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Originally Posted by pelathais
Sadly, you do have a bit of history that may be responsible at least in part for some "bias."
But, there have been many cases where no crime at all took place - (Twana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse team) when "race" was heralded as the motivation and the accused were smeared and dealt with horribly, only to be later cleared of all charges.
I had a similar personal experience when my kids were younger. We were at a popular park in the city for a picnic. The playground was kind of out of sight from our picnic. A small African-American boy was clumsily playing with a swing and smacked himself in the head with the swing. It stunned him badly enough that he went screaming back to his folks (from a different group of picnickers, all African American) and they rounded up MY KIDS! to hold them until the police arrived.
The complaint? The small African American kid said, "They knocked our heads together...!!!" Since he only had one head on his shoulder, it made no sense. Still a real confrontation was in the making when I was informed of the situation and marched down the hill.
Fortunately, there was a wise old grandpa in the other group who calmed his folks down and got the angry women to back off just as I got there. Otherwise...? Who knows. But you DO NOT take my kids into "custody," certainly not at that age.
And just for a back grounder Jermyn. This is my wife's great uncle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dahmer (click the link). His nieces and nephews, though "white looking" and very young at the time were surrounded by an angry, shouting group of African Americans and threatened.
It makes no sense.
I think that's why a lot of people are upset about this case too. You know of Twana Brawley and the Duke Lacrosse team. We all heard about it and wondered how it could be true. Turns out, it was all a lie.
Did you even know the names Chris Newsom and Channon Christian until yesterday? |
I didn't know their names until today.
Horrible crimes and I hope the perpetrators are convicted.
However, when speaking about heinous crimes and black people, more often than not black people are the victims of choice for black criminals.
How many young black males die every year at the hands of another black male?
How many of those crimes are brutally carried out, sometimes in public?
Does anyone know the names of any of the victims?
America is sadly a very violent place in many parts of our country.
Even in the most shocking crimes, the victims are hardly remembered and the alleged perpetrators get undue glory for their inglorious acts.
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