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The Dartmouth
November 12, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
James Hunt
The Setonian
Opinion

It's Not All About Race

To the Editors: Echo Brown '06 writes that minorities "who feel that their rights are being systematically undermined by discrimination are less likely to respect and obey the laws of the criminal justice system." Does that explain why on October 16, 2002, a then-21-year-old African American man murdered an African American couple and their five children by setting fire to their rowhouse in Baltimore, a city where many of the principals in the criminal justice system are African American? Of course it doesn't.

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