So basically you're like the lawyer for those teenagers that shoot their parents and say they were abused?

It's not right, but you understand their anger and hope to explain it?

-Rudey

Not at all, its not my job or goal to explain anything.

I can understand why a poor mother would steal food for her child. Does that mean that I think its ok for her to steal? No.

Understanding something and believing its ok are two different things.

At the end of the day, people are responsible for their own actions. Its not my job to justify it. I just simply made the comment that I recognize and have shared the experience of being treated badly because of my race. Do I go around being mean to people? No.

I'm just saying it has no relevance to the fact that he did it and is a sympathy play.

But then again, I want there to be no shades of gray on this.

And if the roles were reversed, someone reasoning that a white man lynched a black man because he is fighting a race war and doesn't like black people using the same public bathrooms, would be called a racist. I guess that's black and white with no room for gray.

-Rudey

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For anyone who was wondering about my comments, this is exactly what I meant.

I guess.

I mean for real, how do yall get all that from those few lines? Seriously, this man could have felt compelled to say this for more reasons than we could think of.... (Suzy white girl turned him down for a date, so he's pissed, trying to avoid going to jail or receiving the death penalty for his actions so he goes the insanity route, just plain ol' crazy, etc.).

I just don't buy his reasoning, so it will be interesting to see how his case pans out.

I don't see the world as the world sees me. I don't identify well as "caucasian" because "my people" are all my brothers and sisters in Christ.

I understand where he is coming from meaning that I know what's it's like to have horrible things happen to you and you can't do anything about it. All you can do is scream in your mind and get more and more angry. When you've been consumed by anger on any level, you can certainly have a sense of what people like this guy are feeling when they commit their acts of horror.

But, most of us have a shut off switch that keeps us from actually following through with murder or rape or other vile crimes. If you don't know what it is to be this angry, it just means that you haven't had the misfortune of reaching that level of all-consuming emotion.

I watched this story on the news so I saw a bit more than what the article describes - which is why in my first post, I expressed surprise that there wasn't more coverage of the event. That little article was all I could find on it.

That is nice, let Your Beleif do your thinking!:(
Maybe not your Color.

Well, there are becoming ,more and more non-segregated Areas, Da!:rolleyes:

Basically the reason people dont like people is because of Economics.

I do not care what people want to call other people, if you act like an ass then be treated like an ass.:mad:

What Color does it matter?:confused:

Get over Your Whiteness or Blackness, or what the hell ever!

Do you walk on two legs and speak with a Language compared to other Species?:rolleyes:

Oh, That is called HomoSapiens! Da People, Us!:rolleyes:

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No one was wondering, although you have other things you could probably address.

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Honeykiss was. What other things could I address?

Any and All?

Murder is wrong, regardless of the reasons.

However, I don't think that identifying with the fustrations of being treated like a 2nd class citizen means that you excuse the actions of a murderer. It just means you understand their frustration. Why does it have to taken to mean more than that?

Thank you sister-Greek!

Right, but not identifying as "caucasian" doesn't mean that you're not caucasian. You can be white and still concerned about the plight of people of color in this country.

I'm not saying that society doesn't see me as white or that I don't reap the benefits...I'm saying that race as a concept is terribly wrong to me, so I prefer not to identify myself racially. The problem is not that I don't want to be white...it's that I don't want to be any "color" and that's a separate issue altogether from my concern for anyone else.

And this right here drives me crazy.