Waiting for a Villian

Maybe like me, you want to know who committed the atrocity at the Boston Marathon while at the same time, you don't want to know.  Tim Wise speaks today about white privilege.  

White privilege is knowing that even if the Boston Marathon bomber turns out to be white, his or her identity will not result in white folks generally being singled out for suspicion by law enforcement, or the TSA, or the FBI. 

White privilege is knowing that even if the bomber turns out to be white, no one will call for whites to be profiled as terrorists as a result, subjected to special screening, or threatened with deportation. 

White privilege is knowing that if the bomber turns out to be white, he or she will be viewed as an exception to an otherwise non-white rule, an aberration, an anomaly, and that he or she will be able to join the ranks of Time McVeigh and Terry Nichols and Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph and...

 I’m afraid there is peace in not knowing.