Comments on: Double Standards? http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Cammiso http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3235 Robert Cammiso Sat, 06 May 2006 03:01:26 +0000 http://amomandherblog.com/?p=486#comment-3235 On April 4th, J.B. Hehman, 20, a prolific and articulate member of our Wired New York Community (posting as “TLOZ Link5”) and a Junior at NYU, died from injuries he received three days earlier when he was assaulted while walking on East 125th Street in Harlem. Read more at http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8889 The forum community has reacted to this tragedy by partnering with Bette Midler’s non-profit New York Restoration Project (NYRP) to execute a two-pronged plan of action: 1) On May 13th, volunteers will converge at Maggie’s Garden (located at 149th Street and Broadway in Harlem), an NYRP community garden in Manhattan for a community service project to be performed in J.B. Hehman’s memory. Volunteers are needed. Read more at http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8967 2) Our members have also embarked on a fund drive to raise $10,000 to create the J.B. Hehman Endowment for Environmental Education. This endowment will fund earth science programs in community parks and gardens for under-served and minority children in Upper Manhattan. No contribution is too small and all are greatly appreciated. For further information on these efforts and how you can help or donate please visit: http://www.wirednewyork.com/jb/memorial/ or http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?p=95940 As JB Hehman posted in our forum: "If you love the place you live, love it with the same passion that so many New Yorkers do, then you'll learn to tolerate its imperfections if it hasn't been ingrained in you already. Be to its virtues verykind, but be to its faults a little blind." Help us remember and celebrate J.B. Hehman’s contributions to our community! On April 4th, J.B. Hehman, 20, a prolific and articulate member of our Wired New
York Community (posting as “TLOZ Link5”) and a Junior at NYU, died from injuries
he received three days earlier when he was assaulted while walking on East 125th
Street in Harlem.
Read more at http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8889

The forum community has reacted to this tragedy by partnering with Bette
Midler’s non-profit New York Restoration Project (NYRP) to execute a two-pronged
plan of action:

1) On May 13th, volunteers will converge at Maggie’s Garden (located at 149th
Street and Broadway in Harlem), an NYRP community garden in Manhattan for a
community service project to be performed in J.B. Hehman’s memory. Volunteers
are needed.
Read more at http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8967

2) Our members have also embarked on a fund drive to raise $10,000 to create the
J.B. Hehman Endowment for Environmental Education. This endowment will fund
earth science programs in community parks and gardens for under-served and
minority children in Upper Manhattan.

No contribution is too small and all are greatly appreciated. For further
information on these efforts and how you can help or donate please visit:
http://www.wirednewyork.com/jb/memorial/ or
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?p=95940

As JB Hehman posted in our forum: “If you love the place you live, love it with
the same passion that so many New Yorkers do, then you’ll learn to tolerate its
imperfections if it hasn’t been ingrained in you already. Be to its virtues verykind, but be to its faults a little blind.”

Help us remember and celebrate J.B. Hehman’s contributions to our community!

]]> By: Michelle http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3072 Michelle Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:23:10 +0000 http://amomandherblog.com/?p=486#comment-3072 This was the first I had heard of this. How sad and true. I don't care what anyone says, it is a race issue and if the situation was reversed it would be plastered all over. This was the first I had heard of this. How sad and true. I don’t care what anyone says, it is a race issue and if the situation was reversed it would be plastered all over.

]]> By: Marsha http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3064 Marsha Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:52:36 +0000 http://amomandherblog.com/?p=486#comment-3064 Nice change to the blog. Nice change to the blog.

]]> By: Tyrelle http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 Tyrelle Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:42:34 +0000 http://amomandherblog.com/?p=486#comment-3060 (QUOTE)I do a pretty decent job of keeping up on the news, I think. Yet, I don’t recall reading anything about this story. Why not? If it were a black man being chased by white teenagers, it would be all over the news. Somehow this just doesn’t seem right to me.(QUOTE) That's a Bunch of BS. This was in the headlines as anything of this nature is. Don't try to make it a race issue, because that can work both ways. These are just ignorant little boys who was looking for trouble, it just so happens that they are black. This makes black people look bad when we deal with race issues everyday, this goes to show you not only white people have that type of mantality. It's sad that anyone had to go through something like this No matter what race you are. (QUOTE)I do a pretty decent job of keeping up on the news, I think. Yet, I don’t recall reading anything about this story. Why not? If it were a black man being chased by white teenagers, it would be all over the news. Somehow this just doesn’t seem right to me.(QUOTE)

That’s a Bunch of BS. This was in the headlines as anything of this nature is.
Don’t try to make it a race issue, because that can work both ways.
These are just ignorant little boys who was looking for trouble,
it just so happens that they are black.

This makes black people look bad when we deal with race issues everyday,
this goes to show you not only white people have that type of mantality.

It’s sad that anyone had to go through something like this No matter what race you are.

]]> By: DeeJay http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3059 DeeJay Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:23:15 +0000 http://amomandherblog.com/?p=486#comment-3059 Interesting how the white people were called bigots in the first article and the blacks simply called teenagers. Then in followup articles the name calling got worse for the teens. The whole story is awful and saddens me. Interesting how the white people were called bigots in the first article and the blacks simply called teenagers.
Then in followup articles the name calling got worse for the teens. The whole story is awful and saddens me.

]]> By: Jane http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3058 Jane Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:42:44 +0000 http://amomandherblog.com/?p=486#comment-3058 thats a sad story all around thats a sad story all around

]]> By: beth http://amomandherblog.com/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3057 beth Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:50:12 +0000 http://amomandherblog.com/?p=486#comment-3057 That just makes me sick. My God, can you imagine how the parents of this college kid feel? That just makes me sick. My God, can you imagine how the parents of this college kid feel?

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