Round-up

1. Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma says there is insufficient monitoring of "cyber-racism" and the law does not provide adequate protection for victims.

Cyber-racism: "Are you the Negro John Connor? Prepare to be...terminated."

2. A black exchange student has been stabbed by unknown assailants in a southern Russian city in an attack officials say may have been racially motivated.

I don't have a problem with this. There is no evidence yet that the attack was a racist one (although the boy's mother seems to think it was), but I have no problem with keeping it open as an option. It's when the police and media automatically assume an incident WAS racist without any evidence that I get really cheesed off.

Le's hope this case is resolved as quickly as possible and that the student recovers just as quickly.