Genetics, athletics and race have little to do with the Ray Lewis case (“The real story behind Ray Lewis,” Commentary Jan. 28). Jon Entine’s overcomplication of the matter seems to miss the very relevant, and much easier to understand, facts: Lewis was involved in a mismatched brawl, 10 against two, in which two young men were stabbed to death. Lewis and the killers fled in his limo. Blood from the victims was found in that limo, and also in the Holiday Inn restroom where they changed their clothes later.
Entine tries to flog his book about black athletes by using the Lewis case as a metaphor for his ramblings about skin color, hair color, muscle fiber, and the Human Genome Project. He claims the controversy over Lewis is about race. It’s not. It’s about a bad guy with bad friends who got away with a slap on the wrist, and who continues to complain that somehow he is the victim.
Wrapping this crime in a ball of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo won’t change those facts, and in fact reduces the dead men to mere consequences of Entine’s so-called theories on biodiversity.
