This boy’s arrest might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to him. I’m hoping that the police will sit this boy down with someone who can reach out to him and maybe get him to question his beliefs and start down a different path.

Kids like this are isolated, confused, and lonely. Maybe a smart, tough, young cop, someone that the kid can instinctively respect, could reach out to him the way an older brother might to a younger brother and teach him something of the facts of life. Maybe there’s a volunteer for the SPLC or the NAACP who could do it.

I hope someone can. This kid is dangerous. He needs to be defused, not just held under lock and key for a while.

Maybe this youngster is just already a bad person who needs to go to jail.

Tragically, racism has long be a part of religion: from the condemnation of Cain to the aspersion against Ham who allegedly saw his father naked–yet had his son damned since he had already been blessed. In both cases, the condemnation led to the transmogrification of pigmentation in the flesh, but only to advance the celebrity status of a minor group that were mercenaries for the Akkadian warlords. Still, it is this distortion and plagiarism from older sources that is the foundation for racial hatred and it was incorporated in to sacred canon by several faiths. It is time that these old tales be exposed and people educated on the reality of all people being equal and have a right of choice in all things. Hatred is not acceptable.

Publishing his name, attitudes, and plans will affect his reputation? Yeah. Negatively among civilized people he doesn’t care about, but positively among hate- and fear-driven people he does care about. In some ways this “Hatewatch” post might actually empower him.

Like the “Terminator,” he’ll be back. When he returns, it may be as a good guy. But don’t count on it.

This country is getting more and more polarized and its citizens are increasingly opting out of the notion of a shared destiny. I know that we talk to our daughter, social responsibility in ingrained in her and she knows that her friends are to be chosen on the content of their character and maintained based no an affinity of interests. Skin color and that slippery animal called, for lack of any real science, “race” is to play no part. But then, we’re graduate school educated, left-coast liberal Jews (who happen to also be non-white).

Maybe the parents are partially to blame. Maybe the parents did like we do and the kid fell in with the wrong crowd or became enthralled with the Stormfront/White Power internet meme. Maybe he felt powerless at school and gravitated towards white supremacy – “I may be (insert adjective), but at least I’m better than a n***er.” I don’t know, but I’m sad that we are still where we are still.

As a kid, I had hoped I’d be a father in some color-blind Star Trek universe. The stupid things kids hope for.

So many died and so little has changed.

But that does not change the fact that our nation’s insitutions are fundamentally racist in favor of whites and against ethnic minorities.

We may not ever be able to stop racial violence, but we could stop institutional racism if we wanted to.

Oopsie, white supremacists just don’t do logic :P

We live in a civilization! And as a member, of this civilized society, I STRONGLY abhor this kind of barbarism motivated by racism and homophobia against another civilized human being! I have a dog and even my dog is FAR more civilized than White Supremacists will ever be!

He can’t crawl back into his hole because the hole doesn’t want him! The worms, centipedes, and other soil critters that I so love to watch when I am gardening, and that are normally incredibly tolerant, have complained that he is emitting noxious gases and making way too many screeching noises for them to stand anymore.