UM player death settlement

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Here's an article about a $2 million settlement of a University of Miami player's shooting death at a local apartment complex down there. What is really interesting, is if you go to the bottom of the page you will see "99 comments" or maybe more by now.

Click on that and read how the public are reacting to the settlement.

This country is falling apart. There is so much resentment out there that we are not dealing with.


Family of murdered UM football player to get $2 million - Orlando Sentinel : Top Sports Family of murdered UM football player to get $2 million - Orlando Sentinel : Top Sports
 
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WHERE DID THIS THUG GET THE WHEELS AND ALL THE GUNS HE HAD. I DONT CARE WHO OFFED HIM LETS MOVE ON
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How will they spend all of that money, I wonder if a cadillac, and gourmet fried chicken are in their immediate future!
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that piece of S*** was a thug and now his family gets 2 mil. thats why our insurance keeps going up. I can't even believe they paid the family. I hope they all burn in hell.
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It's hard to say whether society has actually become uglier in recent decades, or whether Internet anonymity merely provides us with a much clearer view of the repulsive attitudes that have always lurked down underneath. I say some of both.

(c.f. the famous Greater Internet F***wad Theory.)
 
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Vercingetorix said:
It's hard to say whether society has actually become uglier in recent decades, or whether Internet anonymity merely provides us with a much clearer view of the repulsive attitudes that have always lurked down underneath. I say some of both.

(c.f. the famous Greater Internet F***wad Theory.)
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I play xbox live a lot and you will have some morom yelling the N word if he hears what he thinks is a black man. I hate it. Black people have a right to be on their guard.
 
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Ya you hear that on Socom as well. Actually last nite I was playing a game, and a black guy called a white guy a cracker. the white guy laughed it off, didn't call him the N word but called him a Jigaboo(sp?) and the black guy got offended and all hell broke loose. It happens both ways
 
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Vercingetorix said:
It's hard to say whether society has actually become uglier in recent decades, or whether Internet anonymity merely provides us with a much clearer view of the repulsive attitudes that have always lurked down underneath. I say some of both.

(c.f. the famous Greater Internet F***wad Theory.)
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This is about as astute an observation as I have ever seen on this board. That's why I say we need to do something to get ahold of all the resentment that is building up in this country.

Racial tensions are definitely there. But its deeper than that. Its also a class issue.

I am very worried for our collective future.
 
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Vol Mania 21 said:
Ya you hear that on Socom as well. Actually last nite I was playing a game, and a black guy called a white guy a cracker. the white guy laughed it off, didn't call him the N word but called him a Jigaboo(sp?) and the black guy got offended and all hell broke loose. It happens both ways
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Cracker makes me laugh, not offended at all.
 
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It's unfortunate they lost their son, the money wont bring him back, I'm sure they felt like they did their son some justice.
 
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lawgator1 said:
This is about as astute an observation as I have ever seen on this board. That's why I say we need to do something to get ahold of all the resentment that is building up in this country.

Racial tensions are definitely there. But its deeper than that. Its also a class issue.

I am very worried for our collective future.
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I don't know what you do about it. I think you might be right when you talk about it being a class issue; but I almost wonder whether part of it is almost, paradoxically, the breakdown of even the limited class hierarchies we've had in this country. It used to be that you were born poor and just resented the guys making more money than you. That's an external tension. But now in today's consumerist, no-money-down, buy-it-now society, the whole attitude is that everyone can buy everything they want immediately, so everybody's walking around with no savings and huge credit card bills, just so that they can have more objects and bigger houses than they can really afford. Easy credit it has made it so that everyone thinks they can afford whatever they want.

And all this stuff is not really making them happy like it was supposed to -- even the new $4000 plamsa HDTV is still just a TV, after all. There's still nothing but crapon to watch. So almost everyone has basically zero margin for error in their financial lives. They're all one or two paychecks away from disaster, which makes them uneasy when the American economy is not exactly a model of stability these days, and instead of good old-fashioned class resentment people are wound up tightly internally because of their own precarious money situations, and they feel like they're the only ones not basking in the glory of the great American consumerist marketplace. Instead of it being the "rich are keeping us down!", it's just....."I've got no money in the bank and I owe $30k on my credit cards."

So then, for example, they read a story online about how a family hit the insurance jackpot when a family member was killed, and instead of feeling sorry for the family or even just forgetting about it, they HATE. And thanks to the anonymous forum that the Internet provides, they spew bile.
 
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