It seems that it just goes on....

30/9/2011

Check out this from Mississippi, this isn't the past, it's now.http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/30/justice/mississippi--hate-crime/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

10 Comments

Marika Goolsbee

3/10/2011 12:35:27

Yeah, I get the whole "first comment awkwardness", Zoe.

My first thought after reading this was, "Why aren't the other five charged at all?" They were very much involved, though not caught on camera.
While I do believe in capital punishment, I like the strong historical argument behind Anderson's family's letter on why none of the teens should get the death penalty.

I also think that it is incomprehensible that people still have hate crimes, although when the article talked about Mississippi as where the hate crime took place, due to it's long history of volatile hate crimes, it wasn't shocking. Even Anderson's family attested to this.
Someone else better comment. . .

KayLa Thomas

3/10/2011 17:13:57

In cases like this where "the evidence is the answer", I don't understand how someone can even stop for nanosecond to wonder if the teens committed the crime. It was caught on tape, there is a recorded phone conversation, and the participants have made claims in agreement with all of this, yet only ONE of the assailants is actually counted guilty, and the rest are just "suspects". What more proof do you need?! I fail to understand how people that are clearly involved in a crime get no time, but those that are just “in the wrong place at the wrong time” get years for crimes that they did not commit.

As I wandered through a few of the comments on the site, I also noticed a few people questioning how the case could be filed as a hate crime; A hate crime is a wrong committed against someone because of their race, religious beliefs, ect -- the teens stated several times that they were looking for an African American man in particular. Their intentions cannot be more obvious.

I must applaud the Anderson family for their kindness. I don't know how I'd be able to handle someone killing my son for no apparent reason, much less give them mercy. I also like that their reasons behind doing this are rational and pure, not just to save face -- their decision may actually help others in the near future.

Shylah Crowder

4/10/2011 10:17:00

I agree with both of you. It makes absolutely no sense to charge only one with these crimes. It also makes no sense WHY THEY WOULD DO THE CRIME IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I'm even starting to get upset at myself over this type of stuff because it no longer suprises me. Sometimes, when I read things like this, I think, "How many times am I going to read the same story?" Things like this are happening nearly all the all over the world, and it's no longer very shocking. When people read things like this and are no longer phased, that's when we know that things are ****** up. I really don't understand where all of the hate comes from. It shouldn't be natural to hate a person that much that you would want to kill them, yet for some, it is. Things like this just make me wonder... If we were all the same color, same gender, same religion... If we were all the same, would we still be this mean? I know we have that quote, "Differences didn't cause hatred. Hatred caused differences." But in situations like these... Is that always true?

Bingham

4/10/2011 12:32:13

Good for you guys for being brave and paying attention to the site!

Great comment Shylah, I'm not sure, but I think that there must be some evil in all of us. Your observation is correct, these things are all too common. And yet they shock us anyway. That is the good that is in all of us I suppose. But here is the deal, when we focus on our differences, and let other people define differences, the dark side of human nature comes through. To be upstanders, we have to fight, speak up, when other people even talk about or use language that focuses on the differences instead of on the beauty of our human diversity.

Strange, we strive for newness, novelty, "something different", but when we see it, we hate it...or "them".

Shylah Crowder

5/10/2011 11:27:57

OMG! Thank you Mr. Bingham! That last quote you just used is so true, and I love the way you worded it. That is my new quote of the day... Or since today is almost over, I'll have it be my quote for tomorrow! :D! Thanks!

Bingham

5/10/2011 11:48:00

That's no quote, that's my own amazing prose!

christian gray

10/10/2011 10:39:45

I agree with Shylah. I would write more but she said what i was going to say. That people all around the world should get the message. If we aren't so surprised any more then they're happening way to often.

Margaret Fisher

13/10/2011 15:04:03

How could you murder someone and not feel any remorse, or at least express it. If I, which I never would, killed someone, even if I hated them, I would be overcome with guilt. Their are some disgusting people in this world.

Crowder, Shylah

14/10/2011 11:25:20

Very well said Margaret. I agree.

Bingham

16/10/2011 12:46:52

A former student sent me this. We did the same study of the Rwandan genocide you will be doing with me this year. After that unit a lot of those student became very interested in the child soldier abductions in Uganda. That unit was five years ago, now America is doing something...or so it appears.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/obama-sends-100-u-military-advisors-uganda-193812911.html

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