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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2011 10:43:27 GMT -5
All I know it that I am not happy with this. I just have this feeling that there is a lot more to this story. Something happened between that boy and the black kid he wanted to shoot. Something happened that made the boy want to shoot him. And something happened that caused that reaction from the boy to right in his journal that he wanted to kill ' nig.... I still think something happened to made this boy so psychiotic. He just has to be mentally ill.
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Post by stoney on Apr 30, 2011 16:28:47 GMT -5
Turn the tables here, & Cooperstown would have tarred & feathered the black kid.
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 30, 2011 17:17:24 GMT -5
Stoney, that seems a broad brush indictment of the people of Cooperstown, don't you think? I don't know anyone there. Maybe you do.
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Post by stoney on May 1, 2011 9:13:17 GMT -5
You're right, Dave. Leave out the name, "Cooperstown".
Turn the tables here, & the community would have tarred & feathered the black kid.
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Post by Swimmy on May 1, 2011 9:15:37 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure tarring and feathering has since been outlawed, along with lynchings.
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Post by Swimmy on May 1, 2011 9:16:23 GMT -5
And, I sincerely doubt it would have been different if the tables were turned.
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Post by stoney on May 1, 2011 9:17:59 GMT -5
Oh I think it definitely would have been different.
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Post by Swimmy on May 1, 2011 9:21:36 GMT -5
Well, there is only one way to resolve this. Let's go ask some black kids to go shoot some white kids only because they're white. Then we can see what happens.
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Post by stoney on May 1, 2011 9:22:21 GMT -5
You go first.
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Post by Swimmy on May 1, 2011 9:24:24 GMT -5
You made the assertion first, you should go. Besides, ladies first. And, I insist. ;D
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Post by dgriffin on May 1, 2011 12:06:45 GMT -5
Uh, if I may butt in here. I get your point, Stoney, and such an imbalance of emotions (read: prejudice) may well exist in some communities, while in other towns people might be more fair-minded. Depends on where, I suppose. Personally, I wouldn't assume that a black kid would be treated worse today in a small town, although of course it could happen and I'm sure there are lots of examples of it.
But now the topic changes from prejudice to small towns.
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Post by firstamendment on May 1, 2011 14:36:06 GMT -5
the fact that signs were put up for save the defendant and nothing of the sort was done for the victim pretty much sums up stoney's suspicions on if the roles were reversed. I would go on to say that if the black kid were the defendant, he would not be receiving a mere 11 years in prison for the same crime.
And if you read the OD article on this, the father's quoted that the victim's family wanted vengeance and he hopes they are happy to receive their pound of flesh is despicable. Somebody ought to go ask Sr. if it were HIS son who was shot what would he want to see happen to the shooter, and then punch him in is racist face. I will tell you right now, he does not come off as the type who would have ever agreed to 11 years if his son were the victim. Not a chance. He should be happy his son received a plea bargain at all instead of trash talking the victim and his family.
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Post by urbanhermit on May 1, 2011 14:48:54 GMT -5
Uh, if I may butt in here. I get your point, Stoney, and such an imbalance of emotions (read: prejudice) may well exist in some communities, while in other towns people might be more fair-minded. Depends on where, I suppose. Personally, I wouldn't assume that a black kid would be treated worse today in a small town, although of course it could happen and I'm sure there are lots of examples of it. But now the topic changes from prejudice to small towns. I agree with Stoney Dave. I agree with EVERYTHING that Stoney posted on this thread!
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Post by dgriffin on May 1, 2011 15:51:20 GMT -5
Uh, if I may butt in here. I get your point, Stoney, and such an imbalance of emotions (read: prejudice) may well exist in some communities, while in other towns people might be more fair-minded. Depends on where, I suppose. Personally, I wouldn't assume that a black kid would be treated worse today in a small town, although of course it could happen and I'm sure there are lots of examples of it. But now the topic changes from prejudice to small towns. I agree with Stoney Dave. I agree with EVERYTHING that Stoney posted on this thread! [/size] Hermit, that would not be humanly possible! Even Stoney does not agree with herself, sometimes. FA, you're following the situation more closely than I. And I was speaking in generalities, as I often do. It keeps my BP down. Stoney, if I read your post correctly, you took back your generalization of Cooperstown and substituted it with "communities." Did you mean to say any or all communities would be guilty of such prejudice? Isn't that sort of ... prejudiced? Again, I recognize that prejudice didn't go away with Bobby Kennedy (hardly!), but implying a black person will ALWAYS be more harshly judged by a community is .... prejudiced, I think. For example, most of us on this board (I think) were not willing to give the white kid a pass. Are we more enlightened than the typical Cooperstownian?
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Post by dgriffin on May 1, 2011 16:11:49 GMT -5
I just realized I misread Hermit's post. I thought he said he agreed with Stoney ALL the time!
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