against another student previously. (By the way, did you or any of your investigators bother to inquire about the race of the previous victim? Certainly the press has shown no interest in this at all.) My second reason for introducing the issue of race is the way in which the dysfunctionality of the perpetrator's family was allowed to disappear from all radar screens as the tragedy was transformed by the president and others into a poster-case for the new trigger-lock gun law. You will remember that I asked how a family of outlaws, with stolen guns in their crack-house abode, was going to be impressed by a new law about triggers? It seemed like a reasonable question to me. Just as it seems reasonable to me to wonder whether law enforcement's willingness to allow a bunch of criminals to have their way with two small children (the shooter and his 8-year-old brother) had anything at all to do with the fact that they were black? The same question could be put to the social workers. Social workers, as is well known, are often guided by a left-wing worldview that causes them to treat dysfunctional people, who happen to be "of color," as victims of oppression who need to be protected rather than dysfunctional people who may be threats to themselves and everyone around them.
David Horowitz David Horowitz's column appears on the News site every other Monday.
Even though I did not once suggest that the killing of Kayla was racially motivated, do you really think that had the colors been reversed you and your investigators would have had no interest in the question itself? Particularly if Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton had arrived on the scene to put the question to you? Perhaps that is because the existence of white racism is a cliché, while the existence of black racism is more like a taboo. It seems to me that this ought to be a time for reflection on your part about what you might have done to prevent this tragedy, rather than lecturing the rest of us about denial, morality and responsible discourse.
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