Unless one has lived under a rock his entire life, it is quite obvious that high profile ‘white women in peril stories’ involving black male suspects always leads to a focus on race. Yet white people (including white liberals) will often deny, ignore, object, censor and/or become outright hostile whenever their racial sensibilities are questioned or challenged when it comes to white women perceived to be threatened by black males. We saw this ‘quiet white riot’ hostility both during and after the O.J. Simpson trial, the Central Park jogger case in New York City, and even here on Booman Tribune when addressing the Natalee Holloway case.
Perhaps I let my guard down but I never made the jump that Natalee Hollaway was raped until I read this . When I heard that a missing young woman was last known to be drunk and off with strangers including a European, two coloured men, and perhaps the club D.J., I thought it was possible that they were out on a drug run. It sounds like it could be the regular cast of characters out for a good high. However, I’m to be faulted for forgetting that the opinions I hear will be from Americans and that when black strangers are involved with a pretty blonde woman, then the only assumption they will make is that the black men are sexually driven to have sex at any cost with this ‘blonde trophy.’
The most recommended diary on Booman the past two days is based on the premise that Natalee Holloway was raped and though the author of the diary acted responsibly by later clarifying that she didn’t mean to implicate any suspects, that didn’t stop others from taking the ball and running with it. One poster even had the alleged perps confessing to their uncontrolled lasciviousness.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have expected any better, even among self-proclaimed liberals. Here in New York, we have a contested district attorney’s race for the first time in decades. What prompted a judge to enter the race ? She was outraged that the D.A. successfully petitioned to vacate the convictions of five young black men who were wrongfully convicted in the notorious rape of a white woman in Central Park over ten years ago. Never mind that the real rapist confessed and evidence supports the D.A.’s decision. These are black boys released for the rape of a high profile white woman and that cannot pass without repercussions.
Question these assumptions about black men and their intentions with white women and you will be called “angry” (i.e., prone to violence), “playing the race card” (i.e., invoking your 14th Amendment equal protection rights), or told to just shut up. It’s time for many so-called liberals to take off their blinders and acknowledge that race does matter, it is pervasive in all facets of our society, and if you’re not doing something to address the issue then you are part of the problem.
