This New York Times story says much more than intended. Weighing Race and Hate in a Mississippi KillingHe [Deryl Dedmon] was the joker among a group for whom country music, Bible verses, Bud Light and pickup trucks serve as the cultural markers.
In short, cruising for some fun at 5am a couple carloads of white teenagers from small town Mississippi found a black man alone in a motel parking lot, they surrounded him, beat him repeatedly, robbed him and then one of them, Deryl Dedmon, ran him down with his Ford 250 pickup truck killing him. Presumably while chugging Bud Lites, listening to Garth Brooks and reciting Christian Bible versus. Dedmon later bragged about what he did to the Nword.
The NYT writer Kim Severson penned this paragraph in the story.
Or was the behavior of Deryl Dedmon, the slight, blond teenager who could be facing the death penalty, simply an anomaly born of anger, alcohol and teenage stupidity, as some close to the case suggest?
The mistake Kim made was choosing the words "some close to the case" rather than "some Mississippi racist fckwads".
What should – but won’t – cause us to take a look at ourselves in this regard is all the recent reports of young Blacks in riots, mob-ins, extorting white kids for their cell phones and iPods, breaking our car windows purses and Garmins. How angry we are. How offended!
So here is the sad defining racist nut of this.
When black kids do bad, how many of us will say it’s just "an anomaly born of anger, alcohol and teenage stupidity?"
Answer: LESS THAN NONE
If fact the usual outcome is a loud white screech of TRY THEM AS AN ADULT!