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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere is the outrage??? It is always the poor white guy...
2 of them raping a black handicap young man No news media No public outrage NOTHING ....
White high school football players 'raped disabled, black teammate with a coat hanger, stripped him naked on a bus and forced him to sing a Ku Klux Klan song'
Teenager claims he was sexually assaulted by three football teammates
Boy, 18, was allegedly held down while they raped him with a coat hanger
Allegations emerged in $10million lawsuit filed by the teenager's family
Lawsuit claims student was called 'n*****', 'chicken eater' and 'watermelon'
Teammates allegedly stripped him on a bus and made him sing KKK song
Black teenager also claims he was beaten unconscious at a training camp
John Howard, 18, Tanner Ward, 17, and a 16-year-old are charged with sexual assault
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3608814/White-high-school-football-players-raped-disabled-black-teammate-coat-hanger-stripped-naked-bus-forced-sing-Ku-Klux-Klan-song.html#ixzz4V1i7gAwr
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)niyad
(113,329 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)What are you trying to prove here?
ETA: the one-upmanship of tragedies on this board drives me up the fucking wall! God help humanity, we will never fucking learn to have empathy for others if it gets in the way of our bigoted beliefs and narratives.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)And your "poor white guy" remark is classless, ableist and bigoted. The man was mentally disabled for fucks sake.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Thanks for your outrage at my outrage...makes perfect sense...
romanic
(2,841 posts)Both victims in both cases did not deserve what happened to them. Race plays a factor in how it was covered in the national media obviously, but I'm not going to get my jollies by comparing traumatic incidents to score social justice points about the inequalities of coverage.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Not in the media or the justice system...the white suspects got off with probation...
you win.