In fact, I think that the Urban League's attempt to ignore race may even amplify the eventual feelings of Seattle's citizens. Not to overstate it, but someone who was shocked by the whole thing may feel even more that African American youths targeted white people just because there was such a vehement denial by the city's African American leadership. Being that I often get outraged with some of the commentary found in The Stranger , I was extremely delighted to see that you didn't get caught in the usual leftist dribble. I myself am about one of the least racist people around, but I was down there that night, and that was a race riot. If it had been white on black instead, we would still have Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton in our city inciting even more racism.
Racism is racism, no matter what color perpetrates it.
I normally tend to not involve race in an issue, but I am sick of the hypocrisy. If every time a white hits a black it is racially motivated, then the reverse must be true, too. Once again, I am glad to see The Stranger be the only newspaper with the balls to call it like it is. Way to go. The decision to put a photojournalistic piece on a cover does not automatically denote it as art.