CP5-Central Park Five Documentary by Ava Duvernay

Mr Superboy's excellent video on the Central Park Five


I was just 18 years old when this happened. The 1980s/early nineties were a period of racial polarization. Bush Sr. pushed the Willie Horton ad to the public, then he called the Civil Rights bill as "a quota bill". Next, the Bensonhurst murder where Yusef Hawkins was shot because racists thought he was seeing a white girl, Charles Stuart lied to the public regarding the murder of his wife. That coward got so many innocent Black men abused and railroaded by the Boston police, notorious for its racism. When his story didn't add up and his own brother was about to turn him in for the murder of his wife, he cowardly took his life. WS republican David Duke was flexing his political might in Louisiana. There was a war against Black men in America. We need to take this seriously.


The media made a big deal out of the boys who were falsely accused of rape, while the actual guy by the name of Mathias Reyes was out there serially raping and murdering women during this time. Also, there was a Black woman who was raped, beaten, thrown into the elevator shaft to be left for dead in Harlem. No persons of interest and almost no media coverage whatsoever. We are conditioned to value certain races of women, while disregarding the lives of Black and brown women as victims.

See the continuation of the stories of the now-exonerated men known as the Central Park 5: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. When They See Us is based on a true story that gripped the country in 1989. The four part limited series by Ava DuVernay chronicles the notorious case of five teenagers of color, labeled the Central Park Five, who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. Watch their rise to triumph on May 31st, only on Netflix.

How Strom Thurmond Created Trump 

That despicable bigot Strom Thurmond.

The current "president"-  Strom Thurmond and the old bigoted Republican Party  created this monster!

Today, I'm writing about the influence of how right-wing and racist politicians of the previous century contributed to the rise of the alt-right and the 45th "President".  That the mainstream media doesn't want to discuss this because of their role in creating the monster.

Whenever I hear about the media is being liberal, I cringe because it's not true.  The media is actually conservative in not truly challenging the status quo or denying parts of American history.  I'm not just talking about Fox news.  NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, the NYT, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, etc.  Today's media is own by very few people and the news we get is often biased or watered down.

Let's get back to talking about that dead senator Strom Thurmond.
Strom's father was an avid supporter of Ben Tillman, a notorious white supremacist who advocated lynching and denying Blacks and People of Color education and employment opportunities other than laborers, sharecropping, and domestic service.

In 1924, Strom exploited and impregnated a Black household domestic who gave birth to his first child, Essie Mae Washington on October 10, 1925.  For decades her existence has been shrouded in secrecy, lies, and humiliation until his death in 2003.

Yep, he said this back in the fifties.

Strom has used race, religion, and gender to divide the people of South Carolina, the South, and, eventually, the nation.  His family was connected to notorious White supremacists such as Ben Tillman and Coleman Blease.   Coleman Blease racism was so blatant and open that some of his White supremacist supporters were turned off by such displays.  Read up on both Ben Tillman and Coleman Blease at Wikipedia.  Some of the stuff are shocking to some but to many people, especially Black people, none of this surprise us as we are going through another time of intolerance and bigotry in 2019.

Unrepentant Criminal Get 3 Nickels For Fatal Car Crash!

The unrepentant Kyndra Shackleford had a breakdown when the court handed her a lengthy bid in the iron college.

Be warned the videos shown are disturbing.

Well I don't watch the local news. But I happened to hear about the situation with the Dayton, Ohio woman who led the Montgomery County Sheriff and Huber Heights Police on a chase that led to a deadly encounter. The victim Marcus Harper was on his way home when Kyndra Shackleford was in a trick's vehicle she taken from a local gas station. The police gave pursuit which led to speeds ranging over 100 mph.

Shackleford blew through a light near the Hollywood Gaming racino and struck the vehicle that Marcus and passenger Loretta Creech were in. Marcus died on impact and Loretta was severely injured.

Ever since she was a juvie she had run-ins with the law. Before this event, she was the woman who fired shots in the air to provoke a former boyfriend. She was a troubled teen who could not find the help she needed. She was bipolar and a victim of abuse. It's not an excuse for the reckless behavior, but the thrill of the chase and the fear of being caught drove her to flee.

Shackleford was under the influence of alcohol at the time and she had felonies on the books.

Huber Heights Officer Mike Winterbotham was the officer who gave chase and radioed for assistance.

The court threw the book at her. She got 15 to LIFE in the iron college. With time served she could be out in 16.5 in the iron college.




The court ordered her to pay the restitution for the victims. She was fined $1,590 and is banned from driving for LIFE. If she is released to in-house via parole, if she is caught driving on the road, she could go back to the iron college to serve LIFE.

The Huber Heights Police, Montgomery County Sheriff and Dayton Police are not off the hook either. The officer's need to "stop a bad guy" when they take off in a vehicle is becoming a real danger to the community. They have to evaluate how to handle high speed pursuits.