The six West Virginia monsters have 108 charges from robbery to assault to murder and they walked the street. Yet Megan Williams and Mychal Bell were jailed. Shouldn’t the six monsters do time for their priors now?
Frankie Brewster was charged in 1994 with first-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to lesser charges of manslaughter and wanton endangerment. She was released from prison in 2000 after serving five years in the death of an 84-year-old woman, court records show.Bobby Brewster was accused in March of attacking his mother with a machete, according to court records. The outcome of those charges — domestic assault, brandishing a deadly weapon and obstructing an officer — was not immediately clear.
He also faces domestic battery and assault charges after a dispute involving Megan Williams in July. A court date has not yet been set.
A petition for the Megan Williams case.
Kai has a brilliant must-read up called The White Liberal Conundrum:
From what I can see, though, a solid majority of white liberals maintain a fairly hostile posture toward anti-racist discourse and critique, while of course adamantly denying this hostility. Many white liberals consider themselves rather enlightened for their ability to retroactively support the Civil Rights movement and to quote safely dead anti-racist icons, even though their present-day physical, intellectual, and political orbits remain mostly segregated. They somehow take pride in being more “down with the brown” than their conservative brethren; indeed they exhibit a certain strange glee in highlighting and exploiting the “macaca” and “call me” moments of their political opponents. Armed with “diversity” soundbites and melanin-inclusive photo-ops, they seek electoral, financial, and public relations support from people of color. Yet the consistent outcome of their institution-building agendas is to deprioritize and marginalize our voices, perspectives, experiences, concerns, cultures, and initiatives. When you get right down to it, the unrecognized political reality is that most white liberals have more in common with white conservatives — social cues, family ties, cognitive biases, cultural backdrops, etc. — than they do with people of color. I’m calling this tangle of contradictions the white liberal conundrum.
Prometheus6: An open letter to white progressives about Jena.
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projektleiterin // October 13, 2007 at 8:54 am
I haven’t been aware until now that some of the perpetrators were women. It shouldn’t surprise me that much, but still. It was a heinous crime, but seeing that women were involved gives it another twist.
donna darko // October 13, 2007 at 9:48 am
She was a woman who dared report abuse. Not only that she was black and they were white. That’s why they tortured her and called her the n-word.
This were hate crimes based on race more than sex.
Japanese Bobtail // October 15, 2007 at 6:23 am
I wonder if we could ever achieve the world where everyone respects and treats everyone equally.
It makes sense white liberals are not really planning to help people with color, because they likely have chosen to pretend from positioning and political viewpoints, but in the deep of their heart, they consider us differently
donna darko // October 15, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Then they’re not really progressive.
LeftyHenry // October 15, 2007 at 10:20 pm
That’s very true. White liberals often make the exact same arguement against freedom for the Jena 6 as white conservatives, saying that they should still go to jail. It’s complete BS. BTW great blog. I’ve linked to you on my blog. I like the focus on the Jena 6, its something I’ve been really active in here in NYC. The organization I work with, the ANSWER Coalition, has collected a couple thousand signatures here in Harlem in the past two or so weeks. While this in itself won’t do much, its been an incredible experience interacting with people about it, and seeing people want to get active around it.
donna darko // October 16, 2007 at 6:37 am
Thanks, LeftyHenry.
Keep up the good work, man.
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