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Slavery ended 150 years ago but it took another century for black folks to gain equal rights. We are only two generations removed from the days of Jim Crow.
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Ended in 1864?
What kind of special idiot are you? black people were getting lynched and murdered without recourse all the way up the the 1960's.
And lets not even get into separate but equal.
I hate to hear people blame their lack of success on the white man because today you do have a fighting chance but lets not act like everything has been A OK since 1864.
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Isn't that what anybody has?
The topic was slavery.
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These perpetrators had to live through that?
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But yay the media. Now they're trying to cool racial tensions.
I guess they don't believe that they're largely responsible for lighting the match.
I guess they don't believe that they're largely responsible for lighting the match.
I really don't understand the point of what they did. They definitely have blood on their hands.
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They are not really trying to cool anything, just look at all the stories to linking Black on White violence to the Martin case.
Bill ORiely just had a segment on a mob situation in virginia that nobody claimed was in retaliation for Trayvon but still chose to inject it into the narrative.
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Case in point
Fox just did a segment on this last night and led off with a Martin reference.
Mob beating goes unreported for two weeks, tweet references Trayvon Martin
Spokane Conservative Examiner
On Tuesday, Michelle Washington of the Virginia Pilot reported that a white couple was brutally beaten by a mob of black youths at an intersection in Norfolk, Virginia.
The victims, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami, both reporters at the Pilot, were attacked on their way home from a show at the Attucks Theatre.
"They had stopped at a red light, in a crowd of at least 100 young people walking on the sidewalk," she wrote. "Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that's when the beating began."
She described the attack: "Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim."
"The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location."
Washington wrote that neither "suffered grave injuries, but both were out of work for a week." Forster's torso hurt from the beating to his ribs, and Washington said he had a "a thumb-sized bump on his head." Rostami is afraid to be alone in her house because of the attack.
Even though both victims work at the Pilot, the paper did not mention the attack at all. For two weeks, the story did not make news, and was finally mentioned Tuesday, when Washington wrote her opinion piece.
The reason, Washington explained, is possibly due to the incident being coded as a simple assault, "despite their assertions that at least 30 people had participated in the attack."
"A reporter making routine checks of police reports would see 'simple assault' and, if the names were unfamiliar, would be unlikely to write about it. In this case, editors hesitated to assign a story about their own employees," she added.
"Would it seem like the paper treated its employees differently from other crime victims?"
"More questions loomed," she wrote.
The victims wondered if the officer who answered their call treated all victims the same way.
Rostami, Washington wrote, was hysterical when she tried to explain what happened, and said the officer told her to shut up and get back in the car. According to the two victims, the officer "did not record any names of witnesses who stopped to help."
Worse yet, according to Washington, "Rostami said the officer told them the attackers were 'probably juveniles anyway. What are we going to do? Find their parents and tell them?'"
She added:
The officer pointed to public housing in the area and said large groups of teenagers look for trouble on the weekends. "It's what they do," he told Forster.
Washington asked: "Could that be true? Could violent mobs of teens be so commonplace in Norfolk that police and victims have no recourse?"
But the story doesn't end there.
Washington wrote that on the next day, Forster searched the social media site Twitter for any mention of the attack.
"One post chilled him," she noted.
"I feel for the white man who got beat up at the light," one person wrote.
"I don't," another responded, indicating laughter. "(do it for trayvon martin)."
Trayvon Martin is the 17-year-old who was shot by George Zimmerman in Florida - over 700 miles away.
"Were Forster and Rostami beaten in some kind of warped, vigilante retribution for a killing 750 miles away, a person none of them knew," Washington asked. "Was it just bombast? Is a beating funny, ever?"
She explained why the story appeared on May 1 - after two weeks.
"We cannot allow such callousness to continue unremarked, from the irrational, senseless teenagers who attacked two people just trying to go home, from the police officer whose conduct may have been typical but certainly seems cold, from the tweeting nitwits who think beating a man in Norfolk will change the death of Trayvon Martin," she wrote.
She concluded:
How can we change it if we don't know about it? How can we make it better if we look away?
Are we really no better than this?
Most of the readers commenting on the article were outraged.
"This rag did NOT have the decency to print this story for TWO WEEKS???? Why, is it bad for Obama??? This rag should be shut down and the editors thrown in jail. This type of story, especially when it involves your own reporters should have been printed the next day. The police should be ashamed of themselves and a MAJOR investigation as to what that cop was thinking should be conducted. Maybe they should make him a crossing guard, since he obviously does NOT know what he doing with a real crime," Patrick M. Kenneally of Floral Park, NY commented.
"The Pilot owes readers -- and a national audience, now that Drudge has picked up the incident -- a detailed explanation of why and how it covered up this story," wrote John T Roberts of Norfolk, who also mentioned that a former publisher of the Pilot "was appointed deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in March."
"It is unbelievable that The Virginian-Pilot would BURY this story for two weeks for politically correct reasons. That is sad and disgusting. Someone should be fired or resign over the decision not to report this attack," wrote David Englert of Norfolk.
At least one person, Douglas Gaynor of Virginia Beach, wrote about the need for self defense: "If the young lady was armed and trained, she could have whipped out P345 and taken out a few thugs
Fox just did a segment on this last night and led off with a Martin reference.
Mob beating goes unreported for two weeks, tweet references Trayvon Martin
Spokane Conservative Examiner
On Tuesday, Michelle Washington of the Virginia Pilot reported that a white couple was brutally beaten by a mob of black youths at an intersection in Norfolk, Virginia.
The victims, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami, both reporters at the Pilot, were attacked on their way home from a show at the Attucks Theatre.
"They had stopped at a red light, in a crowd of at least 100 young people walking on the sidewalk," she wrote. "Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that's when the beating began."
She described the attack: "Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim."
"The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location."
Washington wrote that neither "suffered grave injuries, but both were out of work for a week." Forster's torso hurt from the beating to his ribs, and Washington said he had a "a thumb-sized bump on his head." Rostami is afraid to be alone in her house because of the attack.
Even though both victims work at the Pilot, the paper did not mention the attack at all. For two weeks, the story did not make news, and was finally mentioned Tuesday, when Washington wrote her opinion piece.
The reason, Washington explained, is possibly due to the incident being coded as a simple assault, "despite their assertions that at least 30 people had participated in the attack."
"A reporter making routine checks of police reports would see 'simple assault' and, if the names were unfamiliar, would be unlikely to write about it. In this case, editors hesitated to assign a story about their own employees," she added.
"Would it seem like the paper treated its employees differently from other crime victims?"
"More questions loomed," she wrote.
The victims wondered if the officer who answered their call treated all victims the same way.
Rostami, Washington wrote, was hysterical when she tried to explain what happened, and said the officer told her to shut up and get back in the car. According to the two victims, the officer "did not record any names of witnesses who stopped to help."
Worse yet, according to Washington, "Rostami said the officer told them the attackers were 'probably juveniles anyway. What are we going to do? Find their parents and tell them?'"
She added:
The officer pointed to public housing in the area and said large groups of teenagers look for trouble on the weekends. "It's what they do," he told Forster.
Washington asked: "Could that be true? Could violent mobs of teens be so commonplace in Norfolk that police and victims have no recourse?"
But the story doesn't end there.
Washington wrote that on the next day, Forster searched the social media site Twitter for any mention of the attack.
"One post chilled him," she noted.
"I feel for the white man who got beat up at the light," one person wrote.
"I don't," another responded, indicating laughter. "(do it for trayvon martin)."
Trayvon Martin is the 17-year-old who was shot by George Zimmerman in Florida - over 700 miles away.
"Were Forster and Rostami beaten in some kind of warped, vigilante retribution for a killing 750 miles away, a person none of them knew," Washington asked. "Was it just bombast? Is a beating funny, ever?"
She explained why the story appeared on May 1 - after two weeks.
"We cannot allow such callousness to continue unremarked, from the irrational, senseless teenagers who attacked two people just trying to go home, from the police officer whose conduct may have been typical but certainly seems cold, from the tweeting nitwits who think beating a man in Norfolk will change the death of Trayvon Martin," she wrote.
She concluded:
How can we change it if we don't know about it? How can we make it better if we look away?
Are we really no better than this?
Most of the readers commenting on the article were outraged.
"This rag did NOT have the decency to print this story for TWO WEEKS???? Why, is it bad for Obama??? This rag should be shut down and the editors thrown in jail. This type of story, especially when it involves your own reporters should have been printed the next day. The police should be ashamed of themselves and a MAJOR investigation as to what that cop was thinking should be conducted. Maybe they should make him a crossing guard, since he obviously does NOT know what he doing with a real crime," Patrick M. Kenneally of Floral Park, NY commented.
"The Pilot owes readers -- and a national audience, now that Drudge has picked up the incident -- a detailed explanation of why and how it covered up this story," wrote John T Roberts of Norfolk, who also mentioned that a former publisher of the Pilot "was appointed deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in March."
"It is unbelievable that The Virginian-Pilot would BURY this story for two weeks for politically correct reasons. That is sad and disgusting. Someone should be fired or resign over the decision not to report this attack," wrote David Englert of Norfolk.
At least one person, Douglas Gaynor of Virginia Beach, wrote about the need for self defense: "If the young lady was armed and trained, she could have whipped out P345 and taken out a few thugs
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Just more and more gasoline with some very dry brush next to it
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Forget about penis and muscles(/rockslamdance), who here would not renew their white membership ?