The Next Great White Defendants

Each is more farcical than the last.

A black teen, Nolan Wells, went out with his white friends for the Fourth of July; he didn’t come back. Naturally, many online have decided this must have been murder, and people have already been arrested for making violent threats. Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, and the Black Congressional Caucus are already involved; his friends are protesting their innocence. Anything is possible . . . but this looks like another example of blacks’ racial paranoia, where they really believe that widespread lynchings, “sundown towns,” and racist death squads are lurking behind every bush.