Posted on 03/08/2010 6:28:04 PM PST by Justaham
Two students at the University of Missouri-Columbia were suspended Wednesday after their arrests in a case of cotton balls thrown across the lawn of the campus black-culture center.
Campus police on Tuesday evening arrested the students, one of whom is from the St. Louis area, on suspicion of a felony hate crime. The two were released on bond, and charges were pending.
The incident happened early Friday at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, near the middle of campus. Nathan Stephens, the center's coordinator, said students were offended because of the 'symbolic violence' that harkened to days of slavery on cotton plantations."
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Basketballs? See how stupid this crap is........White liberals came up with this PC crap.
>> I hope few here come to their defense.
Well, I will.
What they did is in bad taste, and definitely racist. I don’t condone that intent.
But it is not criminal, let alone a felony!
The free speech right protects speech you don’t like, too.
You think that anti-black racism is funny because you’re white. Would you find it as amusing if Black Muslims were having their fun with you?
Fried chicken is OK as long as you don’t eat it in a way that reminds people of when the USA allowed the ownership of people.
Eating it in a manner that makes it clear you are glad those days are gone is OK, I think.
See the first quote on my FR profile page. I think it’s the one you’re looking for.
bump...for more discussion
A really true hate crime is burning the American Flag, but that’s considered ok - in fact a first amendment right, but a stupid, rude, no-class prank is a felony?
What a bizarro world we live in.
RE: “Unlike the recent San Diego incidents, here the perps were actually white. Of course, this is racism. Whether it rises to the level of a felony is questionable.”
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Yes, reportedly the chick who hung the noose the other day at UCSD is black! In this cotton ball case, perps are white. BFD —
Racist? Yeah, probably a little — A felony? Surely you jest!!!!!
Re: “Next, whites will be arrested for eating watermelon in a racist manner.”
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......or chicken..............
Oh, Oh, There are about “500 BALLS PER PACKAGE.
500 counts of committing a “Hate Crime”
Penalty of 10 years per count.... 5,000 years in the slammer!
And when the NAACP tosses a bunch of boxes of crackers on a white guys’ lawn I hope you’ll be out there calling for a hate crime against them. Same thing if they toss a bunch of “GAP” bags on the lawn.
IF you’re sitting here trying to defend the concept of “hate crimes” I think you’re in the wrong place. The government may think that’s legitimate, but conservatives do not. It’s one of THE WORST legal concepts ever drafted by a liberal mind, including being right up there with “abortion and the right to privacy”.
Slowly, but surely. Persons on “non color” are getting fed up with the Government sanctioned and institutionalized bias against whites.
0bama is fueling the fire. He doesn’t want to “bridge the gap” or “promote understanding and harmony” among the races, he wants to exploit and explode them.
If you would have said, fifty years ago, that our Nation’s good traditions, honest cultures, and American exceptionalism itself, would be held chained to an ankle post by less than 13% of our entire population...you would have been ridiculed into infamy.
The problem with the term "hate crime" is that people actually get to thinking that hate is a crime, it is not.
Hate is not a crime and throwing cotton balls is not a crime, but you put the two together and it becomes a felony hate crime???
I’ve done some pretty silly stuff - safe but silly in my flying career .... if you’re flying with me in a bizjet you never want to hear me announce over the PA to ‘hang on to your drinks’ ....
lol, keep on having that fun, stay safe.
"Ayn Rand and George Orwell were not just ordinary novelists they were prophets who wrote in novel format."
Black Muslims are too busy having their ‘fun’ with black Christians in Nigeria.
How much traction did the Black Panther voter intimidations get in the media, or the courts? What’s that black woman who hung a noose going to get in the way of felony charges?
This is ridiculous.
That's really evil.
I like it. :)
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