“SHE WAS SOMEONE NO ONE WOULD MISS”

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Much thanks, and a hat-tip, to Stephanie of Stephanie’s Journal, a blog written by a lovely black woman who speaks up for black women and champions their cause to be respected, loved and cherished as women, and as human beings, for posting a link to a story from last year on the rape/attempted murder of a little 15-year-old black girl. Many of you reading my blog know by now of the horrific crime that a 2o-year-old West Virginia black woman suffered at the hands of  6 sadistic criminals who kidnapped, raped, tortured, beat, and attempted to murder this young woman.

Stephanie went back into her blog archives and found another crime against a defenseless young black woman who too, was subjected to cruel sexualized gendered racial violence at the hands of white men.

The young lady was just all of 15 years of age, when she was kidnapped and raped by two white men who stabbed her and attempted to murder her.

Here is an excerpt of the original article as it was posted at Stephanie’s blog:

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

More on the Racial Hate Crime in S.C.

More on the Racial Hate Crime in S.C.

It does matter’
Sheriff’s Dept., NAACP talk through hate crimes
By Brian Jarvis

BRIAN JARVIS/Manning Times

Chief Investigator Tommy Burgess of the Clarendon County Sheriff’s Dept. answers questions regarding recent assaults on two African-American women. Nearly 100 concerned citizens showed up for the joint meeting of the Clarendon and Manning chapters of the NAACP Sunday at the Society Hill A.M.E. Church.
The Manning and Clarendon branches of the NAACP deviated from their normal program Sunday to hear representatives from the Clarendon County Sheriff’s Dept. discuss a pressing concern: the sexual assault of two African-American women in the last month and whether the culprits responsible committed a hate crime.

“We’re all aware of recent events,” said Bobby Fleming, president of the Manning branch of the NAACP, to a packed house at the Society Hill A.M.E. Church. “What shocked me was hearing the comments of what was said by one of (the suspects).”

Jeremy Sweat, 24, of Quail Trail Circle and Dustin Evans, 21, of Raccoon Road, both white males, were charged with two counts each of kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct and battery with attempt to kill a 45-year old Summerton woman and a 15-year old girl from Manning less than two weeks later. Both crimes were noted for their brutal and serial nature, and one suspect claimed affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan.

“There’s definitely racial issues that we’re looking at,” said Chief Investigator Tommy Burgess, who first began to classify the attacks as hate crimes after a round table discussion with the U.S. Marshall Service and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

Outlining the chronology of events leading up to the July 3 assault, Burgess noted the Sheriff’s Dept. had one of the suspects in custody within 12 hours due to tip-offs from neighbors and residents.

“You would not believe the outpouring we’ve had from this community, and that’s what we need,” he said.

Burgess also said that during an interview, Sweat claimed that he placed little value on the lives of the targets because they were black and poor. Due to their race, the suspect felt, law enforcement would say the crimes simply didn’t matter.

“Well, folks, it does matter,” Burgess insisted. “These guys are violent. They don’t deserve to be on the street.”
Read the rest of the story at:

http://httpjournalsaolcomjenjer6steph.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-on-racial-hate-crime-in-sc.html

Black women and girls have been under assault from white-run America for centuries. What this young woman of 2007, and what this little 15-year-old girl suffered suffered at the hands of white men is nothing new.

And that the young lady of West Virginia was so brutally and viciously attacked left no question in the mind of everyone that black women’s lives are cheap and devalued in America.

And that this young lady knew some of the attackers surprised many people.

But, I’m waiting for the inevitable spin on that, where even their public defender will turn it around and say that she willingly put herself into harm’s way:

“She should not have gone there. She should not have been wearing certain types of clothing. She should not have spoken to them a certain way. She provoked them in some way. She had NO RIGHT TO EXIST IN THEIR WORLD.”

  Many people should know the fact that many victims know their attackers, and this has been documented by law enforcement evidence. Those who are most likely to harm us are the ones we know, the ones we love—the ones we trust.

Victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault (incest), date/acquiantance rape bear this out. Because she knew her attackers this will lend itself to the old “blame the victim” mentality: she willingly went with them, as if that lessens the wrongs that they did to this young woman.

 And don’t count out white privilege, and the high position that white skin holds in the racial heirarchy in America not giving these attackers protection.

Especially once this case gets to court.

The whiteness of these attackers will take them very, very far.

Black life is still cheap in America. You  cannot undue overnight over 450+ years of racial hatred, especially 450+ years of sexualized gendered racism, from all the malicious and vicious racist lies told by white men on black women:

-They are all born sluts; UNRAPEABLE; lascivious, wanton whores

-They all have lax morals, will fuck at the drop of a hat;

When a rational person knows who the real whores, sluts and wanton rapacious creatures during slavery and Jim Crow segregation were not black women and girls.

Yes, white privilege will carry these humans far, and I prefer to call them humans which is not intended as a sign of respect. To call them animals would be the ultimate insult to animals as animals have more respect and civilized behaviour amongst themselves compared to humans.

The white men in this case will be painted in the courtroom as innocent victims who were “assaulted” by yet another wild, lascivious black woman who could not control herself in the company of white men; another sexually lax individual who forced the minding his own business poor innocent put-upon white man. We all know that it was black women who raped poor defenseless white men during slavery and segregation.

Is that not what white men have been saying about black women all these centuries?

Have not white men been the final arbiters of what black women have suffered in this country? Have they not appointed themselves judge, jury, and executioner over the lives of black women for generations?

Have they not proclaimed themselves gods who have the final say on whether or not black women have the right to live in this country?

(See my post, “Who Am I?”, http://www.kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/who-am-i/ )

In the case of the white women who participated in this savage attack?

Why is it on some blogs I visited many women are surprised that other women would participate in such a vicious assault upon another woman with men?

This behaviour is not an aberration.

White women during slavery were only too glad that the white master, his sons, and  his white male friends who visited the plantation had free unencumbered sexual access to black slave women. This cruelty spared many a white woman from sexual depravities which could have been visited upon her, but, were instead done to the defensless black woman. Not to mention this cruel white male hatred of black women went on all the way up into segregation. Many white women during slavery directed their hatred against enslaved black women because those white women had not the guts to go up against their white husbands. White women stood by another 100 years and watched the brutal sexualized gendered racism take its oll on black women and girls, during segregation.

 White men and women have exacted the worst kinds of cruelty on black women and girls for over 400 years.

With the white man raping black women and girls on a daily constant basis, the white woman did not have to fear rape from white men, or any man for that matter. Because of white men’s rapes of black women during segregation, very few white women were raped by white men.

Since this country already devalues all women, this behaviour of the female members of that family is not too far a stone’s throw from America’s devaluation of women.

Especially black women.

We have been attacked, spit on, vilified by practically every group in this country, and that devaluation of black women started with all the white male lies, hatred, slander, rapes, sodomy, forced impregnations, beatings, lynchings and written language that sought to crucify and tear to pieces ALL black women who have lived in this country.

Yes, I am sure these innocent white men will be painted as the offended party.

Isn’t that what it has always has been?

That it was the innocent white man who was always wronged by the big, bad evil black woman?

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