In the context of where I live, you did.

As pertains to you personally, and my perception of your statements, I did.

When I went house shopping, I never once thought to myself "where are the black neighborhoods?" Or "where are the white neighborhoods?"

The ONLY thing I considered was: "how central is this location to my service calls?" And what am I looking at and mortgage payments? And what will the property taxes be on this property? And how big is the backyard, and where can I make space in the garage for my dog to have her puppies?.

It could have been an all-black neighborhood, it could have been an all-white neighborhood, it could have been exactly what I have now, a multicultural neighborhood. I didn't know, and I didn't care. I got a good price for my home, I just got my first tax bill, and I'm extremely happy with it. In my backyard is so large, I made ditch my push mower, and purchase a riding mower.

The race and or ethnicity of my neighbors doesn't mean two farts in a hurricane to me. They're good people. And if I were an all-black neighborhood, I'm sure they would be good people too.

I don't think it's genetic, although it might be..

Mostly the hate is passed down from parent or Uncle to child, and the cycle continues to repeat.

I have faith that people like that are just dinosaurs, too stupid to find a tar pit to stumble into .

They're a dying breed, and they know it. That's why they cling to Trump so fiercely. He's their Messiah, and they believe he will lead them to the promised land.

The Dinosaur leading the dinosaurs. Eventually, they'll find a tar pit large enough to hold them all.

THIS is what sparked it.. Who mentioned "race" first?

What you're not getting, is that EVERYONE is "subject to the jurisdiction of".

Don't believe me? Try going to Saudi Arabia and getting drunk.

Before they chop your head off, or give 90 lashes, say "You can't do this! I'm an American, I'm "subject to the jurisdiction of" American laws. See how that works for you.

If you're in the US, you're subject to the jurisdiction of" US law. If you're in France, you're subject to the jurisdiction of" French law.

See how that works?

OR he could have been picked up by his friends AFTER the shooting. If there was in fact a shooting at all, and if his friends were even involved in it.

No one in the camps, is taking a single scrap of food out of your mouth. Why don't you check out the pictures of Auschwitz?

Believe whatever blows your skirt up.

I did not canvass my neighborhood checking out the ethnicities of my neighbors. I did not knock on a single door. The only thing I did, was check with the Township Council to see what the property taxes on the residence would be.

That was enough for me.

Ever read The Scarlet Letter?

Thank you..

It's nice to have a lawyer in the house... sometimes.

Well.... He WAS brown after all..

The person makes the claim of allegiance, not the country.

In a way that's kind of a shame. In a perfect world, Russia could claim Trump, and get him out of America's hair.

As if I would care if it was an "all black neighborhood".

I bought this house, because the price was good, the taxes were low, and the neighborhood was quiet. I didn't canvass the neighborhood, knocking on doors, to check the ethnicity of my neighbors before I bought the place.

In fact, I had no idea of my neighbors were, until it was moving day, and they came over and introduced themselves and offered to help me.

All they did, was what any parent does, put the birth certificate away in a safe place, until the day comes that the child needs it.

Birth certificate plus United States location equals American (or US if you prefer) citizenship.

In all fairness though, this country was in possession of a little more sanity at that time, and we didn't have a Klansman sitting in the Oval Office.

Believe it or not, there was a time in this country, where you could marry a person, and if you were a citizen, they became an American citizen on the spot. When I was in college, I had a friend that was paid $25,000 to marry a girl from Saudi Arabia. (Keep in mind this was in the late 70s early 80s).

He did it, she got her citizenship papers, he got paid, she sponsored her family, and it was the biggest mistake he ever made. He had an absolute nightmare trying to get divorced from her. The only way he managed to get out of it, was first to get an annulment, because he had never "consummated" the marriage.

Six of one, half dozen of the other..

By the way, a "legal registered alien" is aka a "green card holder"

Neither of the Lees had one.

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/lawful-permanent-resident


Lawful Permanent Resident

Any person not a citizen of the United States who is living in the U.S. under legally recognized and lawfully recorded permanent residence as an immigrant. Also known as “permanent resident alien,” “resident alien permit holder,” and “Green Card holder.”

Permanent residents are also commonly referred to as immigrants; however, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) broadly defines an immigrant as any alien in the United States, except one legally admitted under specific nonimmigrant categories (INA section 101(a)(15)). An illegal alien who entered the United States without inspection, for example, would be strictly defined as an immigrant under the INA but is not a permanent resident alien. Lawful permanent residents are legally accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States. They may be issued immigrant visas by the Department of State overseas or adjusted to permanent resident status by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the United States.

Pathetic isn't it? If the high school quarterback, had banged one of them, he would be a "rapist", and she would be a "child sexual abuse victim". But somewhere, there's a magic button, and when the DA pushes it, the "child" is instantly and magically transformed into an "adult".

Yes, hypocrisy abounds.

LOL THEY WERE NOT! They were a married couple of actors on location with a traveling performing arts theater group.

They happened to be performing in San Francisco(Chinatown to be specific.) when Mrs. Lee gave birth.

Try again.

Perhaps this might point you in the right direction..

Lee's father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was one of the leading Cantonese opera and film actors at the time and was embarking on a year-long opera tour with his family on the eve of the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. Lee Hoi-chuen had been touring the United States for many years and performing in numerous Chinese communities there.

Although many of his peers decided to stay in the US, Lee Hoi-chuen returned to Hong Kong after Bruce's birth. Within months, Hong Kong was invaded and the Lees lived for three years and eight months under Japanese occupation. After the war ended, Lee Hoi-chuen resumed his acting career and became a more popular actor during Hong Kong's rebuilding years.

Lee's mother, Grace Ho, was from one of the wealthiest and most powerful clans in Hong Kong, the Ho-tungs. She was the half-niece of Sir Robert Ho-tung,[20][31] the Eurasian patriarch of the clan. As such, the young Bruce Lee grew up in an affluent and privileged environment. Despite the advantage of his family's status, the neighborhood in which Lee grew up became overcrowded, dangerous, and full of gang rivalries due to an influx of refugees fleeing communist China for Hong Kong, at that time a British Crown colony.[29]

After Lee was involved in several street fights, his parents decided that he needed to be trained in the martial arts. Lee's first introduction to martial arts was through his father, from whom he learned the fundamentals of Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan.[32]

I'll address the last question first. I live in a diverse neighborhood. My next-door neighbor to the east is a Caucasian female, my next-door neighbor to the west is an interracial couple with three children, directly across the street from me is an Asian couple and we all pretty much hang out with everyone. We don't have any issues "like that".

And I reserve calling him a "thug" because all I know of him is that legally, he was still a child. And since he was running away, I'll go with the assumption that he was a frightened child. I have no evidence one way or another that he committed any crime. And now that he's dead, I guess we'll never know.

I know that in Canada things are different. I've even heard stories of the prosecution being able to appeal an acquittal. In the United States, we have to things that sets us apart from the rest of the world. One is a presumption of innocence, put another way, they have to prove we did something, we don't have to prove we didn't.

The other thing is, The State doesn't get a second bite at the apple. There are protections against double jeopardy enshrined in the Constitution. So now what we have is, a cop that killed a child, that may or may not have done something illegal, (by the way, in this country, running is not illegal.) That's dead, after being shot IN THE BACK by a person that only received his license to kill four hours earlier.

Then you might be busy letting a few million people know that, as they take their children out of the maternity wards of hospitals all over this country.

I'll go back to my original example. Bruce Lee, born in San Francisco, left with his parents to return to China, returned 23 years later as an adult, with birth certificate in hand, and immediately accepted as a US citizen.

Care to explain that? Or was he simply an anomaly?