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And when it is revealed that the students who claim to be the victims are actually the perpetrators, will you still beat the drum for expulsion?

I'm compelled to ask this letter writer how she knows that "racism" occurred, when all of the facts of the situation haven't come to light yet. All we know is that there was a confrontation between two groups of people of different ethnicities/nationalities.
Let's try to refrain from jumping on the racism/tolerance bandwagon just yet.

Two good comments. Let's all wait...

This GC story is about media hype, not truth. The truth is boring and doesn't sell commerical air time unless it's slanted towards an issue that provokes people to the point they want to watch the story or read about it in the paper.

If the Guilford County School system accurately reported the incidents of fights between racially diverse students, Western Guilford High School would make national news each week.

"If this had been N.C. A&T and a bunch of black football players beat up a few white people, we all know how this would end up"

It sure as hell wouldn't be reported as a hate crime. Racial hate crimes and ethnic intimidation only exist when the white person is the perpetrator. Prove me wrong.

Hypocrisy is always good fodder for the media. Examples abound, but to name just a few, consider:

The TV evangelist who preaches righteousness, but gets caught with his pants down ... literally.

The congressman who professes his high moral values, but is exposed as a closet deviant.

The candidate who holds forth pompously about how the poor and downtrodden aren't getting a fair shake from the upper class, and how we are wrecking the environment, only to then build the largest mansion in the county after clear cutting acres of land.

The blogger who moans about the evils of big business, only to reveal that he keeps all the multinationals running the oil companies in his portfolio and is profiting well from them.

Thus, while this issue at Guilford College could have happened anywhere ... and probably has happened all over the globe ... it is the condescending attitude of this college and its students that make it newsworthy. For years, we have witnessed the peace demonstrations on the corner, the sad wagging of their collective head over others' failure to “just get along,” the pious moaning about war not being the answer, and so on.

Had the fight taken place at, say, The United States Military Academy at West Point, where warfare is the topic at hand, I suspect the story would have never seen the light of day. But to have it occur at Guilford brings out the schadenfreude in even the most jaded of folks.

Bravo Ms. Wright for clearly condemning campus crime... all crime really... rather than coddling those who seem to think vigilante "justice" and mob attacks should be both excused.. and encouraged.

In a land ruled by fair and just laws, and on a campus where many kids are already trained in conflict resolution, angry men in groups (football players or not) can and should walk away from a fist fight- and they certainly should not converge to create mob violence!

And hey- a bunch of trained athletes if actually attacked by a belt are big and strong enough to simply snatch said belt away...so enough with the ridiculous excuses meant to protect a group of very foolish young men who should know better than beat people up!

Huh?

Your eloquence, interested observer, is SUPERB! Short, insightful and straight to the point. Well put, Sir ... or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore!

David Hoggard has a link to a myspace blog of a student from GC who was beat up in Sept. by Palestinians with the same names as the "victims" of the at Guilford last month.

Makes me think that bullies like going to a pacifist school. They can intimated and bully to their hearts content and their victims will try and use their conflict resolution skills to deal with it. Much to the laughter of the bullies I think.

hugh, would you post said link? I would enjoy reading this.

And for the record, I have noted previously the questions: 1) Why was Campus Security not approached first (Bryan Hall is across the street from Campus Security office); 2) Why was Greensboro police not contacted if not Campus Security; and 3) Why/how did the "attacked" students know to go to a magistrate if they have only recently entered the US for educational purposes?

Now the FBI has been involved as well. There are many unanswered questions. Sadly, I doubt that the general public will ever know the answers, Quaker School or no. How sad if that happens. I can only hope to be proven wrong on this and hope that any information that comes forth will be totally factual and truthful. Yet, if some of my suspicions are correct, I doubt that will happen as it would cause a great deal of controversy.

Shalom

Darryl, here you go:

http://www.hoggsblog.com/?p=1947 he quotes from this, the full Myspace blog entry:
http://blog.myspace.com/rassamson

Thanks hugh! I appreciate those links. Some interesting reading. It is amazing at what never gets fully publicized. Some very interesting things going on with some folks would you say?

Shalom

So if athletes are attacked by a belt, they shouldn't defend themselves because they're big and strong?

Wrong. If someone attacks you with a belt, I say beat them senseless.