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Toby Harnden

Toby Harnden

in Washington DC

Toby Harnden has been The Daily Telegraph's US Editor since 2006. He lives in Washington DC with his wife Cheryl, daughter Tessa and dog Finn. Toby was previously Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph. He first joined The Daily Telegraph in 1994 and has been its Ireland Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent. He is the author of Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999). An archive of his work is at www.tobyharnden.com. Story ideas and news tips are welcomed and Toby can be contacted at toby.harnden@telegraph.co.uk. His Facebook profile is here.

Police: Black attack on "Honkies" not a race crime

Posted by Toby Harnden on 23 Aug 2007  at 08:08 
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Wasn't intending to blog while on my hols up in Massachusetts but came across this extraordinary story buried in the Boston Globe's B Section. It's about two white couples in Boston who were seriously assaulted by three black women. The article is a bizarre piece of political correctness - there is no mention of race until the 13th paragraph, even though that can be the only thing that gives it any proper news value.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) conducts a mock funeral to bury the N-Word
The n-word is not the only one that needs burying

Despite the use of the epithet "honky" apparently sparking the incident, the police said it was "too early" to assess whether race was a factor. What if whites had used the word "nigger" (or, as it invariably appears in print, "the n-word") against black victims in a similar attack? Page One of the Globe, the authorities talking about using hate crimes legislation - guaranteed.

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Posted by Toby Harnden on 23 Aug 2007 at 08:08