ScorpioRose is correct. I know the truth isn't popular with the Black community, but she is correct.

2 words for the 16 year old.

Anal Electricution

At 16, you should know what is right or wrong. Where is this boy's conscience?

Don't feel sheepish at all over this one, QV. I was extremely encouraged and impressed with the fact that you took the initiative to do something about this situation. You took what facts you had and acted on it. We all have to rely on someone reporting facts to us about essentially everything, so you can't hold yourself accountable for shoddy journalism. It's much worse to sit around moping and refusing to do anything because you don't trust anyone's portrayal but your own.

at an adult's age big boys should know how to spell the physical harms they wish upon kids, such as electrocution.

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Someone may have already posted what I'm about to say but I'm too lazy to go through all of the replies.

There are white kids who talk ghetto. I live in Roxborough and have seen them acting, talking and dressing like gangsta rappers. Most act tough and bully adults but would be scared *#*#less if they were in a ghetto.

The only incident that was a little more horrific was when a dog was beaten to the point where it had to be put down by the SPCA. It happened about three years ago at a Mantua laundry. Some people in here might remember. It was a teenager who did it and the judge was lenient because the poor poor thing grew up in a bad environment. My guess is this will be the same excuse for the 16 and 9 year old if they are caught.
This same sorry excuse makes me sick.

This may come as a shock to you, but my adoptive grandmother was black. My biological paternal grandmother died when I was 2. I grew up seeing my white grandfather and my adoptive black grandmother as my true grandparents.

I'm not prejudiced against an entire race. I dislike the criminal element, and sadly, in many major cities, most of the criminal element happens to be black.

Those are the facts, as much as white liberals might hate to face it. And for your info, I've had BLACK people tell me what I said previously, that many of them resent white people with money.

Its really not the black community that sees my statement as being unpopular; its the white liberals who are terrified of being thought "racist" if they don't challenge what I said. Most in the black community know what I said is true, and it was black people who told me how many of their people really feel about white, rich folk.

But thanks for speaking up!

That's because it's a put-on, or a tough-guy front. That kind of "thuggish" hyper-masculinity can be just as easily effected by a white kid as by a black kid. Interestingly, a lot of older black males say they first got their ideas about that kind of masculinity from gangster movies showing Italian-American tough guys.

One reason you see it more often in poor black and Latino neighborhoods -- in my opinion -- is that it;s a way for otherwise powerless and marginalized men to feel powerful. If you don't hold a lot of cards -- money, prestige, power -- you can at least strut around and try to scare people.

Plus it perpetuates itself by imitation. I mean, why do you think a lot of gay men act "queeny"? It's not like having sex with dudes makes you start talking or walking differently -- it's imitation of your peers.

/dramatic monologue

I will have to keep this in mind. Next time we need to "get info" real quick, maybe your bf will do us a 'favor' and we could bypass all that warrant stuff. You know.

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How would you know that? Did you ask most of the black community?