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Scattering Cotton Balls on Lawn of Black Culture-Center a Felony Hate Crime?
newsblaze.com ^ | 3-8-10 | Robert Paul Reyes

Posted on 03/08/2010 6:28:04 PM PST by Justaham

Two students at the University of Missouri-Columbia were suspended Wednesday after their arrests in a case of cotton balls thrown across the lawn of the campus black-culture center.

Campus police on Tuesday evening arrested the students, one of whom is from the St. Louis area, on suspicion of a felony hate crime. The two were released on bond, and charges were pending.

The incident happened early Friday at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, near the middle of campus. Nathan Stephens, the center's coordinator, said students were offended because of the 'symbolic violence' that harkened to days of slavery on cotton plantations."

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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cottonballs; hatecrime; kkk; klan
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To: When do we get liberated?

Basketballs? See how stupid this crap is........White liberals came up with this PC crap.


61 posted on 03/08/2010 7:33:38 PM PST by outhousepatrol
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To: JusPasenThru

>> I hope few here come to their defense.

Well, I will.

What they did is in bad taste, and definitely racist. I don’t condone that intent.

But it is not criminal, let alone a felony!

The free speech right protects speech you don’t like, too.


62 posted on 03/08/2010 7:35:01 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: AzaleaCity5691

You think that anti-black racism is funny because you’re white. Would you find it as amusing if Black Muslims were having their fun with you?


63 posted on 03/08/2010 7:36:15 PM PST by iowamark
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Fried chicken is OK as long as you don’t eat it in a way that reminds people of when the USA allowed the ownership of people.

Eating it in a manner that makes it clear you are glad those days are gone is OK, I think.


64 posted on 03/08/2010 7:39:29 PM PST by DBrow
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To: wastedyears

See the first quote on my FR profile page. I think it’s the one you’re looking for.


65 posted on 03/08/2010 7:41:27 PM PST by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: Justaham

bump...for more discussion


66 posted on 03/08/2010 7:45:02 PM PST by VOA
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To: Justaham; All

A really true hate crime is burning the American Flag, but that’s considered ok - in fact a first amendment right, but a stupid, rude, no-class prank is a felony?

What a bizarro world we live in.


67 posted on 03/08/2010 7:50:33 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: iowamark

RE: “Unlike the recent San Diego incidents, here the perps were actually white. Of course, this is racism. Whether it rises to the level of a felony is questionable.”

***************

Yes, reportedly the chick who hung the noose the other day at UCSD is black! In this cotton ball case, perps are white. BFD —

Racist? Yeah, probably a little — A felony? Surely you jest!!!!!


68 posted on 03/08/2010 7:51:40 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: DBrow

Re: “Next, whites will be arrested for “eating watermelon in a racist manner”.”

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......or chicken..............


69 posted on 03/08/2010 7:52:58 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: VOA

Oh, Oh, There are about “500 BALLS PER PACKAGE.

500 counts of committing a “Hate Crime”

Penalty of 10 years per count.... 5,000 years in the slammer!


70 posted on 03/08/2010 7:54:18 PM PST by outhousepatrol
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To: JusPasenThru

And when the NAACP tosses a bunch of boxes of crackers on a white guys’ lawn I hope you’ll be out there calling for a hate crime against them. Same thing if they toss a bunch of “GAP” bags on the lawn.

IF you’re sitting here trying to defend the concept of “hate crimes” I think you’re in the wrong place. The government may think that’s legitimate, but conservatives do not. It’s one of THE WORST legal concepts ever drafted by a liberal mind, including being right up there with “abortion and the right to privacy”.


71 posted on 03/08/2010 7:55:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Justaham

Slowly, but surely. Persons on “non color” are getting fed up with the Government sanctioned and institutionalized bias against whites.

0bama is fueling the fire. He doesn’t want to “bridge the gap” or “promote understanding and harmony” among the races, he wants to exploit and explode them.

If you would have said, fifty years ago, that our Nation’s good traditions, honest cultures, and American exceptionalism itself, would be held chained to an ankle post by less than 13% of our entire population...you would have been ridiculed into infamy.


72 posted on 03/08/2010 8:15:58 PM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt-get install U-S-Constitution)
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To: JusPasenThru
Yes. It was clearly racist in intent. I hope few here come to their defense.

The problem with the term "hate crime" is that people actually get to thinking that hate is a crime, it is not.

Hate is not a crime and throwing cotton balls is not a crime, but you put the two together and it becomes a felony hate crime???

73 posted on 03/08/2010 8:21:41 PM PST by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre? Esse Quam Videri - To Be, Rather Than To Seem)
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To: annieokie

I’ve done some pretty silly stuff - safe but silly in my flying career .... if you’re flying with me in a bizjet you never want to hear me announce over the PA to ‘hang on to your drinks’ ....


74 posted on 03/08/2010 9:24:10 PM PST by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: SkyDancer

lol, keep on having that fun, stay safe.


75 posted on 03/08/2010 9:43:57 PM PST by annieokie
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To: cripplecreek
"Freakin thought crimes. Orwell here we come."

"Ayn Rand and George Orwell were not just ordinary novelists they were prophets who wrote in novel format."

76 posted on 03/08/2010 9:50:41 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: ctdonath2
Yes, the Black Culture Center is a hate crime: commandeering money from people of all races, then allocating those funds for the exclusive use by and for and in promotion of color-based racism. Imagine the seething rage unleashed if there were a White Culture Center on campus.

That is what I don't understand with this racism thing with African Americans. They can have their own TV channel (Blak Entertainment TV), or their own awards show, etc. But if the white folks come out with a white only awards, then it's racism. Blacks can call other black folks the "N" word, but whoa, it's a hate crime when white folks call blacks the "N" word. It's time for blacks to think this is the 21st century, slavery days are long over.
77 posted on 03/08/2010 10:35:39 PM PST by Justaham
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To: iowamark

Black Muslims are too busy having their ‘fun’ with black Christians in Nigeria.

How much traction did the Black Panther voter intimidations get in the media, or the courts? What’s that black woman who hung a noose going to get in the way of felony charges?
This is ridiculous.


78 posted on 03/08/2010 10:54:00 PM PST by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: SkyDancer
Nope - but I remember flying over a golf course dropping stale marshmallows ....

That's really evil.

I like it. :)

79 posted on 03/08/2010 11:49:22 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Justaham; All
( The following is a variant of a boilerplate reply I use occasionally-- it is sarcasm, folks, sarcasm- with a touch of irony thrown in... )

I denounce You All!



And, just to be "inclusive," my own evil 'sef'!



Then, I trun oursef's over to the block watchers and re-education camps to have our attitudes adjusted at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085709/posts



 
80 posted on 03/09/2010 3:45:13 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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