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Your post is very informative….

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Re Rick Moran’s ban on the “N-bomb.” Ridiculous. Either you trust the readers here to behave and talk like adults or you don’t. Clearly, you don’t. Frankly, considering some of the crazy stuff on this thread, I don’t blame you. But using a word in context and using it as a slur are two different things. And as if the use of asterisks will make it better? “*igger” is just as bad as the entire word when used as a slur. I mean, asterisks! Really?

Although, it does illustrate that there is a clear difference between one slur and things like “cracker” and “white devil.” Obviously Nig*er is much worse.

And, governmentdrone:

To make that statement shows that he either a)has absolutely no real world experience – at age 24 most likely still in college (a career student, perhaps?), or b)still does, indeed, live in mommy and daddy’s basement. For reasons of my own, I chose the latter to make the point.

Or I live on my own with a nine-to-five 500 miles from my parents. Get bent. When you assume, you make an ass out of…well, just you. You may have more “real world” experience than me, but I’m doing just fine, thank you very much. Your agist elitism isn’t much worse than the “reverse discrimination” you think is so prevalent.

The nooses were placed there (or discovered) after an assembly where an African American asked if it was OK to sit under a certain tree. I don’t think these were “hoops.” Nothing I’ve read indicates that anyway. Plus, I’m not sure I’ve seen any hoops that children have dived through in the shape of a noose. Ever.

Not one of the “group of 88″ have apologized. I wrote two myself, but did not get a reply. Typical, irresponsible people. Professors? Negative. They do not deserve that status.

Dear Editor,
His name is Justin Barker…The victim who was attacked from behind by six students and subsesquently kicked while he was unable to defend himself. I dare to question who is able to survive being attacked from behind, and be able to defend oneself against a large number of attackers.

While the punishment may not appear to fit the crime, murder-No, assualt-Yes, however this does not permit anyone free rein to attack a person just because they felt like doing it or to make up a perceived injustice committed by someone else with the only shared characteristics being the color of ones skin. Justin was attacked for only one reason, and that it was because of the color of his skin. He wasn’t responsible for the nooses on the tree (those students were punished with a suspension) and there is nothing being reported in the MSM or the blogsphere of Justin doing anything to provoke the attack.

If there ever was a justification to apply a hate crimes statue to, this case against the Jena Six would be perfect example of it.

Wearing clothes to show unity with the Jena Six is nice, while ignoring Justin is pathetic and down outright disgraceful. Only in America will people take the minority race of a criminal into account, make execuses for their behavior while simultaneous ignoring the evidence of their crime. At least be consistent in protesting when the judicial system appears to persecuting an innocent person, and fight for the justice of all rather than just because a person shares the same racial characteristics with you.

Consider reading Jason Whitlock’s September 20th column in the Kansas City Star:

“Much has been written about Bell’s trial, the six-person all-white jury that convicted him of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery and the clueless public defender who called no witnesses and offered no defense. It is rarely mentioned that no black people responded to the jury summonses and that Bell’s public defender was black.”

Sadly the University of Memphis student body was very silent when another malefience of judical tyranny occured recently when members of the Duke Lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape by Crystal Mangum, prosecuted by DA Mike Nifong, humiliated by the faculty of professors called the “Group of 88″ and the media who held on to Nifong’s every word. These victims didn’t have a protest rally for their innocence and suffered in ways most people will never understand.

There is no doubt that the Jena Six are guilty of assualting Justin Barker, but to make them out as martyrs of a judicial system that is biased against African-Americans is to ignore the standards of law that are applied to other racial groups without fail. There comes a time when the system needs to be fixed, a time to let the system work and a time to fight for the justice of all who are unfairly being persecuted.

His name is Justin Barker……Is there going to be a rally to support him and the injustice he has received from the Jena Six supporters from the University of Memphis?

Paul K. Fischer

No matter what age Rusty is, or anyone else in this forum, the fact of the matter is that there remains a divide in this country. Perpetual victim argument is a possibility, but you must concede that cries of injustice must not be dismissed as “race hustlers” because so long as people will go around dangling nooses from the back of their truck, or hang a noose from a tree and not realize it’s historical significance, this country will have to confront the issues of race in the 21st century. We are in this together and we must solve it, together. No matter what party, no matter what race. The Democrats must answer the tough questions (if it from a Fox forum) and the GOP must answer the tough questions (if it is a majority latino or African-American audience). To ignore anyone or anything in these racial and political discussions can only be a detriment to our society.

To answer your question, it would be a pleasure to discuss Pruitt-Igoe and other projects in threads pertaining to housing as I think that would be a good discussion.

With that, I close.

First, here’s a link to the story. Second, here’s the comment. “The bottom line is……

One other thing -

I hardly think that one statement, in one post where I told Rusty to try getting information from sources other than Daily Kos, Wikipedia, liberal talk radio and the MSM could HARDLY be taken as “railing” against the entities mentioned.

Nowhere, in any of my other posts were those things even mentioned.

It would seem that you’re a little oversensitive about that for some reason.