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Do the Right Thing — Suppress Crime

When A young woman investment banker was raped, beaten and left for dead in New York’s Central Park by a “wilding” gang of black youths last April, liberal opinion in the city didn’t know what to think. But it knew very well what not to think. The crime, we were repeatedly assured, was not racial. It was simply a brutal crime and, as such, reported by the New York Times itself under the dispassionate headline: ‘Youths Rape and Beat Central Park Jogger.” Contrast the same newspaper’s headline last month when a young black man, Yusef Hawkins, was shot and killed by a gang of white youths: “Black Youth Is Killed in Brooklyn by Whites in Attack Called Racial.”

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Do the Right Thing — Suppress Crime

When A young woman investment banker was raped, beaten and left for dead in New York’s Central Park by a “wilding” gang of black youths last April, liberal opinion in the city didn’t know what to think. But it knew very well what not to think. The crime, we were repeatedly assured, was not racial. It was simply a brutal crime and, as such, reported by the New York Times itself under the dispassionate headline: ‘Youths Rape and Beat Central Park Jogger.” Contrast the same newspaper’s headline last month when a young black man, Yusef Hawkins, was shot and killed by a gang of white youths: “Black Youth Is Killed in Brooklyn by Whites in Attack Called Racial.”