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Limbaugh: 'We Need Segregated Buses'

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Enkidu900469/20/2009 4:04:15 pm PDT

Okay, I’ve googled a bunch of stories about this attack and the retraction by the Police about this being a race-based attack. Sorry… I ain’t buying it.

The fact that this particular student was often denied seats on the bus in the past… the fact that the “sources” they quote regarding this not being a race-based attack are students facing suspension for standing and laughing while the beating was taking place… the fact that no one seemed to know this student and he was really quiet and there was no preexisting beef. I just ask myself if this were a rural almost all white Southern town, with the races of the victims and the assailant being reversed, but pretty much all other facts being the same, whether people would be so quick to accept the statements by those who cheered on the incident about this not being race-based.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is most likely a duck. Sorry, I don’t need to hear racial insults being yelled or an admission of the part of the attackers (or their cheering supporters) to see an attack in which I think far more likely than not involved race. And just because the police retract a statement about race being a motivating factor doesn’t mean it wasn’t. There was an attack in Orange County by a group of black girls and boys on two white girls they didn’t even know a few years ago, where the attackers were shouting racist comments while against the victims while the attack took place… yet the police refused to claim that race was a motivating factor in the attack.

Just because Rush is an asshole and a racist for trying to use this attack to make some broader and ridiculous racist attack on Obama and Blacks in general doesn’t remove the fair conclusion that the underlying attack did involve race.