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Sad story.
Re descriptions of race in the media - whether it be white, black, Asian, whatever, these days there's rarely a mention, even when it may serve the public interest in terms of safety - e.g. the suspects were described as tall, in their 20s etc. It's a form of absurd political correctness that does everyone a disservice.
Yep -- and note that in the article, not once is the perp's race mentioned, not even in the headline. Yet we all know how the media would have handled it if it had been a white perp and a black victim.
In my area they never mention the race when the perp is black, but I think that's actually worse. Now when anyone does not mention a race everyone assumes it's because the perp was black.
Yep -- and note that in the article, not once is the perp's race mentioned, not even in the headline. Yet we all know how the media would have handled it if it had been a white perp and a black victim.
Seems like a deliberate black race baiting thread (with the mention of race of accused in thread title).
I never mention race in any of my threads.
Interesting.
One wonders if we were to research your participation in threads where "white cops shoots unarmed black", whether you have made the same accusation of race baiting?
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One photo is worth a thousand words!
Without the pictures, I would have assumed it was two Jewish Hebrew school students bitten by the labradoodle and fighting back against the master who sicked the dog on them..
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Originally Posted by uggabugga Is this the kind of stuff we're supposed to talk about at Starbucks now?
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Originally Posted by shadowne
Yes, this would start a lively discussion.
Yes, go up to one of the Starbucks in Harlem and talk about this. The discussion should be real lively, just like Howard Schultz wanted.
The 15 year old perps have prior robberies in their background. The 14 year old was off his medication. His relative told the news that he is just not that type of kid. So it was his medication that did it.
You've got to wonder just how f'ed up these guys (culture/community/family) are (not really kids at 15 years old) to do something like this. Try to imagine yourself at 15 with an innocent person begging for his life and deciding to murder him in cold blood. That's some ISIS type stuff. Hopefully these guys are put away for life without parole. There's probably no chance of rehabilitation and prison will only make them more ruthless. One of the articles I read said they picked him because he looked more vulnerable - I'm not sure if that's code for "he's white - we can take him".
You've got to wonder just how f'ed up these guys (culture/community/family) are (not really kids at 15 years old) to do something like this. Try to imagine yourself at 15 with an innocent person begging for his life and deciding to murder him in cold blood. That's some ISIS type stuff. Hopefully these guys are put away for life without parole. There's probably no chance of rehabilitation and prison will only make them more ruthless. One of the articles I read said they picked him because he looked more vulnerable - I'm not sure if that's code for "he's white - we can take him".
Fed up with what at 15 years old, are you serious? What 15 year old has lived long enough to be fed up with anything. Let them rot in prison and see how fed up they get. Then maybe someone there will rid society of their ilk.
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