Article with an inciting headline to further stir up people in an area known to already have a large population of minorities who need something to divert their attention from their real problems so they can blame someone else.
A pint-size entrepreneur offers to endure the rage
Just a defenseless baby being victimized by racists.
sister and two cousins also provided manual labor
family victimized as well.
Lucille Holt-Colden
A sympathetic trying to do the right thing is inadvertently victimized.
keep this particular group of black youths off the street
Insinuating there is an underlying problem that needs to be addressed with more money.
She was mostly right.
lead up to the damning.
As Reggie and his troupe were finishing up her yard, a Maple Heights Police SUV rolled up in front of Holt-Colden's house.
The police.
she was outraged - and reached for her cellphone to share it with the world.
Create outrage
21st century phenomenon known as #LivingWhileBlack
Shameless plug for an unheard of outrage site for the modern race victims.
African Americans who were engaged in laughably innocuous activities
Create a phenomenon by tying in unrelated events.
Christianity while watching the ocean
Peace and religion tied in
the gym, shopping for underwear, waiting for the school bus and couponing
It's everywhere
8-year-old selling cold water to passersby
Trying to oppress to keep them down
8-year-old,6-year-old
Even attacking the kids.
"If the kids were white,"
An assumption to make you nod your head in agreement.
9-year-old cousin was frozen with fear
Inherent fear of police.
not cited or stopped by the police
Innocent victim did not do anything.
9-year-old killed in the crossfire
Tying in something completely unrelated to somehow blame racism???
idle time of thousands of students
2nd plea for money
little girl sitting in her mother's car
piling on with unrelated things to somehow blame racism or a need for more money?
interaction with the police would be discouraging.
police being used by the institutionalized racists.
donated more than $8,600
more money it will fix everything. Somehow.
aren't resting on that publicity-fueled windfall
can't keep us down
fliers on orange paper, Schedule an appointment
We will persevere and overcome.
miss anything?
It was a BLACK woman who called the police!
What’s wrong with you? Working a summer job is cool black or white.
Mocking work is retarded.
Wow. Are those her words or are those Cleve's (if that's his REAL name) thoughts being projected onto her?
So the cops went on their way and that was that. So what’s the big deal? Oh wacism (eyeroll)
I wonder how many stories of black on white crime get ignored to make space for crapola like this.
Which is worse, getting rolled up on by cops who just leave, or getting robbed or carjacked? It’s not even close.
At least it wasn’t a lemonade stand.
I see the problem. SWAT should have been called.
I’d take a wild guess there is more to this story than revealed.
How many blacks are killed by blacks in the country every day? and they don't make the news but this nonsense does instead?
Gotta keep that evil white oppressor narrative going.
“Miss anything?”
Yes. Your point. Calling the cops on hard working industrious kids is outrageous. Isn’t that enough?
Keep off the grass.
BUT, total over reaction by the neighbor.
I saw the video and the woman who was shooting it pointed out a black woman and said that’s the person who called the police.
Yes you missed the whole thing! This boy is clearly a racist provocateur! He is showing his hatred of Hispanics, by his stealing what is clearly a job for poor undocumented Hispanic refugee and his family of twelve equally undocumented who came across the border for the third time.
There are any number of Government programs which would give him money to lay around all day playing violent sex seeped video games and hanging with friends instead of learning about working for yourself, free enterprise and self-reliance.
What he should be doing is spending his time learn about micro-aggression, how the ‘man’ is holding him back and of the joys of socialism wherein everything is FREE and you don’t have to work not stealing the tacos from the very mouths of children.
The a-hole author of the Chicago Trib original story made it about race. The story should have been about the byatch who called the cops. Hell, I would have given the kid another $20 bucks to finish the whole yard then thanked him with a tip.
I can't get through it and it seems to be a jumble of various claims.
I did like the video where the guy asks the kids to explain how they feel (clearly hoping they would express their sadness over 'racism'). Instead the kid says, 'it's been good for business.'
I don't believe that's what the interviewer wanted to hear.
I read this story yesterday and there was NO mention of “doing anything while black”. It was about a kid earning money and running afoul of the neighbor’s proprty line. I shared this inspiring story with my wife and even mentioned to her I should send my commercial Toro self-propelled mower to the kid. I’m tied of cutting the grass.
Leave it to the CT to make it all about race...even bringing in other non-related occurrences.
Only a progressive could be that racist.
We had a crackpot neighbor lady next door when I was a kid. My mom kept most of her harpiness hidden from my sister and I but I got bit by it pretty good when I was about 12 or so.
I did pretty heavy yard work mowing, trimming hedges, fertilizing, the whole thing. One day, I was spraying insecticide on the front hedges and walked around the corner that had a tall shrub. The neighbor lady had been spying on me from behind the shrub so when I came around both she and the shrub got sprayed down with insecticide. The neighbor filed some kind of assault charge on me and it ended up in city court. Since the lady was a well known crackpot plus she had been hidden on our property in the first place, the judge threw out the charge on me and put the crackpot lady on notice that she was the one going to jail if he ever saw her again.
Was he mowing without a permit?
In the meantime a black male stabbed 9 people in Boise, Idaho. I would rather have the police called on me for whatever reason than be stabbed. But that’s me.