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I agree that our race relations will never move forward unless blame and finger pointing stops. Groups of people need to be accountable for their actions. But no one deserves blind justice. As far as your argument goes though, you are wrong. The comparisons between Jude and King are 100 fold. King was under the influence of PCP and led police on a high speed chase through the streets of LA. He exited his vehicle in a chemical rage and was a threat to cause serious bodily injury to the officers. That ordeal went bad when multiple officers began beating him with batons and pepper spray. This was all caught on film and a mostly white jury then let the officers off the hook. (wrong decision). In Judes case, he was invited to that party by two young females he had met at a bar earlier in the evening. Jude was with his friend when they got to the party. After one of the officers got on his case about being someplace he wasn't invited, jude informed the girls that he wanted to leave. Upon going outside, a group of the men at the party followed him and accused him of taking their badge out of his bedroom. Reports say Jude responded that he had never entered the room and then he was called a liar and the beating began. Officers that were called to the seen via 911, reported that Jude was still being kicked in the chest and face even though he was already handcuffed. That is where the brutality claim came from.
But irregardless, race relations will never progress until communication begins.

Criminals and insane people kill people.
Because if you look at history, white people tend to be more psycotic in their killings. The majority of serial killers are white, the kids that shoot up schools are white and throughout History most dictators were white. When you hear about crimes commited by blacks it tends to be gang or robbery related. So, if one looks at history, white criminals tend to go crazy and black criminals tend to be "wild". Either way, a killer is a killer. It seems people are forgetting that every nationality has criminals. It is the criminal element that plagues us, not a color.

B5cents is dead on with his example here. Katbird, I don't side with you on this one though. You are right that people kill, not skin color. But we are talking about one on one crimes, Not dictators.

Wolfman, you are right. considering this is a race relations blog I should stay focused on just that.

Nothing against Fox Six because News is necessary and really our best way to communicate to the masses. I really believe that media is to blame for a lot of the negativity in our country. Ever since the onset of live tv our nation has become addicted to action and the more negative the action the more we want to know because it is part of our natural instincts of defense! However, just like a person addicted to drugs we have become a nation addicted to what infiltrates the airwaves. I just cringe at the content of video games, television progams, music, and computer stuff that is impossible for anybody to escape. It is horrendous and we just practically have to succomb or disengage from media altogether, which as we all know is just not part of today's modern world. I just hope that one day we could return to the good life. If it would be portryed more in the media then that would infiltrate into our society! Until then we get to choose from detective shows that show nothing but how to be a criminal, live cop shows that also teach how to out smart authority, cartoons that follow the same shoot 'em up genre, not to mention all the party til ya puke reality shows the teenagers empathize with, and all the extreme 'sports' programs that wind up with a bunch of "BLEEP" in the emergency room because they wanted to dive into concrete too or wrestle! I just hope that the government will step in to help direct change. Ok, I have rambled on enough about the negative media infiltrating our society, and getting back to the issue of race relations, I just truely feel tha

Frank Jude, Rodeny King the beating these men took was wrong. And those responsible should be sentence to the max. Was it racist or the actions of over zealous police? Just yesterday a court convicted 3 officers in NY for the shooting of a man leaving a party, he and his friend s were shot at more then 50 times. These officers were both black and white. Is this racist. If my memory is right after the Rodeny King verdict was handed down, a riot ensued and a white truck drive was pulled from his truck and beaten by a group of blacks. One of the defenses to the actions of the people who did the beating was they just got caught up in the mob mentally and they could not help themselves. Is this racist. To me the word Racist has lost the power it once had. It seems like any time someone is treated poorly it is a race issue. And that is not the case.

Dude freedom, give it a rest. This seems to be the only thing you know how to write. How about an actual comment?