Dunbar Village Vs Al Sharpton

by Richard

“Welcome to the show that NEVER ends today thousands of African Americans will take to the street and march around the Justice Department in rage yet few attendees there will hear the voices across the street of a small counter protest taken place!

The details of the counter protest involve the gruesome death and murder of a mother and her young son it is a story the media fails to mention and Sharpton runs from. The blog Electronic Village has done the world a great service by giving us this unreported story in detail.

While I applaud any action that holds our goverment accountable I aslo think we as a people must hold ourselves also accountable. The one statistic that many of the activist today like the Rev. Sharpton will fail to address is the one that shows that most crimes of hate that most African Americans will face will come from one another. I have often heard that such crimes are not hate crimes but geographical robberies. That is to say because most black people live in a given area it only makes sense that they would be the likely target of same race crimes.

While there may be some truth to this argument it would seem that there is more to it than that. The names that are often hurled at many black victims as they are being attacked to death are incredibly hateful. The fact that words like bitch and "niggah" are used while an attack is taken place shows that not all black people use such words in a brotherly fashion.

It would seem to me that we must began to ask ourselves why do members of our communities hold such hate for each other. Is this hate the result of a fatherless boy who seeks vengeance on a community that failed to protect him or ignored his cries as a boy. The march today in DC will not deal with such such issues because to them the problems lie with govermen and the way to resolve them will be government.

We as a people can scream about injustice till we are blue in the face but unless we fight this war around our dinner tables and around or sons and daughters nothing will happen. The statistics do not lie the most hateful crimes that we as black folks will face in our life will not be from a stupid white kid hanging a noose on a tree but from from the enemy within an enemy who looks like us.

All of these marches mean nothing unless we deal with the real root problems of much this violence . What we need is a march on fatherhood and a march on responsibility. The fact that I have a higher chance of being killed by a member of my own race is a sad but true statistic. White people who feel like hurting a person because they are of another race should be prosecuted and thrown in prison. But to send a white guy to jail for years for hanging a noose while ignoring a black youth who commit more violent crimes shows just how deeply flawed our system of justice and judgement is.

A group that is doing something about this is the Black On Black Crime Coalition. There research found that from January to August of 2003, 30 homicides were committed in Little Rock, 47% of which were committed by blacks against blacks. Nationally, homicide is the leading cause of death for black men ages 15-24, and the second leading cause of death for black women of the same age group.


Richard is the editor and owner of HipHopRepublican.com


Fact Sheet: Hate Crimes and Prosecution of Civil Rights Violations

The U.S. Department of Justice has always been, and remains, deeply committed to the vigorous enforcement of our nation’s civil rights laws. In recent years, the Department has prosecuted a number of high-profile hate crime cases. As permitted by federal criminal law, the Department of Justice continues to aggressively prosecute those within our society who attack others because of the victims’ race, color, national origin, or religious beliefs.

Ongoing Commitment To Prosecuting Civil Rights Violations:

-In the last several years, the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division has set records and achieved notable successes in prosecuting defendants for civil rights violations.

-In fiscal year 2007, the Department convicted 189 defendants of civil rights violations, the largest number ever in the history of the Department.

-The fiscal year 2007 number broke the previous year’s record number of 181 defendants convicted.

-In fiscal year 2006, the Department charged 201 defendants with civil rights violations, the highest number ever recorded in the Criminal Section.

-From fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2007, the Department of Justice charged nearly 15 percent more defendants with civil rights violations than were charged from fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year 2000. (1159 vs. 1010)

-From fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2007, the Department of Justice charged 62 defendants in 41 cross-burning cases.

-In fiscal year 2007, the Department charged and convicted the second largest number of defendants for official misconduct, or color of law, violations in the history of the Department.

-From fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2007, the Department of Justice convicted over 50 percent more defendants with official misconduct, or color of law, violations than were convicted from fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year 2000. (391 vs. 256)

Response to Recent Noose-Hanging Incidents and Other Allegations:
In recent months, there have been reports from across the country of nooses appearing at schools, work places, and neighborhoods around the country. A noose is powerful symbol of hate and racially motivated violence, and it can constitute the basis of a prosecution under federal criminal civil rights laws in certain circumstances.

As part of the Justice Department’s racial threats initiative, the Department – including the Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Federal Bureau of Investigation – is working in partnership with state and local law enforcement and civil rights organizations to aggressively investigate dozens of noose-hangings and other recent racially motivated threats around the country. Where the facts and law warrant, these investigations will result in prosecution.

Recent Hate Crime and Race-Related Prosecutions:

-Some recent examples of cases prosecuted by the Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section include:

-Conspiracy to threaten, assault, and murder African-Americans. United States v. Saldana: Four members of a violent Latino street gang in Los Angeles were convicted of participating in a conspiracy aimed at threatening, assaulting, and murdering African-Americans in a neighborhood claimed by the defendants’ gang. Three of the defendants were also charged with, and convicted of, a federal hate crime violation stemming from the murder of an African American who was killed because he was black and because he was using a public street claimed by the gang. All four defendants received life sentences. In recognition of the success in this case, the prosecution team was awarded the Anti-Defamation League’s 2007 Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate and the International Association of Chiefs of Police 2007 Civil Rights Award.

-Racial cross burnings outside homes. United States v. Shroyer and United States v. Youngblood: Individuals in Indianapolis and Detroit, respectively, were successfully prosecuted for burning crosses outside the homes of biracial families with the intent to interfere with victims’ housing rights.

-Racial intimidation of a biracial family. United States v. Fredericy and Kuzlik: Two men were convicted in Cleveland, Ohio, for their roles in pouring mercury, a highly toxic substance, on the front porch and driveway of a bi-racial couple and their young child. This racially-motivated act was done with the intent to force the victims out of their home.

-Assaults by members of national white supremacist organization. United States v. Walker: Three members of the National Alliance, a notorious white supremacist organization, were convicted for assaulting a Mexican-American bartender at his place of employment in Salt Lake City, Utah. These same defendants allegedly assaulted an individual of Native-American heritage outside another bar in Salt Lake City. The Anti-Defamation League praised the Division’s efforts in successfully prosecuting this important hate crimes case.

-Race-based murder of African-American. United States v. Eye and Sandstrom: The defendants in this pending death penalty case in Kansas City, Missouri, have been charged with shooting and killing an African-American man as he walked down the street. The government alleges that the defendants shot the victim because of his race and because he was walking on a public street. Trial is currently set for January 10, 2008. If the defendants are convicted, the Government will seek to have the death penalty imposed against them.

-Cold case against former Klansman for kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with murder of two African-Americans. United States v. Seale: This case stemmed from the 1964 murders of

19-year-old Charles Moore and Henry Dee in Franklin County, Mississippi. In June 2007, former Klansman James Seale, 71, was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the murders of Moore and Dee. The defendant received two life sentences.

The Department continues to work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, to identify additional unresolved civil rights era murders.

Key Federal Hate Crime Statutes:

Federally Protected Activities, 18 U.S.C. § 245. The portion of Section 245 of Title 18 which is primarily enforced by the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division makes it unlawful to willfully injure, intimidate or interfere with any person, or to attempt to do so, by force or threat of force, BECAUSE OF that other person’s race, color, religion or national origin AND BECAUSE he or she is, or has been, engaging in one of six specifically-enumerated activities:

-Enrolling in or attending a public school or public college; Participating in or enjoying a benefit, service, privilege, program, facility or activity provided or administered by a state or local government;
-Applying for or enjoying employment, or any perquisite thereof, by a private or state employer;
-Serving as a juror or prospective juror in state court;
-Traveling in or using any facility of interstate commerce or transportation;
-Enjoying the services of a place of public accommodation, including a hotel, motels, restaurant, bar, gas station, theater, concert hall, sports arena, or other place of entertainment.

A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison, unless the offense involves an aggravating circumstance. If the crime results in bodily injury or involves a dangerous weapon or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; if the offense results in death or involves kidnapping or aggravated sexual abuse, the crime is punishable by any term up to life, or by the death penalty.

Criminal Interference with Right to Fair Housing, 42 U.S.C. § 3631. Section 3631 of Title 42 makes it unlawful for an individual to use force or threaten to use force to injure, intimidate, or interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with, any person’s BECAUSE OF that person’s race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin AND BECAUSE that person is exercising his or her housing rights.

Among the housing rights enumerated in the statute are the right to purchase, rent, or occupy a dwelling, and the right to contract for and finance those rights.

A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison, unless the offense involves an aggravating circumstance. If the crime results in bodily injury or involves a dangerous weapon or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; if the offense results in death or involves kidnapping or aggravated sexual abuse, the crime is punishable by any term up to life, or by the death penalty.

Damage to Religious Property, 18 U.S.C. § 247. Section 247 of Title 18 prohibits anyone from intentionally defacing, damaging or destroying religious real property BECAUSE OF the religious nature of the property, SO LONG AS the crime is committed in or affects interstate commerce. The statute ALSO prohibits anyone from intentionally obstructing or attempting to obstruct, by force or threat of force, a person in the enjoyment of that person's religious beliefs, SO LONG AS the crime is committed in or affects interstate commerce. Finally, the statute ALSO prohibits anyone from intentionally defacing, damaging or destroying any religious real property BECAUSE OF the race, color, or ethnic characteristics of any individual associated with the property, regardless of any connection to interstate or foreign commerce. Section 247 also prohibits attempts to do any of the above.
A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison, unless the offense involves an aggravating circumstance. If the crime results in bodily injury or involves the use, attempted use, or threatened use of dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment; if the crime results in bodily injury and involves a dangerous weapon or fire, the crime is punishable by up to 40 years imprisonment; if the offense results in death or involves an attempt to kill, kidnapping or attempted kidnapping, or aggravated sexual abuse or attempted aggravated sexual abuse, the crime is punishable by any term up to life, or by the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

Conspiracy Against Rights, 18 U.S.C. § 241. Section 241 of Title 18 is the civil rights conspiracy statute. Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States. An offense under section 241 is the agreement itself; the statute does not require that one of the conspirators commit an overt act in furtherance of the agreement.

A violation of this statute is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, unless death results or the offense involves kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to kill, in which case the offense is punishable by up to life in prison, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.
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Dunbar Village Supporters Question Al Sharpton and Other Silent Black Leaders

I attended the Million Man March in October 1997. I recall that there were a number of other marches scheduled in the following weeks and months. It is impossible to put lightning in a bottle twice. I didn't attend the Jena Six march in September 2007, however, I'm proud to be part of the process in the afrosphere that led to that successful march. There have been a number of marches called since September ... the latest is one called by Al Sharpton to protest the inaction of the Department of Justice on hate crimes.The story that you may not have heard is that Al Sharpton will be greeted by counter protesters on November 16.

The counter protesters want to know why he and other African American leaders have refused to publicly comment on a horrific crime against humanity committed against a Black woman and her child in a housing project called Dunbar Village located in West Palm Beach, FL.The Dunbar Village tragedy is the horrific story of the brutal gang rape, sodomy, and torture of a 35 year old black Haitian immigrant and her 12 year old son. 10 black teens forced their way into the victim's home at a public housing complex in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The mother was forced to perform fellatio on her own son at gunpoint. The teens then cut and stabbed the mother and her son, poured cleaning solvent on their skin and in their eyes, and would have set them both on fire, but as one teen suspect reported, no one in the gang had matches. Currently, only four suspects are in custody. During the 3 hour rape and torture, not a single neighbor called 911.The counter protest was organized by Shane Johnson. "How is it that practically every social justice organization from the ACLU to the NAACP to the SCLC knows something about Dunbar Village but refuses to speak out about it?", asks Shane Johnson who is a blogger and the author of Black Sapience...My .02. Johnson adds, "This protest is not to request that Sharpton and his allies march in West Palm Beach, but simply an inquiry regarding Rev. Sharpton's peculiar silence on this issue."

For over three months, Gina McCauley, who created the blog, What About Our Daughters? has been asking why prominent African Americans have failed to make any public comment about the Dunbar Village crime. "This type of crime happened on our watch and our "leaders" are still silent. They are silent because they are indifferent.

Their indifference is immoral." McCauley says. She posted the names and contact information of prominent African Americans and organizations on her blog and despite numerous calls, emails and letters from readers, not a single person on the list has issued a public comment on the crime. She describes their refusal to publicly comment 'Immoral Indifference'."It is the height of hypocrisy that Black leaders have remained silent for so long about the Dunbar Village Rape tragedy. Black leaders remain silent about victims of Black on Black crime." McCauley noted on her blog that several prominent African American issued statements on the humane treatment of animals during the controversy surrounding Michael Vick.

"We can get a statement about dogs, but not about two human beings."Tanisha Mathis, who operates the Essential Presence blog adds, "African Americans are falsely led to believe the mainstream is not sensitive to their issues but its proven repeatedly that it is, in fact, Black leaders and Black news entities that are the most silent in regards to crimes against Blacks like the Dunbar Village gang rape."I am unable to attend either protest march in person, however, I wish the counter protesters well as they gather in Washington, DC at the Justice Department on Friday, November 16, 2007. It should make for an interesting afternoon.