Woman Involved in Starting McKinney Pool Fight Placed on Administrative Leave by CoreLo

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157. Why? I am defending someone for her ACTIONS not her words...

All I am saying given the video we have, that action of the woman who helped break up the fight between the other two woman were reasonable under the circumstances. Now, you bring in some racist claptrap and say it is the same thing. The video does NOT say who started the fight, who was wrong in the fight etc. The video just showed two women in some sort of mutual death grip, two two African American Males trying to pull one of those women away and a third woman trying to pull the other woman away.

The cause of the fight may be racism, but the video only shows the break up of the fight and the efforts of the people trying to break the fight up. Your statement is like someone complaining of the word "Negro" in Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream Speech" on the grounds "Negro" is a derogatory name for African Americans. I am commenting on CONDUCT and you on Rhetoric. With Rhetoric you can more clearly see racism, in conduct it is harder for there are often other reasons for the conduct, reasons I have pointed out.

Here is MLK's speech:

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm