White kid being beaten unmercifully by black kids

That was really messed up and I hate how if it was white kids hitting a black kid it would be automatic hate crime

That was really messed up and I hate how if it was white kids hitting a black kid it would be automatic hate crime

Lief_Ericson

No it wouldn't?

Don't kids have any decency now a days. I remember some cruel things happening when I was a kid but that was pretty bad how noone on the bus stood up for the kid.

god... if you watch the unedited version and look at his face while he's walking off the bus he's like crying. That's the saddest thing i've seen in a while, my heart goes out to this kid. @ssholes - and they're losers, they want to fight so they pick someone who won't fight back. pathetic - i really want to beat the living cr@p out of them right this second for doing that to some quiet kid

its racially motivated for sure those black boys indulged in ever moment of it everyone knows if it were the other way around everyone would think it was racist

I wish the rule here wernt so stricked Id love to let loose the magic word God I hate...

[QUOTE="Toriko42"]Just because someone from another race hits someone from another race doesn't make it a hate crime. Sick of the media always makin' it out like thatRob0_Jesus

You know if it was the white kids unmercifully beating up the black kid, this would be considered racist in a heartbeat.

IDK why, but I read the topic title as

White kid being EATEN unmercifully by black kids

:shock:

The more I think about this, the more I tend to think it was racially motivated. The black kid wouldnt want to be seen by his friends willingly sitting on the bus with a white kid without giving him crap. When the white kid didnt get up after a few shoves, the kid had to "prove himself" to his other friends, and there you go. It makes a lot ofsense, unfortunately. The same thing could easily happen the other way around ofcourse, given the circumstances. Racial tension and peer pressure is never a good mix it seems. It suck when things like this let you know that the newer generations are none the wiser than the previous ones...

I think it was that no one liked em, and it was racist. But, really? Just for moving a bag that's jacked up.

Punjabiking101

[QUOTE="Pvt_r3d"]It's definitely not racially motivated but this still ticks me off. I mightve done nothing after the first guy beat him up, but if I was near the second guy as he tried to hit that kid, I definitely wouldn't have only watched.MrGeezer

I probably would have watched, because I don't want to get punched in the face.

I've seen fights in high school before, and I'd always just watch and say "man, someone ought to help that kid."

Sure, I'M not gonna help that kid, but SOMEONE ought to help him.

*shrugs*

Hell, I guess you can call it bystander apathy at most. Or at least, you can call it not wanting to get punched in the face. The people at Columbine High School could have torn Harris and Klebold to pieces, but they were scared so they didn't.

The kid probably just happened to be white. It should be treated just like the rest of attacks are.

[QUOTE="Punjabiking101"]

I think it was that no one liked em, and it was racist. But, really? Just for moving a bag that's jacked up.

fail_baby

I hate people - I really do. Every Body! Im not Racist - Im Prejudice / against Every-Body. I feel like blowin up buses right now!!! F-it , if it was a racial issue or not, Every one of those kids in the back would be dragged behind my car... HELL the kids in the front too, including that fat white punk wit the curly hair who was laughin...! U're first Tubby!!

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="aka_aj03"]those two black kids probably going to end up in prison later in life... while that white kid going to end up in college and be successful in life.Oblivionfan10

I don't see where you're getting that from.

What, getting beaten up somehow makes people successful in life? You think that ghettos aren't full of broke people and criminals who haven't at one point or another gotten jumped?

Man, if I knew that getting my ass kicked in high school would be a sure sign of success, then I would have gotten my ass kicked a long time ago.

Hmm....wait a minute...I DID get my ass kicked in high school. So how come I'm not successful?

In my experience, getting your ass kicked usually doesn't mean ANYTHING other than the fact that you are incapable of preventing people from kicking your ass.

Getting beaten up doesn't make you "the better man", it just makes you the man who got his ass handed to him.

I mean, I don't know what was going on in this kid's head, but I SERIOUSLY doubt that it was along the lines of "I could TOTALLY destroy these bullies, but I'm going to let them beat the **** out of me because I want to be The Better Man."

If he could have beaten the attackers up, I'm pretty damn sure that he WOULD have. Really has little if anything to do with "being the better man", it's just a case of someone getting his **** ruined.

Whether or not the attack was racially motivated I cannot say.

But I will say this:

If the victim had been Black and the attackers had been White, nobody would even be debating whether or not race played a role.

:roll:

[QUOTE="Oblivionfan10"][QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

I don't see where you're getting that from.

What, getting beaten up somehow makes people successful in life? You think that ghettos aren't full of broke people and criminals who haven't at one point or another gotten jumped?

Man, if I knew that getting my ass kicked in high school would be a sure sign of success, then I would have gotten my ass kicked a long time ago.

Hmm....wait a minute...I DID get my ass kicked in high school. So how come I'm not successful?

MrGeezer

In my experience, getting your ass kicked usually doesn't mean ANYTHING other than the fact that you are incapable of preventing people from kicking your ass.

Getting beaten up doesn't make you "the better man", it just makes you the man who got his ass handed to him.

I mean, I don't know what was going on in this kid's head, but I SERIOUSLY doubt that it was along the lines of "I could TOTALLY destroy these bullies, but I'm going to let them beat the **** out of me because I want to be The Better Man."

If he could have beaten the attackers up, I'm pretty damn sure that he WOULD have. Really has little if anything to do with "being the better man", it's just a case of someone getting his **** ruined.

Chances are if he decided to fight back, all the kids around him would have probabaly jumped him and stomped his head in and he would probabaly have ended up a hell of a lot worse off.

[QUOTE="Toriko42"]Just because someone from another race hits someone from another race doesn't make it a hate crime. Sick of the media always makin' it out like thatMetallicaKings

Whether or not the attack was racially motivated I cannot say.

But I will say this:

If the victim had been Black and the attackers had been White, nobody would even be debating whether or not race played a role.

:roll:

Stesilaus

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="Pvt_r3d"]It's definitely not racially motivated but this still ticks me off. I mightve done nothing after the first guy beat him up, but if I was near the second guy as he tried to hit that kid, I definitely wouldn't have only watched.Brutal_Elitegs

I probably would have watched, because I don't want to get punched in the face.

I've seen fights in high school before, and I'd always just watch and say "man, someone ought to help that kid."

Sure, I'M not gonna help that kid, but SOMEONE ought to help him.

*shrugs*

Hell, I guess you can call it bystander apathy at most. Or at least, you can call it not wanting to get punched in the face. The people at Columbine High School could have torn Harris and Klebold to pieces, but they were scared so they didn't.

It's nice to see someone being realistic about how they'd react. Most people who say they would've kicked those kids asses most likely would've been the same ones watching and doing nothing. At the most, those same people probably would've done nothing more then tried to break it up in the nicest way possible without all that attitude they display here and elsewhere online about the situation.

That poor kid. I've never seen a kid beaten up that badly. No, it wasn't because of race, it's because people ar jerks. nobody would've cared if it was a white guy hitting another white guy.

I do not see how anyone could sit idly while an innocent person was being beaten. If I was this kid I would always have a bic pen ready to serve some frontal lobotomies to any person even looking at me wrong.

Here's the video.

It's been debated by many people if this incident is race related.

Thoughts?

sammyjenkis898

You realize you presented this as an issue of race, you could have simply titled the topic "Kid being beaten unmercifully by kids"

I do not see how anyone could sit idly while an innocent person was being beaten. If I was this kid I would always have a bic pen ready to serve some frontal lobotomies to any person even looking at me wrong.

Shhadow_Viper

That's why people sicken me. Instead of stopping the fight, they scream like ****ing animals and elevate it further.

'"Everybody on that bus, mostly, was laughing and standing up," she said.'

Wat. The school should be shut down.

I wouldn't call either of them race attacks. The victim sat down where he wouldn't usually. Stupid reason but it's true.

Second assailant just did it for no reason other than to look tough. Unless during the fight that kid said something racist, I doubt race has anything to do with it.

It looked **** horrible. Why the hell didn't the bus driver stop and see what was going on?

I wouldn't call either of them race attacks. The victim sat down where he wouldn't usually. Stupid reason but it's true.

Second assailant just did it for no reason other than to look tough. Unless during the fight that kid said something racist, I doubt race has anything to do with it.

It looked **** horrible. Why the hell didn't the bus driver stop and see what was going on?

Murj

Interesting how you say that if any part of it was race related, it'd probably be because the white kidsaidsomething racist. How would one come to that conclusion? Why automatically toss the Race card at the dude being beaten up? Thats odd in my opinion...

Man thats pretty f'ed up. Poor kid was just trying to sit down. Some people are just so stupid and mean. Gotta give props to the white guy tho, he can take a hit and he didn't flip out. Thats either a.) a sign dude has a level head or b.) dude is gonna show up one day and shoot the **** outta everyone.

Hopefully those guys that did it get expelled.

Dam dude that kid was beat hard. Im so glad nothing like that ever happend to me when i was on the bus or school.

Couldn't watch it all the way through :( How horrible.

I actually live about an hour away from there. I go to Belleville all the time. Not really a bad town itself, but there's a lot of rough places around there, and it's really close to East St. Louis, which is VERY dangerous.

[QUOTE="Murj"]

I wouldn't call either of them race attacks. The victim sat down where he wouldn't usually. Stupid reason but it's true.

Second assailant just did it for no reason other than to look tough. Unless during the fight that kid said something racist, I doubt race has anything to do with it.

It looked **** horrible. Why the hell didn't the bus driver stop and see what was going on?

KcurtorMas

Interesting how you say that if any part of it was race related, it'd probably be because the white kidsaidsomething racist. How would one come to that conclusion? Why automatically toss the Race card at the dude being beaten up? Thats odd in my opinion...

When you're getting the crap beat out of you like that, you're going to get angry. You'll do things you could wind up regretting. He could have called one of the assailants a racial slur in the heat of the attack. I know it's happened to me before. Not saying something racist, but getting scared or angry and saying things I probably shouldn't have said.

But thinking about it, if he did say something racist I doubt they would have stopped attacking him for a full five minutes; probably more of just one big beatdown until he couldn't get back up.

Not racist.

But wow, why continue to hit the kid? They were enjoying themselfs

Not racially related.funnymario

D'Vante got suspended for 5 days, even though he didn't even touch the victim or harass him in any way? Isn't that a bit much..?Faber_Fighter

[QUOTE="Toriko42"]Just because someone from another race hits someone from another race doesn't make it a hate crime. Sick of the media always makin' it out like thatRob0_Jesus

You know if it was the white kids unmercifully beating up the black kid, this would be considered racist in a heartbeat.

not racially motivated, the first attacker probably just has a short fuse (could be a bully), the second one is just an idiot. i'd hate to go to that school. i live in Australia and most of the public and religious schools here are just as bad, people not breaking it up but just gathering around and whipping out their phones and laughing. luckily i go to a selective high school (you do a test to get in, smart school), things are much more civilized here, but we do get alot of kicks laughing at how idiotically messed up some schools around us are.

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="Oblivionfan10"] I think what he meant was: The victim is the better man, he didn't hurt anyone and he apparently never has. The 2 bullies probably are failing students with no sign of a future, who go out and violently beat up innocent people. And since when did people gettin beat up in school destroy one's chances of success?October_Tide

In my experience, getting your ass kicked usually doesn't mean ANYTHING other than the fact that you are incapable of preventing people from kicking your ass.

Getting beaten up doesn't make you "the better man", it just makes you the man who got his ass handed to him.

I mean, I don't know what was going on in this kid's head, but I SERIOUSLY doubt that it was along the lines of "I could TOTALLY destroy these bullies, but I'm going to let them beat the **** out of me because I want to be The Better Man."

If he could have beaten the attackers up, I'm pretty damn sure that he WOULD have. Really has little if anything to do with "being the better man", it's just a case of someone getting his **** ruined.

Chances are if he decided to fight back, all the kids around him would have probabaly jumped him and stomped his head in and he would probabaly have ended up a hell of a lot worse off.

Id love to see someone like that get the **** beaten out of them. Nob heads.

Going by what the article says the kid is quiet so the other s are obviously bullying him. Whether it is a race thing or just because he in vulnerable; I dont know.

[QUOTE="Toriko42"]Just because someone from another race hits someone from another race doesn't make it a hate crime. Sick of the media always makin' it out like thatRob0_Jesus

You know if it was the white kids unmercifully beating up the black kid, this would be considered racist in a heartbeat.

Seeing this sort of thing really makes my blood boil, that poor kid just wanted to sit down but he gets beaten. I'm so glad I never witnessed anything like this when I was at school and if I did I wouldn't be able to just sit and watch. I really hope something very nasty happens to his attackers, heartless *****.

here's what it looks like:

That kid got beat up because he was one of those quiet, anti-social types. BUT if that kid was black instead of white it wouldn't have gone down that badly.

I can tell you that was racially motivated from that video. A white guy in what looks like a predominantly black school, it's probably the reason for his inability to get seats in the first place and judging from the taunting I'd say they have been doing that for a while, he probably felt like a big man doing that and I hope they treat him as such in court :)