I'm always driving in the car listening to NPR and often the stories get me so riled up I talk/yell back at the radio. Yesterday I listened, disgusted, to the report from the trial of one of the most deplorable people I've ever heard about. The King trial. You know, the one where they dragged that poor man behind a speeding pick-up for miles until there wasn't much left. He was black, they are white. They were looking for a little fun in their sick white supremacist way... He was walking home from a party. The cororner said he was not only alive for most of the 'ride' but concsious, trying to shift his body one way and then another to relieve some of the pain/pressure/what ever horrible feeling he must have had being dragged behind a truck. His gentials were shorn off (they took his shirt off and pulled his pants and underwear down before draging him), his face was ground to the bone in parts... I was and still am so damn sickened by the whole thing. They want to give him the death penalty. I don't think that's fair. He took the life of another man in a most heinous (I can't even come up with an acceptable word) way and they'll put a little needle in his arm and send him off to eternal dream land. I wish I believed in an afterworld... so I could be sure he'd suffer indefinitely. The man didn't die until he was "beheaded by a concrete culvert" I am all pissy and angry and you know what... most irrationally so. I'd join a bandwagon lych mob for the bastard... commit my own disgusting crimes to ensure he paid... that kinda scares me how upset I am. Anyway. Seemed like I needed/still need to vent so a topic was in order. Anybody else have any opinions about this ... this... (acckkkk! can't come up with powerful enough words)

The Statesman had a story from Jasper this Sunday about a white kid suspended from school because he keeps wearing a Confederate flag belt buckle. The school told him to stop because of the trial and all the hard feelings in town right now. His stupid moron of a father has asked the KKK to provide him with help. I'm sure most people in Jasper are good, but they've got some people there who make the whole place look bad. People will always associate that town with this murder case.

I certainly don't hold it against the town... but yea, the association will stick.

the guy got convicted after only 2 hours of deliberation today, and tomorrow i hope he gets the death penalty.

only two hours? shoulda taken 5 minutes. and yes, it was heinous, ignorant crime. some people just are totally clueless. and they make me so angry. we all have people like that in our towns. we had an incident where some kids vandalized a black man's property and it was just down the road from my house. and there are a ton of those stereotypical rednecks here. you know, the sloppy truck, rebel flag plastered all over it in some way or another, gun rack, etc. if there's anything besides lying that i c n't stand, it's ignorance. and you can be well educated and still be ignorant. sorry, now i'm venting. and, i believe in hell, so if this guy doesn't believe before he dies, he will be punished.

I get physically ill reading that stuff in the paper. Here I live less than an hour from Baltimore, which must be one of the most "ethnic" major cities (read black) in the US. That kind of stuff just doesn't happen here (famous last words)...

really?

king has been sentenced to lethal injection.....

too easy for him... I wanna ... nevermind. I'm just sounding as bad as any other lynch mob ,eh? perhaps something like "justice has been served... let's see if they can miss his veins a few times at least before they get it right"

but, he gets all those years of appeals...maybe something will happen in prison... and did any of you hear about the shockjock who got fired because after he played a Lauryn Hill song he said, "No wonder people drag them behind pickups."?

jeez. what an ass. Noticed that the top story today was the weather in New England... How you doing Autumn?!?!?!

We used up all our snowdays, plus one got added to the school calendar--we don't get out now till June 23. Did I mention the school's not air conditioned? That DJ is the Greaseman, a DC personality that I've listened to for nearly 15 years. His whole schtick is to be inflammatory--that station is as much to blame as him--it's what they hired him to do (be a shockjock, that is).