[STE=Q]

"story hovers ghostlike on the national scene garnering little attention, perhaps because it turns traditional notions of racially motivated violence on their head. The victims are white and the suspects are black."

Traditional "notions" are wrong.

Statistically: Black on white "hate" crime is far more prevalent -- and likely -- than the converse.

[Godwin1]

Well, history is one thing. But in modern America, interracial crime nearly always means white victims and black perpetrators. Everyone in our society knows this. One of the many reasons many of us distrust and dislike the media is that they deliberately cover this up.