#245. Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox: Not Guilty. As usual, a Black guy did it.

The reality of crime and punishment is very boring.  Television shows such as Law & Order give us a world of super intelligent white criminals based out of wealthy New York City apartments that use complicated schemes to (almost) get away with murder, until they are stopped by dedicated law enforcement professionals like Ice T.  Movies tell us about white costumed super heroes that leap into action against (white) villains who use advanced technology or super human cunning to try to take over the world.  Even commercials for personal alarm systems or government sponsored PSA's about terrorism star nefarious white villains who are lurking in the shadows to steal your television or attack Black-Run America.

In the real world, crime is mostly committed by low IQ career criminals of which a disproportionate number are black.  It is easy to mock how the media ignores black on black crime but flips out whenever a pretty blonde goes missing in some tropical locale.  Of course, there is an obvious answer.  Chronicling the reality of entirely black run urban America, a benighted land populated of an unemployed lumpenproletariat kept from starvation by EBTs and numbers culled by abortion, infant murder, black on black crime, and drug addiction, is depressing. As Tom Wolfe chronicled in the classic Bonfire of the Vanities, "The press couldn't even see these cases. It was just poor people killing poor people. To prosecute such cases was to be part of the garbage collection service, necessary and honorable, plodding and anonymous."  It also raises questions that shouldn't be asked, lest you jeopardize your job or, worse, your social status.  It is therefore better to gloss over the reality of urban America, with a vague reference to the "underprivileged" and to move on to stories that both Disingenuous White Liberals and unfashionable Middle Americans can either relate to or be tantalized by -- white women in tropical locales, doing things that they shouldn't.

Those involved in criminal justice face the same conflict.  No one wants to admit that what people in criminal justice do for a living is put black people in jail.  Therefore, for journalists, prosecutors, and all people of good will, the hunt is always on for the Great White Defendant, a person of breeding and status who benefits from institutional racism and white privilege.  In America, the most notable case was the Duke Lacrosse rape scandal, when prosecutor Mike Nifong secured his reelection in a black district by launching a huge investigation against evil white lacrosse players (from the evil racist school of Duke).  Unfortunately, it didn't happen, and the black stripper involved turned out to be just another criminal.

This crushing disappointment to people of color might have been avenged by the Amanda Knox case.  Amanda Knox was a young, beautiful American girl who was charged with killing her roommate Meredith Kercher along with the help of her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and black career criminal Rudy Guede.  Italian prosecutors have described a lurid scenario of interracial threesomes, Satanic rituals, and violent sexual abuse.  Unfortunately, after four years of being imprisoned, an Italian court (which uses rules far more favorable to the prosecution than American courts) has overturned the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.  The court has ruled (as the actually existing evidence suggested) that this is just another simple story -- a white girl was murdered by some black guy.

Even Republican trophy girl Ann Coulter is disappointed that the criminal turned out to be what it usually is -- some black guy.  Even though those who know her understand she knows about racial reality (and has forbidden acquaintances, attended forbidden meetings, defended forbidden organizations, and uttered forbidden facts), occasionally she says something deliberately stupid to maintain her career being paid five figures to do a stand up comedian act for College Republicans.  Therefore, in a remarkable column, she maintains that "liberals" are defending Knox, who is the “new Mumia.”  Not quite.  Actually, they want her convicted because Knox is guilty of the worst crime of all -- being a good looking white girl who didn't commit a crime.  Disingenuous White Liberals don’t defend “criminals” (somehow we missed the huge liberal outcry about the execution of Lawrence Russell Brewer on the same day as cop killer Troy Davis).  They defend black criminals because all black criminals are the victims of racism. 

Knox being set free is hugely disappointing -- rather than a sexy murderess with bisexual undertones, we have another boring story of a college girl paying the white tax.  How lame.  

Stuff Black People Don't Like will always include Amanda Knox.  She's a white girl who was acquitted of murder who had a black guy kill her roommate.  She is obviously a racist, who should have helped him to prove that stereotyping is very wrong and only done by bad people.  Rather than a heroic collaborator of National Black Foot Soldiers who had taken the fight to racism in Italy, she was just another recipient of white privilege who gets to go home and lead her racist life after only losing four years.