doh!

Newscaster: A woman has gone to trial for killing her husband.

James: Oh, I heard about that. (Looks at TV) What? They're white?!

Me: No James, not just black people commit crimes!

(For those wondering, my good friend James is himself of African descent.)

It was rather amusing to be there. Of course, if you stop and think about why the assumption was that the domestic violence was in a black family, it's probably not quite as funny. On the other hand, maybe this incident's causes are not so ominous. A white person hears that someone did something and probably envisions a white person. Why shouldn't a black person, then, on hearing that a person did something envision a black person? The world may never know.