Smear-Gel on 08 September 2014
| binary solo said: I'm not seeing where the objective evidence is that the reason for the beating was that she acted too much like a white person. I see this: 'The assailant allegedly was angry at the victim because she was behaving “too much like a white person.”' ALLEGEDLY note. And the quotation marks are not a direct quite from the attacker, not presented as direct witness of victim testimony as to what the attacker said. I see descriptions of the attack that do not link directly to any motive, let alone being because the victim was like a white person. There was only a general statement that conflict has been present for a long time. I see a statement saying the victim describes herself as a light skinned black person. And the statement that the attacker was darker skinned. Which seems like an attempt to make it a race-like thing. I see no facts in this article which supports this sensationalist headline. Perhaps someone can supply some facts which actually validate the claim in the headline and then we might be able to talk about how race might be a factor in this crime. Without facts to back up the headline this whole thing is spurious and mischevious. Perhaps the light skinned girl taunted the attacker about the darkness of her skin, as part of this year-long conflict. Perhaps she behaved as if she was superior to all the dark skinned people at the school because she was lighter skinned, and hence would be more successful in life. Perhaps the victim is completely innocent and the attacker hates anything that comes across as white and she lashes out. I don't have enough information to be able to come to any firm conclusions, so I'm not going to pass judgement on who was or wasn't racist in this event, or even whether any sort of racism was involved at all. |
Smart. You are smart.
