Talk:Zebra murders

message: The article omits the fact that one of the Zebra killers, J.L.Cooks, was arrested immediately after the murder of the third victim, Frances Rose.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:C0B3:9060:71D9:7BB6:5CE3:B76A (talk) 23:12, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated the 1973 events and added the detail about his arrest (with source). TrueCrimeData (talk) 06:56, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Error

message: As abhorrant and gruesome as the murders may be, the last paragraph goes too far to say that there is a "continuing climate of anti-white setiment [sic] in the United States."  so i changed this sentence.  The author states that reverse racism is the reason there has been no media attention after the fact: this is only speculation.  I also altered two other sentences I felt were dramatic hyperbole.  It was my goal to exercise restraint.  Perhaps others will want to look at this last paragraph/section and further revise it.  
More generally I think this article lacks a style that is completely formalized.  There are a few spelling/grammar errors, and much of the article is somewhat vague and speculative.  I admit that I am ignorant to the facts of the cases.
:Thanks for the feedback. I have to admit my mistakes on this article. The last paragraph was nicely done. I have heard of this case long time ago and I have to delve a lot on this. I have to admit that I editorialized on this; I should have exercised restraint on that. RashBold 18:06, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is NOT going to far. I don't care if you call me a "racist", or for that matter anything else you may want to call me, for saying so. The same applies to everyone else on here. Gringo300 01:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editorializing in last section 

message: I removed the aside "(Saleem Erkat, although an Arab, was apparently mistaken for white)" because it is unscientific nonsense. There is no biological distinction between a "white" European and a "white-looking" Middle Easterner. There is no "whiteness gene" that is possessed by people living on one side of Istanbul and not the other. If a person appears white, then they will be treated as white, and that is the sole criterium for being "white". Just for good measure, I feel it's necessary to mention also that the terms "white" and "caucasian" are not coterminous, and that it's impossible for someone to "look Hispanic".
Yes, there's supposed Whites who have brown eyes, dark skin and black hair (the black Irish), they aren't White by the truest definition, a blonde- haired, blue eyed, Nordic person from Sweden is about as White as you can get, a Spanish- Turk isn't stricltly speaking White.
Pdreco (talk) 04:08, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saleem Erkat 

message: "Almost at once, local black leaders denounced the arrests because of its apparent racist undertones". Wouldn't it be more correct to say that "local black leaders denounced the arrests on the grounds of their apparent racist undertones"? Unless, that is, it is always apparently racist to arrest someone because they are black. Or should I say "looks black"?
::: What am dis mess of a comment mean?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.139 (talk) 23:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Arrests

message: Are not confined to their wheelchairs.  Having a wheelchair means you aren't trapped in bed, as in the days before they were invented.  It sucks to be paralyzed, but it's even worse to feel confined by a mobility aid.Berkeleysappho 11:08, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wheelchair users

message: Congratulations, many people have contributed to making this article such a mess of apologist/race baiting tripe that it can't even be edited properly.  For example there is a neutrality tag, which ISN'T ADEQUATELY DISCUSSED ANYWHERE.  Then there are the misused and misplaced source requests, and the obvious attempts to turn an article with a race related subject into yet more new-school apologism.  If your goal is to turn this article into something that in no way references that the perpetrators were black, leave because your input is useless and unwelcome, and probably vandalism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.204.29.215 (talk) 14:06, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Key word being “persuasively” because it’s true. Compare coverage of this to the never-ending saga of Emmet Till. 2600:4040:5463:3D00:4D5B:8985:AB5:BCB (talk) 23:34, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is a mess 

message: There are a number of sources but I don't have time. Doug Weller talk 15:23, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nation of Islam and Death Angels