You might have missed this little clip and story over the long Memorial Day weekend, but a Barberton gas station owner came upon a group of kids recently who wrote the n-word on a sidewalk with chalk. Shaun Jaber asked them to cover it up and kindly reminded them, while recording a video that obscured their faces since they are minors, what an absolute disgrace their actions were.
And before anyone chalks it up to asshole teens being asshole teens, a couple of details from the video:
One of the boys, white, of course, is seen sporting the finest in Confederate flag hats. (Remember, it’s heritage not hate! Except when it’s literally about hate.)
A teen girl, who is mostly off screen for the duration of the recording, responds to Jaber’s insistence that they should be ashamed of themselves by saying, “I’m not even ashamed of my beliefs,” and, “I’m not the only one who says it.”
“If someone would have seen that, I didn’t want problems in the community,” Jaber told WKYC. “Barberton is a small city and we are all together. We don’t want that hate.”
Except for their parents, who are probably proud.
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This article appears in May 29 – Jun 4, 2019.
I have always hated assholes like this.
Squid you have to be more specific nowadays. Do you mean the kids or the guy that’s making them cover it up?
Kids will be kids, but they need guidance, kudos to Shaun Jaber
Instead of hating these kids for being, well, dumb kids, we should examine the asshole parents who are almost certainly filling their heads with racist trash. Why would any of them be ashamed when they likely see and hear their parents engage in much more blatant acts of racism?
Nobody is born hating those who are different, it must be taught. Hopefully, these kids will one day repudiate their racist family’s ideology and learn to form their own thoughts and opinions independent of the influence of racist relatives.
You’ve got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You’ve got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You’ve got to
Be carefully
Taught
You’ve got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who’s eyes are oddly made
And people who’s skin is a different shade
You’ve got to
Be carefuly
Taught
You’ve got to be taught
Before it’s too late
Before you are six
Or seven
Or eight
To hate all the people
Your relatives hate
You’ve got to
Be carefully taught
You’ve got to
Be carefully taught
–“South Pacific” (Original Broadway cast, 1949)
Oh yeah, writing N*gger on the sidewalk is such a revolutionary act, and I’m sure those teenagers were super concerned about “anti white, pro minority” (as if they’re the same thing…) bias in the media. Everyone has the same concerns as old, racist white douchebags, right? Project much?
You, sir, are a complete and utter moron. I hope for the rest of our sake that you’ve never procreated and haven’t polluted the gene pool with your detestable, blatant stupidity.
You’re not only blind…you sound like a not-see…and you must be a daytime drinker as well, because that’s the first excuse that comes to mind for your complete and utter stupidity. Posting while intoxicated is never a good idea, and if enough people here tell you that your drunk, maybe then you’ll stagger away from your keyboard and lie down.
Oh, yeah, it’s all about the oppression…by the “lberals”…natch, of those poor put-upon Caucasians who are struggling to cope with their plight, even as they rake in gazillions from their ownership of print and electronic media outlets.
And of you are not drunk on that intoxicating orange Kool-Aid being brewed in D.C.—then put down those pills or that crack pipe…they call it dope for a good reason…and you’ve just proven why. Yet another reason to shake my head in disbelief and disgust over what these Untied Snakes have become.
You’re proof that people like you cannot listen to a differing opinion. You’ve convinced yourself that you’re right and silencing your opposition means that you’ve outright eliminated it. Not the case hombre, you’re in for a rude awakening.
No…you’re the one who’s right…and I’m on the left. Rude awakening? Enjoy the next couple of years or two of peacetime in America, before the shit finally hits the fan. Fifty years of stored-up hatreds on both sides are going to get quite ugly. The time for talking is almost over.
Lmfao, OF COURSE you’re a Trumpette, a racist, entitled douche on the internet whining about reverse racism, how could you be anything else? Are you seriously complaining about portrayals of white men in media? Media often owned by those very same white people that for the past 50 years have been shitting on minorities with 0 consequences? Now because you can no longer openly rant against ‘ those damn n*ggers’ on Twitter or in your dumbass GOP opinion columns without fear of retribution, all of the sudden you’re the one who’s put upon and discriminated against? How can you even be serious you poor little snowflake victim you? Give the rest of us, the one’s who actually have two brain cells to rub together, a f*cking break.
Awwww did da widdle Trumpette get his favorite widdle racist platform of hate and lies (probably Infowars, you strike me as just that kind of moron) taken away? Poor baby, look on the bright side though, nobody lynched, wrongfully imprisoned, beat or mudered you or your grandparents, somehow, I think you’ll survive. Hilarious that you now feel discriminated against when you’ve likely been cheerleading the oppression of minorities since you were a retarded lil schoolboy, Feels bad, doesn’t it, clown?
As for Drumpf, if you believe that man is going anywhere in 2020 but to jail, you’re so much dumber than you’ve made yourself sound and, for the record, that’s like Guinness Book of World Records acknowledgement type of dumb.
Oh well, back to your one man revolution, chalking n*gger on the sidewalk while you look over your shoulder making sure none of them damn sensitive blacks are around so you don’t get your pasty, white entitled ass whipped. How pathetic.
You sound like you went off your meds again. Maybe it’s time to take a breather from Pokemon Go and get yourself another afternoon snack of lead paint and yoo-hoo to even everything back out. You can larp with your Socialist Comrades later if you clean the window sill.
Exactly, no arguments of any substance, just insults. Hard to argue with the truth, isn’t it Trumpette?
Pokemon Go? Are you serious? I’m 40, not 15. Try again and this time take some time with it and come up with something that at least hits kind of close to home.
The intelligence level, or lack thereof, on display here makes me doubt you’ll be watching anything skyrocket that isn’t your blood pressure. Especially when you finally come to the realization that the idealized version of America that you’re so desperately trying to hold onto does not now, and never has existed. Something tells me the only thing skyrocketing then will be your brains out of the back of your skull, while your finger slips off that cold trigger for the last time.
Just do us all a favor and hurry it up.
Jesus, you really ARE dumb, aren’t you? I thought your logic and argumentative skills were poor, then I read some of your insults, yeesh.
It takes no energy or effort to point out the semi truck sized holes in your backwards, third grade level logic, or to mock your blatant idiocy.
14 cats? That hits about as close to home as your Pokemon Go quip, meaning not close at all, in case your reading comprehension skills are next to fail you.
I didn’t know that blowing your brains out through the back of your skull due to dimwittedness and general failure was now called ‘early retirement’ though. Learn something new every day. Put up a GoFundMe for that early retirement and I promise I’ll throw you a couple bucks so you can afford that shotgun and a box of bullets, that way you can ‘retire’ even earlier.
I’m sure I probably speak for whatever family and friends that you may have once had when I say this: Even if you ‘retired’ this very minute, it wouldn’t be early enough for anyone who has had the displeasure of interacting with you.
You continue to lose, good day sir.
Way to go, BA/—kick the shit out of this blind not-see for me, will ya? I have to go lead my life now…
Dude… c’mon…
1. There are no mods here, as far as I can tell. I’ve never seen one post or had a comment deleted by a mod.
2. The only way to get rid of a post, since you can’t edit, is to report the post yourself and hope someone deletes it.
3. You’ve done this in every thread I’ve seen you in where someone challenges your idiotic beliefs. You report the post yourself, it’s always the first post you made and eventually it gets deleted. You then make a post blaming Scene and ‘liberals’ and break your own arm patting yourself on the back for being so clever that those damn liberals and their Scene commie pals just have to censor you. It’s nonsense and nobody is falling for it. You aren’t clever and my 12 year old niece could easily refute the vast majority of the trash that flies out of your cakehole. Scene isn’t afraid of, nor is it trying to censor you. Neither are the ‘liberals’ we really just kind of wish you would shut the f*ck up and stop embarassing yourself.
4. Please don’t insult all of our intelligence and deny it, your MO is blatantly obvious, name yourself something stupidly ironic (like mirror for the blind, as if it’s you holding up the mirror to society, when in reality it’s the exact opposite, society is holding up the mirror to you and you can’t stand the angry, racist moron with dead eyes that stares back at you. See? Irony.) or stupidly sarcastic, then proceed to spew forth ridiculous alt-right/neo nazi talking points ad nauseam. Why not take it to Breitbart or Fox, at least there you’d have some chuckleheads that agree with you.
5. You are, without a doubt, the most pathetic person I’ve ever encountered on the internet and that’s really saying something. Now go kick rocks, I’m done with you.
Nice. That was really top-notch.
But angry responses won’t change anything. Never have, never will.
Nothing ever gets these asshats to STFU and get a life. THIS is their life…
When I speak of assholes I am obviously talking about people who write the n-word on sidewalks. *geez*
Well, that’s good to hear…