Who’s Going To Die Next?
Posted on July 12, 2006
Racism is an ugly thing. We as a nation have been struggling with it since the new world was settled. But ever since the integration of the public education system, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the untimely death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, this nation has gained ground in fighting this scourge on our society.
Do we still have white supremacists? Do we need to get rid of that thinking? As vile as it is, we cannot tell another person how to think. If we did, we would be no better than they are.
But there is an organization in this country that along with certain individuals are perpetuating the cycle of hate while they claim to be fighting it. That organization is the NAACP. The NAACP and civil rights leaders such as the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, are doing more to perpetuation the cycle of hate than anything that the white supremacists are doing. We all know that the skin heads, KKK, and others are ignorant and backward so they get no sympathies with the majority of the country.
But the NAACP alone seeks to advance people of color. If they are considered equal, what needs to be advanced? Al Sharpton immediately jumps on the racism bandwagon whenever a high profile incident happen involving any person of African-American heritage.
Look at “Crazy Cynthia” and her fight. It didn’t matter that she was in the wrong. What mattered to the New Black Panther Party was that she is black and the Police Officer is white. So it is immediately racism. That contention alone is racism.
Now the NAACP in cooperation with the Amerikan Communist Liberation Union are coming out against a local sheriff as he attempts to track down 2 criminals accused of 4 murders (2 adults and 2 teenagers).
The suspects were identified as two young black men, one with dreadlocks and one with the shorter, tighter curls known as twists.
“I don’t want to get into calling people names, but if you’re going to walk the streets of St. Tammany Parish with dreadlocks and Cher Wee hairstyles, then you can expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff’s deputy.”
“I don’t want to see temporary housing because of Katrina turn into long-term housing for a bunch of thugs and trash that don’t need to be in St. Tammany Parish.” St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain told WDSU-TV in a broadcast interview.
What has the Sheriff said that was out of line? Did he not give an accurate description to the individuals being sought in connection with the crime? Isn’t his Parish over-run with evacuees from New Orleans as a result of hurricane Katrina? The ACLU and the NAACP see this differently.
Targeting people based on hairstyles common among blacks is “overtly racist” and a civil rights violation, the Louisiana ACLU said in a two-page open letter dated Wednesday and signed by attorney Katie Schwartzmann.
“Sheriff Strain, surely we do not have to tell you that it is lawful to walk the street, and it is further lawful to wear one’s hair any way deemed appropriate,” Schwartzmann wrote.
The ACLU said it has received complaints from Nazarene Christians, who “wear dreadlocks as a religious requirement” and are afraid they’ll be arrested if they leave their homes in St. Tammany Parish.
In a letter which Strain sent Thursday to the ACLU and made public Friday, he said it’s basic police work to question anyone who matches a suspects description.
“If someone matching that description has committed no wrongdoing, they have nothing to fear,” Strain said in the letter. “No one, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, should be afraid to walk the streets of St. Tammany.”
Schwartzmann said, “even detaining citizens for questioning is covered by constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.”
She said ACLU officials plan to discuss the matter with local NAACP officials.
Strain’s letter to the ACLU said he has never, in 22 years as a law enforcement officer, been accused of a civil rights violation. Nor has the sheriff’s office been convicted of such a violation in his 10 years as sheriff, he wrote.
Ok, you have 2 individuals described as black males, one with dreadlocks and the other with tighter curls called a twist are you going to look for me? No you wouldn’t. I don’t fit the description. It would be a total waste of time to stop a white man with a shaved head wouldn’t it. That would be stupid and a waste of police resources.
The ACLU in their never ending quest to remove Americanism from America, will do anything that would eliminate the possibility criminals being apprehended and prosecuted. They don’t like criminal trials. They would prefer every aspect of American life be governed by civil courts. Take a look at what they said in THEIR letter.
The ACLU’s letter accused Strain of engaging in racial profiling of Katrina evacuees.
“Your comments routinely equate ‘trash’ and ‘thugs’ with ‘evacuees’ and ‘public housing residents.’ It is neither fair nor accurate to intimate that all New Orleans evacuees are thugs and criminals,” the letter said.
Strain has said his comments were meant to alert St. Tammany residents about possible “spillover crime” from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Bonnett said the ACLU ignored the context. “All of Sheriff Strain’s statements about hairstyles concerned trying to catch whoever committed these murders,” Bonnett said. “He has never said anything remotely like, ‘Everyone from area X is a thug.’”
Let’s face it, evacuated individuals with criminal backgrounds have fanned out around the country to places far from their former home. Just a couple of weeks ago, and Atlanta area police officer was shot and killed by a Katrina evacuee. A New Orleans criminal who made his way to Georgia.
It is my opinion that the Sheriff was getting the description of the criminals involved in these brutal crimes into the hands of the public. And that is his job. The ACLU and if they get involved the NAACP is doing nothing by claiming racism in this case than putting the civil rights movement back decades by attempting to perpetuate the plague.
Why should there be any group with the expressed intention to advance one ethnic group over all the others? There is no need for that. The NAACP, The New Black Panther Party, and the Nation of Islam for example. Those 3 groups seek to advance one race over another. And that is wrong.
News Source: The Times-Picayune
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