Posted on 04/15/2006 4:55:52 PM PDT by floridaobserver
Even the "conservative" New York Post is stooging on this one.
And second, this was in Bill Clinton's new 'hood. I thought he gentrified it?
This sounds like the "Howard Beach Incident" - without the hoopla.
I think you read between the lines pretty good.
How some of you people can live in a city...ANY city...is beyond my comprehension. I don't even want to live in a village.
...where's Bernard Getz when ya need him?
Doogle
Yes, they were black and he was a white do-gooder student (in social work or something similar). He had stopped to give some money to a beggar in a wheelchair outside a Popeye's on 125th and Park where these lovely yutes were smoking dope and hanging out.
Probably not, one of the gang members is named Humberto Guzman.
The race of the punks and the race of the victim make no difference. Punks are punks. Evil is evil. I am thrilled when "conservative" sources don't mention race because frankly, that is the point.
I hope that within my lifetime the only designation you see in the paper is "punks" and "decent people" period. Actions matter. Size and style don't.
I don't care what race the perps (or the victim) were (was). Life in prison from these maggots. 80 years of sodomy and beatings ought to be a lark for such humorists.
Totally agree.
I agree that race shouldn't matter. By the same token, I know from experience that the New York Post, Daily News , and New York Times would have emphasized the race issue if it was white on black crime. They love to play that up, and it is usually a good fund raiser for Jesse Jackson and Sharpton.
Why the heck is this the only thing about them that has grabbed your curiosity? They're punks. Mean little punks. What the hell does their race change about that?
I'm serious... whenever there's some story like this there's always these wink-wink nudge-nudge comments about race as if it somehow boosts your ego a little if crap like this is only committed by ~them~.
Question of the Day:
Does this qualify as a "Hate Crime"? I guess not, because the victim is white.
It does to the media.
They got Popeye's in NYC?
What difference does it make to you?
Yes, didn't you see Little Nicky?
When this story was originally reported the perps wer shouting "Get Whitey" as they chased the victim into the street. Following the arrest, the NYPD were quick to announce that this was simply a robbery with no racial overtones (no hate crime here). To the NY Post's credit, they did run an editorial questioning the lack of hate crime pursuit. Now we read that the perps are going to be treated as juveniles. Your tax dollars at work.
Are you just as "thrilled" that the race of the so called "victim" was mentioned as well as the race of those Duke U. lacrosse players who without a shred of evidence from ALL "sources" are also called "punks"?
This story makes a "difference" because it again proves a double standard by the media exists for 'minority'-on-white crime vs. "white-on-'minority'" crime.
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