88 year old WWII war hero beaten to death by two teens

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/us/world-war-vet-beating-death/


And people want to know why other people profile?:smt102

And these two were unarmed...they were pretty harmless.

 

Thanks for finding the article Stumper. It was a good read.



This.

 

Why profile? I'm not following.

 

Rip

 

He was 88 years old.
A ten year old would have been a mortal threat to this dude, RIP.

Fact of the matter is the overwhelming majority of White people, less than 3(?) % will ever be victims of a homicide by a Black person.

People are buying into the right wing spin in order to justify policies that are racially discriminatory.

Racially profiling doesn't give John Q. Citizen the right to follow, confront and shoot dead an unarmed teen because he fits some disingenuous generic profile of a criminal.

Unless you think Black=criminal, in which case you should go order your white hood tomorrow.

Highlighting every single incident of Black on White crime doesn't change the facts; White people are NOT being preyed upon daily by marauding gangs of Black youth.

The GOP pumps WHite fear of Blackness, the ultimate race card, in order once again to solidify their base and drive their voters to the polls.

Hey Stumper. Boo.

 

Very good post

 

RIP man. Damn shame.

 

Sweetie,

I'm pretty sure he doesn't need to order his white hood tomorrow.
He's probably at his local racist site chapter working furiously on all the back orders.

Of course he pushes his rhetoric here. It's what they do.

 

Whether or not the arguments you make are valid and can be substantiated is a moot point.......What is relevant is that these stories ARE making headline press and national news now more than at anytime in recent history........It is therfore safe to assume that the rate and frequency of these types of crimes is probably wearing very thin on patiences' and is bound to trigger some form of drastic action ......

 

Whose patience is wearing thin & why is it only with crimes involving black people that it's wearing thin and not ALL crime in general? Who is making the decision to put all the focus on only the crimes committed by black people national headline news?

 

Arch, I believe you meant to say the point is "moot". Also
violent crime has been dropping for the last 5 years and most victims were male and in cases where race was known, 50 percent were black and 46 percent were white.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime/

 

Ra, the criminal element of our race is what is bringing down our whole race. The black race as a whole is interpreted through who is robbing, attacking, or stealing from someone. That is what I'm trying to convey over. When I acknowledged this, I received some neg reps that I shouldn't be on the forum because I explained that reality.

 

Fox news has been hashing out from the police blotter for White victims of Black males.

 

Here's the problem with "that reality" that you & others choose to acknowledge and want others to acknowledge. It basically says that Martin Luther King's statement that ALL PEOPLE should be judge by the content of their heart & their character is a lie. What you just stated above is that all black people are & will always be judged on nothing but their skin no matter how much positive the black race does or achieve as individuals or as a whole. So based on that logic why should any black folks do anything positive at all if we are all judged on those who do nothing but negative? All the positive things you & others who think like you do is worthless in the grand scheme of things using your logic. So why bother?

 

King should still be alive today, but he was shot. I'm backing up my reasoning with what I said because the United States has a caste system, like India's, although India's is based on what kind of job you have. We know by now that too many minorities have had a brush with the law here. This is most likely because the judicial system in our country is designed to go after minorities, combined with many problems that the Black and Hispanic communities have. As a result, that puts our race as a whole (and Hispanics) lower on the national caste system. Being released from prison doesn't even correct the issue, because a prisoner would be shunned away from mainstream society, in the form of not getting employment, not being able to vote, not being able to own a home, etc. They will commit a crime again, such as a random attack out of having nothing to do from being bored, a large gun massacre, or robberies/ car thefts. It is bascially the creation of a growing underclass of people, regardless of what their race is. Positive things that we do may not be worth anything, because as people are pointing out, the underclass of every race (not just blacks) is increasing, and someone like the courts, police, or governments needs to intervene.

If too many people (particularly the men) are committing the same kinds of crimes over and over again, people will eventually realize that it's appropriate to label the gender and/or race as being a serious problem - a burden towards mainstream society.

 

Black folks aren't shit and nether are you since you are black. Just say that if that's what you truly believe and just stop trying to convince those of us who don't buy into that ignorant mindset that we should too. Thank You.

 

Mikey, stats show that it is a VERY small percentage of Black People as a whole, approx. 3%, that commit crimes of any nature. So given that 96-97% of Black people do not, how in the world can you justify someone else labeling us as a group a problem?

Would you justify stigmatizing most or all White people as "druggies" given the data below? I would hope not.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/

 

I don't believe all of us are. I was explaining to you that not enough of us are really moving "upward" in society. Because of that, more people tend to interpret us through the criminal justice system. Out of the entire population in the country, what do you think is the national perception about blacks - especially when it comes from the opinions of whites?

No, I wouldn't do that to all white people. When the article came out today, it was flooded by comments from people that did generalize the whole race. The updater on the website would keep showing about 100 new updated comments every few minutes, most of them generalizing on blacks.

Even though the statistics are right, somehow our society doesn't interpret it that way.

 

Being that I am a law abiding & productive citizen and being that I know a great many other black people who are the same, if the national perception of black people is overall negative based mainly due to the actions of some black people compared to the majority, then America has the problem, not black people.

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Ra again.

And I would add, that there are many (Fox news, ect.) who benefit from spreading that false negative perception.