Erin Goes Blagh
Beaten Teen & Dr. King: Mom Talk
What would Dr. Martin Luther King say about the six youths who brutally ganged up on another guy? Are parents to blame?
While much of the country was getting ready to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, a group of hoodlums jumped a 17-year-old boy in a Chicago. They called him the N-word and Asian slurs. Someone recorded Sunday's 3-minute attack, then posted it on YouTube. This is bullying to the extreme. I can't help but ask myself "where are the parents in all this?" First of all, we don't know yet how old these thugs are. Still, that doesn't seem to sway my opinion if they are 16 or legally adults. Where did they learn that it was OK to call people racial slurs? Where did they learn it was OK to hit defenseless people in the face with shoes, knees and chunks of ice? Maybe the parents didn't outright teach these things to their sons. Yet, they aren't off the …
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Ethan Klabunde
9:48 am on Saturday, January 21, 2012
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