Originally posted by fuzzykitten99
All he is doing is listing stories that don't get reported BECAUSE it is a bad story about minorities.
Bullshit.
Every story he posts WAS reported it. He is just alerting YOU to it.
Anyone can probably Google "black + rape + 2004" and find a story about a black guy raping someone.
If that's your fetish
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Here you go, I did it for you:
Was the Conviction of an 18 Year Old Black Kid for Rape Racist?
By James E. McWilliams
Mr. McWilliams teaches history at Texas State University -- San Marcos and a writer for the History News Service.
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The story of Marcus Dixon isn't the only newsworthy court case to be stranded by higher-profile events. But it may be the most tragic.
Dixon is an 18-year-old man who's been sentenced by a Georgia state court to 10 years in prison after having sex with a girl who was a few months shy of her 16th birthday. Dixon, who claimed the sex was consensual, is black. The girl, who claimed she was raped, is white. The jury convicted Dixon of "statutory rape and aggravated child molestation." The relevant statute, clearly designed to prosecute adult molesters of small children, had never before been applied to teenagers less than three years apart in age.
Americans -- especially white Americans -- like to think that racism is dead and justice is blind. The Dixon case warns us otherwise. We'll never know exactly what happened between these teenagers. We do know, however, that the Rome, Ga., district attorney, Leigh E. Patterson, summed up Dixon's conviction with a description that taps a loaded historical stereotype. "This is not about race," she insisted. "This is about a sexual predator."
A sexual predator? Did public opinion label the late Strom Thurmond a sexual predator upon discovering that, as a twenty-five-year- old, he had impregnated his family's sixteen-year-old black maid? To the contrary, most accounts of Essie Mae Washington-Williams's recent revelation about her father's relationship with her mother stressed the financial support the South Carolina senator had "magnanimously" provided. Thurmond, we're led to think, was a patriarch, Dixon a predator.
Thurmond's hush money cleared the way for the senator's notable political career. Dixon, who had a 3.96 grade point average and a football scholarship to Vanderbilt University, will likely contemplate his own future while sitting in a cell block.
Before the Civil War the stereotype of the black man as sexual predator didn't exist. Its absence may surprise us. However, not only did slave masters routinely have sex with female slaves but -- albeit less often -- white mistresses also had sex with male slaves. Southerners generally failed to distinguish between these two sexual relationships....
