Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Facts Subordinate to Narrative

New York Times columnist Charles Blow who is black and opines mostly about black rage, wrote recently about his son being stopped by campus police at Yale where the son is a student. Blow was in high dudgeon about the effrontery of the popo stopping his son merely because he was black.

As the Washington Examiner reports, it turns out the officer who stopped him was also black, as is the campus police chief. Do you suppose black policemen engage in racial profiling? I'll bet they do.

Why am I certain Blow knew of the officer's race and neglected to mention it because it got in the way of a good story? It is too much to hope for that Blow is chagrined about his lapse in journalistic judgment. Nothing embarrasses race hustlers.