Aside from the brutality, there was another troubling fact about this crime -- a fact that predictably did not make it into the news: the attackers were black, and the victim was white. Yet, for the first few days after the attack, not a single news outlet reported on the race of the victim. Since the attack occurred, only one news item has even indirectly mentioned the victim's race. This can't be because the information was hard to come by. The Ocala Sheriff's Office responded to my inquiry about the victim's race within hours.
Many well-meaning people will ask why race matters. Violence is violence, and people are people, so why bring race into it? I sympathize with that sentiment. The trouble is that, if the races were reversed, this would be a larger story. It would be a larger story because we have a system of racial double standards -- some written, some unwritten -- that serve to conceal the reality of crimes like this.
Race matters in stories like this because liberals have made race matter everywhere, in every facet of life. Every institution, from schools to fire departments, is fixated on "achievement gaps," or "disparities," or "underrepresentation," not to mention every form of racially driven categorization imaginable. Yet, when white people are on the wrong side of a disparity, like a seven-on-one beating, we're supposed to ignore the racial element of that. Or we're racist for making a point of it.
================== SO MUCH TRUTH IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH. Goodgod, haven't you ever been called a racist? I was making this point with micro, who intended to vote for Herman Cain).
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/white-middle_schooler_beaten_unconscious_by_group_of_black_students.html#ixzz1kbmBrpUc
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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