CNN - Hate Crime? Killing Caught On Video
Once again technology captures the ignorant and hateful actions of a Street Pirate.
This is Robert Shuler Smith - the District Attorney of Hinds County Mississippi 2011.
This case proves that it is more rational to appraise the status of Black people in America NOT BY examples of White folks who cast out against Black people after being motivated by racial hatred. Instead the question of the government's will to enforce its laws against such assaults and thus punish the ignorant, hate-filled White who dares allow these sentiments to produce injury upon a Black person.
The presence of a Black man in a seat of power does not prove that White Supremacy is dead. It also does not prove that "nothing has changed in America" (double negative intentionally used) - the talking point that is so commonly heard. The need is for a district attorney who will transparently enforce the law. Mr Smith's presence shows that the citizens who elected him to enforce these laws are no longer bound to the old country club of racism that would have presented such a man of color (or who was committed to reform of the past system of corruption) to rise to such power.
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(With All Due Respect)
The last major unchartered territory in America in which "hate crimes" and "civil rights violations" are not labeled as such is in the space of intramural violence and murder that regularly happens WITHIN the Black community.
The sight of a White man running over a Black man with a car thus killing him is no more "murderous" than was the sight of:
- Several Black men shot in the back in metro-Atlanta this year
- A Black man who was shot in a car and his carcass dumped in a parking lot about 3 weeks ago
- 2 Black teens being shot in the back of the head - execution style in College Park GA about 7 weeks ago
The key difference is the response that is triggered within the Black community based upon the key attributes of the Street Pirate assailant - not the mode of murder.
I HOPE THAT THE KILLER IN MISSISSIPPI IS GIVEN THE DEATH PENALTY - AND QUICKLY
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