Posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:49 PM PST by neverdem
The story is shocking enough, even without bringing race into it: on the way to school in Ocala, FA, a thirteen-year-old girl was beaten unconscious and reportedly went into a seizure after being attacked on the school bus by a group of fellow students.
The girl reportedly was riding the bus for the first time. Someone threw a shoe at her, and she threw it back, hitting a student. That's when the beating began. At least seven students surrounded the girl, punched her, held her head to the floor by her hair, and kicked her. The bus driver pulled the bus over, stopped the beating, and then continued driving. But the beating started again, so the driver diverted to a nearby school and called officials, and the girl was taken to the hospital.
Aside from the brutality, there was another troubling fact about this crime -- a fact that predictably did not make it into the news: the attackers were black, and the victim was white. Yet, for the first few days after the attack, not a single news outlet reported on the race of the victim. Since the attack occurred, only one news item has even indirectly mentioned the victim's race. This can't be because the information was hard to come by. The Ocala Sheriff's Office responded to my inquiry about the victim's race within hours.
Many well-meaning people will ask why race matters. Violence is violence, and people are people, so why bring race into it? I sympathize with that sentiment. The trouble is that, if the races were reversed, this would be a larger story. It would be a larger story because we have a system of racial double standards -- some written, some unwritten -- that serve to conceal the reality of crimes like this...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You think Obama is going to mention the victim during the State of the Union Address? I bet he mentions Gabby Giffords - - she’s a victim of a white guy. He doesn’t want to diss the other people.
In the olden days if something like this happened, A part of the city would ( comment removed before the mods banned me) But the streets and buses would be safe again for years after.
Perhaps you SHOULD care more about spelling, grammar, punctuation and usage. These things really do help get your opinion across by not distracting your reader from it. We are then much better able to comprehend the point you’re trying to get through to us.
There/their/they’re or your/you’re or any of the myriad of mistakes made so regularly do tend to cloud the intended meaning of many posts, to the detriment of civil discourse and commentary.
Thank you in advance for reconsidering your stance!!!
***They will never take anybody on one on one. ***
I remember a chant from my youth 60 years ago...”Three against one is N****r fun!”
Unbelievable!
Go get a life kid.
You always get that kind of crap when you try to help someone with grammar or spelling.
It baffles me, really. You’d think they’d just say “thank you” and move on.
If my fly were open, I’d want someone to tell me, but when someone is making making himself look uneducated with bad grammar or misspelling, he reacts to assistance...well, as you saw here.
BS.
This is an example of repetitive redundancy.
By the way, your fly is open :)
“Kid,” your sorry a$$. Care to point out where I was actually WRONG in my assessment or would you rather just continue to act like the jerk I’m beginning to think you are?
“but when someone is making making himself look uneducated with bad grammar or misspelling,”
**This is an example of repetitive redundancy.
Well, report it to the Department of Redundancy Department.
Actually, it’s not a redundancy, though, because it was inadvertent. It’s a simple typo, of the sort upon which I never comment.
Their pack behavior reminds me of hyenas..
I rather believe that like all young people, a peer pressure group that pushes violence tends to make them more dangerous.
When the Lake of Fire freezes over!
anyone lives in proximity to large black populations know this
if they are just one on one
then they meek out..
its not as simple as blame the Dems
more to it than that...
no Dems in Haiti or South Africa just for starters
and same endemic violence and lack of fathers there too
There is at times hatred of white people.
That would be a hate crime IMO.
‘prolly’ = ignorant ‘word’ substituted for ‘probably.’
[Sorry, you were asking for that one! Yes, ‘prolly’ is a pet peeve of mine.]
PS Loved the picture. I’m stealing it.
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