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Guilty plea in cross burning

A 21-year-old Donaldson, Ark., man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Hot Springs to burning a cross in a Donaldson woman's yard because she associated with black people. He said he wanted to scare her into moving away. He'll be sentenced later.

Justice Department release.

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I hope the court will allow him to take his Victrola to prison with him. And I hope they put him to making buggy whips. Jesus is this guy behind the times. Cross burning is so 20th...strike that...19th century!


Likely they don't know it DBI.

From basic figures it's a white enclave of 335 people, 97.2% white
with a median income of $28K average house value of $50K.
Enough inbreeding to keep a population.

clickit.

eLwood,

I grew up in a community that had its population peak at 1200, and 1000 of those were patients at the town's main industry, a state psychiatric hospital. Maybe, if you looked around enough, you could find a non-white person among those patients. The community was not composed of doctors; most of them lived elsewhere. Ward attendants, low pay, not many big houses, some mobile homes like the one that I grew up in with a single mom who emphasized the value of education to me.

There were some racists in my town, and there were some who were not. The small-town/low-income = racist is just as prejudiced as the feelings that you attribute to people from such towns.


I've been to Donaldson, Ar a few times Doc. I never heard the "n" word used so much in my entire life.

Thanks eLwood,
Note to Kiz: Don't ever go to Donaldson, AR.
Not that I planned my vacation there.
Maybe this guy's parents are to blame.......nobody grows up and does something horrible like this unless he had hateful, racist parents.

Anyone been following the news from that little jerk-water town known as Philly?

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