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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (37422)	3/9/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I think underlying you comments is the fear of some kind of conspiracy to commit racially motivated murders. A chilling prospect. But even this is already illegal. And if such a conspiracy exists, the police have plenty of legal tools to snuff it out. If the will is absent, well this is a different problem. Larding on laws is no way to address that.

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (37422)	3/9/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>>Philosophically, racial killing represents an almost immovable threat to all races; and so instead of longing for the media not to pay much attention to them, we should want it to give them quite a good deal of attention.<< No one would argue that, but I would say that the news coverage puts the focus in such a way as to almost exacerbate the racial divide. I found that it was very interesting that in Jasper, TX, the black population there did not want outside "instigators" like the New Black Panthers coming in trying to foment more racial division. It seemed that the reaction of the white population to the dragging death of that poor man gave them confidence that justice would be done. And indeed there was justice. But I don't recall I lot of media focus on that fact. It wasn't nonexistent, but came across to me like a "postscript". No, in a way, the "greater" story of Jasper is that there was universal condemnation of the perpetrator by whites and blacks toward the unrepentant killer of the innocent black man. Now his fate is sealed according to the law and his final disposition is between him and his Maker. bp