Responses such as yours above can come off as gratuitously antagonistic. I've personally seen a piece of lowlife White trash do this very same thing—and when I did, I promptly reported them to the restaurant management. So I'm afraid that your "100%" comment doesn't reflect accurate reality.
Having said that, I have little doubt that there is a significantly higher rate of this sort of crime that occurs within ghetto culture. After all, the number of Black children raised in single-parent homes—eventually leading to consequences like the story cited above—is astronomical.
The higher likelihood of seeing a Black person engaging in such behavior obviously has a strong tendency to reinforce negative stereotypes. Furthermore, consider how embarrassing such behavior is to the overwhelming number of decent Black people!
To continuously fixate on the fact that it was "Obama's children" is not particularly constructive, IMHO. Why? Because a Black person visiting FR—and reading some of these responses in aggregate—could easily become alienated from joining the community. How? By having their own negative stereotypes reinforced!
Unfortunately, these stories seem to provide an opportunity to conveniently engage in the "two minutes of hate" which George Orwell incorporated into his novel 1984.
I'm not trying to be PC—I'm simply suggesting that one of our goals here at FR should be to educate, and thereby to attract more minorities into the ranks of Patriotism and Liberty-minded conservatism. After all, the demographic trends will ultimately crush us if we ignore them.
In order to achieve the goal of greater unity brought on by greater numbers, therefore, I maintain that engaging in gratuitous racial antagonism can ultimately undermine the stated goal for which Free Republic exists.
Please keep in mind that I'm not targeting your post specifically, but rather expressing my thoughtful opinion on the potential negative impact of such "harsh" responses in aggregate.
I would be interested to know the race of the waitress?...would these low lifes steal from their own race?....listen to me...of course they would...
I fully agree with everything you say we do need to be more sensitive (though not in the PC way). I will say, a very large part of the snarkyness is a very direct reaction to how the media does all it can to hide the extent of the proportionality by hiding descriptions and using euphemisms like “teen”. I bet a large amount of the negative reactions these stories get would go away if the media did not go to such absurd lengths to hide it.
I would bet 90% plus of freepers see our fellow citizens who share our values to be comrades in arms regardless of where they come from. But I believe there are powers that be that are doing all they can to sew dischord between groups in our society. I think everybody is being manipulated. Liberals can be manipulated into burning cities down, conservatives react more passive agressive