Black kid almost shot dead in lily-white Michigan suburb for asking for directions

True in both situations I am sure.

 

Another alternate reality posters.

 

That's bullshit, white kids go through the Black neighborhoods all the time. Also many black neighborhoods are not the "Ghetto", but you come from that mindset so it's not surprising.

 

When did that trend change?

 

The Census Bureau says this:

"The term ‘baby boomer’ refers to individuals born in the United States between mid-1946 and mid-1964 (Hogan, Perez, and Bell, 2009 . . . During the post-World War II baby boom, the United States experienced 18 years of elevated fertility rates, with rates remaining above the pre-boom levels until 1964."

https://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p25-1141.pdf

Google [ baby boomer birth years ] and get the same.

 

Lessons to be learned.

Have one of these decals on your front door.





They actually work bigly. They keep thugs and millennial snowflakes away.

 

I like mine better... http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers/

 

There are a lot of nice people in Harlem, and in parts of Harlem a white is most likely okay, but in other parts you are more than likely dead. But I never been, and don't have firsthand experience, just read of it in books. "Still Life In Harlem" by Eddy L. Harris (black, highly educated), a travel writer who embedded himself for a year there, is a good one. Even New Yorkers panic when they fall asleep on the train and wake up above a certain street, which number I have forgotten.

 

yup - blame the victim

 

so true - had the roles been reversed the forum right wingers would be enraged and saying that blacks, Obama, libs, and the news media were responsible

 

It was a ONE AND A HALF HOUR WALK to get to school.

Probably 8 to 10 miles!

In my lily-white area of Orange County, there are adults who get lost driving that far if they are driving anywhere else but straight to the nearest freeway!

Remember, this was a new school and a 14 YO has never driven themselves, an area with multiple culdesacs and crazy neighborhoods the wealthy areas like to own.

And he's 14, and that bus is filled with girls and new buddies. He is not watching the road! Lol

 

In the Pew reseach link it says baby boomers were age 52 to 70 in 2016.

Therefore in 2018 baby boomers would be age 54 to to 72.

The perp is 53 in 2018, probably out of the boomer set.

 

Bill Clinton's office was in Harlem after he left office. In certain parts of anywhere you most likely could end up dead, but not because of color.

Its not because of their color, its because of the crime element that is there and they don't give a damn what color you are.

 

Is your post serious, I take it in jest?

 

I do wish we could subtract two years since 2016 instead of add the two years.

The Pew link also mentions that Gen X was 36 to 51 in 2016, making them 38 to 53 in 2018.

 

These kinds of comments about gun owners are crazy!

These scumbag shot his gun in the street in a heavily populated neighborhood.

These racists should get 20 years for attempted murder even if he wasn't "aiming" at the kid down the road, just as ANY clueless gun owner who is shooting in a residential neighborhood!

Guns can kill even if the gun is NOT aimed at someone, but gun nuts don't care who they kill!

 

A 53-year-old White Male (a retired Detroit Firefighter) living in a Detroit suburb that is about 90% White shoots at a Black kid.

Rochester Hills went 50-44 for Trump in 2016.

This criminal shooter is just another Trump Voter who feels empowered knowing that his vote help elect a LYING UNPREPARED IMBECILE.

The shooter has Trump Voter written all over him.

I hope the kid recovers.

Thanks a lot, Trump. :smfh:

 

Look up the word inane

 

There was no excuse for the home owner to shoot, let alone creating a thread just to stir the pot!!!!

 

Oh, god, that kid is in a conspiracy to do home invasions!

Read the story!

The mother TOOK away his phone!

My friend is a high school teacher, and in very day there are 2 or 3 of her students have their phone taken away for misbehavior of one kind or another.

 

I didn't say Black neighborhood I said Black ghetto.

Learn to read.

One denotes civility the other is the exact opposite.

 

Good thread. Sometimes there is a reason to shoot a stranger. Not even close this time.

 

Yup.

 

Good thing George Zimmerman wasn't cruising the neighborhood.

 

Just another Trump Voter doing what Trump Voters do.

Hopefully they don"t offer this racist sociopath a plea deal.