https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-reaches-verdict-karen-read-184716323.html

White woman on trial!

Ach, I’m not even interested. Why is this a news story? (I know, I know, if it bleeds, it leads.)

Ok, I guess for every white woman getting drunk and killing her boyfriend, there are 0.12 Black women doing the same thing, and I haven’t seen enough Drunk White Women On Trial! stories to notice that Drunk Black Women On Trial! hasn’t gotten the same attention. Even over 40 years, which is how long I’ve been at least sort of paying attention.

Have there even been eight of these stories? There was whatsherface Susan whatshername drowning her kids in South Carolina, and whosits in Italy who didn’t! kill her boyfriend, and the woman who drowned her 5 or 6 kids in a bathtub after her conservative quiverful engineer husband left for work, so that’s… three?

This is not a fun exercise (at all) and I would actually prefer to never have enough data to draw a conclusion.