Parker2112,
Why are you posting random pictures of Connecticut, circa 2010?
Here's an article for you.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/...racism-murder/
Racism Did Not Cause Omar Thornton to Kill In Connecticut
Family members of Omar Thornton, the man who murdered eight fellow employees in Manchester, Connecticut yesterday, then killed himself, are claiming he did so because he was being harassed for being black.
He had reportedly found a drawing of a noose, along with a racial epithet written on a bathroom wall.
His uncle says that when he called his mother after the shootings he talked about having killed the “five racists” who were bothering him.
Well, nine people are dead, not five, and not a single one of them lost his life because somebody called Omar Thornton a vicious name or drew a hateful picture.
It might be some strange comfort to his family to think that Mr. Thornton was avenging wrongdoing when he went on his rampage, but it would be false comfort.
I’ve evaluated plenty of murderers during my career as a forensic psychiatrist, and I can tell you that people don’t commit atrocities because of name-calling.
They don’t perpetrate carnage because they are undone by crude, insensitive drawings.
They kill because of longstanding psychological or characterological disorders that lead them to have no ability to reason, or no impulse control or no capacity to appreciate the suffering of others or no moral compass.
Most often, the signs that a person is capable of murder are numerous and longstanding—though often tragically missed or, worse, swept under the rug.
Killers turn out to be people who have been struggling with psychotic thinking and have talked about it.
They are people who have become addicted to alcohol or drugs and whose moods or actions have reflected it.
They are people who have shown a pattern of seeing themselves as beyond reproach, and whose exaggerated or bizarre reactions to perceived slights have revealed it.
Frankly, more ominous than his family’s reports of racial bias against Omar Thornton are questions that should be asked about whether he may have been su ious of others to the point of paranoia, along with company reports that he was being fired for stealing beer.
If an employee is paranoid, willing to break a law (however seemingly trivial the offense) and abusing alcohol, great care should be taken when disciplining that person.
Whatever led Omar Thornton to snuff out the lives of eight helpless victims and shoot two more, it was not that those victims were, in fact, guilty of prejudice against the shooter.
Whether his family wants to acknowledge it or not, it has to be the case that unreasoned rage had been brewing in Omar Thornton a long, long time.
Sure. I just don't see where the racial card gets in there though.
There's psychopaths of every skin color and racial background.
The 'liberal' media reported this is a killing spree and pointed to the guy as the murderer. That they try to find motive has to do with the fact that the guy killed himself and can't ask him, and that murder stories with deeper backgrounds sell well. However, trying to find motive doesn't equate to justifying the criminal behavior, as the OP implies.
This guy killed because he was a psychopath, not because he was black or white.
The news outlets reported the crime. They also found that alleged racial discrimination might have been a triggering factor into the murders.
The transformation of that to 'liberal media justifies murder of white people by black man because of discrimination' is obviously a bait that the OP couldn't resist eating whole.
Its just interesting to see pictures with that much evil huddled around under a tree...the mother ers wearing smiles should have been put out of their bloodlust on the spot...yet instead, they went on to have little racist mother in babies...
I just thought these would provide a little balance for this thread I guess.
That's a column, not an article. One of many columns that would not exist if the media had not reported the racial allegations.
i didnt say it did. maybe he had trouble living in his own skin. who the knows. you sure as dont.
stirring the racial pot = being racist IMO
I think Omar spoke for himself when he called 911. "They're treating me bad over here. And treat all other black employees bad over here, too," Thornton explained in a measured tone. "So I took it to my own hands and handled the problem. I wish I could have got more of the people."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...in;contentBody
That's why the racial card got played...it looks like Omar Thornton thought he was holding a trump card.
that looks like a southern pine...I dont know where you get connecticut from
I dont agree with what this fool did. but I dont agree with your stance on race, Darrin. The whole "Im a an unapologetic bigot, and there are black ones too, making it ok" angle sucks dix.
And I say bigot, because youve already outed yourself in prior posts.
K, so anyway, should the media have just buried the racial allegations or not? What journalistic direction would have been most palatable to your white sensitivities?
The evil that men do....
if you repug/conservatives dont think images like this dont affect race relations for generations to come...well your fools.
The fact that they are still in circulation will touch many black children who have the unfortunate opportunity to see them, even those that were born after 2000.
and if you dont think that the white faces in those crowds didnt propogate hatreful moral systems in their families that still affect people of color to this day your also full of
Sweet irony.
Especially if you keep senselessly posting them.
@ Parker2112:
I frankly see more similarity than difference between you and DarrinS.
He made a multiple murder into a soap-box for his lame strawman; you made lynching yours. Nice work!
Well, there you go. The OP also indicates he mentioned to family members in the past that he felt he was being discriminated.
Doesn't make him any less of a psychopath though.
A sane person that feels racially discriminated either switches jobs or finds an attorney. They don't go into killing sprees.
they damn well should be posted.
Darrin speaks from the pov of a racist repug. I know him to be a bigot by first-hand experience.
And if he is going to keep pushing his "White man is the victim in 2010" he might expect to have to deal with the roots of our current race relations in this country.
, if repugs can talk about history that occurred 250 years ago on a daily basis, what the is wrong with posting relevant stuff that happened when CC and WC were kids? Were they not personally shaped by that world?
bottom line: Darrin, dont try to couch your bigotry with all this other . say whats on your mind, and open yourself up to the response. be a man.
I didnt use it in an argument winehole. try again.
I just thought it might take some piss out of his thread. which it did.
Oh, I agree. I was just looking at the genesis of the race card in this instance.
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