8 year old in NH survives being hung from tire swing in apparent hate crime

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(09-14-2017, 01:44 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: We were discussing Blacks being a 1% minorities in this town and pat claimed that racism was because there were so few blacks in this community.  I was disagreeing and using Belarus as an example since it was the first place I could think of with a low black population plus Soviet states do not have best history on minorities so I thought it would be a worthwhile and fair comparison.  

You mentioned Romani and Jews.   Yes their history is not very well in former Soviet areas.    

In defense of the treatment of gypsies.  There is a scourge of gypsies that go around former Soviet Union and con children out of their families gold.   It's well known and probably why violence follows them.    I realize not all are stealing gold but enough are to cause issues across a wide area.    local police are corrupt and often not trusted.  

All this being said I don't condone violence towards gypsies.

I think you were originally just arguing about the violence aspect, not the racism itself, as you seem to be confirming that minorities are met with discrimination in Belarus, just not violence.