New Hampshire Bi-racial kid nearly lynched by white teens
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Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. Say what you want, but when the U.S. president defends avowed white supremacists, one can’t be surprised when bullying takes on a decidedly racist tone as it did with an 8-year-old biracial boy who was hung from a tree in the year 2017. The climate has been set.
Yes, there are nooses hanging all over America, and some little cretins decided to use one, unfortunately.
NH1.com reports that a Claremont, N.H., boy had to be flown to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after one or more teens decided to hang him from a tree with a rope.
The boy’s mother, Cassandra Merlin, posted the horrific photo of her baby’s neck on Facebook, and even then gave those responsible the benefit of the doubt.
The caption reads in part: “So my son is being flown to Dartmouth after a 14 year old kid decided to hang him from a tree. I don’t care if this was a so called accident or not. My son almost died because of some little sh** teenage kids.”
The town of Claremeont, N.H., has 13,000 residents, and is 96 percent white, 0.6 percent African-American, and 1.8 percent biracial, according to the 2010 Census.
The boy’s uncle, Lyrik Martin, who also posted photos of his injuries on social media, wrote in a post that he wasn’t sure the attack was racially motivated, but the boy’s grandmother went on record saying the teens taunted the boy for being half black.
Lorrie Slattery told the Valley News that the incident was in fact racially motivated and “intentional.”
Slattery said she was able to recount what happened from her grandson’s 11-year-old sister and other children present (there were no adults), and that her grandson and some teens were playing in a yard on Aug. 28 when the teens started calling the little boy “racial epithets” and throwing sticks and rocks at his legs.
Some or all of the teens allegedly stepped up on a picnic table and grabbed a nearby rope that had been part of a tire swing, Slattery said.
“The (teenagers) said, ‘Look at this,’ supposedly putting the rope around their necks,” Slattery said. “One boy said to (her grandson), ‘Let’s do this,’ and then pushed him off the picnic table and hung him.”
The boy swung back and forth by his neck three times before he was able to remove the rope from his neck; Slattery said none of the teens came to his aid.
As late as Friday, Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase would not comment on the specifics of the case, only saying that they were still investigating and that those involved are juveniles, prohibiting him specifically making any comment.
Chase also said that the kids being investigated (who knows if they’re charged) should be “protected.”
“Mistakes they make as a young child should not have to follow them for the rest of their life,” Chase said.*
*Notice how he called these predators “young children,” infantilizing the white teens. Conversely, teens like Trayvon Martin are made out to be hulking, menacing adults.
Chief Chase seems to be centering the perpetrators feelings and futures, all but forgetting about the trauma of a little boy who had his so-called friends hang him from a tree to the point where he had to be medevaced to a hospital.
Activists, who only got wind of the case only through the boy’s mother’s social media post, are demanding more information, reports Valley News.
“I am upset and saddened and angered about how the police and city officials have chosen to play this,” said Kendra Colburn, of the Upper Valley chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. “(They) all seem like they do not want media attention on this story, and I am concerned about that. I am really concerned that we can’t change what we don’t know about or refuse to look at.”
Chief Chase confirmed that no other information would be released about the case, including if it was racially motivated.
America 2017.
http://www.theroot.com/new-hampshire-police-refuse-to-release-information-on-c-1803054596
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Ion care
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Ummmm
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8?
let's do this?
but the mistake shouldn't follow them?
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So you thought ya son was safe around the whites ha?
Thought he could play cowboys and Indian and he was the only Indian ha?
Bet you never thought your half ? son would get jumped by some cacs ha?
You probably know the mothers of the cacs tried to body ya son ha? -
I would've blacked out on the kids, even if it wasn't my kid.
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That soft shoeing by the parents ain't helping... way too passive
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So you thought ya son was safe around the whites ha?
Thought he could play cowboys and Indian and he was the only Indian ha?
Bet you never thought your half ? son would get jumped by some cacs ha?
You probably know the mothers of the cacs tried to body ya son ha?
I grew up around whites they never hurt me they fed an kept me it was always u overly masculine black men who are the problem i despise your kind.we just wana read Shakespeare an dance . -
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I just went to her page....dawg shes white n her dude is white...they have have like 4 kids(all look white)n the youngest looks black (baby) lmaooo
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She also deleted her post but made a follow up
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blackgod813 wrote: »So you thought ya son was safe around the whites ha?
Thought he could play cowboys and Indian and he was the only Indian ha?
Bet you never thought your half ? son would get jumped by some cacs ha?
You probably know the mothers of the cacs tried to body ya son ha?
I grew up around whites they never hurt me they fed an kept me it was always u overly masculine black men who are the problem i despise your kind.we just wana read Shakespeare an dance .
Mods aren't doing their job. -
But but but all the racists are in the South...
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blackgod813 wrote: »So you thought ya son was safe around the whites ha?
Thought he could play cowboys and Indian and he was the only Indian ha?
Bet you never thought your half ? son would get jumped by some cacs ha?
You probably know the mothers of the cacs tried to body ya son ha?
I grew up around whites they never hurt me they fed an kept me it was always u overly masculine black men who are the problem i despise your kind.we just wana read Shakespeare an dance .
Can we get this idiot the ? off this site??? -
blackgod813 wrote: »So you thought ya son was safe around the whites ha?
Thought he could play cowboys and Indian and he was the only Indian ha?
Bet you never thought your half ? son would get jumped by some cacs ha?
You probably know the mothers of the cacs tried to body ya son ha?
I grew up around whites they never hurt me they fed an kept me it was always u overly masculine black men who are the problem i despise your kind.we just wana read Shakespeare an dance .
Can we get this idiot the ? off this site???
I grew up in a white neighborhood im obviously black...i can beat u up i got gold teeth an i ? hoes ? im da man -
blackgod813 wrote: »So you thought ya son was safe around the whites ha?
Thought he could play cowboys and Indian and he was the only Indian ha?
Bet you never thought your half ? son would get jumped by some cacs ha?
You probably know the mothers of the cacs tried to body ya son ha?
I grew up around whites they never hurt me they fed an kept me it was always u overly masculine black men who are the problem i despise your kind.we just wana read Shakespeare an dance .
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Attempted murder.
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So you thought ya son was safe around the whites ha?
Thought he could play cowboys and Indian and he was the only Indian ha?
Bet you never thought your half ? son would get jumped by some cacs ha?
You probably know the mothers of the cacs tried to body ya son ha?
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Racism still exists people. I can't believe it.
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@kat would you react the same way as this mother if this happened to your child?
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Imma need you to stop @ing me to all things interracial.
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stringer bell wrote: »
Street justice for the win -
Imma need you to stop @ing me to all things interracial.
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ghostdog56 wrote: »
Clearly.
I'm too suspicious to allow my child to play with kids I don't know personally and certainly not without my supervision.
I don't know how I would react exactly but I know it wouldn't be pretty. I also know I'd have some words for any family member trying to cop pleas for these racist ? . Not sure it was racially motivated? ? the ? outta here.