Think it's just part of that inner-city, ghetto-ish culture. Not necessarily black or white or whatever. Definitely known some white people that were that terrible as parents.

/flashback to watching the Jackson movie on TV in the early 90's and the scene where Mean Joe catches one of his kids fighting. He's like, "nah, we're doing this right" and brings out the boxing gloves for a full-on match.

orbister: Perhaps those involved have dark skin?

I don't think they are. The phone video isn't in 240p (i.e., "CricketVision").

Hive Mind: WhippingBoy: I'm actually quite ashamed of myself right now (for real).
I saw the article, and I immediately thought "black people!".

I'd like to think I'm not a racist, but I guess I am.

I for one was really hoping they weren't black, but then i clicked the link.

/why yes, I'm black

But you are Fark black not ghetto black.

d23: HalFala: I bet I can guess their race without even reading the article.

/Why yes that was a bit racist

If the kids were named Cleatus and Elvis you'd know the race then too.

Robot?

Witty Comment: It's funny to me how their names could either be read in a typical urban thugs voice like that and sound ignorant, while they also totally sound like pompous Indian names that are equally as stupid.

Like Indian American... feather, not dot.

Sometimes they're called things like Akihiro or Sato.

Glendale: Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

What. The. Fark?

A few years from now we wll be reading the same kind of story but those involved will be named Boniva, Lunesta, and Valtrexia

Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Allen. The end.: I went to a predominantly black high school (I find the term "African-American" to be so much BS), and those girls...yikes. Box cutters and bludgeons...I can't imagine their parents...of course, neither can they! Zing!

That only underlines the tragic poverty underlying the situation. Stabbing is one of the most important things in their life, and they can't even afford a cheap $20 hunting knife to stab people with. They have to use box cutters stolen from school or from their job at McDonald's. Stabbing is the one thing they have all to themselves (not much competition from those hoity-toity community college bound kids) and they'll never even be good at stabbing. That has to hurt.

d23: But we've devolved.

No, we haven't. The great majority of people have always been the filthy, ignorant peasants. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity or geography either, that's been the case worldwide.

If anything, they've improved. Nearly all of them can read. They bathe. Hardly anyone still shiats in a bucket then throws it out the window without at least looking below to try not to hit anyone.

Reality TV and those hideous talent shows, awful as they are, are still a slightly higher class of entertainment than classics such as watching a chained-up bear torn to pieces by hunting dogs or going to see the hangings that day. People locked in their houses all night out of fear of criminals is better than locked in their houses out of fear of daemons and witches.

It only seems worse because they now have media attention and because ignorant people today think that they have a right to have their stupid, often incoherent ramblings heard and taken seriously by educated people.

d23: TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

WHOOSH

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It doesn't have anything to do with race. It's stupid people breeding.

(and, yes, the kids names do indicate stupid)

it's not race or stupidity. it's culture.
there are plenty of stupid asian and jewish americans, but you'll be hard pressed to find them indulging in idiocy like this though, as if they even entertained for a moment a fantasy involving carrying out something like this most would instinctively recognize violating their cultural norms with behavior this extreme is likely to get them ostracized from the community.
they have dumb f*cks among their populations, but their culture isn't completely farked out like redneck, ghetto, goomba, wigger, or southy cultures.
culture is everything, but fortunately it, unlike intelligence or race, is not unalterable.

d23: TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya



Still working on the 2nd one.

Every time I see something like this in the news I keep thinking that the movie "Idiocracy" is more of a documentary than fiction.....

.....and I think I just watched the prequel's trailer......

With things like this I wonder what the future is for all of us.....

//// better invent Brawndo before it happens, though. It's got electrolytes!!!!!

Lamadin: d23: TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

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Still working on the 2nd one.

Quantico?

Lamadin: d23: TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

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Still working on the 2nd one.

Maybe:

Lamadin: d23: TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

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Still working on the 2nd one.

First thing that came to my mind:



/Daddy was a gamer?

Quantumbunny: Still working on the 2nd one.

Maybe:

Stupid image forbidden but not on preview...

 

\\Attempt #2

Glendale: Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

What. The. Fark?

.
All the American-Irish hipsters are naming their children with Gaelic names.

AustinFakir: Allen. The end.: I went to a predominantly black high school (I find the term "African-American" to be so much BS), and those girls...yikes. Box cutters and bludgeons...I can't imagine their parents...of course, neither can they! Zing!

That only underlines the tragic poverty underlying the situation. Stabbing is one of the most important things in their life, and they can't even afford a cheap $20 hunting knife to stab people with. They have to use box cutters stolen from school or from their job at McDonald's. Stabbing is the one thing they have all to themselves (not much competition from those hoity-toity community college bound kids) and they'll never even be good at stabbing. That has to hurt.

Bravo!

Saw "fight" and the name Durden

/I can accept where it was going

WhippingBoy: I saw the article, and I immediately thought "black people!".

I'd like to think I'm not a racist, but I guess I am.

You'd have been racist to think "that proves that all black people are violent" but to see "Shequita", "Quateka" and "Quinnaya" and think "black" is no worse than seeing "Uwe", "Katerina" and "Felicitas" and thinking "German".

Glendale: Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

What. The. Fark?

New Mortal Kombat characters?

I'm Shequita banana and I've come to say
Bananas have to ripen in a certain way
When they are fleck'd with brown and have a golden hue Bananas taste the best and are best for you
You can put them in a salad
You can put them in a pie-aye
Any way you want to eat them
It's impossible to beat them
But, bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator
So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator

buckler: Lamadin: d23: TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

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Still working on the 2nd one.

Quantico?

Qdoba?

It's time... time to issue breeding permits. You can pick up your I.Q. tests at your local library or the post office. Until you pass one, here's your chastity belt.

"Hello. I'm looking for a Q. Durden. Is there anyone here with that name?"

I for one was heartened to see parents becoming involved in their child's education.

Sounds like someone was being dis-respected.

Glendale: Shequita, Quateka, Quinnaya

What. The. Fark?

And that sir, is the answer to the whole problem.

Taquilla.

I just met a girl named Taquilla.


/CSB

Optimus Composite: WhippingBoy: I'm actually quite ashamed of myself right now (for real).
I saw the article, and I immediately thought "black people!".

I'd like to think I'm not a racist, but I guess I am.

I'd say you are a realist, but these days that can be considered racist.

THIS

Why do people post their crimes on youtube and other social sites? Do they think they can't be prosecuted if they get enough "like"?

talkertopc: Why do people post their crimes on youtube and other social sites?


Because they're idiots who are dumb enough to do the first stupid thing, so they aren't smart enough to avoid the second equally stupid thing?

lordjupiter: talkertopc: Why do people post their crimes on youtube and other social sites?


Because they're idiots who are dumb enough to do the first stupid thing, so they aren't smart enough to avoid the second equally stupid thing?



BINGO!

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It doesn't have anything to do with race. It's stupid people breeding.

(and, yes, the kids names do indicate stupid)

"stupid is as stupid does"

Trash is trash, and it certainly comes in all colors. I had a former boyfriend actually make the argument that people like "us" need to have more kids to balance out certain other groups. My response was that that is the worst reason to bring another human into the world, and that we'd have to breed like the Duggars to even make a dent. It ain't gonna happen. (who knew Idiocracy would be so prophetic?)

I need more information. The girl that was on the receiving end may have had it coming... in fact, I would bet a dollar that none of that happened for no reason at all.

WhippingBoy: Avery614: WhippingBoy: I'm actually quite ashamed of myself right now (for real).
I saw the article, and I immediately thought "black people!".

I'd like to think I'm not a racist, but I guess I am.

Eh I don't know maybe if you were to attribute all crime to black people but noticing that a certain group has a propensity towards certain types of behavior IMHO isn't all that racist. If I saw a headline "Man dragged behind pickup truck", I'd think "white" crime. Most things involving meth lab explosions, "white" crime...Not that black people are any less capable of dragging someone behind a pickup truck or mfg. meth, it's just not their style. Now, female hanging from the hood of a Cadillac while throwing shoes screaming he's got crack in the glove box..... 

/it's not mean if it's true
//it's just a hard farking truth
///we all have our quirks...

That's true... if it was "man dragged behind pickup", I'd immediately think "white people".

Come to think of it I don't think I have ever seen a Black man drive a pickup truck

Blacks

GORDON: I need more information. The girl that was on the receiving end may have had it coming... in fact, I would bet a dollar that none of that happened for no reason at all.


"Disrespect"

TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Yeah. The whole headline screams not black...

"Parents" = still married = not black
"picked up" = rich enough to own a car = not black
"video tape it" = rich enough to own a video recorder = not black

J/K.

I actually thought white because my dad had me do something similar, though more controlled and younger when we couldn't do as much damage, once, and he is white.

WhippingBoy: Avery614: WhippingBoy: I'm actually quite ashamed of myself right now (for real).
I saw the article, and I immediately thought "black people!".

I'd like to think I'm not a racist, but I guess I am.

Eh I don't know maybe if you were to attribute all crime to black people but noticing that a certain group has a propensity towards certain types of behavior IMHO isn't all that racist. If I saw a headline "Man dragged behind pickup truck", I'd think "white" crime. Most things involving meth lab explosions, "white" crime...Not that black people are any less capable of dragging someone behind a pickup truck or mfg. meth, it's just not their style. Now, female hanging from the hood of a Cadillac while throwing shoes screaming he's got crack in the glove box..... 

/it's not mean if it's true
//it's just a hard farking truth
///we all have our quirks...

That's true... if it was "man dragged behind pickup", I'd immediately think "white people".

The people driving, at least...

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It doesn't have anything to do with race. It's stupid people breeding.

(and, yes, the kids names do indicate stupid)

There's a legitimate argument about the culture, and not the race, which which performed this stupid act. I think people here were saying black, african-american, race, and racist in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Of course, someone who has to point out that any person, regardless of ethnicity has a chance of acting like an idiot. Yet, you had to go to a work of fiction to make your point. A work of fiction which depicted a white southerner as an example of over-breeding and willful ignorance.
As a teacher in public high school, I can tell you that willful ignorance is colorblind. I have moronic students of each and every race, I also have hard-working students of each and every race. Blacks might or might not be genetically predisposed for stupidity, we'll never know the truth about that one. I can tell you that the culture adopted by a fair number, but not all, of blacks in my school is one of "W.G.A.F.?" when it comes to academics.

Nasty arguments break out in the halls, girls challenging each other to fights while administrators and teachers are within feet. It's a cultural thing, you cannot be perceived as caring about school, caring about authority, or anything other than "keeping it real".

I used to look around and say our future is bleak. If these people are our leaders of tomorrow, we're farked. Then it came to me. We always talk about what it was like when we were in school, heard stories about when our parents and grand parents were in school. We never heard about the really bad cases, if there were any, we only heard about the good and positive things. There have always been terrible students, dumb, students, students destined for ditch digging or multiple fathers. Those individuals never amounted to shiat, there were people willing to work hard, to sacrifice, and to achieve their dreams. They will be the scientists, the doctors, and the professionals of tomorrow. The people who act like this will always be at the bottom socioeconomic rung. Their grandparents were there, their parents were there, their children will be there. It has nothing to do with racism, they're not oppressed by whites at all. They're given the freedom to rise to their own level, it's unfortunate that level is reached about the time of sexual maturity.

I can only imagine how rambling this sounds, I am not going to go back and proof this, I have no empirical evidence to any of this. It's what I see and what I deal with on a daily basis. I think racism is stupid too, not because it's bad for the sake of being bad. I think racism is dumb because for every flaw you can see in a race you look down upon, you can find a great number of your very own race who share that very same flaw. You might not have that flaw, be proud of that. That's not racism, that's individualism. I am, as an individual, better than that asshole who likes to behave in that manner.

arentol: TheLopper: Why was everyone assuming the kids were black? As soon as I saw parental involvement in the headline, I assumed white trash.

Yeah. The whole headline screams not black...

"Parents" = still married = not black


Different surnames, though, which could mean a couple of things. Perhaps the woman had a high-powered career before marriage, and didn't want to lose that identity.