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I'm just curious if there are any sources that point towards a clear motive for the victim to provoke a savage punch to the face...
an 11 year old autistic boy, who is white, and only has the mental capacity of a SIX YEAR OLD,
originally posted by: MysterX
a reply to: chuck258
What was a mentally damaged boy with a mental age of six years old doing at that school in the first place, and not in a special needs educational environment?
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: chuck258
Interesting OP. I hadn't seen this story. I won't address the incident itself which it is messed up. Obviously the kid has been taught and absorbed some anti-black attitudes, i.e., "This table is for whites only". And obviously, the black employee over reacted, probably due to the fact he took that as a racist insult.
You stated: " The more racial incidents like this (Black on White) occur and receive no mmedia coverage, and the more they are not prosecuted as hate crimes like they all should be (and in every single case, charges have been reduced) - the more incidents we are going to see. Sure, Black people that do these crimes may not CONSCIOUSLY think of these reasons (IE, a Black person committing a crime against a white person because they are white), but the atmosphere in the country is being picked up emotionally and mentally and is translating to more horrendous crimes like this white child who may be forever traumatized to go to school."
That's an interesting observation. The very fact the MSM doesn't report on or follow these type "black on white" assaults is, if the anecdotal evidence I've gathered in conversations with friends and relatives, having an interesting effect around the nation. The effect its having is that its hurting the economy. I follow the economic scene quite avidly and the condition of race relations is hurting sales of all types. Housing sales are off; retail sales are off and consumer confidence is declining albeit slowly.
All that being the case, there's no obvious fix to the problem; the blacks don't like the whites, they are resentful of them. The whites are at a minimum, distrustful of the blacks and it shows, which amps up the problem. Are there any ways to reduce the tension? One would be to end white policing of black neighborhoods. Another would be the technique used at the school where my mother-in-law worked........white teachers only disciplined white kids and black teachers only disciplined black kids in the common areas. In the classrooms, if there was a disruption, the sole teacher would call security and leave the class room and the security responded in paired teams of one white and one black officer. Ultimately she left that school; not much "teaching" was going on.
I and my friends and relatives expect things to get much worse this summer and through the election and even after that. It looks like the likes of Sharpton will be right when he said he worried for the streets after this election because when Obama leaves office, US blacks will feel abandoned and disenfranchised.
Not to be hurtful or disrespectful, but I'm coming to believe that OP's such as this are really kind of pointless. Race relations in the US is a lost cause and publishing OP's on the topic only serve to highlight the problem at the expense of taking peoples attention off far more important "basic" problems that plague this country and which COULD be fixed if the public were to focus on them; problems like homelessness; crumbling infrastructure; declining middle class; affordable housing and many more.
originally posted by: MysterX
a reply to: chuck258
I have a couple of concerns about this thread.
What was a mentally damaged boy with a mental age of six years old doing at that school in the first place, and not in a special needs educational environment?
And why is this considered to be a white against black, black against white racial happening, despite what the kid said, when it is clearly about an adult man in a position of trust and authority comitting assualt against a child he was employed to protect and be responsible for?
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
a reply to: burdman30ott6
Very well-said! If some kit hit me in the face, I may reflexively hit him back.
Aside from your opinion on white privilege, I agree completely.