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Originally Posted by Chips Ahoy
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chips Ahoy
A black boy is swinging from a tree and the authorities don't think it is racially motivated.
Why tell such an obvious lie?
They have more empathy for the predators than for the victim.
I'm kinda torn here. I spent a couple years of my life helping a friend research a project (she was an art teacher who taught art therapy at juvenile facilities) about juveniles being tried and incarcerated as adults, not just in general but working with specific young people to get their life stories. Thus, I have very strong feelings that 14yr old people should not be tried as adults. The rebuttal is always, what about the crime being heinous? The conter-rebuttal is, that's the entire point, the whole reason we make the distinction. Nobody is talking about misdemeanor shoplifting.
But.
All of these young people were black boys, save for one black girl and one white boy, all poor from the south side of Chicago. So I quite obviously agree with the ridiculous double standard and I have no stomach for or interest in defending these lynchers. This is about as heinous as it gets, and I can deal with being put in the awkward position of having to think, "Well, my kids were just regular ol' gang-related single homicides, not this madness."