More Racial Intimidation: The Return of Jim Crow
posted in Cultural, Racial Injustice | | | View blog reactions | Print This PostJena is not only in Louisiana, nor just in the south. Racially and socio-economic motivated police brutality transpires all over the country; and the Pleajhia Mervin cake incident in Palmdale California highlights the campaign to criminalize children, even within the schools.
A report from InfoZine last month shows that pockets of somewhat palpable racially intimidating environments persist, as the national rollback to Jim Crow increases:
Blacks Intimidated in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana
The politics of fear and racial intimidation still reign in Western Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
This is an area where the Klan just plastered the neighborhood of a black state representative in Kentucky with “recruiting material.” This is a region where a black construction company owner was run off the road in Indiana and critically injured 20 years ago, and then warned on his hospital bed that he was “not ready for the big leagues.”
Now, a generation later, this is also the place where the construction company owner’s nephew-the father of a high school football standout, was allegedly the victim of a curse and spit laden battery by a former police officer and city council member who is currently the “chief of security” at a local Catholic high school.
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