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Title: What's With The Violence That Attracts White Folks?
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Published: Sep 30, 2006
Author: By Joel McNally
Post Date: 2006-09-30 11:11:48 by Mind_Virus
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What's With The Violence That Attracts White Folks? By Joel McNally Editors note: Joel McNally's column was written before the Weston School principal was shot and killed Friday. Now that three Wisconsin high school students have been charged with planning to bomb the school and shoot their classmates at Green Bay East High School, it's time someone asked the question: How much longer are white people going to fail to take responsibility for the violence and total disregard for human life in the white community? From Columbine to Green Bay, we are raising a generation of young, white predators who are totally devoid of conscience. Where is the outrage of white politicians against white-on-white crime? It's time we quit making excuses for young whites who stockpile homemade bombs, napalm, gas masks, walkie-talkies, semiautomatic weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. We have to say to whites, in no uncertain terms, massacring your classmates is not OK. It's not easy being raised with all of the privileges and advantages white people enjoy in our society, but that does not justify resorting to deadly violence. Many of us had to struggle through all the same benefits and entitlements, and we grew up to become outwardly well-adjusted adults with maybe a few dark secrets. In recent years, repeatedly in predominantly white communities, alienated students have been caught planning to slaughter the student bodies of their high schools. Clearly, one of the problems in these communities is a severe shortage of minorities against whom they can discriminate. If white people don't have any other races to look down upon, they have no choice but to turn on each other. Bullies have always existed. Our first encounter is usually on the playground, but as we go through life we see them abusing many other positions of authority as well. Some bullies are attracted to occupations where they are permitted to wear uniforms and use guns and clubs. We may not notice others until they move into high government positions and begin promoting torture and abandoning the Geneva Conventions. In school, if bullies have no color-coded students to abuse, they look for other likely victims. Overweight classmates have always been easy targets to spot. The growing epidemic of obesity among young people may one day blur this distinction between the in-crowd and the out-crowd, but for now the wide-load young should expect their lives to be a living hell. But young whites who find themselves in this unfortunate situation need to realize that committing mass murder will not make them any more popular. The trouble with young people is they haven't been around long enough to become old and jaded. As a result, they actually believe everything is important. Further complicating the misery many young people feel are all those hormones raging through their bodies. It's a physiological condition that makes their highs so much higher and their lows so much lower. Add a little napalm and you have a deadly combination. The news that Green Bay high school students were able to stockpile napalm, homemade bombs, and an arsenal of 10 guns will be jumped on immediately by the anti-gun, anti-bomb, anti-napalm crowd. The next thing you know they'll be trying to pass laws to prevent law-abiding citizens from exercising their constitutional right to arm themselves with guns, bombs and incendiary jelly. Napalm doesn't defoliate people. People defoliate people. Concealed carry advocates have long argued that the problem in our society isn't that there are too many deadly weapons on our streets, but that there aren't enough. If criminals thought senior citizens might be packing homemade bombs and canisters of napalm, they'd think twice about snatching those seniors' purses. Some African-American leaders actually believe guns and drugs are being intentionally shipped into our inner cities to debilitate and exterminate black people. But, across the country, we are now seeing white high school students also falling victim to these tools of social control. Whites have usually succeeded in maintaining separate systems to deal with drugs for whites and blacks. Drugs are treated as a health problem in the white community and as a criminal problem in the black community. Whites addicted to drugs receive drug treatment, often in expensive, private residential facilities. Blacks addicted to drugs are incarcerated in our state prisons, usually for decades. But there's a problem with making firearms and other forms of ordnance freely available in hopes that young blacks will use them to kill each other. Now those weapons are starting to threaten white children as well. That's because many white communities are absolutely vehement about filling their homes with racks of deadly weapons and teaching young children how to use them at a very early age. The only real difference between young children learning to kill small animals in the woods during hunting season and young serial killers doing the same thing to their pets is that the first one is carried out under adult supervision.
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
All these attacks have happened in public schools, not private ones. Some food for thought. By the way, if McNally is serious in what he's writing, he's more than a bit of a retard.
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire (1694-1778)
The same that attracts folks in the PRK, China, Columbia, Mexico, Sudan, and on and on? Evil is an equal-opportunity attraction around the globe, imo.
to be sure
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Is this suppose to be a satire?? Doesn't exactly match the crime statistics.
#2. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
What's With The Violence That Attracts White Folks?
#3. To: lodwick (#2)
Evil is an equal-opportunity attraction around the globe, imo.
#4. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
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