A black teenager stabbed a white student to death at a track meet, and blacks are rallying to defend their co-ethnic. Meanwhile, the victim's own father is expressing sympathy for his son's killer. The true civic religion of the postwar West is revealed in cases like this, as is the intractability of racial divisions. The only solution is separation. Paul Kersey and Gregory Hood argue that this is so terrifying to many whites that they are willing to embrace an absurd martyrdom instead.
