Race-Baiting at the Drudge Report

See below. Is this national news? Is this even local news? Beatings are terrible, and the students who did this should be punished, but you have to ask yourself why Drudge would feature this inconsequential story on his homepage. The answer, unfortunately, is fairly obvious -- the message is that white people ought to be very afraid of black people, starting with the President.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/09/race-baiting-at-the-drudge-report/26615/