12 Year Old Boy Killed in Hate Crime

[spoonitnow]

Black Panthers are not some sort of equal but opposite (see what I did there?) version of the KKK. The Panthers were a militant civil rights group. I'm sure that in it's current form it has drifted from what it was at it's inception, but comparing it to the KKK is either ignorant or disingenuous. That's not to say that this lady didn't pick the boy she did based on race, but BP=KKK is just false through and through.

I've seen this a bunch since the Zimmerman case-- people try to find the black Zimmerman to discredit the narrative that white racism is still an issue. The problem is that they tend to find just that, a Zimmerman, where a lot of leaps need to be made to make them fit the desired narrative.

Also, I find this interesting:

What the Black Panthers WERE is irrelevant. Today, they are a racist organization who believes in violence against groups that they are racist against, and in that way, they are the same as the KKK. Obviously they are not completely the same as each other, and anyone could see that I wasn't asserting that they are. The comparison I made wasn't between the organizations, but between what the reaction would be if two people were in a racist organization.

Without going on too much of a tangent, what the KKK was at one point is also irrelevant. For example, they were led by (though not founded by, as a lot of people believe) General Nathan Forrest to oppose certain groups of carpetbaggers who were exploiting the post-war south. He also officially disbanded them after they started getting away from this goal about a year later, and he was who Forrest Gump was named after. From PBS.com for those interested:

"In 1875, he advocated for the admission of blacks into law school — and he lived to fully renounce his involvement with the all-but-vanished Klan. A new, different, and much worse Klan would emerge, 35 years after Forrest's death, in the wake of D.W. Griffith's revolutionary 1915 film, Birth of a Nation, a reactionary screed with a racialist brief that had been expanded to include Catholics and immigrants of all kinds. The second Klan was never restricted to the South; its goals had nothing to do with Forrest's vision of a restored Dixie."

/KKK history hour

Related: Black Panthers Offer $10,000 Reward for Killing George Zimmerman: http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/0...rge-zimmerman/

Also, I said no mental illness to avert any talk about her being insane since most people probably don't know the details of the case. Somewhat unrelated, but it's worth noting that she even called the boy's mother to taunt her about her son.

[Chelle]

Somewhat unrelated, but it's worth noting that she even called the boy's mother to taunt her about her son.

....The fuck is wrong with people.

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What the Black Panthers WERE is irrelevant. Today, they are a racist organization who believes in violence against groups that they are racist against, and in that way, they are the same as the KKK. Obviously they are not completely the same as each other, and anyone could see that I wasn't asserting that they are. The comparison I made wasn't between the organizations, but between what the reaction would be if two people were in a racist organization.

Without going on too much of a tangent, what the KKK was at one point is also irrelevant. For example, they were led by (though not founded by, as a lot of people believe) General Nathan Forrest to oppose certain groups of carpetbaggers who were exploiting the post-war south. He also officially disbanded them after they started getting away from this goal about a year later, and he was who Forrest Gump was named after. From PBS.com for those interested:

"In 1875, he advocated for the admission of blacks into law school — and he lived to fully renounce his involvement with the all-but-vanished Klan. A new, different, and much worse Klan would emerge, 35 years after Forrest's death, in the wake of D.W. Griffith's revolutionary 1915 film, Birth of a Nation, a reactionary screed with a racialist brief that had been expanded to include Catholics and immigrants of all kinds. The second Klan was never restricted to the South; its goals had nothing to do with Forrest's vision of a restored Dixie."

/KKK history hour

Related: Black Panthers Offer $10,000 Reward for Killing George Zimmerman: http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/0...rge-zimmerman/

Also, I said no mental illness to avert any talk about her being insane since most people probably don't know the details of the case. Somewhat unrelated, but it's worth noting that she even called the boy's mother to taunt her about her son.

Yeah, I can't fathom why I replied in that manner. All good points, and interesting bit about the original KKK. I've got to look into that, seems really interesting.

But here's the thing. People were upset because it appeared at the time that someone killed a young man because of his race, and wasn't even being charged. It seemed as if justice was being sidelined.

In this case, this woman is obviously a sick fuck, and she was caught, and charged, and probably stands no chance of getting away with it. Am I upset that sick people do sick things like this? Yes, sure-- but much more upsetting is when those people get away with it. Surely you can understand that the factors that fueled the Zimmerman/Martin outrage is simply not present in this case.

Like I said before, this is just one of many attempts to scoreboard race based crimes, by people who insist that either race isn't an issue, or white people have it as bad (or worse, lol..) on the issue of race. It's simply not the same thing. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that this lady will be punished for the perverse crimes she committed.