Why did Anthony Sowell get away with his crimes for so long? Why did it take police 37 days to investigate a reported rape? Why did Anthony not get the rehab he asked for in prison?
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Interview with the Mother of a Missing Daughter
Watch CBS News Videos Online
Yes, over and over again and once again, the lives of Black women are not valued by police, media, and society at all. They only report the negatives about Black people when it comes to crime and morals. They rarely, if ever, show the positive side.
We need to create our own media networks and blogs because nobody else is going to care about us.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Newsflash: Four More Bodies Are Found At Cleveland Home
More gruesome discoveries.
Why haven't the police and the neighbors surrounding Sowell's house noticed anything soon? Why the police didn't warn the neighbors that there's a sex offender living in their midst? Some or all of his victims would have been alive today. What's wrong, Cleveland? Why do we wait until at least six dead women before police and neighborhood action? Does LA, Rocky Mount mean anything to us? Does the 1978-79 murders of 12 Black women in Boston matter? What about the 11 victims of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace, a serial killer who killed over a four-year period, beginning in 1990, ended in March 1994, when he was taken into custody in Charlotte, N.C. Do they matter to us? Of course they do!
We take lives of poor and Women and Men of Color less seriously than others. That's sad and it shouldn't be that way. We need to change our way of thinking when it comes to murder victims.
Why haven't the police and the neighbors surrounding Sowell's house noticed anything soon? Why the police didn't warn the neighbors that there's a sex offender living in their midst? Some or all of his victims would have been alive today. What's wrong, Cleveland? Why do we wait until at least six dead women before police and neighborhood action? Does LA, Rocky Mount mean anything to us? Does the 1978-79 murders of 12 Black women in Boston matter? What about the 11 victims of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace, a serial killer who killed over a four-year period, beginning in 1990, ended in March 1994, when he was taken into custody in Charlotte, N.C. Do they matter to us? Of course they do!
We take lives of poor and Women and Men of Color less seriously than others. That's sad and it shouldn't be that way. We need to change our way of thinking when it comes to murder victims.
An Open Letter To Black Women: Why You Are Beautiful
Check out this open letter from Leonard Pitts a black man and Miami Herald writer in which he not only states that black women are beautiful but explains why:
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
Monday, November 02, 2009
Posts by Fellow Bloggers November-2-2009
Von from Black Conscious Thought wrote about the infrequency of BF/WM relationships in America:
http://blackconsciousthought.blogspot.com/2009/10/well-i-said-it-way-back-when-black.html
From Stuff White People Do:
Americans' tendency to homogenize 50 African countries into one big country called Africa, ignoring cultures, races, religions, and governments. As if they are all alike without any individuality
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2009/10/homogenize-people-from-over-fifty.html
From Siditty:
Black face is making a comeback. It's not just from Tyra, though. Magazines and TV shows employ the use of Blackface as well.
http://siditty.blogspot.com/2009/10/blackface-has-made-comeback-thanks-tyra.html
From Brian Beach of Dayton, Ohio:
Infiltrating the Enemy: Hategroups such as Chimpout at:
http://sociallyblogwards.blogspot.com/2009/10/infiltrating-enemy-stupid-white.html
From Dovesblood:
"I Spent Three Hours At Nixzmary's Apartment" at:
http://www.nixzmarybrown.info/2009/10/i-spent-3-hours-in-nixzmarys-apartment.html
http://blackconsciousthought.blogspot.com/2009/10/well-i-said-it-way-back-when-black.html
From Stuff White People Do:
Americans' tendency to homogenize 50 African countries into one big country called Africa, ignoring cultures, races, religions, and governments. As if they are all alike without any individuality
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2009/10/homogenize-people-from-over-fifty.html
From Siditty:
Black face is making a comeback. It's not just from Tyra, though. Magazines and TV shows employ the use of Blackface as well.
http://siditty.blogspot.com/2009/10/blackface-has-made-comeback-thanks-tyra.html
From Brian Beach of Dayton, Ohio:
Infiltrating the Enemy: Hategroups such as Chimpout at:
http://sociallyblogwards.blogspot.com/2009/10/infiltrating-enemy-stupid-white.html
From Dovesblood:
"I Spent Three Hours At Nixzmary's Apartment" at:
http://www.nixzmarybrown.info/2009/10/i-spent-3-hours-in-nixzmarys-apartment.html
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Horrific Story Out of Cleveland: The Bodies of 6 Women Found in the House
Coroner says 6 women whose bodies were found at home died
Six women found dead at a Cleveland, Ohio, home appeared to have been strangled, and their decomposing bodies could have been lying there for "weeks, if not months or years," a coroner told CNN on Saturday.
Police discovered the bodies at the home of Anthony Sowell, a 50-year-old convicted rapist, after they tried to serve an arrest and search warrant for him related to a sexual assault investigation.
On Thursday, detectives from the department's sex-crimes unit and members of its SWAT team went to Sowell's home to execute the warrant and to arrest the suspect, but he was nowhere to be found, Cleveland Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.
Five female victims were found inside the home, and another female body was discovered outside the home, said Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller III.
Miller's office had yet to identify the victims, who all died of "homicidal violence," he said.
"They were mostly strangled, it appears," he said.
To read more of this horrific story, please go to:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/31/ohio.cleveland.bodies/index.html?eref=rss_crime
My heart goes out to the families of the women who were killed during the past six months.
May they finally find peace.
Six women found dead at a Cleveland, Ohio, home appeared to have been strangled, and their decomposing bodies could have been lying there for "weeks, if not months or years," a coroner told CNN on Saturday.
Police discovered the bodies at the home of Anthony Sowell, a 50-year-old convicted rapist, after they tried to serve an arrest and search warrant for him related to a sexual assault investigation.
On Thursday, detectives from the department's sex-crimes unit and members of its SWAT team went to Sowell's home to execute the warrant and to arrest the suspect, but he was nowhere to be found, Cleveland Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.
Five female victims were found inside the home, and another female body was discovered outside the home, said Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller III.
Miller's office had yet to identify the victims, who all died of "homicidal violence," he said.
"They were mostly strangled, it appears," he said.
To read more of this horrific story, please go to:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/31/ohio.cleveland.bodies/index.html?eref=rss_crime
My heart goes out to the families of the women who were killed during the past six months.
May they finally find peace.
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