Black teens kill white Australian student "for fun"

[Guest]

Gang initiation according to one man. 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/chris-lane-gang-initiation-141407002.html

 

I searched the news. The silence from the trayvon martin defenders is deafening.

 

 

And today the lame stream media's silence is even more deafening. Where's the outrage? Where's Al Sharpton, and all the rest at this man's sensless death?

[TsukinoRei]

It's very sad, but only one of the three suspects is black while another is visibly mixed and the third and youngest appears to me to be white.  All three are believed to have been involved in a gang initiation.  All of the statements above caused me to think that it must have been a group of racist black teenagers who targeted a white student.  Rather it appears to have been a racially diverse group of teenagers who targeted this innocent person.  None-the-less it's very disturbing.

[nebula]

Another twist - reading a report in an Aussie news source - highlighting the gang aspect of this:

 

Why do not black advocates ever address the atrocities of gangs on the black community?

 

The gang image of blacks fuels the fears and attitudes "whites" have towards "blacks". More blacks are killed by black gang members than any white racists. And so forth.

[nebula]

It's very sad, but only one of the three suspects is black while another is visibly mixed and the third and youngest appears to me to be white.  All three are believed to have been involved in a gang initiation.  All of the statements above caused me to think that it must have been a group of racist black teenagers who targeted a white student.  Rather it appears to have been a racially diverse group of teenagers who targeted this innocent person.  None-the-less it's very disturbing.

 

Umm - "mixed race"? I have not encountered anyone who identifies themself as "mixed raced" rather than what ethnicity defines their key features and their identity. All mixed white-black people I have known consider themselves "black".

 

As for the title, I confess to highlighting the case this way to make a point at the hypocrisy of the news media and society.

 

But to be technical, the "white boy" was charged as an accomplice, while the two black or mixed-black (whatever you want to call him) were charged with murder.

[TsukinoRei]

Another twist - reading a report in an Aussie news source - highlighting the gang aspect of this:

 

Why do not black advocates ever address the atrocities of gangs on the black community?

 

The gang image of blacks fuels the fears and attitudes "whites" have towards "blacks". More blacks are killed by black gang members than any white racists. And so forth.

 

I've encountered more white gang members than black gang members in my lifetime.  They're all scary.  Another interesting twist; why does white on white crime, and white gang crimes, not receive as much attention of fear?

 

http://callandpost.com/news/2013/aug/16/white-white-crime-more-prevalent-black-black/

 

 

In the United States, a White person is almost six times more likely to be killed by another White person than by a Black person, according to FBI homicide data. In 2011, there were more cases of Whites killing Whites than there were Blacks killing Blacks. However, the mainstream media obsesses over Black on Black violence and rarely mentions the problem of White on White violence.

 

These statistics have not led to a media outcry about the problem of White on White crime or the unique pathology of the White community. Nor has the White community stood up to demand change in their community like the Black community does when trying to tackle instances of Black on Black crime.

Most White people don’t kill White people. Yet media pundits, from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly to CNN’s Don Lemon, have no problem using the phrase “Black on Black violence” despite the fact that most Black people don’t kill Black people.

When the news talks about gang-related deaths, they treat it as an almost exclusively Black problem. However, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for the period of 1980 to 2008, a majority (53.3 percent) of gang homicides were committed by White offenders, and the majority of gang homicide victims (56.5 percent) were White.

When was the last time you’ve seen on the news, discussions about a White-gang problem?

Crimes committed by White people are explained as deviations of the individual but have nothing to do with race, but crimes committed by Blacks or Latino’s are somehow attributed to race. Gang-bangers from South Chicago have somehow become a symbol that Black men are to be feared, but you don’t get the same fear that one could attach to the brutal murders committed by Neo-Nazi skinheads.

According to statistics from the Justice Department, White men are more likely to kill than any other racial group. When it comes to how and why people kill, Black men do, in fact, outnumber Whites in gun-related homicides, but especially drug-related offenses. However, White men top the list in most all other categories.

When the Bureau of Justice Statistics collected homicidal rates from 1980 to 2008, they found that compared to Blacks, Whites were more likely to kill children, the elderly, family members, and their significant others. They commit more sex-related crimes, gang related crimes, and are more likely to kill at their places of employment.

So why does America still perpetuate the lie of Black criminality?

Is it because one in 15 Black men are in prison? That may not explain it. The racial biases in the War on Drugs contribute to the high incarceration rates. Studies show that Blacks are no more likely than Whites to use or sell drugs. Blacks actually only make up 14 percent of regular drug users. Yet Blacks are more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and receive longer sentences than Whites.

Should we blame gangster rap with the gun-toting rappers? If so, why can’t we blame a White man with a pistol being used to symbolize Second Amendment rights?

[TsukinoRei]

 

 

Umm - "mixed race"? I have not encountered anyone who identifies themself as "mixed raced" rather than what ethnicity defines their key features and their identity. All mixed white-black people I have known consider themselves "black".

 

 

 

 

Now you've met me!    People of mixed race all over the world identify in a wide variety of ways!

 

See a wide range of terminology here;  http://www.mixedfolks.com/names.htm

 

Here are some experiences that many mixed people DO have in common;

 

http://www.drmariaroot.com/doc/50Experiences.pdf

 

And some more;

 

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/19-signs-you-are-multiracial/

 

 

 

North America is still in the process of shedding the 'one-drop' rule of the apartheid era.  Many mixed people are rebelling against the idea that other people in society have the right to impose a particular racial identity onto them based on their appearance.

 

 

“The Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People”

by Dr. Maria P.P. Root

I have the right:

• not to justify my existence in this world
• not to keep the races separate within me
• not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity
• not to justify my ethnic legitimacy

I have the right:

• to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify
• to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me
• to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters
• to identify myself different in different situations

I have the right:

• to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial
• to change my identity over my lifetime – and more than once
• to have loyalties and identify with more than one group of people
• to freely choose whom I befriend and love

http://mixed-me.ca/?page_id=10

 

9 Million Americans identify as mixed race.  

 

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/27/census-more-people-identify-as-mixed-race/

 

Check out the Hapa Project to see how a wide variety of mixed asian people self identify!

 

http://seaweedproductions.com/the-hapa-project/

 

Interestingly;

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2013/06/06/conservatives-more-likely-than-liberals-to-identify-mixed-race-individuals-as-black-nyu-study-finds.html

 

 

 

Conservatives are more likely than liberals to identify mixed-race individuals as Black, according to a series of new studies by researchers at New York University. Their findings, which appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, suggest that there is a link between political ideology and racial categorization.

[nikki1]

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Enough said....  

[Guest]

Just FYI, Hispanic or Latino descent is classified a being Caucasian in most surveys and in the U.S. Census. So the article is misleading as a large number of "white gangs" consist of Latino members. As a percentage of the population, narrowed down by the elderly and the adolescent, black on black murder is the number one cause of death in the black community.

[TsukinoRei]

Call & Post

About Us

.

The Call & Post was started in 1916 by Cleveland inventor Garrett Morgan and merged with the Cleveland Post in 1929 to become the Call & Post Newspaper. With the influence of editor & publisher W.O. Walker in 1932, the Call & Post established itself as the most influential voice for African Americans in all metropolitan regions throughout Ohio

 

 

Enough said....  

 

The statistics check out.  Not that I get the impression people here would be open to that fact.

[Guest]

 

 

 

Umm - "mixed race"? I have not encountered anyone who identifies themself as "mixed raced" rather than what ethnicity defines their key features and their identity. All mixed white-black people I have known consider themselves "black".

 

 

 

 

Now you've met me!    People of mixed race all over the world identify in a wide variety of ways!

 

See a wide range of terminology here;  http://www.mixedfolks.com/names.htm

 

Here are some experiences that many mixed people DO have in common;

 

http://www.drmariaroot.com/doc/50Experiences.pdf

 

And some more;

 

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/19-signs-you-are-multiracial/

 

 

 

North America is still in the process of shedding the 'one-drop' rule of the apartheid era.  Many mixed people are rebelling against the idea that other people in society have the right to impose a particular racial identity onto them based on their appearance.

 

 

“The Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People”

by Dr. Maria P.P. Root

I have the right:

• not to justify my existence in this world
• not to keep the races separate within me
• not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity
• not to justify my ethnic legitimacy

I have the right:

• to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify
• to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me
• to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters
• to identify myself different in different situations

I have the right:

• to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial
• to change my identity over my lifetime – and more than once
• to have loyalties and identify with more than one group of people
• to freely choose whom I befriend and love

http://mixed-me.ca/?page_id=10

 

9 Million Americans identify as mixed race.  

 

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/27/census-more-people-identify-as-mixed-race/

 

Check out the Hapa Project to see how a wide variety of mixed asian people self identify!

 

http://seaweedproductions.com/the-hapa-project/

 

Interestingly;

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2013/06/06/conservatives-more-likely-than-liberals-to-identify-mixed-race-individuals-as-black-nyu-study-finds.html

 

 

 

Conservatives are more likely than liberals to identify mixed-race individuals as Black, according to a series of new studies by researchers at New York University. Their findings, which appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, suggest that there is a link between political ideology and racial categorization.

 

People choose to identify with a particular race, it is not assigned to them. They want to be Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans. But whites are racist if they try to identify themselves as some type of hyphen American. Americans want diversity with inclusiveness, but choose to segregate themselves. There can be all black schools, but don't even try to have an all white school! Make sense to you? You can't stop racism as long as you choose to perpetuate it.