Social Justice Advocate Collapses and Dies At Edwardsville High School Gym

KSDK-NBC-5:

A 15-year-old Edwardsville High School student collapsed at school Friday and later died at an area hospital, officials said.

Leamon “J.R.” Anderson Jr., an incoming sophomore, was participating in an open gym when he collapsed around 3 p.m., Superintendent Ed Hightower said.
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J.R. was taken by ambulance to Anderson Hospital in Maryville, Ill., where he was pronounced dead at 4:11 p.m., officials said.

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English teacher Carol Wilkerson said J.R. already had an idea about what he wanted to do with his life.

“He cared passionately about social injustice — he was always interested in helping those who were downtrodden and in speaking out for those who needed assistance.

As if to say that his presence was needed to counterbalance most of the rest of the faculty, staff and students at Edwardsville High School, who surely advocate social injustice.

Ganged-Up Moms

Here we go again:  Another story about a gangland mother prodding her son to go pop someone because he got dissed.  Remember Clarence Johnson?

Ain’t That a Shame

So, it’s “shameful” for a Beverly Hills cop to leak a report, but it’s not “shameful” that your client drives drunk and snorts coke. Better not start with the moral equivalency games, girl.

Swinging Singles

AFP:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Unmarried Americans are a growing segment of the population but vote less than their wedded counterparts in elections, tending to favor Democrats over Republicans, said a study published Friday.

Single Americans 15 years of age and older now account for 45.2 percent of the US population, against 34.4 percent in 1960, Women’s Voices Women Vote said in its study titled “Unmarried America 2007: America’s New Majority.”

I hope there aren’t many 15-year old married people. I hope there aren’t any 15-year old voters.

Note to Virginian in Virginia: Slow Down

The man is out to siphon your wallet.

In Tennessee There Is No Beer

Well, not that there isn’t any beer, it’s that everyone will be carded when trying to purchase beer in grocers and retailers. It does not apply to wine and liquor, and does not apply to restaurant settings.

How convenient that a state known for hard liquor rather than beer would exempt hard liquor. Of course, if this law were passed in Missouri, it would have applied to hard liquor, and not wine (Missouri has a relatively well-known wine industry), and certainly not to beer.

I have had a CofCC member in Tennessee tell me that, on the occasions they’re visiting St. Louis and Missouri, they take advantage of the cheap prices and stock up on beer.

Blacks Are Being Refreshingly Frank About Themselves Lately

Gary Sheffield last week, and Tavis Smiley this week.

WND:

Tavis Smiley: Blacks too ‘emotional’ to obey rules

The moderator of Thursday’s Democrat presidential debate said he did not ask the mostly black audience to refrain from applauding candidates’ answers, because blacks are too “emotional” to obey such a rule.

Asked by C-Span host Brian Lamb why he didn’t enforce a no-applause rule for his PBS-sponsored debate like other debate formats, moderator Tavis Smiley explained: “Because black people are an emotional people. I know it wouldn’t have worked.”

Smiley says the black audience attending the 90-minute session at Howard University would not have listened or complied with such a request for silence, suggesting African-Americans are unable to control themselves.

Where would he get a silly idea like that? Actually, the more pertinent question is this: Why are white candidates for President on the Democratic ticket giving a black audience something to be emotional and whoop and holler about?

In May 2002, when St. Louis City Firefighters Rob Morrison and Derek Martin perished trying to battle a fire in a south St. Louis industrial building, their memorial services demonstrated a stark reminder in racial differences. Morrison’s was at a Lutheran church in south St. Louis, and you can imagine what its services were like. Martin’s was at an AME church in the Central West End, and from all the whoopin’ and hollerin’ and rolling around in the pews that its attendees did, one would think that they were at a celebration rather than a funeral.