BOY, 10, APOLOGIZES FOR ATTACK ON PA. IMMIGRANT

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HOME_INVASION_BOY_CHARGED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-26-07-55-57

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A 10-year-old boy says he beat and robbed a Vietnamese immigrant inside her Philadelphia home because he didn't like the way she looked at him.

The boy made an apology Tuesday during a Family Court hearing. Fifty-year-old victim Minh Tran accepted the apology through an interpreter.

Police say the boy, his 7-year-old brother and a third assailant entered Tran's home on Aug. 6 and attacked her with rocks and sticks. The boy told Family Court Administrative Judge Kevin Dougherty he attacked Tran because he didn't like her.

[pampango]

1. Sounds like the Jim Crow south. "She's different. I didn't like the way she looked at me so I beat

her."

Since the boy is only 10 it is not exactly the same as an adult white male doing the same thing 50 years ago in Mississippi, but the rationale is eerily the same.

[Romulox]

2. It's PHILADELPHIA. It says so, right in the OP. nt

[pampango]

3. I realize that the incident happened in Philadelphia on August 6 not in the South 50 years ago.

My post was meant to point out that the sentiment that played a role in the attack - "She is different. I don't like the way she looked at me, so I beat her." - is reminiscent of the attitude that many whites in the Jim Crow south of 50 years ago had towards African Americans. If a white person didn't like the way an African American looked at her the latter could be in big trouble.

[Romulox]

4. It was a ten year old child. You are really straining, here. nt