It is piling up in the South where it appears it is no longer cool to be a black-man? It is gradually looking like the 1950s revisited, with lynchings here and there of black-men for no apparent reason other than the color of their skin; and in some oddity, satiate a gory appetite? Instead of wasting valuable time finding a rope or climbing a tree branch to hoist their black victims as in the fifties, these modern day lynchers have deployed modern day instruments for their nefarious hate-crimes.
These days, either a white-man shoots a black boy dead from behind without consequence or a black-man is hogtied by a group of white men behind a pickup and dragged to his death or a young white boy guns his truck right into a beaten to stupor black-man and kills him. From Florida to Texas and now to Mississippi it is deja vu the fifties and Icheoku wonders when the next Martin Luther King would emerge to lead the next freedom march for real equality and treating fellow man with real dignity in America.
Derly Dedmon, 18, shackled, received two life sentences today for his despicable hate-crime murder by truck of 49 year old James Craig Anderson in Mississippi. Icheoku says when all these boys hear is hate-filled speeches and about race-based divisions in our country, their snapping once in a while and doing the incredulous is a very near possibility; but hey it is the south that still hoists their racist segregation flags and they believe it is still cool in 2012. What a pity and may the soul of Mr. Anderson rest in peace.
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