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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2007, 01:12:36 AM »

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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2007, 08:42:53 AM »
Apparently suffocation and lack of oxygen are two different things.

There goes another life (or more) down the drain. I can't see people standing for this.
Someone, somewhere, is going to seek the justice that wasn't delivered in the courtroom.  :'(
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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2007, 11:02:33 AM »
More of this "racially charged" bullshit.  I'm getting sick and tired of the race card constantly being played, and the Media buys into it again and again.  Of all of my travels, only here in the US do the people here have a fetish-like obession with race and categorizing people in order to divide up society and make as many victims as possible. 

Yes, the verdict was not right.  The DIs should have received some sort of punishment....however, the discussion of race almost always turns the issue away at hand and ends up in emotional finger pointing.  When will this shit stop?

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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2007, 12:36:04 PM »
More of this "racially charged" bullshit.  I'm getting sick and tired of the race card constantly being played, and the Media buys into it again and again.  Of all of my travels, only here in the US do the people here have a fetish-like obession with race and categorizing people in order to divide up society and make as many victims as possible. 

Yes, the verdict was not right.  The DIs should have received some sort of punishment....however, the discussion of race almost always turns the issue away at hand and ends up in emotional finger pointing.  When will this shit stop?

The media constantly plays the race card, but no one in this thread mentioned race.  I'm bothered by the fact they beat the crap out of this kid, on tape, and got off, after a 90-minute jury deliberation. 

That said, no denying we still have race issues in this country. 

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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2007, 01:17:17 PM »
When will this shit stop?

As soon as the lives of little Black boys are considered to be as valuable as everyone else's children.

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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2007, 01:43:27 PM »
As soon as the lives of little Black boys are considered to be as valuable as everyone else's children.

They are, when they are catching a football or putting a ball thru a hoop...

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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2007, 08:20:30 PM »
They are, when they are catching a football or putting a ball thru a hoop...

That is profound truth, Parker.   :-\

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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2007, 05:32:56 AM »
They are, when they are catching a football or putting a ball thru a hoop...
True.  :-\

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Re: This is your America, not mine
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2007, 05:55:23 AM »
That is profound truth, Parker.   :-\

My mother had broken it down for me a long time ago. I didn't want to listen. It's sad really.