[lbo-talk] [Fwd: Jena Ignites a Movement: Report from Yesterday's Demonstration in Jena, Louisiana]

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 15:44:12 PDT 2007


On 9/26/07, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> Getting
> sucker punched or kicked in the back of the head sucks but to consider
> it somehow more loathsome than some other aspect of adolescent fighting
> is daft. What adolescent fights have some sort of Marques of Queensbury
> code of honor? What the hell kind of utopia did you grow up in?

Virginia.

Where did you grow up with agemates reportedly as loathsome as you?


> I understand such fights rather well having been involved in my fair
> share of them growing up so it is you my friend that do not grasp the
> reality of the fighting in these instances.

I'm not your friend, and I've been in my share.


> At the
> same age and in similar circumstances I would have kicked this punks
> ass after the nooses were hung.

Even though no one has even alleged Justin Barker had anything to do with it?


> Improper uppity violent
> loathsome black kids.

More like chickenshit cowards, who come in all colors, apparently including whatever yours is.



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