The South, not much left anymore, just a few dusty memories, some latent bigots and deep wells of animosity. The beating(s) was bad and those responsible, should be punished. Putting aside the legal nightmare and its glaring imbalance in favor of those with less color. The overly dismissive attitude, that placing nooses over the limb of a "white" tree isn't a distinctive sign of inherent bigotry is more than just deluded it's dangerous. What if it was your city?
The figures:
3 white men/boys out of a town of 3500. That's .09% Excluding the parents/aunts/uncles/cousins/barbers/teachers who 'raised' these kids.
Take that same percentage and apply it to the population of a much larger area and then assign 3 men/boys to each school ground to perform the same act. Stir gently and wait. What would happen? Race riots. Pure and simple.
DFW, approx. 5 million. Thats 4285 kids. Divided by 3, 1428 schools.
If you work up the math against the percentage of the local school population alone, the number grows astronomically.
We're all floating around on a small blue marble in an infinite universe and if we still can't get past skin color, we don't deserve to survive global warming.
Posted by kerry at September 22, 2007 04:54 AM