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Old 07-31-2008, 01:07 PM   #105
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Originally Posted by fredr123 View Post
That's not the point. What I was trying to say is that people are asking about the race of the perpetrator as though it matters. White, black, yellow, brown, red, indigo, taupe... doesn't affect - one way or the other - the gravitas of what happened on that bus. Even if, for the sake of argument, this was a Native guy killing a white dude or an Asian guy slaying a black dude it doesn't matter. There is a difference between crime that's motivated by race and a crime that just happens to be committed by or against someone of a different race.
I totally agree in most cases. If there are different races involved in a crime, everyone jumps to that conclusion for no reason.

In this case, I brought it up as there is really no apparent motive, and that just seems more likely to me than a completely random killing. Just my opinion though, maybe it is more likely it's random.
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