ZRod Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said: Might not necessarily be racist, but whoever did it is a piece of s#!t. 1 Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 10 hours ago, ZRod said: Might not necessarily be racist, but whoever did it is a piece of s#!t. Sawing down a Jackie Robinson statue is a choice, an effort and a risk. Burning it up was either a panicky attempt to hide the evidence, or an extra cruel bit of theater. Either way it's hard to imagine race wasn't behind it. The video evidence is murky, but I bet the guys get caught. Can't wait to hear their story. 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 11 hours ago, BigRedBuster said: You can saw through that? That is crazy! I always thought it was solid. But that still had to take hours, right? And doesn't the statue weigh a crazy amount? People are a$$h@!es. 2 Link to comment
commando Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 31 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: Sawing down a Jackie Robinson statue is a choice, an effort and a risk. Burning it up was either a panicky attempt to hide the evidence, or an extra cruel bit of theater. Either way it's hard to imagine race wasn't behind it. The video evidence is murky, but I bet the guys get caught. Can't wait to hear their story. it was destroyed the day before his birthday. that seems to add evidence that it was race related. 1 Link to comment
commando Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 27 minutes ago, teachercd said: You can saw through that? That is crazy! I always thought it was solid. But that still had to take hours, right? And doesn't the statue weigh a crazy amount? People are a$$h@!es. it was made of bronze and steel. it weighed about 2,000 pounds.although a lot of that was left in the base. bronze isn't that tough to saw through Link to comment
teachercd Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 8 minutes ago, commando said: it was made of bronze and steel. it weighed about 2,000 pounds.although a lot of that was left in the base. bronze isn't that tough to saw through That amazes me! Shows what I know! 1 Link to comment
Scarlet Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 How Brownshirt-esque. Of course it happened live on Fox. https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/02/08/fox-news-live-tv-guardian-angels-attack-man-cprog-orig-fj.cnn 1 Link to comment
Gage County Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 I wonder why there haven't been any arrests, they found the truck well over a week ago. https://www.kwch.com/2024/01/29/wichita-police-locate-truck-connected-stolen-jackie-robinson-statue/ What should the penalty be for tearing down a statue? On 1/31/2024 at 9:28 AM, BigRedBuster said: 2 Link to comment
Gage County Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 USAToday: Police arrest man in theft of Jackie Robinson statue, no evidence of a hate crime Here's Ricky Angel Alderete. Clearly he was the lookout man. Red sweatshirt? Black Adidas t-shirt? I know 84,000 people that fit this description! 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 On 1/31/2024 at 7:41 PM, Guy Chamberlin said: Either way it's hard to imagine race wasn't behind it. Sounds like it wasn’t in this case. 1 1 Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/queen-cleopatra-black-egypt-netflix-series-rcna81924 We can not stand for this kind of blatant cultural appropriation…. 2 2 Link to comment
teachercd Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 That "study" has been known for years. 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Ya but I didn’t realize the hate he received for it 1 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 37 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: Ya but I didn’t realize the hate he received for it Amen! 3 Link to comment
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