7:11 a.m. PDT: Even if I lived 1,000 years, I’ll never understand how reporters can describe still-at-large thugs without mentioning race with a straight face.
It stands to reason that if someone has committed a crime, especially a violent crime like murder, rape, or armed robbery, and hasn’t been caught, his height, build, style and color of his clothing, the kind of car he was driving, etc., are crucial to aiding his capture. But his race, especially the color of his skin — light, dark, ruddy, etc. — is just as crucial in identifying and capturing him.
So why do liberal journalists go out of their way not to report a thug’s race? Are they uncomfortable with disproportionate crime rates among blacks? Are they embarrassed by it or afraid that some loud-mouth “civil rights” type will charge “Racist!”? Discomfort and embarrassment aside, isn’t it a reporter’s job to report facts? That two at-large armed robbers are black is a fact that needs to be reported. People in the community need to be on the look-out. Omitting race as a descriptor is irresponsible, PC be damned.
In another irritating episode of men-in-their-thirties style coverage, the University of Michigan’s college newspaper, The Michigan Daily reports that a man was mugged at gunpoint near campus by two men, described as “average build, about six feet tall and wearing black hooded sweatshirts with the hoods up.” Check it out: a story that includes the color of the gun — black — omits the color of the robbers.
(According to the Department of Public Safety, the suspects are black. The Michigan Daily had access to the alert, so the reporter knew the race of the suspects when she wrote the story.)
At this point in our warped society, are we simply to assume that all such criminals are black? Is the omission of race code for “black”? Whatever the practice is or isn’t, it’s certainly dumb.
The Michigan Review, the alternative student newspaper, calls out the PC-stupidity-duplicity:
After years of trolling for a racially-sensitive admissions process, the Michigan Daily has seemingly come to the realization that race just isn’t that important – at least when it comes to armed robberies near campus…The Michigan Daily – where skin color is central to college admissions, but not relevant to armed robberies.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years, you’ll recall that Michigan has been the center of a contentious battle to eliminate/keep lowered standards for blacks and to continue/discontinue racial discrimination, first with Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, then with Proposition 2, which barred race preferences in government hiring and admissions. Strangely enough, race is all-important in college admissions and “diversity” on campus, but when it comes to reporting crime, people are colorblind!
We shall overcome eventually, I suspect. 
Also see Colorblindness Comes To Michigan … Sort Of
