Black People in the News

[The Question]

Mammy Arranges To Take 60% Pay Cut

Texas Mother Accused of Stabbing Her Five Children, Killing Three

A Texas woman is accused of stabbing three of her children to death and injuring two more of her children on Friday, according to WFAA.

www.breitbart.com

 

[The Question]

We need to bear in mind that there are a lot more 'black people in the news' items than the news is even being honest about.

 

[jack]

Atlanta mass shooting live updates: 1 killed, 4 hurt; suspect at large​

Atlanta police are searching for the gunman who killed one and wounded four others in a mass shooting in a medical center waiting room on Wednesday, police said.
Police have released these images of the suspect, identified as 24-year-old Deion Patterson, who remains at large.

Sen. Warnock, in grief for his home state, begs Congress to take action​

Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., gave a passionate speech on the Senate floor in the wake of the latest mass shooting to strike the nation, this one unfolding in his "own backyard."

"I rise today in shock and sorrow and in grief for my home state," Warnock said.

Warnock noted that his two children were under lockdown at school on Wednesday amid the ongoing hunt for the Atlanta gunman.

"We behave as if this is normal -- it is not normal. It is not right for us to live in a nation where nobody is safe, no matter where they are. We're not safe in our schools. We're not safe in our workplaces. We're not safe at the grocery store. We're not safe at movie theaters. We're not safe at spas. We're not safe in our houses of worship. There is no sanctuary in the sanctuary. We're not safe at concerts. We're not safe at banks. We're not safe at parades. We're not safe in our own yards and in our own homes," he said. "And now, today, we can add medical facilities to that list."

He warned, "It's only a matter of time that this kind of tragedy comes knocking on your door."
As a pastor, Warnock said, "I'm praying for those who are affected by this tragedy," but he stressed, "It is a contradiction to say that you are thinking and praying and do nothing. … We pray by taking action."

Warnock said he's "pleading" with his colleagues in Congress to pass stricter gun reforms to "do everything we can to protect all of us and certainly all of our children."
-ABC News' Trish Turner

May 3, 4:16 PM

39-year-old woman killed, 4 women injured​

The manhunt is ongoing for the mass shooting suspect, 24-year-old Deion Patterson, Atlanta police said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon. Police said the gun has not been recovered.

The shooting, which unfolded in a medical center waiting room, killed a 39-year-old woman, police said.

The four injured victims, who are all women, are "fighting for their lives," Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said. They are ages 71, 56, 39 and 25, police said.

"As soon as possible I'll be in touch with the families of the victims," he said.

Patterson's family is cooperating with the investigation, police said.

Patterson joined the Coast Guard in July 2018 and was discharged from active duty in January 2023, the Coast Guard said.

May 3, 3:17 PM

Doctor recounts performing surgery as shooting unfolded 1 floor below​

Dr. Timothy Simons was performing surgery one floor above the scene where the shooting unfolded.

He told ABC News he completed the surgery and then sheltered in place.

When police came to clear the building floor by floor, Simons said he was told to put his hands up to verify that he was not the shooter.

"Then they escorted us all down the stairs," he said.

 

[The Question]

stricter gun reforms

...didn't prevent this. And more won't prevent another.

 

[jack]

Georgia gunman kills mom, grandmother and McDonald’s worker before turning gun on himself​

A mass shooter killed his mother and grandmother before gunning down the manager of a McDonald's where he worked. The suspected gunman then turned the firearm on himself, with police confirming that four people are dead after shootings at multiple locations in Moultrie, Georgia. Colquitt County Coroner confirmed that the shooter killed his mother and grandmother at two neighboring homes in Moultrie. Witnesses have claimed that the woman who died at the fast food restaurant was the early morning manager, and that the shooter was also an employee there.

Sabrina Holweger told AP that the man had killed the woman as she unlocked the door to let him in for his shift. She added that she was the woman's body lying in the doorway of the restaurant just before 8am, with police swarming the area. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations confirmed that they are currently investigating multiple scenes in the county. Coroner Verlyn Brock was unable to confirm the identity of the shooter or victims, and could not say if the gunman knew the McDonald's worker. Jamy Steinberg, GBI special agent in charge, said: 'We are investigating multiple incidents and there are fatalities involved.'

Police swarmed the restaurant on Thursday morning, shutting down traffic on one of the main streets in the south Georgia town of 15,000. The Moultrie Police Department Chief Sean Ladson confirmed that there is no immediate threat to the public. MPD officials requested that the GBI investigate the incidents and described it as an 'ongoing investigation.' McDonald's did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by DailyMail.com.

 

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[jack]

A Texas woman was fatally shot by her boyfriend after she got an abortion, police say​

A man who didn't want his girlfriend to get an abortion fatally shot her during a confrontation in a Dallas parking lot, police said.

He was jailed on a murder charge as of Friday.

Texas banned abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy in September 2021. But nearly all abortions have been halted in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, except in cases of medical emergency.

Gabriella Gonzalez, 26, was with her boyfriend, 22-year-old Harold Thompson, on Wednesday when he tried to put her in a chokehold, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She had returned the night before from Colorado, where she had gone to get an abortion.

“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.”

Surveillance video from the parking lot shows Gonzalez “shrugs him off,” police said, and the two continue walking. Thompson then pulls out a gun and shoots Gonzalez in the head. She falls to the ground and Thompson shoots her multiple times before running away, the affidavit said.

Thompson was arrested later Wednesday and is being held in the Dallas County Jail without bond. Court records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

Gonzalez’s sister was at the scene and heard the shooting, police said. Another witness saw Thompson try to choke Gonzalez but couldn't call police because she did not have her cell phone.

At the time of the shooting, Thompson had been charged with assault of a family member, who accused him of choking her in March.

The affidavit from March does not specifically name Gonzalez as the person who was assaulted. But it does say the woman told police that Thompson “beat her up multiple times throughout the entirety of their relationship” and that Thompson told police the woman was pregnant with his child at that time.

The woman “reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children,” according to the affidavit.

 

[The Question]

The wages of being a mudshark...

Police: Oklahoma Teen’s Ex-Boyfriend Raped, Murdered Her

A teenager in Moore, Oklahoma, who was found dead on April 22 was allegedly raped and murdered by her ex-boyfriend.

www.breitbart.com

 

[jack]

Black-on-Black Homicide - A Psychological-Political Perspective​

NCJ Number

93508
Journal
Victimology Volume: 8 Issue: 3-4 Dated: (1983) Pages: 161-169
Author(s)

A F Poussaint
Date Published
1983
Length

9 pages
Annotation

Black homicide rates are seven to eight times those of whites though Blacks have a rate of poverty only four to five times that of whites.
Abstract

Today homicide is the leading cause of death among young Black men, and contributes significantly to the shortened life-span of the Black male. In about 80-90% of the cases, the Black victim was killed by another Black, and about 52% of the murder victims were acquainted with their assailant. Just as we accept that suicide victims are psychologically impaired, we must acknowledge that a murderer is similarly impaired, and Blacks -- for both environmental and political reasons -- are likely to reflect emotional predispositions that allow them to more readily become a homicide statistic. Projected self-hatred facilitates blind rage and gives the perpetrator of the violent attack a sense of legitimacy and justification. In addition, Blacks have been indoctrinated by a criminal justice system which places higher value on a white life than on a Black life. While psychological study of homicide offenders and victims is difficult and not easily quantifiable, it is important to explore such variables in Black community violence. Programs focused on crime and violence prevention, therefore, must do more than alleviate socioeconomic ills in the the Black community. They must pay attention as well to negative psychological dynamics in the Black experience that contribute to internecine victimization. The Black community in particular is in dire need of homicide prevention centers with programs of prevention, research and treatment. (Author abstract)

 

[Oerdin]

What garbage. Unsupported wildly stupid claims like "the justice system places higher value on white lives than black lives". Anyone who buys that garbage is a fool.

 

[jack]

What garbage. Unsupported wildly stupid claims like "the justice system places higher value on white lives than black lives". Anyone who buys that garbage is a fool.

You don't believe in institutional racism then, I take it?

 

[The Question]

You don't believe in institutional racism then, I take it?

I certainly do, although the present 'institutional racism' is anti-white. As for why more cupcakeers get arrested, it's because cupcakeers commit more crime.

 

[Oerdin]

You don't believe in institutional racism then, I take it?

Show me an actual racist law and then we can change it. Now, if you are simply talking about an unknowable, unseen, but supposedly pervasive "racism" which materially effects anyone then no.

 

[Oerdin]

I certainly do, although the present 'institutional racism' is anti-white. As for why more cupcakeers get arrested, it's because cupcakeers commit more crime.

I will agree there are actual racist laws against white people. That is verifiable, reproducible, and quantifiable unlike the other claims.

 

[jack]

Show me an actual racist law and then we can change it. Now, if you are simply talking about an unknowable, unseen, but supposedly pervasive "racism" which materially effects anyone then no.

Here you go:
The Mississippi officials met in the heat of summer with a singular goal in mind: stopping Black people from voting.

“We came here to exclude the Negro,” said the convention’s president. “Nothing short of this will answer.”

This conclave took place in 1890. But remarkably, approximately 130 years later, the laws they came up with are still blocking nearly 16% of Mississippi’s Black voting-age population from casting a ballot.

The US stands alone as one of the few advanced countries that allow people convicted of felonies to be blocked from voting after they leave prison. The policy in Mississippi underscores how these laws, rooted in the explicit racism of the Jim Crow south, continue to have discriminatory consequences today.

One of those affected is Roy Harness, a 67-year-old social worker, who may never be able to vote because of a crime committed decades ago.

In the mid-1980s, he was convicted of forgery after he ran up a debt to a drug dealer and cashed a series of fake checks. He spent nearly two years in prison and hasn’t been back since.

In recent years, Harness, who is also an army veteran, has been on a new path. He enrolled in college when he was 55 and got his bachelor’s degree when he was 63. He got a master’s degree in 2019. Now a full-time social worker, Harness keeps a shelf behind his desk filled with awards and accomplishments – a reminder to his clients of all they can accomplish.

In 2013, he tried to register during a voter registration drive at his college, but saw on a pamphlet that forgery, the crime he had been convicted of decades earlier, was a disenfranchising crime in Mississippi.

“It makes me feel bad. I’ve served my country, nation … got a degree and still can’t vote, no matter what you do to prove yourself,” he said.

Mississippi also makes it nearly impossible for anyone convicted of a felony to get their voting rights back. Fewer than 200 people have succeeded in restoring their voting rights in the last quarter-century, the Guardian can reveal, based on newly obtained data.

Now, Harness is involved in a new effort to change Mississippi’s law.

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After slavery ended in Mississippi, following the US civil war, newly enfranchised Black voters in the state were beginning to wield political power. In 1870, Mississippi sent Hiram Revels to the US Senate, the first Black person to serve in the body.

By 1890, the delegates who gathered for a constitutional convention in Jackson, the state capital, were determined to blunt this trend.

They faced a significant roadblock to their racist goal. The new 15th amendment to the US constitution explicitly prohibited states from preventing people from voting based on their race. And so the delegates came up with a plan that would effectively prevent Black people from voting without explicitly saying that was their intent.

The delegates enacted a poll tax and literacy tests, measures that would become widespread across the south, as a way of keeping people from voting. But they also enacted a provision that disqualified people convicted of specific felonies from voting. The crimes they picked were those they believed, based on prejudices, Black people were more likely to commit. Bribery, burglary, theft, arson, bigamy and embezzlement were among the crimes that would cause someone to lose their voting rights. Robbery and murder were not.

Mississippi continues to see the legacy of its efforts to shut Black voters out of the political process today. It has one of the highest concentrations of Black people in the country, yet has not elected a Black person to statewide office in well over a century. It was among the states with the lowest voter turnout in the US in 2020.

Even though Black Mississippians comprise about one-third of eligible voters in the state, they account for more than half of the 235,152 people who can’t vote in the state because of a felony conviction, according to an estimate by the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice non-profit. Overall, more than one in 10 citizens of voting age can’t cast a ballot in Mississippi because of a felony conviction – the highest rate of disfranchisement in the US.

Most people who apply to have their voting rights restored are rejected​

Only a tiny portion of people who lose their voting rights apply for them to be reinstated. Since 1997, most have been rejected.​

And it is astonishingly difficult for those affected to get their right to vote restored.

To vote again, people with disqualifying felonies in Mississippi must first convince a lawmaker to introduce a bill in the legislature on their behalf to restore their voting rights. In other words, they need their own, individualized piece of law.

The bill must then pass both chambers of the legislature by two-thirds vote and be approved by the governor. Mississippi is the only state in the country where people convicted of felonies need to go through the legislature to get their voting rights back, said Christopher Uggen, a professor at the University of Minnesota who studies felon disfranchisement.

The only other path to get one’s voting rights back is a gubernatorial pardon, which hasn’t been granted in Mississippi in nearly a decade.

The process is the same one the delegates spelled out during the 1890 racist constitutional convention, where the felony disqualification rule was created. It was included as a safeguard to ensure that well-connected white Mississippians who committed one of the disenfranchising crimes had a way of gaining their voting rights back.

 

[jack]

^^^ thats an 1890 law that was specifically created against blacks and is still on the books and enforced.

 

[The Question]

There's an easy way around that one: don't commit a felony. People are only calling it, "racist" because blacks are socially engineered by their own culture to commit felonies. "But da po-po be arressin me fuh dribeeng wuh black!" Sure, if you define "while black" to mean, "while carrying 3 illegally possessed firearms and 150 pounds of drugs in the car", then sure they arrested you for driving "while black."

 

[jack]

That rarely happens. Usually they catch some lead in the back for "having a broken taillight" and then "resisting arrest.

He asked for an example, I gave one. I have more if we want to banter aesthetics. America was founded on the principles of institutional racism.

Prove me wrong.

People are only calling it, "racist" because blacks are socially engineered by their own culture to commit felonies

Oh never mind. I see you're agreeing with me.

 

[The Question]

"Y a brutha b catchin heat fo rapin up all de YT wimminz he get hiz hains on! U racis' muffuckaz ain't let a brutha rape de wimminz in peace or NUFFIN!"