Jesse? Al? ACLU?
[crickts]
it’s only a racist attack, or a hate crime if the attacker(s) are white and the victim is of color.
Oh no, not Howard Beach again. I’m glad the pregnant woman and her unborn baby are okay but:
“She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” the mother said.
Aren’t all victims?
Nope. Can’t be racism. If it happened at all there had to be a good reason for it.
/s
Where’s Bernie Goetz when you need him to put a bullet in such P’sOS.
Please do not alter the titles of any published material. The title you created had to be changed.
It’s clear the three “victims” were intolerably provoked by the white woman. /sarc
If the victim is white the crime can not be classified as racist and even if it was it’s not the attackers fault and you better shut up or I’ll kill you.
He crime is obvious, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“She’s kind of lucky.’
When I lived in Rialto, CA, I was shot by a bullet that came through my apartment front door from outside. The bullet just missed an artery and the nerve center near my clavicle, which it broke.
A helpful friend of the family said that since I didn’t get killed, someone must have been looking out for me.
Don’t ever give pious platitudes to victims of crime. It’s infuriating.
there seems to be some very brave people when they are in a group.....beating up a pregnant woman......unbelievable.
bttt
Ping.
Not all hate crimes equal in the media
John Kass
June 13, 2007
“Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton appear to carry the story forward. They know their roles and play them well. The cameras click. Editors dispatch think pieces on race in America. TV talking heads offer commentary and what are called “town meetings” and “national conversations on race.” Special-interest advocates use the media time to argue for racial preferences in academic admissions and hiring. Politicians mouth their platitudes. Editorials chant conventional wisdom....
...But when the hateful crime involves white victims and accused minorities, there’s a problem. Jackson and Sharpton aren’t there to round out the second act...
...But mostly we’re of a certain class and tone: white and college-educated, politically liberal, holding an abiding (and terribly mistaken) faith in government regulation to engineer social outcomes. Journalists generally mock evangelicals for “believing” in creationism, yet many journalists are fundamentalists when it comes to other beliefs, like using skin color — not the content of someone’s character or the quality of their mind — to discriminate against those of other hues while defining such discrimination as fair and affirmative...”
Excerpt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass13jun13,1,1057941.column?coll=chi-news-col