>>>>>Dragan,
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>>>>>Sorry for your loss. But I am wondering, would you write the same message if the two kids were white? Would you stop giving to white charities if the kids were white? You see what I am saying?
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>>>>It's that I feel betrayed, I guess. We wanted to be part of the neighborhood, not just a family of foreigners, and this is putting a barricade between us in a way. This is probably my bubble bursting.
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>>>Dragan - I thought better of you. That a couple of kids misbehaved is no reason for you to turn against _all_ your neighbors.
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>>>Tamar
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>>OTOH its easy to judge people when not living in their circumstances.
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>>Lots of liberal commentators often give people a hard time for being racist when they themselves live in nice aflluent areas where they don't have to deal with the day to day life problems of the poorer areas.
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>Wow, there's a bucket of truth.
I am sure you will agree with me that the best crime prevention technique is to have a 12 gage shotgun and every so often shooting it at the bushes surrounding your house. Kind or randomly {g}.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
