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No. If people want to find out the details of such killings, then they can certainly do so. Yet, in my opinion, by bringing up the racial element, you are just perpetuating the race game/war. It gives people like William Joyce the license to participate. After such stories are run with strong attention placed on race, it becomes a bean-counting game. See blacks are bad. Look at how many people they killed. See whites are bad, see how many people they killed. Blacks are racist thugs. See the Black Panthers. Whites are racist thugs. See the skinheads and the KKK. Blacks are the scourge of society. No. whites are worse. If we are lucky, it stops at words and hateful rhetoric. Hopefully it does not progress to physical violence. (Unfortunately, such is not often the case.) It just goes on and on and it will probably continue to go on and on for as long as people like William Joyce like to play this we versus them divisive game.
I like to play a different game. Find good things about people who are not within your group. For example: If you are White, find some good stories about black people. Even beyond that, why not try to find good things to say about all classes of people? Work on trying to improve those things that are bad within your own group (whatever group you choose to place yourself in). Doesnt the Bible say something about cleaning your own eye before you complain about the dirt in someone elses eye? Anyway, that is my take on the whole race stories thing.
sooo.. are you telling me that you would have suggested to Emmet Till's grieving mother NOT to bring the body to chicago for an open casket funeral in order to convey what white people in the south were capable of at the time due to RACISM?
Sure, it's great to point out the positives... Maybe its just that, in light of a tragedy like the above shooting, WJ has become sensitive to the "fuck whitey" motivations that make people disregard the horror of shooting up a city council for the sake of an ethnic common denominator. Call it the product of the automatic assumption of racism ala the duke rape scandal. We could disect WJ further but it would tangent the thread.