Plasmaball
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When I first saw this headline, there was no mention of race in the story; however, I knew that if it involved black kids
The sad thing about it, for me anyway..was I knew too.
And what makes it even more sad is that you knew that precisely because no race WAS mentioned in the headline. Dog bites man? No story. Man bites dog? Big story. Black guy kills white guy. Ho hum. White guy kills black guy? Huge story.
Somebody earlier in the thread suggested, at least by implication, that white on black crime is rooted in irrational prejudice, bigotry, racism. Conversely, black on white crime is rooted in dysfunctional families due to a history of slavery and teaching, by default, justification for deep seated hatred of white people. I think however, such a conclusion is highly insulting to black and white people.
Those teens did not kill Christopher Lane because they were black. They killed him because they were sociopathic and bored. However, a society that automatically condemns a white skinned person for crime while automatically looking for a cause or excuse for a dark skinned person is certainly contributing to such skewed values.
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I wonder who President Obama will identify with this time?
condemns? What utter bullshit. Thats why you have more black people in the prison system than whites.
I assume Obama wont with any of them because the cases are not the same.
Yet then again you fucking partisan hacks who need to make everything into a political football knew this.
This isnt a partisan issue. This shouldnt be made into a left vs right issue. You literally cheapen the mans death by doing this. Id tell you that you should feel ashamed of yourselves, but you don't.