Posted on 04/02/2008 7:23:32 AM PDT by 2banana
Yes, indeed, that goes without saying, eh.
Michael Frazier
In 1985, in Deerfield Beach Florida, I was assaulted by three black youths in school. The leader had jogging weights. He broke my jaw and left me there. Went on to break another guy’s spine, and then found a little old man in his 80’s and beat him and left him in a garbage can and the old man died 3 days later.
They couldn’t find him. Nobody was talking. He was bragging to his friends, but nobody would talk to the police. Finally, his mother told him to make it right. So, he walked into the police station, confessed and then the cops read him his rights, and he refused to restate his confession. When he got to court, he said he was coerced. They let him off.
Tell me I’m racist for thinking that was a hate crime.
In 1994, in Raleigh, North Carolina, I was carjacked at gunpoint by two black youths who wanted a nice car from a white person so one of them could get his dishonorable discharge from the Navy. I was taken in the back seat, beaten over the head, had a gun shoved in my mouth, then taken out of the car, tied to a tree, beaten and then left in the woods with my girlfriend (who had also been beaten, sexually assaulted and tied up and left).
Tell me how, in your screwed up world that isn’t considered a hate crime, and that I’m some sort of racist or that I some how asked to have it happen?
I can tell you from personal experience that having a “hate crime” committed against you isn’t fun. And it isn’t just someone whining. When someone targets you because as one of the perps said “he was there, he was white, he was alone and I was mad” or because you’re the only white person in a nice car to come along in the two hours the perps are staking out the parking lot, then it’s a hate crime.
Paul
I do not agree with you.
I never said the crime in the article wasn't a hate crime. And I happen to think what's happened to you ARE hate crimes...
But you ought to take careful aim before you shoot at me.
Go back and read what societygirl posted...If she's not a racist, she's posting like one.
Get back to me when you've reviewed her posts.......
Are you comfortable that that site has KKK pamplets to download and hand out?
The answer to racism isn’t more racism.
Then you either did not bother to go into the site, or if you did wore blinders. Show me my opinion is wrong.
I don’t remember ANYWHERE in the Constitution where it mentions “totally Illegal” or “Illegal guns”, or “concealed”, or “sporting purpose” or, or...
I do remember that it says “The RIGHT of the people to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed” though...
I will carry WHEN and WHERE I choose, IF I choose, and BECAUSE it is MY RIGHT to do so as an AMERICAN CITIZEN. I will protect myself, my family and anyone around me. People are SAFER because I carry, even though they won’t ever have to know it.
I am not a subject - I am a citizen, with rights that are worth FIGHTING AND DYING FOR. So are you. So are we ALL out here.
Until we ALL start to remember that and live it, this will only get worse.
People DIED for this right. This young man DIED because he either chose NOT to exercise his right to carry (bad), did not KNOW he had a right to carry (worse), or “did not like guns...and did’t feel the need to own one.” (Worst).
You’re either sheep, wolves, or sheepdogs.
Clearly, the gangsta-thug-underprivileged baggypants rappers were even less than wolves. They were simply rabid dogs that should have been shot down in the street.
This is what we’ve come to. Anyone had enough yet? Then start carrying. Follow the law as much as you can, but if the law threatens your life as much as a criminal does, well, then you have to make that choice for yourselves. “Competing Harms”, I believe it’s called.
I already know my decision.
Excellent post.
I read the Sheep, Wolves, Sheepdogs essay on here not too long ago.
It’s been around a long time...and it’s appropo.
I agree.
The first time I read it was a few weeks or so ago.
It’s a shame for that man. The philly subway was horrendous back in the 80s, I can’t imagine what it’s like today. I certainly wouldn’t ride it unarmed. I still have sibs and other family who live there and they always carry.
I grew up in Philly. It was a nice place to be a kid, for a while.
When I lived there, it was rowhomes full of WW2 and Korea vets working in local factories and small businesses and raising their kids, trying to put the war behind them and live their lives. It was a real community, and Frank Rizzo was king.
Now, well, it is what it is...but hey, like Former Mayor Thug Street said...”The bruthas and sistas are in control now...the bruthas and sistas are in charge now!”
Yep. They sure are. And they’ve done SUCH a great, great job.
But hey...we’re racists for pointing that out...
Yep. Well said. Philly has always been divided by race (black/white) for as long as I can recall (late 70s on). We grew up knowing which neighborhoods not to enter. Even my high school and the public high (Southern) worked out the opening/closing times to try to alleviate some of the fights/crime.
Wow! I grew up in South Philly. Sure, as a kid it was great. Even as a teen, I loved it. It was home :) I have wonderful memories of my neighborhood. I went away to college (total culture shock) - Penn State, University Park campus. When I moved back home again, I hated the city and swore I would never buy a home/settle there. The neighborhood started changing too. New people moving in who didn’t have the same sense of community.
But even back then, the divisions were clear. I remember the cops lining up every night at 29th and Tasker, standing along the playground on 29th Street, keeping the peace between the neighborhood and the Projects (Tasker Homes?). The fights on SEPTA just trying to get to school (we’d usually walk rather than take SEPTA).
Didn’t you just love that statement from him? He is a thug and so is his brother Milton.
Yep, I know, I’m considered racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and probably every other name they can think up. I won’t lose sleep over it.
You are wrong on both accounts. You pose an either/or scenario and nothing else. You could do better...possibly.
Show me my opinion is wrong.
I have no intent of doing so. I simply said that I do not agree with you.
I don't either ... the statutes of the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Maryland have other ideas ... and that's what the cops will enforce.
So ... be careful out there.
I already know my decision.
As stated, I've acted on my decision, for years, as necessary.
“As stated, I’ve acted on my decision, for years, as necessary”
You’re not alone, bro...many, many of us out here. All brothers in the same fight.
Carry on.
Yes, but Frank BANKRUPTED the city through instituting no-bid contracts for the building trades unions (thugs almost to a man) and rolled over for the public employee unions as well. I never saw him as a great man, just as a control freak ex-cop who never saw a way to pay back his pals (via taxpayers) he didn't like.
Even if this was 1965, I would say that the only nabe in Philly that I would consider living in (if I had to live there) would be Chestnut Hill. Even the non-ghetto nabes in the Northeast are kinda dumpy. To each his/her own I guess.
I could get the info with just a spoon.
There are some highly regarded colleges in Phila, and people actually want to go there because they have no idea what they're getting into. I would talk my child out of going to school in Phila.
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