Posted on 01/25/2002 11:01:31 AM PST by Starmaker
Probably the biggest news story of 1998 was the murder of a black Texas man, James Byrd, Jr., by three white men. The white men, since convicted and sent to prison, dragged Byrd to death behind a pickup truck. The ACLU, NAACP and various other race-conscious groups made sure this was on everyone ´s radar screen, but they needn´t have worried. The ‘liberal´ media had as big a ‘hate crime´ fest over this crime as they did with the Matthew Shepherd case.
In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, the NAACP, ever the lackey to their patron Democrat Party, even ran a TV ad attempting to taint then-Governor George W. Bush as involved in a ‘cover-up.´ When that last-minute slander didn´t quite work, black Democrat lackeys failed in another spectacular scam in Florida.
Today, however, the NAACP, the ACLU and all their media cohorts are especially silent about another inter-racial murder in Texas…with good reason. For this time, the murdered man is white, and the four murderers are black, and if you see this story at all, it will be in the blurbs buried on page 15 or 20 of your newspaper. You won´t be hearing about ‘hate crimes ´ on this one, nor be seeing weeks of on-the-scene reports from the networks. And I doubt there will be a national TV ad just prior to this fall´s elections attempting to tie any Texas Democrat candidate to the crime.
The victim, Ken ‘Bimbo´ Tillery, 44, visited a Jasper, Texas, trailer park Friday night, reportedly a crack house. Later, he asked various people for a ride home to Pineland, about twenty miles away. Blake Little, a 34-year old black man, offered to let him ride in the back of his pickup truck in exchange for $5, to which Tillery agreed. Along the way, according to Sabine County Sheriff Tom Maddux, the three other black men in the truck with Little upped the price of the ride to $50, but Tillery protested.
When they stopped on the side of the road—to urinate, according to the black men—Tillery took off running. Whether it was to avoid paying for the ride or because he was afraid of the men following the argument we´ll never know. For two of the black men chased him down and beat him, then the driver of the truck ran over Tillery, killing him.
But Jasper County Sheriff Billy Rowles, who in 1998 investigated the Byrd case—and was savaged as a redneck know-nothing by the media and the black race-conscious groups—said ‘race or revenge do not appear to be behind the killing.´ The sheriff attributed the killing to the argument over gas money.
As patently ridiculous as that story is, it shows that Sheriff Rowles has learned his lesson: he´s not about to buck the race-baiters and national media again. This time, he´s sticking to his argument-over-gas-money story…and the ACLU and media are (surprise!) accepting it. Funny, isn´t it, how this redneck know-nothing became so wise in just three years? Unlike in 1998, the media today are completely satisfied with his judgment and determination of what happened and why, so there´ll be no independent inquiries or investigations, as they insisted upon in the Byrd case. In fact, this article may very well be the last—perhaps the only time—you hear of this story. Case closed. No ‘hate crime´—whatever that is—here, boss; just some good ol´ boys fighting over five dollars (uhh, I guess I can´t say ‘boys,´ since four of the men were black, lest I be guilty of the only ‘hate crime´ associated with this man´s death).
If you need any clearer picture of the reeking hypocrisy of the ACLU and the ‘liberal´ media when it comes to race, you´ll have to hire screenwriters and Hollywood producers to create it, because real life won´t offer one much clearer than this. The only real difference between this case and the infamous 1998 Byrd murder is the fact that these black men didn´t drag Tillery after they ran over him. Simple reasoning would lead one to conclude, then, that for the ACLU, NAACP, national media, et al, a major criteria for a ‘hate crime´ must be the dragging part.
So I guess the lesson is: If you´re going to kill someone of the other race, all you have to remember is to not drag him afterwards. Simply killing him gives no evidence of ‘hate,´ as defined by our self-appointed moral consciences in the race-consciousness business. Since dragging is rarely a factor in the 90% of inter-racial crime that is committed by blacks against whites, that explains why those crimes are never ‘hate crimes.´ I´d like to thank the ACLU, NAACP, national media—and Sheriff Billy Bob—for the clarification of such a ‘complicated´ issue.
I´ll bet that´s a great relief to Tillery´s family. I´m sure they´re comforted by the ‘fact´ that he was not the victim of a ‘hate crime.´
Not that there aren't black on white hate crimes ... there sure as hell are ... but I don't see this as one of them. This guy hangs around Crack Houses, and asked the other 'fine citizens' also hanging there for a ride? WTF? He was a dead man walking and it doesn't matter what color he was. It's sure as hell murder, but those dopers would have likely killed their own mother if they thought they could get $50 for some more crack.
From all I heard, James Byrd was minding his own business when those animals attacked, and they did it only because he was black.
Nonsense. The driver agrees to drive the guy home for $5, then along the way, raises the price to $25, and then $50. That's a classic, black-on-white race scam I've seen in other forms going back thirty years. I've seen the murder part, too, at least attempts, for as little as $2.
What image do you have of racial violence in the U.S.? What type of person do you think commits interracial or "hate" crime? If you get your information from the mass media (TV, radio, major newspapers, and popular magazines), you probably have an image of a vicious, ignorant, gun-loving, hate-filled, skinhead, Klansman, or militiaman - all white of course, that is a completely false stereotype. The truth is exactly the opposite!
The media, protected class minorities, and anti-white politicians expect you to twist in anguish over black-on-black crime or the rare but well-publicized white-on-black crime, but they never mention the much greater amount of black-on-white crime? Yes, blacks commit more crime against whites (1.58 million crimes per year) than they do against other blacks (1.34 million crimes per year)! It's a virtual war of black criminals and white victims!
You'll never read the facts in the national media! Why? Neil Sheehan, an Australian reporter, dug out the following information for an article in the Sydney Morning Herald , May 2, 1995. Sheehan based his statistics on crime data compiled by the FBI and partially reported each year in The FBI Uniform Crime Report . These reports can be researched at the FBI's website, www.fbi.gov.
Since the FBI doesn't distinguish between Hispanics and whites, Sheehan's statistics don't adequately reflect the black-white crime situation. Only about 10-15% of Hispanics are white, with the rest being Indian or a mixture of white, American Indian, and blacks. Hispanic crime rates are almost as high as black crime rates. This means that the data Sheehan compiled on inter-racial crime is probably grossly understated since a considerable portion of the "white against black" crime actually is Hispanic against black crime. (Information about this aspect of inter-racial crime will be presented in a related article.) Here is the information Sheehan uncovered in his analysis of the FBI's crime reports:
Blacks murder more than 1,600 whites each year.
Blacks murder whites at 18 times the rate whites murder blacks.
Blacks murdered, raped, robbed, or assaulted about one million whites in 1992.
In the last 30 years, blacks committed 170 million violent and non-violent crimes against whites.
Blacks under 18 are more than 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than whites under 18.
About 90% of the victims of interracial crimes are white.
Blacks commit 7.5 times more violent interracial crimes than whites, although whites outnumber blacks by 7 to 1.
On a per capita basis, blacks commit 50 times more violent crime than whites.
Black neighborhoods are 35 times more violent than white neighborhoods.
Of the 27 million nonviolent robberies in 1992, 31% (8.4 million) were committed by blacks against whites. Less than 2% were committed by whites against blacks.
Of the 6.6 million violent crimes, 20% (1.3 million) were interracial.
Of the the 1.3 million interracial violent crimes, 90% (1.17 million) are black against white. What do you think about this Jesse Jackson?
Applied properly, aggravating factors like dragging someone should put the perp on the fast track to death row - no matter what the victim's race. The resulting cry for hate crimes laws in this case was overkill.
I think I would put beating him up first & then running over him in the same category as dragging anyway.
Not that there aren't black on white hate crimes ... there sure as hell are ... but I don't see this as one of them.
This was robbery and murder, and the white guy set himself up for it. Those guys were interested in getting green, not white, and if you could closly track their histories, I'd bet you would find they robbed, and likely have killed blacks in the past as well.
As to black on white hate crimes, yes they are many times more common than the reverse. I have seen it too and you have no argument from me on that. But this particular case is nowhere near a James Byrd case. Sorry.
James Byrd, Jr was murdered because he was black.
Ken ‘Bimbo´ Tillery was murdered because he was stupid.
I seem to remember a series of crimes surrounding an illicit affair that involved a clueless fat girl and a demented hillbilly that generated a few headlines...
I do now, but I spent my first 25 years in a mixed low income neighborhood in the heart of big North East city. That neighborhood was tough then, and it no-mans land now. Trust me, I have seen it all. I had a white 'friend' shot dead by a black guy in a racial tiff. But much like this case, he had set himself up for trouble, and he got it. I know white women who were raped by blacks and numerous individuals who were assulted and robbed by blacks including elderly. Black kids as young as 10 years old tried to break into and rob my mothers house in the old neighborhood.
What I'm saying on this post is that this case is not a James Byrd case. The white teens who were beaten and killed in Chigago by a black mob a few years ago is a better example than this crack head.
Jesse would probably call it a good start.
If blacks cannot commit a racially motivated crime and whites can... doesn't that mean blacks are superior!??
Thats it, the media and politicians agree that blacks are superior to whites because ONLY whites have that genetic disorder called racism!
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