By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com
“Our crime rate is far too high.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote those words in his 1958 book, “Stride Toward Freedom.” He was referring to the disproportionate amount of crime among black Americans, an issue King didn’t flinch from facing.
Nearly 50 years later, King might be inclined to follow that sentence with the words “and some of those crimes are unbelievably heinous.”
Indeed, you have to wonder what King would have made of this story from The New York Times on July 19 about one of the most horrendous and brutal cases of black-on-black crime I’ve ever heard of in my 55 years. The incident occurred at a public housing project called Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“After dark on June 18, the police say, as many as 10 armed assailants repeatedly raped a Haitian immigrant in her apartment complex at Dunbar Village … They took cell phone pictures of their acts. They burned the woman’s skin and (her 12-year-old son’s) eyes with cleaning fluid, forced them to lie naked together in the bathtub, hit them with a broom and a gun and threatened to set them on fire.”
As despicable as that sounds, it wasn’t the worst of it. The worst of it was when these vermin, according to Times writer Amy Goodnough, “forc(ed) (the woman) to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son.”
If you’re wondering why the traditional gaggle of black misleaders didn’t dash before the nearest television cameras to condemn what might well hold up as the worst black-on-black crime of the decade, don’t bother. You already know the answer.
