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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (359305)11/19/2007 9:30:35 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1573074
 
>I guess in a post-Columbine age, you can't take anything as an idle threat.

A noose hung in the Deep South by white people is NOT an idle threat.

>But we are still a society of laws. Six black kids go and beat up a white kid because of a hateful thing the white kid did. One of the attackers has four convictions already, and he's not even 20. And those black kids are glorified for what they've done? What kind of message does that send to everyone of every race and every disposition?

The issue here is not that the black kids got punished; they should have been. The issue is that they were punished disproportionately, which happens to blacks too often around this country, particularly in the South.

-Z
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