The odds are probably 90 percent
that the victims are white. Yet there's no mention of race.
Robert Curran writes from St. Louis:Regarding your post about the black mob chasing a white in a Minnesota park, St. Louis has recently been experiencing its own version of this, as reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Of course, it never says so in the reporting, but anyone familiar with
St. Louis will immediately understand that the groups of "youths" are
blacks, coming from the solidly black half of the city, the southern
edge of which abuts the north border of the popular Loop entertainment
district. (MetroLink is the local light rail system)
The story below includes an account of a wilding attack by a mob of
twenty on a family of five returning on MetroLink from a vacation.
There is no mention of the race of the attackers or the victims. The
odds are 99.99 percent that the attackers are black. (Correction: given
that one of the attackers' name is Jermaine, it is a 100 percent
certainty that the mob was black.) The odds are probably 90 percent
that the victims are white. Yet there's no mention of race. Here is the
article:
Attacks near trains spur tighter security
By Ken Leiser
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/07/2008
ST. LOUIS--Police plan to step up patrols this weekend around
two MetroLink stations and part of the Delmar Loop after a series of
violent attacks linked to roaming groups of teens and young adults who
gather in the Loop.
There have been at least three attacks--including an assault by a group
of at least 20 on a family near the Forest Park MetroLink station.
St. Louis Alderman Lyda Krewson, whose 28th Ward includes the Forest
Park station, said St. Louis and University City police and Metro
security were responding to the attacks.
"I just want to say that this is pretty unusual, which is why everybody
is on it," Krewson said. "What we have here are three or four incidents
that all happened within a couple of weeks of one another that do
appear to have some similarities. They are obviously completely
unacceptable."
Capt. Jim Moran, commander of the St. Louis Police Department's Seventh
District, said groups of young people appear to be meeting in the
University City part of the Delmar Loop, and then walking east to the
St. Louis side. By some estimates, the groups have reached about 100
people.
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The odds are probably 90 percent
that the victims are white. Yet there's no mention of race.