Bumper Cars All Grown Up

Yesterday I read an article online about a road rage incident at a Las Vegas public elementary school. It seems "a woman in a red Mercedes" and "a man in a white SUV" got into a squabble while merging into a line to drop off their kids after school, or pick them up I can't remember. White SUV thought Red Mercedes was cutting him off, or vice versa -- not important. Next thing you know Red Mercedes hops out and a tussle ensues, or maybe White SUV started it -- nobody knows for sure. But then White SUV pushed Red Mercedes' young son to the ground, so she pulled out a knife and stabbed White SUV in the stomach. (Wow, did not see that coming!)

White SUV went by ambulance to the hospital and Red Mercedes was arrested. But hey, why no descriptions of the people? No ages? No ethnicities, in this day when ethnicity is everything? Why can't we know the combatants were a black woman and a white man? Instead we learn what color their cars are.

Most news stories these days intentionally neglect to mention the race of the people involved, like it's no big deal. Yet Joe Biden campaigned on the promise that he would pick a black woman as his VP, and followed that by announcing he would appoint a black Supreme Court Justice. That's okay -- but a news story wherein someone stabbed someone else is cloaked in mystery.

I'd bet the farm that if a white guy had stabbed a black woman, we'd know it. As it is, we can only conclude that drivers of red Mercedes are potentially hot-headed whack jobs and drivers of white SUVS are possibly bullies who hurt children.