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...irony of the shuttlebus case, as with the Stuart case, was that the actual culprits weren't even Black. The police were told the Rix burglars were white, but confronted the two Black students anyway...
...appears that even the ivy-covered walls of Harvard cannot escape the taint of racial prejudice. In the light of the Stuart case and the shuttle bus incident involving two Harvard students, I hope that America, including the members of the Harvard community, will conduct some serious self-reflection. And that whites will hesitate, question and thoroughly analyze a situation instead of immediately accusing a Black person of wrongdoing...
...appalling truth is out, although a tantalizing portion of it vanished forever when Charles Stuart jumped to his death into the icy waters of the Mystic River. A stunned city is left to wonder which is worse: the ease with which it embraced Stuart's lie that a black mugger murdered his wife for a bit of jewelry, or the knowledge that evil can wear an expensive suit, hold a respectable job, own a house in a pleasant suburb...
...identifying the killer of his seven-months-pregnant wife as a raspy- voiced black man dressed in a jogging suit, Stuart tapped into assumptions about race and crime so powerful that they overwhelmed skepticism about his tale. His fabrication raised the curtain on a drama in which the press and police, prosecutors, politicians and the public played out their parts as though they were following the script for the television movie that CBS will make about the case...
Instead of suspicion, Stuart was showered with sympathy. The media apotheosized the couple as starry-eyed lovers out of Camelot cut down by an urban savage. Some politicians attended Carol's funeral; others called for the death penalty. Mayor Raymond Flynn ordered all available detectives to work on the case. Hundreds of men in Mission Hill whose only connection to the case was that they were young and black were stopped and frisked...