So many people are saying that racism is dead, that we’re
beyond that in this country, that black people are “using the race card” just
to benefit themselves and not because it is actually warranted. You ask them,
well what about the video tape of so-and-so getting shot while walking down the
street? “We don’t know what happened before the beginning of the video; that’s
just an isolated incident; you know people blow things out of proportion”; or
any one of a number of other tired, clichéd excuses that they use to hide the
fact that racism is NOT dead. As a matter of fact
IMO it’s just as bad if not worse than it was in the Emmett
Till days!
There's one area that's better today though, and that is the area of communications. We have cyberspace to get the
news out, rather than relying on newsprint, so we find out about these cases a lot sooner than we used to!
Using cyberspace also does one other
thing; it documents any racist activities so that it’s no longer a case of “black man
said vs. white man said’. (And the white man always winning!) Unfortunately, in a lot of cases being
recorded hasn’t changed the behavior of some hard
case, died in the wool bigots, especially those wearing their tin
whistles and little blue suits! When the white man is wearing that costume, he’s
still always winning!!
Anyway,
on to today’s post.
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| Sherman Crow |
An 82-year-old
woman out shopping with her daughter-in-law was
cursed at and then had an airbag deploy in her face when the car she was riding
in was rammed in a case of road rage gone amok.
Ira McPherson pulled up in front of the store to pick up her mother-in-law,
Joan Wilson so that the elderly woman would not have to walk across the parking
lot using her walker. As McPherson helped Wilson into the car Sherman Crow
evidently became impatient and began to yell racist slurs at the women, “You
nigger b**tch” among them. When Wilson was finally settled in the car,
McPherson got in and the two women tried to pull out of the parking lot. Crow
wasn’t finished with his tirade, however, and continued to yell slurs while
repeatedly ramming his car into the women’s car. He rammed it so hard that the air bags
deployed, which, as we all know, can be life-threatening in itself! (click
here for details)
Police
were called of course, and Crow was arrested. An officer escorting Crow to the
patrol car later reported that “I could smell the strong odor of an
alcoholic beverage as he was talking”.
Both McPherson and Wilson suffered
minor injuries in the attack, and McPherson’s
car fenders and doors were badly damaged.
Now
this part really gets me. Crow was charged with reckless driving,
reckless conduct, disorderly conduct, making terroristic threats, aggravated
assault and driving with an unlawful blood-alcohol level, (all sound like misdemeanors to me) but this was the
2nd time he’d been arrested for the same thing! The first time was in
October of 2014, when he was arrested for
disorderly conduct, public drunkenness,
and simple battery charges after he allegedly yelled racial slurs at an
employee when he was denied service at a local Subway. Crow also tried to climb
over the fast-food store’s counter and attack the woman, throwing items at her!
First, how does he get off with simple
battery when he tried to go over the counter after her, and failing that,
starting throwing things? Sounds more to me like assault! He’s going to court June 28th,
and I sincerely hope they look at his record before giving him some light
sentence like probation or six months’ suspended sentence! I mean, this guy has
shown a pattern of violence and prejudice towards blacks and makes no bones about it. At his age, I seriously doubt
if he’s going to stop it now.
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