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Saturday, June 23, 2007

A little creepy, if you ask me

Here's a kind of column that I think would never appear in a Seattle paper. Appearing on the day its missing-mother subject, Jessie Marie Davis, has been found murdered, the piece commends "people" for searching and praying for Davis instead of dwelling on the sinful side of her life. And do you know what? "This is not an endorsement of out-of-wedlock births or adultery." Congratulations too for not stoning her to death, shunning her, etc.

I'm left with the impression that I would be thoroughly creeped out to live in a place like Akron, Ohio. It doesn't help that there is a little sidebar headed "More News from Topix.net" under which the only links are "African-American" and "Discuss African-American". There seems to be a subtext to the column, and it's not hard to see what it is when you notice that Davis is white and the father of her children (and, now, her confessed murderer) is black.

I do like the irony of a religion writer named "Terry Pluto".

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