Snitch
Despite my harsh words for the odious Christine Flowers yesterday, I too am outraged by the killing in the subway, and I am surprised that after a week none of the other attackers have been named or found. Only one of the suspects is in custody, and he has been charged with the murder.
The young man in custody has a responsibility to turn in his friends. If he had any common sense in what is surely an empty head (after all, smart people don’t randomly attack strangers and beat them just for fun), he would make a deal with the police, rat out his fellow scumbags, and take some of the pressure off his own sorry carcass. Otherwise, it’s a one-way trip to prison, where sixteen-year olds don’t fare very well…
I would like to point out Mr. Conroy’s mother’s words:
” In interviews last week, Conroy’s parents declined to characterize his death in racial terms. They said their son, who had started working for Starbucks in California before returning to the East Coast, was a “free spirit” who tried not to make racial distinctions.
“My son would have been the first one to say, ‘Calm down. Let’s get the facts,’ ” said Sharon Conroy, 54. “I wish other people would do that . . . To his thinking, nobody was black, nobody white, short, tall. People were people.”
For far too many letter-writers (and columnists like Christine Flowers and her editor Sandra Shea) this was an opportunity to fan flames of racial hatred simply because the attackers were black and the victim was white.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
I’m wondering if Ms. Flowers would express the same type of eye-for-an-eye vigilante justice she advocates for these three or four kids towards the 9 third graders who planned - outright planned - an attack on their teacher that involved specific roles for each child including covering windows, cleaning up aftwards, and included such items as handcuffs, duct tape, a knife, a blunt object to hit her in the head with, etc.
Luckily the plot was foiled before anything happened but how about, Ms. Flowers? If something had happened, would you be calling for similar punishments to these 8 to 10 year olds?