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Blogging For Justice, Lets Protect Our Women
November 2nd, 2007
This Blogging action is being lead by Gina at What About Our Daughtors, who initiated it; and Wayne at the African American Opinion blog, who has a good central post where you can see the list of todays Bloggers for Justice.
The Dunbar Village and Megan Williams cases are two you should know about, but if you don’t you can click those links. They highlight the disgusting abuse of women in general, but more particularly the abuse of Black women; and how particularly when it’s Black women it goes unnoticed in the larger society.
The later represents a partially race motivated assault on our women that permeates society in various forms, the former highlights sociopathic thuggery running rampant and out of control in our community that WE have failed to confront.
In regards to Dunbar Village, as I stated in my post Rape As A Weapon:
We have an out of control, sociopatic, criminal element that wants to terrorize the neighborhoods, or better yet, Petri dish concentration camps that the poor are often forced into; to establish a reign of preeminence over the area to do as they will.
These people are our sons, brothers, cousins - the fools that we raised. Sure, we can talk about the system that the white man set up to disenfranchise Black men and cause them to fail, demoralizing them as a factor that has led to this; and how the vestiges of slaver taught Black men to be studs and just see women only as sperm receptacles. And we can talk about how the institutions of white run society refuse to put forth proper protection of the decent working poor who are just trying to live, as I’ve done before; but when are we going to talk about the other part of the equation?
These things have always been a part of being Black in America, but the array and the depth of sociopath behavior hasn’t been. So I ask, when do WE do something about it and stop walking into the trap, eyes wide open? When do we reclaim OUR communities for us to live in, and not let our children become the type of young men that would do this .
When they barged into that woman’s apartment that night, I guess they wanted to “Super Man that ho” as advertized in the bastardized corporate rap version of the great Hip Hop art from; which has turned music of the voiceless into music of substance-less and pointless, misogynistic thug fantasy.
Megan Williams
Here we have a group of inbread white hicks kidnapping, torturing and raping a woman for a week because she’s Black; calling her nigger as they beat her, and threatening to hang her and cut off her foot like Kunta Kinte.
The Feds quickly decided that it’s not a hate crime because having had a previous relationship with one of the males, somehow means he couldn’t be motivated by race; and that also somehow explains why the other five (including 3 women) participated in the barbarous assault. Maybe because the actions of these Neanderthals fall right in line with the torture policies of Justice Secretary Alberto Gonzales and the Bush Administration, so their administration isn’t going to prosecute their own. Uhh, nothing new there. I don’t know; but I do know their claim doesn’t make any logical sense.
And though this is burning up the internet, some how the white mainstream media has chosen absolute silence on it; hmmmm. AJ at Overanalyze It started a mailing campaign to ask annoying loud mouth Nancy Grace to cover it; and I’m with that seeing as I’ve already given her credit, for though being a cackling hen, having given way more coverage to missing Black women and children than the rest of her mainstream peers. [AJ, if you’re reading this, can you provide me the link to that post. I couldn’t find it?]
Dunbar Village Victim’s Assistance Fund
Checks can be made payable to the Dunbar Village Victim Assistance Fund-St. Ann. They can be dropped off at any Wachovia branch or mailed to: St. Ann Catholic Church, 310 N. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33401. The church’s phone number is (561) 832-3757. — per www.Whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com
Megan Williams Fund
A TRUST FUND has been set up by Chase Bank for Megan Williams.
A spokeswoman for Chase Bank said that donations to the trust fund for Megan can be made
at any Chase Bank. — per www.nessapublishing.com/meganwilliams.htm
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This article is so on point. The atrocities of both cases were brought to my attention by black bloggers and I receive my news from a wide variety of sources. This demonstrates two trends, the systematic media “black out” and the rising strength of aware black bloggers.
The culture that creates this sociopathic tendency of a complete lack of empathy is absolutely furthered by the corporate sponsored music industry and it occurred to me that the abuse of police power and racial profiling in poor neighbors has created such a deep distrust of the police that people prefer to look the other way instead of calling the police who are “supposed” to protect society.
We need to confront the thugs white or black in our communities. We cannot allow ourselves to react to these atrocities with a blind eye to the signs of the potential of this behavior. We need to reclaim our neighborhoods. We need to employ the best social control through general moral sanctions for all destructive behaviors. It is obvious that we cannot rely on the police to protect us.
Keep spreading the good word!
“We have an out of control, sociopatic, criminal element that wants to terrorize the neighborhoods, or better yet, Petri dish concentration camps that the poor are often forced into; to establish a reign of preeminence over the area to do as they will.”
Indeed. It needs to be checked now, and not later. Our leaders need to place attention on the Dunbar case and discuss solutions for black on black crime.
I’ll update and add the addresses where donations can be received over at UU.
We diffidently can’t just leave it to the police Danielle. For one, you can’t police morality, and there will if this sociopathic culture keeps growing. Secondly, the police were designed from the start to protect wealthy property owners, and have never been revamped. If one knows what the police are and why they really exist, you’ll understand why they operate as they do and who they are really trying to protect and serve.
The Wilding of America continues.
I haven’t seen anything about the Dunbar Village thing until now.
It’s funny I work at resettling refugees who have been displaces by horrific acts and tragedies…yet right here in my own country this shit is taking place.
If I could swear online I would.
This article and others like it are way overdue. We, in the Black community must take a look at what is happening here. As you mentioned, the perpetrators of these crimes are our own. Most are not strangers. What we must now realize is that when these criminals commit these vile acts, they are no longer part of our communties and must be cut off. We also have to dispel the notion of “No Snitching.” Why in the world would we want to protect people who are committing crimes against us? We need to understand that when the police go into White neighborhoods, their actions are proactive, when they enter into Black neighborhoods, their actions are reactive. We have every right to have distain for the police. Law enforcement has never been just to people of color. However, in most Black communities, the people on a whole are law abiding citizens just trying to live. Then we have these criminals who are too cowardly to go into the White neighborhoods, so they prey on their own.
I think we need to take a look at Philadelphia PA. Philly, by the way is my home town. There was a call put out for 10,000 Black men to help patrol the streets in the Black communities. 10,000 Black men answered that call. You won’t hear too much about the Brothers who volunteered because the call for help was really not to illiit the response which was received. Had the Brothers not shown up, then the White media would have been all over the story. Since they did answer the call, the story was no longer important. As long as the media could report on the over 400 murders which has occurred in Philly so far this year, there was a story. If this program succeeds, then we won’t be hearing too much about this either.
What we do know is that we cannot expect any help from law enforcement. Their involvement in our communities was never to protect or preserve law and order. However, we cannot continue to let a few of us destroy our neighborhoods,children, schools, our very lives. We must put a stop to the crime wave which is enveloping us. We need to use Philly as a pilot program and initiate this type of action in our communities throughout the U. S. We need our Black brothers to take back our neighborhoods. All of us can give a hand to stop some of the atrocities that we are facing every day. As adults, it is our responsibility to care for and protect our children. We should not have to worry whether our children are coming home from school each day. Most of these people terrorizing our communities are children themselves. We need to get a handle on our children. If we don’t, they will eventually be in the hands of a racist White law enforcement system. Our communities need better school facilities, jobs for the teenagers, recreational activities and more importantly, parents who give a damn about what their childen are doing. We have to start teaching our children right from wrong, and this must be done early. There are going to be some who we will not be able to reach or teach, those will have to suffer the consequences. I think it is better to lose a few, than a whole community.
I am in favor of calling Black folk into action. We have to stop these crimes. We cannot continue pretending that we are not seeing them. One day, one of us may be the victim. By then, it will be too late.
Zoe, I would frame it differently from the “Black on Black Crime” montra, because across the board; the majority times a crime is committed against somebody, its committed by somebody of their same race. But more so because I think that montra misses the greater issue of it not being so much about who our people are committing crime against(though that’s a sub issue), but that we’ve allowed a subculture to be foster that creates Blacks that have such a lack of hope, self-worth and morality that they’d choose to commit these acts on anyone.
Great post!
Here is the link you are referring to.
overanalyzeit.blogspot.com/2007/10/msm-still-absent-on-megan-williams.html
I’ve noticed that when I tell other blacks about these two crimes, they seem indifferent, as if it’s just another rape - they are not looking at the entire picture.