Recently your front page featured an article about a “black student” who was rescued from “five white males” by a “healthy muscular white male student.” The article then went on to tell us how the black student’s employer reacted. I think you left out a lot of important information. For example, was the black student also healthy and muscular? And exactly how did this white student get so “healthy and muscular” that he could “snatch the black kid away” from five would be murderers? What about the white attackers, what did their employers say about the attack?

Who cares?

Would this attack have been more serious, or less serious if it were a white attacked by five blacks and rescued by a Japanese man? How about a Hispanic attacked by three Canadians and two Jews, rescued by a skinny Native American? Was the attack racially motivated? If so, give your evidence, if not, lets leave race out of this.

Did the victim know his assailants, who pulled him out of his car and then came in groups to beat him, or was this a random attack? What happened to this individual is a serious violent crime. The individual who stopped this violence did a brave and heroic thing. No racial boundaries can change this. The man was injured, there was an eye witness and the license plate number of the vehicle was known, suspects were apprehended. Why hasn’t anyone been arrested? How could one person stop five from such violence? There is a large difference between 12 stitches and trying to kill someone. Why was there reason to believe they were trying to kill him?

The Northern Star gave us a lot of unimportant information and left a lot of questions unanswered. Stick to the issues and to the relevant facts. If the attack was racially motivated say it, then support it. Don’t hint at it and back away. This only feeds the ignorance prejudice is made of.

Joan Lucas

Senior

Psychology