Thursday, September 13, 2007

Something to discuss...



In this post I will step away from the usual celebrity gossip. In fact, given the recent events that have taken place within the last months, I feel drained. Most of all I am sad, sick, and disgusted. Enough is enough! After reading the two articles that are to follow, I hope that you feel something on the inside which will tug at you and make you want to DO SOMETHING! We need to do better. It's time for change.



In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree. (Please note, the tree above is not the tree, but a tree at Jena High School.)

The boys who hung the nooses were suspended from school for a few days. The school administration chalked it up as a harmless prank, but Jena's black population didn't take it so lightly. Fights and unrest started breaking out at school. The District Attorney, Reed Walters, was called in to directly address black students at the school and told them all he could "end their life with a stroke of the pen."

Black students were assaulted at white parties. A white man drew a loaded rifle on three black teens at a local convenience store. (They wrestled it from him and ran away.) Someone tried to burn down the school, and on December 4th, a fight broke out that led to six black students being charged with attempted murder. To his word, the D.A. pushed for maximum charges, which carry sentences of eighty years. Four of
the six are being tried as adults (ages 17 & 18) and two are juveniles.







To read updates on this case visit:www.whileseated.org
WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Thursday September 20th:
*Be in Jena, Louisiana for a rally to free the Jena 6
*Wear black to show your support if you are unable to attend the rally
*Spread the news!
If you wish to attend the rally go to: http://www.minglecity.com/ for more information


Meagan Williams-Kidnapped and tortured
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Authorities said Tuesday they are considering hate crime charges in the case of a woman who was tortured while being held captive for at least a week, and they are investigating the possibility that she was lured by a man she met on the Internet. The victim was repeatedly called a racial slur while her captors sexually abused, beat and stabbed her, her mother said.
Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, were arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 20-year-old black woman. “I don’t understand a human being doing another human being the way they did my daughter,” Carmen Williams said Tuesday from her daughter’s room at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital. “I didn’t know there were people like that out here.” Megan Williams, with a cast on her arm, spoke barely above a whisper. “I’m better,” she said.

The woman’s abductors called her the N-word “every time they stabbed her,” Carmen Williams told The Charleston Gazette earlier. Authorities were still looking for two people they believe drove the woman to the house where she was abused, said Logan County Chief Deputy V.K. Dingess. The case is “something that would have come out of a horror movie,” Logan County Sheriff W.E. Hunter said. Deputies found Williams on Saturday when they went to the house in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston, to investigate an anonymous tip from someone who had witnessed the abuse, Porter said Tuesday.

One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the woman limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying “Help me,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release. Carmen Williams said doctors told her daughter she may be well enough to leave the hospital within a few days, although a nurse said the young woman’s condition was listed as “under evaluation.” “I just want my daughter to be well and recover,” Carmen Williams said. “I know the Lord can do anything.”

Besides being sexually assaulted, the woman was stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Porter said. Her eyes were black and blue. The wounds were inflicted at least a week ago, deputies said.
The woman was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from a toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. She also had been choked with a cord, it alleges.

One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman’s ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint.
Six suspects charged The six suspects were arrested Saturday and Sunday. Deputies were still trying to determine whether the woman knew her assailants, Porter said. Brewster, the 49-year-old who owns the home where the alleged attacks occurred, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation. Her son, Bobby R. Brewster, 24, also of Big Creek, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony. Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, is charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony. Her daughter Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville, and George A. Messer, 27, of Chapmanville, are charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery. Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, is charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding.
All six remained in custody Tuesday in lieu of $100,000 bail each, and all have asked for court-appointed attorneys.
Crimesceneblog

NOTICE THAT THE FUCKERS ONLY HAVE $100,000 BONDS!!!

What do these events share in common...
NOBODY FUCKIN' KNEW ABOUT THEM! Mychal Bell has been sitting in jail for over 7 months now. Major news networks are just beginning to air/cover (in a half-ass manner) the story. I posted these stories especially for my people in California...unfortunately y'all gets NO news.
In case anybody was wondering why we needed the news show, BET Tonight with Ed Gordon, this is why! Apparently showing the latest pictures of Britney showing her firecrotch while getting out of the car is more important. Maybe the "Is Britney Fat" debate deserves more coverage. What's your opinion?

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