You’ve all seen the video of that poor white child who got punched by a black thugster on a school bus while other black thugsters laughed at him. If you haven’t I’m sure Glenn Beck and FOX News will be happy to replay it endlessly over the next several days. It’s a horrible, horrible thing to have to watch.
But thank god we have Real Americans ready to retaliate to protect the honor of poor downtrodden white children terrorized by their black schoolmates. Who am I talking about? A hero, my friends. A man who stood up for all of us oppressed white Americans who are forced to live under the tyranny of Der Obama. A Great White American Hero, Troy Dale West, who, in the name of all that is right and holy and sacred about this Great Nation of Ours, beat the living sh*t out of a minority woman who is an active member of the military reserves outside a “Cracker Barrel” restaurant (you can’t make this stuff up, folks) in front of her seven year old daughter in order to show all those little gangsters we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore:
A man beat an Army reservist in front of a Morrow Cracker Barrel, yelling racial slurs at her as he kicked her in the head, Morrow police said. The assault happened in front of the woman’s 7-year old daughter, who stood there, crying, witnesses told police.
Morrow police arrested Troy Dale West of Poulan after reviewing a video surveillance tape and talking to customers. He was charged with battery, disorderly conduct and cruelty to children.
The woman and her daughter were leaving the South Lake Plaza Drive restaurant last Wednesday about 7:30 p.m. as West was heading inside, Capt. James Callaway of the Morrow Police Department said.
The restaurant doorway nearly struck the woman’s daughter, prompting her to tell West, “Sir, you almost hit my daughter with the door, could you please be careful,” Callaway said.
West responded, telling the woman that she needed to watch her daughter and then began yelling racial slurs at her and kicking and punching her in the head, Callaway said.
Witnesses told police the woman kept telling West that she was an Army officer.
“She kept saying, ‘Sir, I’m a United States soldier, don’t do this,’ ” Callaway said.
Hey, you throw a punch at one of ours we kick the crap out of one of your women. Now that’s the Real America I’m talking about! And she had it coming too, goddamit, mouthing off like that to one of her betters. I don’t care if she serves our country or has a little cry baby kid. It’s just a damn shame the fascist Obama police didn’t see it that way. Politically correct bastards.
Well, I’m sure the Freepers have already started a Troy Dale West Defense Fund. Because that’s just how they roll. Still, I’m sure the Judge will let him off with a little slap on the wrist (he did upset a few of the other patrons at Cracker Barrel, after all, even if his actions were otherwise “justified”). If that Judge doesn’t? Well, who knows what might happen?
Cuz I’m sure there are a lot of Troy Dale West wannabees supporters out there, and they’re just itching for a fight.
Ps. Take a gander at that picture of Mr. West at the link to the AJC article. After seeing that image of him, it leaves no doubt in my mind he must have been acting in self defense.
And why is it that all the nutcase right-wingers believe in conditional parenting? As if what America needs is more spanking and control of children.
Who bumps into a 7 year old and blames the 7 year old?
Or I should say blames the mother for not controlling a 7 year old from almost bumping into someone in public as they are entering a store . . . . crazy.
Just like that guy in WalMart that spanked some random woman’s child.
I wish we had the surveillance tapes of this to put on You Tube. This is far nastier than a kid getting punched on the bus. I don’t condone that either, but it’s not the first time in the history of the universe that fights on school buses have happened. But a full grown adult man beating a woman and kicking her in the head in front of her young child because she was a different race than him and he didn’t like being told to be careful of her child? Which do you think is worse?
Fist fights between boys on a school bus is bad . . . but hardly significant of any greater societal trend.
In fact, people assume there is more school violence these days than, say, in the 1950s (the heyday of honorable fistfight to defend one’s honor–and how many right-wingers have nostalgic stories of standing up to bullies on the playground with their fists, etc.). This isn’t true. It’s even safer now than it has been in the past, although easier access to even more dangerous firearms means that the few incidents that do occur are more deadly. I’ve seen better long term stats but this shows the trend to less violence: http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/violence-in-schools/national-statistics.html
The kids ride the public transit system here so they are mixed in with the general populace and they are often bussed all over town. They can be loud and obnoxious (I’ve been on the train when they all get out of school–but it’s natural for children to be loud at that stage in life I supposed) and I have seen at least one kid attack another and kid and a few incidents of vandalism (I am not a passive bystander–I intervene–and tried to intervene during the attack–when the one boy was being attacked by a group of other boys).
But teenage boys have biological, developmental, and environmental reasons for getting in fistfights and we should view these actions as a cry for help and a teaching opportunity. We shouldn’t use the same punishment for kids that we use on adults.
The Cracker Barrel guy is an old dog that ain’t learning new tricks–he’s a hater.
teenagers getting into fights is about as newsy as “the sky is blue”. and yes, sometimes there is a racial component, but just as often not. when i was a kid, punk rockers often got in fights with the hip-hop kids, but it wasn’t over race, but out of teenage clique shit. And I feel safe saying this because, as is typical senior year, a lot of the clique stuff broke down and kids just hung out.
this cracker from cfracker barrel is up to something else entirely.
Exactly right. There definitely are racial components to school boy fights. They reflect society and often are more willing to honestly describe their motivations than older people. We still have a lot of racial animosity and it doesn’t surprsie me a lot of violence is racially motivated.
But instead of using incidents like these as a teaching moment and seeing it as a sign that we need racial healing in this country . . . . the right using fights like this to stoke further racial animosity.
he right-wingers want to cheer on the white boys to fight back. They are stoking the flames. These guys don’t want to prevent school violence. They want to demonize black boys to support their racist ideology. If you listen to Rush Limbaugh you may not be a racist but you willingly submit yourself to racist propaganda (that’s like me saying I’m not a punk rocker myself I just go to the shows).
Maybe a lot of them are still pissed about the sixties and all the bad TV about equal rights while the marches were happening. It just sickens me sometimes. I’m disturbed enough to read about it, let alone have to watch those sick racist bastards on the tube. Glad I don’t have the idiot box anymore.
Still, there has been progress. In the 1950’s Cracker Barrel would not have called the police. In fact, the woman and her daughter would not even have been allowed inside. Unless the woman worked there and went in through the back door.
The proof of change will come when the jury brings in their ruling and the judge passes sentence.
And I hope this skinhead goes to Federal Court on the hate crime charge. It’s pretty obvious.
I’m hoping justice prevails in this case, but I’m not holding my breath while we wait. We had such high hopes back in the sixties – the war, equal rights, social justice – so much slipped through our fingers.
these people eat at cracker barrel.
isnt that torture bad enough?
i ate at cracker barrel last month on one of my canada trips, and what it did to my bowels would make me lash out at people too.
I am surprised he is not being charged with destruction of government property. And I am not kidding about that.
get the police report. find cousins Pookie and Ray Ray, and let’s see how big and bad this muthafucka is.
If this case sounds like it’s out in the boondocks somewhere, Morrow and South Lake Plaza are definitely part of GAMA (the Greater Atlanta Metropolitain Area). If this redneck dude wants to go to trial, he’s gonna be looking at a mixed-race jury and the high likelihood of a black judge. Justice will be served. Even if he cops a plea, he’s gonna do some time in a prison population that will give him a taste of being in a minority.
Her entire reserve unit should show up for the trial. I damn sure would (and have) for a sister-in-arms of mine.
This is the deep reservoir of race hatred that the nutzoid commentators like Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Colter et al so insidiously stir up with their insane rantings on the nation’s air waves. We tolerate their sickness at our own collective peril.