Ask any parent; teenagers are morons. Even the supposedly-smart valedictorian ones supposedly bound for the Ivy League; indeed, if teenagers don’t get their stupidity out of the way, they wind up as Robert Gibbs.
But I digress; another group of teenage bobbleheads has incited a racial incident in Jersey:
For the second time in less than a month, a New Jersey teenager has been arrested for allegedly making a racist announcement over a store’s public address system.
The latest incident happened over the weekend at the Whole Foods Market on River Road in Edgewater, according to the Bergen Record.
A 14-year-old girl reportedly grabbed the microphone at the store’s courtesy desk and said, “All blacks leave the store.”
Now, let’s be clear; duh. Duuuu-uuuuuu-uuuuuh. If either of my kids did this, I’d kick their asses, and never stop kicking.
Which would, indeed, be a better idea than what actually did happen:
A store employee immediately called the police, according to the Record, and the girl and a 14-year-old boy who was with her were taken into custody moments later.
The girl is reportedly charged with bias intimidation and harassment.
“Intimidation”? An idiot 14 year old girl?
I’m trying to think if there’s anything about this incident that couldn’t have been better handled by a couple of irate black customers pinning the little scumbags to the wall by their hair and giving them what-for until they were ready to slink away beneath their own shadows.
Now, I’ve never bought into the “the media made me do it” defense – but if you’re a not very bright teenager, you’ve literally spent much of your cognitive life in a society where Eric Cartman and Chris Rock say exactly that kind of thing, and it’s considered edgy comedy.
“But it’s just common sense…” is the response I expect – from people who don’t have teenagers.
At any rate – what does it say about our society that “a couple of kids saying something stupid and racist on an intercom” is “intimidation”? It’s audible vandalism, of course, and it should be the sort of thing a store could sue the kids over; it damaged the image of WalMart and Whole Foods.
But am I the only one wondering who would actually call it “indimidation?”
I dunno, Mitch; there’s a fine line between inciting racial hatred and art.
I suspect this was NOT illegal intimidation or harassment, but instead was edgy performance theatre. The student was re-enacting the atmosphere of Jim Crow on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s march from Selma in an effort to raise conciousness about the lingering plight of Black Americans now suffering nearly 50% unemployment and being consistently denied representation at the highest levels of business. It’s this White Ceiling that The Man is using to keep the brothers down and everyone must know about it so together we can tear it down and thereby remove the color barrier to a more fair society.
Performance art, not crime. If you disagree, you’re a racist.
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At any rate – what does it say about our society that “a couple of kids saying something stupid and racist on an intercom” is “intimidation”? It’s audible vandalism, of course, and it should be the sort of thing a store could sue the kids over; it damaged the image of WalMart and Whole Foods.
What does it say about our society that a conservative is advocating massive corporations suing children for doing stupid, non-violent, obviously not corporate endorsed stuff, Mitch? When I was a kid that idea wouldn’t have flown. The most that would have happened was a stern talking to and a banishing from the store.
There’s something about having just passed through puberty that shuts off someone’s brain and we just have to accept that. And I speak from experience: 1 down, 1 almost done, and 2 more to go. Where’d I put that Jack Daniels again?
All the blood has gone to the Johnson, thereby starving the brain.
“Look, Marcy, let me tell you a little something about men. Nature played a cruel joke on them. It gave them a source of pleasure, but in order for it to work the blood has to leave the brain. It leaves them confused, disoriented and eager to enter into negotiations. Because the brain wants that blood back. It needs it to go to work to pay for what they agreed to, only moments before. You see, Marcy, we may not have upper body strength, but we do have sexual kryptonite.” — Peg Bundy, Married with Children
But, mnbubba, I do have to say that even though I thought my male teenager would be the one to give me trouble it’s been the female that’s turning my hair gray. You see, the male teenager is just into guns, drag racing motorcycles, hot rod racing, girls (with the usual teenage results, thankfully) and the other typical innocuous male teenager subjects, while the female teenager is into male teenagers, which is a far more dangerous interest.
Common Sense 1500-2008 (when Obama got elected) RIP my friend, you will be missed.