Let’s say that you were arrested for drug possession. Now, let’s say that the drugs you were found to be in possession of were “31.5 grams of packaged cocaine, 126 grams of high grade marijuana, 29 ‘ecstasy’ tablets, methamphetamine and 60 doses of a drug similar to LSD.” Furthermore, let’s say that when cops searched your cell phone, they found that you weren’t just using drugs yourself, but you were selling them as well. You’re going to jail for a long time, yes? Not if your father is a DEA official.
19-year-old Sarah Furay was arrested in College Station, Texas in early November, and charged with possession of the above list of drugs. But Furay had a “get out of jail free card.” Her father, Bill Furay, is the head of the Beaumont, Texas DEA office. So after being taken to the police station and smiling for the camera, Furay spent one night in jail and was released on $39,000 bail.
Furay is facing three felony drug trafficking counts, and up to 215 years in jail, thanks to Texas’s harsh drug laws. But observers say that she is likely to spend little if any time in jail.
How did the media report this? She was called “an adorable drug kingpin.” In several outlets the main interest wasn’t Furay’s crime, but her smiling mugshot, which has been labeled “the happiest mugshot in America.” And why shouldn’t she be smiling? Her skin is the right color, and daddy is in charge of the local drug war machinery. It seems his troops have been spending too much time in poor neighborhoods, and not enough time at their boss’s house.
Speaking of media reporting, go to the Fox News website, and do a search for “Sarah Furay.” Zero results. But do a search for “drug dealer,” and up pops several stories, including one with the mugshots of several young men of color. Furay was arrested almost a month ago. You might think that the “fair and balanced” network would have done at least one story about her. Apparently they’ve been too busy demonizing Muslims and people of color to notice this “adorable” little white girl.
Make no mistake, this isn’t Sarah Furay’s fault. Which of us wouldn’t use any means at our disposal to get out of something like the charges facing her? She is merely the most recent poster child for white privilege in America. You know, that white privilege that all your conservative friends say doesn’t exist.
Here’s a report on the white privilege of Sarah Furay:
Featured image via Brazos County Jail/RNGlobal.tv
I’m white and have never been privileged in anything. Nobody has ever cut me a break. I’ve had to struggle for everything i’ve ever received. So white privilege is B.S. I have been discriminated against because I’m white. I was discriminated against because some thought I was Mexican. I’m sick of people saying stupid things and creating labels for what is just plain ignorance against people and disrespect for people. Let’s get real. Some people who don’t get everything they want call foul. Some people like me just keep on truckin’.
Lot of white kids being gunned down by black cops in your neighborhood, are there?
Lot of old black ladies crossing the street so they won’t have to pass close to some young white guys chatting on a street corner in your neighborhood?
Lot of open carry black guys being chatted up by white cops, then merrily going on their way without incident in your neighborhood?
Your life was tough? So was mine. So were a lot of other peoples’. Congratulations, you survived.
And how does that in any way disprove the pervasive white privilege in this country again?
Just a question, what are you doing to make your community a better place, I don’t mean any disrespect by this, you have so many complaints I’m just curious. Are you familiar with your community leaders, do you attend the community meetings?
As a matter of fact I do.
I volunteer with both the Texas Ramp Project and Habitat for Humanity.
I am a city planner and am involved with all aspects of making my community a better place to live.
I was a volunteer firefighter until I just got too old to do that anymore.
How about you?
That is great.encourage people to do the same and you can change things. I am also involved in my monthly community meetings and I just voted to stop a third liquor store from coming in right next to two others. And like I stated above I was envolved in planning and opening a community garden. which until what I mentioned above happened in another post on this thread which I would encourage you to check out. We provided food for low income family’s at a produce stand at a local community center that used to be a fire station. I was a big part of efforts to bring a farmers market to my community which was shut down due to lack of support. I am a white person and census says I live in a primary black community I am the only white family on my block. I am also a full time student and I work on the books. Keep up the good work. I live in what they call a food desert. Which is why my efforts have been primarily to help the urban agriculture commission. Right now we are in. Negotiations to open an local urban farm with the landlord owners of an very large open lot which is currently used as a dumping ground. Keep up the good work yourself.
Yea, food deserts are a very real problem in urban areas. Keep up the good work. The urban gardens are really catching on, and are important when the population starts to age. It may be the best food they can get.
Perhaps when the cashiers at inner city stores don’e need bullet proof glass enclosures to protect them, some businesses might move in?
Your bumper sticker worldview of incredibly complex issues betrays you.
Cops kill twice as many white people as black people. LOOK IT UP
Except there are 4 times as many white people as black people, so if the cops were treating blacks and whites the same, they should be killing 4 times as many white people. The fact that it is only twice as many means they are killing black people at a greater rate than white people.
Black males commit vastly disproportionate amount of violent crime therefore come into violent conflict with the police more often.
Any evidence to back that up?
he heard it somewhere. probably the same spot trump saw all those new jersey muslims celebrating 9/11.
I heard it and read it 100 places. Including DOJ and FBI statistics. I’m sorry that you don’t know how to use Google. That’s very sad.
should I post links to all the unicorn photos I can find with google? if I read it on the internet, it must be true.
are you an imbecile on purpose?
The same way you hear something from the media and assume it’s true? That makes you an imbecile too, right? Toby1 may have read and heard it but the statistics are what they are, even as much as black folks would like to convince themselves they are mistreated. Says the media!
except I’m not on here saying I found something in the news so it must be true. I’m not on here saying I found stuff by using google and then claiming that it’s true. I’m not claiming anything I read anywhere is real and true,. I have not been claiming that folks of some ethnicities are more criminal than others. nor would I.
so no, I am not an imbecile, too.
…….oddly enough white americans have been recorded even at the most blatantly racist points in history as denying the existence or impaction of racism on the daily lives of black americans…………….I suppose that this is a way of dealing with inequity that was NEVER created (if there was a time where equity was created please give example)………..what this nation really needs to look into is white male rage……
Trump wrote some “statistics” i would guess that that is “proof”
Yes. It’s not because I have researched it and found it to be true. I just follow ‘Trump’ like a little dog. Sure sure.
And it was found that Donald Trump got his racial “statistics” off of White Supremacists web sites dedicated to hating and killing blacks, Hispanics, and Jews, like Stormfront. Just racial hating statistics they made up….
this is a thing I can actually believe.
Yes. You are allowed to believe that. It is permitted in your little religion.
yeah sure. you have no idea what I’m talking about. sure sure. See, there’s this amazing thing called Google Ted, where you can FIND THINGS OUT FOR YOURSELF! Amazing huh?
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It’s not my job to prove your statements. It’s called burden of proof.
The burden of proof with people like you is not worth paying. You have no interest in knowing the truth. You will simply dismiss it. It’s a waste of time
Then if it is not worth your time sharing your proof, then shut the f*** up.
Google ‘black crime statistics US’ or you shut the f*** up
I shared the proof for him! Straight from the actual statistics! You follow media statistics. I’m looking at actual REAL LIFE statistics.
So, no evidence then to back up your statement, got it.
It’s your claim, so the burden of proof is on you.
This is not a courtroom. I am not required to enlighten you or waste half an hour trying to convince you either. Find out for yourself by Googling ‘black crime statistics US’ or just, you know, bugger off
So I can safely disregard whatever else you have to say. Noted.
Like anyone cares what you think! Go eat a box of Twinkies and keep dreaming. The media told me you eat a lot of Twinkies. I don’t have proof but they said you do!
I googled bullshit.
Your comments came up.
Try Googling ‘frightened white pansy’. See what comes up.
YOU are the one who are stating this stuff, therefore it is up to YOU to provide the cites and links. You got these so-called facts someplace. So just provide the links. Unless you are just making them up.
People like you throws out so many lies and present them as “facts”, then expect the rest of us to waste our time looking for them.
If you cannot back up what you are saying, then you are a LIAR. It is not nobody else’s job to prove that you are not.
No, they don’t. They get caught and sent to prison at a disproportionate rate-prime example: George Zimmerman looks white. His father is white. He runs around with a gun, threatening people, shooting kids, and abusing his significant others. This has been documented MULTIPLE times. Never went to jail. Police are more prone to use violence against non-whites. See also: Tamir Rice, who was a child, playing with a toy. They didn’t even talk to him. He wasn’t being violent.
Sure Amanda. That’s why you live in a majority black neighborhood, right?
George Zimmerman looks white? You obviously need glasses. He looks Hispanic and is registered as a Hispanic. The crime statistics are available for all to see. The majority of violent crime is committed by black people, putting officers at higher risk. Black people are arrested on average 4 million times a year, and are killed by cops on average of 125 times a year. That means the number of black suspects who were taken alive is 99.997%. Since percentages are so important. In 2013 black men killed 2698 people and accounted for 52% of murder arrests. In 2013 white men killed 2746 people and accounted for 45% of murder arrests. Blacks are 13% to 16% of the population. Whites along with other races who identify themselves as white, is well over 70% GO FIGURE!! You won’t though, because you’ll keep listening to the media who’s using ignorance as a pawn. Keep on drinking the MEDIA Kool Aid.
…………not sure where you got the statistics that blacks commit more violent crimes that white americans…..that isn’t even a catorgory of study on the FBI crime stat page……..meanwhile people who actually understand how to interpret statistical data know that a stat is created by taking a small sample of a population and using it to generalize an entire population it does not mean ACTUAL numbers….????? But if you want to talk stats…….. in 2014 the Washington post wrote several articles that stated that nearly 90 percent of white americans don’t have a close personal relationship or live near a black American……..and yet white americans are the most vocal about race relations in America and the condition of black America…how can you…most of you only know what you see on the internet……you have no clue what you are talking about……
You need to look at the numbers. for example murders committed in 2014- no reference to arrest, prosecution, or punishment. just measure the actions of the individuals not what happened to them AFTER they committed the crime. 4367 whites committed murder- 5173 blacks did. There is NO reason or skin color that allows you to justify MURDER. How is it that picking a random black person and a random white one you are 7x as likely to get a murderer with the black? Skin color doesn’t commit the crime. individuals do. People like yourself who are so ignorant and biased think we should let black criminals go until we only punish the same percentage as whites. Dishonest and immoral. individuals commit crime, individuals need punished. if more whites commit crime then more whites get punished. if more blacks commit more more blacks. its not about skin color stupid. its about the individuals choice to commit the crime.
I am from Detroit currently living in San diego…….the fact that you have placed ideas on me based off of my comment only proves your bias and ignorance…………all I know is this girl should be prosecuted fairly and that stat the states the blacks committ more crimes than whites is false…..you can’t go add a bunch of stats up to create a number stats are based on a population……you would have to create a sample size and then calculate accordingly
George Zimmerman’s father was a judge. The charge was murder it should have been manslaughter which could have stuck. The wrong charge guaranteed that he would get off.
That is where you are remarkably wrong unless you use HONEST facts. take the convictions out of the equation to eliminate any prejudice in the justice system. Look at something universally wrong- murders. doesn’t even imply whether they were convicted or not, just who did it. in 2014 there were 4367 murders committed by whites and 5173 committed by blacks. And given the population disparity that means that the average black is 7x as likely to commit murder as the average white. Thats not just a matter of policing or prejudiced justice system, Those were individuals who people like you making excuses for simply because of the color of their skin, not their choice to commit a crime. Until crime is not seen as acceptable in many black communities, it appears the only way to keep black from being held accountable is your ignorant claims that we should punish blacks and whites based on percentage of population not on the individual. Until we hold INDIVIDUALS accountable regardless of their color, biased people like you are going to continue to promote violence and crime.
You have NO idea, how many White people, White Rich people, White Politically connected people get away with criminal and unenthical activity. Recent news also confirmed that the FBI lied about research on evidence, causing Innocent people to go to jail. In several Counties in the U.S. this same practice has been done by Police Officer’s to get a conviction against Innocent people. So again, WE THE PEOPLE have no idea of how corrupt the Legal/Police system is. If we had Reality CSI, it might be a wake-up call to Enforce having quality CSI units in every County to identify the guilty & to have solid evidence for a convinction or to identify the innocent so THEY can move on with each Case they investigate. Equal LAW and Equal punishment must be upheld for ALL citizens.
They are corrupt against ALL races. Always have been! It’s not just against black people. There are poor white people too you know! How about rich black people, Like Bill Cosby? So it’s RICH PEOPLE not a color!
wrong, black people are disproportionately charged and convicted than whites that commit the same offenses.
Oh yeah? Is that why they renamed Chicago ‘Chiraq’ ? Cos of all the white people murdering each other?
Except whites outnumber blacks in America by 6 to 1 (211 million to 34 million roughly) in terms of total population. So in order for them to be getting killed at a higher rate (as in, persons killed by police per thousand) the total number would have to be much much higher than 2 to 1. It would in fact have to be *higher* than 6 to 1, which it isn’t. Not even close.
Additionally, you see the same discrepancy in incarceration, ticketing, sentence severity, and number of convictions. We have numbers on all of this. If you only look at the first one you’ve missed 90% of the picture.
Maybe “look it up”?
Your clever statistical point is absolute horseshit, because Black males are committing a VASTLY disproportionate amount of violent crime compared to their numbers.. If you compare police shootings of people WHO ARE COMMITTING VIOLENT CRIME, you see that cops are more likely to shoot white suspects than black ones.
Black males commit vastly disproportionate amount of violent crime therefore come into violent conflict with the police more often. Maybe look that up.
This comments section is being heavily edited. Well, you can delete my comments here in your little fiefdom, but you can’t stop the truth from getting out. The tide has changed. Nobody is buying the black victim routine any more. Your little kingdom of lies is shrinking.
Yeah, so there are 6 times as many whites as blacks in US, meaning blacks are killed 3 times as much per cap. I don’t get your point.
Well let me explain in short words then. Police tend to shoot people who are committing violent crime, and blacks commit 8 times more violent crime than whites. Does that clear it up for you?
How does whining and blaming everyone else make your life better? It makes you.weak.and needy, waiting.for a hand out instead.of a helping hand. Quit crying.and prove people wrong. Character isn’t.bestowed upon.you it is developed thru hard work.and determination. It like I.always told my kids, there is a right.way and a wrong way to do everything. The wrong way is easy. And you ALWAYS have a choice. The right way is hard but always better. So if you want to drop out of school and sell drugs you know the consequences. It’s your choice.
You have totally missed the point. Freddie Gray was described in a CNN article as the “son of an illiterate heroin addict” and he was a VICTIM. This white daughter of a DEA agent was caught with a shitload of illegal drugs and evidence of sales/distribution, but SHE is described as “an Adorable Drug Kingpin”! Let me also point out that SHE was the one selling drugs!!! So, why isn’t the media excoriating HER? Why does your post imply that “consequences” and “choice” apply to the black folk discussed in the thread you’re responding to, but doesn’t AT ALL mention HER or HER “consequences” and “choice”?
Noting the disparate treatment is not “whining”. It’s stating a FACT, and pointing to a larger issue. How is it supposed to change, if it’s not pointed out? Oh, right gotcha - it’s not supposed to. Black folk selling drugs have “consequences” for their “choice”. I have no problem with that. Pretty little white girls who sell deadly drugs are “Adorable Drug Kingpins” and you think calling that out is “whining”? GTFOHWTBS!!!
Something to do with Freddie having THIRTY previous convictions, including assault? Maybe? Nah. it cos dey racist!
No matter how many convictions he previously had, in THIS instance he was the VICTIM. Nor does how many convictions he had explain why SHE is not being treated the same way! Address the point and stop trying to deflect.
Deflect? previous record is a pivotal factor in deciding how to treat an offender
Physically? No. For convictions? Yes.
He was physically cuffed and put in the back of a police van. Just like the thirty previous times. He was asked if he needed medical attention. He refused. Nobody know what happened to him in the back of the van, but even the protesters are not claiming he was assaulted. One way or another he fell down and broke his spine.
Meanwhile all the other ‘victims’ of Baltimore have massacred 300 of their own this year alone.
He was hogtied before he was placed in the van on his stomach. He did not need medical attention until after the severe injury, which happened in the van. And the injury was consistent with someone sliding forward and hitting their head on the wall of the van.
You understand very little about urban issues, and you like to blame the victim for existing.
Wow, you really got the Faux Noise sanitized version of this story, didn’t you?
He repeatedly told them he was injured and needed a doctor.
The cops admitted taking people for one of these “bumpy” rides was common practice.
And your pathetic attempt to release the police from blame while WHAT? blaming other non-related criminals for what happened to this kid is the mark of a true-believin’ (C)onservative Foxbot.
That is not the information I have read. I saw the video. i didn’t see him ‘repeatedly asking for medical attention’. I know about the ‘bumpy ride’ story. but does that constitute murder? This was his 30th time. And half of the officers charged are black. In what Universe is this racist cops killing an innocent black kid. Baltimore cops have had it. They have retreated. that is what you will get. 300 murders this year. Congratulations.
The black, female cop admitted he asked for medical attention. In her report. At least, that is what was reported by several stations at the time.
The bumpy ride is a tactic used by many police departments. Less now than before, but still around. Like getting smacked with a phone book. Man, I love the classics!
So, because he has a record, that allows the cops to kill him? My son, a 15 year veteran of the police force, would be surprised to hear that.
Was this racially motivated? I don’t know. Cops tend to see blue and everyone else, a lot of the time. May have been simple police brutality. What does it matter? The kid was denied due process of law. End of story.
.. this comment section is bullshit. heavily moderated. nice and safe, I guess. I replied to you but it is ‘awaiting moderation’
Yea, I get that a lot. The moderators are like my Irish aunts. They keep the men from having any kind of “spirited” debate during the holidays.
Really takes a lot of the fun out of it, doesn’t it?
It’s nannying. safe space bullshit. Hey you’re the ex volunteer firefighter aren’t you
Yea, from many years ago.
These moderators would stroke out if they saw my family at the holidays or at wakes. Nothing like Irish and alcohol to make a party. Never has there been such a collection of low information/high opinion gathered before!
hehehe. I’m half Irish. Mother from Dublin. Know what you mean
Really? By the media? How do you figure? Trayvon Martin was deemed a “Thug” with no criminal record at all. This woman has enough drugs to potentially receive a 200 yr sentence and the media deems her “Adorable”? And even if you stay with Freddie Gray, in the instance the media was talking about him, he was the VICTIM and he’s described in worse terms, as a VICTIM, than this woman is in the report of her arrest as a drug dealing CRIMINAL. Try again…
THE MEDIA deemed Trayvon a thug! THE MEDIA thinks this girl is cute! Not the majority of people! That girl is not cute and the left media showed a pic of Trayvon from 5th grade when he actually looked like a grown man. Even so, I don’t think he deserved to be followed. That’s what led to him being shot. But a white man didn’t shoot him! A Hispanic man shot him! Freddie was the victim in that situation but he put himself in that situation. He was breaking the law and he should have complied. He’d be alive if he had just done what he was told. People need to learn from his mistake if anything. Police Officers are the authority whether we like it or not. What they say goes! This NON adorable white girl most likely put her hands behind her back when she was told. She won’t be adorable after court so don’t sweat it. The media set the trap and bait and you took it.
You are wasting your time. freespeechalways appears to be a perpetual victim of social evolution passing him by.
Ironic he talks about other people whining when that is how he started his post.
It’s the MEDIA’S fault! They wrote that up just to stir more racial tension. The white girl is not even cute! I assure you she won’t be cute when she gets in front of the judge! I’ll see you back here after her case is finished and then we’ll see her new mugshot and see just how cute she is for that one!
The beauty of privilege is that the privileged have no way to appreciate how good they’ve had it.
So your sure this kid will get at least 50 years? there is no chance she will walk. Well thank you for your imput. Are you a gambling sort of person cos i would love to have a wager this kid will do minimum time if any are you up for it the?.
I don’t think you will get any takers, I also don’t think she will do any time.
I THINK she’ll probably get off easy, but I don’t KNOW that, and I see no sense in getting outraged about something that hasn’t even happened yet.
Yeah, you’ve got it tough so white privilege is BS.
There are very few black people in drug and alcohol rehab. They end up in jail.
if you think you havent had any white privilege ever, your either too stupid to realize when you have had it or your a really such a bad dirt bag no one could over look it to notice the color of your skin.
That’s not what white privilege is. It’s not an indictment of you or me for being white; it’s just reality and once it’s been seen, it can’t be unseen. All you’re being asked to do is be aware. That’s it.
I am white. I have never been discriminated against; Not even once. Have I worked hard to get where I am? Not half as hard as the minorities around me. Can you loose at life while white? Yes. Can you win as a minority? Yes. The difference is, those of us with a privileged skin color are playing the game on easy mode.
Very sensible reply. I guess it’s all in how you’re raised
I have a feeling you are young and do not understand what white privilege is.
I’m white all the way to my roots. I have experienced White Privilege my entire life. Growing up I attended segregated public schools while the blacks had their own schools. These black schools were always lacking in infrastructure and scholastic opportunities. I could go into any restaurant in my home town through the front door. The blacks had to go to the back door and stay outside and ask if they could place an order. We had two movie theaters and blacks could only go to one and they had to sit in the balcony. Most stores had two water fountains. One labeled White Only and the other labeled Colored. My town had a professional baseball team in a Class D League (in the 40s and 50s). I could sit in the best seats but the blacks had their own bleachers and it was on the 3rd base side but beyond the 3rd base. In left field.Where I was first employed after high school I was given a job that was not available to a black person. They were hired only for janitorial jobs.Actually the story can continue for many years of experiencing White Privilege.
For Mr. Delusion…”freespeechalways”…he is full of BS.
no1curr
What “get out of jail free card”? She’s been charged with multiple felonies.
Otto, you do understand the difference between being charged with something and being found guilty of something, right?
or actually going to trial for something.
Don’t confuse these people with facts! They can only handle one narrative at a time!
And, many thought Breaking Bad was farfetched.
Be sure and comment AGAIN after she is sentenced, Mr. Greif. I bet you she won’t be getting any time close to what someone whose pappy isn’t a high muckity muck in a government job would be getting.
I blocked Greif, use troll away, it works!!
They should invent one for life! ‘Nasty reality blocker’ !
‘High muckety muck’ = anybody who is more succesfull or smarter or more brave or skilled or generally better than you
A lot of white folks think they had it tough. A lot of minorities have no idea what’s it’s like to have reliable transportation.
Well they do.
Maybe they should stop beating up people on buses then
^racist
coward
A lot of white people don`t know what it`s like to he reliable transportation either. op playing the victim, it`s getting pretty old.
Ever since I moved from the east coast to the west coast I have seen so much black on black crime. A black Grant high school student was gunned down in his school parking lot and the suspect still on the loose is said to be black by other people in the car, in the school parking lot where the student was killed.This was reported and happened the night of the Paris attacks. I live in this neighborhood and the funeral homes are always packed with funerals of young black gang members, two christmas’ ago a black man was shot in my front yard by…. yes another black man. There is so much hate between the black community. It has more to do with people of power rather than anything else. They open one liquor store next to another in my neighborhood and the majority of city council members are black. The now assistant mayor, Allen Warren, a black man is a proven womanizer and has stolen lots, and lots of money from his community. Yet he is still in the political game. I opened a community garden in my neighborhood, the lease holder was a black man running a non profit. He now owes the IRS thousands and thousands of dollars, on top of that he is fundraising saying he opened a “black” community garden. Brought people from a black church out to the property took pictures and is using that on his fundraiser page. I am not black and out of all the members of the garden trying to make the community better there was one other black person who helped with the garden efforts. His help has been greatly appreciated. Yet the nonprofit founder is still fundraising for his IRS bill. Our efforts have come to a halt because of it. I was raised in a white privilege community. Where the neighbors knew each other and did not conspire to hurt each other. They’re was hospitality. As well as joined community efforts to make it a better place. I lost that privilege when I moved from the east coast to the west coast of the U.S. and into a primarily black community. I’ve never seen such crazyness. This has corrupt people of power all over it not color. Reporters have a right to report on the things they want, and they do so to gain political privilege. These are all facts. Stop the hate, the greed, and the blaming and then maybe we all can live in a safe, better place.
The white privilege:: Pay your own college, pay taxes, WORK (for most), buy your own food, buy or rent your own house, Don’t get the job because your white, Don’t get scholorships because your white ans so on, Drive by and serve the non working lazy welfare freeloaders on way to WORK.. Yea fcuk you on your privileged white FCUK YOU
Cry me a river, jackwad.
When a cop arbitrarily shoots you like the dog you obviously are, I’ll give you a hanky.
Hope he doesn’t miss his shot and hit your mother in the head because my other head is down her throat
Sorry, my mother doesn’t do candyass crybabies. You must be thinking of your dad.
Now you know your mother is so awesome, ONCE she had that last tooth taken out.. But she sure could use some cleaning down below, that’s pretty stanky
That’s just your own breath, crybaby.
So typical of an illiterate, conservative dipstick. You don’t even have to respond, I know everything you are going to say before you say it. You guys all have the same playbook of dummass responses.
Although you bring up valid points, you ruin it when you start with the hate speech.
Maybe so but the freeloaders continue to cry for more
Here’s that hanky…
It would be nice if you and all those freeloaders would drink a shot of antifreeze.. I don’t mind contributing to your burial
With what, your check from working the drive-thru? Cuz you too ignant to be habbin’ any other job.
I’m quiet sure I make 3 times what you make.. It may be your daughter working for me as a maid and some special services on the side too.. If not I’m sure she is a ho to someone else
Sorry cupcake. The only way someone with your obviously low intelligence and no class could make that kind of money is dealing drugs. And I doubt anyone would trust you with anywhere near that kind of responsibility.
Sorry kid, you gotz no game, as my grandkids are way too fond of saying.
I will allow you to quit embarrassing yourself and shaming your family if you like. Just walk away.
America’s corporations are this country’s biggest freeloaders.
Most people on welfare work HARDER than other people. Being poor makes your whole LIFE hard work.
SMH, Get out in the world an see for yourself.. Like the ones going to the doctor on Medicaid driving a $70,000 SUV is that the hard working ones?
Wow, you swallowed that urban legend hook, line and sinker.
What a rube.
you’re an ignorant blind fcuk
blind? Really?
Damn, halfwit, is that how you think of the visually impaired? Shame on you. 😀
do you know how many bailouts corporations have received?
STOP with all those facts! You are confusing these people!
Of course, being white and connected will save her, but to be fair, that’s not a large amount of drugs: about an ounce of blow, 4 oz of weed, and a few dozen hits of ecstasy and acid. It’s enough for a big party with maybe a little acid left over.
Exactly.It’s party supplies. Obviously.
Surely you are joking. If not, does that make it OK to have differential treatment (swift and low bail for now)?
And you know there are black guys that are doing more time than she will get, for a few joints… not to mention that black guys who were killed, unarmed by the police/self-proclaimed “watchman” whose deaths were “justified”not by any drugs they actually had on them, but for traces of past personal use in their systems.
Yup, but being black in the US is already a crime. How many people have been murdered by cops simply for walking or driving while black?
60 hits of acid? Hecka big party, dude. And an ‘undisclosed’ amount of speed. What party do you go to that uses 4 oz of ‘high grade’ weed?
I said there would be some acid left over. I was thinking a large party of 60 or 70 people could do the other stuff.
Traffic 2….
She’s a roller who also supplies her rolling fiends, not some ghetto crack dealer selling to single Moms on welfare. This terribly sad self-hating white lefty journalist can’t see the difference, but the police and courts can. And she is adorable, compared to the scowling ugly goons we normally see in mugshots. And ‘white privilege’ ? Don’t make me laugh. You mean ‘daughter of DEA boss privilege’. And THAT would apply if she was black brown or green.
If you hate white people so much, why don’t you just die your skin and get an Afro wig, like Rachel Dalziel Wes?
“This terribly sad self-hating white lefty journalist”
Everything we need to know about you and your unevolved world view, encapsulated in one sentence.
Thank you.
All you need to know about me is that I don’t agree with this hysterical article.
Anybody who fails to grab their pitchfork and join the mob is ‘suspect’.
Say it ain’t so Lincoln.
Well, then you would do well not to talk like a racist cracker if you simply disagree with the article.
free supply from her dads raids
the legislators gave the right of leniency to the police not the judge, mandatory guidelines have dictated so. so if you are in the police camp the leniency comes from your camp. corruption comes to mind. clean up the govt and set a example for the public
I’m willing to wager 100$ that she gets 30 days in a rehab center and 5 years probation
am not going to take your bet because you are right
“You’re going to jail for a long time, yes? Not if your father is a DEA official.”
*sigh.* She’s out ON BAIL, and has yet to be sentenced! Do you understand the difference between being out on bail and getting off scot free?
Now, she MIGHT wind up with a ridulously light sentence because of her Dad. But it hasn’t happened yet, and your “news” article makes it sound like it DID.
I swear, the left is getting as idiotic and knee-jerk as the right, now. “We think something unfair and outrageous is GOING to happen, but we don’t know that. We’ll get outraged NOW, anyway!”
And by the way, I don’t see anyone calling her “adorable drug kingpin.” I see a video by the Young Turks SAYING that someone said that, without mentioning who, or where. Learn the concept of a “source,” ok?
The google machine doesn’t work where you are?
The Young Turks - professional race baiting crybabies
I think the outrage is that she got such a low and swift bail. That HAS happened. Then there is speculation that she will get off easy. Based on past experience, that is quite reasonable to assume, but you are right - that is only an assumption for now. But I did not think that the “”news” article makes it sound like it DID”. I think that is your bias.
We should strive to treat everyone as though their parents were DEA agents.
Out of everything analyzed “white privilege” was the least important part.
What got her out of trouble was:
1) She was a woman and women are show to receive less harsh punishments for the same crimes compared to men.
2) She was a “DEA AGENT’S” daughter.
You can bet a white middle class boy with no connections would have been destroyed in court. While being white certainly didn’t hurt the matter is definitely contributed the least compared to other aspects.
Funny how these authors totally skip this story in California about the mass shooting because it’s a radical Islamic terrorist that it looks like did it.
Fully how you put more value on certain lives and totally ignore others because it don’t fit your narritive.
True colors are showing!!!!
It’s the media bait and trap. The fools always take the bait.
What, you expect every single story to be about the San Berdo shootings? No other stories at all? No weather reports? No sports stories? Delete the comics page from the newspaper to provide more space for more stories speculating about the shooters? Funny how life goes on and most people son’t fixate on one thing, all the time. You can walk and chew gum at the same time right? Thats how life works Joe.
Bob Nelson
It’s about the double standard.
6 stories the first day before any facts were in and they all blamed right wing nuts
Yet because this doesn’t fit the narrative not one stoty.
So I guess the lives of those in California are not important but the ones in Colorado are?
See my point?
Funny, I’ve seen plenty of coverage on that story.
And this story came out before that happened.
Any other silly comments?
Not from addicting info you have that’s the point hello Mc fly
So, an internet snark site is your only source of news?
Well, good to focus, I guess.
I personally haven’t looked for it there, had my fill of that personal tragedy from broadcast news last night, so you may be right.
This isn’t white privilege, it’s law enforcement privilege.
Oh please…the amounts they’re talking about here are NOTHING. She was a petty dealer, who might have turned a little profit now and then, but probably mainly just supplied her friends. I should know. I’ve had WAY more product than that in the trunk of my car when I was younger, and I never considered myself a “dealer”, much less a “kingpin”. As far as “white priviledge”, anybody with enough money, stable address, and a good lawyer can bond out.
Don’t know if the bail was out of line, 19 Father in Law Enforcement, no record, pretty much on the money.
Be interesting to see how her father reacts.
I would put her out on the street with nothing but her clothes, personally, but that’s just my attitude towards kids who endanger their entire family.
It is amazing that some people are trying to justify this by the amount of drugs she had in her possession when she was arrested. Her phone told a tale of multiple drugs deals. Two hours earlier and she may have had twice as much.
But, that is all totally irrelevant.
What is relevant is, as several people have already mentioned, is the fact that there are minorities, lots of them, doing life in prison for one tenth of what she was arrested for. The point is that the sentencing is totally unbalanced on a racial scale.
It’s really not that hard to understand, so why all of the jibber jabber? Except for the folks who don’t believe selling drugs is an actual crime, but, what can you say to them?
Why is race even an issue? It isn’t about black or white. It is about the green.
Its
Arrested for dealing drugs and being white in Texas, out on bail. Sandra Bland arrested for failing to use her turn signal while being black in Texas. Died in jail. Would like to see DEA Daddy use his pull to investigate Sandra Bland death for Sarah’s community service.
Sorry Daniel, but I have seen the video on the Bland pullover. I too have been pulled over, in Texas, for exactly the same bullshit. Several times. Sometimes I got a warning, other times I got a ticket. An annoyingly expensive one. What I did not get was my dumbass, loudmouth arrested. Bland had lived in Texas for several years already. She knew the freaking routine. When you get pulled over, especially by DPS, you freaking maintain yourself. You say Thank You, you smile, and you drive away with whatever ticket they care to write you. And you are happy they didn’t search your trunk. End Of Story. The girl was a fool, she couldn’t keep her mouth shut. That doesn’t fly down here, and she knew it.
someone explain the “white” privilege here. I see very little if anything that had to do with her skin color, but her daddy’s position. if her daddy was any color, I don’ imagine this being any different….
The most adorable drug Kingpins? Jeb and George Bush Aug 1985 George W. and Jeb Bush were videotaped at Tamiami airport outside of Miami smuggling 2 kilos of coke in 1985. Barry Seal had the DEA video tape the actions. Seal ended up dead. We went on to attack Panama to silence Noriega.
She got the coverage because she was cute, smiling, and a DEA agents daughter; not because she was white. Was the bail $39,000 or was that what she had to pay to get out? Bail is set depending on the threat she poses to society and flight risk, not just the crime. That bail sounds about right for next to no danger to society and a minimal flight risk. Here’s non-white privilege. You can make all kinds of outlandish claims of racism of whites and not be held accountable. You can have just as long as sordid history of racism and slavery in your own cultures past but it won’t ever be mentioned. Your cultural heritage can be at fault for most of modern day slavery and oppression, but nobody will say anything for fear of being labeled racist themselves.
This is the living embodiment of white privilege.
Love reading this stupid story dumbass wrote the article and some you clowns using white! Whats wrong with America now bunch damn racists morons.
She’s far from a “drug kingpin.” That’s a media hype. But Texas has out of control drug laws anyway. If she needs rehab, she should be sent there. If she was selling, a much more reasonable , humane punishment should be applied. But this is Texas and her dad is the biggest drug law man in that district, so let’s see what happens!
Sooooo… why hasn’t anyone in law enforcement gone out to their house and seized all of Daddy’s assets, like they would for “regular folks”, hmmmm???
One law for me, and another for thee…
How do we shut that down?
so what’s wrong with changing the trend of people being over-punished for drug “crimes”?
Kingpins are rarely ever even near drugs. I’m gonna bet it’s her dad.
Well, aren’t you a special kind of spoiled, angry toddler?
Took you a long time to come with that didn’t it. You have nothing, so you resort to name calling.
Took me a while to stroll back over here.
You are just angry because I called you out for your BS and you have no defense. If you disagree with the article, fine. Just say so.
And your hypocrisy on calling me out for name calling is pretty laughable, considering that is what originally got you in trouble.
As I said… Spoiled. Angry. Toddler.
Sure. I will take extra special care to kiss your traitorous lefty behind to your satisfaction. Not. See what I did there?
Yes, you once again proved my point for me.
Didn’t need the help, but thanks for the effort.
Generation after generation, dipshits like you never change.
Remarkable.
Why don’t you call me a ‘racist cracker’ again. Or did you realize how unintentionally funny that oxymoronic statement is
Actually, I never called you a racist cracker. I said you would do well not to talk like one if you don’t want to be perceived as one.
No, I called you a spoiled, angry toddler, because that is how you are now sounding.
It’s okay, Toby. I understand. And I forgive you.
Ha ha. I think you’re OK Lincoln and you wouldn’t think me a racist cracker if you met me. It’s a strange time when people are pitted against one another. I get accused of racism all the time. Because i say what I think and I don’t care if it offends certain people. But I do not, nor have I ever hated or judged anybody because of their race, nationality or social background. I troll people who seem to me to be dishonest. That’s all.
Right there with you, Toby. And I think you have hit on a big truth of today. With social media and the 24/7 news cycle, we get bombarded with incomplete and erroneous information off of which we make snap judgments (except for me, of course). Add to that the ability to instantly post whatever we are thinking, unfiltered, and it makes for some “lively” conversations. Later, when more information comes out, it is usually already too late. The battle lines have been drawn, and it is often hard to walk back a lot of what gets said.
Plus, it is easy to generalize. Lump all police shootings into one category. Lump all homeless people into one category. All blacks, all whites, all “insert group.”
You will see me jump on people for having entire world views that would fit on a bumper sticker.
It’s cool, though. You should hear my Irish relatives when we’ve all had a pint or two. It gets rowdy. I have said some things that would have gotten me killed by anyone else, but the next day it is all “no harm, no foul.”
Same here, man, no harm, no foul.
I firmly believe that it is unfair to hold people responsible for sh** they did or said when they were drunk as a skunk.