Pennsylvania Youths Beat Hispanic To Death
July 21st, 2008Authorities in the tiny coal community say race was not a factor, despite the racist slurs.
A retired police officer said that after a gang of Whites beat a Mexican immigrant to death last weekend in a Pennsylvania coal town she heard one of the assaulters yell for him to tell his friends to get out of town “or you’re going to be laying next to him.” Eileen Burke, the former Philly cop who now lives on the street in Shenandoah, Pa., where the 25-year-old Luis Ramirez was pummeled. Notwithstanding the barrage of racial slurs that witnesses say the assailants hurled at Ramirez, authorities in Shenandoah, a 5,000-resident town about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia, say that the beating was not racially motivated, The Associated Press reports. Shenandoah, which has seen a growing number of Hispanic residents pour in to work the factories and farms, has also witnessed a rise in conflict between Whites and Latinos. Ramirez’s fiancée, 24-year-old Crystal Dillman, who is White and was raised in Shenandoah, said locals often called her boyfriend racist names, like “dirty Mexican,” and told him to go back to Mexico, AP reports. “People in this town are very racist toward Hispanic people. They think right away if you’re Mexican, you’re illegal, and you’re no good,” said Dillman. She has two young children by Ramirez and a 3-year-old who thought of him as her father, according to AP.
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Racism and Racial Hatred alive and well in the U.S. I used to live in Harrisburg, PA. and I was exposed to racial hatred on the daily.. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the beating was racially motivated.. I hope the victim’s family gets justice.. Funny how mainstream media did not cover this!! Typical American B.S.
I mean really! It’s 2008 for God’s sake! That was very cowardly of them to do that and the fact that those bastards said it wasn’t racially motivated just turns my stomach! It’s reasons like this I am for the death penalty! Granted it may not be right to take a life but what is war anyway? Lives are taken everyday! You wanna beat someone to death do you…let me see you take your ass overseas and try that on those Afghans and see they don’t tear your asses apart! These types of people need to be fighting the “war on terror”, not the soldiers that are there now! I judicial system is such BS!
less civl and human rights +less money = more hate.
another gop legacy.
2000 FOOL me once , shame on you
2004 FOOL me twice, shame on me
2008 R U still playing the FOOL?
Take Back America 2008
Qu was right about this news not going nationally because the Govt right now seems racial to me if you look at that side of the news. Their to busy trying to “not have a Black President in the near future” then to concern them selves with everyday problems like “Racially Motivated Crimes” like they should be……
i guess all the spanish people that hate black people or feel like they are better than black people, or think just because “your light , your white” better read this and other news, racisim is on the rise and more crimes are being commited against spanish people too, it’s not just a black thing any more!!!
I hope every Spanish person hears about his ! Wake up ! you are under attack Just like African American people , just because they let you come in America and pick their land , Don’t mean they accept you , Mexicans have been hating Black people for along time. I think they hate us because they think that we look down on them because they work the land, Hey Mexican people thats how we started and we did not hate other cultures as we came up! we helped them so If you are a spanish person and you can VOTE, this may change your views on the land of plenty. Vote Obama and vote for change!
Simmy
I totally agree with you. It is very unfortunate that Mr. Ramirez was beaten. But there are some Latinos who believe they are better than African American. Let’s face it - to some White America, Latinos are considered less than human just like they consider African Americans. Why Latinos and African Americans have difficulty getting along is beyond me. We are all the same - especially to some White people.
It is really sad that people can not walk the streets because of the color of there skin. It is not fair this man have a family that probaly depend on him for there survival and look he is dead because a selfless act of violence.Wake up people this world is full of multi-cultural people there is nothing that no one can do about because god made all of us equal. STOP THE HATETRED.
whats new in ‘08!!!!!!!
Whats new in ‘08…..
Tell me when a white person can safely walk through South Central LA.
I know one thing for certain! If they would have been black they would have called it a racial factor for sure! They probably won’t even do that much time because they’re white. It’s mostly always a racial factor now a days. That’s just the kind of world we live in.
George, most black people can’t walk through South Central LA, safely!
Michael Moore in his documentary about crime did “safely walk through South Central LA”
I think it is so sad when people feel like their race is better than another race because we are all human beings. I feel like hispanics think they are better than blacks but white people look at them the same way they look at blacks. There are dark skinned hispanics, WISE UP PEOPLE !
This is horrible. It is so sad that this day and age children are still losing their parents because of ignorant people like this.
Even though I despise the fact that Mexican’s think they are better than blacks…no one deserves to he beaten to death because of skin color. This should serve as a message to the Mexican community that white folks don’t like Mexicans any more than the like African Americans so adjust your attitude…we’re in the same boat. Lighter skin does not give you advantage in this case!
sorry to see that ,many people talked about it on a tall people site ____Tallmingle.com____ they said: though it is a dating site,it is also a love place,love is includes everything.
This is another sad situation. It’s a shame how our government allows the white boys to continually take lives of those who are of a different race. I bet charges will be dropped or the “real” story will be swept under the rug. I should know because my son was beaten to death by 6 white boys in Anne Arundel County in MD. and to this day, no one is paying for his death. In fact, they said race was not an issue and that it was just a street fight!!! How would it have been if a bunch of non-white boys killed a white boy by beating the life out of him? We gotta end this crap!!! White people are not supreme!!!
I THINK IT IS SO SAD THAT THAT HAS HAPPENED. I BELIEVE THAT ALL THE RACISM WILL ONLY GET WORSE. WHEN OBAMA WIN THE ELECTION THERE WILL BE A WHOLE LOT OF WHITE RACIST PEOPLE THAT CONSIDER THEMSELVES NOT TO BE RACIST WILL COME OUT OF THE CLOSET!! YOU MIGHT THINK YOU ARE COOL HANGIN OUT WITH WHITE PEOPLE NOW JUST WAIT TIL ELECTION TIME THEN YOU WILL SEE WHO YOUR FRIENDS REALLY ARE. IT’S SAD THAT THIS DAY AND AGE, RACISM HASN’T CHANGED ONE BIT. IF THERE WAS A VOTE TO BRING BACK SLAVERY WE ALL WOULD BE PICKIN COTTON!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!
OH YEAH,
THE WHITE FOLKS ARE GOING CRAZY, JUST WORKING THEMSELVES INTO A FRENZY THINKING ABOUT A BLACK PRESIDENT. THEY THINK THEIR WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!! THEY ARE TOO IGNORANT TO REALIZE THAT OBAMA CAN’T JUST HELP BLACK FOLKS (NOR DOES HE WANT TO) HE IS GONNA TRY TO HELP ALL FOLKS. HOPEFULLY THE DEVIANT REPUBLICANS WON’T FURTHER HURT THE COUNTRY WHILE TRYING TO MAKE OBAMA LOOK BAD AND CONTINUE THEIR SELF-SERVING WAYS.
One thing I can say is that the white media will sweep this under the rug. They will think of him as being a threat, because he is illegal.
How is calling him a “DIRTY MEXICAN” not racial and who said he was illegal?? this country is still so full of ignorance and hatred. My prayers go out to the Ramirez family
It is really crazy that this is going on and as soon as a black person does it their names is all in the media but here no names are stated and not only that it was just a coward act to beat that man for nothing all because he is mexican. But if they were black it would be way more comments than what it is on this computer and people would have way more to say but because they are not it is just a race crime because of racial slurs.
So when the black kid or the Mexican gang kills, rapes,robs, or atttack whites, they are doing so because of what? Tired of this victim game. Every race has its haters, it’s not only Whites. Here in L.A Blacks were getting systematically driven out of hispanic areas by no good thugs and that barely made news, or it was just “Whitey” trying to pit us against each other. BET has not reported that the father of a Black kid, murdered by a hispanic, who happened to be illegal, received a death threat on you tube. Somehow we get news about this, because its White behaving badly, but what happened in Long Beach when a group of Black youths attacked two White girls. I’m really starting to think we expect more of White than we do ourselves.
I know my post went somewhere
‘Routine’ traffic stop - COPS (Pigs): Hey, you - n*gg*rs - GET OUT OF THE CAR, NOW! (Two brothers emerge, a third individual remains) COPS (to 3rd man): Hey, N*gg*r! I said GET OUT OF THE CAR! 3rd MAN: But I’m Hispanic!
COPS: Then you’re a BILINGUAL N*GG*R! Get out of the f__ing car!! (Paul Rodriguez ‘joke’)
Well, is anyone surprised? Racial slurs, beatings, “go back to mexico”? Who the hell told the devil that this is his country? They have forfited thier right to live in this country a million times! The devil has the nerve to tell other races to go back to their homeland when they dont even have a place on this earth that they can truly call thier home! Some hispanics in that area ought to find those demons and send them to the other side!
Well, Here we go again. I dont think mexicans think there better than black people. I live in TN and they are actually nice. And why is it when white people have the nerve to say go back to ur country and this in not even there land. The land was stolen from the Indians and they are of color, and other thing if it wasnt for black people working there a** off raising ur kids and doing chores this country would not be the way it was, so come on now, can u use another saying. But it is pitiful to think people can just whoop somebodys a** cause they are mexican. Yeah some (must) mexicans are illegal but they do work and work hard for what they have. Sh**, Black people took a stand we are NOT gonna get our a** whoop no more. So hispanics u need to take a stand, come together and raise Hell about this. ~~~~~VOT3 OBAMA ‘08~~~~~
bryn mawr, harrisburg are all really racist. who can hate when philly has murders happening DAILY. i wouldn’t want punks comin in messin up my town. it’s sad that a man’s life was stolen. hey at least latinos or hispanics feel the pain of blacks. dominicans and puerto ricans hate saying they are black…even though they are just biracial people that speak spanish. they do however want to be called a minority and benefit from the blood/sweat/tears of blacks…then they too should suffer and know what it feels like to be a minority fighting for respect.
Blacks are monkeys. Period.
heii little timmy…..watever the $$%# yo are.. we all knoe ur a @%$@# ass @?~$~.. talkin bout black PPl being pigs.. dun knoe really..hey natalie ur so right.. yo hispanic ppl need to stop hatin on da black ppl.. At;east we have obama representing us. yall need to chill.. knoe that black ppl might have been in america way way longer but dat done me werent were u are rit knoe.look at this. i neva heard bout this shyt till i go to bet. its dead. hispanics aint on t.v. no-onew syain nothing bout no death or anythin. man make a petition. sign it do something. yall juss sit there hating. work hard like african americans. I feel sorry for the man that got beatin for death. all we can do is give you wishes, but wat can u do as a community. can you do somethin..huh! no I thought so cuz u aint tryin…. do tingz be appart of thingz..stop seperating..ppl think u less den human…juss like how black ppl were thought of long tyme ago. do wat we did. fight the $$%# bak even if u have to get hosed..juss sayin ..yall srry bout the death. R.I.P to yah!!
my prayers go out to the Ramirez family.
Little Timmy, your momma is a vanilla goriila, just like the rest of you caucus tree jumpers! Your people came out of us fool, so what does that make you? The son of a monkey lol? Ignorant ~@#@$@#!
Lil timmy, It is amazing how someone like you would come out of your mouth with something so ignorant. “Blacks are monkeys”….well if you knew the true history of that (you would know that you are the freaking off brand of one)!!! Life can’t be that well for you, with hatred in your heart or the time you invest in keeping up with a person of color….if you truly have that much time on your hand do something productive like putting positive effort towards the nation’s economic downfall and stop worrying about someone of a different race. Seems like you are questioning God and his mixture of peple that he created and if so I hate to which place you reside when he calls you home….You do know Hell is HOTT!
No Comment On This………t(*_*)t
YOU KNOW THIS IS GETTING REALLY BAD I SAY THEY TAKE ALL RACIST PEOPLE AND PUT THEM ON AN ISLAND AND LET THEM GO IT >BUT SERIOUSLY THIS DOES NEED TO STOP AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LATINOS ARE ALWAYS GETTING ~@## FROM OTHER PEOPLE IM MEXICAN I DONT THINK AM BETTER I’M FROM CA AND THERES STILL RACIST PEOPLE HERE THAT THINK THERE BETTER BUT I SAY FUK EM LETS KEEP SHOWING THEM BY GOING TO SCHOOL AND CONTINUING TO WORK HARD TO SHOW THEM AND TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT OURSELFS BECUASE ANYTHING THEY CAN DO WE CAN DO BETTER AND THATS REALL ~@## EVEN OUR FOOD IS BETTER
Why was the word “black” tagged when none of the story focused on one Black person?! My heart goes out to him, his fiance, children, and family. But, the world “black”…which when talking about the people, should have a capital “B”…should not be tagged!
…and why isn’t “white” tagged?! Weren’t they white people who assaulted the gentleman?
Oh…and to the person who left the comment, “black people are monkeys”…I almost said something which would have brought me DOWN to your level…but I will pray for you homie!
And why isn’t “white” tagged?! Weren’t they white people who assaulted the gentleman?!
Oh, and to the ignorant person who made the comment “Black people are monkeys”, I really wanted to say something, but I realized that if I did, I would be coming DOWN to your level….so I will pray for you.
It is rediculous! Is there any real debate here? For the authorities to even insinuate that this was not racially motivated is CRAZY! What is the use of making the hate crime law that is suppose to come down on these types of crimes if the system is not even going to indicte people when it is obvious that a crime is racially motivated? Totally REDICULOUS!!!
wat is goin on out here i think this is sick and wrong at the same time who can take some one life sumthin stupid
This is truely sad but the Hispanics are bringing more violence into the neighborhood. I’m a witness to this my self they play extremely loud music late at night and will not respect there neighbors. If you don’t call on them about there music i can testify you will be up until the break of dawn. I had something happen to me recently with two different Hispanic neighbors. Two weeks ago when the music was being played loud at 2:00Am i wasn’t the only one who called the police. After they came out later i heard a loud noise i got up and found out that some how the hispanics got in my car and i was terrified. The police knew it was them because they was the only ones awake and standing in the middle of the street at 3:00Am, after they left them the first time. I had been looking out my window basically from the time the music woke me up. It was coming from two different families on two different streets and it was very, very loud. My other neighbor who was a very quite family when they found out that amisty wasn’t going to be given to Mexicans the way they thought it would be they went and picked up there other son from Mexico. This guy played loud music as if no one was in the neighborhood but him. He played it sometimes at 3:00Am until you said something. Then when the police would come out as they would come across the cross over street he would see them and turn the music down before they get to him. Making it look like a false call and it made all of the neighbors think that the police just wasn’t doing there job until we caught on to what the Hispanic man was doing and that was playing with the police. We also found out that he was breaking into the neighbor house across the street. I have witness these people stealing out of the store, eating food from the store, breaking items in the stores. I am not against anyone but the Hispanics are here because they want to be here. No one went and got them at all. They look perfectly healthy to me coming here, and it don’t look like they been in a disaster. I always believe its two sides to a story yes to kill someone is wrong, but we must start with not allowing the situation to exculate what ever the reason is. My son is 11 years old and told me after the loud music incident, that he read in a book at school that Mexicans were very vindictive. The next day a friend told me the same thing just through a conversation. So i just believe we can all avoid much if we respect one another and not think we can just take what we want just because we become territorial.
Can we please stop this madness talking about the hispanics think they are better than us. If you want to keep it real there are some light skin black people who think they are better than brown skin people.
Just because there are some light skin black people who might think they are better then there own. We know there not better and it still classified them as black. But i remember looking a the Hispanic community when the election was going on and twice they made the statement that they wasn’t voting for Obama because he was black. No one is hating on Hispanic people you have to realize these people is all for themselves.
Little timmy is not black and is on a web-site using racial slurs against black people. Now we see how dangerous people are in our society. And for him to make it his racial priorty to get on a black web-site just to make trouble is unfair to the African American community. And i will be contacting BET founder on this, i also would like to know if theres some kind of racial group going on here where there targeting black web-sites.
Say when can a black person r should i say a real n#gga walk through a ##??~@# neighborhood without being suspect. And let me hear another whiteboy say %#@@? again im a bust dat ass u @*~%?## saltine ##??~@#.
where i rest bedsty brooklyn white moving in left an right the hood not no more they want to take back the hood so they dont have to travel far to work they are mixing in because of 911 black people an hispanic stand up for your or we will be layin down no respect
WHAT THE H*LL? HOW ON EARTH CAN THEY SAY IT WASNT A RACIAL CRIME? THIS IS A HATE CRIME AND THEY DONT WANT TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT………………….
Bout time get them dang mexicans out of here all they do is take up space just like white people do send them back to mexico so they can go eat tacos in drink beer all day in make more in more babys half of them infected with that shyt fkkkk them basterds
Mexican people dont have black people those are Chicanos who also look down on Mexicans. There is a huge difference. In Latin America people joke on race all the time it doesnt matter if you’re black, white, or light skn hispanic, it seems it only happens in america.
Violence of course is wrong and should be punished.
But illegal immigration needs to be dealt with.
We cannot be “the harbor for illegals and all other immigrants of the
world” as in the past.
We need to severely cut back immigration and develop stricter laws
punishing illegals and those that hire them!
If we don’t have that many Europeans coming here anymore, then how
we can remain a united country with the large numbers of “ethnically
diverse types?” Dennis P– Seattle, Wash.
I hope these guys get convicted for what they have done. These killers will learn a good lesson when they go to jail. These killers should watch the Discovery Channel the TV program LOCK UP!!!! so they know in advanced what awaits for them..
the sad part is everone is talking about skin color here, well what the hell is under that skin? we are all the same, GOD made us all in his image! we all need to learn respect! no one is better then the other, there is good and bad is every race but violence is never the answer! I hope those boys get the max, Luis suffered! who gave them the right to take his life?! why the hell can’t we all learn to co-exist!