Re: OT: A mugging near me.

jtees4 wrote:
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:35:02 GMT, Dave Van
<daveYOURHAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jtees4 wrote:
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:51:18 GMT, Dave Van
<daveYOURHAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jtees4 wrote:
On 9 Mar 2007 10:33:56 -0800, "Jack Wagner" <jack.wagner@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mar 8, 11:16 pm, "JeffinMS" <catfisherman62NOS...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The kid was coming home and some black
guy slammed him up against the wall and pulled a gun on him. Apparently this
is the second time in the last 3 weeks. I know someone will call me racist
or something,
Well, if you make racist comments then sure, people will think you're
a racist. That's not to hard to understand is it?

Simply saying "I'm not a racist" doesn't absolve you of being a racist
if you then go on to say "buuut I think the blacks are ruining our
neighbourhood"


Did he say something racist? I just read a description of the
assailant...maybe I missed something.
Unless he was posting this so that we could all be on the lookout for that particular mugger, I don't think that including his race was material to the story.
Maybe not material, but it was a fact. What is so horrible about
saying it was a black person...after all...it was a black person.

What was the race of the person victimized? That 'fact' was not mentioned. Instead, the victim was described as a 'kid' and a 'college student.'

I understand where you are coming from, but look at it this way. A
person gets mugged. You call the cops. The mugger was a 7 foot tall
White guy with red hair. Would you tell the cops that a 90 year old
fat woman just got mugged or that a 7 foot tall white guy with red
hair just mugged an old lady? Not every fact is important.

Right. And in this case the offender's race had no bearing on the outcome of the story. We were not being told the story so that we could go out and look for the mugger.


I think his
story could be said the way he said it and not automatically make him
a racist. He may be, he may not be. I don't know him, but I hate when
people automatically assume things and read too much into them. People
tend to do that to me all the time, so I know what it's like. Hell,
I've seen plenty of people around here do it to Guncho too, sometimes
he deserves it, sometimes he doesn't.


Well yes, but his story was not in any way similar in context to what your describing above. The story was not put here to describe to the cops what the offender looked like so they could catch him. The only point to the story, IIRC, was that the OP had regretted putting his guns away.
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