>>>>>>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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>>>How often does stuff get stolen on Ivory Tower Lane?
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>>Bikes that get left outside do sometimes get stolen around here. Things get taken from unlocked cars, too. (The Obama magnet on my car got stolen from a synagogue parking lot a couple of weeks ago, for that matter.)
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>>But none of that is an excuse to blame a whole group of people.
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>No great loss on that magnet at least.
Are you saying it because it was Obama's magnet? If this were McCain's magnet it would be a great loss? Shame on you. I expected better of you.
VBG
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