Posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:49 PM PST by neverdem
The story is shocking enough, even without bringing race into it: on the way to school in Ocala, FA, a thirteen-year-old girl was beaten unconscious and reportedly went into a seizure after being attacked on the school bus by a group of fellow students.
The girl reportedly was riding the bus for the first time. Someone threw a shoe at her, and she threw it back, hitting a student. That's when the beating began. At least seven students surrounded the girl, punched her, held her head to the floor by her hair, and kicked her. The bus driver pulled the bus over, stopped the beating, and then continued driving. But the beating started again, so the driver diverted to a nearby school and called officials, and the girl was taken to the hospital.
Aside from the brutality, there was another troubling fact about this crime -- a fact that predictably did not make it into the news: the attackers were black, and the victim was white. Yet, for the first few days after the attack, not a single news outlet reported on the race of the victim. Since the attack occurred, only one news item has even indirectly mentioned the victim's race. This can't be because the information was hard to come by. The Ocala Sheriff's Office responded to my inquiry about the victim's race within hours.
Many well-meaning people will ask why race matters. Violence is violence, and people are people, so why bring race into it? I sympathize with that sentiment. The trouble is that, if the races were reversed, this would be a larger story. It would be a larger story because we have a system of racial double standards -- some written, some unwritten -- that serve to conceal the reality of crimes like this...
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Please re-read what I posted.. I never ganged up on him, nor was it my intention.
My mother and mother in law were both English majors in college. I have had these types of lessons my whole life, thank you!
Thank goodness for the internet.
The LameStreamMedia, despite its best efforts, just can’t keep these stories bottled up anymore.
Parents: get your kids out of government schools.
[ Don’t know who stole them. Maybe the same person who stole your willingness to phrase your suggestion properly. ]
You don’t like my grammar grasshopper?...
You sound like a coward.. SPit!...
Of course my post was sarcasm. Sarcasm, because I don’t know a better way of highlighting the complete absurdity of the MSM’s treatment of the blatant pattern of black on white violence. I should have included the word “random” in my post because that gem is frequently used in the reporting. “Random”, as in, I don’t have to worry about getting stomped to death by six “young people”, because it’s a completely random event. Like a lightning strike.
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LOL!
Bikkuri, I thought it was a very cute grammar graphic. Thanks for taking the time to create it. :)
Oh dear. Given the topic of this squabble, though, I have to LOL! :)
LoL :)
Thank you :).. but I actually didn’t make that one.. it is un-sourced... Now that you mention it, I should make one of my own with a little more color ;) (and a bit more kid friendly :D )
“I have found over the years that blacks are cowards. They will never take anybody on one on one. It is always a gang of them that attacks another person.”
Tell that to Congressman Allen West and a whole host of blacks who are not cowards.
Over the years I have found that people who make general statements based on race are racist.
No flame here. It bugs me too. Another one that irritates me:
The misuse of
A person stands IN line, not on line.
And on our nickel ! We're PAYING to have criminal monsters born to incredibly irresponsible, lousy role models.
“wouldn’t of ?”
Common misspelling or typo for “would’ve”.
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I would think ‘wouldn’t of’ would be used for ‘wouldn’t have’, and ‘would of’ for ‘would have’.
Just goes to show, the more lax we become with grammar or spelling the worse it will get. Seems like we are sliding backwards in a lot ways.
I actually think you have that reversed. The poster getting all bent out of shape over the correction done in a humorous way would be the thugs. jmo
[ I don’t give a flip about your grammar, oh dense one, it’s your perspective of who gets beaten up that reveals your lack of nads. ]
You know nothing about my nads.. or perspective..
What do you know for sure?..
grammar
dsc found no humor in my post. He took me seriously and gave me a good dressing down :(
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