Blind as a Bat

Multiple black support groups at the University of Minnesota have written a letter to the administration there urging it that future crime alerts not include the race of the suspected criminal … as this is "discomforting" and perpetrates racial stereotyping … see: CBS Local Report.

If the school eventually caves on this issue, we can all see where this is going to end up:

 - All the hyphenated school gender support groups will petition that the sex of the criminal is not relevant to the crime and need not be included in alerts and crime stories.

- Short people will request that the height of the perpetrator should not be indicated as it may impinge on their self esteem.

- Neighborhood realtors will claim that reporting what crime and where it occurred will decrease the value of houses there and therefore should be stopped.

The crime alerts and reporting at the University of Minnesota will then go something like this:

“Somebody did something somewhere.  Please forward any and all leads to the authorities.”