I mean, take race out of it for 10 seconds. Older kids HUNG a child. Doesn’t matter if it was racially motivated or not. Let those little fuckers fry.

Thank you for the drowning child metaphor. I will try it in explaining to fellow whites why racism is everybody’s problem. The drowning child is an appropriately drastic image.

Dear Mark Chase:

“Mistakes” made as a “young child” should not have lifelong consequences. But this wasn’t a “mistake”, and these are not “young child(ren)“. This was attempted murder, terrorism, and a hate crime, committed by young adults, and you should fucking treat it like it’s more serious than a stolen piece of…

This is truly fucked. If he was hanged then the ones responsible for his hanging should be equally, or greater, hanged. 

I’m sorry, but this is unconscionable! The teen or teens attempted to murder this little boy. Sounds like they almost did. This is beyond disgusting. This is NOT some “mistake” .... This is something a severely disturbed teen did to a young boy. I am appalled and enraged. I hope this “teen” is charged with attempted…

No. It should follow them the rest of their lives. They literally tried to hang another human being. They are a danger to the society around them, and their parents should be investigated as well.

*Sigh* Another day, another horror.

“Filed to: Lynching”

Ah, New Hampster and Maine, the Mississippi and Alabama of the Northeast. None of this surprises me after living in Maine long enough to watch them elect LePage.

Time to arm yourselves and teach your kids how to defend themselves folks.

This is definitely an open invitation to filing as a hate crime , once the action was taken there was no concern over his life or emotional impact it will have . To disregard the “ racial implications” and downplay as kids being such is no better than what happened to emmett till , this investigation most likely won’t…