Sickening

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Sheelzebub, at Pandagon, has details on something I read about, in passing, while it was happening.

It's worse.

The thumbnail sketch.

Spend a couple of months harrassing, and threatening black students (start with a tree only white kids are allowed to be underneath, when some black kids ask to join them, it's festooned with nooses)

When an altercation gets physical, charge the blacks with attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder.

Let a white witness watch the whole trial, but refuse to allow the parents of some of the defendants to be in the courtroom, because they might be called as witnesses.

In one of the lead up events, a white kid pulled a gun on some black kids. They disarmed him, called the cops and were charged with robbing him of the pistol.

Makes me want to engage in some vigilante justice.

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[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

There was a time -- maybe ten or fifteen years ago -- when it looked to me as though we were headed for being a country where stuff like that didn't happen, and that we would continue, inexorably, to progress. Now... it seems that we're well on our way to becoming a third-world culture, with all the contemptible racial, cultural, and class strife that implies. It's ... curious that we could have shifted into neutral, stopped, and gone into reverse with hardly anyone noticing what was happening. Extremely deft Management and subtle PR work, I suppose.