Not Reporting Race

Here's a story from pro-gun site The Truth About Guns. The words "Not Shown" in brackets mean that what you are seeing is a stock photo of a good-guy National Guardsman—who happens to be white.

U.S National Guardsman [Not Shown] Sold Drug Gangs Rifles, Vests, Grenades 

Robert Stacy McCain issued the following headline about the Menendez scandal: If You Don’t Think ‘Jailbait Hookers’ Is Headline News, You Don’t Know News [January 31, 2013]

That's true, and it's equally true that if you think that a story about a black football player breaking a  white tennis player's jaw in a jealous rage over a black female volleyball player is a story that should be reported without any reference to race, then you really aren't in the news business, you're in the news hiding business.

Texas football player fractures men’s tennis player’s jaw over women’s volleyball player

Daily Caller, 4:05 PM 03/13/2013

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas sophomore wide receiver Cayleb Jones was charged Tuesday with felony aggravated assault of a Longhorns tennis player, with police saying he fractured the victim’s jaw with a punch outside a downtown nightclub.

A warrant was issued for Jones’ arrest and an Austin police spokeswoman said Jones was expected to turn himself in later Tuesday. Coach Mack Brown suspended Jones until the case is resolved.

According to police, Jones punched Joseph Swaysland after Jones confronted Swaysland and Texas volleyball player Katherine Bell on Feb. 22. She told police she had been in a relationship with Jones that ended badly and that Jones had previously threatened to fight Swaysland.

Bell said Jones told her he didn’t want to see her speaking to any men, notably the victim, according to a police affidavit in support of the arrest warrant. The charge is a second degree felony with a punishment range up to 20 years in prison.[More]

The alleged puncher:

Cayleb Jones, 6'3, 200 pounds

The punchee:

Joseph Swaysland, 6' 4", from Wagga  Wagga, Australia, weight unknown

The lady in the case:

Katherine "Khat"  Bell, 6' 1"

The picture chosen by the Daily Caller,

From: An Anonymous Reader [Email him]

I just had to send this into you guys. Not entirely sure what the significance is, but I found it kind of hypocritical.

Since Harvard announced that it had some students cheating in an "Introduction to Congress" class, there's been a lot of snickering, along the lines of "If you cheat in "Introduction To Congress", doesn't that mean you pass?"

Linda Thom forwarded this story with the suggestion that I check out the ringleaders' names:Babar Qureshi and Muhammad Shafiq.

'Massive' $200M Credit Card Fraud

By AARON KATERSKY | ABC News – 4 hrs ago

The New York Daily News reports today that Michael Brady, a Jamaican immigrant, was arrested for brutally stabbing his girlfriend and suffocating her 5 year old daughter.(Man arrested for killing Englewood woman and her 5 year old daughter, by Shane Dixon Kavanaugh New York Daily News, January 30, 2013.)

The Deceptology blog has amusing optical illusions, magic tricks, and tales of fraud. This one, about a Nigerian con man, is about his deception, but there's another one embedded in it:

I looked into the story of the 7-year old boy who brought a gun to school, and the Greatschools demographic profile showed that the school was only 2 percent white. 

Most students are black or Hispanic. Now the little boy's mother has been arrested. Her picture isn't shown here. Instead, CBS has chosen to picture a .22 caliber pistol (which is black) and a flare gun (which is orange.)

"Salt-and-Pepper team" is a somewhat dated slang term meaning one a team of either  criminals, or of police with one black and one white member. 

Civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate (a civil liberties lawyer is not the same thing as a civil rights lawyer) has an article called Black and Whitey: How the Feds Disable Criminal Defense.

It's about the prosecutions of newspaper magnate Conrad Black and Boston Irish gangster Whitey Bulger, and notes that when Federal prosecutors really want to get someone, they disable his defense by seizing all his money.