James Meredith Statue

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Originally Posted by Johnson85

I don't know that we were ever more forgiving, but at least we were more 'forgetting'. I'm quite sure there would be a lot of pictures I would be very embarassed of had camera phones with an internet connection been omnipresent when I was in high school and college. I don't think there'd be anything that damning, but who knows what stupid shit we did while sitting around that would look terrible in the light of day.

I remember at least one time in college I saw a guy walking to the shower that had been cat-faced with all the usual things, plus a big swastika. I'm guessing his 'friends' were doing it to embarrass him and were not actually neonazis, but I'm not sure that would matter if they had taken pictures of it and put it online.

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I think you're right. We're more "forgetting". Less imagining, too.

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Originally Posted by BeardoMSU

1. a statue can't be killed or beaten for the color of it's skin
2. a person can
3. there are such things as "hate crimes"
4. this isn't rocket science

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Looks like it may be a hate crime.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article...-investigation

Yeah, I guess it's being interpretted as a direct threat to Jame's life, or the life of any black person; I can see that.

Those dudes ****ed up.

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Originally Posted by BeardoMSU

Yeah, I guess it's being interpretted as a direct threat to Jame's life, or the life of any black person; I can see that.

Those dudes ****ed up.

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Unfortunately, those poor bastards are on the wrong side of history by careless accident. Hate the sentiment they expressed but still feel bad for them. They should have grown up last month and avoided this disaster.