BC High student beaten, robbed in racial brawl - (Hate Crime Anyone?)

Boston Herald | Thursday, December 20, 2001 | Franci Richardson

[Lance Romance]

In a racially charged brawl, nearly 20 black and Hispanic teens jumped and beat a white Boston College High School student

20 on 1 is not a brawl. It's a lynch mob. Calling Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kwesi Mfume and Harvard's own Cornell West.

[putupon]

Those poor children, so oppressed by the system they had to take it out on a sterotypical white teenager, an icon of white surburbia, who obviously provoked them by walking by. Yes, one could even say he taunted the victims with his whiteness.

[AppyPappy]

20 people jumping one guy and stealing his wallet is not a brawl. It's a robbery.

[ikanakattara]

Impossible! Just as Islam is a religion of peace, so is it impossible for a member of a minority group to commit a "hate crime."

[AStack75]

Chances are it won't be treated as a hate crime though. The only time I have seen black on white violence treated as a hate crime was during the Seattle Mardi Gras riots earlier this year. This will likely be treated as a random beating.

[Rokke]

You don't know what you are talking about. Minorities can't be racists. Obviously the white guy picked a fight with the 20 or so innocent victims.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Impossible! Just as Islam is a religion of peace, so is it impossible for a member of a minority group to commit a "hate crime."

Exactly. This is a myth. Minorities have no power to commit hate crimes.

But if somehow the impossible is true, the racial epithet is far more harmful than the beating and the robbery. Who cares about a few broken bones? Who cares about theft? And even possible death? They used a racial epithet. And that is what really hurts!

[Doctor Raoul]

``There was a racial epithet that was directed at the victim as he was being assaulted,'' said Boston police spokesman Cliff Connolly

Isn't that one of the criteria written into most "Hate Crime" laws? Still, the guilt stricken liberals in Boston will look the other way.

[Red Jones]

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[antienvironmentalist]

This may not be treated as a hate crime, but the twenty or so "minorities" will not go unpunished. As liberal as Boston is (and that is very liberal), Boston cops are always looking for a reason to beat the hell out of minorities, and this is just the excuse they need. I'm sure officer Connolly is not going to let the two thugs off the hook lightly. I'm not condemning or condoning this action, just stating it as a fact. I personally think Dorchester should be nuked off the face of the earth, then we would not have to worry about these poor minorities getting attacked by white private school boys, but no one takes my advice anyway.

[hsszionist]

And from the poverty pimps, silence.

[gunnedah]

This has been going on since the 70s and our government has chose to keep it under locks.Until white people decide to protect themselves it will not stop.It is going on widespread in South Africa and the US & UN doesnt even seriously address it.I hope to live to see the day when white folk say enough is enough but I doubt I will make it. Just keep on supporting liberal Hollywood and the Liberal News Media we will be extinct soon.

[BrooklynGOP]

That's definately a hate crime. I am sure they are not splitting his cd player/wallet 20 ways.

[jsraggmann]

I respectfully disagree. White people in America aren't going anywhere, especially "extinct". At least not the ones I know personally. I think folks are realizing, more than ever, that they are responsible for their own safety and security. Gun sales are at record levels, and personal safety courses are packed with citizens(mostly women)whom have decided to take charge of their lives. The next step is to overturn the illegal, unconstitutional laws that prohibit citizens from carrying the weapons of self-protection. That is the real challenge facing us.

[Mr. Thorne]

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

First off, it's obvious whitey was at fault. We'll even overlook the factor of his being white, which is an incendiary offense in and of itself, and focus on his actions.

Number one, he was invading their space. He must have been doing so, since the minority yoots are too young to have driven a car, and were doubtless busy with their homework right up to the minute they were forced to defend themselves against this pale invader.

Number two, he was flaunting his ill-gotten gains (the CD player), which he had doubtless purchased with the money his racist parents had withheld from needy minorities.

Number three, he was taunting them. (Coming into the 'hood alone, white boy? You must think you're something special.)

Now, what right thinking person could blame these poor, underpriveleged yoots for piling on this racist SOB?

Especially when you remember that only white people can be racist, therefore this could not have been a hate crime.

< / sarcasm >

[lawdude]

Typical "white" arrogance. He actually believed he could taunt 20 or so minorities with his whiteness, pick a fight, and win because of his superiority. Well, I guess they showed him. I hope the LEOs arrest him and charge racial assault by the lightly pigmented!

[Ole Okie]

First off, it's obvious whitey was at fault. We'll even overlook the factor of his being white, which is an incendiary offense in and of itself, and focus on his actions.

Well, I understand that an application of walnut juice will take care of the whiteness aspect.

So the white youth was negligent in not having used said walnut juice.