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originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: DrStevenBrule
they were an issue for Leith, ND....
abcnews.go.com...
originally posted by: dawnstar
as far as weather or not the kids were white....
The boy’s grandmother, Lorrie Slattery, told Valley News, a New Hampshire newspaper, that he and others were playing in a yard in their neighborhood when the teenagers, who are white, started calling the boy racial epithets and throwing sticks and rocks at his legs.
www.nytimes.com...
they are reported to be white!!!
Southern Italians were considered “black” in the South and were subjected to the Jim Crow laws of segregation. They weren’t allowed to marry “whites.” It was difficult, damn near impossible.
They were designated as “black” on census forms if they lived in the South and that is because the majority of them were dark-skinned Sicilians.
Mass lynchings happened to them often.
www.africaresource.com...
It's being very disingenuous to compare an act done by children 14 and under to that of an adult rapper getting paid to produce hate material.
originally posted by: sine.nomine
a reply to: dawnstar
But it's ok for the rapper to do it because that's "reverse racism," right? It's all bad, and it all promotes incidents like this. On both sides, for all races, for all our children.
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: sine.nomine
a reply to: seagull
Of course I can tell the difference. But are you going to tell me children and teenagers aren't influenced by pop culture?
No one was harmed in X's video. It's entertainment, like a movie.
This boy was actually hung.
There's a big difference.
"Life imitates art".
originally posted by: conspiracytheoristIAM
Please go back and look at the provided picture of the biracial boy....does he appear to be black or white ??
originally posted by: Subrosabelow
originally posted by: conspiracytheoristIAM
Please go back and look at the provided picture of the biracial boy....does he appear to be black or white ??
Are you serious? You must not have much experience with bi-racial people if you honestly don't believe that kid is biracial because he looks too white. A child of mixed race can run the gamut from looking almost fully white with very pale skin, to being on the darker side with no appearance of any Caucasian blood.
I went to high school with a bi-racial kid and his skin was no darker than what most would call a tan and his hair was naturally red with an extremely tight curl to it.
Genetics are funny that way.
This is a horribly tragic thing that happened and I do have to say, these kids must be taught that what they did is wrong on every level. Brushing it off as nothing because they're kids will not help. If nothing is done because of their age, you might as well pat them on the head and condone the action as ok. They'll learn no lesson. I don't know if treating them as adults is the answer, but letting them off scott free is NOT the answer either.