>Maggie also suggested that the fact that the victims were overwhelmingly
>white did not mean that this was not a race killing - which seems a bit
>far-fetched to me. Racism normally implies that you think your own race
>is superior to other races - not that they too should be exterminated.
Seems to me that people seething with poorly articulated hatreds can choose race as one of many pre-existing channels for their rage.
Doug