Crimes Ignored & Hidden

Dr. Walter Williams wrote an excellent editorial a few days ago about the silence from the black leaders and the MSM about black on white crimes.  He describes how the Duke case generated a huge wave of media reports and condemnation from black leaders but it all turned out to be a hoax.  He describes the James Byrd murder in 98 which was used in attempts to derail Bush’s first Presidential run, they said he didn’t support hate crime legislation.  Problem was that two suspects were sentenced to death and the third to life.  Sounds like punishment to me.

But have you heard of the Christian and Newsom murders?  If you read blogs you may well have, but to all those who rely on the dinosaur media to give you your news your fresh out of luck.  They have virtually ignored the crime, along with the black leaders:

According to a 46-count indictment, suspects Darnell Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman, all blacks, are charged with committing rape, including sodomy against Christian and Newsom, both of whom are white. After being raped, Newsom was shot several times and his body was found burned along nearby railroad tracks. Christian was forced to witness her boyfriend’s rape, torture and subsequent murder before she was ultimately raped, tortured and murdered. The police discovered her body inside a large trash can in the kitchen of the home where the murders took place. Before disposing of her body, the murderers poured bleach or some other cleaning agent down her throat in an effort to destroy DNA evidence. Trial dates have been set for next May.

What have we heard from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others who rushed to judgment and outrage as they condemned whites in the cases of the “Jena 6″ and Don Imus when he referred to the Rutgers ladies basketball team as “nappy-headed ho’s”? Where were the national news media and public officials? You can bet the rent money that were the victims black and the perpetrators white, Knoxville would have been inundated with TV crews, with Jackson, Sharpton and other civil rights spokesmen and politicians from both parties condemning racism, possibly blaming it all on George Bush.

How about the Wichita Massacre in 2000?  Heard about that crime?  No?  Shocker:

Those four were raped and murdered by Reginald and Jonathan Carr after a home invasion robbery:

At about 11 PM on the freezing cold night of December 14, 2000, Reginald Carr, 23, and Jonathan Carr, 20, invaded the home of three young Wichita men who had two female guests.  The Carr Brothers forced all of them to strip naked. They beat the men and raped the women. 

In addition to repeatedly raping the women, the Carr Brothers have been found guilty of forcing them to perform sexual acts on each other, sodomizing one of them, and forcing the three male victims to perform sex acts with each of the women.  Then the Carr Brothers robbed them and brutally murdered four of them.

According to a lone survivor’s horrifying pre-trial testimony, after sexually tormenting them, the Carr Brothers took the friends individually to an ATM machine and forced them to withdraw as much cash as possible.  Then, the Carr Brothers transported their naked victims to a remote soccer field and forced them to kneel in the snow before shooting them execution-style in the head, and then running them over with a truck. After leaving their victims for dead, the Carr Brothers returned to the men’s apartment and stole appliances, bedding, and china.

Both brothers were found guilty and sentenced to death.  But where was the media?  Court TV declined to even carry the trial, verdict, or sentencing on their channel instead opting to give a few updates. 

Remind me, where was Court TV during the Duke case?

Yup, they were camped out at Duke 24/7 during the whole bogus story.

Dr. Williams ends his piece with a warning:

The failure of civil rights leaders, people like Jackson and Sharpton, as well as politicians to vocally condemn black-on-white crime — and the relative silence of the news media in reporting it — is not simply a matter of double standards. It’s dangerous, for it contributes to a pile of racial kindling awaiting a racial arsonist to set it ablaze. I can’t think of better recruitment gifts for America’s racists, either white or black.

Take us back a hundred years and you will find the MSM of the time, along with the white leaders, ignoring the white on black crime that went on.   Is this where we are at now in reverse?

Is it because they are afraid to insult the black culture?  Times are screwy when Whoopi Goldberg will defend Michael Vick’s crimes because “it’s part of black culture” but many in the black community will rail against Bill Crosby for telling the black youth to get their acts straightened out.

I’m not sure if this is part of the whole liberal victimhood saga or some other deeper problem inside our MSM, but as Dr. Williams noted, if not fixed “it contributes to a pile of racial kindling awaiting a racial arsonist to set it ablaze.”