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Chris Wallace was interviewing Governor Fallin about the Lane murder ... making it a racial issue (of course). But he actually took it to "... (the violence) THAT WE ASSOCIATE WITH THE INNER CITY (read: Black) ..." {blowing the whistle real, real hard}
But the thought struck me ... whenever I think about a group of kids (or a single actor) shooting random victims because they/he was "bored" ... I don't think "Inner City" (read: Black), I associate that with Auroura Colorado, Columbine, Tucson and plenty other non-inner city (read: Black) settings.
In fact, I can't think of a single of Inner City (read: Black) instance.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)You know they're hard pressed for guests when the want to know what the Quitter thinks.
alsame
(7,784 posts)OK.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)Anything on Faux is not on my "must see" list.
And some times the other one is referred to as Failin here.
I won't delete so this won't look out of context.
alsame
(7,784 posts)always speaking on topics she knows nothing about
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)To see whoever it is that tells the quitter what it is that she thinks and pays her to think it,interviewed.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Further, they ask why President Obama hasn't spoken out on this like he did Trayvon Martin. Why is the President slow to react? No mention the the President didn't speak out on Trayvon until over 2 months after Zimmerman killed Trayvon. They also didn't show (edited out?) the Fox News WH correspondent claiming the three killers were all black in question to the WH press secretary.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)Aurora and Tucson are more about mental illness than boredom. You didn't mention Sandy Hook, but the same goes there.
To try to make those events into examples of "bored white kids" kind of trivializes the real issue, which is that our mental healthcare system in this country sucks, big time.
I don't know that anyone ever claimed that Klebold and Harris shot up Columbine because of boredom, and I'm not sure mental illness factored in there, either. Sometimes evil just is, regardless of race.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)White kids kill, they are mentally ill; Black kids kill just evil.
You don't think mental illness played a role in THIS killing?
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)although, it seems that generally the mentally ill don't form the kind of connections these three young men apparently had. I've also read speculation that this may be gang-related. Whatever. In any case, the "evil" I referred to involved the lily-white Dylan and Klebold, NOT the kids involved in the Christopher Lane case.
Take a look at the pix of Loughner, the Aurora shooter, and the Sandy Hook shooter, and tell me those guys look as sane as the three in the Lane shooting!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)we can certainly tell one's mental state just by looking at them ... Right?
heres a clue: "Thrill killing" is a pretty good indicator of mental instability.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)does not equal mental illness.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)we can certainly tell one's mental state just by looking at them ... Right?
heres a clue: "Thrill killing" is a pretty good indicator of mental iillness.