Thomas Sowell asks “Who is ‘Racist?'” (“Who is Racist?'”) If this were a quiz, good answers might include The Washington Post’s very own Queen of Hearts, Jonathan Capehart, or Colby King, or Eugene Robinson also of The Post. However, Dr. Sowell contemplates a larger audience, white liberals.

Since the Duke lacrosse fiasco, no better example exists than the Trayvon Martin case in which the mainstream media has acted recklessly, from editing audio evidence to coining odd new identifiers to stir resentment and social disorder.  The suggestion that Zimmerman is a “white Hispanic” was created simply to fit a template of the left, whites routinely preying upon non-whites.  Imagine a Conservative referencing our President, who preys on all Americans, as a “white African.” Yet, he’s as “white” as Mr. Zimmerman. In fact, the left went loonier than usual when Teresa Heinz was cited as a “white-African,” which she is!

An ugly consequence of the liberal orthodoxy is that while expressing outrage about the death of Trayvon Martin, the left is silent about the dozens of deaths of young black men killed since, almost exclusively at the hands of other young black men.  Nor does the left care about or report dramatically about the white men, young and old, who have been savagely beaten by blacks to avenge the death of Mr. Martin.  In the cluttered minds of the left, that behavior is expected . . . it’s the way “those people live” . . . and die.