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.<\/p>\n
The latest incident happened over the weekend at the Whole Foods Market on River Road in Edgewater, according to the Bergen Record.<\/p>\n
A 14-year-old girl reportedly grabbed the microphone at the store’s courtesy desk and said, “All blacks leave the store.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, let’s be clear; duh.\u00a0 Duuuu-uuuuuu-uuuuuh.\u00a0 If either of my kids did this, I’d kick their asses, and never stop kicking.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The girl is reportedly charged with bias intimidation and harassment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Intimidation”?\u00a0 An idiot 14 year old girl?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 <\/em>that kind of thing, and it’s considered edgy comedy.<\/p>\n“But it’s just common sense…” is the response I expect – from people who don’t have teenagers.<\/p>\n
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”?\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But am I the only one wondering who would actually call it “indimidation?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ask any parent; teenagers are morons.\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10066,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}