Update (5:07 p.m.): In response to this post, commenter and blogger Mark La Roi wrote: “Stories like this one are why I have come to believe that while race isn’t the roadblock many of us make it out to be, it’s almost always a factor in some fashion.”
I asked him to elaborate, and he did so here and here.
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Some of you may be tired of reading about race. I sometimes get tired of blogging about it. (Why do I do it? See this post.)
Just when I’m ready to move on, I get pulled back in the muck with news like this:
Nine dunces – at least six are black – at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, were charged with raping six teenage inmates. From the Indianapolis Star:
Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said Monday that authorities know of six teenage detainees — ages 13 to 15 — who had sex with male employees at the facility between 2000 and 2005. The ex-employees — eight guards and one control booth operator — face counts of child molestation, sexual battery or sexual misconduct with a minor, among other charges…Brizzi said the charges came after a five-month investigation. He said the guards wooed the girls with love letters and gifts, including a teddy bear emblazoned with the words “I Love You.”
Those girls were children, for crying out loud! Where’s the outrage? Watch the video.
It gets worse. (Well, not really worse than rape, but you know what I mean.) More than one in four guards at the same facility have criminal convictions. That’s 24 of 88. Stunning. I can’t prove it, but I attribute these and other atrocities to affirmative action hiring.
Let’s put this in perspective. The national media have spent months chasing their tails over unsubstantiated and absurd rape charges in Durham, North Carolina, against three white lacrosse players, writing story after story, op-ed after op-ed, broad social commentary after broad social commentary ad nauseam. But a bunch of brutish thug guards raping teenagers in a detention facility isn’t worthy of their paper and ink?
Reporters found time to write drivel like this, but not one feminist-journalist dared speak out about what happened to those vulnerable teenage girls??? Was this covered on any of the cable news stations? Did it spawn social commentary on negative stereotypes and the patriarchy? Is it just me, or are people’s priorities completely screwed up?
You’d think that guards who’re charged to watch over minors but break the law and breach their custodial duty by raping them is much more heinous than whatever happened at a sleazy party at Duke.
New Black Panthers, where are you when we really need you?
To make the whole thing even more bizarre, an Indianapolis Star cartoonist lampooned the scandal, but drew a goofy-looking white guy for the strip! The accused men are black!
This is why I write about race so often, readers. What the media won’t touch, I will. If you have more information about this mess, please let me know. I specifically want to know the race of the girls. Ideally, it wouldn’t matter. But as we’ve seen in the Duke case, it does.
I must be having a Twilight Zone moment. As a fan of the old black and whites (no pun intended), I’ve probably seen every single episode. But come on.
I need a vacation. 
