[myprecious]

However, I don't see anything racial in it.

I didn't see the racial angle until today.

The testimony from Fry yesterday stated specifically that Mallard called her and said that she had hit "a white guy". It stood out in her comments.

Oddly, this was the first time I had heard that the victim was white and I am in the Dallas media area. You have to ask if the races were reversed, wouldn't this have been a MAJOR issue?

[Kenton]

The testimony from Fry yesterday stated specifically that Mallard called her and said that she had hit "a white guy". It stood out in her comments.

Sorry, that sounds descriptive, not pejorative.

I'm not trying to stick up for this woman, but unless she intentionally ran the guy down (or up through her windshield, in this case) just because he was white, I still can't see how race comes into this except coincidentally. She probably would have been just as negligent after the accident if the victim was black. It's a horrible tragedy caused by criminal negligence, not a race-based attack. Or that's my take on it, anyway.

Feel free to disagree, if there's something here I'm missing...

[Freedom4US]

There has long been a media blackout (oops) with respect to the racial "overrepresentation" of black on white crime. Just why this is so, I've no idea. What it *does* do, is give white supremacists and their ilk a pretty big talking point - most stereotypes have at least a grain of truth in them, after all. Hiding reality under the rug just makes things worse in the long run.

[al_c]

The testimony from Fry yesterday stated specifically that Mallard called her and said that she had hit "a white guy".

And that says hate crime to you?