WIBW Wants You To Believe That Murder Isn't Really Murder

 

Alok Madasani, Srinvias Kuchibhotla, and Ian Grillot

The family of Adam Purinton, the Kansas man who shot and killed one man, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and injured two more, Alok Madasani and Ian Grillot, after loudly telling them to "get out of his country"; wants the rest of the world to believe that Mr. Purinton isn't really a murderer or a "monster". Adele Matthews, Purinton's neice, wrote a statement for all of us to hear, on behalf of her family. It goes like this, ""My uncle was never a hateful person and was never a prejudiced person. "My family and I have been in such shock and hurt that he would do something like this just because it's so not him to even think about killing another individual. I don't want people to think of him as a monster or a racist man because that's not who he is. He just made a very, very bad decision that hurt and affected everyone around him." WIBW, of Topeka, Kansas, dedicated a headline to Matthews.

Those are interesting things for her to point out. They are also untrue. Immediately before the shootings,  Adam Purinton was heard yelling, "Get out of my country!" He then went ahead and shot three people, one of whom is now dead. Two of the people he shot hailed from India. If he was not a racist man or a monster, he would not have shot them. He also would not have told them to get out of his country. Quite a few people already think Purinton, along with many, many other mainstream Kansans, are racists, so Adele Matthews should save her breath. Also, since her uncle chose Kansas as his forced audience, she needn't worry. Kansas, so far, while holding him on a two million dollar bond, has declined to call this murder a hate crime.

Mainstream Kansans have some things to learn about how their conscious and unconscious racism appears to the rest of the world. Shame on WIBW for even airing Adele Matthew's remarks.

Busted! You Can Run But You Can't Hide!

Unless the ringtone you are using is the sound of flatulence, your anal passage probably isn't the best place to hide your cell phone when you are in jail. At least, that's what a prisoner in India discovered. He hid the phone up his anus when he heard the approach of a guard, and was taken to the hospital when he was unable to stand up straight. Before too long, the man's friend decided to call back. The ring tone did not sound like stomach sounds, and an Xray confirmed the suspected truth: the prisoner had inserted the contraband into his rectum in order to avoid detection! When he was unable to retreive the cell phone, (also unable to answer it) the doctor proposed surgery. (a telephone-ectomy?) The man begged them to consider less invasive options, and proceeded to crap the phone and the accessories out onto the floor. In the future, will defense attorneys in India be forced to recommend this ringtone, http://www.zedge.net/r1522006?src=d, as the ringtone of choice, to all prisoners?

In a similar story, snagged from CNN, there's a little boy who insists that he did not eat his mother's cake sprinkles.

 

 

Twentyfive Years Later, Saroo Made It Home

In 1986, five year old Saroo, a boy who lived in an village in India, fell asleep on a train and got separated from his older brother. He accidently ended up in Calcutta, and did not remember the name of his own village or neighboring villages in order to communicate with any adult who might help, so he took to begging and remained lost. Later, he was taken in by an orphanage, then adopted by an Australian couple who took him back to Australia with them. That's when he became Saroo Brierley. Eventually, when the Internet came about, and Google Earth became available, Saroo did the math, calculating the amount of time it would take on a train from Calcutta to some of the other stops. His fateful "nap" had been fourteen hours, and with that information, he was able to rightly determine which village he had lived in as a child! He actually went home, to Khandwa, India, twentyfive years later! The news was not all good; his brother was deceased, but he still got to see his mom again.

Another Answer To Multiple Comments

Ok, it seems that some people from Kansas think that all of the standardized tests their children take in Kansas cover the same materials that children take in other states, and that since Kansas ranks fourth, last year, I believe, that they're children are learning the same stuff as the rest of the nation's children. Let me just ask something: since both of my high schools on the East Coast offered French, Spanish, German, and Latin; and students are REQUIRED to not only take, but master, at least "first year" skills in one language, how can a Kansas student, who is not required to even enter a foreign language classroom at any time during his or her high school career, even begin to compare? You can rank fourth all you wish, but your children will not be as prepared for college or life outside of Kansas, with the pathetic offerings of your schools. And that's pretty much the whole area, not just one city or town, so please don't feel special.

On a related note, I know someone from a neighboring small town here in Northeast Kansas, who embarked upon a military career after high school. This poor man's lack of culteral skills led to a physical beating that could have cost him his life, simply because he had never met someone of a different race, and was openly and verbally unaccepting of many individuals of that race while dining in a resturant. I must give him credit; he blames himself and his big mouth for what happened......yet I'm still going to wonder if that type of violence can kill a person faster than war. I don't know......no statistics.......just a fleeting thought.

On another related note, I married a wonderful person who isn't prejudiced and would never discriminate in the manner I described in the above paragraph. His children, my stepchildren; however, do. They had never seen anyone from India, Vietnam, China, Jamaica, Russia, Indonesia, Isreal, or any African nation until he brought them to visit me. One of them comes home from school at last several times a week with prejudiced sounding guff coming out of his little mouth. When I sit down and discuss the things he states about others, the upshot is always that he wouldn't know what a person from a different background looks like ( he does not remember visiting me) and has no idea what he is really talking about. It's just guff he learned at school. At school. Now................I attended school back when the whole country was still fighting about Brown vs. the Board of Education, yet no teacher at any school I attended was ever backwards enough to make racist comments in his or her class. Not ever. Not even once. But the things my children heard many of their teachers here in Kansas say about Obama during the last presidential election, just because he does not need sunblock at the pool, are downright shameful. No; you guys are not preparing your children for anything but life in a small community in Kansas with your silly-assed daycare system that you call "school". Sorry. I'm gonna have to call it as I see it. And what's really sad is that I don't see a future in a Kansas small town for either my stepchildren or the child of whom we have guardianship. There's not a whole lot any of them can do, here in Kansas. They do deserve an education though.......how come each "community school" is really just a "training situation" for existance in it's community, and nothing else?

One more question: there is a much bigger Native American population in Kansas than anywhere I have ever lived. How come my children know as much about their cultures as they did before they moved here? How come my children have never met anyone from those cultures?