 the race card is played yet again there is apparently a serial killer targeting blacks in flint  so what should we do first don t panic second let the police do their job three blame racism officials with the flint branch of the naacp said the safety of black people isn t taken seriously in the city frances gilcreast the local president said it s alarming to learn about serial killings after 12 attacks have occurred she knew nothing until noon thursday when she saw a tv news report she said perhaps frances should watch the news more often but let s here what rev phil schmitter has to say as the economy has worsened in this city so has desperation and we have been making an effort to fight increased gun violence so much anger and desperation in people real or imagined can result in blaming someone else stuff that was latent becomes overt when you are looking for someone else to blame for your miseries i would be very surprised if race wasn t an element here i would say we need to read between the lines but there are no lines the reverend is saying that the killer is an angry unemployed white guy killing blacks because they are black except for the white guy he attacked too but maybe that guy was listening to rap music or was wearing a black shirt who knows but before we start a race war let s look at some statistics  while african americans comprise 135 of the us population 43 of all murder victims in 2007 were african american 931 of whom were killed were african americans maybe just maybe the killer is killing because he is a crazy psychopathic monster and not because obama is president as bad as that is or that feels oppressed because as a white he s the minority in flint how about we just worry about stopping him  