So a kid telling authorities that someone in school tried to sell him drugs is a snitch? Next sentence you will complain about how bad the schools are. And that justified the beating he took. Same story on reverse the races and it would have been front page news with Al Sharpton marching somewhere.

1. the black boys are at fault

2. the school is at fault for not protecting the tattler. Now he's probably emotionally scarred for life and won't ever act as a witness to a crime if he is in a similar position again.

3. politicians are at fault for not legalizing weed. Dealers in school don't push fifths of jack or smirnoff or a carton of marlboro's. The prohibition of weed is essentially politicians wanting to wipe their hands clean of the problem and pretend it doesn't exist/not deal with it.

Kids get beat up all the time. Let's not act like white kids don't fight. One of the most vicious fights I ever saw was between two white teen girls fighting over some dude who was laughing the entire time. People need to teach their children to control their emotions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Race aside, it clearly is a violent act involving children."

There are instances of violence involving children every day. Would you like the President to comment on all of them? The President commented on the Trayvon Martin killing not because it was violence involving youth, but because it was a national story that proved very divisive.

Well this would be too if more people had heard about it.

Wrong. They beat up a snitch. Stop trying to make this bigger than what it is (which is still pretty terrible).

IMO, what OP is saying is that had the races been reversed, this video would be playing on the news every night and all 3 of those teenagers would be facing a major trial.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Race aside, it clearly is a violent act involving children."

There are instances of violence involving children every day. Would you like the President to comment on all of them? The President commented on the Trayvon Martin killing not because it was violence involving youth, but because it was a national story that proved very divisive.

Well this would be too if more people had heard about it.

Wrong. They beat up a snitch. Stop trying to make this bigger than what it is (which is still pretty terrible).

Regardless of race, if that were child it would take an army to get me off those boys. Honestly I hope the parents of that child sue both the school and those boys parents.

Anonymous wrote:"Race aside, it clearly is a violent act involving children."

There are instances of violence involving children every day. Would you like the President to comment on all of them? The President commented on the Trayvon Martin killing not because it was violence involving youth, but because it was a national story that proved very divisive.

Well this would be too if more people had heard about it.

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Anonymous wrote:So, @ 07:42 you're saying that b/c black and hispanic males grow up in the situations they are in - poor, in dysfunctional families, etc. they are led to make poor moral choices? And what exactly holds back their achievement? I realize that there are institutional forms of racism in America and that these things need to change, but I (a white guy) grew up in a majority Hispanic community and most of those Hispanics seemed to have achieved something in their lives - they were professionals or police officers or fire fighter/EMTs or small business owners. Where are those examples?

I didn't say that all minorities don't succeed.

But if you walk into the majority of schools where I've taught you will see most of the AA and Hispanic kids on free and reduced meals. You can easily examine the data to see a connection btw. absences and race. You can do a grade analysis and see similar trends - our MINORITY white population excelling, our blacks and Hispanics with poor grades.

sorry if many of you are living in La La Land - But there is an underclass, and while it sickens me to see that white boy being brutally beaten by three black kids, I know that race plays a role.

I hear it all the time. White kids at my schools are indeed picked on unless they're in upper level classes (and programs like IB) where all kids (all races) are most likely coming from supportive homes with educated parents.

Educated kids would rarely beat the living shit out of another kid.

It's a combination of race, poverty, and ignorance, and it's ugly.

And I agree - Where was Obama addressing that incident? Race aside, it clearly is a violent act involving children.

Wrong. So totally, unbelievably wrong. Beat downs happen every day in America and it happens to all races. You just don't get a YouTube video to show it.

Also, your "observations" on education and race is faulty. Unless, of course, you've taught in rural and urban populations. I'm guessing no though, right? And smart kids are bullied in schools across America. Stop trying to make it seem like only minorities pick on nerds, because it's simply not true.

And Obama is not going to address school bus beat downs. Stop being petty and ridiculous.

"Race aside, it clearly is a violent act involving children."

There are instances of violence involving children every day. Would you like the President to comment on all of them? The President commented on the Trayvon Martin killing not because it was violence involving youth, but because it was a national story that proved very divisive.

Anonymous wrote:So, @ 07:42 you're saying that b/c black and hispanic males grow up in the situations they are in - poor, in dysfunctional families, etc. they are led to make poor moral choices? And what exactly holds back their achievement? I realize that there are institutional forms of racism in America and that these things need to change, but I (a white guy) grew up in a majority Hispanic community and most of those Hispanics seemed to have achieved something in their lives - they were professionals or police officers or fire fighter/EMTs or small business owners. Where are those examples?

I didn't say that all minorities don't succeed.

But if you walk into the majority of schools where I've taught you will see most of the AA and Hispanic kids on free and reduced meals. You can easily examine the data to see a connection btw. absences and race. You can do a grade analysis and see similar trends - our MINORITY white population excelling, our blacks and Hispanics with poor grades.

sorry if many of you are living in La La Land - But there is an underclass, and while it sickens me to see that white boy being brutally beaten by three black kids, I know that race plays a role.

I hear it all the time. White kids at my schools are indeed picked on unless they're in upper level classes (and programs like IB) where all kids (all races) are most likely coming from supportive homes with educated parents.

Educated kids would rarely beat the living shit out of another kid.

It's a combination of race, poverty, and ignorance, and it's ugly.

And I agree - Where was Obama addressing that incident? Race aside, it clearly is a violent act involving children.

Is the argument here that any harm done to a white person by a black person caused by racism? Cool.

If so, does the inverse follow? Yes? Great!

Because that means we've just made the strongest argument possible for institutional racism.

Take, for instance, our nation's drug laws, which put African-Americans in jail at disproportionate rates for disproportionate sentences. These are laws written by predominantly white legislatures, prosecuted by predominantly white lawyers, sat over by predominantly white judges, and in front of predominantly white juries. Clearly, that must be racism, right? Great! Thanks for making that argument!

This is terrible. Not a hate crime but these 3 are despicable and I hope they are tried as adults. If they were as tough as they act, then just one of them would take on the victim. It makes my stomach turn to think of the physical pain and fear he felt, while he was wondering if the bus driver would stop it.

I don't blame the driver for not physically intervening in this case because the attackers were big, obviously strong and vicious. The driver would have been beaten too. But he should have shouted at them to stop as soon as they started hitting the victim. News reports suggest that he didn't say anything for a full minute (when he spoke up the thugs stopped). For that he should be prosecuted.

The school messed this up in a bad way. How did these thugs find out that the victim had told the staff about the drugs?

I always would tell my kid to report anything she knows to be wrong to school staff but after this I'm rethinking that. Should we start telling our kids not to report such actions as drugs to school staff for fear they will become victims? Serious question. I certainly want my kid to do the right thing but not if they face this kind of retaliation.

and Bailey O'Neill
Channon Christian
and others.

The race baiters are really quiet on this one too:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/07/evil-teenager-admits-he-strangled-12-year-old-girl-and-then-dumped-her-body-in-recycling-bin/

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Anonymous wrote:This sounds like a really horrible case of bullying and intimidation. It's awful the school didn't protect a kid who did the right thing and reported the drug issue.

If the reason for the beating is due to "snitching" (I HATE that word) then it seems likely they would have just as surely beat an AA boy who had reported the drug issue.

Doesn't change the fact that if it had been 3 15 year old whites beating down a 13 year old black kid the race-baiting liberal press would be screaming to high heaven and the president would be calling for a "national dialog on race". This? This is just par for the course.

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