Milwaukee's Juneteenth

patrickredeyes
patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
edited June 2007 in A Moving Train
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FkJJpgeLTBU



The fact that the Milwaukee Newspaper has said very little about what happened last week. It's made national news and the officials here in town think there isn't a problem at all. Fucking sad IMO.
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  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    I'll give the guy credit for taking that beating without complaint. I like the fact that despite what happened to him, he still said positive things about the folks who live in the neighborhood where he caught his beating. There was a thread in AET in which Juneteenth mob beatings were discussed. It doesn't just happen in Milwaukee. A passenger in a car that hit a youth was beaten to death in Texas. The criminal element that attends these festivals ruin it for the people who are going there to celebrate freedom and work towards ending violence in that specific minority community. The ghetto culture celebrated in film, videos and music is detrimental when people view it not as a commentary on how fucked up everything is and instead use it as a text book on how to be a man. I'll track down that Junetheeth thread and post it.
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=247820&highlight=juneteenth
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Check the comments on the video to see how far our society has evolved.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • baraka
    baraka Posts: 1,268
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Check the comments on the video to see how far our society has evolved.

    :eek: I couldn't believe those comments.
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    baraka wrote:
    :eek: I couldn't believe those comments.


    Your shocked by the comments? Where have you been under a rock? When I first saw the video I didn't think it was my home city. Milwaukee's Northside is getting worse all the time. And it's fucking sad we have a police department that is no help. Starting with the chief.

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