Posted on 06/04/2009 11:14:26 PM PDT by zeestephen
Joseph Hooks is a Seattle city employee and a commissioner on the Washington state Commission on African American Affairs...police say the [three month] delay [in charging Hooks with beating a white man] had nothing to do with his Hook's professional life...A few days after the incident, Hooks spoke with KOMO News. He first claimed he didn't remember a fight, but later said he had acted in self-defense...[The white victim, Michael] McBain's injuries were so severe he's had to put some of his medical studies at the University of Washington on hold. He may need surgery to repair his eye.
(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...
I think the gay angle is more important here than the black / white one. Perhaps a pick-up gone wrong?
Crime stories are posted here all the time, and most of them have nothing to do with race. There's a Phil Spector news story floating around here on FR tonight, as just one example. A white guy charged with killing a white female.
If the races were reversed, then we could expect the following:
A) This would be a huge national news story, not just a local Seattle story.
B) You wouldn't have protested it being posted here.
“I don't care what the race of either the victim or the perpetrator is in any situation. But in this case, if the races were reversed or both of these men were of the same race, you would have never seen the story here.”
I partly agree, and I'm the guy who posted the article.
If the Commissioner for European American Affairs had severely beaten a black man, it would have been the lead story for every MSM newspaper and TV station in the country.
There would have been no need to post the story.
Everyone would know about it.
If a prominent white Democrat had severely beaten a white Conservative, I would have posted that, too.
Why?
Because almost nobody would know about it, just like the story I did post.
More likely just an a-hole with a very large chip on his shoulder.
From the article:
Michael McBain had just returned home to his Capitol Hill condo with his wife when two steps inside, a complete stranger beat him unconscious.McBain was punched in the head and kicked in the face. "There was a big guy standing there, sort of blocking the door. And I guess I must have brushed past him," he said.
The beating of this man reminds me of the beating of Justin Barker at Jena High School, Louisiana, in 2006.
I really believe the 3-month delay didn’t have anything to do with is “profession.”
What it *did* have to do with doesn’t need mentioned.
I remember those days too.
Do we correct past injustices by swing the pendelum to the other extreme and just reversing the discrimination?
Is that considered the “equality” whites and blacks fought so hard for in the 60’s?
The pendulum sometimes has a will of its own. But it does no good to manufacture a racial incident where none existed.
Just the fact that that was mentioned, likely means it had everything to do with it. Looking at what position he held, the LEOs had to have their act together on the investigation, before charges would even be considered.
Otherwise, they'd be circling the wagons.
On the down low?
Prejudice and discrimination is ugly, wherever or however it is applied.
Reverse discrimination is just as ugly.
If we are to be equal, which is what we all fought for, racial incidents shouldn’t be covered up, either, just because the perpetrator is gay or a person of color.
Hooks is the one who brought race into it by claiming McBain pushed him forcefully and cursed him. If that was had happened, most people would just issue a stern ‘f.u.’ to the smaller person and be done with it.
With that lame defense, it is Hooks falling back on a white person insulted a black person.
I am not creating a racial incident where none existed, Hooks already did that.
sure happened all the time.... now when did this happen?
You know what. It's getting old. I don't give a sh#t what happened. I'm sick of the pathetic parasites throwing the "well they were mean to me" 50 years ago... 100 years ago.... 150 years ago... Guess what... the Jews have been cr#pped on for longer. The Chinese were also discriminated against. The japanese were imprisoned and still have succeded....but somehow the chosen ones find an excuse to fail... to go to jail ... to be so stupid that instead of getting on a bus or moving out would rather wait and drown instead of thinking for themselves
Plus we get to hear.....
and I can't take the SAT cause I'm a victim
why did the Koreans and CIA put liquor stores in our neighborhoods to make us all drunk...
How come crack got shoved into our lungs to make us all crack heads?
Why did the white man make me father 80% of our kids out of wedlock?
...... and on and on and on.....
Get over it. Basta, it's done. The white house is occupied by a REAL African-American. So does the country ever get to say STFU already about how f'ing tough it was for African americans.
I'm not "white". I'm of Hispanic heritage... and if this mayate had done that to me or my family, they would have never found him.
Now that's the cultural difference that make diversity our strength. You see how well it's working out in Los Angeles. A lot of these punks are bullies and bullies don't like anybody to stand up to them.
My prediction, plea down to time held and community service.
Like I said, if he was from my old stomping grounds, he would want to stay in prison for awhile.
All someone did was post an article on this crime and you got all bent out of shape over it, apparently thinking it should be ignored since the perp is black and the victim white. Do you pop up on all the crime threads around here with similar concerns? If someone posts an article on a bank robbery in Minnesota where someone got injured, and everyone involved was white, do you show up on the thread asking what the point was in posting the story?
Something tells me you don't.
you just nailed it with both paras and I’m guessin’ by now we both know the reason as to what generated the dissent which has been ongoing here regarding the relevance of the thread being started in the first place.
Washington state Commission on African American Affairs
WTF, is that like the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Do they have Bantustans up there?
Will we ever move beyond this awful Racialism?
Rule #1 If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Rule #2 If you can’t follow #1, at least have the common decency to pull the dirt in on top of yourself so the rest of us don’t have to listen to your stupid comments.
Here, here. Well said. Very well said.
You think you're being noble but in fact you're committing suicide, destroying your country, and behaving in a rude and sanctimonious manner in the process.
If you go hang out at DU they'll love you for all of this.
This is an utterly dishonest thing for you to say.
A huge lie.
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