Comments on: Little Girl Found: Commentary on the Case of Anna Mae He

By: Cattygurl

Cattygurl — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:12:23 +0000

Asking a kid that has only lived in the US to ask whether they want to live in the US or China is a stupid question. Of course she’s going to answer the US- that’s all she’s ever known. It’s not like her house is being firebombed or she’s living in abject poverty. The US is the only thing she has ever known.

fundamentally, that question shows the ignorance of the bastards that asked it more than anything.

By: Vetrean

Vetrean — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:19:54 +0000

Sort of in response to Dialectic’s response…sorry if this isn’t what you meant. :\

While loving a person is indeed no guarantee of non-racist behavior, I would say it reduces the possibility. Seeing as there’s no strong evidence they ARE racist, it works.

While the Bakers did claim to respect Anna Mae’s heritage and obviously did not do so, this simply means just that; they weren’t respecting her heritage. This would certainly have more weight if the Bakers weren’t playing the ’sympathy of the general public’ card; it seems more to me like they weaned her away from her Chinese heritage in a bid to alienate her from the Hes and to reinforce the ‘public sympathy’ card.

Then, there’s the fact that he offered her five dollars to answer the ‘United States or China’ question. To me, it doesn’t seem like a racist action; more like grasping at every straw they had to keep Anna Mae.

As always, I could be wrong. I’m not saying that they were clearly not racist, I’m simply saying that all the comments of ‘fucking hillbilly racist’ that I seem to be seeing might not be warranted.

By: Dialectic

Dialectic — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:27:10 +0000

An ABC news article here which essentially supports the Bakers and does not go into the massive judicial bias apparent at the trial level:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2893839

Jerry’s attempt to coax Anna Mae into answering questions by offering money:
http://www.foramh.com/upload/cat/2/78/baker-coax-amh-s.gif

By: Dialectic

Dialectic — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:03:05 +0000

Just a note: I sent the link to a couple of law professors, and one of them mentioned that in the US it’s not unusual for judges to go at each others’ throats so I changed that part about it being “exceedingly rare.” Commonwealth countries are more deferential, I suppose.

Tell all your American friends to read this and spread the word. It’s important.

By: blockthebox

blockthebox — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:39:20 +0000

And the Stealth MC breaks it down for us again! So, according to this - http://www.parentalrightsandjustice.com/index.cgi?ctype=Page;site_id=1;objid=32;curloc=Cat:10;ct=1170310501;_cchk=ct-ctype-curloc-objid-site_id@ef83b97008a3ddd6e2fa1e6cf944570e - there’s some kind of disciplinary proceeding/complaint against Childers for screwing up this case.