Yesterday's news: three Florida medical students have their carreers derailed by a fat racist Georgia woman. (From CNN.com:) The woman told police she heard one of the men asking, "Do you think we have enough to bring it down?" Another one of the men replied, "If we don't have enough to bring it down, I have contacts and we can get enough to bring it down." To Eunice Stone, that meant they wanted to blow something up.

It's ironic that on the day of this incident, I argued with my mother over how these words could be interpretted. I said, suppose Mohhamed (my brother-in-law, who happens to be a Muslim from Egypt) is sitting in a Shoney's talking about the car that he just purchased over the internet (which he did), and he plans to hire someone to bring it down to North Carloina, where he lives. My sister might ask him, "Do you have enough [cash] to bring it down?" My mother dismissed my scenario as unlikely. How odd it is that they actually were talking about a car:

CNN Article

In spite of the complete lack of evidence against them, and the lack of any indication that they said anything threatening, a mountain of threats was delivered to their medical school, which responded by revoking their internships. Isn't it nice to see that the freedoms and futures of innocent Americans, in this modern age, cannot be held hostage by the collective racism of our ignorant nation. (That was sarcasm).

Of course, friends and acquaintences of Eunice Stone said that she could not possibly be a racist. Somehow that reminds me of a comment I once overheard in the South: "Now I ain't racist, but them niggers gotta learn..." Whoever said that couldn't possibly be racist and not even know it (oooh, sarcasm again). Even more baffling was the early insistence by law enforcement agencies that these men "are going to learn their lesson," even after they were exonerated. Threats still linger over whether they will be brought up on hoax charges, all for having an innocent private conversation in a restaraunt while a fat ignorant racist Georgia woman eavesdropped. They also suffered at the hands of sensationalism and fabrication by the media:

Miami Herald Article: the media lied from local news to CNN

Media coverage on these men is evaporating. They will be legally exonerated, but the court of public opinion has done them an injustice for which they will likely never be compensated. Thanks a fuck load, CNN.