AMEN Mother of Hanover! I couldn’t have said either statement better! It is an issue that is starting at home, nobody things their precious little darlings are anything but perfect! They are human! I just pray for all families in this. I get so tired of hearing people blame it on the schools and race. Neither has anything to do with it. It is how you teach and raise your children. PARENTS: PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!

I am not a racist. What people fail to realize is that when you have a school that mascot is called the “Confederates” it makes you wonder. I teach my son to love everybody regardless of what color. How do you get over slavery? Your ancestors was for it. Some of them probally had plantations that housed slaves What happened to Emmett Till a 14 year old from Mississppithat motivated Civil Rights Movement. A boy who whistled at a white woman? He was murdered, beaten, and eye gouged out before he was shot through the head and thrown into the river with a 70lb cotton gin fan tied to his body barbed wire.Your ancestors committed that horrible crime and you say, “Get Over it”. Minorities have always been treated unfairly. It was your white ancestors that did this and the 16 year old attacked a white boy. How many black missing children and women never get found or get no publicity because it is a black child or black woman. Whenever a missing white child or woman is pictured on the news the world stops, to try and locate them. The world is not fair, thats all I was saying. Omar is a minority who was being bullied. Shame on the family of the bullies. The truth will present itself. The Judge is GOD!

Sandra- I will not make another comment to you after this one. How dare you preach to me about the history in my life. You should not assume I am white and make those remarks to me. I happen to be a pround African American man, who does know my herritage and the PAST! that is the keyword- the world will never be fair if the past is all you dwell on. We have the same right as everyone else, but some of our blessed people choose to live life in a way that does shed a bad light on us all. When we can move on to become one with everyone else, things will be better. we are holding ourselves back. I will not get over slavery, but I will not live my life crying over what happened in the past. I am making a concious effort to change the future. what are you doing to help?

I have moved on and I am not crying about being black and the things that happened to blacks during slavery. The history of black people is just what it is. 40 acres and a mule!!! What I was saying is that you can’t say the boy deserves what he gets without thinking that maybe just maybe these boys that allegedly bullied him could have been racist, or maybe their ancestors could have been racist. White women and white men make more than blacks and that will never change. Racism exist whether you want to deny it or not. I have white friends, I date a white man. I am looking at the big picture. Look at too many black males who spend there lives in prison for crimes that never comitted or for things that you would think would get probation but they end up locking them behind bars for the rest of there life compared to a white boy who committs the same crime. If you go back to your history books the White European settlers lied and said they discovered American first. It was really the Indians. Through out history the white man has done everything to destroy itself. And they continue to do it now. This does not make me prejudice it makes me angry that we as minorities still continue to follow whatever the white man say the truth is. A black man who is our president of the United States still can’t be recognized for the highest office in the land. The mess we are in was created again by the white, greedy white man. Most of them go live on tv admit to cheating on their sorry wives who can’t live without them which includes power, money and suburbia type of life. They put there spoiled children in private schools so they wont have to interact with black or hispanics and if they ever lose that power or money guess what they end up committing suicide.

Lucinda

Wow, does anyone know what happens to a kid who is reported for bulling at a Hanover School?  Even if they come to another kids class an treaten them right infront of the teachers, NOTHING, theres never even a written report in their file, so when the kid who’s bullied for years (as my child was and physically beaten at school in front of many witness) finally snaps the school officials say “NEW CONDITION” your child is Emotionally Disturbed it had nothing to do with being bullied.  So if a future incident occurs the school has no liability.  Hanover will just ignore all reports of bulling until the child just snaps, luck for my kid she didn’t snap with an ax in her hand.  When she couldn’t take it anymore the school suggested she was just truant, ignoring even written doctor reports detailing the facts, OMAR does need a lawyer and WRITTEN statements from students or staff that saw any incidents of him being bullied, how can I contact him does anyone know?  Schools are more concerned about keeping Federal Funding and thier accrediation, the kids must fin for themselves

Hang in Omar. I will testify in your behalf if you need me to you do NOT deserve to tried as an adult or to be sentenced 20 years!! 16 year old’s don’t get the privileges of being adults such as voting they should not be tried in a court of law as adults BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ADULTS

You can contact his lawyer Graig Evans, 746-3773
and ask for his assistant, if you want to help Omar

well mechanicsville there is partial truth to the racial issue here , but it doesn’t matter lee davis has always been that way i’ve seen it many years ago when kids from up north would move down, the redneck kids would almost have a field day, they would pick fights and i’ve seen some pretty serious ones, it’s the mentality our town is still 20-60 years behind. well thats VA for you, if there diff then lynch’em . the ld staff is more concerned about getting thier college quota then step in.

To All Those Posting,

Please remember that we are not asking anyone to condone what Omar did, nor are we suggesting that he should not be punished. If you do not know Omar personally then it might be hard for you to understand the whole situation. Omar is an amazing kid that has a great future in store, being tried as adult and getting the minimum sentence of 20 years would do this boy more harm than good. A lot of this “story” boils down to the Hanover school system that does a very poor job in protecting these children during school hours. All of this will be bought to light very soon.

http://www.petitiononline.com/oka10693/petition.html

From my 1st post on this matter I have said that the school system should be ashamed of the way they ignore bullies. And blogger Holly to stand up for the system was a joke…  The teachers DO NOT care at all what your children are doing as long as your child doesn’t disrespect one of them.  If they disrespect a teacher or administrator, here comes detention, a phone call, an email, a letter home…  ALL SIRENS SOUND!!!  They couldn’t care less when students disrespect or abuse other students…  If teachers sounded off the same sirens when it came to witnessing student to student behaviors, bullying, disrespecting, tormenting, threatening this could have possibly been prevented from escalating to this degree…  And yes, good parenting plays a huge roll also.  My son is now long graduated.  I asked him his opinion and he said the same, teachers don’t care!!! Omar is a bright student who never caused anyone harm ever and he was put in a situation that caused his action. DEFENDING HIMSELF…  The other kid has been a bully, a tormenter, abuser and has disrespected others.  That is how he is described by most….  Seems Omar’s parents raised a bright youngster with a desire to be a model citizen and it seems the parents of the bully raised an abusive, tormenting, demeaning bully… Where were the sirens from the school???

http://www.petitiononline.com/oka10693/petition.html

hey Concerned parent. They schools are not responsible for raising your children. YOU ARE. They aren’t responsible for your child being mean, harmful to others. YOU ARE. Why does everything have to be blamed on the schools. They are there to educate- not raise lazy parents children. give it a rest.

has any one heard of a stand your ground law?

Virginia has not adopted the “Stand Your Ground Law’.

To anyone who is supporting Omar needs to rethink their actions. Was he bullied? Yes. But if this was the issue, why didn’t anyone do anything about it? Hasn’t anyone learned from the Virginia Tech incident? Apparently not.

Bullying can become serious, as some of you know. And if it isn’t handled in an appropriate manner, this is the outcome. That boy is blessed to be alive but luckily, he got away with stitches and a scar. I think Omar should be convicted of the crime he commited and take the punishment he deserves, whether or not he was bullied.

i believe i read in the rtd that the alleged Bully is in a different school, and guess what, students reported he’s up to it again.