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The wrong explanation for Clayton's tragedy

Once again, some see race as the reason

The wrong explanation for Clayton's tragedy

POSTED: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 8:19 AM

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As if the killing of Autumn Pasquale isn't horrible enough, some anonymous postings on this and other news sites insist that race is the reason for the 12-year-old Clayton, NJ girl's death.

Autumn was white. The two suspects are black. And for some people, this explains why she was strangled.

It's as foolish to judge public opinion by reading comments on websites as it is to judge people by race. So I won't go there.

I will say that in small-town Clayton on Tuesday, I saw blacks and whites united in their grief about the death of a fellow human being. This truth speaks more eloquently than handfuls of hateful words ever could.

Kevin Riordan @ 8:19 AM Permalink | 240 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:07 AM, 10/24/2012

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— SPOOK

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:24 PM, 10/24/2012

You know what the funniest thing is; is that Philly.com commentors on-the-whole are too dumb to read the other article where it's explained that Autumn Pasquale was friends with the two boys who are being charged with her death.

— Typical Huntingdon Valley Slumlord

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:26 PM, 10/24/2012

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— hannibal barca

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:30 PM, 10/24/2012

Apparently you have no grasp of what verbal tense is. There's a difference between 'is' and 'was'. But whatevs... keep blabbering away like the rest of the people on here desperate to get their $0.02 in.

— Typical Huntingdon Valley Slumlord

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:20 PM, 10/24/2012

They knew each other, never said anywhere they were friends you babbling zilch

— crenshaw2436

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:21 PM, 10/24/2012

How do you not have enough intelligence to realize that a friend would NOT kill you for a bike. You really needed someone to tell you that they weren't friends?

People like you blabbering and putting fake pictures for their avatar. Trying to make yourself look better than you are!

— MFPhils

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:15 PM, 10/24/2012

What?? Where in those articles did it say they were friends? Maybe I am one of the dumb ones, but I am pretty sure it is you...

By the way, how would them being friends make it non-racial? You ever hear of luring, using, abusing, and all the while there's at least one "friend" in the relationship, right?

— MFPhils

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:14 PM, 10/24/2012

Just take moment and think about all the stories that you have read on this site and when you were about to make a post the section was close to any comments!!!! This story SHOULD HAVE BEEN one of those stories where the SECTION IS CLOSE TO ANY COMMENTS. The editor of this site should be taken behind the woodshed and beaten for allowing this get out of hand just to generate readership and pushing the R- word. YOU SHOULD be ashamed of yourself.

— Foxchase

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:48 PM, 10/24/2012

Don't be so fast to toss out race as a factor. This goes to the core values and teachings of the parents. The fact that Autumn was murdered is likely proof that these two hooligans are raised as social misfits. LeT us get more details of exactly what happened, of course it will be the versions of the murderers, so perhaps we will never know. My guess is that race id a factor.

— DarnelX

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:18 PM, 10/24/2012

I can't believe someone took the comments seriously enough to actually write a mini-blog on it. Geez, people on the internet are people without inhabitions. There is absolutely no incentive think before posting, so people just fly off the hook.

— MFPhils

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:12 AM, 10/24/2012

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— Vlad

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:32 PM, 10/24/2012

OK... I am going to step up for the "White Community" and apologize to the rest of this Nation for being such fat, ignorant slobs.

See how ridic. that sounds, now?

— Typical Huntingdon Valley Slumlord

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:17 PM, 10/24/2012

Slumlord, depending on your appearance, your apology might not be ridiculous. Like the author, we need to wait for the facts to develop, before rushing to judgment. We don't know if there was a racial component until/unless the murders tell us.

— Jean Valjean

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:20 PM, 10/24/2012

well....wait.. what about the white girl in Colorado that was just abducted and killed by a WHITE GUY ???? Why arent you stating that the white community has to step up and take responsibility for producing monsters? If you really want to talk profiles, most serial killers are white. What do you think about that? google it.

— selophane43