Prometheus 6

This is the second time I have noticed you responded to something I said indirectly. Why don't you make it more interesting and comment on my site for a change?

GROW A PAIR instead of preaching to your choir. You start commenting on my site and I assure you I will be back here more often.

Anyway, here is how I responded on Cobb's site:

"Anyway, to your comment. I do agree that there are some major differences between the two cases HOWEVER, all it took for most people commenting on this case was to hear that a little Black girl was given a stiff sentence by a WHITE judge for hitting a WHITE school official to get angry in the name of EQUAL JUSTICE. My challenge to those same folks here is that if your concern is for equal justice for all, then be consistent and get just as angry and analytical when it is the other way around. Another case that you did not hear about from the "equal justice" crowd is the case surrounding South Carolina teacher Elizabeth Kandrac who was repeatedly called racist slurs by Black students while the school district played it off as "cultural expression". "

You and I both know that A. Black kids like Shaquanda Cotton are tossed around every day in this country by folks who work in the crimal justice system --- in many cases who happen to be Black. B. The ONLY reason why this story made it to the blackosphere is because there was a percieved racial element to it. I have known of many cases both personally and through others who work within the system where kids are tossed around the justice system by incompetent Black folks whose job it is to look out for these kids. Haven't seen too many posts on that one. When Whites are the culprit, it becomes a race war of intergalatic proportions that could send us back to the fields of Mississippi. My challenge to you here is that if conflicts between white/black versus right/wrong seem to be your tipping point, be consistant and raise just as much hell about the two cases I mentioned earlier. Otherwise...

The Black Informant seems more like a caricature of a black conservative.

Leavng him aside, what was up with those two teenagers? Punching a 61 year-old woman in the face? What in the world could have been going through their minds to have waited outside her classroom for nearly ten minutes and then punching her lights out? 

"My challenge to those same folks here is that if your concern is for equal justice for all, then be consistent and get just as angry and analytical when it is the other way around."

Okay, give us the name of a 14 year old white girl who has been given an indeterminate sentence in a juvenile correctional facility for shoving a black school aide. I will be happy to register my objections to treating any child with no criminal history in such a manner.  

This is the second time I have noticed you responded to something I said indirectly. Why don't you make it more interesting and comment on my site for a change?

You seem to notice. It's the whole point of Technorati.

And your error was simple enough that it wasn't worth travelling. 

I'd forgotten about "The Black Informant" since I deleted it from my RSS reader. My experience is that engaging a dialogue there is, to borrow a phrase, the equivalent of trying to teach a pig how to sing. 

And since when is it considered "indirect" or "inappropriate" to repond to someone's blog post with a post on your own blog? Especially if you link to the blog post you're repsonding too (thus driving traffic to the site in question). Heck, that's what the blogosphere is built on. Why else did trackbacks (may they rest in peace) come to exist? 

Terrance Heath
Washington, DC
www.republicoft.com

But this one was particularly stupid.

"Everyone that wrote about that apple...I got an orange here you can't account for!" Even stupider is thinking pursuing such an erroneous conversation as though it makes sense can do anything but fog the issue.

Which was obviously the intent.