I thought she was Latina? And most of the perpetrators were Latinos, with some blacks?
That matches the demographics of the high school, anyway.
Please correct me if I’m wrong; my local paper (I’m near Richmond but not too near!) hasn’t printed many pictures. ..
Sandy Banks of the LA Times reports that the victim was a white girl, but no one wants to discuss it.
From Ms Banks’ 11-7-09 article:
“In the Richmond gang rape case, I was surprised that so many readers made race the subtext. And they took me to task for not mentioning the race of the victim or her attackers.
“The discomfort you folks feel in acknowledging racial attacks on whites prevents you from writing the facts,” one reader’s e-mail said.
I admit to feeling “discomfort” as I tried to get a grip on the racial dimensions of the assault. The victim was white; her attackers were described to me by students as mostly Latino, with one black and one white.
But I didn’t mention race in my column because I don’t believe that explains the attack. None of the teenagers mentioned race until I pressed them on it; several even thought the victim was Latina.”