As the several fans of The Spoonbender know, I'm not a believer in stereotypes. Jews are not shifty and money-grubbing, and they do not have large noses. Hispanics are not all lazy, nor do they prefer to carpool. Blacks are not especially athletic, and they are not prone to excessive public displays of emotion. Asians are not "human computers," and they drive as well as any of us. There's nothing genetically wrong with the British. And despite what you might have been raised to believe, women can be reasonable and trustworthy.

But news stories like this make my job smashing our dangerous and ignorant conceptions about people difficult. I mean, just because a 24-year-old man is named something like Clarence Lacey Moore and lives in Columbus, Georgia with five children, three of which may or may not be his, doesn't mean that he's a cracker destined to stab them kids with his daddy's hunting knife.


After slitting his own throat, Clarence Lacey Moore's neck now really is red.

Analogcabin @ 9:47 AM
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