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To: DMaA who wrote (37424)	3/9/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 67261

I am sorry for my delay. I have gotten a bit busy here. >I think underlying you comments is the fear of some kind of conspiracy to commit racially motivated murders. A chilling prospect.< Not at all. Underlying my comments is the recognition that a philosophical threat exists for us all in the notion that White on Black racial killings receive too much attention. I think they should receive an extraordinary amount of attention because the implications they present are contrary to my own existence even as a White. I also think the concentration of the media upon White on Black killing is equally a threat for the same reason. Racial killing should be widely reported and denounced because it presents a threat unlike that of many other crimes. Philosophically there is no available recourse in the face of such crimes save but to change one's color. Unfortunately this is not exactly a viable option for many people. Rather than claim racial killings receive too much attention, I believe it more reasonable to claim the attention these killings receive is inequitable. Black on White crime should be as much a national spectacle as White on Black crime. The issue is that all racial killing should be roundly denounced as fundamental barbarism. >But even here, this is already illegal. And if such a conspiracy exists, the police have plenty of legal tools to snuff it out.< Well of course, but the legal issue is entirely different from the issue of how we are to view the philosophy underpinings of racial murders. To claim such murders receive too much attention implies a callousness to or ignorance of their larger philosophical implications. The person who claims that White on Black murders receive too much attention in the minds of others claims Black on White murders also receive too much attention. It seems reasonable to claim all racial murders fundamentally barbarous and that if anything they should all receive equally strong denouncement. >If the will is absent, well this is a different problem. Larding on laws is no way to addess that.< Agreed, but a sure way to support the lack of the will is to accept the premise that these crimes receive too much attention. We must understand the history behind these crimes and behind the attitudes of their victims, rather than dismiss the crimes in frustration. Then we must by principle mete out justice. We must also fairly mete out denouncement and punishment for all injustice, whatever the races of the perpetrators.