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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree, it sounds like "La Sha" was raised in a hate filled home, so I am not at all surprised by her response to this tragedy.[/quote]
I just don't get the double standard.

On one hand, we have an ex-con with prison time for assault, banishing a stolen gun near a schoolyard, and defying police who ordered him 11 times to drop his gun - and the encounter ends in his swift death. Liberals are bemoaning the fate of the man, whom they refuse to admit had any role in his demise. He was black.

On the other hand, we have a 21-year-old student at UVA, who had completed a semester at the London School of Economics and was studying abroad. He makes a stupid mistake in taking a poster (if he even did), never threatened anyone, never imprisoned for assault. But he is not only killed, he endures a horrific experience and Lord-knows-what before it all ends. Yet, we have people saying he's an idiot who deserved it, and is responsible for his own actions. He was white.

Why all the sympathy and excuses for a violent ex-con and the disgusting lack of compassion for a college kid who never hurt anyone? The difference is black and white. (Double meaning intended.)[/quote]

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Not true at all. Many people would agree with PP.[/quote]
I'm the PP (who outlined the difference between the two deaths), and I had to look up the term "white tears." Now that I know its meaning, I would say that the responder who used it proves my point even further. Why is the violent ex-con who has assault on his record a more sympathetic figure than a college kid who never hurt anyone? I feel much worse for this kid and what he went through than I do for the ex-con. The college kid suffered much worse.[/quote]

The college kid suffered much worse at the end of his life; the ex-con likely suffered just as much in the beginning.[/quote]
As bad as growing up in poverty can be in America, the majority of poor people still have air-conditioning, microwaves, color TV, and a car - to say nothing of the luxury of sleeping in a bed. I sure hope you're not comparing the plight of a poor black kid to the torture of a North Korean prison camp. 
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Link please to support that the "majority of poor people still have AC, microwaves, beds, etc."  And even if that were true (which I'll wait to see some objective support for), there's more to raising a child than having AC.[/quote]
That's not the point. Were you the one who tried to say the violent ex-felon who wouldn't drop his gun (after the cops had told him to 11 times) had it just as bad in the beginning of his life as Otto did at the end of his? Are you honestly trying to say that it's just as awful to be a poor black child in America as it is to be sentenced to hard labor in a North Korean prison camp? Why does everything have to turn into the Oppression Olympics? News flash: There are worse things than growing up black and in poverty, and a sentence of 15 years in a North Korean prison camp is one of them.

And as far as the stats on poverty, I have them - and with a strong source - but I don't want this thread to go in another direction. This is about Otto, and why blacks are so sympathetic to an ex-felon with an assault record and have a "WGAF" attitude toward a white college kid who never hurt anyone.
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