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Race Riot in Austin
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This is bizarre. They killed the passenger, not the driver, and from the sounds of things the child was injured, not killed.
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Originally Posted by finboy 
It was on MSNBC or CNN's web site this morning. Why did you term this a race riot?
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I was just thinking that. Obviously I didn't scrutinize the title too well.
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Originally Posted by finboy
I have to ask as well; how did you turn this into a race riot? Sounds more like emotional mob over response to me.
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I'm wondering if the term illegal immigrants will enter this thread at some point.
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ
I'm wondering if the term illegal immigrants will enter this thread at some point.
Once the term enters, it never leaves and multiplies like crazy. It also tends to take away the low post count threads from members of MacNN's working class. It strains the database system with a proven rise in emoticon usage and oversized signatures. Only Ron Paul has correctly identified the problem and has the right ideas to solve the problem.
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This has nothing at all to do with race. Just because the people involved are Latinos, does not make this a "race" riot.
Buried as inaccurate. Oh, wait...
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Originally Posted by Rumor
This has nothing at all to do with race. Just because the people involved are Latinos, does not make this a "race" riot.
Buried as inaccurate. Oh, wait...
I read that the child and crowd were black, while the people in the car were Hispanic. I hadn't even thought of the illegal immigrant aspect of it. "Juneteenth" is a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation as it arrived in Texas. So maybe it isn't a race riot because no white folks were involved.
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Last edited by finboy; Jun 21, 2007 at 02:51 PM.
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Originally Posted by finboy
I read that the child and crowd were black, while the people in the car were Hispanic. I hadn't even thought of the illegal immigrant aspect of it. "Juneteenth" is a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation as it arrived in Texas.
Next time give it a little more thought before knee-jerking a response like the thread title or this one.
If you read the article futher you would also have read that it had nothing to do with the "Juneteenth" celebration.
Originally Posted by finboy
So maybe it isn't a race riot because no white folks were involved.
What does that have to do with anything?
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One of the most disturbing things about this story to me is that police wouldn't allow any emergency crews near the dying man for 35 minutes while they "secured the scene". Not even the man's relatives were allowed close. What kind of stupid police procedure is that? If the police are there, the mob is gone and no one's firing any guns I would say the scene is secure enough to save a dying man choking on his own blood.
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