African American
Related: About this forumThe lynching has begun... Again
http://www.wptz.com/politics/missing-black-man-found-hanging-from-in-miss/31899426The most patient human community might now run out of patience, I know I have.
If they rule this a suicide they better have absolute proof that it was, and I want the proof from the DOJ not some local authority
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Some of us have of course been saying all along that ALL opposition to Obama from the right is racism, period.
That sure once in a very rare while a republican or teapartier can find something Obama said or did that they were against before he was for it, but that is rare.
They oppose him ONLY because of his color and name, period.
Then 6 yrs of in your face racism and hate, shooting AfAm for no reason, etc, and now this.
What's next?
Do the most patient group of people in history finally react in a way other than law abiding and peaceful?
We know what white people would do if roles reversed, that we know for sure.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)Non violence works up to a point,if your persecutors have no morals or shame than using only non violence makes you a punching bag. Even ghandi admitted this fact. I don't want the brown people to lay down and die nor do I want to see cowardly non racist whites standing by wringing thier hands afraid to stand up for their brown allies ,freinds and lovers. This racist bigot bullshit has got to stop how? It's up to us who are not racist and who have courage and the brown people of this country. Sure there was Martin Luther king but at the same time there were Black Panthers and Malcom X enforcing voting rights with guns.
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Did not know about your hidden post.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)hoping to be able to shut me up so I have to be careful
something about a white guy taking the side of the black guy that some folks dont like
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Oh wait, I see what you did there
Yeah, this is his fault too, right...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)just kidding, you will also outlive me with that attitude
my wife tells me so everyday
I have always appreciated your posts, btw
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)color then I would arm myself.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)And posting comment saying you are not advocating is advocating.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)minding your own business, but it shuts down bullies quick because they count on you tolerating their shit.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)That's why my great grandfather, grandfather, and dad had guns. 'Bama wasn't a pleasant place - and even though my dad spent the last 30 years of his life in Western NY - he never forgot. My husband is armed - but a shotgun to a former Italian Marine Sharp Shooter is all he needs.
And it was him hollering about this - this morning that woke me up.
Morning Joe covered it at the top of the show I guess . . .
undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)I like you,we need real voices like yours who know how to speak up and tell it like it is ,fainting lilies be damned milquetoastes be offended can just stfu.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)No, it's a Big Fucking Lie, is what it is.
The Birchers have been singing the tune of 'race war' all my life. They just went by other names for a while, but they're back and not hiding anymore:
Fred Koch said:
The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America, he said (p. 25) and it will use the colored people by getting a vicious race war started.
Koch's views on civil rights were identical to those of the John Birch Society. Early in the civil rights movement, the Birch founder labeled Dr. Martin Luther King a Communist and marshaled the Birch leadership to fight every piece of civil rights legislation.
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1017252721#post15
They attack voting rights and the Democrats at every opportunity, as they say we are the party of blacks.
Infowars is one of the main propaganda venues of the Tea Party, Libertarians and Birchers. You will not find anything they say that does reflect the Koch platform described by Bernie Sanders and Harry Reid.
And like the Nazi Party, they plan for a 'race war' to happen to have right wing revolution to end the federal government so they can finish selling off the USA. There are roots that go back to the Confederacy and before that. Current voices bear other labels.
Some go directly back to the original ones. A KKK leader was interviewed on CNN recently by Don Lemon. This would never have happened when I was growing up.
Those groups were treated as fringe nutjobs. Now they're mainstream with a generation taught this by Rush, et al.
Were these the acts of old style racists or the new ones? Does it make any difference?
We need four more years of someone in the White House to clean this filth out of the public sphere, and the private one, too.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)I have been saying for a while there are millions of seething, cant see thru the steam coming out of their heads, racists who still cant believe a black man is president.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Lennon Lacy was a 17 year old African American high school student whose body was found hanging from a childrens swing set in a largely white mobile home park in rural North Carolina less than two months ago. The local police declared his death a suicide within nine hours of finding his body despite the fact that the shoes on his feet were not his own and were two sizes too small, despite his parents saying that conclusion couldnt be right and despite the fact that locals in the small, rural town he lived in have alluded that his death might have been a hate crime. Lennon Lacy, a 17 year old African American high school student, was found hanging by the neck in a largely white trailer park and local police closed the case on the possibility that he was lynched before performing any investigation. Why don't more people know about this?
Lennons family wants a federal investigation. The NAACP has asked for a federal investigation saying we believed there was a good possibility of a race-based homicide and possible law-enforcement involvement in the decision to provide the State Medical Examiner with their conclusion that this was a suicide before any real investigation of a possible homicide had been undertaken.
I wrote a diary about this yesterday. The title was provocative and specifically mentioned lynching. More people cared about a fire chief using the N-word. I find that shameful. I will keep writing about Lennon Lacy and the need for a federal investigation every.single.day until this community knows his name and why a federal investigation is important.
My diary from yesterday appears below. Whether or not you read it, please join me in pushing for a federal investigation into the possible murder by lynching of this child...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346362/-Why-Isn-t-A-Possible-Lynching-in-NC-National-News?detail=facebook#
to Babylonsister:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025851377
My add ot the thread:
Okay, the other wasn't ruled a suicide, but an 'accident.' I'll go back and edit it. The details show it was anything but!
WTF??? Georgia teen was stuffed with newspaper after death, family lawyer says
The mysterious death of a Georgia teen has taken a bizarre twist with the revelation that an autopsy of his exhumed remains found his internal organs missing and his body stuffed with newspaper.
The family of Kendrick Johnson, 17, of Valdosta, Ga., was "outraged" and "devastated" by the discovery and believes his death was a murder that is being covered up, a lawyer representing them said Thursday.
Johnson, a three-sport athlete, was found dead on Jan. 11 in a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym. State medical examiners concluded that he accidentally suffocated while trying to retrieve a sneaker.
But his parents, Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson, were doubtful about that conclusion. In June, they won a court order to have Kendrick's body exhumed for a second autopsy.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/10/20898158-georgia-teen-was-stuffed-with-newspaper-after-death-family-lawyer-says?lite
to joeybee:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023822534
I'm sure there are many more, some of which I've heard of personally, but those are anecdotal despite the sources who were involved in the area I lived in. These things are not unknown far out in the country. We mostly hear of things in the city, but it's not just there.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)this shit is going on under our nose and nobody even knows about it...
AND
I hear the ONE source we have for news that is actually true, MSNBC is probably going rightwing
How many AfAm will be lynched that we wont even hear about?
fuck this
suicide my ass
undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)Maybe time to lynch thewhite bully that decided to lynch the black guy ,if justice won't do its job godammit. but not totally,yeah I'm that disgusted.
Something has to stop this shit honestly racists are just bullies same piece of shit as a homophobe,or any asshole that lives to torment and kill others.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)suspicious.
I think we are in for a long and hard ride.
All issues in America come back to race, almost all.
Teaparty exists solely to be the racist party, so all politics are now race based as well.
Matrosov
(1,098 posts)Is how in the thread about this in General Discussion there are more than a few folks annoyed by the assumption this was more likely a lynching than a suicide. Why is it so farfetched and outrageous to think a black man in the Deep South could've been hanged for the color of his skin? Hmm..
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Gives me the creeps.