There is a reason why whites in the northeast (and possibly other parts of the country), avoid towns with large or growing black populations. Aside from "group affinity" there is the knowledge that we will face some sort of hostility. No thanks.
What happened was pretty disgusting and nauseating. The Justice Brothers pray for incidents like this to happen.
Oh god, here we go. Meanwhile 2 whites killed by a group of blacks in Tn isn’t a race crime and isn’t worth mentioning.
We all know that all whites are racist, and that’s not racist, that’s just a fact....
That Louisiana is one for-sure kooky state.
Disgustingly sick.
“Racial incident at school overwhelms Louisiana town”
I was surprised when I read this story as it does sound somewhat serious. When you see the term ‘racial incident’ it can mean anything, but usually means nothing. In my town (Spokane, WA) a member of our park board was nearly lynched for using the derogatory and racially charged term (dare I say it?) ‘colored guy’. The word “colored” is now apparently taboo, even thought it’s used in NAACP. It’s like the ‘n’ word; they can use it, whites can’t. This is somebody’s idea of equality.
Two things to remember about this story: You are reading it in one of the most politically correct newspapers in America, the Baltimore Sun. Second, there is always more to a story like this than makes the papers.
So before you go piling on the last group in America that can be ridiculed and joked about, White Southerners, make sure you know the full story.
In the North there are plenty schools where say the school have 60% black students and 40% white. I GUARANTEE that the 40% of white folk are too darned scared and too darned smart to be violating in social space established by the 60% of the black students.
I wonder if Mr Witt posted a similiar article regarding Freddy’s Fashion Mart?
Looks like enough blame to go around on all sides. Stupidity and ignorance knows no color.
Mr Witt should keep in mind the lyrics of Lynyrd Skynyrd, “A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow”
With all due respect FRiend, that story reads like pure leftist propaganda to me. Are you sure you are not being suckered here?
There can be problems with whites. And there can be problems with blacks. Generations of hatred in the South does not help anything. Time will heal things -- but there must be people to try to bridge the gap so that there are fewer and fewer folks filled with hate.
A priest told me that circa 1960, you had to be a member of the KKK to be part of the Atlanta police department. In about 2001 Atlanta, a black security guard called a black police officer about an incident (which happened at an abortion clinic). The black police officer lied about the incident (claiming he had seen the incident first hand when he was in fact not present) that occurred, and an internal affairs investigation occurred over the this incident. The black security guard was later let go, and I am not certain what happened to the black police officer.
What would be good for many is the viewing of the 1960s Star Trek episode that was about racial hatred. In that episode, one race was black on the left side of the face, and white on the right side of the face.
The other race had black on the right side of the face and white on the left side of the face.
Frank Gorshin was in the episode, and the title of the episode was Star Trek: Let This Be Your Last Battlefield.
one little incident and the media run after it like vultures...
whites as victims...no matter how horrible...and the silence is deafening
we don’t stand a chance as a culture as long as we keep beating ourselves up over almost non-existent anymore white racism...why do we hold whites to higher standards?
are they better or are minority victims more worthy...which is it?
this illusion and the accompanying self flaggelation compromise our ability to wage the WOT, deal with illegals, borders, culture, crime, illegitimacy and so forth
it’s utterly ridiculous...and the need for white folks to show how friggin sensitive they are to it is a mass neurosis
i am not aware of anything ever like this before.
read McGowan’s Coloring the News and learn why our media does this dance with lies
we are the most tolerant of everyone nation in the history of mankind
Racism in Louisiana? I’m totally dumbfounded...in this day and age.
So three ropes in a tree justifies attempted murder? Sounds like the one black kid is the source of most of the trouble. They should deal with him directly.
I have been living in the US for almost 8 years now and neither I or my family have seen or experienced any racial incidents since we have been here. I know that it exists out there, but fortunately my children have never been targeted by any minority groups simply because they were white. They have also not seen any minority groups targeted by anyone because they were red, black or yellow either.
Ironically, my two boys have been targeted by other white kids because they are considered “outsiders” living here in the south. That term does not just apply to us because we are Canadian’s, but to anyone not born and raised here. At first we thought that the black kids were behind the bullying as my one son was intimidated at first by them when he first started going to school here, but after talking with him he said they were never a problem and that they were nice to him - it was the white kids who were the problem.
My first son is graduating from Middle School next month and that day can’t come soon enough for him. There are some white kids at his school that taunt him every day with names I won’t even repeat here, but nevertheless he is an AB student, on the Honor Society, and well liked by the girls as he is a handsome boy. His teachers like him and watch out for him as he is sometimes affraid to walk the hallways alone as there are many kids who tell him that he better watch his back.
He is now playing on an under 15 basketball team over in Wilmington and he is one of 3 white kids on that team and they all get along like brothers and are friends off the court.
My point in all this is that there are good & bad people out there, but the biggest problem is that many of the children who have taunted my son and made his Middle School experience a living hell are a product of their parents - who don’t seem to give a damn about how they do at school. Those kids are failing school and don’t seem to care either & so they trouble those who are trying hard to make the grade.
IMHO you can only eradicate racism by education.
“Now the 3,000 residents of this small lumber and oil town deep in the heart of central Louisiana are confronting Old South racial demons many thought had long ago been put to rest.”
This is the most laughable line in teh article.
If the nooses hadn’t appeared, the media would not be using the word “racism”.
Putting up a noose is not at all in the same category as assaulting people.
Symbolism over substance.
Have no fear “Justice Brothers” (Sharpton & Jackson) will get to the bottom of this and will stir up more trouble.
every time i see CNN do a story on Jena I come away wanting the boys to do even more time in prison. I don’t know why. I guess I’m just a bad person.
I have to wonder what impact the reaction of Nagin and certain citizens of New Orleans after Katrina has to do with this. His/their blaming racism when their own stupidity was mostly at fault, and Nagin’s talk of a ‘chocolate city’ didn’t do a thing to foster good relations between races.