Double standard when it comes to reaction

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 5/16/06 | Richard Roeper

[ashamedtobefromparkridge]

Can you imagine if the woman had been african american and wandered into a white suburb?

This is getting little if any play in Chicago.

Roeper is a liberal but is one I enjoy reading. Most people outside Chicago know him better as half of Ebert and Roeper.

[theDentist]

Would you like to describe what the heck you're talking about?

[dollar_dog]

Is Roeper a liberal? I didn't think so, but perhaps I'm wrong. No question Ebert is, as this report shows.

[kaylar]

from the article:

As one e-mailer said to me, "I wish someone could explain to me how a 21-year-old girl ends up in the Robert Taylor Homes, is [allegedly] raped, begs for help and is told by a black woman she isn't going to help because she is WHITE, the young woman is pushed or jumped out of a seventh-floor window, and NOBODY is outraged? [Where are] the religious leaders like [Jesse] Jackson and [James] Meeks? Where is it on the news coverage? This is a young woman with mental problems and NO ONE is speaking up on her behalf."

[GourmetDan]

Click the Chicago Sun Times link to read the article.

[American_Centurion]

Good story to post for discussion, it should be an interesting one. However in the future, when you post about a subject, you should include an excerpt or synopsis of the article you are discussing. Your opinion, though valid, is not what the article section is for (unless you are posting vanities).

Welcome to FR....

[eyedigress]

[Enterprise]

"After spending the night in a lockup, the woman is released. She behaves erratically at a nearby restaurant. She winds up wandering around near the last remaining building of a doomed housing project on the South Side, and she winds up in a seventh-floor apartment with a man.

Moments later, she's on the ground, seriously injured, in her underwear. Did she jump? Did she fall? Was she pushed?"

"She got up on MY floor, she tried to come into my place," said the woman. "I said 'Oh no no no, you know, white people and us, we don't mix.'"

Well, there you go. Multiculturalism at its finest.

[Niteranger68]

"She got up on MY floor, she tried to come into my place," said the woman. "I said 'Oh no no no, you know, white people and us, we don't mix.'"

My floor??? Wow, what a completely worthless POS societal parasite she it. I only wish she could find out what it is really like without "whitey" around.

[Enterprise]

Paging all cable show harpies, paging all harpies!

[Waverunner]

French Sushi ??

[pierrem15]

Not that the walking womb in question ever paid a penny for any of 'her' floor.

Someone I read recently has defined 'welfare' as the obligation of the better-off to pay the consequences for the sexual gratification of the poor.

Just about the best definition I've ever heard.

[Niteranger68]

Someone I read recently has defined 'welfare' as the obligation of the better-off to pay the consequences for the sexual gratification of the poor.

That's pretty spot on. It makes me so angry to hear some 300 pound low life (race not withstanding) complain about how she can't afford to feed herself or any of her 6 children. I just want to scream! What in the hell made you so fat? Where are all the babies’ sorry ass daddies? Do you even know what causes you to have a baby? If you have always been poor, why did you squeeze out five more after the first one? Why should we keep paying for your stupidity?

[pierrem15]

I just think of them as "bus hippos".

[Tarantulas]

Sounds like a Darwin Award candidate. Next time make sure your medications are current and you won't be arrested in airports and fall from seventh-story windows...