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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quoted from article:

"The dean of Yale College and the campus police chief have apologized and promised an internal investigation, and I appreciate that. But the scars cannot be unmade. My son will always carry the memory of the day he left his college library and an officer trained a gun on him."

His son will always remember because he will make sure he doesn't forget. The scars won't be unmade because he will not let them heal. His son will grow up with a victim mentality, like the rest of the AA community.

That's truly sad.
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Have you forgotten the days when a gun was pulled on you?
I'm not sure that's human.
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That's not the same point being argued. The title of the article is "Walking While Black". On top of the gun being pulled he is adding the element of being black, branding his son a victim of racial/hate crime. Having a gun pulled on you is no small matter, I agree. But the memory will fade with time, and eventually it will be something you remember but file away with your other miscellaneous memories. It certainly won't define you as a person or change your path in life. But the author will not let this happen with his son. He has and will continue to parade this around publicly, remind his son that it happened, narrating it within the context of racial inequality. He will not let him forget, he will not let him heal, and he will place this burden in his son's life, shackling his mind permanently until it becomes a part of who he is.[/quote]Different poster here.  I'm assuming you put all unjust incidents which victimized you behind you.  Would you give us an example of how you did that?[/quote]

+1.  It is funny to me how so many people want to trot out stats but refuse to acknowledge the personal impact something like this could have.  Given some recent events, that kid did not know if he was going to be killed.  And just the other day, a police officer drew his gun on 2 kids having a snowball fight.  Had his gun in one kid's face as he frisked him.  Shit like that does not fade with time!  Believe it or not, that will stay with the kid for a long time and he may need counseling behind it.  You cannot just shrug it away.  My sister had a gun pulled on her in a robbery 10 years ago.  She still is not fully over it and she has tried. [/quote]

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