Bingo.

Also, I don’t live in an area where people buy luxury cars. It’s not the culture here. They also don’t buy thousand dollar purses or designer outfits. I don’t live in a place where people are pressured to have the right brands of cars or clothes. So, maybe if I lived in NYC or California, I would agree that someday I…

Does it bother you that someone is not following in your foosteps? You don’t need millenials to be big spenders to validate your choices.

I’m not sure that is true. Personally, I could easily afford a Lexus right now. I could also afford a bigger house. Unlike a lot of millenials, although I still have student debt, I managed to snag a really well paying job. I still choose to spend my money on experiences instead of material things. But Goldman Sachs…

Yeah, the older generation in my family keeps telling me that I have a nice “starter home.” I keep telling them that I will die in my small home before I spend hundreds of thousands upgrading. That money is going to vacations.

Exactly.

Or we spend it on experiences, which is my choice. The older generation is pissed that I’m not going into their car dealerships for a brand new Lexus or that I didn’t buy a house that cost twice as much as mine (even though I qualified for that mortgage). Did you ever see the bullshit Goldman Sachs millenial…

My point is that we have progressed to the point where we automatically as a country believe that a hate crime occurred when black people accuse white people of doing something. In some ways, that’s good, because it’s the exact opposite of what happened with Till. But in other ways, I do not think it is good. Which is…

Yeah, you obviously took my comments and simplified them to justify your argument. My point was that comparing this situation to Till makes no sense. And, in fact, it’s actually the exact opposite here from a racial perspective.

Interesting. In my area, I had the opposite conversations. And my social media accounts were largely in support of Martin, as they have been largely in support of other unarmed blacks killed by police officers. And I live in a red state (kind of, we have a democratic governor and a democratic senator), but one who…

What you are failing to acknowledge, though, is that the public sentiment was and is largely against the white cops who kill unarmed black kids. And that, to me, is a huge difference from Till. I don’t disagree that racial profiling and hate crimes still occur, because obviously they do. But the public is outraged…

Looks like the white house is vetting one. I’m not really familiar with Jane Kelly, but I like what I have read about her.

I agree and I think those are important questions to ask. When I first read about the story, I remember thinking that it sounded really suspicious to me. In short, I wanted to know more. I did not automatically believe the black women. But I never said that to anyone because I was so afraid of people labeling me as a…

I also think it’s interesting that you use the term “rush to judgment or carry prejudice against people based on race or gender.” But that’s exactly what occurred here. Three black women said they were victims of a hate crime, and we all rushed to the judgment that it must be true. We tweeted our support for them, the…

I am not saying we should ignore the past. I am saying that while we still have racist issues, we absolutely have moved beyond the point where a black person gets lynched for holding the hand of a white woman. Comparing this circumstance to, or using it as justification for black women to assault a white woman is…

It’s not just the video. Do you see how busy that bus is? Not everyone on it was involved in the assault. The police officers interviewed several bystanders, who all said that the black women were the ones who initiated the assault. Now, don’t get me wrong, you can go ahead and believe that everybody lied if you want,…

What the hell does the picture have to do with the story, though? What does it have to do with the outrage that these women lied about being assaulted? Are you suggesting that if a white person lied about assault from a black person today that the black person would be lynched? I realize that racism still exists, but…

Well, I think most of the people on this website would say that there are not enough barriers to gun ownership, period.

I agree. And my preference is simply to just stay away from the issue completely.

I agree in general that you should keep your mouth shut during litigation. But I have been involved in highly publicized civil cases where there is no possible way we are going to empanel a jury who has not read about the case in the local newspaper. In those cases, you do not want the jury to have only heard one…