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“it might have been like, ‘Goofy white dude, what’s he doing here?’” “Not necessarily, ‘We hate this guy.’”

Yes. Keeep telling yourself that sir.

Dummy.

Liberalism is a mental illness.

Yes. Keeep telling yourself that sir.

The article was pretty long, but if you had read to the end you would have seen that he comes to that conclusion himself. He's Mr. Nice-Guy liberal who let the kid off a criminal charge by asking if the kid would give him an interview. Mom is a Christian who is so so sorry. Of course we'll do an interview.

They rolled him and he got nothing. Would he have been as "liberal" with a white kid? Probably not, he thinks.

Interesting self-analysis: liberal mugged... becomes...I'm not sure.

The locale he speaks of is the one of my growing up, and I can tell you that no white guy has any business to be biking along Lake Street from Western Ave to Austin.

In 1971 I had my first bachelor pad in the DePaul area, and when I'd bike back to Oak Park to visit family, I never would bike south of Fullerton Ave until reaching Oak Park Ave. It would have been nearly suicidal. The West Side ghetto is no different now than ever.

And so I question this writer on his reasons for putting himself in harm's way. As Ben Franklin said: If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun.

“Mulling this over makes me question the whole notion of prosecuting hate crimes. Why is a racist thug more dangerous than the man who just feels like beating someone—anyone—up? The racist might send a message to a large population, but the nonracist sends a message to an even larger group, a message that says, “You count for nothing” and “No one is safe.””

Um, NOW (after being almost killed) you get it?? Duh.

Yes liberalism is a disease.... what is the saying? A liberal is a person who hasn’t yet been mugged? Having spent many years in Chicago, and going places “I didn’t belong” is indeed terrifying and dangerous. In 2008 it was more dangerous to be a high school student in Chicago than to be a soldier in Baghdad. The so-called justice system in Cook county is a joke as was amply demonstrated by the handling of Larry in this article. Wow, your “punishment” is to call a probation officer every so often....that will teach them and keep others safe!!
I would wager a deep dish Chicago pizza that Larry’s path will wind and twist many times through the court houses of Cook County until he finds himself in Joliet.
Liberal’s mismanagement of their “war on poverty” and their permissive, passive, pathetic management of public education in America) particularly the inner cities which are predominately governed by democrat liberals) have created generations of Larrys and turned some of our finest locales into cesspools!

I was dismissed by the Chicago Reader in December 2007

Ah yes. The Chicago Reader, a paper just chock full of left wing liberals, advertisements for hookers, and anonymous gay sex.

Personally I'm laughing my ass off that this liberal pussy got his ass whipped by a few of the feral 'youths' roaming the streets of Chicago.