What happens in this type of situation is that the relatives and friends of the dead black girl spread the first set of facts, along with various rumors, to their relatives and friends. From there, the story sweeps rapidly via word of mouth throughout L.A.'s African-American community. Meanwhile, the relatives and friends of the Korean woman pass around a second story consisting of the mitigating facts and rumors. Each of these highly biased tales travel along what are primarily family-centered networks. My male readers should not underestimate the importance of family contacts merely because they don't talk to their relatives that much.
Women keep in touch with relations far more than men do.
And though they are loath to admit it, many men get their opinions about local matters from their wives. We trust what they tell us more, because those who share more of our genes tend to have more of our best interests at heart than outsiders. Modern neo-Darwinism is founded upon this insight, which was mathematically demonstrated by the late evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton in 1964. Because the extended families are wholly separate, both the races and their myths remain separate. She would no doubt find all this troubling, but ambiguous.