HipChick (8,321 posts)
Women set on fire by KKK, police investigating possible hate crime
A Winnsboro, LA woman is hospitalized in critical condition after someone set her on fire.
Sharmeka Moffitt, a woman of African descent...
Not even "African-American" anymore.
Fine. Whatever. Get a residency visa or GTFO.
HopeHoops (44,304 posts)
4. "possible"?
justiceischeap (8,052 posts)
17. That's my first thought when I read this story. nt
HopeHoops (44,304 posts)
18. Seriously. Possible? What the **** else could it be?
onenote (20,857 posts)
22. As it turns out, it could be something else
Apparently it was self-inflicted.
I don't understand why people do this shit. Do they ever get away with it?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021599715Different thread:
Xipe Totec (28,625 posts)
Woman claims 3 men set her on fire, wrote racial slurs on her car in northeastern Louisiana...
randome (7,668 posts)
2. Why do I suspect her next statement will be, "I got better."
Xipe Totec (28,625 posts)
4. She's got burns over 50% of her body, some of them 3rd degree.
I honestly did not understand what you meant in your reply.
randome (7,668 posts)
6. Just that these blatantly offensive stories often turn out to not be true.
Maybe it happened the way she says but I remain skeptical until more of an investigation occurs.
As I'm nothing but an Internet poster, I can afford to wait for more information.
Xipe Totec (28,625 posts)
10. Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Lt. Julie Lewis says Sharmeka Moffitt was found with burns
on more than half of her body when police responded to her 911 call Sunday night.
Now, I can understand being skeptical when all you have to go on was the word of the victim.
But this is the Louisiana State Police reporting the extent of her injuries.
randome (7,668 posts)
17. It's the KKK supposedly leaving their signature on her car that makes me suspicious.
SunSeeker (2,425 posts)
23. I see it as a threat, not a "signature."
I lived in Louisiana. That is one racist state. Not all racists belong to the KKK. But bigots do like to invoke the KKK to intimidate people of color. Whoever scrolled KKK on her car may or may not have been a member of the KKK, but rather did it to intimidate African Americans, just like the idiots who deface Jewish community center walls with swatstikas are not members of the Nazi party, but just do it to imtimidate Jews.
Apparently, Ms. Mofftit is the racist whom you speak of.
SemperEadem (7,375 posts)
26. Are you calling the victim a liar?
yes or no.
randome (7,668 posts)
44. No.
Shoulda said, "yes."
cstanleytech (4,624 posts)
52. I dont believe randome is doing that at all.
Rather it seems that randome is willing to ask questions and is that really a bad thing?
After all sometimes things are not what they seem like when that one women claimed that a black women threw acid in her face and later it was discovered she lied and did it to herself.
heaven05 (1,009 posts)
54. well
like I said, certain cultural and/or racial certainties are implied in this case, kkk, black victim, so defense of the alleged perpetrators and their apologists is understandable...in this mean, vicious country of hateful ignorance.
How about mean, hateful race-baiters?
Posteritatis (15,218 posts)
72. There's "asking questions" and there's going full hypothetical without reading a thing
Randome saw the headline alone and immediately assumed the victim wasn't injured at all. Pretty much every 'question' and assumption that's been tossed out since then could have been addressed by reading the first paragraph of the initial story, never mind the rest of the article. Hell, even the victim's skin color has been denied at least once in the whole "discussion," despite that being fifth word of the first sentence of the article.
You don't have to outright say "I am calling you a liar" to do that when enough layers of increasingly-convoluted "questions" and implications and misdirections and innocent claims of skepticism (which is a different thing from reflexive rejection) will do the job just as well.
So yes, I do believe that what randome is doing is calling the victim a liar, because the very first thing he said in this thread did just that. That decision isn't waiting for "more information," it was the immediate, kneejerk conclusion reached and settled before even reading the article.
Is it exhausting to expend that much mental energy just to be flat wrong?
Probably not as it is an incessant activity with them.
But you would think.
LisaL (20,811 posts)
79. Police think the injuries were self-inflicted.
"Two days after multiple law enforcement agencies began an investigation into the attack and burning of a Winnsboro woman at Civitan Park, authorities now believe the wounds were self-inflicted."
http://www.franklinsun.com/news.php?id=5412
Xipe Totec (28,625 posts)
87. Thank you for the update.
Sad and tragic story.
Unfathomable.
Except is was fathomed.
SemperEadem (7,375 posts)
27. she's black, therefore she's a liar
because no white man could ever do anything like that.
I got a dollar that says SimperingSodom is twice as angry now that it was NOT an act of white-on-black violence.
bitchkitty (6,398 posts)
38. Really?
You're going to invoke Tawana Brawley?
Racism and intolerance always make me sick. But when I see these little clues dropped by posters on DEMOCRATIC Underground, it makes me feel like someone has punched me in the stomach.
Thanks for punching me, asshole.
Better to be punched in the stomach than shoot yourself in the foot.
randome (7,668 posts)
42. Huh? 'Clues'?
No clues dropped nor implications intended. I said I'm suspicious when something this blatantly racist occurs. That doesn't mean I discount it and it doesn't mean I wholeheartedly believe everything I read, either.
heaven05 (1,009 posts)
49. you
are an....never mind! You know it already.
LanternWaste (14,995 posts)
61. Although I'm quite certain you didn't discount the possibility that it may have happened...
I imagine your suspicions were greatly raised when a black man in Jasper, Texas was dragged to his death in the summer of '98. Although I'm quite certain you didn't discount the possibility that it may have happened...
randome (7,668 posts)
63. So you're accusing me of being racist because I don't believe everything I read?
Especially an article with sketchy details like this one?
Maybe it happened as the article implies, maybe it didn't. Why make any assumptions?
heaven05 (1,009 posts)
51. some
people will defend other vicious people because of cultural and/or racial certainties being implied. I'm not surprised by the ones stating it might be a drive by burning or faked. Nothing surprises me much anymore.
I doubt you'll be surprised by the depths of your own stupidity, weakness and race-mongering.
You're just not that self-aware.
LiberalEsto (14,492 posts)
29. Those f*cking neo-Nazi savages belong in prison
It's sickening that this sort of thuggery still happens in the U.S.
The perpetrator belongs in prison regardless of whatever adjectives eventually accompany the booking report.
But I'm guessing you'll give her a mulligan on her racist attack because she's black and the targets were white.
agentS (1,123 posts)
37. The police should send undercover agents to bars all over the nearby counties
These punks will be bragging about it, like bank robbers always do. Their buddies will be hi-fiveing them.
Settle down, Beavis.
randome (7,668 posts)
80. For what it's worth to anyone...
...I don't consider myself 'right' about any of this. I just pointed out a couple of things that made me suspicious.
No apologies. No vindication. Let's just move on to the next argument...er, discussion.
****-you, racist honky cracka motha ****a!
cali (75,209 posts)
82. I think you're being damned gracious and I further think
that the people that jumped all over you and called you the worst kind of racist have behaved despicably in this thread. Disgusting.
meh
You get used to it.
randome (7,668 posts)
85. I'm betting they learned something as well as I did.
It's all good.
Now you're wrong.
It's not good.
It's being used to silence dissent and criminalize free and decent people.
Xipe Totec (28,625 posts)
86. I certainly did learn something - Thanks
I should have cut you more slack, and waited for the follow up reports from the authorities.
Having said that, and recognizing that your words did raise doubts about the incident, there were two separate lines of skepticism raised.
One, that the injuries were exaggerated.
Two, alternatively, that the injuries were self-inflicted.
The first turned out to be false, the second true.
I'm glad you're still here, because minds that are not easily influenced by peer pressure are rare.
Despite the mention of Brawley and the other hoaxes.
So what you're saying is: It won't ever happen again...
...until the next time.
Especially if it's politically convenient.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014275892
