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Originally posted by Dreine
It's only racism when it's violence against non-whites committed by whites.
Every other incident is justified based on acts which took place almost 250 years ago. And if you do not espouse that idea, you, my friend, are a racist.
Nothing will happen over this, the ACLU and NAACP will launch a massive PR campaign which will be embraced by the MSM to make it seem as if race had nothing to do with it and somehow this was all just a misunderstanding.
Sure it was.
Originally posted by LightAssassin
reply to post by ShaunHatfield
And it starts,
This is going to get bigger. They have divided them so well.
Love. It's lacking.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
reply to post by mjfromga
Parents are failing on their responsibility to teach their kids respect, manners, morality and the difference between right and wrong. When they fail at basic parenting society suffers. We now have disrespectful and violent teenagers having babies.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Originally posted by Gorman91
...Hmm. Wisconsin.
I'll have to admit. I've known a few people from that area, and only one was normal. And even he told me stories. I don't know what it is about that area, but it seems everyone I stumble upon from it has some fundamental flaw in terms of anger control.
I think I have to wonder once again just what lines of innocent versus guilty were drawn. I suspect many were not on the right side of the line as they claim.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by mjfromga
While there were no doubt victims, and now doubt aggressors, the world is not always black and white. Many times the victim had it coming to them in violent acts.
That doesn't mean everyone. But if my suspicions are true, than I do have to blame the community for not doing their fair share of destroying racists as they ought to. Too few sit by as evil people create problems. And too many so called innocent people are all to often the cause of it through their inaction.
It's been done before. I don't exactly look too kindly at past Americans for standing by as the Natives were force marched, nor do I take too kindly to Germans who sat by as the German military slaughtered the jews, nor do I take too kindly at Russians who did nothing as the communist killed so many.
While not universal, many are guilty by inaction or association.
To have such a large mob rise up and do this, one has to wonder. That doesn't make the mob right. It makes everyone wrong.edit on 5-8-2011 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by matthewgraybeal
i wish these young people could know just how much everyone is getting divided, and its not just them. im penniless, and stay with friends because of my lack of college degree keeps me from getting a decent job. im angry but violence is not the solution. well if anything these youth should march on the real badguys, the "leaders" of our country.
Originally posted by Trauma
I am pretty appalled by the sentiments of some people on both sides of this argument. I support the right to bear arms and the use of them as a criminal deterrent, but do you really think murdering a few of the young looters would have helped? And to the other side, do you really think some completely innocent people at a fair (since when did you have to be rich to go to a damn fair?) deserved to be beaten and repeatedly kicked in the face while unconscious?
The thing that bothers me the most about this situation is that the mob clearly organized to crash this fair, for supposed grievances against the "white man" or the "upper class" I guess (again, a fair? why not a golf club or something). They had the motivation to rally about their problems, but since they are uninformed (or misinformed) about who and what is responsible for the poverty riddled communities they were born into, they ignorantly vent their frustration on the nearest gathering of mostly white people. And while there are a lot of great black role models trying to promote good moral values and expose the truth, they have little exposure and are usually limited to online (which many poor do not have at home).
I don't feel like explaining all of the ways blacks have been crapped on, but I will say if you believe that it's their own fault because blacks are just lazy, dumb, and entitled, you are an idiot. England has similar problems, mobs of "chavs" who are mainly white, yet born into similar poverty to the poor blacks of America.
Originally posted by Ancient Champion
I think we need to keep an eye on the KKK & Neo-Nazi in that area for they might seek out revenge.