Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment

First time accepted submitter ruhri writes "A 16 year-old girl in Florida not only has been expelled from her high school but also is being charged as an adult with a felony after replicating the classic toilet-bowl cleaner and aluminum foil experiment. This has quite a number of scientists and science educators up in arms. The fact that she's African American and that the same assistant state attorney has decided not to charge a white teenager who accidentally killed his brother with a BB gun has some thinking whether this is a case of doing science while black."

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Re:Playing the race card again

[AlphaWolf_HK]

Or it could just be a case of two different prosecutors having different standards, one happening to preside over a white person, one over a black one.

I've had similar shit happen to me before, and race didn't have anything to do with it. I remember recently hearing about some black dude not being allowed to seat in first class on an airline because he was wearing a hoodie and their dress code forbids that. It just so happened that a white guy came in there wearing a hoodie and he was able to be seated.

I already know from personal experience that this is the result of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. I always wear regular clothes to the airport, and usually I save money by buying standby tickets. One of the benefits of standby is that if they run out of coach seats, they put you in first class. On the way there that happened to me, and I just wore regular t-shirt and shorts. On the way back, the same thing happened again, only they said that if I wanted to sit in first class, I had to wear slacks. So I had to go shop around the airport until I could find a pair of slacks. When I was seated, somebody else on the plane was wearing shorts. Yay me.

Same airline both ways.

It's just one of those things where sometimes it doesn't end up getting enforced. But one of those times it happens that a black man was enforced and a white man was not? STOP THE PRESSES!

http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/index.php?topic=33733.50

Have read at least the first few paragraphs of that, then go to the first page and read some of that. Then recall not long ago that incident where that couple were beaten severely after just passing through a black neighborhood, and the newspaper they worked for chose to not even report it.

Personally, I don't mind that the media isn't interested in it. If anything, it's a mark against the anti-racist crowd who is willing to look the other way when reverse racism happens, and they know they're asshole fucks for doing so, but it's ok because we already knew they were asshole fucks and nothing has changed.

But what does piss me off is when they pull the race card needlessly, such as the scenario I described above. It pisses me off when they go out of their way to try to make me feel guilty for being born white. I'm looking at the unfair campaign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBqWMblu_Ss

Fuck them. I hope they all go die in a fire and get hit by a bus at the same time.