The newspaper did not say much.  People all over the country must have glanced at the paragraph with its sensational heading and felt a little spurt of anger mingled with what was almost satisfaction, as if some belief had been confirmed, as if something had happened which could only have been expected.  When natives steal, murder or rape, that is the feeling white people have.

~ Doris Lessing,The Grass Is Singing, © 1950, p. 1.