Monday, August 8, 2011

Racism Alive and Well In Mississippi

Most of us know that racism is still alive and well.  What many do not realize the extent.

I found this footage from a link on Google+


Video has surfaced implicating seven white teenagers in a gruesome June 26 Mississippi hate crime that left one black man mutilated and dead.
The recently released footage shows the teens beating and ultimately running over 49-year-old James Craig Anderson. The suspects reportedly left a Hinds County, Mississippi party together with the intention of finding a black victim and drove to a nearby predominantly black area of Jackson where they attacked Anderson, the first black man they saw upon exiting the highway.

3 comments:

  1. You know John, I used to be frustrated at the American press on how they inflated every Nazi punk teenager in Germany who was convicted of assault on some poor hapless dark-skinned foreigner, sensationalising it as the "Return of the Third Reich and Hitler's Legacy".
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    I don't want to excuse or apologise for the media attention when it comes to making the public aware of a the Nazi threat and reporting how Nazis are punished in Germany, but I start to grind my teeth when the American press blatently suggests that this was something "all of the Germans" condone and support - a outright lie!
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    That's especially hypocritical in light of the fact that in absolute numbers there are about twenty times as many Nazis in the U.S. as there are in Germany - and for some reason the American press isn't particularly interested.
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    Fox News seems to constantly relativate it and plays it does, and seems somewhat apologetic for Nazi crimes in the U.S.
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    Thank you for reminding people to be aware that it's time to do something about the real and active terrorist criminals living in the U.S. BEFORE they worry about possible Islamic terrorists elsewhere in the world.

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  2. That just makes me sick. Human life is so precious, yet so fragile. Now there is one life that has ended and 6 more who can never change what they did. All because of racial hate. And I don't know why. I can't think like them. So sad!

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  3. Its seems like the deep south will never change. The hatred is passed down from generation to generation. I hope that they are tried and convicted and adequately punished. It is totally uncalled for

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