Thankfully, the boy did survive after months in a hospital undergoing intensive surgery. But do you think he will ever physically or mentally be the same? How long do you think it will take for him to stop having nightmares?
Is the kind of trash that conservatives like mAnn(see comment) Ann "Where's a skinhead when you need one?" Coulter and Michelle Malkin want in the Republican party?
GMT expertly described how the hateful "free speech" of the Coulters and Malkins of the world transforms into violent criminals and sodomized victims in communities around the nation.
Politicians and pundits advance their careers by playing on hopes and fears, unaware or just not caring that the things they say have consequences. The overheated rhetoric surrounding immigration doesn't distinguish between immigrants from Mexico and Americans of Mexican descent (they're trying to take back Aztlan, didn't you hear?), much less between legal and illegal immigrants.
What amazes me is that Tuck's attack was
not labeled a hate crime. Maybe the prosecutors are being careful but an example must be made out of Tuck or more Texans will become victims of such bigotry.
We canNOT be timid about our response to Hate Crime.
The Hispanic boy was as American as any boy. He came to the house where Tuck attacked him to hang out with his friends and party. He was interested in sports, music and girls. He played football for his school which he will never do again. In fact, he will have physical disabilities for the rest of his life.
Listen to a neighbor who saw the boy taken to the hospital when his body was discovered in the morning:
Sunday morning, Nancy Benavidez saw the ambulance next door and wishes she hadn't seen who they brought out.
"He was severely beaten. Oh, I couldn't believe it. His face was so swollen. Lips everything. There was just blood everywhere," she said.
Tuck was a sociopath in trouble with the law previously for a cross-burning incident, thought of as "trouble" by other students, and avoided by neighbors.
It doesn't surprise me. I figured he would have done something like that," said a student.
"He always tells me that he would have and that he was going to one day and that was his destination for him to come to school was to find someone to put in their right mind," said student Anita Stockstill.
America which one of these young men would you want to represent you? Texas you tell me who represents your values better?!
I don't care if you want to build a moat around the US and never allow another immigrant in. The day we allow a man to rape and attempt to murder a boy because he's different is the day we are not worth putting a fence around anymore - except to protect people from us.
Tuck is the worst of America and Texas and this monster was enable by creatures worse than him: the hateful scapegoating agenda of conservatives who care more about their political power and ratings - than actually offering real solutions to a complex issues.
Nah, it's much easier to blame a bunch of brown people who eat funny food and speak funny and have funny names that are hard to pronounce!
After the pummeling the reputation of America and Texas have taken in the past few years because of divisive and arrogant leaders, we don't need more trash stinking our image up.
America & Texas, we are better than this. Let's prove it once again.
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