| Re: Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland
"Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:12qq2rm602imtcd@news.supernews.com...
> Tom Keats wrote:
> :: In article <12qp184jj457i66@news.supernews.com>,
> :: "Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> writes:
> ::
> :::::: Maybe it was just a random occurence. Who knows. Geez, people.
> ::::::
> ::::::
> :::::
> ::::: And MAYBE the black girls attacked two white women because they
> ::::: were white, and did so while calling them racial slurs. Geez,
> ::::: Roger.
> :::
> ::: Given that you nor I were there, we'll never know. For all you
> ::: know, one of the women on bike could have said something to incite
> ::: them.
> ::
> :: As you say, we weren't there.
> ::
> :: But I just can't help intuitively feeling that
> :: perceived affluence & corresponding attitudes was
> :: a larger factor in this incident, than "race".
>
> Could very well be...
>
> :: Maybe my own life experience of growing up in a
> :: city with a distinct "east side" and "west side"
> :: is affecting my view.
> ::
> :: I don't know where Legacy Emanuel Hospital is in
> :: Portland, but I do know that Portland is more
> :: complicated that cities with simple east/west or
> :: north/south economic demographics.
> ::
> :: But the M.O. of punks from the working-class/industrial
> :: area/immigrant-enclave part of town, standing in the way
> :: and beligerently challenging oncomers (especially "rich"
> :: interlopers) is all too familiar to me.
> ::
> :: So I have the feeling these victims may have been
> :: picked-on because they were /perceived/ as "rich chicks"
> :: with fancy, expensive bikes, sticking their /perceived/
> :: Conspicuous Consumerism in other people's faces.
> ::
>
> Very possible.....
>
> :: Or maybe the perps thought the cyclists were gay,
> :: and it's a case of [misguided] gay-bashing?
> ::
>
> Again, very possible...
>
>
> :: I dunno.
> ::
> :: But as a life-long city boy, I do know when I'm
> :: confrontin'. And I know when to back-off.
>
> I tell you what....I'm surprised the ladies on bikes let them get so
> close. It's hard to know the circumstances, but if I were riding and saw
> them threatening kids ahead in the bike lane, I'd have either turned
> around or swung wide with speed. Could be the problem started with the
> kids standing in the bike lane and the cyclists trying to use that lane
> too.
>
> ::
> ::
Hey, common sense would dictate to give the people in the lane a wide berth,
but common sense doesn't always take precedence. Maybe the cyclists were
afraid of appearing racist?
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