Thread: latest Raleigh area DUI death attributed to illegal drunk

I just sent an email to Cullen Browder. I pointed out that
Mr Gheen said nothing about race, but rather about someone
breaking several of our laws, which in the end results in a
legal citizen's death.

I pointed out that Mr. Asion immediately turned it into a
race & culture issue. Did you get some of the quotes:

"They're learning to drive. They're learning how to
survive (smiling)..." Boys will be boys?

Or

"Whenever a Latino does something wrong, it's going to
come down on the rest of us." IoW, we are all racist &
cannot understand the laws are there to be enforced
& protect citizens.

Mr. Asion is more concerned with a Latino PR issue, rather than concern for the victims and a determination that the suspect stand trial. Since he brought up the issue of ethnicity, he should listen to a past NPR Morning Edition (hardly a racist organization) program about a study which shows that Hispanics are indeed responsible for fatal drunk driving accidents far out of proportion to their numbers. Some of the Hispanic men quoted in the piece had the same shallow mentality toward drunk driving as Mr. Asion. The program does adopt a tone of smarmy political correctness, but underneath that, the facts are very clear: Hispanics are a higher threat to our safety on the road than any other group.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5572465

LongIslander,

I corresponded with the program director at WUNC (my local
NPR) about this story. I conveyed the same basic complaint as about
the WRAL piece -- it humanizes the people committing the homicide
by talking about cultural differences, thereby turning people who
narrowly insist on legal matters into a luddite & perhaps even a
racist. The victims are talked about as mere statistics.

You're right -- in the end the facts are in there, but if they humanized
the victims, people would be a lot angrier.