Recently i posted a thread about a bus attack i had seen. In the video, a white student sits beside a black student on a bus largely populated by black students, all in high school. The white student gets beat unmercifully, and then has it happen again by the same student, and then again by another, previously uninvolved student. the white kid makes no attempt to fight back.
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What i didn't know at the time, and what I'm glad to know now, is that another student, also black, stops it. He steps in font of the white kid whos been beaten. He even pushes one of the kids back into his seat.
My original post asked questions about racism, the kind of culture these kids consider themselves a part of, and how this kind of thing could happen, but having seen the ending of this story, something I'd totally missed before, I feel it means something else entirely.
I believe it to be racism, as is apparent when you watch the video. The boy is assaulted because he has the audacity to sit next to a kid who considers himself to cool to sit beside a white kid. The other student who joins in on the beating is just as racist, as racist as he is genuinely despicable. This is the thug mentality, something preached openly and proudly in rap, mostly the rap that somehow manages to top the charts, the rap so well represented at this year's MTV awards. And these young black students have embraced it.
I wanna point out the kid who had the balls to stop it. He didn't care if he was ostracized. Ive seen many videos of thugs beating defenseless people, but this is the first instance ive seen it stopped by someone who seems to hold some kind of respect with the majority in attendance, and i for one think He needs to be remembered. Thugs are nothing new, but this kid means that there are those within the statistic willing to stand apart. I think we're gonna be seeing more of this, and i think thats more important than anything.
"I mean... it was ridiculous..."
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What i didn't know at the time, and what I'm glad to know now, is that another student, also black, stops it. He steps in font of the white kid whos been beaten. He even pushes one of the kids back into his seat.
My original post asked questions about racism, the kind of culture these kids consider themselves a part of, and how this kind of thing could happen, but having seen the ending of this story, something I'd totally missed before, I feel it means something else entirely.
I believe it to be racism, as is apparent when you watch the video. The boy is assaulted because he has the audacity to sit next to a kid who considers himself to cool to sit beside a white kid. The other student who joins in on the beating is just as racist, as racist as he is genuinely despicable. This is the thug mentality, something preached openly and proudly in rap, mostly the rap that somehow manages to top the charts, the rap so well represented at this year's MTV awards. And these young black students have embraced it.
I wanna point out the kid who had the balls to stop it. He didn't care if he was ostracized. Ive seen many videos of thugs beating defenseless people, but this is the first instance ive seen it stopped by someone who seems to hold some kind of respect with the majority in attendance, and i for one think He needs to be remembered. Thugs are nothing new, but this kid means that there are those within the statistic willing to stand apart. I think we're gonna be seeing more of this, and i think thats more important than anything.
"I mean... it was ridiculous..."
