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Denver Rocky Mountain News ^
| February 17, 2006
| Vincent Carroll
Posted on 02/17/2006 1:34:30 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58
There was a groundswell in the media when they realized the first few churches burned were black churches, but after the badguys burned about 5 white churches in a row you didn't hear another word about it.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:39:42 PM PST
by
JamesP81
To: JamesP81
I wonder if the Boring Broadsheet would print cartoons of those responsible.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:41:42 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
To: Graybeard58
"some in the most remote and segregated communities are experiencing an awakening (to racial sensitivity) that seems years overdue."
As a Southern boy, that is just hilarious. New England yanks have no idea how far ahead of them in race relations us backwards-assed Southerners are.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:43:03 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: Graybeard58
"Hate crime", eh? As opposed to a "love crime", I suppose?
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:43:13 PM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(If we're not going to learn from the past, what's the point of having one. -Peggy Hill)
To: Graybeard58
It is impossible to commit a hate crime against a straight white Christian.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:43:33 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(At times like this, it is a pleasure to support Free Republic.)
To: L98Fiero
You want to see some real bigotry, go to Massachusetts.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:44:28 PM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(You new the job was dang'rous when you took it.)
To: JamesP81
White Christians apparently are disposable...
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:44:47 PM PST
by
mlc9852
To: L98Fiero
We live it and we live it together very nicely.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:46:05 PM PST
by
onyx
(IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
To: Graybeard58
If one gay guy got beat up leaving a gay bar, there would be hate crimes stories in every newspaper.
To: Graybeard58
By coincidence, yesterday, a "Black" church was destroyed by fire outside of Bryan, Texas - the cause is still under investigation. It was covered by the local media, but I havent heard any mention/connection by the national media - not that I believe there is any connection.
Mt Zion Baptist Church Fire
To: L98Fiero
"As a Southern boy, that is just hilarious. New England yanks have no idea how far ahead of them in race relations us backwards-assed Southerners are."The blacks up there hate whites even more than they do down here?
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:50:09 PM PST
by
Aznar5
To: Graybeard58
The five black churches were hate crimes, the five white Churches were merely a protest against Christian intolerance. /sarcasm
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:50:29 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
To: Graybeard58
Imagine, Jacoby muses, that "unknown hoodlums had firebombed 10 gay bookstores and bars in San Francisco" or "10 Detroit-area mosques and halal restaurants." Not only would the burnings rocket to the front pages and remain there, politicians everywhere would be falling all over themselves to express solidarity with the victims. And there'd be candlelight vigils in every major city, liberal columnists/pundits lambasting the "hate-filled right-wing," and congress drafting updated "hate crime" legislation.
As it is, news of the 10 burned churches is lucky to make it to page 25A.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:52:11 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: L98Fiero
Man, you've got that right on race here in the South!
Now, I think the reason that the press doesn't want to cover this is that they think there's a good chance that the arsonists will turn out to be "militant queers".
To: Emmett McCarthy
Well not to worry PIAPS will make it a campain issue in '08 when she will mezmorise the audience with her childhood recollections of church burnings and lynchings in her neighborhood when she was growing up.
The fact that she grew up in a lily white neighborhood will somehow escape the otherwise rabid newshounds assigned to cover her campain.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:58:19 PM PST
by
marlon
To: Emmett McCarthy
As usual, Jacoby is right on. A few of the churches were black. If they all were, I'm sure you would see a different type of coverage.
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posted on
02/17/2006 1:59:39 PM PST
by
BW2221
To: Graybeard58
Wow, when Jeff Jacoby and El Globo point out the irony that is really telling. If half as many mosques were burned there would be riots and politicians racing to the cameras.
To: Bluestateredman
"militant queers"?
No, I'm almost certain it was the "Flaming Homosexuals".
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:17:12 PM PST
by
CowboyJay
(Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
To: Graybeard58
The lack of hystrionics in the MSM over these church burnings is notable.
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