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A whole lot of ugly nasty people feel real entitled now. How do we purge this kind of hatred from the nation?
Article from US News
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/california-man-blames-obama-after-running-over-killing-black-man-with-his-pickup/
A California man claims he was defending himself last year when he ran over black man, killing him, following an altercation outside McDonalds.
Joseph Paul Leonard Jr. burned rubber for 23 feet before crashing into 34-year-old Toussaint Harrison during the June 6, 2013, incident, reported the Sacramento Bee.
Leonard, now 62, got out of his pickup and kicked Harrison several times in the head with his steel-toed work boots, authorities said.
Just because we got Obama for a president, these people think they are real special, Leonard said after his arrest.
Wella
(1,827 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Asshole of incredible level.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)spanone
(135,849 posts)insane fucker
riversedge
(70,253 posts)maybe it is the internet--I see about this ugly things for often. People just do what they want no matter the consequences.
frylock
(34,825 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Considering the self-segregation problem where California's prison system has well documented issues with that.
I'm not saying the opportunity for him to be a victim of violence doesn't exist, far from it. Just saying he'd unlikely be alone with that attitude.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)adieu
(1,009 posts)duh.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)I am torn between hoping he lives a long, miserable life and hoping he dies soon, and rids the workd of his worthless self.
Vinca
(50,285 posts)quakerboy
(13,920 posts)sheshe2
(83,801 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)my heart just practically stops every morning when my husband leaves for the day and we live in an area with relatively little violence. I also have two generations of nephews now who are old enough to be out and about. My one niece has a biracial child and was accosted recently while grocery shopping by some woman who berated her for having that wee baby girl, who was only six weeks old at the time. Then there are my children who are half-Iranian and the worries that come with a whole slough of other prejudices. It just makes you ache.
I know there are many who bear the same heartache, some have borne more. I find little reason to forgive the "leaders" in this nation and the media types who fan the flames of hatred.
Peace to you, my friend.
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)I feel your pain. I am so sorry for all the assholes out there, the ones that attack and yes the ones that fan the flames.
~Peace to you and yours.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)I hope that your extended family can use adversity to add depth to their characters. I like to think that my experience as a gay man growing up in an earlier, much more hateful and toxic America helped me grow (though I'm probably just fooling myself, lol).
Peace.
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)May he spend the rest of his days behind bars.
a kennedy
(29,678 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)japple
(9,833 posts)make the President feel? It makes me weep for him. He was elected by a majority, just like every other president (well, we aren't certain about GW Bush) before him. How many others have had to endure the insults, racism, daily slings & arrows? And those are from the ignoramuses in the GOP and the general public. How much has he had to face from members of his own party--people who voted for him in 2004 and 2008? Can you imagine what we could all be celebrating if everyone got behind this man?
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)these people, while your side knee caps you.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)and neither were Rutherford Hayes and Benjamin Harrison, for that matter.
japple
(9,833 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)But there is nothing uncertain about it-- it is an established fact that GW bu$h got fewer popular votes than Al Gore.
Official tally:
bu$h 50,456,002
Gore 50,999,897
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)professional victims who thrive on bigotry.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)Maybe he'll get some free Nuge the Stooge CDs sent to his jail cell.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)...that says a lot right there.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)And audacity
Unca Jim
(556 posts)tavernier
(12,393 posts)He's the "special" one.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Disgraceful.
And where are the so-called white "leaders" to reject and denounce this person?
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)to damage a criminal case, but on the other, I do think that the leaders of our nation need to actively assert themselves. And those on the right need to be hearing from the people in their states who don't support or engage in the hatred that has been fomented. Instead there is silence. Deafening silence.
rurallib
(62,431 posts)McConnell?
Boehner?
Limbaugh?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)as in Ferguson, Sanford, Cincinnati and countless other murder and beating sites of unarmed black people, males usually.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)proved that.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)It certainly gives the appearance that the nation will not oppose this vile hatred.
malaise
(269,086 posts)is what he should get for being so special
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2014, 10:43 AM - Edit history (2)
but I won't. Not feeling too peaceful today, actually all week. I hope he realizes what he did while he sits in prison. But I doubt he cares. on edit: I will chime in. He is representative of the people who voted in the majority last week for the change in congressional leadership that we witnessed this last election day. And the toilet of racial discrimination is going to start backing up and many more like this will be in the overflow. God I should left years ago. What a chump I've been to stay here and believe this country could be anything more than it is.......a political and racist swamp of ignorant, stupid people.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)as his Ancestors have. And his name is President Obama!!!!!!!!!!!
flvegan
(64,409 posts)I don't think that word means what you think it does.
Moron. Enjoy prison.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)no words.
Independent_Liberal
(4,108 posts)I wonder what other ugliness inflicted by Tea Party types has yet to surface in our news. It's a cruel, ugly world. No question about that.
Cha
(297,355 posts)he's had that would lead him to this point in time.
"But prosecutors say Leonard has previously been a violent aggressor, although defense attorneys have asked a judge to exclude evidence from those cases."
RIP Toussaint Harrison Mahalo Skidmore~
Liberal Lolita
(82 posts)This is the first time I have heard this reported. If our media was even trying to report on important issues we would have heard about this over a year ago. While some want to claim our media is soooo liberal, it seems to me that only racist conservative thugs would ignore this story.
Darb
(2,807 posts)When I say varying degrees, there is this man, there is a bunch of old white men in Congress who will do anything to ruin his legacy and make him fail, all the way down to the guy or gal who never says shit (except in certain company) yet pulls that lever for a teabagger.
But make no mistake, every single one of them have this syndrome to some degree.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,376 posts)Really. Sometimes, I look at this country and that's all I have to say.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)But looks like that won't be allowed -
Even though he's a previous VIOLENT offender.
But he's a 62 year old white guy so he gets a free pass.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Yes, the U.S. can be very intolerant, but not the least of many peoples.
India among world's most racist countries, says survey.
Is it racist to call racists, "racists!"
http://listcrux.com/top-10-most-racist-countries-in-the-world/
http://defence.pk/threads/is-india-most-racist-country-in-the-world.283871/
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-among-world-most-racist-countries-britian-tolerant-survey/1/271586.html
http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/Sites/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=910A9778C86143959605979D937EE717&SiteID=Main%20Si_e
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)HoosierCowboy
(561 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)There were a couple of mass shootings back in '09 that the perpetrators tried to blame Obama for...
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,185 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)struggle4progress
(118,308 posts)Crackhead steals food from breakfast buffet at local hotel. He and his buddy try to raise some cash by hawking the food to folk leaving a nearby McD's. They encounter a racist Vietnam vet with PTSD who's off his meds. He stomps the bicycle owned by one of the guys. There's an altercation. He goes after them with a chain. They defend themselves with a knife and a broken bottle. The vet gets cut. He decides he's losing the fight and takes off in his truck. Then he comes back, runs one guy down, jumps out of the truck, and starts kicking the guy on the ground in the head. McD's employee comes outside with a crowbar to stop him and takes the keys from his truck so he can't escape before the police come. One guy flees the scene. Vet makes asinine comments while sitting cuffed in the patrol car. Attempted murder charges are filed but the downed guy dies soon after so the charges are upgraded to murder. Dead guy has crackpipe in his backpack and tox-screens show drug residues in his system. When the dead guy's buddy is finally located, he says they were just handing out food to the homeless.
Whether the two guys stole food from the hotel is almost certainly irrelevant. That the vet drove away and then returned to run the guy over and kick him in the head shows it wasn't self-defense and probably establishes premeditation
heaven05
(18,124 posts)was the 'vet' off his meds. The defense said the murdered man was a crackhead? Speaks for itself since we all know because the victim was black he had to be a thief and a crackhead. Just because the defense attorney has started the spin, does not make it truth.
struggle4progress
(118,308 posts)in his system. I think that is irrelevant to the question of premeditation since the alleged killer is said to have driven away, returned, ran the victim down, and then kicked the victim several times in the head while he lay on the ground, which I think might establish premeditation. It is nevertheless possible that the alleged killer was of diminished capacity due to PTSD and being off-medication. The actual initial encounter then, independent of the question of premeditation, might be of psychiatric relevance, apart from the reported racist remarks; and the jury in trying to sort out the facts might therefore be allowed to consider whether the victim was in fact a drug-addict hawking stolen food in a McD parking lot to get money for a fix, as this might shed light on the alleged killer's state of mind and reactions
phantom power
(25,966 posts)Conservatives like Leonard live their lives in a round room, being told to sit in a corner. They *are* victimized, but all of their conceptual framework for trying to make sense of the world is fed to them by the plutocrats who are actually victimizing them.
So it's not a huge surprise when some of them just snap and lash out at poor people and/or minorities. Because that's who they've been programmed to blame.
Beowulf42
(204 posts)We did get him, in terms of two elections where his character and smarts beat the shit out of weak-ass white dudes with much less appeal to the population as a whole. That's what the backward thinking dumb asses just don't get. And yes, he is the special one. He made it as a black man in a white world. He made it into an Ivy League university and was accepted to Harvard Law, when he was a nobody, and made something of himself. He edited the Harvard Law Review. And if you think that's easy have one of your moronic offspring try it. But you see there are lots and lots of black people out there who are special, and asians, and Mexicans, and little green men from Mars, to quote Lacy J. A lot more special than a white man who in a bigoted rage runs a man of color down with a truck. Bigotry and cowardice all in one package. One more and he gets the trifecta. Oh wait, he eats a McDonald. That's the golden trifecta. God, we live in the stupidest country on the face of the planet. SAPOI