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.



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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!
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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July 10, 2009 05:05 PM
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.
Posted by: eLwood
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July 10, 2009 05:45 PM
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.
Posted by: Doc
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July 10, 2009 06:43 PM
I've been to Donaldson, Ar a few times Doc. I never heard the "n" word used so much in my entire life.
Posted by: eLwood
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July 10, 2009 10:23 PM
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.
Posted by: kizzy
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July 10, 2009 11:58 PM
Anyone been following the news from that little jerk-water town known as Philly?
Posted by: Doc
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July 11, 2009 09:30 AM