Why does The Age suddenly become color blind at a bashing? The Age appeals for help to find those responsible for a shocking crime: Police are searching for a violent gang that bashed a 26-year-old woman until she lost consciousness on a crowded NightRider bus in Melbourne's city centre... A group of six or seven men and two women boarded the bus on Swanston Street about 2.30am and began acting aggressively. A number of concerned passengers, including a 26-year-old St Kilda woman, appealed for the bus driver to remove the offending group from the bus. But before the driver could intervene, one of the women in the group approached the St Kilda woman, threw a drink on her and then punched her in the face. Other members of the offending group then joined in... The search for the guilty (an debate on refugee policy) might have been helped had The Age not omitted a highly relevant detail about their identity. From the Herald Sun: Transit Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the serious assault and hope to identify the offenders, who are believed to be of African appearance, from CCTV... The others in the group were perceived to be of African appearance, police said What is The Age - again - trying to hide? Facts that might lead us to conclude that saving some refugees from danger means exposing Australians to more danger themselves? It's not as if The Age doesn't hype color when that suits its agenda, as when a man with Latino ancestry shoots a black youth in self-defence: Zimmerman, of white and Peruvian parentage, walked free when a Florida jury acknowledged his legal right to pump a bullet into Martin's chest. The only racists are white, you see. Thanks to readers David, Rocky and others.