Word: maddox
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...their letter to The Crimson (Jan. 10), H.W. Jerome Maddox and Valarie Allen use the current Stuart murder case as a condemnation of American society, which they feel was all too eager to accept Charles Stuart's story. "Had the killer been African-American," they state, "we fear white society would have sanctioned an equally odorous [sic] crime..." It is Maddox and Allen who fulfill their own dismal prophecy...
...Maddox and Allen write that Stuart "animated the gravest fear of white America; a crazed, degenerate Black man kills an innocent, pregnant lawyer and child, destroys a family which symbolizes middle-class prosperity." I would first reject the notion of a homogenous "white America." The social, economic and ethnic diversity of the 200 million or so whites in America is too great to justify such terminology. I doubt that Donald Trump, Johnny Carson and a Kansas farmer wake up every morning with much in common on their minds. Second, even if one were to assume that all of "white America...
...Maddox and Allen continue, "The white-controlled media and police, of course, bought [Stuart's] story." Yes, the media bought the story. The police bought the story. Whites bought the story. Blacks bought the story. The story of a random abduction and murder by an assailant, white or Black, is far more believable than the truth in this case, that a man premeditatedly shot both his seven-month pregnant wife and himself to collect insurance money and open a restaurant. To back up their theory, the authors point out that "white society already perceived the Black male as a murderous...
...relieved. Relieved because white America did not receive a mandate to institutionalize its strong, latent prejudice. We can only hope that the underlying implications of Charles Stuart's skewed yet masterful ploy will be eradicated through serious self-reflection by the white community. H.W. Jerome Maddox '90 Valarie J. Allen...