posted on October 28, 2002 07:46:13 AM new
"And now that we can all cross the street without looking over our
shoulders, can the Revs (Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan) be on their way?
Everyone was sure the sniper would turn out to be a good ol' boy, maybe even
a militiaman. Finding the killers was not nearly so important as cracking
the case in a politically correct way. We certainly didn't expect the sniper
to be a Fruit of Islam, a onetime security man for Louis Farrakhan. It was
bad enough that one of the suspects was named Muhammad, but he's of a dark
persuasion and there was the inevitable early buzz that the bigots and race
hustlers were ready, as difficult as it may be in the circumstances, to try
to make something of it."
- Wes Pruden, "Pruden On Politics," 10/25/02
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Well, That Didn't Take Long
No sooner did police nab the "beltway snipers" when the racial sniping
began. In Friday's Washington Times, columnist Adrienne Washington reported
on the whining by some members of the Hispanic community. "We have to worry
about the sniper, the police and the immigration," bemoaned one Carmen
Garcia. "It's not fair."
Wahhhhh!
Despite an early description by police that they might be looking for a
"Hispanic" suspect, some Hispanics are complaining that Hispanics were being
stopped and subjected to additional scrutiny by police looking for a
Hispanic suspect simply because - get this - they were Hispanic. Oh, the
humanity!
Other Hispanics complain that they were being turned over to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service when, as Ms. Washington writes, "they have done
nothing wrong." Other than that little matter of entering the country
illegally. But other than that.
Hang on, I think I just broke a string on my world's smallest violin...
"Of the many experts called on to predict the nature of the sniper, many of
them simply assumed that he was (or they were) white. NYU's Dr. Michael
Welner, profiled the shooter as 'white, male, single, 20s-30s . . . (with a)
longtime fascination with hunting and shooting.' Chris Whitcomb, former FBI
agent, informed NBC that 'statistically, it's going to be a white male.'
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism,
stated confidently that the killer 'is kind of a wallpaper white male, a
disenfranchised, disrespected man who's getting back at society.'
"The interesting question is: Can you imagine these kinds of comments being
made about a black man? There would - rightly - have been howls of protest.
So why no protest when similar assumptions were made about the sniper? It's
yet another case of racism against whites being acceptable and racism
against blacks being unacceptable. Most of the time, this is an ugly
double-standard. Racism is racism is racism. This time, the consequences of
this racial profiling were even more dire. It may actually have been a
factor in allowing several more people to be killed."
posted on October 28, 2002 12:52:28 PM new
so all us gun totin' gawd fearin' white christian crackers has been vindicated...let's go get a beer and do some more target practice!!!
posted on October 28, 2002 06:19:04 PM new
profe51
Not all GOD fearing gun owners are crackers or even beer drinkers. And there is nothing better than keeping in practice.
Borillar
What is ther not to "get". All the "RACIAL" profiling of the "Sniper" by the "Experts" was WRONG.
Will any of the "Experts" now come out and repent their sins for their errors, NO.
The hispanics that are decrying the fact that the shooter was possibly "hispanic" & they has to worry about the "police, immigration & the sniper, should be worried if they are here illegally.
posted on October 28, 2002 06:46:46 PM new
I didn't hear any racial profiling from any experts bear1949. The race thing came from a witness/witnesses. Dark skinned, possibly Mexican was what I heard. Maybe this confused the police because serial killers tend to NOT be coloured. (??)
posted on October 28, 2002 06:55:53 PM new
>What is ther not to "get".
What I don't "get" is your starting thread post. I mean, you put content in there, but no personal reason(s) as to why you wanted to create the thread. Nothing from you. It's just as fustrating to me to have a thread that starts out with no personal content - just some material from the media, as it does when people start a thread with nothing more than just a single URL. I don't "get it" because I don't know why you thought that this information was inportant, relevant or intersting or whatever to bring it to our attention.
posted on October 28, 2002 07:09:57 PM new
Borillar
It is important because of the way the American press & politics has become. They are afraid to address the issue that the shooter was anyone other than a "White Male".
Heven forbid if they had said it was possibly a black person of Arabic or Hispanic desent.
The statements quoted are from the "horses mouth", not a statement I made, but statements I agree with is why I posted them.
In the future I will preface my posts to explain why I agree with the quote's I insert.
[ edited by bear1949 on Oct 28, 2002 07:55 PM ]
"Not all GOD fearing gun owners are crackers or even beer drinkers. And there is nothing better than keeping in practice."
I could not agree more, that's why my son and I spent yesterday practicing with the 12 gauge, and the {gulp..} .223...however, could it be that the police were looking for a white male shooter because statistically virtually ALL serial shooters fit that profile? Or was it just because they're weenies and afraid of being accused of racial profiling???
posted on October 28, 2002 07:49:33 PM new
I, others tend to believe they wanted it to be a White male. They felt safe in their judgement because the stats do tend to agree AND they were afraid of offending the muslims, islamics, the blacks and any other race or religion.
Face the facts, any time a person who is not black, hispanic, or asian, makes a statement concerning another ethnic group they are accused of racism.
If you don't like "Rap" music, you're anti black.
If you're a christian, you're accused of hating islam, muslim, jews and buddhism.
posted on October 28, 2002 09:36:29 PM new
Thanks for the explanation. Bear. I think it is most likely due to a lazy media. The FBI comes out and says that statistically, it's a white male and everyone else jumps on the bandwagon because they don't want to look like looney tunes for suggesting something that contradicts the FBI specialists. I think that they real question is, is if the FBI profiler had statistically come up with a minority race, would they have announced it and would the statistics have been denounced as being racist?
posted on October 29, 2002 05:56:27 AM new
I think it was the comedian Chris Rock who said that blacks may kill people but they aren't "weird" about about.
5 people were shot with a handgun today. Oh, jeez, what did a black guy do today And then the shooter began to eat them....Nope, it must be a white guy
The leaving of the tarot card with "I am God" would have qualified as "weird"
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