Starship Coyote
Original Gangster!
Lest anyone argue this is an isolated incident, it's not. It's simply one in the media spotlight, although the media didn't want to cover it at first.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/long-beach-hate-crime-verdict/15545/
I keep hearing that the Mexicans are killing blacks on sight in LA. I wonder why.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/long-beach-hate-crime-verdict/15545/
The media typically doesn't want to cover black on white hate crimes because a) they're theoretically not supposed to exist... only whites can be racist we're told, and b) it might prompt other whites to take matters to become upset and take matters into their own hands. Rope is still cheap.While Southern California media weren’t eager to cover the Long Beach Halloween hate-crime trial, they were more than ready for the January 26 verdict — and any subsequent violence — as requests by camera crews flooded in to Judge Gibson Lee, who denied them all.
Even as journalists and spectators crowded Lee’s courtroom to hear, if not photograph, his guilty verdicts against nine of 10 black juveniles accused of beating three young white women on Halloween last year, the stereotyping that dogged the racially sensitive trial still rumbled on, just beneath the surface.
If the races were reversed, with white kids beating up on black kids, would the police be preparing for rioting whites? No, and that's because the police understand that blacks as a rule are animals with little self-control.Long Beach police planned for violence in case the black teens were found guilty, setting up extra security at the courthouse, some city parks — and even at Polytechnic and Jordan high schools, where the defendants were students.
Interesting question. Why shouldn't blacks be held to the same standards?But that sort of uncomfortable media stereotyping was par for the course in this trial, which illuminated not just the kids’ hate crime, but the reactions of adults — officials, media, others — as they struggled to discuss whether black children should be held to standards that, if the tables were turned, would apply to any mob of 30 or 40 white kids accused of beating three black women.
Did nothing wrong. Read that again, so you get the full grasp of it.Black homelessness activist Ted Hayes, sadly assessing how things turned out, told the Weekly he met with the black parents of several accused kids, whom he advised to avoid a trial and harsh sentences by admitting wrongdoing by their kids. His own street advice to “these out-of-control black kids” would be, he says, “Stop ‘cutting the fool.’ ”
The parents refused to reach outto the district attorney, Hayes says, painting their children as innocents and enlisting “camera jockeys like Eddie Jones,” and other black leaders who argued without apology that the kids had done nothing wrong.
I keep hearing that the Mexicans are killing blacks on sight in LA. I wonder why.