(Rhetorical question)
Tonight, conservative radio talk show hosts Mike Gallagher and Mark Levin courageously highlighted the video that has gone viral out of Florida. It shows three black teenagers brutally beating a 13-year-old white boy on a school bus as the driver calls for help rather than intervene. The victim suffered a broken arm and two black eyes as he was hit and stomped more than 100 times. The assailants have been arrested.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/08/jackson-sharpton-stay-silent-on-school-bus-beating/
At this point, it would be superfluous for me to ask what Gallagher, Levin and everyone else is asking, "Where is Al Sharpton?" "Where is Jesse Jackson?" "Where is President Obama?' "Where is Eric Holder?" "Where are the marches?" I could add since it happened in Florida, "Where is Angela Corey?" Or I could ask, "Where was the bus driver?" As to the latter, we already know.
Tonight, a black listener called in to Gallagher and thanked him for high-lighting this story. He knew that it had to be told. It is an issue that the black community has to deal with. He saw that.
Indeed it does if we are going to have that much-heralded conversation on race. This is a part of the discussion because, let's be honest: This is not an isolated case. These things happen often all around the country. There was a time in the South decades ago when the tables were turned. America is not that country now. But because of the past can this be condoned or explained away?
Well, it already is. The authorities are telling us that race had nothing to do with the attack because the victim had reported the boys for trying to sell him marijuana. This happened in the same state that just underwent the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin saga. Of course, we know that this will be forgotten in a few days. The juvenile system will deal with these three boys. Maybe there will be a news report, or maybe there won't.
But we all know the game. Move on and await the next black guy that gets shot by a white guy (or white Hispanic) even if in self defense. Then let the marches and vigils begin.
Why does "The Black Community" have to deal with this? Did "The White Community" have to answer for Charles Manson? Charles Whitman? Ted Bundy?
ReplyDeleteThis is three punks being punks. They were arrested. There are no marches because,
1) Nobody is making them out to be political prisoners, and rightly so, and,
2) What they did was not sanctioned by law, police indifference, or local custom.
As for the driver, most likely he has been trained an instructed to call for help, not to intervene. In fact, he would probably have been fired if he did intervene. I know of bus drivers who were suspended for thirty days because they "violated company policy" by trying to hold onto transfers that some punk was trying to grab when exiting the bus. Therefore it was his own fault he was pulled off the bus and punched.
Where is Oprah Winfrey and Matt Damon and the other Hollywood types that were so quick to convict Zimmerman?
ReplyDeleteWhat about Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson? ("Trayvon was hunted down. He was racially profiled..." (Incidentally, not a shred of evidence on this allegation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmg1aY6_AJI
In this case, you have a video of the whole incident... yet those hypocrites on the Left are silent.
"Therefore it was his own fault he was pulled off the bus and punched."
ReplyDeleteOf course it was, Siarlys. case dismissed.
Yet another prime example, as if we needed any more, showing what a one-way street race is in the U.S. these days.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was going to be the "Post Racial" President. We were going to put all that history behind us. We PROVED we were not a racist nation when a majority of the population elected a black man ... without any qualifications for the job... twice!
ReplyDeleteNow, because of his incompetence, and the racial bias in his Justice Dept. and throughout the administration, along with the professional race baiters, like Sharpton and Jackson et.al., race relations in this country have regressed 30 to 40 years.
Another thing you can thank stupid liberals for, right along with a failing foreign policy and a limp economy for 5 years.
Boy are you missing it Gary. The official position of the driver's EMPLOYER was that because he violated company policy by making the most minimal effort to protect company property, therefore it was judged by the employer to be his fault that he got pulled off the bus and punched. His UNION is appealing that judgement by MANAGEMENT, but thanks to your friends at the Right To Work For Less Committee the union doesn't have much leverage.
ReplyDeleteIn the case you highlighted here, if the driver got involved (rather than calling for back-up), it is likely the driver would have been fired, and would have been denied workers comp for his injuries, if any, because he violated company policy by intervening in a physical confrontation.
The days when the driver could throw two boys who were fighting off the bus and let them walk the last ten miles to school are long gone, and its management policy that ended it all. Well, them and the insurance companies.
Findalis is missing it to... didn't Gary say the three responsible had been arrested? No case?
Miggie hasn't offered any reason "the Left," should say anything. Its a simple battery case, and those responsible are being prosecuted. What's to make noise about?
Siarlys.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to common human decency? In his own words, he said the boy was going to be beaten to death, but didn't intervene. You talk company policy, unions, workman's comp, etc.
Wow.
And just why are "The days when the driver could throw two boys who were fighting off the bus and let them walk the last ten miles to school..." gone??
ReplyDeleteIt could not possibly be due to lib/Dem/leftie influence in the schools and the courts, could it??
It is true that elections do indeed have consequences, and we have put up with this kind of nonsense for a long time now.
Gary, I can tell that you've never been in a position to choose between common human decency and keeping your job. Some folks don't have it so easy as you seem to have. But being a fan of "Right to Work for Less," you couldn't possible envision that threats from management might induce a person to, you know, set aside common human decency because they will be fired if they do the decent thing.
ReplyDeleteelwood, it has more to do with insurance companies than anything else. The insurance company is much less likely to have to pay out a settlement over three passengers on a bus beating up another passenger on the bus. Therefore, if the company wants to keep its insurance coverage, they write rules that conform to what the insurance companies want.
Its pure capitalism at work... and you want to blame leftists. So comical, if you weren't such a useful idiot for the boys at the top.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteI like to think I am standing up for human decency at the risk of my (albeit Part time) job at UCI when I criticize the administration, Mark Yudoff, Erwin Chemerinsky and now Janet Napolitano. But it's not going to kill me if I lose said job. As for when I was in DEA, you have no idea what DEA agnets risk.
PS: As for the insurance companies, just watch the law suit coming for the driver's inaction.
ReplyDeleteI doubt if there will be any legal grounds for a lawsuit Gary. The driver is paid to drive a bus, not to be a security guard. Maybe a case could be made out that the bus company, or the school district, should have hired someone in addition to the driver to be a security guard... something like, knew or should have known that violent incidents were commonplace on buses in the district.
ReplyDeleteThat might be good, because companies try to save money by piling everything on one employee, then writing rules that prevent the employee from doing all that needs to be done... but then they are trying to save money so they can come in with the low bid.
You want taxpayers to pony up some extra money to pay the cost of the security guard? Maybe modify Proposition 13 to raise the necessary funds? You get what you pay for...
Conservatives... always expecting something for nothing.
Don't make me laugh about you risking your job... no place is more vulnerable to a charge of viewpoint discrimination than a university.