ginnyt wrote:
Thank you for your recommendation, I will take it into consideration if you will consider that these black people may have made some errors that could have, should have, and any thinking person would have avoided. Just stop for a moment and think with your head. Have you taken the time to listen to the words of the rap music? None of it has lyrics about cute kittens, respect, love, or tolerance. So the young people listening to that garbage is being told that whites are "crackers", whites are always wrong, whites should be killed, whites owe blacks, and so on. Does that racket create calm gentle people or does it plant seeds of revenge for "hundreds of years of injustice?"
Given circumstances where you are afraid for your life and traveling companions, how would you have handled it? Just put up with the noise? Just make sure that it was a gun--I guess a shot to the face like the 13 month old child would do that--before taking any action? Put yourself in both places; those of the three (3 against one, good odds) black men and then turn it around and put yourself in the 60 year old place.
I will be honest, the 60 year old man was wrong on many accounts. He could have driven to another store, but I have to ask.... why should he have to? Was he not entitled to shop where he wanted without being insulated as well as assaulted? He could have remained silent and not asked for the noise to be turned down. But, again....should he have had to? Should the noise had been so loud? Was he not entitled to the freedom to shop without being assaulted with the noise? He could have made sure that the young man had indeed intended to follow through with his thread of killing him. But, would that have been too late? What do we expect from a frightened mind? Logic? No, the frightened mind does one of two things..... fight or flight.
Thank you for your recommendation, I will take it ... (
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What kind of moron approaches any group of teen-agers and tells them to turn down their loud music? Teen-agers whether white or black are mostly "hormones with feet". By adulthood a person should know this.
I can't stand rap music. I also can't stand white heavy metal. I am sure many black parents would rather their kids listen to Miles Davis or Herbie Hancock than listen to Kanye West. I am sure many white parents would rather their kids listen to Tony Bennet, rather than some headbanging music. That being said, when you are confronted with loud tasteless music.......you just walk away.......unless you are an angry hater who wants to ruin other people's lives as well as your own.