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Florida Hate Crime Suspect to Cops: ‘I Only Shot A N*gger’
Digital Journal
/July 31, 2012
A Florida man charged with attempted murder and hate crime for allegedly shooting an African American man in the head expressed disbelief over his arrest, telling officers that he “only shot a nigger.” Click here for full article.
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on August 2nd, 2012 at 1:40 pm
White racist have never considered Blacks as humans, they were taught this by their ancestors for centuries. They are barbarians and don’t understand love. Hate & corruption brings on hate & corruption. They cannot change.
on August 2nd, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Getting this stuff published will make it disappear .
on August 2nd, 2012 at 8:24 pm
I was raised in an environment that was likely very similar to this man; Texas, in the late 1940s & 1950s. I went to school from the first through the twelfth grade in a completely segregated school system. We never came in contact with any African-Americans until we reached college. In one of my first university classes, an auditorium class of approximately 175 students, the instructor stood at the podium and asked, “Are there any n*****s in the class!” There were two African-American women near the top row of the auditorium who gathered their books and left the class when the instructor said, “Oh, yeah, there’s two back there. Stand up so we can all see you.” As unaware and as ignorant as I was at the time of issues of racial and social justice I knew that group of statements was deeply racist and wrong. I wanted to get up, walk to the front of the class and punch the instructor in the mouth. I’ve always been deeply ashamed that I did not follow through with my first inclination. A few years later I was the sole white guy on an otherwise all black semi-pro basketball team. My teammates went out of their way to ensure that I was included in all team activities; in spite of the fact that most if not all of them had endured the type of racist treatment I’ve just described. These two experiences forever changed my attitudes about race.
on August 2nd, 2012 at 8:38 pm
It is diaheartening and very sad to me that some people can still be so racist.
on August 16th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
“White racist have never considered Blacks as humans”
Well, I have heard those type of comments in the past. If the ‘blacks’ were not humans, did that mean they were considered animals?
So, if that is true, then the ‘superior’ whites did not mind copulating with animals. Where did they draw the line on that, this so called superior race?
Did it stop with mules, pigs, dogs……
After all they believed the African Americans were not human .
From what I understand many of the southern whites were decedent’s of the Georgia Penal Colony types. These were what would be considered today as ‘white trash’ and their was/is plenty of inbreeding to go along with that.
on July 10th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
Bob Glover what a lovely story. Thank you for sharing.
on July 10th, 2013 at 7:20 pm
and I might ad I hope that the instructor who used such callousness towards race was removed from his position or perhaps he may spend his latter years suffering from horrible hemorrhoids for which there is no cure.
on July 10th, 2013 at 7:22 pm
Yes it is a very sad situation when one places great importance on having a family branch in which all people are related and interrelated to very troubling extremes.