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Marky Mark was young and "everyone makes mistakes when their young"
Prime example of white privilege.
But Mike Brown deserved to get his brains blown out because he stole some cigars
Your reaching
No reaching over here.
Check out the Mike Brown thread. I've seen people on NT say that Mike Brown "deserved it" and he "sealed his own fate".
I follow what you are saying. public opinion is much harsher if the alleged criminal is black. and this has been clearly illustrated over the last few killings. i've read people say even trayvon deserved it, or "he was no angel" because he got suspended from school. so i can cosign your sentiment.
i agree. i was speaking more broadly. idk if mark changed. we'd never know. he has the $$ to easily change the public opinion about him by "giving back" but thats really only because he has the money. if he wasn't rich, and he tried to give back still, i don't think it would do much good. but i believe that it is possible that people can change, if they somehow realize the racist, or biases they came up with were untrue by being exposed to a different culture, or persons of a different ethnicitiy and culture. something along those lines. again, im sure it doesn't happen often but im simply saying i can see it being possible.
i think the people rolling their eyes who think he deserves a pardon and brush off the "race baiters" are missing the point. for one thing, racism plays a part in this story. period. if you are chasing blacks, assaulting them and calling them N then you don't deserve a pass. he wasn't 2. he was in his late teens. you are old enough to know right from wrong, and this is a blatantly wrong.
product of environment? ok well yes, racism was strong in boston, especially in the 70s/80s with the bussing movement to try and integrate minorities into otherwise white schools. that didn't sit well with a lot of folks. boston folks can feel free to chime in about this, although im not sure there are any who were born that far back...
point is this. the justice system is biased. if black kids beats up on white suburban kids because they are white, shouting slanders, they are getting the book thrown at them. no questions asked. time and time again, we read on the internet, and see on tv cases where white people are given INCREDIBLE slack in terms of punishment that would otherwise yield a serious penalty had the perp been black.
if you cannot understand this simple concept, or disagree with it, and or choose to ignore this, log off. even in 2014, its as straightforward as that. ignorance is bliss, and you are exercising serious levels of it, if you think what im saying is untrue.
mark W. shouldn't be given a pass because it sends the wrong message (again, because this message has been sent X amount of times before) that if you are white, you have the opportunity to change, and that we, as a society, can believe you to be someone who is reformed, and an upstanding member of your community.
in other words...
the people who are bringing up mike brown aren't doing so to draw similarities between that case and his. they are doing that to draw attention to the racism and unfair, and unjust bias that exists in the public and judicial perception of these two people. mike brown robbed a store (not even at gunpoint, it was a shoplift, but theft nonetheless)...and that was enough for many in society to see his death justified.
and yet mark can assault people, get charged with attempted murder, but deserves a pardon?
maybe he has changed. maybe he is a better person. and maybe giving him a a pardon wouldn't be a bad thing. idk. but man, if he gets a second chance, we really are throwing a big to all those minority youth who look for a second chance, but are already thrown to the curb and labeled monster, or forever lost.
we have to do better as a society, and being called a society means being fair to everyone within it. not just the privileged few.
give mark a pardon...but shine a light on the other kids who were products of their environment as well.
