Cause and Effect? Seattle Reader Writes on Military Academy Diversity and Rape, and the Seattle Air Jordan Riots

 
Dear Mr. Stix,

I note that sexual assaults are up at military academies, and so is minority recruitment. I can't help but wonder how many of the assaults are by minorities. I suppose getting the facts in this case is probably not possible. Even with the recent Nike Riots--although everyone instantly guessed who was responsible--only the pictures revealed the perpetrators.

In the case of our local Nike Riot--where police resorted to pepper spray--both my wife and I instantly guessed which mall was involved.

Sure enough, it turned out to be Southcenter--the mall close to the south end of the Black area.

It seems like the black problem is getting worse. Perhaps having one of their own in the White House makes them feel empowered.

Hope you and your family have a happy New Year.

[I received this letter prior to New Year’s, but lost it in a crash. Fortunately, I was able to recover it. I extend belated Happy New Year’s wishes to my reader and his family. (Crash or no crash, I’m always late, anyway.)

I share my correspondent’s suspicions about the cause of the rise in sexual assaults at our military academies, his lamentations about the increasing difficulty in getting reliable information on such matters, and second his observation about “the black problem.”

Note that the reader did most of the coding in his letter.]

P.S. I see that my reader and me both wrote "sexual assaults," when we meant rapes. Getting people who know better to use such euphemisms is the true measure of feminists' success.