[masraum]

+1, horrible story. Unfortunately, it does sound like it was racially motivated. The article also seemed to have been written to be especially inflammatory which is also a bad way to go about things. There is a lot of hate in the world, not just the US, not just the south and not just between blacks and whites.

There are plenty of places in Texas where blacks may not be particularly safe.

It is very frustrating that the media mostly seizes upon racial issues when they are going a particular direction.

As a parent, it would be very difficult not to head down loaded for bear, looking for retribution, but that's the case regardless of the races, ethnicities or classification of the perpetrators and victims.

It does suck that the kids didn't decide to go somewhere else.