NAACP is a disgrace!

Why is the NAACP such punks. They act like they a scared of black folks organizing. Is that not what the NAACP is suppose to be all about, organizing our people? Standing against injustice? So the NAACP both locally and nationally would rather get into a pissing contest with a black lawyers group rather than dealing with Ms. Meagan Williams abuse and her right to justice.

What a punch of morons in leadership at the NAACP. They should all resign. he have no honor. The NAACP proves over and over again that it is a useless organization stuck in the 1950's.

Check out what the headlines are reading around the country and around the world.

NAACP Disavows West Virginia Hate Crime March

Yes from Charleston to South Africa the NAACP is showing the lack of unity in the black community. Check out what the reports are saying. Let us know what you think.

Source: Black America Web

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - (AP) The NAACP said Tuesday it does not support a hate crime awareness march that will raise money for a black woman who says she was tortured by six whites.

Local and national NAACP officials said they disapprove of Saturday's march organizers, a group based in Washington, D.C., called Black Lawyers for Justice that wants hate crime charges brought against the defendants.

Six whites are charged with raping and torturing 20-year-old Megan Williams for days until her Sept. 8 rescue. All could get life prison sentences if convicted, but the prosecutor has not filed hate crime charges, saying they could be difficult to prove.

Williams, her family and black leaders such as the Rev. Al Sharpton plan to participate in the march, which has been endorsed by groups including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the National Conference of Black Mayors.

The Rev. Audie Murphy, NAACP branch president for Logan and Boone counties, said his group will continue supporting Williams, "but not within this march." More HERE

I can't stand those bastards at the White House. As Documented by media matters.org.
And as usual the Media outlets uncritically reported White House claim that it does not "employ" fake reporting

I guess he (Bush) needs to use fake reporting on FEMA, Iraq, and everything else his administration is doing in government because his White House and his administration are full of lies. Forget about FEMA for a minute (we will come back to that later) Take for another American disgrace under the Bush Administration, lets say:

TORTURE

Check out what the worst president in history had to say:

We are finding terrorists and bringing them to justice. We are gathering information about where the terrorists may be hiding. We are trying to disrupt their plots and plans. Anything we do ... to that end in this effort, any activity we conduct, is within the law. We do not torture." - President Bush (Nov. 7, 2005).

THE FACTS

Source: Bush Lies. net - The State Department's annual report on human rights practices worldwide has condemned countries such as Burma and North Korea for the disappearance and indefinite detention of political prisoners without trial; while also condemning Libya, Syria and other countries for engaging in acts of torture that include hooding, stripping detainees naked, sleep deprivation, subjecting detainees to extremes of heat, cold, noise and light, threatening them with dogs, submerging them in water to simulate drowning — which is known as water-boarding — and other acts of physical abuse all of which have occured at U.S. detention facilities. See State Dept. Study Cites Torture of Prisoners: Rumself Approved Similar Practices (Washington Post March 10, 2005).

Rumsfeld Approved Similar Practices

In addition, post-World War II Japanese war crimes tribunals found that both the Japanese soldiers engaging in water-boarding and the officers who approved it were guilty of war crimes.

Don't believe what you see and read.

Reports on CNN and in the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times uncritically quoted White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's response to a question about an October 23 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) press conference, in which, as Washington Post columnist Al Kamen reported, "the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters." Perino said of the conference, "It is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House and we certainly don't condone it." But as Media Matters for America has documented, the Bush administration has a history of generating "fake" news.

Several media reports uncritically included Perino's response to the press conference without noting past Bush administration scandals involving "fake" reporting:

• An October 26 Associated Press article led by uncritically noting that "[t]he White House scolded" FEMA, adding that Perino "said it was not appropriate that the questions were posed by agency staffers instead of reporters."

• An October 27 New York Times article stated that the conference "drew a rebuke from the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff," adding that Perino said: "It's not something I would have condoned ... And they -- I'm sure -- will not do it again."

• An October 27 Los Angeles Times article stated that "[t]he White House was not happy with FEMA's response," adding Perino's quote: "It is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House."

• An October 27 Washington Post article uncritically included Perino's quote: "White House press secretary Dana Perino said yesterday that 'it is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House. We certainly don't condone it. We didn't know about it beforehand. . . . They, I'm sure, will not do it again.' "

• In an October 29 Washington Post online discussion, staff writer and media critic Howard Kurtz wrote: "I don't think it's fair to blame the White House for this. Dana Perino made it quite clear that the White House did not approve of this make-believe event." Kurtz later noted Bush administration journalism scandals involving conservative columnist Armstrong Williams and "a couple of other commentators," but did not contrast these scandals with Perino's reported disapproval of the FEMA press conference.

• On the October 29 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, correspondent Jeanne Meserve reported that "[t]he White House distanced itself" from the FEMA conference and then aired Perino's quote.

As Media Matters noted, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Bush administration's use of video news releases (VNRs) -- video reports that appeared to be created by journalists instead of the government and, as The New York Times reported, many of which "were subsequently broadcast on local stations across the country without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their production" -- was in violation of federal law. A May 12, 2005, statement by GAO Managing Associate General Counsel Susan A. Poling noted:

In the past year, GAO has issued two legal opinions on the production of video news releases (VNRs) that included prepackaged news stories by both the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). In both of these instances, we concluded that the agencies violated the federal government-wide prohibition on the use of appropriated funds for purposes of publicity or propaganda not authorized by Congress.

Media Matters has documented numerous instances in which former White House press secretary Scott McClellan turned to former Talon News "Washington Bureau Chief" Jeff Gannon -- whose real name, James Guckert, was uncovered by bloggers in February 2005 -- for softball questions, particularly during heated press conferences. In early 2005, after Media Matters and others raised questions about his work, Gannon resigned from Talon News. One week later, the Talon News website -- operated by Republican activist Bobby Eberle -- was shut down and all articles deleted. Media Matters has documented several instances in which Gannon lifted text directly from Republican materials and sources.

The Bush administration has also paid journalists for support on specific issues:

• As Media Matters noted, the Los Angeles Times reported on November 30, 2005, that "the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq." The Times added that a multinational military task force had "purchased an Iraqi newspaper and taken control of a radio station, and was using them to channel pro-American messages to the Iraqi public."

• Armstrong Williams' column was dropped by his syndicator, Tribune Media Services, following USA Today's report that the Bush administration paid him $240,000 to promote its No Child Left Behind education policy, as Media Matters noted.

• As Media Matters noted, on January 26, 2005, Kurtz reported: "In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families. ... But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal."

• On September 8, 2006, The Miami Herald reported that "[a]t least 10 South Florida journalists, including three from El Nuevo Herald, received regular payments from the U.S. government for programs on Radio Martí and TV Martí, two broadcasters aimed at undermining the communist government of Fidel Castro. The payments totaled thousands of dollars over several years. ... Pablo Alfonso, who reports on Cuba and writes an opinion column, was paid almost $175,000 since 2001 ... and staff reporter Wilfredo Cancio Isla, who covers the Cuban exile community and politics, was paid almost $15,000 in the last five years."

AAPP: media matters.org is for real. Check them out. They undercover the real deal on what is going on in Washington and beyond.

Blogging For Justice

There is something about the rape cases involving Megan Williams and the Dunbar Village Rapes that hit me in the Gut. Something that has made a grown ass black man cry.

When I read the early news reports about Megan Williams I felt like I was in the Boston, in the early 70's, (telling my age) at South Boston High School when a group of a dozen whites surrounded my little VW car, throwing dozens of rocks and bricks, breaking my windows causing physical injuries as they then attempted to tip it over as they called me and my girl friend at the time nigger.

It is like it happened yesterday, It seemed like thousands of residents of a segregated South Boston community chanted as black kids came out of the school and into yellow school buses. Get this, protected by city of Boston Police, many who then lived in South Boston, as the police failed to clear the streets. The chants were loud and clear and the lilly white south Boston community came out in force pelting schools buses with rocks and bottles, as whites chanted, Nigger Go Home, Nigger Go Home, Nigger Go home, Nigger Go Home.

That day I almost lost my life. A hopeful young black man thinking that people of all races would come together to integrate the city of Boston public schools. I learned quickly about the levels of White Hatred towards blacks in a town I called home.

There is something about the rape cases involving Megan Williams and the Dunbar Village Rapes that hit me in the Gut.

What was the difference between a whole community of south Boston pelting those little black kids, and what happened in West Virginia?



My thought is a whole lot and nothing. The whole lot is, The young black woman from WV was caught defenseless in the woods raped and nearly murdered by a family of white folks, bent on hatred because a girl was easy prey and she was black.

In the Boston situation with the black kids was in many ways the same. They were collectively caught defenseless in the urban woods of South-Boston psychologically raped and nearly murdered by a family of white folks, bent on hatred because black kids were easy prey and they were black.

Many folks in South Boston during that time, would chant, "if we could only get our hands on one of the niggers." They did get their hands on one of those black folks. It was not in South Boston. It was not a high school student. It was a person who I know well, Ted Landsmark, they caught him, of all places, in front of City Hall. They attacked him with a flag (yes) an American flag.

The nothing is, everthing has cahnged, and nothing has cahnged in America. It Don't make a difference if you in South Boston, Massachusetts, South Boston, Virgina, the Deep South, South Bronx, and the Southern Part of California. Black Woman and their black children are under assault. and like in years past we cannot count on the Federal government to protects us.



There is something about the rape cases involving Megan Williams and the Dunbar Village Rapes that hit me in the Gut.

Recently, a man who I respect blogged about Megan Williams, he shared some early gut reactions about her that I was shocked to hear. The reason I was shocked to hear his thoughts, was because it hit home. I have daughter Megan Williams age. There is something about the rape cases involving Megan Williams and the Dunbar Village Rapes that hit me in the Gut.

As I said before, I grew in Boston, in probably one of the tougher public housing developments at the time, Orchard Park. When I read about the mother and son, I thought about my mother , who was a single mother head of household, and how it would feel when I was 14 to even think about having sex with my own mother. What!

Think about black men and Black women, some young punks come into your home, rape your mother, and force her to have sex with you.

Those sick bastards.

For the young men that did what they did, they need to be charged as adults. Convict them. Throw away the key. For those that would argue, they are too young, Its' societies fault and the rest of that bullshit. I say, tell that to the mother, tell that to the son who were raped by these rapist, and then told to have sex with each-other. Should these young rapist die at the hands of government, probably not. They will make fine women in prison. Let them feel how it is to be raped. Place them in a max security prison.

For those sick bastards in W.Virginia, all of them should go to prison for the rest of their natural low-damn life.


How To Help the Dunbar Village Mother, Son and Family:

St. Ann's Catholic Church will accept donations on behalf of the family. Checks can be made payable to the Dunbar Village Victim Assistance Fund - St. Ann's. The address is: St. Ann's Catholic Church 310 N. Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401

You can also call the church at (561) 832-3757

How To Help Megan Williams and Family:

We are asking people to sign a petition in support of Megan Williams.

Other Ways to Help: Donate to the Megan Williams Trust Fund

Supporting Black Women

Blogging For Justice TODAY Thursday November 1, 2007

Afrospear members and Afrospear supporters are urged to blog to raise public awareness of the two rape cases involving black women. One woman was tortured, beaten, forced to eat rat, dog and human feces, and raped by six white men and women in West Virgina. The Other a black woman gang raped and forced to have sex with her own son. By Black Teenagers (now charged as adults).

Here is just a sampling of Afrospear members and supporters who have taken time to blog about these important young women and their families today;

what about our daughters

(has lead the effort from the beginning)

asabagna

a political season

black women in europe

blackperspective.net

african american opinion

eddie g. griffin

electronicvillage

femigog

dallas south blog

francis l. holland

nu vision for a nu day

my black eyed view

plez World

purple zoe

slant truth

Don't forget to visit the blog sites and make any comments. Check back as we include more samples of post as they come in.

Blogging For Justice

There is something about the rape cases involving Megan Williams and the Dunbar Village Rapes that hit me in the Gut. Something that has made a grown ass black man cry.




Blogging For Justice Afrospear members and Afrospear supporters are blogging to raise public awareness of the two rape cases involving black women.


You know what I'm talking about the The Case of Ms. Megan Williams a black woman who was raped in West Virgina. Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. For more than a week, authorities say, the 20-year-old black woman was kept captive in a shed, tortured, beaten, forced to eat rat, dog and human feces, and raped by six white men and women who taunted her with racial slurs.

"They just kept saying 'This is what we do to niggers down here,'" Williams told The Associated Press in one of her most extensive interviews since the shocking case made national headlines last month.


Check out the Google Search Results on the Megan Williams as of today.

334,000 for Megan Williams Rape. (0.25 seconds)

Check out Google Search Results Micheal Vick Dog Fighting

1,370,000 for Michael Vick Dog Fighting. (0.25 seconds)


The other case involves a victims, a mother, son and family at Dunbar Village, a public housing community in which Four males — ages 14, 15, 16 and 18 — have been charged as adults in a 14-count indictment that could send all of them to prison for life. Defense attorneys have argued that the victims failed to identify the same suspects from photo lineups and that they identified fillers — people not involved in the case — as perpetrators. In some instances they identified different people as the same person.



Hoping to steal money and jewelry, Avion Lawson, 14, said he and someone else wore masks when they entered the 35-year-old woman's apartment that night, according to the documents. Once inside, Lawson said, he and his accomplice, whose name is blacked out on the report, encountered the woman in bed with three other masked males around her. Lawson told police he sexually assaulted her and stole two video games and a truck.



The victim returned home from her job delivering phone books about 9 p.m. the night of the attack, according to her statement to police. While fixing her son something to eat, a young male with braids knocked on her door to tell her the tires on her truck were flat. Once outside, she said, she saw a male with a large gun and two others armed with guns. They wore black clothing over their faces, she said, and ordered her back into the apartment, where they demanded money.

After being told there was no money, the attackers tore off the woman's clothes and raped her until five others arrived, according to the documents. The new arrivals took turns having sex with her and then sodomized her. The mother was then ordered into a tub filled with vinegar and water where they used hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, nail polish remover and ammonia on her. At gunpoint, the assailants forced the mother and son to have sex.

Throughout the attack, the victims suffered beatings, including having a bowl and light bulbs smashed over their heads. The encounter was recorded on a cell phone camera, according to the mother.

Before leaving, the males looked for a lighter to set the two on fire but couldn't find one, she told police. They ordered the pair to stay in the tub and took off. About 30 minutes later one of the males returned to sexually assault the mother one last time. Before leaving, he scribbled a man's name and 6-CO, a gang, on a piece of paper and told the woman he hangs out on Sixth Street and that's where he could be found.

He grabbed a Sony PlayStation 2 before fleeing. More HERE

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Check out the Google Search Results on the Dunbar Village Rape as of today.

Results 1 - 10 of about 118,000 for Dunabar Village Rape

Check out Google Search Results Micheal Vick Dog Fighting

1,370,000 for Michael Vick Dog Fighting. (0.25 seconds)


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As I said, there is something about these rapes, that hit me and so many of us in the gut. The pain I feel cannot be measured, the anger I feel is hard to contain. I'm going to write about it later today. Come back more about the victims, and read my gut feeling and gut reaction. But more than that I want to talk about how the Afrospear, black bloggers, West Virginians, Americans can help these young black women and thier families heal.

Come back later today or early evening.

Thanks,

AAPP

GOP Front Runners to Black Voters: We are the Grand Old "White" Party

AAPP says: Well the grand old party is doing it's racist thing again. A month or so ago, I wrote in the Huffington Post about how the GOP Won't Even Talk with Black Folks. Since that time nothing has changed. The Grand Old "White" Party is establishing itself as the New White Citizens Council of the 21st Century. Here is the scary thing, not many black people are surprised.

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Hat Tip Huffingtonpost.com and Michael Roston who are reporting on the Republicans avoiding a second black voter forum, which has now been postponed.

GOP 'Scheduling Conflicts' Postpone Another Black Voter Forum

Michael Roston says: In recent weeks, Republican presidential candidates have found time in their busy schedules to speak or debate before the Republican Jewish Coalition, "Value Voters," conservative Floridians, even Wyoming Republicans, who hold virtually no sway in the primary race. They've also agreed to appear at the CNN/YouTube debate they at one point shunned.

But it appears that some GOP frontrunners are once again letting an opportunity to appear before African-American voters lapse, just as they decided to sit out a black voter forum hosted last month by Tavis Smiley.

The Congressional Black Caucus Institute announced in September that it had scheduled a debate for November 4 on Fox News for Republican presidential candidates. But a spokeswoman for the group confirmed to the Huffington Post that it has now been postponed, with no new date set.

"The debate will not take place on November 4, and we're still considering the debate schedule," said CBC Institute spokesperson Georgella Muirhead.

Republican candidates have cited scheduling conflicts in resisting new proposed dates, Muirhead said.

"It's the same issue they had with some of the other debates," she added. "We're getting a new working date, that's what's being considered."

The CBC Political Education and Leadership Institute is a non-profit organization linked to the Congressional Black Caucus, which includes 43 African-American members of the House and Senate. Read more of Micheal Roston's report HERE

Hulu.com

Fox and NBC go after YouTube!

Fox and NBC create Hulu.com to compete with YouTube

Fox and NBC, the American media companies, have given the first demonstration on their jointly owned online video service, which they hope will seize back the intitiative from YouTube's all-powerful site.

Hulu.com, which is still in private testing, will become a platform for distributing professionally produced content on the internet, including new and old television programs as well as some films - all free of charge.

The hope is that users will want to access the two companies' premium content - including 24 and The Simpsons from the Fox stable, and Heroes and The A-Team from NBC - and will be willing to watch adverts for the privilege of doing so.

Fox, which is owned by News Corporation, parent company of Times Online, and NBC, owned by General Electric, will distribute their content on the newly created site, as well on sites owned by five partners in the venture - Microsoft, AOL, MySpace and Comcast. More HERE

Protecting Black Women (and their families) From Rape

Blogging For Justice



African American Political Pundit in conjunction with the afrospear will be blogging for justice. Protecting Black Women (and their families) From Rape

On Thursday November 1, 2007 Afrospear members and Afrospear supporters are urged to blog to raise public awareness of the two rape cases involving black women. One woman was tortured, beaten, forced to eat rat, dog and human feces, and raped by six white men and women in West Virgina. The Other a black woman gang raped and forced to have sex with her own son.

We are asking all bloggers who plan to blog on Thursday November 1, 2007 send a email to AfricanAmericanPoliticalPundit@gmail.com confirming your participation so we can track the number of blogs participating.

The Case of Ms. Megan Williams

A black woman who was raped in West Virgina. The purpose of this day is to make sure the public eye is on West Virginia and that she receives justice.

As you may know Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. For more than a week, authorities say, the 20-year-old black woman was kept captive in a shed, tortured, beaten, forced to eat rat, dog and human feces, and raped by six white men and women who taunted her with racial slurs. "They just kept saying 'This is what we do to niggers down here,'" Williams told The Associated Press in one of her most extensive interviews since the shocking case made national headlines last month.

West Virginia does not have a death penalty, but the six suspects could spend the rest of their lives in prison if convicted of rape and kidnapping charges. Still, Williams and her family want more. They want the case prosecuted as a hate crime as well, something authorities have so far stopped short of doing.

How To Help: Blog About the incident to bring public attention to the horrors of rape of black women in this West Virgina Town. We want to keep the story in the news and on blog pages to make sure she gets fair and equal justice. Otherwise these folks from West Virginia may just get away with a year in prison, for something they should be spending life in prison for.

We are asking people to sign a petition in support of Megan Williams.

Other Ways to Help: Donate to the Megan Williams Trust Fund


Don't forget there will be a National March against hate on November 3rd in WV regarding the Megan Williams case.

In Dunbar Village Case

Four males — ages 14, 15, 16 and 18 — have been charged as adults in a 14-count indictment that could send all of them to prison for life. Defense attorneys have argued that the victims failed to identify the same suspects from photo lineups and that they identified fillers — people not involved in the case — as perpetrators. In some instances they identified different people as the same person.

Hoping to steal money and jewelry, Avion Lawson, 14, said he and someone else wore masks when they entered the 35-year-old woman's apartment that night, according to the documents. Once inside, Lawson said, he and his accomplice, whose name is blacked out on the report, encountered the woman in bed with three other masked males around her. Lawson told police he sexually assaulted her and stole two video games and a truck.

The victim returned home from her job delivering phone books about 9 p.m. the night of the attack, according to her statement to police. While fixing her son something to eat, a young male with braids knocked on her door to tell her the tires on her truck were flat. Once outside, she said, she saw a male with a large gun and two others armed with guns. They wore black clothing over their faces, she said, and ordered her back into the apartment, where they demanded money.

After being told there was no money, the attackers tore off the woman's clothes and raped her until five others arrived, according to the documents. The new arrivals took turns having sex with her and then sodomized her. The mother was then ordered into a tub filled with vinegar and water where they used hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, nail polish remover and ammonia on her. At gunpoint, the assailants forced the mother and son to have sex.

Throughout the attack, the victims suffered beatings, including having a bowl and light bulbs smashed over their heads. The encounter was recorded on a cell phone camera, according to the mother.

Before leaving, the males looked for a lighter to set the two on fire but couldn't find one, she told police. They ordered the pair to stay in the tub and took off. About 30 minutes later one of the males returned to sexually assault the mother one last time. Before leaving, he scribbled a man's name and 6-CO, a gang, on a piece of paper and told the woman he hangs out on Sixth Street and that's where he could be found. He grabbed a Sony PlayStation 2 before fleeing. More HERE

How To Help: St. Ann's Catholic Church will accept donations on behalf of the family. Checks can be made payable to the Dunbar Village Victim Assistance Fund - St. Ann's. The address is: St. Ann's Catholic Church 310 N. Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401 -

You can also call the church at (561) 832-3757.

Other ways to help:Blog About the incident to bring public attention to the horrors of rape of a black women and her child by black boys, and a black man. Discuss how these types of incidents although reported to police are not taken seriously when reported to police.

We can also join efforts to get black "leaders" and faith groups to begin to address these issues within our community. For further information visit What About Our Daughters.

March planning for Megan Williams support gets ugly?

It seems to be getting ugly in West Virginia, Just to coordinate a march in support of a young sister who is raped! Is it really getting ugly. Is this just media hype? Or has local WV folk been set up to fight amongst each other, unlike the Jena March. The old divide and conquer strategy used in W.V. ?

UPDATE: After reviewing the tapes from the meeting it appears that the Black Ministerial Alliance, flanked by white ministers, have decided that they "We have it under control."

If they have "Racism under control" why did this young woman get raped like she did? Did they have it under control when the 20-year-old black woman was kept captive in a shed, tortured, beaten, forced to eat rat, dog and human feces, and raped by six white men and women who taunted her with racial slurs? If they have racism under control, they will be one of the first communities in America that has a black women raped and almost murdered one day , and have racism under control a 2 months later. These are negroes that are out of their minds...

No March for The Black Ministerial Alliance

WCHSTV is reporting Charleston's Black Ministerial Alliance announced Friday they will not take part in a march for Megan Williams on November 3rd. Many local community and religious leaders feel that they have been left out of the process by organizers.

Black Ministerial Alliance Reverand, L.A. Hill, says, " We've been there from the beginning . We were there before Mr. Shabazz came to the city. We've been there all along. Our thoughts are: We don't need anybody coming inform the outside to do that which is our responsibility, and that's why we're here. " More HERE

Now the West Virginia Media is calling folks extremist.

March Organizer Rallies for Local Support




A controversial lawyer plans to go ahead with a march for torture victim Megan Williams despite
opposition from the Charleston Black Ministerial Alliance. Malik Shabazz...

Meeting Disruption? Or pissed of community members?

Meeting For Megan Williams Disrupted



What was supposed to be a peaceful meeting for Megan Williams turned ugly as extremists spoke out. The Black Ministerial Alliance has been catching a lot of heat since announcing...

Why does this have to get so ugly? Or is it media hype?

UPDATE: Better yet, why do many modern day black ministers sell us out at every turn? Remember they called Martin Luther King and Malcolm X "extremists."

Dunbar Village - "Why are our black "Leaders" so quite about Dunbar Village?

Why is it that we as African American's are so quick to complain about abuse of black folks by whites, yet we fail to report on or discuss issues of "black on black" crimes. Gina at the blog What About Our Daughters has been asking the question for some time, "Why are our black "Leaders" so quiet about Dunbar Village?

Court records provide a detailed depiction of the horrors alleged to have occurred over the course of three hours June 18 in West Palm Beach's Dunbar Village public housing complex. The case has made international headlines and shined a light on the city's crime-ridden public housing community. Yet the crime has failed to gain attention with few bloggers within the AfroSphere discussing the issue. There are however bloggers like Electronic Village and of course , with blogger Gina at What About Our Daughters taking on the issue.

Through the great work of Gina at What About Our Daughters and reports by the Sun-Sentinel.com here is what we know thus far:

Source: Sun-Sentinel.com Four males — ages 14, 15, 16 and 18 — have been charged as adults in a 14-count indictment that could send all of them to prison for life. Defense attorneys have argued that the victims failed to identify the same suspects from photo lineups and that they identified fillers — people not involved in the case — as perpetrators. In some instances they identified different people as the same person.

Four masked males

Hoping to steal money and jewelry, Avion Lawson, 14, said he and someone else wore masks when they entered the 35-year-old woman's apartment that night, according to the documents. Once inside, Lawson said, he and his accomplice, whose name is blacked out on the report, encountered the woman in bed with three other masked males around her. Lawson told police he sexually assaulted her and stole two video games and a truck.

Police later found the video games inside the Dunbar Village apartment of Lawson's grandmother, Jonnie Mae Wilkerson, with whom Lawson often stayed.

The victim returned home from her job delivering phone books about 9 p.m. the night of the attack, according to her statement to police. While fixing her son something to eat, a young male with braids knocked on her door to tell her the tires on her truck were flat. Once outside, she said, she saw a male with a large gun and two others armed with guns. They wore black clothing over their faces, she said, and ordered her back into the apartment, where they demanded money.

After being told there was no money, the attackers tore off the woman's clothes and raped her until five others arrived, according to the documents. The new arrivals took turns having sex with her and then sodomized her. The mother was then ordered into a tub filled with vinegar and water where they used hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, nail polish remover and ammonia on her. At gunpoint, the assailants forced the mother and son to have sex.

Throughout the attack, the victims suffered beatings, including having a bowl and lightbulbs smashed over their heads. The encounter was recorded on a cell phone camera, according to the mother.

Before leaving, the males looked for a lighter to set the two on fire but couldn't find one, she told police. They ordered the pair to stay in the tub and took off. About 30 minutes later one of the males returned to sexually assault the mother one last time. Before leaving, he scribbled a man's name and 6-CO, a gang, on a piece of paper and told the woman he hangs out on Sixth Street and that's where he could be found. He grabbed a Sony PlayStation 2 before fleeing.

More HERE

How To Help: St. Ann's Catholic Church will accept donations on behalf of the family. Checks can be made payable to the Dunbar Village Victim Assistance Fund - St. Ann's.

The address is: St. Ann's Catholic Church 310 N. Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401 -

You can also call the church at (561) 832-3757.

How To Help: Blog About the incident to bring public attention to the horrors of rape of black women by black boys, and black men that occur in black communities - but are not talked about.

More on the Dunbar Case:

• Jail letters talk strategy in Dunbar Village rape case, records show
• Dunbar security plan takes cooperative step
• Few attend fund-raiser for Dunbar victim
• Dunbar suspect too ill to see judge
• Gang-rape case being sent to grand jury
• Dunbar rape victim hiding
• Family of victims reveals some of gruesome details of attack
• Security measures added but residents still fearful
• Ungodly acts, and souls who apply the salve
• Charges could net teen life sentence
• Palm print spurs arrest of 2nd teen in gang rape
• Teen charged in gang rape silent in court
• Seventh-grader arrested in gang rape; police seek nine more teens
• Public housing security fixes planned before rape
• Pharmacy donates medicine to rape victim, her son
• Woman raped, her son assaulted at apartment
  

Denzel Washington as the American Gangster

I Love Denzel Washington the Brother is a master. So don't get me wrong. I will be going to see his latest movie "American Gangster." But I'm just wondering about the title of the movie: "American Gangster."

There are a whole lot of people that should be named American Gangsters, like The President of The United States, or how About The United States Senate - are they true American Gangsters or what? Oh, and lets not forget about the Presidents' of the largest Oil companies in America. You know the oil companies, the ones like ExxonMobil's who recently announcement that profits rose 75 percent from last year followed a BP announcement of $6.5 billion in profits, up 34 percent and ConocoPhillips reporting its income grew to $3.8 billion, up 89 percent. or how about the President of the largest Banks in America who charge you and I $3-5.00 Per every ATM visit for access to our own money? Yes, the Banks that --- Or how about Insurance Companies that charge you and I outragious fees and make outragious profit every day? Are they the true American Gangsters? Lets talk about those American Gangsters that stole this land we walk on from the Native Americans.

From many of the reviews this Denzel Movie will be the Black God Father Film. But was the brother he betrayed a true American Gangster? Talk about it now, or come back to this post after you have viewed the movie and let me know what you think.

Check out the New Yorker Review HERE

Barak Obama vs Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton

Why is it that a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Hillary Clinton leading Barak Obama by more than 20 percent, with a lead of 13 percent among African American voters? While some say the Polls don't reflect Obama's star power. I remember writing some time ago that I felt Obama had peaked much to early. I also mentioned that Howard Dean peaked to early as well.

The Washington Post wrote recently, "Obama's campaign could certainly use reenergizing. Since he announced his intention to run for the presidency, Obama -- and the powerful ebb that surrounded him wherever he woke, spoke, ate and sat -- seems to have withered beneath the supernova that is the Clinton campaign." Now Obama vows to challenge Clinton more forcefully

AAPP: Have black folks begun to give up on Obama? Should black folks listen more to voices like Randall Robinson, (Who by the way left America) is living on some Island, enjoying warm sun, beaches and no longer experiencing all the hatred of American society. Damn, how fortunate is he and his family? I wonder if Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are is bad as he makes them out to be? Is Mia T on to something? Check out the video again. Listen clearly to the words of Mr. Robinson. I think he may be on to something.




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Go Boston RedSox!

AAPP: I was Raised in Boston, So you know I'm a Boston RedSox Fan. So just in case you don't know,

The Boston RedSox Did It Again!

AGAIN!!

Resurgent Red Sox sweep, capture 2d crown in 4 years

Bobby Kielty (right) celebrated with David Ortiz (left), Julio Lugo, and Manny Ramirez after hitting a solo home run against the Rockies in the eighth inning. (Reuters Photo)

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FEMA manipulates the press

It's like something straight out of the Twilight Zone. Check out what Bush's Department of homeland InSecurity is doing. FEMA, which is under this department staged a news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. Check out the governments response as reported in the Washington Post:

"We are reviewing our press procedures and will make the changes necessary to ensure that all of our communications are straight forward and transparent," Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, said in a four-paragraph statement.

There is More: WaPo Reports about the highest level of bullshit coming from FEMA:

"We can and must do better, and apologize for this error in judgment," Johnson said, a view repeated yesterday by press officers at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, who criticized the event.

FEMA announced the news conference at its Southwest Washington headquarters about 15 minutes before it was to begin Tuesday afternoon, making it unlikely that reporters could attend. Instead, FEMA set up a telephone conference line so reporters could listen.

In the briefing, parts of which were televised live by cable news channels, Johnson stood behind a lectern, called on questioners who did not disclose that they were FEMA employees, and gave replies emphasizing that his agency's response to this week's California wildfires was far better than its response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

"It was absolutely a bad decision. I regret it happened. Certainly . . . I should have stopped it," said John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's director of external affairs. "I hope readers understand we're working very hard to establish credibility and integrity, and I would hope this does not undermine it."

AAPP

"I hope readers understand we're working very hard to establish credibility and integrity, and I would hope this does not undermine it."

WTF

Check out the White House response:

White House press secretary Dana Perino said yesterday that "it is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House. We certainly don't condone it. We didn't know about it beforehand. . . . They, I'm sure, will not do it again."

WTF

Who is in charge?

It gets worst. Enter Bennie Thompson, serving as the official apologist for the Bush Administration:

"Trying to manipulate the press and the public will only tarnish their [FEMA's] current success," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said.

AAPP: " FEMA's current success" What kind of Kool Aid is Bennie Thompson drinking? Wild Cherry?