In the last installment, I said we’d discuss all the special things we people of color have created for ourselves at the exclusion of whites. Well, since then, I’ve had a change of heart. I’m going to skip to a discussion about how violent we people of color are since I suppose our violent nature is what’s responsible for the black-man-did-it defense for murder and other crimes.
This creative defense was born in Boston in 1989 when a fine upstanding young man, Charles Stuart, drove his pregnant wife to a predominantly black neighborhood and shot her in the head and himself in the abdomen. She died shortly thereafter. His son delivered eight weeks early died a little more than two weeks after the incident when he authorized the withdrawal of life support. He lived to blame it on a black man and cause a big mess. Boston, with its history of racial unrest got a huge black eye as the police stopped, searched and questioned random black men until they nabbed one for the incident. Stuart’s brother spilled the beans—Boston Baked, perhaps?—and Stuart confessed then jumped off a bridge. At the time of his death, I’m sure he could not have imagined what he started.
We had our own Charles Stuart right here in Milwaukee in one, Jesse Anderson. Thanks to Police Chief Philip Arreola’s call for cool heads and good police work, citing Boston as a mistake he didn’t want to repeat, Anderson’s lie was quickly revealed. Anderson’s act had economic impact as it was linked (in the minds of some) to the death of Northridge Mall.
Let’s not forget Susan Smith, the South Carolinian who blamed a black man for the horrific drowning death of her two precious little boys or Bonnie Sweeten who blamed two black men for abducting her 9-year-old daughter and her or Ashley Todd who first, said a black man beat her up in an ATM robbery attempt and then said she thought it was because he was trying to teach her a lesson for supporting Republican John McCain instead of Democrat Barack Obama.
Well, it’s time to spread the slander. Now, we have the black-woman-did-it defense in the case of Bethany Storro. She, like everyone else mentioned here, LIED. On September 21, she was charged with theft after police said she admitted to fabricating the story of a stranger, a black woman, splashing acid in her face and then collecting $28,000 in donations from the community. Theft! That’s all??
Bethany, Ashley, Bonnie and Susan are all white as were Jesse and good old Charlie, the person who started this modern-day insanity. (I have to qualify it as modern-day because black men were convenient scapegoats for rape and murder since the days of slavery.) In each of the cases, some more than others, the authorities believed the people were telling the truth because after all, blacks are such violent people.
The email author wrote, “You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you…so why are the ghettos the most dangerous place to live?” To that question, one has to ask, “What does that have to do with the price of apples?” People who live in so-called “ghettos” across this country are more often the targets of violence than the white population, in general. I ask, is it not an act of violence to cavalierly accuse black men, and now women, of bad acts? Shouldn’t there be more serious consequences for such odious behavior? I don’t have answers, just questions to ponder.
