Prediction:

Within three days, generic cialis thumb Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane will have a post or article about the 16-year-old girl shot by someone in a passing vehicle near Addison, Wisconsin.

He’ll point out that no one is ranting about how the shooting is proof of a “cornfield culture” that encourages such actions unlike the criticism of inner-city culture that appears in the media and in the Cheddarsphere every time a black kid is gunned down in Milwaukee.

As usual, he’ll be right…and yet wrong at the same time.

Yes, no one uses crimes like this senseless shooting or the rampage by the rural cop last year as fodder for a discussion of the failures of white rural culture.

But the occasional existence of such crimes in no way balances or is the equivalent to the unacceptably high level of shootings in Milwaukee’s inner city.

5 comments May 5th, 2008