Posted on 04/24/2014 10:36:56 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Family members shared stories of their Black male relatives killed in extrajudicial crimes, part of the Spirithouse Project’s first break the silence movement in D.C., April 22, at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 I Street SW.
“This is not a press conference with famous people, this a press conference for the relatives of victims who have been murdered [in anti-Black hate crimes] because we think they are the most important voices and their voices must be heard and respected as being the legitimate voice of this new movement,” Ruby Sales, founder and director of the Spirithouse Project told the {AFRO}.
The victims include Jack Lamar Roberson, 43, shot to death by police in Waycross, Ga. in 2013; Keaton Otis, 25, shot and killed by police in Portland, Ore. in 2010 and Nathaniel Lee III, 20, killed in Waycross by two convicted White felons in 2009.
“It is a rising problem,” Sales said. “These murders outnumber lynchings at its height in the 1890s and early 1900s, so we are facing a critical, critical problem of racialized violence and hate crimes in this country.”
Family members, who tearfully shared accounts of the victims’ final moments, are in D.C. to demand federal intervention for their loved ones’ cases. All proclaimed they would not stop speaking out about the injustices until some sort of justice is received. They said news reports mischaracterized the murders and the victims.
Spirithouse Project-based in Atlanta, Ga. also held a teach-in to discuss anti-Black crimes, worship service, and candlelight vigil.
The organization wants to spread awareness throughout the country, Sales said.
Moving forward, the organization will converse with groups whose mandate is to do citizen organizing, such as social justice organization Washington Peace Center in Northwest D.C.; and create campaigns on colleges, particularly the University of the District of Columbia and Howard University.
She said she hopes, in the long-run, to have a congressional hearing on anti-Black hate crimes.
Sales said that Black people in this country are viewed as disposable waste.
“We’re living in a world where the general consensus is that Black people are disposable wastes and that we add no value to the society except maybe those few Black people who are exceptional,” she said.
Sales said a Black person is murdered every 28 hours by a white law enforcement officer, security guard or vigilante.
“If they’re happening every 28 hours in this country, I say that necessitates a movement,” she said.
The movement to break the silence was sparked by the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013. Sales said she initially began the movement in 2007 after the suspicious murder of Billie Jo Johnson in Mississippi. Authorities classified his murder as a suicide.
“It’s terrorism when any organized or unorganized group of people attack Black people and it’s terrorism when an individual called a lone wolf, an individual actor carriers out a killing while wearing a uniform,” Chip Berlet, a former Senior Analyst for Political Research Association, a think tank in Boston, said at the conference.
For more information on anti-Black hate crimes or to assist with the movement go to www.spirithouse.org or check out the “Breaking the Silence on Modern Day Lynching” on Facebook.
Depends on their definition of “white”..Lilly white, Hispanic white, Indian white, Asian white, half white...no mention of Black on Black crime...or what the person was doing to get shot by any of the shades of “white” police/women/men.
Where were all the instances of black-on-white murders and hate crimes? Knock out game? We did it because we was bored.
The fact that the vast majority of interracial violence is black on white is of no consequence to these people.
The fact that well over 90% of black victims of violence and shootings are victimized by other black men is similarly of no consequence.
Instead, they are searching for rare cases of interracial violence to push theliberal narrative that things have not changed since 1900. Got it, makes perfect sense. (sarcasm)
Maybe you ought to check out the rest of the story
And that’s just one Do I need to go through them all?
If they are also mourning whites “lynched” by blacks, God Bless ‘em. If not they are racists.
Lies. Absolute false and misleading lies. Even if half of this crap was true - it does not mean anything relative to the black on black crimes and murders committed daily.
Address that you race pimps. Then come back and whine about some phony baloney outrage.
I do like this observation though.... “Sales said that Black people in this country are viewed as disposable waste.”
And when you observe this with respect to their abortion rates.... you indeed see they are disposable waste.
Maybe they can send the millions of aborted blacks to Oregon
Really? Murdered? Not just shot in the commission of a crime, but murdered?
If we're just looking at actual murders then a Black person is murdered roughly every hour by a black male.
If we include abortions of black people then the per-hour number goes way, way up - though I don't know what the breakdown of black abortionists is.
Then they don’t come any more disposable than in Chicago, while the white elite, including the mayor, enjoy good comfortable lives in total safety, as they watch blacks commit self-genocide.
Since they are already guaranteed majority democrat voters - thanks in large part to the cemeteries - they don’t have to lament the loss of black voters.
Well said. As far as I can tell from official stats over 40 black people are aborted every hour.
Jesus Christ have mercy.
LYNCHINGS ! Only blacks can use it for comparison purposes. and only from about 1890 on.
From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black and 1,297 white people were lynched.
Lynchings: By Year and Race
Year Whites Blacks Total
1882 64 49 113
1883 77 53 130
1884 160 51 211
1885 110 74 184
1886 64 74 138
1887 50 70 120
1888 68 69 137
1889 76 94 170
1890 11 85 96
1891 71 113 184
1892 69 161 230
1893 34 118 152
1894 58 134 192
1895 66 113 179
1896 45 78 123
1897 35 123 158
1898 19 101 120
1899 21 85 106
1900 9 106 115
1901 25 105 130
1902 7 85 92
1903 15 84 99
1904 7 76 83
*Statistics provided by the Archives at Tuskegee Institute.
True, and primarily disposed of by OTHER BLACK PEOPLE.
Anyone who uses the phrase “murder of Trayvon Martin” has utterly destroyed any credibility he may have once had. A jury found GZ not guilty of having murdered Trayvon. You can have your own opinion but not your own facts.
And how many black babies are killed by their own mothers via abortion every day?
LOL! These people are idiotic since they're basically saying no one has the right to defend themselves against a perp because he's black.
Scraping off an old scab...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liberty_Place
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coushatta_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre
Courtesy of the Democratic Party.
The number of Blacks killed in so-called ‘Hate’ crimes - a term impossible to define in any case - is unquestionably dwarfed many fold by the number of Blacks killed by other Blacks, who love to indulge their criminal and antisocial impulses.
Based on the points made in the commentary, abortion is a especially hateful “hate crime” against blacks.
WTF is there such a thing as lawfull murder?
I know there is such a thing as lawful killing but murder?
They are not classified as babies until they are issued an EBT card.
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