2 Milwaukee Teens Taunt Gay Man On Bus, Show Up Later At His Job, Get Arrested
Charges of disorderly conduct are what two teens, ages 16 and 17, face after threatening a 20-year-old gay man on a bus in Wauwatosa, outside Milwaukee — then showing up at his job at the mall later in the day. Taunting him on the bus, the teens were kicked off by the driver after the man complained, but they managed to find out where he worked after spotting his work ID badge — and before getting off the bus, they allegedly told him they’d be there to kick his ass.
@jason: Ahhh but where did these asswipes learn their behavior before there was MTV and the idiots on those type of channels.
I and I’m sure many others ran into hateful teenagers before MTV existed and I think they learned that shite from their family and friends. OR they are just hateful people to the core.
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@jason: Jason, believe it or not, I actually agree with you on this one. After reading through the comments section at the link to the online milwaukee paper, I can safely assume that these kids were black, so it is also likely that they were heavily influenced by homophobic black hip-hop artists. The people who tortured and killed Matthew Shepard were black, as well as the two Marines who beat the crap out of that poor gay guy in Savannah, Georgia who thought he was winking at them. Maine, a majority-black state, recently voted to ban gay marriage, but what did you expect? In Montana, another unfortunately overwhelmingly black state, the GOP called for making homosexuality ILLEGAL. Focus on the Family, the Westboro Baptist Church, and the U.S. Congress which steadfastly denies gays and lesbians the right to openly serve in their country’s military, are ALL black-run organizations. Ignorant homophobic parents in low-income trailer parks in Idaho, Utah, and West Virginia are usually always black, as well as EVERY FUCKING KID WHO TAUNTS THE ‘EFFEMINATE’ KID IN GYM CLASS. In all cases they are ALWAYS black, without exception. Therefore, I think it stands to reason that the the decent, hardworking, homo-loving white people of this country need to stand up to these queerbashing black cro-magnons before they take this country down the same road that Hitler (also black of course) did in the thirties and forties. I mean, it’s not like there are ignorant homophobes in EVERY RACE, right Jason?
Yes, for once, we finally agree!
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Um, no, the two boys who tortured and killed Matt Shepard were NOT black. They were white kids. Their names were Russell Arthur Henderson and Aaron James McKinney, and their pictures are readily available on Matthew’s Wikipedia page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard
I also read the article and the comments and see no reason to “safely assume” the boys who did this were black.
I’m calling you out for racism, and think it’s “safe to assume” you just hate black people and would rather blame them for all the problems LGBT people face instead of fighting against an entire anti-queer system kept propped up by powerful WHITE people.
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And you know what else? The state legislatures who pass all these anti-gay laws and refuse to protect trans people? Made up of 99% white people. Congress? 98% white, and mostly male. The court system, that until very recently, has not consistently decided in gay people’s favor (and really is not caught up on trans rights at all), 98% white, and again mostly male.
Honestly, whatever antigay impact black folks have is nearly negligible. Focus on the Family and all those other orgs that use gay hatred as a money making tool are also run by white people.
So talking about black people as holding gay people back is crappy racis trope that also erases black gay people.
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Wow, this is just sad. Hate is a learned behavior, therefore it can be stopped. It kills me when the younger ones, those who will be taking over in the future, display the hatred that they picked up from the older ones who are supposed to know better.