On 4/10/2014 8:29 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 4/10/14, 7:18 AM, John H. wrote:
On Monday, April 7, 2014 1:28:55 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:
On 4/7/2014 11:09 AM, Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:00:03 -0500, amdx wrote:



A man stops to help a boy after he hit him with his vehicle.

The man is in an induced coma.



"Police have said the crime was not racially motivated. Utash is white

and his attackers were black."



0f course, I'm sure the 12 black attackers would have beat a black

driver just as bad*. That makes the crime better somehow?



http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...troit-hits-96K




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Don't go there Mike.



Ya, my minority wife might not like it.

But it is OK if Jesse Jackson goes there.

"There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the
street

and hear footsteps

and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody

white and feel relieved."

Jesse Jackson

I understand politically correctness. It sucks.







We all read the news and it's a bad story, but

no one can predict how it might have turned out in different

circumstances. At this point all you can hope for is a good recovery

for the driver and proper justice for the perpetrators.



Agreed.



Mikek

I am surprised Krause didn't comment on Jesse's racist remark.



I was wondering which of the racist morons here would pile on. You
fellas apparently are not aware that the quote you are attributing to
Jackson isn't one that describes *his* feelings, but one used to
describe how he thinks "white people" feel when they hear footsteps
behind them.

Right-wing media outlets have bandied about that quote for decades, and
out of context, of course.

Next?



If I understand what you are saying, He did say the line, (I can only
find that it was originally quoted in US News). I can only find one
reference that gives context to the quote, and that context was, to
paraphrase, yes I grew up in the same racist culture and I have those
feeling to. Is that the context, or is that not what you thought?

But I need to quote someone else,
"Young black males commit crime way out of proportion to their numbers.
Taking that into account when you’re out in the street is not
irrational, it’s street-smart. It’s not profiling, it’s probability."

Street smarts saves lives.

Here is an interesting site to get you thinking.
http://theracecardproject.com/category/race-card/
Poke around a bit.

Mikek