Sunday, December 14, 2008

Racism still at large

This article talks about how an Ecuadorian man died a week later after a viscous beating by a group of New York city attackers. The immigrant was viciously beaten by a group of men yelling anti-Hispanic slurs and anti-gay slurs. The man was supposedly walking arm in arm with his brother when the attack occurred. Spokesman Francisco Moya said, "Jose Sucuzhanay died late Friday at Elmurst Hospital as his mother was en route from Ecuador to see him". Unfortunate is all that can be said for the Sucuzhanay family. The assault occurred early on December 7Th... my birthday by the way. The man was a 31 year old real estate broker and his brother Romel was or rather is 38. The police are trying to find 3 suspects but they are hard at task. Police said, "The attackers jumped out of the car and smashed a beer bottle over Jose Sucuzhanay's head, hit him in the head with an aluminum baseball bat and kicked him." The saddest part of the whole story is, "his mother, Julia Quintuna, obtained a humanitarian visa late this week to visit her injured son. She landed Saturday only to learn that he had died," Moya said.


People say that most people aren't racist or that America is changing for the better in that sense but yet this happens?.. but yet people that are everyday Americans working for a living or brutally beaten only to create a terrible death a week later? I have been to Mexico and I have seen their way of life... it is terrible they need a better one... they need a chance to survive. I have tried my best to help out orphanages in person and by charity. America maybe be getting better but it seems to me there will always be those ignorant, dumb and irrational people who do the inconceivable. I want the police to find these suspects and bring them to justice. As you can see I am very biased when it comes to cases like this but to avoid my biases I will try to use my cultural relativism. As I sit on my couch I try and I try to see what was going through the brains of these incompetent fools who viciously attacked this 31 year old real estate broker trying to make a living. I guess you could make the argument that they grew up in a racist family and knew nothing but to be racist but nonetheless I just can't defend racist ideas. To be racist is to not know the other person; to be racist is not know the term cultural relativism. I simply am at awe; how could someone do such a thing? I have great grievances for the family of the victim and sincerely hope justice is found for their sakes. This is Charlie Warnes, just a high school student out in Minnesota, I hope you can understand my view and I would love to learn of yours. Until next time...
~Charlie~

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