tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post5017945338312862958..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: QuickiesBarry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-52460854005252188922008-08-14T11:39:00.000-04:002008-08-14T11:39:00.000-04:00I mostly agree with you, Lisa, but there's an aspe...I mostly agree with you, Lisa, but there's an aspect that's not completely simple: there's been a history of bullying on both sides, and the accused kids were themselves responding to bullying by the white kids.<BR/><BR/>I absolutely agree that we need to address the problems equally, regardless of the colours. Schools have to be very conscious of bullying, whether physical or verbal. And we've got to get out of the mode where violence is such a ready answer to things.Barry Leibahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-12976418674577362242008-08-13T16:46:00.000-04:002008-08-13T16:46:00.000-04:00It's good that Mauffray was taken off the Jena cas...It's good that Mauffray was taken off the Jena case, from a legal point of view; clearly he couldn't be impartial. But I as a non-lawyer non-judge can say what he said: which is that those kids are a violent bunch and troublemakers. I'm sick of the utter hysteria that has surrounded this case, particularly given the fact that those kids together jumped and beat the shit out of another kid. This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with blind bullying, yet we're not supposed to say that because the defendants are black. Well, I call bullshit when I see it, no matter the colors involved, mine or others'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com