July 21, 2008 11:24 AM
The fiancee of a murdered Penn. man says that racial tensions aroused in Hazleton, Pa., led to harrassment of him. The climate in the town next to Hazleton was so bad that he was considering moving back to his native Mexico.
In a particularly sick move, the Pennsylvaia State Mayors Association named the racist Hazleton mayor Lou Barletta as "Mayor of the Year" following the killing.
As grim as this murder is, esp the monstrous official reaction of civic & police powers, the story I read over week-end is as monstrous. The two examples are proof that denial of racism is a moral blindness that wraps the victim in a process, in similar way that most drunk people are tricked by their own brain into believing they are perfectly ok, with little to no perception of their own deminished capacity.
This example of racist hate crime in Orange County is as depraved as it is shocking, the full flowering of a racism's implacable logic.
http://www.ocweekly.com/features/features/web-exclusive-a-case-from-the-past-haunts-reporter/29033/
By mo July 21, 2008 06:18 PM