By Selwyn Duke

If, for argument’s sake, 90 percent of a certain crime’s perpetrators are of a given group and 90 percent of those arrested for the crime are of that group, you might call that probability. The New York Times calls it something else.

Racism.

At issue is a Wednesday Times essay titled “How Britain’s Crackdown on Gangs Disproportionately Targets Young Black Men.” It’s quite long — more than 5,000 words — yet, interestingly, it doesn’t actually explain “how” the crackdown “disproportionately” targets young black men. Rather, it focuses on the case of one particular young black man, an 18-year-old named Ademola Adedeji.

It’s a human-interest story, designed to manipulate people emotionally so that they not only believe Adedeji was targeted because of his race, but then assume likewise about all black men arrested on gang-related charges.

Read the rest here.