Since the country is busy condemning whites for the shooting of a black kid by a Hispanic man, you may have missed this story — admittedly a few weeks old–tucked neatly into a corner of the New York Daily News:
A 13-year-old boy who police say was doused with gasoline and lit on fire last week while walking home from school is recovering from first-degree burns to his face and head.
The boy was just two blocks from his home in Kansas City Tuesday when two teenagers began to follow him and then attacked him, his mother, Melissa Coon, said.
Police have described the suspects as black 16-year-olds, while the victim is white.
According to the report, while setting the kid on fire, the teens said, “This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.”
I am not exaggerating when I say that there was not a word about this story in the national press. I searched, and the only stories I could find were the write up in the Daily News mentioned above and, oddly, a story in the Daily Mail, a British paper.
Nothing from the New York Times, AP, Reuters, UPI, etc. If any reader can produce a story about this sadistic attack that was actually published or mentioned in a national outlet, let me know. I’m only human; I may have missed it. I welcome being proved wrong about this, because I’m about ready to fold up my tent, quit civilization, and go find myself a comfy cave in Borneo to live in. This country is, like a bad calculus problem, rapidly approaching zero.
Also read:
CNN’s Roland Martin Prescribes ‘Shock Therapy’ for PJ Media’s David Steinberg, on Twitter
It truly is sad, isn’t it? Although I’ve been re-reading Romans (ch. 12 v. 19) I can’t get past the impatience factor.
Somewhere, I fear, Charlie Manson is a laughing his ugly little laugh.
Helter Skelter, indeed.
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?” Lamentations 1:12
Gil Scott-Heron had it all wrong. The revolution will indeed be televised and it will be started by White America not Black America when they get tired with all the double standards and pure hypocrisy. That day is a lot closer then you think.
I have two other names for you: Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, white teenagers kidnapped, and horrifically tortured and murdered in Knoxville, Tennessee by a group of drugged-out blacks. The facts of the crime were laid out in brutal detail, but the MSM saw no reason to label the murders “hate crimes”, they were just murders.
Now, however, when a black teenager is killed by a white man under unclear circumstances, the whole nation rises up at the injustice. There’s a double standard in this country, don’t tell me there isn’t, but it cuts both ways. Under it, whites are automatically labeled racists, but blacks are viewed as less disciplined, less able to control their worst impulses, therefore less culpable for their own misdeeds. Who’s hurt the worst by that?
the shooter was NOT white; he was HISPANIC. even you as a conservative have swallowed parts of the left-wing version of events.
We’re now being told Hispanic is not considered to be a separate race, unless, of course doing so HELPS the leftist narrative – (Whites this, blacks and HISPANICS that – EVIL!)
For example, Hispanics are white for the purposes of the current media circus (“white hispanic murders potential Obama voter”) but not otherwise (“conservatives seek to deny voting rights to undocumented Hispanic Democrats.”)
Hispanic isn’t a race. Hispanic just denotes someone who is descended from a Spanish speaking culture.
Hispanic does not equal a race.
For example, the nation of Spain. Lilly white Europeans. According to you, they are of a seperate race. This would be wrong.
I myself am of Mexican extraction yet I’m usually the whitest man in the room.
There are, what, three? Maybe four races of human beings?
Caucasoid, negroid, mongoloid…I’ve heard some people refer to native Indians as a distinct race.
Hispanic (or latino or chicano or whatever you want to call it) is simply another artificial division of people based on linguistic differences.
People should be pissed off that the leftist media is trying to sell this story with a racial slant when there is none. People should NOT be getting up in arms and shouting about the shooter, “Not one of ours!” That doesn’t matter. The media and the race hustlers need to be condemned for saying that it does. Stop playing their game.
Doesn’t matter. The narrative is that Hispanics are not “white,” never mind the anthropology lesson. Whites are defined by the current Hispanic narrative as “Anglos,” and George Zimmerman is definitely not an “Anglo<" which, by the way, is the type of "white" hat African Americans also typically define as "white."
George Zimmerman, who doesn't even look "Anglo," and is Hispanic for every other purpose, had been assumed to be "Anglo" white by reason of his "white-sounding" northen-European-origin name.
Mr. Zimmerman is half white. And many Hispanics consider themselves to be white, just as there are black Hispanics.
Obama himself isn’t “black,” but biracial. Obama had the chance to put aside the whole back vs. white issue by pointing out the increasing number of people who, like himself, are biracial and multi-racial.
What is sad is that for partisan advantage he continues to replay the whole blacks versus whites grudge match from the 60′s.
MOST “black” people whose families have been in this country for more than 50 or 100 years are biracial. My adopted daughter, to look at her is “black”. However, she is 1/8 white and 1/8 native American. The whole race thing will work itself out in time…sooner or later everybody will be part of all the races, now that we’ve more or less removed the geographical separations that produced the various racial and ethnic groups in the first place.
Sad that people still have to focus so much on skin color. Growing up in the 70s and 80s in a small upper midwest town, my folks shielded me from much of that crap…to the point where I never experienced racism until I went to college, and later when I moved to a larger city. Even then, I never saw much of the uglier stuff that the Left seems to feel is hidden in the heart of every conservative/white person.
3 1/2 years ago when I adopted my daughter, I also adopted a much more sensitive outlook on matters of race and racism. I’ve been looking for it, and I have yet to see a single example of anything that approaches racism toward my daughter. I’m proud of my community and ashamed of the media and race-hustlers that keep putting out a message of white=racist. The only racist item I’ve even heard of regarding my daughter was when I heard second-hand that my little girl’s birth mom told one of her (black) friends what we had named her birth daughter. Her comment was “why did they give her a white girl’s name?”
Sigh. In answer I can only plead that if Boston, back in the late 70s, had written their song to a girl with a different name, I probably would have used THAT name. It’s all in the music.
Here’s 4 more: Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Aaron Sander, Heather Muller.
Wichita Massacre September 9, 2002
Reginald Carr and his brother Jonathan go on trial for what has become known as the Wichita Massacre. The two Black men are accused of a week-long crime spree that culminated in the quadruple homicide of four young Whites in a snowy soccer field in Wichita, Kansas.
In all, the Carr brothers robbed, raped or murdered seven people. They face 58 counts each, ranging from first-degree murder, rape, and robbery to animal cruelty.
Surely Al and Jesse were on hand for this one…
What?
They weren’t?
You’re kiddin’?
Well, there’s gotta be a good reason…let’s ask them.
Can you imagine the damage that the Obama administration has done to the Black cause since he’s been elected?
If I were black I would be worried about eventual backlash. Wright’s church hates Whites (synonymous with America) and the Attorney General only prosecutes crimes against ‘my people’ and the race baiters appear before any evidence is fully considered. Every self-centered act by this group is looked at in a number of ways and a silent judgement is made, yet the Blacks hang with him while knowing this.
The Seventies showed what this country could do to repudiate its past and then Jackson showed up. It’s depressing.
Add the recent home invasion where a 0 year old back man broke into the home f a married couple 85 year old woman and her 90 year old husband. Rode the 85 year old wife and beat her to death and severely beat the 90 year old husband who survived…
The race pimps Sharpton, Jackon, Holder and Obama have not weighed in here…. but I am jut certain they will…Hey Holder, we’re not cowards so let’s have that race conversation you racist …and with the New Black Panthers and their posted bounty so illegal ith the vigilante justice…ignited by Obama
Should have read comments before posting below link to the Christian Newsome hate crime. There is clearly a synergy between the radical left and the media.
…whites are automatically labeled racists, but blacks are viewed as less disciplined, less able to control their worst impulses, therefore less culpable for their own misdeeds.
Which is in and of itself a very patronizing, racist belief. I often wonder how Liberals can keep those conflicting world-views going on in their heads, and not lose their minds at the contradictions.
Then again, maybe they all have.
It’s affirmative action murder in the age of the first affirmative action presidency.
Accountability: Probably the biggest philosophical difference between conservatives and “liberals”.
Of course you never heard a word about it – it doesn’t do ANYTHING to help Obama, the Demoturds or any progressive “victim” group. Why the hell WOULD you hear anything about it in the “national press”? What the hell do you think they are, in business to report the news or something? Sheesh.
Didn’t you know? Critical Race Theory says blacks can’t be racists. Especially when setting white boys on fire. /sarc off
I´m in the Plurinational Republic of Bolivia at this time, reputedly a madhouse of jihadi-enabling leftard politicos in cahoots with the nuttier Chavez. My life is not so dramatic and harrowing as one might expect from reading the northern press. I live a quiet life among happy people, reportedly the poorest in South America. It reminds me very much of my own life back home when I was growing up in the 1950s-60s, considering of course the problem of having grown up at all. Bolivia, I am astounded and ashamed to report, is more like my America than America today, that is to say, America today is a shameful parody of Modernity, Bolivia being far closer to our general ideals than the Freak Show displays of race-mongering and Conformity Hippie moralising. If I like Bolivia better than my own home, then something big is totally wrong back home. I´m comparing America to Bolivia, and Bolivia is a better place to be. I hope you wonder. The Freak Show has destroyed life at home so badly that I say Bolivia– and this ain´t paradise– is light years ahead of our home. You´ve let the Freak Show take over, and home is now a … I don´t know what. Bolivia is better. Good grief.
I’ve been to Bolivia 3 times. I can truthfully say that things I have seen black folks do in public a hundred, two hundred times, more, in America, I have never seen in 7 years in 16 Third World countries, black included. This is not a black thing, this is black culture in America. Relatively speaking, even compared to shanty towns in Rio de Janeiro, it is vulgar, crude, aggressive and defensive – looking for problems. That’s not to say there isn’t a load of crime in Rio, but I’m talking about daytime behaviors as a matter of course in public, mixed, shared areas.
Things we put up with in America on a daily basis would fly in Bolivia – no way.
Yep, been in Southeast Asia 15 years (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia) and have seen the same thing all over the world: to the precise extent that countries are coming into, or sticking with, Enlightenment beliefs, their cultures are producing individuals who are polite, hard-working, not self-tormented and have strong family ties and a sane sense of the continuity between past, present and future. Post-Enlightenment societies such as the US and Europe: inchoate self and other hatred become institutionalized and perpetuate themselves. As Dag notes about Bolivia – these “Third World” places are still wracked with all kinds of systemic problems, including many between the individual and the state. But when one can honestly say that a place like Singapore produces a finer and saner kind of publicly-educated young person than does the United States on average (and I can attest to this being the case, at least in my own experience as a teacher in, and long-time resident of, both countries), something has gone seriously awry in the American experiment. Somehow, power has to be wrested from those who are currently controlling what Brietbart called “the narrative.”
This was published March 4th on The Blaze:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/you-get-what-you-deserve-white-boy-13-year-old-set-on-fire-in-horrific-racially-charged-attack/
http://tinyurl.com/889rasg Brutal Home Invasion – Oaklahoma
This crime happened March 20, 2012
Couple met and married within a month and stayed together for 65 years… only to be parted after home invader beat wife to death
Nancy Strait, 85, was sexually assaulted and battered to death by burglar
Her husband Bob, 90, suffered a broken jaw and broken ribs in attack
Police have arrested 20-year-old Tyrone Dale David Woodfork
Isn’t it so tragic that only the British papers report American crimes like this?
Huffington Post, NY Daily News, KSN-TV, Drudge, various other TV channels.
Oh, he’s only white… no big. (This is our new “post-racial” America?)
All the comments I read make good points, and I share the despair and disgust of each and every one of them. However, there is a fundamental difference in circumstances of the Traynor Martin (not sure if I have the name straight) case and the others described. The source of the public outrage in the Florida case is that this murder/hate crime/whatever was sanctioned and protected by local law, that it was not even handled as a potential “crime” in the first place, when a good deal of evidence supports the theory that the guy with the gun pursued with intent to kill. In addition, though maybe less important, is the difference between teen on teen violence, and adult on teen violence But in all these other situations mentioned, the event was handled at least as SOME kind of crime, and that didn’t happen here. That is the fundamental difference. As far as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and where they butt their unwanted selves in and where they don’t, well, that is as irrelevant to productive discussion now as it was 20 years ago, that is, not at all. They are not relevant to this or any discussion. And as far as what the media chooses to cover or not cover, well, that’s a different subject too.
You make the claim there is evidence Trayvon was “pursued with intent to kill” merely claiming it dose not make it true. There are reports that claim that the yells for HELP on the 911 audio, were those of Zimmerman and not Trayvon Martin. There is reference in the 911 call of Treyvon approaching Martin with his hand in his waistband also there is evidence that Martin was physically assaulted by Treyvon in that he was bleeding and had grass stains on his back. The only reason this case has turned into the national circus it has is because Treyvon Martin is black.
There are reports of a witness who saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman beating him as he yelled for help. The tapes of Trayvon sound like angry kid shouting, not “crying” as the news reports characterize it.
I understand the outrage that goes with thinking the cops are not pursuing the crime, but it’s based on false reporting. At first I thought this was obviously not self defense, but now I want more information. I still think the force used by Zimmerman was disproportionate, and that Zimmerman was negligent in his behavior. How was Trayvon not to know he wasn’t being mugged himself? His actions may have been in self defense. Not sure how the law works down ther but the law may be what is tying up the police from charging him. The law may allow disproportion and pursuit, and it shouldn’t. Of course, Trevon also broke any such rules himself in attacking Zimmerman, if he did. I doubt Zimmerman said “Give me all your money”.
Ironically It may have been Trevon’s girlfriend on the phone who urged him to run that put him in the frame of mind that Zimmerman was some kind of mugger. We specifically require law enforcement to wear uniforms for this reason. had Zimmerman been wearing a uniform this incident probably would not have happened.
There is no evidence or even reason to speculate that Zimmerman ever so much as touched Martin first–that’s how Martin was to know he wasn’t being mugged, because he wasn’t being mugged. Pre-emptive self defense with your fists by someone in Martin’s situation is called assault and battery.
“had Zimmerman been wearing a uniform this incident probably would not have happened.”
So Zimerman’s neighborhood should openly call out their militia? Their “posse comitatus”? Yeah, that’ll go over way better, much “better optics”.
It wasn’t like Trayvon was caught breaking into a house or pulling his penis out of a rape victim. He was walking to his house from 7/11. He was being followed then chased by a guy with a gun at night. He was just as right to be suspicious of Zimmerman as vice versa, if not more so. If I’m out at night and some guy starts following me around with a gun I’m going to think he’s got bad intentions too. Zimmerman acts like an idiot on his 9/11 phone call (even mumbling “F’n coons” under his breath), so I wouldn’t be surprised if he confronted Trayvon it a way that came across as a mugging.
If you are going to confront randoms strangers at night with a gun in some semi-official capacity I think it best you identify yourself in some way. A uniform is one such way.
Provide the evidence of intent you claim; otherwise retract. You’ll have a hard time – just as any prosecutor will have should charges be brought. Moreover the stand your ground law does not sanction murder; that’s a silly and specious claim.
There is enough uncertainty about just what happened and why to wait until the killing of Martin is fully investigated. I know he has claimed self-defense while some prominent people argue that Florida’s stand your ground law is not relevant in this case.
The key here is whether the initial investigation amounted to a cover-up and what REALLY happened. IF Zimmerman shot Martin in cold blood or even after a brief argument, that should be reported.
If Zimmerman was leaving the scene and was then attacked by Martin and shot him, that should be known.
The reaction so far is based on assumptions, not facts. There will be time for reaction when a proper investigation is finished and the results are clear.
I guess this “nation of cowards” is discussing racism now Eric Holder,how do you like it so far?
Seeing as how Sharpton and the New Black Panthers are driving the narration, he’s probably liking it just fine.
Reporting here from Korea I feel the same as Dag and others. In the West(America, Canada, and Europe) there is a soft war on White people we are being subject to genocide. Our population is dropping the Third World is invited to invade legally and illegally and we are not allowed to have our own culture or pride.
White on black crime is pretty rare, but the same cannot be said for the other direction. This is the dirty little secret that you never hear about from the Media.
Doesn’t fit the narrative, you see, so is consequently ignored.
There was no outrage on the level we are seeing now when the Carr brothers committed their heinous crimes. Same goes with the Knoxville, Tennessee hate crime.
Search “Color of Crime” for some crime statistics broken out by race. In some categories of crime Black on White statistic closes in on 100%, the others are heavily tilted towards Black on White.
“Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery. When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.”
Racial hate crimes real and imagined.
By the way. The recent political theatrical performance of the Miami Heat in hoodies is another reason NOT to watch the NBA. Just a reminder.
Another thing you see with most of these stories is that people apparently are aware of the double standard and media bias, despite the PC cover ups. After the case where the boy was set on fire, or after the racial attacks in Chicago, Philadelphia, etc 99% of the responses on the local TV or newspaper websites confirms it. Most people following the news know the violence is black on white, and ask why are the media, local and national, covering up facts. Or they ask where is the outrage, why is there no major outcry etc. Everyone is aware of the double standard. Apparently nothing can be done about it.
Neil, WE have to do something about it-namely, holding the racist media’s feet to the fire. WE are all well aware that these crimes are going on, that the media’s craven, disgusting, biased, behavior MUST STOP. I suggest we start protesting against this bias like black organizations do! In the long run, we will save some white people’s lives.
Exactly. We can’t let them get away with it anymore. Breitbart is here!
Early in 2008 I feared that the Obama administration could set race relations in this country back fifty years. Sometimes you don’t want to be right.
Not only has the local Kansas City media done everything possible to hush up this crime, but the local media and school board and police have tried to suggest that the 13 year old set himself on fire so he could get attention.
Seriously.
There have been other white students treated very badly at East High School in Kansas City – quite a few families have been forced to move out of the area so their kids would be safe.
The teachers and the principal at East teach the children that white people have kept them down. They spew hate in their classrooms, classrooms where white children are also being taught.
Black teenager murders 2 white British tourists. But it isn’t the kid’s fault; the tourists were in a “bad” neighborhood.
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/03/24/3958799/prosecutors-call-links-teen-to.html
Oh, yeah, during the trial the kid’s sister has been accused of witness tampering for threatening the lives of a witness. Sweet family.
Interesting that when blacks die in the ‘wrong neighborhood’ it’s considered
‘being killed for walking while black!’ and an outrage!!
When whites die in the ‘wrong neighborhood’ shoulders are shrugged. Wrong neighborhood. What are you going to do?
When whites are killed in the “wrong areas,” they invariably are portrayed as suburbanites visiting the neighborhood to look for drugs. Sadly, in most cases, that’s accurate — you’d have to be on drugs to willingly go to places like that.
Well, it *is* in the national press; just not ours. From the UK:
http://tinyurl.com/7xttm74
First, there has been a race war underway in the US since the 1960. This assertion is not an opinion; it is fact.
If you look at the statistics published in the National Criminal Victimization Survey (NCVS) by the DoJ, you will find black on white violent crime is ten times that of white on black. In 2006, over half of the rapes were committed by black men. How many black women were raped by white men? Zero. If you want to reduce the murder rate by 50%, lock up all black males between 15 and 25. These crimes were no committed for economic reasons. Often the victim is assaulted, murdered, or raped and valuables are not taken. The motivation is race hate.
Second, part of the rationale is a philosophy preached by Black Liberation Theologists (BLT) such as Reverend Wright or taught be Critical Race Theorists (CRT) such as the late Derrick Bell at Harvard Law. Blacks do not feel confined to respect the laws created by a system that preserves the white power structure.
Third, we have Obama Administration officials who have no respect for the rule of law. Obama enforces only the laws with which he agrees. The Defense of Marriage Act is a case in point. Immigration laws, another. Congress is either unwilling or unable to curtail his use of executive orders (e.g., Cap & Trade did not pass, so EPA is imposing it). Last week, Hillary Clinton ignored a Congressional mandate and released $1.5 billion to Egypt. Obama ignored a court order to resume drilling in the Gulf. Lawlessness reigns. Hopefully, the 2012 election will correct this problem.
Finally, there is a media and popular culture who are acting as Obama’s ministry of propaganda. Any news that does not support the Obama narrative is spiked or revised until it does. The Kansas City attack is just ignored, while the Zimmerman-Martin story is falsified casting the attacker as victim. There is a solution – cancel your print news and watch FoxNews.
The determining factor seems to be if the assailant is a member of a group that the left is against.
A case that I thought would have made national news, but never did, was the murder of the 3 college kids (and the attempted murder of a fourth) in Newark, NJ. It was just a cold-blooded killing for no reason at all, I don’t think I ever heard a motive given. Maybe it was a “diss” or maybe a failed robbery, but I’m not sure.
The victims were all black, the perps were illegal aliens.
It got local coverage, might have even hit the NY papers, and the gal who survived testified and was deservedly praised for her courage.
I thought it might prompt some “soul searching” about illegal immigration, but it didn’t. No more than the murder of that white gal out in Nebraska (or where ever it was) did, no more than the murder of a couple of children also in NJ did.
So folks, if you want outrage over your murder, you better get some white, Christian, republican type person to kill you.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-04/news/31122324_1_white-boy-fire-tv-station
The boys mother Melissa Coon said his attackers told him you deserve it. >
The boys mother Melissa Coon said his attackers told him you deserve it.…
Teens set kid on fire for being ‘white boy’
MEENA HART DUERSON
Sunday, March 04, 2012
A 13-year-old boy who police say was doused with gasoline and lit on fire last week while walking home from school is recovering from first-degree burns to his face and head.
The boy was just two blocks from his home in Kansas City Tuesday when two teenagers began to follow him and then attacked him, his mother, Melissa Coon, said.
Police have described the suspects as black 16-year-olds, while the victim is white.
“We were told it’s a hate crime,” Coon told KTLA.
This is the politicization of a tragic event to make it even easier to say that any criticism of BO is racist and to provoke such a visceral, emotional response to those criticisms that those it provokes will be consider themselves justified in committing violence in his name. Just think about the New Black Panther Party “Dead or Alive” posters for Zimmerman. BO and Holder covered for them and now pay back has begun. Also Jackson’s “There’s a War on Blacks” comments certainly makes the case. So don’t expect any sympathy for whites murdered by blacks for whatever reason or circumstance – the narrative is in place and any event that can be shaped to fit it will until Nov 2012….
Clearly the black power elite, with assist from the liberal media are playing the race card in an election year. The current marching song is “hate whitey”. Soon it will become “hate hispanics” because the blacks in Washington are losing political clout. As a transition the media has invented a “white-hispanic”.
Oh my! A “patriot”! I’m not wanted on your little kickball team! Sometimes I wish I could meet up with some of these piss-ant commenters and have a good old fashioned throwdown.
Regarding Zimmerman’s ethnicity …
The leftist standard appears to be:
If you’ve got one drop of black blood, then you’re black, and always the victim.
If you’ve got one drop of white blood, and aren’t “black”, then you’re white, and always the oppressor.
Remember this hate crime, suppressed when Obama ran for President?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
A new trial is necessary because the judge was a druggie and they felt the perps didn’t get a fair shake.
Jesse Jackson got it exactly backwards with his “white’s are out to kill us”.
At 12% of US. population,black Americans,do not want to precipitate a race war,
a war that will destroy everything good about this country. And Mr. Wargas, this
this disabled veteran and patriot would be more than happy to meet you and explain patriotism. You obviously missed something vital in your education.
Oh, are you upset at my Borneo comment? Do you actually think that that’s what I’m gonna do? You think I’m serious? And: Do you consider non-vets to be non-patriots? If so, why did you join the military? To protect people whom you hold in contempt?
If you’re ever on Long Island, New York, I’d be happy to meet up.
You are comparing apples and oranges, Mr. Wargas.
The horrible hate crime with the gasoline is a considered a crime and the culprits are being actively sought by the police. The situation would be analogous to the one in Florida if the 13 yr old white kid had been set on fire and the culprits released by the police as their actions were judged to be within the law.
If conservatives are going to have a rational argument why the Black Panthers shouldn’t lynch Zimmerman, they need to get the facts straight – and soon.
Sorry, K, but you missed the point. Maybe I should have made it clearer. My point is: Where’s the outrage over this crime? It’s barely even printed, let alone lamented. It and many others like it don’t make it into the “discussion of race” we’re supposed to be having. Until it does, people are going to be very upset.
Really? We have to have our “facts straight” to have an argument as to why a mob of people shouldn’t go around and lynch people based on second- and third-hand information?
I thought we learned this lesson in the 60′s.
The real point that I wanted to make is the criminal actions of the media, selectively reporting or misrepresenting details to achieve a divide amongst us. To get us to focus on race rather than facts, or whatever meme du jour they choose.
The media is actively working to undermine our nation by picking and choosing stories based on how quickly we will be inflamed and divided to push us toward their agenda.
This is a tragedy. A young black man is dead. Two people had a confrontation, one is dead. All of the facts are not known, yet the media has sensationalized and misreported to the extent that most people do not know even the basics.
The person crying for help was the perceived antagonist. The media is not reporting that. Why.
Three sets of laws in America now:
One for the Democrats, based on old boy network.
One for the minorities and white femals, based on usefulness to old boy network.
One of the white males, based on hundreds of thousands of written laws.
How is America different from medieval Europe?
Why pretend to have a Constitution?
Now you see why the First and Second Amendments is under constant attack.
I am normally on your side on these things, but I think this time you are being somewhat unfair. In the Kansas city case, the perpetrators were arrested and are being prosecuted, so the system is working, not much news there.
The real problem in the Florida case is initially the guy was not even arrested and charged. They just took his word that it was self defense, with little investigation, and then completely dropped the case. That looked really suspicious, and I can understand why the various groups objected to that situation. If he had been arrested, I think the outrage would not have happened, unless he was subsequently released without charge. Although even in that case, if there was real backing for a self defense case, I dont think there would have been a great outrage there either. The real screwup was when the sherrif just took the guys word for it that it was self defense, without doing a real investigation.
I do agree though that now that it is clear that the guy will be aggressively investigated, and most likely go to trial, it is time to dial back the outrage a little and just let the system work. One thing we do not need is another atmosphere of outrage, like the Duke Lacrosse case, where the guy might be innocent, and be railroaded into a conviction. Wait for the investigation to proceed, and for the real facts to be known.
Followup comment. I saw in another post that nobody has been charged in the Kansas case, and the investigation may be dropped. In that case, it may be closer to the Florida case than I thought, and the comparison in the article is justified. Although I also read in this other article that the boys story is not hanging together well, and perhaps he is lying, and actually burned himself. Again, I think the thing to do is to follow the story, and hope the cops do a real investigation.
They may be related to Obummer. They sure look like they could be his sons, at least if he had some. Why isn’t he explaining that to us?
LOL…is this a joke? The victim recieved, “first-degree burns to his face and head.” Um look up what a first degree burn is then you might realize why it wasn’t in the news. Also while you’re debating whether or not Hispanic is white I would suggest reading up on the current state of genetics. You might be surprised by our modern understanding of race. (Oh and if you’re one of those anti-sciense conservatives, next time you’re sick make sure you only get treatments available before 1960.)