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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRacist frat boys demand "privacy" and "time to heal"
And by manned up and apologized I mean they have issued or had issued for them artisanal hand-crafted statements lovingly and carefully composed by family attorneys and crisis managers.
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And if the mention of the diverse, close-knit group of friends didnt make you roll your eyes so hard you detached a retina, well, there is this:
We ask that the media and public please respect our familys privacy as we come together to heal and determine next steps.
Victims of sexual assault need time to heal. Soldiers who served multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and suffer from PTSD need time to heal if that is even possible. Families of unarmed African-American teenagers who are gunned down in the street by trigger-happy cops who know there will be no repercussions in a country where black lives dont matter they need time to heal although that pain will never ever go away.
But the families of privileged young men who think it perfectly fine to lead drunken sing-alongs to songs about lynching niggers on a party bus?
They dont get to plead for time to heal while at the same time explaining that their son is actually a swell kid of sound character who deep deep down has a really good heart just like we raised him. Hooray for us.
Hes a racist, and racism begins at home.
Heal that, then get back to us
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/its-not-a-horrible-mistake-to-sing-a-racist-song-its-horrible-that-youre-a-racist/
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)hope it haunts you to the grave. may every possible employer see this
TBF
(32,090 posts)rather than playing in Bermuda for the next few months (or wherever it is their families have taken them) they should be doing community service. Maybe they could work in a soup kitchen or deliver meals on wheels. Maybe they could drive a bus rather than riding - perhaps driving low-income seniors to programs at the community center. And I don't think this should be taking place in Highland Park. They need to be removed from their cocoon of privilege and given work in places they wouldn't normally frequent. Maybe they will learn something.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)except insofar as I'm a member of the same species, and what they did diminishes all of humanity.
I do, however, sincerely hope that at least some of them might develop an awareness of the enormity of what they did, do some act of public restitution, and sincerely and humbly repent. We know it's possible, and has happened many times.
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)office as soon as they're old enough. They won't want for opportunities.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)they don't get back into that school.
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)Racists should forfeit their right to an education and instead go into training to become a fundie preacher or ISIS. They're better suited for that.
Liberal Lantern
(22 posts)Imagine, odds are they are going to sue OKLAHOMA U, for expulsion, because they got caught being quite racist.
Actually, one of the students involved "withdrew."
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I'd imagine the last thing they'll do is sue.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Assholes.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)makes me want to
That was pretty vomit inducing.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)Update: I just got my answer from NPR. The ringleader's name is Parker Rice.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)His name is: Levi Pettit
Sheesh: "Parker Rice" "Levi Pettit"
Two Preppy names, if ever I heard them.
Wonder if there is a "III" or "IV" after their names?
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)His parents bought for him. Why be jealous of success?
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)a**hole white guys. Their level of privelege & sense of entitlement is both baffling & vomit inducing.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)By the way, I hear in various circles that Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) also stands for:
"Sexual Assault Expected"
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)was an exaggeration, but here we are, a real life example of the privledge snots that used to beat up Delta House. Sad thing is, these folks get a leg up in our boardrooms, and become people like W. Bush.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)The PATIENCE and REASON shown by the AfAm community simply AMAZES ME
Brigid
(17,621 posts)And he needs " time to heal"? Yeah, my retinas are detaching, all right.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)have more class than he does.
flygal
(3,231 posts)Perfectly said!
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)Friggin' whiners.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Now deal with it.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)and he will have the last laugh on his yacht
pitchforks please
dawnie51
(959 posts)these families trying to pull something out of the pile of shit their sons have created. They will be attempting to formulate a plan so these two can finish their educations, and find excellent employment, and their privileged lives can continue as planned. Again, good luck with that. From the moment the bow tie guy stood up in that bus, and the kid with the phone turned to toward him, it was done. It's a new day, and these folks still have figured it out; everything you do is out there now. You can't hide this kind of crap forever.
Alkene
(752 posts)and having fun singing songs about it, seems to be orders of magnitude worse than "being a racist": a racist insouciant about conceptions of violent depravity amounting to psychopathy.
I'm not sure that any treatment can be possible once one reaches that level, let alone "heal."
But maybe: http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/07/can_psychopaths_be_cured.html
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)You promote hate and that is all you will ever be in your arrogant wrongness. No blinding conversion on the road to Damascus will ever befall any of you because you are bereft of curative transformation.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)Embarrassment is hard, you know? It leaves, like, scars or something.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)For many people, this is not a sacharrine attempt to use guile to ameliorate the situation, but what they actually, truly believe. When people speak of the horror that "tradition" is attacked, they forget one of the uses of tradition, to enable cruelty.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)Time wounds all heels
dinger130
(199 posts)Those stupid kids need a swift kick in the rear.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)I know these kind of little bastards(who should have never been born).
These little privileged errors are the ones who justify every shooting of minorities by the police.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)marle35
(172 posts)parents defend their children. It doesn't surprise me that they make statements like that.
They are condemning his actions. Maybe not in strong enough language. But I don't expect them to say their kid can go to Hell.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)d_b
(7,463 posts)Could they be anymore...cliche? It's like those assholes stepped off the pages of some shitty 80s screenplay. They also have that Tucker Carlson thing going on that makes me want to take a shit in their mouth.
All kidding aside, those are two punks have never had their asses kicked, and that's precisely what they need -- to be stomped the fuck out.
Let's hope thats their next video.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)During the "age of Obama" it has become "normal" for racist behavior to be "right out there and in your face"..
Political leaders and pretend newsfolks do it every day...so it must have come as a real shock to these young cretins to realize that their schtick is in fact, obnoxious and worthy of public scorn..
These people need to legally adopt new names and go to a low profile school if they want an education..or perhaps Daddy can hook them up with a job.. This will stick to them like..well ..we all know the answer to that one, don't we