17yr old black kid shot and killed for walking in white suburbia?

[fastingforlife]

.......exactly so......just as the degenerates who roamed the night terrorizing defenseless people wore hoods to hide their shame since most 'white' people were ashamed of them.

That is a stupid and meaningless comparison. If the owner of this board, required all of us to disclose our name and contact information, I would have absolutely no problem letting everyone on the board know how to find me. The problem is, based on one members belief that balckmail is a legitimate means to an end, who then can i trust? Especially when only a few, see blackmail as a crime, with a victim.

[fastingforlife]

with all due respect (yep I'm being sarcastic).......it's really you that should be stepping to the back hombre. Your inane ramblings about 'white' and 'hispanic' and Puerto Ricans who assault people for calling them white indicate you might be somewhat intellectually challenged.....or at very least socially challenged.

You know nothing of my writings.

[Prospero]

Fastingforlife - just because i spoke in favour of free speech doesn't mean you're not a hypocritical racist asshole - as it seems so is your wife.

[GroobySteven]

Blackmail is an act of extreme cowardice, perpetrated by the weakest among us. Happy to see that you are a chief defender of the practice.

There was no blackmail dipshit. You were using threatening language and claiming you were untraceable, I showed you weren't as I found out your name, where you worked, you're religious wife's name and other shit - all from you're email address.
You're banned anyway.

[trish]

I am not ashamed of any aspect of my behavior. The original threat, was to out my political and social views, which my wife knows well, and my two adult daughters find comical...

I'm with your daughters.

[broncofan]

Sure, but times change. Maybe blacks in the 50s, 60s, and 70s didn't have that choice and had to simply accept the label society wanted to hand them, but that hasn't been true since then. For christs sake, we've had a black president for the last four years. If black people wanted to gather together and get shit changed, why hasn't it happened? Fox news. lol.

Of course all Americans *should* be treated equally. Save for rich people who pay fewer taxes... and the impoverish who need social programs... and the handicapped... and "African-Americans", Native-Americans... and the Jews. You can't forget about them. I guess I should throw gay people into that mix, too.

The same people who want to preach equality usually fall into one of those "special categories" and if true equality were to occur, they'd be the first to complain. Until then, you'll still have a few nutjobs well within their right to free speech spew straight bigotry and ignorance and the rest of society just trying their damanedest to ignore the bull shit. Enjoy your college fund.

What are you talking about? African-Americans are still denied jobs based on race, are often paid less for doing the same work, and are subject to abuse in the workplace. Women are paid less on average for performing the same work as men and empirical studies demonstrate this.

Jewish people are victims of hate crimes at a higher rate than any religious group. I've not only been threatened in person with violence for my background but had property of mine vandalized with swastikas. And for this what advantage am I asking for other than for it not to happen?

I don't think that minority groups that want equal treatment are really asking for preferential treatment. The reason there are laws and social programs that have been implemented is to ameliorate pre-existing problems, not to confer advantages on these groups.

[broncofan]

Blackmail is the offer to abstain from carrying out a threat to reveal information in exchange for valuable consideration. There was no consideration such as money, property, or anything of value solicited. There was therefore no blackmail.

I'm not saying I agree with fastingforlife's threatened outing (if that's what was implied), but he did take a dizzying array of contradictory positions regarding the value of anonymity as well as the legitimacy of veiled threat-making. His racist comments in the thread where this all took place also were of the gutwrenching variety that makes one tempted to remove the element of anonymity and restore accountability.

[Token Williams-Black]

I don't think that minority groups that want equal treatment are really asking for preferential treatment. The reason there are laws and social programs that have been implemented is to ameliorate pre-existing problems, not to confer advantages on these groups.

This right here. If there was TRUE equality, we wouldn't need the NAACP, affirmative action, the Voters Rights Act, etc, etc, etc...

[Prospero]

Sean - good decision.

[natina]

Proof of Zimmerman's lies;billy the kid/tom Laughlin
Proof of Zimmerman's lies

Tom Laughlin gives incontrovertible proof that Zimmerman lies when he says Trayvon beat his head on the cement for one full minute and that it was self defense. Also, instead of being overcharged, Zimmerman was undercharged for the murder of Trayvon, and that the Judge must recuse himself for his incredible bias towards protecting Zimmerman.