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| Deleted User | Jun 4 2008, 11:55 AM Post #1 |
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. Today, Ruth Sheehan has an emotional piece where this "good" kid and High School Basketball star was shot dead apparently by gang members. Ruth comes squarely to the conclusion that his town didn't make a special day to observe him because he was BLACK. As has become a regular rite in the N&O, she even compares his death (and the reaction to it) to a seven year old boy that was celebrated after he died - of course, she claims race is the reason. Ruth tells the gut-wrenching story and gets quotes from the slain 18 year olds family stating things like, "it was because he was black that he was mistaken for a gang member in the first place." See, Douglas Jamal Mangum was shot, Police believe, because he was wearing red and thought to be a rival gang member. However, what goes unsaid is that two black men driving in an SUV evidently mistook D.J. Mangum for a gang member. This salient fact makes it right past Ruthie who goes for the neck of Whitey once again. Ruth tells us just how good D.J. Mangum was, in fact, the piece is titled - "D.J. was just a Good kid." She tells us that he was a High School Basketball star. She quotes a friend of his that said, "D.J. wasn't in any gang," Hakeem said. "He was trying to keep himself out of trouble so he could play ball." Now, the truth: Yes, it was a tragedy that a young man was shot in the stomach standing in front of his house, and it is a tragedy that one of the two men involved in the murder is already out of prison. The N&O is going to lengths to make him a High School basketball star, so they can then say how he wouldn't do anything wrong because he didn't want anything to affect his ability to be that High School Basketball star. The Truth: D.J. Mangum was on the Junior Varsity team at a school that wasn't a High School Basketball powerhouse - not by any stretch. The News and Observer would like its readers to believe the North Carolina town hasn't named a center or made a special day every year after this 18 year old because they are racist. The Truth: Douglas Jamal Mangum stopped attending high school and his family refused to comment on that fact when they were confronted with it after they had made him sound like a perfect person and a great role model. When pressed further, D.J.'s Mother said that he had been suspended from school and shut the door on a reporter. However, he had stop attending school for 30 days and the school system doesn't have any suspension even approaching that length. In fact, the News & Observer begrudgingly reported on this sometime after his death, after local papers had brought this fact to life. "School board officials said Mangum was enrolled at Middle Creek High until a month ago. They declined to say why Mangum was no longer enrolled; his mother said he had been suspended. Denise Mangum and Coates declined to discuss the suspension." Conveniently, Ruthie doesn't mention the fact he had dropped out of high school at 18 and never progressed past the Junior Varsity. Oh, yeah, she couldn't be bothered with looking up the fact he had been suspended from school too, according to his own Mother. But, she knows enough to call the town Racist for not naming a town Holiday after him or putting his name on a building. Or does she? Ruth's piece: http://www.newsobserver.com/2750/story/1095653.html Old article: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/wake/holly_springs/story/447539.html |
 
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| ThinkFirstTypeLater | Jun 4 2008, 12:13 PM Post #2 |
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From the editorial: She and her sons had been renting a duplex at the edge of a neighborhood known for gang activity. I've seen interviews with middle school kids in East Durham on the news where they talk about wearing white doo-rags because it's a "neutral" color and they don't want to get shot. It's a shame this kid got shot, but why in the heck was he wearing a red sweatshirt in a gang area? Apparently the middle school kids know better than to do that. Also: "D.J. wasn't in any gang," Hakeem said. "He was trying to keep himself out of trouble so he could play ball." If I'm not mistaken, it's hard to "play ball" for your school when you've dropped out. Edited by ThinkFirstTypeLater, Jun 4 2008, 12:14 PM.
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| Deleted User | Jun 4 2008, 12:17 PM Post #3 |
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. Ruth was trying to hide that pesky fact. Didn't fit in with her portrayal. |
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| Quasimodo | Jun 4 2008, 12:58 PM Post #4 |
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I am grieved that the kid was killed. I feel for his family. But I think Ruth Sheehan is trying to keep the racial pot boiling.
There is a logical disconnect here. There was absolutely no element of race involved in this killing. As I said in the other thread, I know of three innocent students who were railroaded in a false prosecution because of a racist atmosphere that would have fit right into the Alabama of the 1930s. That was racism. This article shows how much the victimhood mentality has its focus scewed. . . Edited by Quasimodo, Jun 4 2008, 12:59 PM.
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| Deleted User | Jun 4 2008, 01:08 PM Post #5 |
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. The N&O's theme was that a white town was racist and treating a fine young man as a gang member. It was two black gang-members driving with weapons in an SUV that were being racist though, if you read carefully and understand what happened. She does interject Race, that's the theme of this article, but she neglects to mention the race of the murderers - while assailing the white town. Or as Quasi mentions the disconnect in logic, are they decrying the fact that black gang members don't attack more white people? . |
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| LTC8K6 | Jun 4 2008, 01:39 PM Post #6 |
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http://file013b.bebo.com/15/original/2007/08/09/19/4005402892a5229984343o.jpg http://www.bebo2nd.com/PhotoAlbum.jsp?PhotoNbr=1&MemberId=4005402892&PhotoAlbumId=5077496098 Edited by LTC8K6, Jun 4 2008, 01:40 PM.
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| LTC8K6 | Jun 4 2008, 01:45 PM Post #7 |
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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/saunders/2007/story/628423.html |
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| Texas Mom | Jun 4 2008, 01:57 PM Post #8 |
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" I think these guys are the worst of this, kind of, TV evangelists<insert "reporters" here> who go after people in terms of their weaknesses, and for a black audience on the south side of Chicago <insert Durham here>– people who are struggling to make a living, people who don’t understand sometime the larger social forces that are evident in their lives – these guys come in and take their money by playing to their worst fears and attitudes and racial biases." Juan Williams Aside from being an idiot, Ruth Sheehan, is one of those people who likes to put dog poop in a bag, light it and throw it on SOMEONE ELSE'S doorstep. Brave girl, that. I look forward to hearing about the later stages of parenting for this darling hypocrite. 
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| LTC8K6 | Jun 4 2008, 02:05 PM Post #9 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1057076/ US Marshals picked up the suspect? |
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| Jezebelle | Jun 4 2008, 02:32 PM Post #10 |
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And we know this kid wasn't a gang member..........how? Because his mother said so? He was a drop-out......wearing a red shirt. How do his family members know he hadn't recently joined a gang? Maybe he participated in an initiation rite that brought this down on him. And, lol, an 18 year-old junior varsity player who wasn't even doing that anymore? And what did he get suspended from school for? This is no different than the garbage that the media spun about swampwoman. The media renders itself useless through its dishonesty. It's sad when any person is killed, especially a young person, but I don't see anything about this young man whose life was so exemplary that it's worthy of a public day named in his honor. Lots of kids play basketball. Edited by Jezebelle, Jun 4 2008, 02:46 PM.
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| Baldo | Jun 4 2008, 02:39 PM Post #11 |
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Losing a child would be a terrible thing so I am not going to criticize the mom. Ruth on the other hand wouldn't be on my radar list if she hadn't written her "Silence is Sickening" post. It still stands of one of the WORST & WRONG articles of the Hoax. It flew around around the Internet and on AP releases. She received her share of Kudos for it. It caused major damage to those guys. |
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| Deleted User | Jun 4 2008, 05:12 PM Post #12 |
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. This is the same type of writing that got them into trouble in the Duke LAX case. If she would've stated the facts, and said an 18 year old loved kid was shot in his front yard - and it was a tragedy. Instead, Ruth adds in the race when this was an all-black thing, attacks a dead 7 year old, and paints this guy as good student and great kid. She ignores salient facts to come to that conclusion - and she is putting stupid unsubstantiated quotes in there to use someone else's words. Everything ends up being the fault of white People - everything. The News and Observer will use the black gang member murderers as victims later, saying that X percentage of African-Americans are incarcerated - and then, of course, blame racism for that stat. Are the gang-members that murdered him great guys? Are they victims? Did their Mothers' claim they were good kids too? Are they the victim of circumstance? Were they basketball stars? When they get around to printing the truth and not trying to make romantic or tragic stories that comport with their personal philosophy AND add some in personal responsibility - then maybe they can be a part of a honest discussion. But, right now they are so far out there it's ridiculous. Notice how being "a basketball star" has redeeming value now, when being a student-athlete lacrosse player only indicated a lot of negatives in one's psyche. |
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| Jezebelle | Jun 4 2008, 05:19 PM Post #13 |
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"Notice how being "a basketball star" has redeeming value now, when being a student-athlete lacrosse player only indicated a lot of negatives in one's psyche." Great observation/point. Lax is a "white" sport; basketball is not. |
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