Excuse me no one has encouraged me to say how I feel towards your comments here. I have a mind of my own and have seen exactly what you’re like you simply enjoy adding fuel to the fire. You sound like you do not fit in here?

truly ugly, insulting rhetoric toward “outsiders”

I could say how I really feel but it would be better you moved on instead of whining.

Oh well.

Huff post etc is more on your street level.

and actually I had no idea what La Brea Tarpit was until I just googled it.

It certainly does nor equate in my mind what it does in yours!

Your name says it all

YOUR what I meant to of said moment!

Having said all that: the comment that these kids should be thrown into the La Brea Tar Pits speaks for itself too. Truly ugly.

Your sickening alright really sickening!

Yeah, I’m sure there’s no racial intent in that statement. Just a coincidence that black people have been called “tar babies” for a hundred years. And yeah, by bringing it up, I’m sure I’m the one who’s being racist.

Sickening comment made about teenagers.

as I’ve said before, it starts at home. even if the parents don’t have those racial prejudices, their neglect enabled their kids to pick up those types of prejudices.

I’m asian. I’ve received my share of discrimination, even while I was in the military, even when I was wearing the uniform. received it from black folks, got it from white folks, from hispanics. do I think that all of the people within those ethnic groups are racist, NO…but I do think that there are racists from any ethnic group even from mine. how do you end it, by showing your kids the ugly truth about racism and by making sure they understand that it’s never ok. my kids know about the ugly truth of racism, we have actual neighbores (hispanics) who yell at them to “go back where they came from,” what those dumb idiots don’t know is that my kids are more american than they are – my daughter although born in Canada is an American citizen, and my son is a native born american citizen…those kids who were yelling at them, although born in the states, their parents were illegal aliens. I’m an immigrant from Asia, I entered the US LEGALLY, served in the military, became a US citizen. who has the right to call my kids what they did? certainly not them. where did they get their prejudicial attitudes?…it starts at home. how did I make it stop, I went to their door, knocked, their parents answered, their kids behind them, I told their parents what their kids did and dared them to call Immigration right that minute to have my family deported, of course all of us would to prove residential status. their parents almost sh*t their pants while apologizing and as soon as the door closed, I heard them beat their kids (again, bullying starts at home). do I think that all hispanics are bad? certainly not, the family right next door to me are hispanic and when they heard what I did, they came over said thanks (since the other family was totally bad and are a nuisance in the neighborhood but no one dared to stand up to them) and we all shared a wonderful dinner.

there are many idiots in America (as there are many idiots in any country), those idiots don’t have to be American born or foreign born, there are just idiots in this world that grew up without proper upbringing and discipline, and are now raising their kids the same way, hence, you have an increasing number of bullies and later on, criminals.

while some would say that it is sad to teach kids how to fight, martial artists will tell you that they are more inclined to avoid violence since they know the damage they can do and since majority of us don’t have anything to prove.

bullies on the other hand do what they do in order to “prove” to their audience that they’re tough…that’s the same with the bully that was picking on my daughter – what he does is to push/shove/trip kids in front of other undisciplined kids just for a laugh. well, my daughter is alert and before he can get his way, he was down for the count. now that kid is well behaved. if you ask me, I would’ve liked to meet his and the other kids parents and show them a little discipline themselves. kids don’t become bullies on their own, it starts at home either by parental neglect or by their own parents bullying them.

Kids don’t have the capacity to know what right and wrong is.

I read that one reason we send kids to school at the age of five is that Socrates had said that five was about the age that kids can start learning right from wrong. So, it’s not that kids don’t have the capacity. It’s that they obviously don’t have enough adults in their lives giving them the appropriate lessons in right and wrong.

I always received praise when I took my kids any where, even before they were five. They knew what type of behavior I expected in another person’s house or in a place of business. It was not hard for them to learn this, simply because I gave them enough attention at home for them to know that they could be patient and they would get my attention at an appropriate time.

So, not only would I expect those kids to get appropriate punishment, their parents need to be given some appropriate penalty also. The community that set the stage for this number of kids to act so violently has serious problems. That poor kids’ parents should be given not only help in his treatment–since he will surely need it–but also help finding employment in a different community.