“The story of the case is a marketable story. And that story is made up of black irrationality, and black cunning, and black stupidity, and the black predator. That’s what the story is about. So if you take black irrationality out of it, you don’t have a story. Black men in particular, and black people in general, are supposed to be able to do opposite-ends-of-the-scale things, and we don’t have to make sense. We’ve always been considered to be irrational, emotional, lunatic people. So if you have someone that was accepted in the mainstream world as exactly the opposite of that, the threat that one may fall back into chaos is always there. That’s not just in this case. It was just played out theatrically, although it’s true in almost everything — narratives, stories, about black men in particular.”
