Posted on 10/29/2002 8:54:03 AM PST by anymouse
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
From the moment the ethnicity of the men wanted in connection to the deadly sniper killings was revealed, you could hear a collective gasp from people of color across the country.
African-Americans were stunned to hear that two black men could conceivably be behind such heinous and cowardly acts. And despite the mounting evidence that points to John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo as the likely shooters, some blacks still don't believe the reports.
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We were all supposed to feel shame because of what a few low-life losers did to James Byrd.
Why reward one group with wealth and notoriety and disavow the other?
The story does not even follow its own statistics. 7 out of 10 is a big number. How many politicians would love to get 7 out of 10 votes?
Just as black America felt great pride when Tiger Woods won the Masters golf tournament or when African-Americans became CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, there is a collective embarrassment felt when ''one of us'' is caught in a crime.
Maybe those black Americans that fret over such things should concern themselves with their own individual successes and/or failures rather than looking to ride the coattails of others.
”Ethnic pride” is a crutch.
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