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Author : Pierce William Luther
Title : Black on White violence
Year : 1997

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Everyone has heard about the three White teenagers in Michigan who hopped a freight train, accidentally got off in a Black neighborhood in the city of Flint, and were attacked by a gang of Blacks while trying to find a telephone so they could call their parents. The Blacks beat and robbed all three White youngsters, stripped and raped the White girl, then shot all three of the young Whites in the head, execution style, leaving them for dead. One of them, a 14-year-old boy, did in fact die from his gunshot wound. The other two, a 15-year-old boy and the 14-year-old girl who had been beaten, stripped, and raped, played dead after being shot, and eventually they escaped. All of this happened back in July, and at first I had no plans to say anything about it. After all, it’s the sort of thing that happens all the time in this wonderful, multicultural America we live in. Everyone understands that and accepts it, so it didn’t seem like a very promising topic. In fact, I was surprised by the amount of media coverage the crime received. It was nowhere near as much coverage as there would have been if a group of Whites had attacked three young Blacks, of course, but still it was much more coverage than these Black-on-White racial crimes ordinarily receive from the controlled media. I think what caught the attention of the media in this case was the fact that there were three victims. Just one White girl being gang-raped or one White boy being murdered would have received only momentary and strictly local notice. More than that, though, was the way in which the crime happened: it’s the sort of thing which most White Americans — certainly those who live in large cities and drive to work every day — have nightmares about: accidentally taking the wrong freeway exit while coming home at night and ending up in a Black neighborhood. That nightmare scene was the key element in Tom Wolfe’s best-selling novel, Bonfire of the Vanities. I had no plans to comment on this racial crime until someone sent me an account of it from the July 21 issue of Time magazine. The first thing that caught my attention in this Time article was the headline. It said: “. . . three white teens are allegedly assaulted by a group of Black youths.” “Allegedly.” I think it is reasonable to use that word in talking about a specific suspect who, prior to his trial and conviction, is only “alleged” to be guilty. In the case at hand, however, there was no question at all that an assault had taken place. There were three White teenagers with bullets in their heads, one of them dead and one of them raped, and the shooting and raping had taken place in an all-Black area. There was no question at all about the race of their assailants. ...