
By Selwyn Duke
Many black people are “rooting for, hoping — seemingly praying — that Nolan Wells’ white friends killed him.” So said commentator Jason Whitlock, himself black, last Thursday about the recent death of black youth Wells.
The case is receiving much national attention. Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-year-old college football player from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, went missing on Independence Day after partying with white friends. An extensive search was launched, and he was found deceased July 6, the victim of an apparent drowning. Police suspect no foul play, but the investigation is ongoing.
From the reaction in certain quarters, though, you’d think the poor young man was found hanged. Race hustler Al Sharpton and “civil-rights” attorney Ben Crump have gotten involved. Anti-white sentiment on the internet has been stoked. And entities such as HuffPost are claiming that the “story we’ve been given about Nolan Wells doesn’t add up.” Is this, however, only because such observers have a math problem?
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