{"id":69869,"date":"2015-06-18T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69869"},"modified":"2015-06-18T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:40:15","slug":"white-man-kills-9-at-black-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69869","title":{"rendered":"White Man Kills 9 At Black Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wonder how many white folks will be attacked in revenge for what this maniac did<\/a>.
\nAnd for decades this will be used as a “rebuttal” of any argument that Blacks disproportionately attack whites.
\nI also note the near glee with which the race of the attacker has been noted by the NY Times and others. That’ s appropriate, as it is part of the story, but I wish they would do that for all crimes where it is part of the real story.<\/p>\n

In Chapter 6 of We Are Doomed, John Derbyshire wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nYou would be spared the trouble of all those look-ups if news outlets reported demographic factors in criminal events. Of course, they very rarely do, believing these things best left unsaid. The assumption is, that if not told these things, the great slack-jawed, dimwitted, unwashed mass of Americans will make no assumptions of their own. Yet in fact every American can decode the subtext of reports like: \u201cThe robber was described as a tall man in his thirties.\u201d Reporters should get out more. I came home from work on the Long Island Railroad one day in December, 1993. My train was right behind the one in which Colin Ferguson went berserk and shot 25 people [6 died]. We were held up for a long time, and there were no cell phones. My poor wife was at home, watching news of the shooting on TV. For all she knew, I might have been among the dead. Kind neighbors came round to keep her company. Telling me about it afterwards, she remarked: \u201cThey kept saying the same thing: \u2018It must be a black guy. If it was a white guy, they would have told us \u2026’\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wonder how many white folks will be attacked in revenge for what this maniac did. And for decades this will be used as a “rebuttal” of any argument that Blacks disproportionately attack whites. I also note the near glee … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,237,29594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-crime","category-whites"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t