Posted on 11/20/2008 6:54:36 AM PST by dynachrome
On election night in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a blue state, comes a criminal horror story short of murder, but no less disturbing. It happened at Augsburg college, a private liberal arts school named after a place in Germany the reformer monk Martin Luther served in the 1500s.
After taunting 18-year old freshman Annie Grossmann for wearing her McCain-Palin campaign button at an election night get-together, and "getting in her face," four women beat her for political views which, obviously, they did not share. Grossmann took verbal abuse at the party, then left for her dorm after it was clear, about 10 p.m., that her candidates had lost. She was followed by the four women into the shadows of a nearby skyway.
There she was beaten. The four women, all black, called Grossmann a "racist." She knew none of them. Nor did they know her, to her knowledge. It was that damn campaign button that evidently caused their frenzy. Their earlier taunts proved that. They were, Grossmann said, "rubbing her face in Obama's win."
"Why do you call me a racist when you don't even know me?" she screamed. Made no difference. Grossmann was felled by the largest of the four. She hit her head on the brick wall, and staggered back to her dorm. The other three black women at the beating chucked at this dark manifestation of partisan evil. They walked away laughing, offering no help to their victim. The banality of evil had asserted itself. And at four-to-one, it was also a cowardly act of mindless violence which, presumably, the four thought "normal."
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a neighbor is one.
We live in S.E. Florida and he is about 48 and still has his uniform and pads on a type of manaqin in his garage.
Still hits pucks against a tree in the front.
Don’t see what age has to do with the hockey playing in this instant but I guess you had to find a way to put it in.
I plead guilty.
Once a hockey player, always a hockey player. Even here where I’ve never seen snow.
Let’s hope Abusers pay for their crimes and don’t cower from how serious their offenses are trying to make it out to be something else at the cost of another’s family and liberty!
You can be sure, the Police can tell us the real truth about this cowardly trash!
Boy, aren’t those liberals tolerant?
When I was in college (engineering) during the 70’s, there were a number of students from west African countries, including Nigeria. They did not look too kindly on the American ghetto “culture”. When one of the pupils (I won’t call him a student) ran into one of the Nigerian students at the NJIT campus and tried to impress him with some jive, the Nigerian expressed his disdain in perfect British Colonial English.
I’m reserving comment until we are certain this story is true.
I myself grew up in a town where this type of goings-on was typical. I’ve been in her shoes, though I myself was never beaten up. However, the Ashley Todd story is still fresh, and I found a couple of different versions of this story. If this one is true, I hope they catch and punish the, uh, “ladies” (using the term loosely) who are responsible.
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