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To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/24/2013 5:05:54 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 FJB Respond to of 1578965

Alex' "white" kid had a black father and a white mother-JUST LIKE OBAMA.

To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/24/2013 6:23:48 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578965

SYCOPHANT MEDIA????????????????????????? Obama Stops For Pie (Coconut Cream) In Pennsylvania By Mary Bruce Aug 23, 2013 abcnews.go.com Jason Reed/Reuters LENOX, Pa. — No Obama bus tour would be complete without a stop for the president’s favorite treat: pie. On the road to Scranton this afternoon, the president made a surprise visit to Bingham’s Restaurant in Lenox, Pa. “Hello, everybody,” Obama exclaimed as he walked into the sunny restaurant with Sen. Bob Casey by his side. “I hear you’ve got the best pie… That’s the word on the street.” The president walked straight up to the counter, where more than a dozen pies and sweet treats were on display under a sign that read “Try The Pie.” A tempting coconut cream pie was already set out. The owner later told reporters he had heard it was one of the president’s favorites. “Coconut cream pie,” Obama said with excitement. The president ordered one coconut cream, one cherry and one pecan pie, joking to Casey that it was “just my order” and he had to place his own. The president spent a few minutes chatting with the folks behind the counter, asking owner Dave Scarpetta about business. “Don’t let him pay, cause I’m paying,” Obama said, motioning to Casey. The pies at Bingham’s run $12.95 a piece. The president then worked the room while his treats were being boxed up, greeting diners at the bar and those seated in the green leather booths and shaking hands and posing for pictures.

To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/24/2013 6:25:38 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Recommended By Celtictrader Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1578965

yep... it was a white kid, a hispanic kid, and a black kid that committed this horrendous thoughtless crime but according to the right wing racist goons who populate most of the political boards it was all "black thugs"... and Obama is probably somehow behind it can you imagine spending 24/7 posting nothing but hate and lies on the internet... what a sad life these people have That's that 'da internets are fir'..........to promote their racist views. Of course they never stop to think that their views on guns may be the real problem.

To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/24/2013 6:28:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578965

I was wondering how long before the world would start to think about not visiting the US. Chris Lane: call for tourism boycott as teens charged with murder refused bail Former deputy PM Tim Fischer urges Australian tourists to boycott the US to send a message about gun control Two of the three teenagers charged over the murder of Australian baseball player Chris Lane have been refused bail by an Oklahoma court. James Edwards, 15, and Chancey Luna, 16, were both charged with first-degree murder. The third teenager, Michael Jones, 17, was charged with using a vehicle to facilitate the discharge of a weapon and being an accessory after the fact of murder in the first degree. The former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer – who played a leading role alongside former prime minister John Howard in changing Australia's gun laws after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre – has urged Australian tourists to boycott the US to send a message about gun control. "Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice,'' Fischer said. "I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers [but] it's a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA." Bail for Jones was set at $1m (A$1.1m). Under Oklahoma law the three boys will be tried as adults. Edwards and Luna face a life sentence if convicted. Lane was out jogging when the three teens allegedly drove up behind him and shot him once in the back before driving off. Witnesses rushed to Lane's aid but the 22-year-old was pronounced dead in hospital about an hour later. Prosecutors believe Luna fired the shot that killed Lane. Neither he nor Edwards displayed emotion during the appearance, Australian Associated Press reported. Jones broke down when told he was facing a long prison sentence. District attorney Jason Hicks told the Shepherd County courthouse that Edwards was treating the murder as a joke. "I believe he is a threat to the community and should not be let out," Hicks said. Edwards was reportedly already on probation, and had been in court on the day of the murder to sign documents. The parents of the two younger boys told US media they believed their sons were innocent. Police chief Dan Ford told media that the boys had killed Lane out of boredom in the final days of their school holidays. Lane, from Melbourne's Oak Park, was in Oklahoma on a baseball scholarship to a local college. He and his American girlfriend, Sarah Harper, had been back in the US for only three days after visiting family in Australia. On Monday Lane's family asked the media for privacy. "There's not going to be any good to come out of this, because it was just so senseless," said Lane's father, Peter. "There wasn't anything he could have done. It's happened, it's wrong and we'll just try and deal with it the best we can." theguardian.com

To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/24/2013 8:11:38 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB joseffy Respond to of 1578965

Don’t Ignore Race in Christopher Lane’s Murder The association of young black men with violence doesn't come out of thin air By John McWhorterAug. 22, 2013 Australian Christopher Lane was killed on Monday in Oklahoma by three teens, one of whom has said they were just “bored.” The right is complaining that the media is making nothing of the fact that two of the teens were black whereas Lane was white, as opposed to the massive alarm sounded in cases such as white (or white-ish) George Zimmerman killing black Trayvon Martin. And again the cry was heard that there is more “black-on-black” or “black-on-white” crime than “white-on-black,” and that young black men are in fact more of a problem than people like Zimmerman. The numbers don’t lie: young black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S.We don’t yet know whether the attack on Lane was racially motivated, nor can we know whether the three black boys who attacked a white boy on a Florida school bus recently would not have done the same to a black kid. (Critics took Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to task for not condemning the violence.) But hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying “You get what you deserve, white boy” (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch “for Trayvon” (Mobile, Ala.). So, it’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them. (MORE: McWhorter on the Real Signs of Black Power) It’s not that black communities are in complete denial about these statistics — Stop the Violence events are a staple of high-crime areas. But let’s face it: black America isn’t nearly as indignant about black boys killing one another or whites as about the occasional white cop killing one black boy, even though the former wreaks much more havoc in black communities. There is no coordinated nationwide movement equivalent to the one Martin galvanized. There are no thoughtful films “exploring” black-on-black crime the way Fruitvale Station treats the death of Oscar Grant, a young black man who was killed by transit police in Oakland, Calif. And recent example illustrates how many blacks feel about who is murdering whom. Two weeks ago, an NYPD cop killed 14-year-old Shaaliver Douse. Douse was in the process of shooting other people, and had been charged with shooting someone else in May — and yet his aunt compared him to Martin. In her mind, the main sin was the white cop’s. (MORE: Just Because Zimmerman ‘Started It’ Doesn’t Mean He’s Guilty) Granted, it seems a lot easier to do something about the Zimmermans than the black thugs. Protest profiling and police departments institute new programs. But black thugs aren’t moved by protests, so it can seem like we’re just stuck with them. But who’s to say what would happen if black America exerted even half of the emotional fervor and brainpower it does over cases like Martin’s to thinking about how to keep black boys from going wrong? Annette John-Hall had some wise words on this last year. What kind of self-image do we have to assume we can only change others, but not ourselves? For the time being, though, it’s time for the media to stop proudly emblazoning the race of white cops who kill black boys while cagily describing black teens as, say, “from the grittier part of town,” as has been the case regarding Lane’s killers. The media needs to be as honest with black people as we need to be with ourselves. No group gets ahead by turning away from its real problems. Read more: ideas.time.com

To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/24/2013 10:16:48 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578965

The association of young black men with violence doesn't come out of thin air

To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/25/2013 2:48:12 AM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Recommended By Celtictrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578965

They're even saying the others had mixed heritage, or "black blood". But, that's not racist!

To: Alex MG who wrote (734641)	8/25/2013 12:33:43 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578965

Chris Lane: call for tourism boycott as teens charged with murder refused bail Former deputy PM Tim Fischer urges Australian tourists to boycott the US to send a message about gun control theguardian.com, Tuesday 20 August 2013 20.10 EDT Two of the three teenagers charged over the murder of Australian baseball player Chris Lane have been refused bail by an Oklahoma court. James Edwards, 15, and Chancey Luna, 16, were both charged with first-degree murder. The third teenager, Michael Jones, 17, was charged with using a vehicle to facilitate the discharge of a weapon and being an accessory after the fact of murder in the first degree. The former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer – who played a leading role alongside former prime minister John Howard in changing Australia's gun laws after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre – has urged Australian tourists to boycott the US to send a message about gun control. "Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice,'' Fischer said. "I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers [but] it's a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA." Bail for Jones was set at $1m (A$1.1m). Under Oklahoma law the three boys will be tried as adults. Edwards and Luna face a life sentence if convicted. Lane was out jogging when the three teens allegedly drove up behind him and shot him once in the back before driving off. Witnesses rushed to Lane's aid but the 22-year-old was pronounced dead in hospital about an hour later. Prosecutors believe Luna fired the shot that killed Lane. Neither he nor Edwards displayed emotion during the appearance, Australian Associated Press reported. Jones broke down when told he was facing a long prison sentence. District attorney Jason Hicks told the Shepherd County courthouse that Edwards was treating the murder as a joke. "I believe he is a threat to the community and should not be let out," Hicks said. Edwards was reportedly already on probation, and had been in court on the day of the murder to sign documents. The parents of the two younger boys told US media they believed their sons were innocent. Police chief Dan Ford told media that the boys had killed Lane out of boredom in the final days of their school holidays. Lane, from Melbourne's Oak Park, was in Oklahoma on a baseball scholarship to a local college. He and his American girlfriend, Sarah Harper, had been back in the US for only three days after visiting family in Australia. On Monday Lane's family asked the media for privacy. "There's not going to be any good to come out of this, because it was just so senseless," said Lane's father, Peter. "There wasn't anything he could have done. It's happened, it's wrong and we'll just try and deal with it the best we can." theguardian.com