Thursday, March 13, 2008

Don't Mess with White Women

Two suspects have been detained by police in the Eve Carson case, Demario James Atwater and Lawrence Alvin Lovett, Jr.



Lovett was also charged with the murder of Abhijit Mahato, a Dook graduate student found dead in his apartment on January 19th.

There is an obvious disparity in the amount of press coverage and attention paid to these two murder cases that happened less than two months apart, both in the same metro area, and both were students at well-known four-year universities.

One difference comes to mind:



Simply put, one is an attractive white female, and one is a minority. Messing with the first kind is guaranteed to land you in a boatload of trouble. Messing with the second... well... it happens.

"How come they never found Biggie and Tupac's murderers, but they could arrest O.J. the next day" (Dave Chappelle)

I'm not saying Carson did not deserve the attention she got - I'm glad all the various police and government agencies mobilized so quickly and nabbed 2/2 suspects in case with no initial leads in about a week. But makes me wonder if Mahato's case received anywhere near the same level of service from government or support from the community.