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LanternWaste

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7. When I was 12, my parents let me ride home cross-country with my older sister

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 05:20 PM

Dec 2013

When I was 12, my parents let me ride home cross-country with my older sister (17) and her two best friends rather than themselves after a family reunion.

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Young white dancer with her two black instructors handcuffed by Houston Police [View all] G_j Dec 2013 OP

her mother added some additional info that was copied in the comments section.... mike_c Dec 2013 #1

Yay cops. Always looking to protect us from all the scumbags Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #2

The parents should be the ones in handcuffs BlueStreak Dec 2013 #3

Supervision, like the two instructors she was with? Scootaloo Dec 2013 #4

Yesh they were , what, 17 years old? BlueStreak Dec 2013 #6

When I was 12, my parents let me ride home cross-country with my older sister LanternWaste Dec 2013 #7

Looked them up on Facebook Revanchist Dec 2013 #8

That might be worse. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #9

That's one of many ways to rationalize it. LanternWaste Dec 2013 #10

And yet, if they were all the same color, no one would have batted an eye Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #13

I can't speak for the police action. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #16

Huh? Glassunion Dec 2013 #18

Neglect. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author Glassunion Dec 2013 #24

So to you black chaperones = neglect Glassunion Dec 2013 #25

It is a pair of males barely past puberty BlueStreak Dec 2013 #28

Again. Perhaps you should read the article. 29 years old = barely past puberty. Glassunion Dec 2013 #44

You have no idea what you are talking about. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #47

I have no idea what I'm talking about? You never took time to read the article. Glassunion Dec 2013 #48

I don't deny that. I think you are stating the obvious. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #49

LOL, you start off with no information and then double down on your errors. n-t Logical Dec 2013 #19

Wow. nt TBF Dec 2013 #45

Good gawd LadyHawkAZ Dec 2013 #46

Yeah, cause all 22-yr old men are not to be trusted NickB79 Dec 2013 #14

Well said, though I do not agree with the fact that she RebelOne Dec 2013 #15

How about the two black men? MattBaggins Dec 2013 #22

I don't even understand that question BlueStreak Dec 2013 #32

How is it obvious they did something? vaberella Dec 2013 #52

Re: the boys, I take your point. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #56

The writer didn't do go into those details...that doesn't mean it didn't happen. vaberella Dec 2013 #58

If they were all white, or all black, or all Latino BlueStreak Dec 2013 #59

Doubtful. If you saw my family together...we are not all the same shade of Black. vaberella Dec 2013 #60

Did you even read the article or watch the video? Glassunion Dec 2013 #20

It doesn't make you a prude TransitJohn Dec 2013 #23

Hiphop dance party? Really? Rex Dec 2013 #30

I took note of that too. vaberella Dec 2013 #53

I would love to see some of these keyboard dancers get up and Rex Dec 2013 #57

Did you not read the article? gollygee Dec 2013 #34

But but but, those males are barely past the age of puberty! Rex Dec 2013 #37

This is a really old stereotype gollygee Dec 2013 #41

I agree, very ugly. Rex Dec 2013 #42

I disagree with Bluestreak, but accusing him or her of this sort of racism is itself ugly. Vattel Dec 2013 #51

I don't think they accused the poster of racism as so much perpetuating racist ideas. vaberella Dec 2013 #54

Not to put too fine a point on it, but they were, well, dance instructors Recursion Dec 2013 #63

Oh, so now we're turning a thread about racial outrage into a gay stereotyping thread? BlueStreak Dec 2013 #64

Feel the same about it seveneyes Dec 2013 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Lilyeye Dec 2013 #61

And they were black Capt. Obvious Dec 2013 #35

And barely past the age of puberty! Rex Dec 2013 #38

I grew my first hairs at age 21 Capt. Obvious Dec 2013 #39

Yeah I don't think they count, for some reason. Rex Dec 2013 #29

Actually, the goddamned COPS should be the ones in handcuffs... Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #12

The mother entrusted the instructors fujiyama Dec 2013 #26

An anonymous person on DU disagrees with the mother's opinion of the two men. Hosnon Dec 2013 #43

Let me guess, if the sexes were reversed, you wouldn't have a problem with it, right? n/t X_Digger Dec 2013 #27

^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^ +1000000000000000 Coyotl Dec 2013 #40

Excellent question actually. I wonder. n/t vaberella Dec 2013 #55

She had supervision gollygee Dec 2013 #33

Wow! Cha Dec 2013 #5

K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2013 #17

Of course the cops will always think the worst. Rex Dec 2013 #31

Kick. xulamaude Dec 2013 #36

I don't personally know the people who ordered the handcuffing Pitagoras Dec 2013 #50

the cops asked the mother if she knew her daughter was with 2 "black" guys, he mentioned them being JI7 Dec 2013 #62