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Problems in Paris, Texas

A brutal death has caused long-simmering racial tensions to flare anew.

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  • Posted By: elenora123 @ 11/10/2009 12:07:20 AM

    I don't think that Paris is a racist town.It is acceptable that there are some kind of Problem which makes that this kind of but still that is beautiful.
    Elenora

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  • Posted By: m1thrandir @ 06/09/2009 3:05:14 PM

    I know bothof the parties involved the accused and the deceased. THEY WERE LIKE BROTHERS!! He most certainly did not mean to run him over. As far as Paris needing just one high school,where would the cross town rivalry go? Although being a 2001 North Lamar graduate I probably have a biased opinion.On the race issue. I feel that the overwhelming amount of racism is what I hear being referred to as "reverse racism".Although I feel that is incorrect because any form of racism is simply that,racism.

    • Posted By: sherlynn @ 08/09/2009 1:47:39 AM

      You are an idiot--- I know the parents of both parties, Finley and the deceased. Finley got away with murder the first time, manslauter--did a little over two yrs. on a four yr. sentence........Got away with murder once again for right now. Don't get to be good friends with the slug---you might become very dead.

  • Posted By: cable305 @ 02/01/2009 10:06:44 AM

    What I find most disturbing is the response whites have to these situations, Immediatly the idea that race played a role in such a horrific event even thoug there is clearly racial issues in a town that maintains several landmarks celebrating it's history of racial injustice. If they called him N@@@@r while they repeatly ran over his body has no real baring. I read of this murder moths ago and still little seems to have happened. a police department that has been ineptly gathering evidence. That coupled with a court system that has historiclly shown it bias to say the least.. Suggest the out of this outrage will be an inajpropriate sentence for the murder, a man who has commited manslaughter once and now murder , will do less than 7 years.Texas is one of the most racist states in the union and I'm alway suprised when people of color voluntarily move there and bother to defend it and it's policys

    • Posted By: sherlynn @ 08/09/2009 1:24:20 AM

      I agree with you that Paris is a racist town----however, let me enlighten you on an event that might cause you to ponder. I am 59 yrs. old, was 58 when thiis happened. I was walking into Brookshires in Paris, parked out in the parking lot, and as I approached the front of the store this kid started yellling "ol white lade, I'm gonna kill you.....he said it over and over. Of course, I took notice at that time. It was an old clunker car and appeared to be grandparents in the front seats. The two children in the back seat looked to be six and four.......the six year old was the one yelling "ol white lady, I'm gonna kill you"! Grandma and Papa did nothing to correct this action, never turned their head. However, when I stopped by their car, shaking in anger and said "You little black bastard, I work at a prison and I will have your ass someday" the boy shut his mouth and the lethargic grandparents woke up and glared at me. Predgidous goes both ways--none of my children would yell "ol black lady, I''m gonna kill you, expecially with the hate that was in that child's voice......somebody taught him that hatred and I do not think that person was white. He was raised with that hatred in him----how do you expect him to overcome?

  • Posted By: thescoop @ 02/28/2009 4:53:05 PM

    BLACK AMERICA AND THE N-WORD:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2U0jmZjec

  • Posted By: Lascoma @ 02/14/2009 11:30:04 AM

    No doubt in this day and age this is not about racism, but rather the long embedded matter of racial indifference that prevail in many Southern Societies, the good old boy net work, what lurks in the hearts and minds of the old and the young and the new divides and polarization that has taken place in the last 8 years during the Bush Administration. With more race baiting, blaming the minorities like the Latino, Mexicans and new found enemy of Islam. The malignant narcissists, chronic scape-goaters and uncorrectable grab baggers have once gain resorted to sacrificing others with coercion, reckless abandon and impunity to promote their own outward/ hypocrite self image of good.

    The hell raising white boys will never admit to having done wrong to their black friends.


    • Posted By: brydges @ 02/16/2009 2:43:44 PM

      Yes blame Bush and the South. It must be their fault 2/3 Black men casn't stay out of jail. Now call me a racist for stating a fact

  • Posted By: Lori45 @ 02/06/2009 3:34:52 PM

    This is just ONE article that proves, to some at least that scientifically negro brains are just not as advanced as non-negro groups of people. As I said before, because I live in one of the most negro populated areas in the country I feel that I have the knowledge to say this. To all of you that commented on what I wrote before, I could care less about name calling, it just proves a very valid point about intelligence, you have none.


    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302836,00.html

    • Posted By: Lascoma @ 02/14/2009 11:44:13 AM

      The scumbag, your megalomaniac, compulsive-obsessive, sociopath, with his divine religious mandate and being the messenger of his god, One George W. Bush, sure enough has higher intellect, and that is the reason why, we now are a divided and polarized nation besieged in the worst ever economic terror, and being destroyed from within at a fast track.

      President Obama is not a Muslim as many of your brain washed evangelical SOBs have been led to believe and keep on spreading lies about. But as we keep on owning more and more debt to the Arabs that your Bushee and Cheney types keep on palling with, soon they will manage to own this country and the likes of you will have to bow and kiss a lot of Islam a**.

    • Posted By: TRUTH is FACT @ 02/06/2009 3:53:30 PM

      Lori45, why so defensive, I didn't call anyone names. I just simply stated FACT. I bet you turned red when you read my comment, huh! And to straighten you out Floridave, "colored" was the name that the media gave Black, Negro, Afro American, African American people. Next question?

  • Posted By: emmiline @ 02/06/2009 9:15:41 PM

    This entire post log should be deleted - it is filled with some of the most vile, inciteful, racist and terroristic speech from all sides. I am physically ill reading this.

  • Posted By: Qidisrupt @ 02/10/2009 1:23:31 AM

    People like McCain and Palin did not incite or express hatred? You have a short memory. Comment by McCain to President Obama during one of the debates..."THAT ONE!" One McCain/Palin supporter made the comment that she could not trust President Obama..."because he's an ARAB!" Even though President Obama is a Christian...many McCain/Palin bandwagoneers still insist that he is a muslim! Sweet lips Palin insisted that anyone who supports President Obama is not part of the "REAL AMERICA!"...and we are "UNPATRIOTIC!"...and President Obama "PALS AROUND WITH TERRORISTS!" One of McCain's TV ads made the claim that President Obama encouraged the teaching of "COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION TO KINDERGARDEN CHILDREN." Baby cakes Sarah and Keating 5 John kept insisting that President Obama was a socialist...an amazing accusation...Palin's economic policy in Alaska involves "SHARING THE COLLECTIVE WEALTH AMONG ALASKANS." The economic policies of the GOP were a type of elitist socialism that favored corporate wealth and stiffed the USA workers who earned the money for these corporate swindlers. And to top it all off, I remember watching a video clip of a staunch McPalin supporter who referred to President Obama as..."******* like him are second class"...sad, but true. There were McPalin rallies during the campaign where fervent GOP supporters would shout out, "MUSLIM!", "TERRORIST!", "KILL 'EM!" Wow, I guess you were right that McCain and Palin don't incite any of this...I'm not hatin', just statin'.

    • Posted By: brydges @ 02/12/2009 10:46:37 AM

      I heard ten racist remarks the day of the presidential inaugeration by speakers that were aproved by Obama. So take your left wing nazi BS some place else
      I'm sick of the one sided racism in this country. If we want racism to end then all sides have to be treated equally including being held accountable for their actions.
      Worse then the porclaimed racists are the white liberals that say oh they can't help it their black.. Wake up your a racist

  • Posted By: TRUTH is FACT @ 02/06/2009 4:43:03 PM

    Lori45, I do apologize for my assumption. I read the article that you referred to as "proof" and around the end of the article it states that American scientists accused him of ???trading on past successes to promote opinions that have little scientific basis. So your 'proof" just went POOF along with your other racist and ignorant views. So go and get your white sheet and your pointy triangular hat off of the clothes line because it looks like rain is coming.

    • Posted By: Lori45 @ 02/06/2009 5:14:17 PM

      My, my... You really read the article and only could comment on the end of it? No matter what the scientists at the end of the article said, the results of the study are the same. And if you google or use any other search engine, and type in a question about colored brain sizes and intelligence tests, the results are all the same. As for your reference to the KKK, I do not have to belong to an orginization to state my opinion. Hey, did you read my Louisiana joke? What? No scathing, un-witty comment on that? I am truly dissapointed in you TRUTH is FACT.

      • Posted By: TRUTH is FACT @ 02/06/2009 5:59:50 PM

        Okay, I am officially tired of you. You ARE the weakest link, goodbye!

        • Posted By: Lori45 @ 02/10/2009 1:57:23 PM

          How original and witty, you must be the first person to ever think of that comeback LOL. And by the way you misspelled brain, you spewed "bran". Of course what else could I expect? By the way here is an article for ya, another one that makes me ROFLMAO.
          http://albensonjr.com/mrlincolntheracist.shtml

      • Posted By: TRUTH is FACT @ 02/06/2009 5:54:14 PM

        Scientist also reported that the earth was flat, didn't they. These results that you speak of were most likely written by racist, ignorant people like you. Guess my colored bran didn't get your joke since the temp was not sub-zero in DC on inauguration day. "The 200,000" that could not get out of is proof that no one knows the fury of Mother Nature(especially since she produced a freak like you in 9 months!)

  • Posted By: chrissyshelly @ 02/05/2009 5:37:36 PM

    I will say this..I am a white woman who is the proud mother of two bi-racial children! All this hatred and demonic behavior from the HUMAN RACE scares me horribly! I feel my children have it good, the are diverse by nature. There should not be black, and white, adn brown...we are all ONE HUMAN RACE!!! THere are no seperate RACES! That word does not even fit with HUMAN!! This is LIFE not a RACE!! The good Lord knew what he was doing when he created us!! Lets get it right and get on one accordion!! I pray for this nation! Iggnorance is the #1 killer of our PEOPLE!!

    • Posted By: gdihtstupdppl @ 02/05/2009 5:53:08 PM

      wow - isn't it odd you rant on about what GOD wants and seem to ignore the fact that GOD created different and distinct races of people. If He had wanted everyone to be a single race (as is being created by inter-racial breeding), HE would have set it up that way from the get-go. Give it up with your righteousness. You are feeling guilty for what you have created and blaming everyone else. Your Comment

      • Posted By: chrissyshelly @ 02/09/2009 4:44:03 PM

        I see that you are one of those people in this world who will carry on the IGNORANCE and also RACISM. Seriously, we are not animals, we are humans, we create life, we do not breed! Once again I will pray for this nation and also for your soul.

      • Posted By: casey767 @ 02/05/2009 8:09:14 PM

        You need to give it up with your stupidity. In case you are not aware we are all of the human race and for your comment on interracial "breeding", plain ignorance.

  • Posted By: Texicano @ 02/05/2009 5:03:15 PM

    Why do we never hear about all the racial murders of minorities who murder people because they are white? I'm hispanic and I know how many hate crimes are committed against whites by hispanics. How much more are done by black and other minorities against whites? Where are THOSE stories?

    • Posted By: JWallace @ 02/07/2009 12:31:12 PM

      Texicano,
      It probably has something to do with their ancestors being slaves over 200 yers ago. And to be honest with you, I think if our white ancestors could revisit their choice of ethnic laborers, they defintely would have chosen a Mexican Workforce over an African. I constantly hear that mexicans work hard for a fair wage and do not complain. You do have an excellent point when it comes to exposing ethnical hate crimes. across the board.

  • Posted By: JWallace @ 02/06/2009 4:48:28 PM

    Ray Nagin wasn't smart enough to inform his city there was a big party going on in Chicago.

  • Posted By: Lori45 @ 02/06/2009 4:27:25 PM

    Oh never mind, I just realized TRUTH is FACT is from Louisiana. This hugely funny joke is what explains it all: ???I???m confused ... how can 2 million blacks get into Washington DC in sub zero temps in 1 day when 200,000 couldn???t get out of New Orleans at 85 degrees with four days notice.???

  • Posted By: Lori45 @ 02/06/2009 4:12:06 PM

    TRUTH is FACT I was not being defensive just stating the obvious and if you didn't call names, then my post was not directed at you in particular. Please be intelligent enough to know when something is directed at you and when it is not. Thank you

  • Posted By: JWallace @ 02/06/2009 4:11:47 PM

    <pinching skin and watching it turn red> and thinking if it turns black, I'm dead. Hmm. Even on the color chart, black is the worst case scenario.

  • Posted By: TRUTH is FACT @ 02/05/2009 8:37:16 PM

    Racism is REAL! People wake up.Yes there are color blind white people out there.I'm a Black woman from Louisiana,and I was married to a White man.When I met his parents,I thought that they were true people of God,for they were missionaries.When the marriage dissolved,so did their "kindness".I then realized the covert faces of racism are truly scary.I PRAYED with these people who pushed us to marry because we were "living in sin',but once the marriage ended,they turned on me so fast that it gave Me whiplash!!!To end this post let me break this down to y'all...my ex-husband was awarded our two children even though he is a felon, and had charges DROPPED against him for abusing my child who just happens to be Black (let us not forget that my two children with him are BLACK LIKE OUR PRESIDENT.I didn't make the rules,the U.S. Government enforced them long before I came along!!!
    As for the comment posted by "Not duped"... THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN ...regardless of who you were or were not duped by THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! Those are not my words but the candidate you voted for because he was NOT BLACK and worse had a cute little IDIOT as his running mate!
    Unfortunately if is always ignorant people like you that take the spotlight off the fact that people of dark skinned races have and still suffer at the hands of the White faces that have tortured us for 400+ years

    • Posted By: JustJim @ 02/05/2009 9:45:49 PM

      Jeez! Your ex-husband must have been REALLY desperate...

      • Posted By: TRUTH is FACT @ 02/06/2009 3:39:32 PM

        I agree with you Just Jim, my white ex-husband was desperate for a strong BLACK woman like me. So drop the facade because you know that you would LOVE to have a strong BLACK woman, but you are afraid of what your hillbilly family and friends would think. It's a shame that you had to marry your 1st cousin. I guess hillbillies need love too,huh!

  • Posted By: TRUTH is FACT @ 02/06/2009 3:17:01 PM

    morbie, white people were living in caves and eating each other while Africans were building civilizations. As for"colored people" WHITE people take on a greenish cast when sick. WHITE people TAN after sunbathing. WHITE people REDden after gettin the hell slapped out of them. WHITE people turn BLUE from lack of oxygen. And turn BLACK when they die. So answer this: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING COLORED?

  • Posted By: morbie5 @ 02/06/2009 1:08:36 PM

    I don't believe anything that comes out of the media about race anymore. Everyone in the media was screaming about the poor Jena 6 and how racist all the white people were. Later the facts came out that 6 black guys cornered a white kid at school that had nothing to do with any of the racial tensions and beat him up. What a surprise that they got arrested!

  • Posted By: inshaallah @ 02/05/2009 2:52:27 PM

    The majority of world population is colored, whites make up only a fraction of a percent.

    • Posted By: morbie5 @ 02/06/2009 1:00:18 PM

      Yea, because white people only have as many kids as they can afford. Colored people just populate like rabbits.

  • Posted By: irvingite @ 02/05/2009 3:13:09 PM

    Yes this is a horrific story to say the least, but to all you liberals and people suffering from white guilt. You should take a look at this web site. It if full of the most vile and disgusting post from blacks that glorify murdering white people. I wish I knew how to get this site removed, because it is just sensless. http://underprivilegedjournalism.wordpress.com/ or just google ghetto bragging rites. You will be amased at the racist bigotry coming from the black people.

    • Posted By: inshaallah @ 02/05/2009 3:45:15 PM

      If whites stop raping Africa and sewing hatred amongst the citizens. WHITES ARE CANCER TO ANY SOCIETY.

      • Posted By: morbie5 @ 02/06/2009 12:57:58 PM

        White people tried to civilize Africa and also gave them modern medicine. If it wasn't for Europeans Africans would still be eating each other.

      • Posted By: morbie5 @ 02/06/2009 12:56:13 PM

        Whites civilized Africa and gave them modern medicine for free. Africans would still be eating each other if it wasn't for white people.

    • Posted By: only1paula23 @ 02/05/2009 4:16:30 PM

      Yes that is one stupid website but hardly a snapshot of blacks in America. If I follow your logic then that would mean I can site any KKK website as the overwhelming consensus from whites.

    • Posted By: inshaallah @ 02/05/2009 3:49:53 PM

      your lazy ancestors couldn't do nothing but lie,steal, and cheat. What have whites built or invented. EVERYTHING in america was built by slaves. I know white people ,right now, who can't read or write. I will not lose,losers!

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