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In his final days, Ahmaud Arbery's life was at a crossroads (pure hagiography)
news.yahoo.com ^ | Aaron Morrison

Posted on 05/25/2020 8:57:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

He was at a crossroads, his life stretching out before him, his troubles largely behind him. He had enrolled at South Georgia Technical College, preparing to become an electrician, just like his uncles. But first, he decided, he would take a break. College could wait until the fall.

To help keep his head clear, he ran, just about every day. Off he’d go, out of the doors of his mother’s house, down the long street toward Fancy Bluff Road. Then would come the right turn onto the two-lane road lined by oak trees draped with Spanish moss.

About a mile and a half into his usual route, Ahmaud Arbery would cross the four lanes of Jekyll Island Causeway into the subdivision of Satilla Shores.

Three months ago, at the age of 25, he ran through Satilla Shores for the final time.

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Before Arbery’s name joined a litany of hashtags bearing young black men’s names, he was a skinny kid whose dreams of an NFL career didn’t pan out. Those who knew him speak of a seemingly bottomless reservoir of kindness he used to encourage others, of an easy smile and infectious laughter that could lighten just about any situation.

They also acknowledge the legal troubles that cropped up after high school — five years of probation for carrying a gun onto the high school campus in 2013, a year after graduation, and shoplifting from a Walmart store in 2017, a charge that extended that probation up until the time of his death.

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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ahmaudarbery; arbery; autism; autistic; fakenews; joggingwhileblack; mythmaking; revisionisthistory; yahoobias; yellowjournalism
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By golly, he really was cleaning up his life and heading to community college (well, tech school).
1 posted on 05/25/2020 8:57:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Lemme guess: aspiring rapper?


2 posted on 05/25/2020 8:58:27 AM PDT by relictele
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To: RoosterRedux

“College could wait until the fall.”

Apparently it couldn’t.


3 posted on 05/25/2020 9:01:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: RoosterRedux

He was getting his life together ‘n shit.


4 posted on 05/25/2020 9:02:41 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: RoosterRedux

There’s going to be nothing but racially charged stories coming from the Propanda Media from now until Nov 4. The Democrats literally have nothing to pin their election hopes on other than keeping urban blacks angry. Did you know that CoVid-19 strikes black people disproportionately? Of course you did, but CNN will tell you another thousand times just the same.


5 posted on 05/25/2020 9:03:26 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("I think that everything that produces a paycheck is essential." - Nanci Valentino, Wisconsin)
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...and he would have been alive today if he didn’t try to take a loaded shotgun away from someone.


6 posted on 05/25/2020 9:03:28 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: RoosterRedux

kinda thinking his troubles weren’t really behind him.


7 posted on 05/25/2020 9:03:54 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: relictele
Aspiring Rapper

North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject's demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was "turning they(sic) life around."

Special K Icey Eight had a checkered past, but his mother insisted he was a "good boy" who was just turning his life around, when the aspiring rapper was gunned down by a homeowner after breaking into the house via the kitchen window.

8 posted on 05/25/2020 9:04:21 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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> five years of probation for carrying a gun onto the high school campus <

I have not yet formed a final opinion on the shooting. But anyone who would carry a gun onto a high school campus is bad, bad news.

I’m actually surprised Yahoo reported that.


9 posted on 05/25/2020 9:04:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Yeah well now he’s at the end of the road so he doesn’t have to worry about the crossroad


10 posted on 05/25/2020 9:04:55 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals N racists dont point ftingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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e was at a crossroads, his life stretching out before him, his troubles largely behind him. He had enrolled at South Georgia Technical College, preparing to become an electrician, just like his uncles. But first, he decided, he would take a break. College could wait until the fall.

OMG, I am dying. LOL, absolutely asinine. Same story, every time.

11 posted on 05/25/2020 9:05:24 AM PDT by riri (If people still dropping, most aint shopping.)
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But first, he decided, he would take a break. College could wait until the fall.

They make it sound like the guy was 18 or 19 years old.

He was 25 and had been taking a break for 7 years.

12 posted on 05/25/2020 9:07:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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His troubles largely behind him? Photos of him trespassing on a construction site suggest otherwise.
13 posted on 05/25/2020 9:07:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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He’d also be alive if local idiots didn’t chase after him with loaded guns like the wild west, but let the authorities handle the situation.


14 posted on 05/25/2020 9:08:06 AM PDT by caww
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Morrison is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team
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What a total distortion of this guys‘s life. Allow me to translate: Ahmad Arbery was a complete loser, had no job, and pocketed $15,000 in student loan money by claiming he would go to technical school. By the way, how come nobody in the neighborhood where the shooting occurred recognized him as the local jogger?


15 posted on 05/25/2020 9:08:41 AM PDT by bort
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Jeez..,at first I thought I was reading a PARODY. But no, the writers were serious, clearly sainthood beckons.


16 posted on 05/25/2020 9:09:01 AM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Funny how the left wants to crucify elementary school kids for nibbling a Pop Tart into gun shape, but they breeze right by an adult carrying a loaded gun to his FORMER school. Why was he there? Why was he armed? Was the fact that he was apprehended all that averted a school/gang shooting?

Next, the author tells us that at 25 years old, Arbery needed to take a break before starting trade school. Was he exhausted from all that unemployment and theft? Is electrician training so arduous that he wouldn’t have time for a daily run? Just preposterous. I quit on the article — does it tell us that Arbery went into the house to study the wiring and electric panel?


17 posted on 05/25/2020 9:14:05 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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Finally someone talks about the first part of his route.

“ Off he’d go, out of the doors of his mother’s house, down the long street toward Fancy Bluff Road. Then would come the right turn onto the two-lane road lined by oak trees draped with Spanish moss.

About a mile and a half into his usual route, Ahmaud Arbery would cross the four lanes of Jekyll Island Causeway into the subdivision of Satilla Shores.”


18 posted on 05/25/2020 9:15:44 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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does it tell us that Arbery went into the house to study the wiring

That's EXACTLY what the article says.

19 posted on 05/25/2020 9:16:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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>>“College could wait until the fall.”

Right now all higher education is largely on hold.

you aren’t getting a discount for those online courses they are offering in place of the regular semesters.


20 posted on 05/25/2020 9:16:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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