4 NYC Blacks Charged In Hate Crime Beating of Singer

[spect8or]

Quote from spect8or:

Hey Ricter, since you were trained as a sociologist, I wonder if you agree with what this Professor Feagin (who is white), sociology prof at Florida Gainesville, who says "[A] black person has to view every white person as 'a potential enemy unless he personally finds out differently.' Black Americans of all ages and statuses are ... forced into a vigilant, cautious and defensive orientation as they deal with potentially dangerous whites throughout their lives."

Do you think, Ricter, that such thinking might be a contributing factor in a crime like this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/nyregion/13grant.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

WHITE PLAINS—The petite blond woman was found lying in a pool of blood in broad daylight near a popular mall. A homeless black man with a history of violent rapes was quickly arrested a block away, shirtless and soaked in blood. He later told the police that he had hidden in a stairwell with a knife for hours that day, waiting to kill a white person.

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“All I knew was she had blond hair and blue eyes and she had to die,” Mr. Grant tells his interrogators on the tape. “If I’d have had a gun today, there’d be a lot of dead white people on the streets of White Plains.”

 

[Ricter]

Quote from spect8or:

Hey Ricter, since you were trained as a sociologist, I wonder if you agree with what this Professor Feagin (who is white), sociology prof at Florida Gainesville, who says "[A] black person has to view every white person as 'a potential enemy unless he personally finds out differently.' Black Americans of all ages and statuses are ... forced into a vigilant, cautious and defensive orientation as they deal with potentially dangerous whites throughout their lives."

I don't agree, certainly not with "every". Context has to be considered, you know, like if you're black don't be out walking by yourself on a Saturday night on a lonely country road in County X just 3 miles down from The Rebel Bar. The prof is merely being political.