The racial questions are arising because there was a Jena 6 rally on campus, earlier in the evening.
I beg to differ.
The only reason any racial questions are arising is because it is Race weekend and there are thousands of NASCAR fans in Dover nearly tripling the populatio of the the city.
The campus is directly across US Rte13 from the race track.
I don’t believe the racial questions are arising from the Jena6 rally either, locally speaking. I live in Dover and didn’t know about the rally. There was a picture in the local newspaper about the rally today (hours after the shooting) that showed 4 teens. That was it.
No one I spoke to all day knew about the rally, although all had heard about the shooting. There was nothing on the local radio about the rally, either earlier this week or today. It wasn’t a part of the local broadcasts about the shooting, and I can assure you that 99.99% of the NASCAR fans have their headsets tuned to WDSD where they give live coverage of the race. They aren’t concerned with what is going on 4 lanes over across the highway other than to hope everyone is ok. They’re too busy going to Denney’s and Applebys the Acme and hitting Raceway Liquors.
**This from a lifelong resident of the area and one who used to work NASCAR races.