Human Events
Dead souls of a cultural revolution
By Patrick J. Buchanan  
8/23/2013 

Last Friday, Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Australian here on a baseball scholarship, was shot and killed while jogging in Duncan, Okla., population 23,000. He died where he fell. 

Police have three suspects, two black and one white. The latter said they were bored and decided to shoot Lane for “the fun of it.” 

As Lane was white and the shooter black, racism has surfaced as a motive. Thursday came reports that killing a white man may have been an initiation rite for the black teens in joining some offshoot of the Crips or Bloods. 

What happened in Oklahoma and the reaction, or lack of reaction to it, tells us much about America in 2013, not much of it good. 

Teenagers who can shoot and kill a man out of summertime boredom are moral barbarians, dead souls. 

But who created these monsters? Where did they come from? Surely one explanation lies in the fact that the old conscience-forming and character-forming institutions — home, church, school, and a moral and healthy culture fortifying basic truths — have collapsed. And the community hardest hit is Black America... 

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