Jamaican kid is beaten after his dad tells the kid's friends that he's gay

[RedVenom]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/02/022204jamaica.htm

Guess you just can't beat news like this.

The students tore boards off benches on the playground and began beating the 11th grade student while his father allegedly looked on smiling and then drove off.

"Them bruck up desk and bench and beat him up badly," one Dunoon student told the Kingston Observer. "Him get nuff lick, box, kick and thump from boy and girl."

Intollerance++

 

[xane]

365gay.com ? I think I'll give that one a miss from work

 

[RedVenom]

Its only news. Stop being racist.

 

[old.user4556]

I daresay it'll still be flagged on a company firewall, racist/homophobic or not.

G

 

[RedVenom]

I doubt it'll be flagged on a firewall, but it might be handed off to a proxy which will log the information. You misunderestimate how many hits these boxes get, its only if the administrators choose to run reports (or if its company pollicy to) or use monitoring software on the intenet link that anyone is likely to see it.

Anyhow, if you're allowed to use company resources within a limited scope for personal use (lunchtimes, etc), whats to stop you? If they discriminate against you for visiting a site that has gay news on, then they are in the wrong (true story).

 

[old.user4556]

Yep, and since my work monitor choose to monitor everything I do then I personally wouldn't view it from work. Yes, they'd be in the wrong, but this is about the flagging issue - not what's right/wrong to view.

It'd be perfectly ok for me to look up stuff about sex/pregnancy etc at work, but it'll still be flagged.

H

 

[Tom]

The simple answer is to only do personal things in your breaks.

 

[RedVenom]

Crowd Bashes Teen Suspected Of Being Gay As Smiling Dad Watches
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

Posted: February 22, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

(Kingston) A Jamaican teen was beaten unconscious by a schoolyard gang after his own father stirred up the students claiming his son is gay.

The father went to the Dunoon Park Technical High School in east Kingston and began yelling in Jamaican slang that his son is gay and that the other students should teach him a lesson. He said he had found pictures of nude men in the boy's school bag.

Jamaica is notoriously homophobic, and the home of several rap singers whose music has been the subject on demonstrations by gay activists in Britain.

The students tore boards off benches on the playground and began beating the 11th grade student while his father allegedly looked on smiling and then drove off.

"Them bruck up desk and bench and beat him up badly," one Dunoon student told the Kingston Observer. "Him get nuff lick, box, kick and thump from boy and girl."

A teacher said the gang was intent on killing the boy.

They were like a pack of wild animals who had smelled blood and if it wasn't for a staff member who jumped on top of him, you would be reporting on a mob killing."

The staff member who threw himself on the teen to protect him said: "Me have to jump on him and shield him cause them was going to kill him. Me get a whole heap of licks, but me push him in the office and lock him in."

Another teacher called police.

When officers arrived the frenzied students hurled stones at them, injuring several policemen and damaging police cars and motorbikes. The police eventually were able to rescue the youngster and take him to hospital.

At least a dozen students were taken to a police station but were not charged. A police spokesperson said they were given a stern warning and released. No charges were laid against the father. Police said it was a family issue.

©365Gay.com® 2004

This thread is now about what is and isn't acceptable.

 

[Will]

Thanks for posting the article. My work filter flags the link for "Sex".

Who needs enemies when you have a father like that? Grim reading.

 

[RedVenom]

You might want to correct your work filters. You wouldn't be blocked access to news.bbc.co.uk, so they're repressing you based on sexual preference. Unless of course, you ARE blocked from news.bbc.co.uk.


Next weeks episode, we see how hilarious hijinx ensue when the same kid accuses one of his friends of being homosexual too! What will these wacky afro-americans think of next.

 

[Will]

Unfortunatly, I don't update my work filter myself. Or else I wouldn't have blocked Barrysworld and Game.net. I believe it is a large commercial filter, since quite a few different people who posted regularly reported Game.net becoming blocked on the same day.

Sucks though.

 

[xane]

Its only news. Stop being racist.

What will these wacky afro-americans think of next.

BTW Jamaica is not part of the USA.

 

[Doh_boy]

What I found disturbing was that the police didn't do feck all. To the point of saying it was a 'family issue'.

A dad gets his son nearly beaten to death? Oh just a little argument, nothing to worry about. :|

 

[Stimpy]

The police probably wanted to give him a kicking to if their as homophobic in Jamaica as that article makes out.

 

[Darthshearer]

Unfortunatly, I don't update my work filter myself. Or else I wouldn't have blocked Barrysworld and Game.net.......

Smae here Will

 

[granny]

Jamaican society is massively homophobic and is renowned for it. Anyone remember Buju Banton's nice little song, "Boom Bye Bye" which I seem to remember was about shooting gays in the head?

A quick google search throws up some pretty disturbing figures for the level of homophobic attacks & murders in Jamaica and also the fact that the level of fear amongst homosexuals there is damaging treatment and understanding of the spread of AIDS.

Oh and:

Its only news. Stop being racist.

What the hell are you talking about? Who was racist? /me spots a troll....

 

[Nos]

"The world is in trouble/Anytime Buju Banton come/ Batty boy get up and run/ ah gunshot in ah head man/Tell dem crew? it?s like/ Boom bye bye, in a batty boy head, rude boy nah promote no nasty man, them hafi dead."

Nice.