"But if I were to do the dumbass stuff then I sho nuff would have to be willing to suffer from the consequences..."

                But what was it they did? It might have been dumb, but it didn't hurt anybody. Like I said, if somebody took it as a threat, that's what they should have been punished for -- not thinking.

                If it had been the other way around, and black kids hung nooses in a tree after white students sat there, it wouldn't have meant much of anything at all. If people want equal treatment under the law, they have to settle for equal treatment. If we want different laws for every group in the country, we're going to have one hell of a lot of laws.