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What would happen if women - all women - from every race, creed and social and economic background got together and just rioted throughout every major city in the United States? What would happen if every woman - especially Black women - stop attending churches throughout this country?
Today is a hard day to be content. I just read about the horrific story in Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, Florida. It is the first time I had even heard about it.
If you have a weak stomach, brace yourself, for I couldn't believe what I was reading when I read it. Basically...
At a housing project called Dunbar Village, a 35-year-old Haitian woman was raped and sodomized over a three-hour period by about 10 teenage boys who forced the woman to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son. No one responded during the ordeal in which the woman and her boy screamed loudly as they were sexually assaulted and beaten.
The woman reported what had happened to the police, even though she had been warned by the knuckleheads that she and her son would be murdered if they "snitched." Maybe the neighbors were afraid of being assaulted or killed if they sought to find out why people were screaming for three hours.
I am very concerned about the priority in reporting by the media and the response of accountability by African American "leaders." Sometimes it's as if women have little to no value in this country when it comes to being treated with respect and basic human decency. This especially seems to be the case if you are not white.
What did make it all over the news was the killing and rape of a doctor's family in Connecticut:
Hayes, 44, and Komisarjevsky, 26, are accused of breaking into the suburban Cheshire home of Dr. William Petit Jr. on July 23, holding his wife and two daughters hostage and terrorizing them for nearly six hours.
Police say the pair raped and strangled the doctor's 48-year-old wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit. The couple's daughters, Hayley Petit, 18, and Michaela Petit, 11, were tied to their beds and the youngest was raped before the men poured gasoline around their beds and set fire to the family home, according to police.
In spite of the arrests made of at least three of the ten teenagers accused of the horrific crime in West Palm Beach,CourtTV hasn't even reported on this yet - at least not according to its web site. However, they did report on the "doctor and his family." Basically, it seems being poor, Black and female just doesn't count for much in the U.S. until it's election time and you can get cornered in the church pew by some politician from the pulpit the Sunday before a Tuesday election.
Shame on the major media outlets, legislators, women organizations like NOW and Black women organizations who haven't spoken up and out about the shameful incident that took place in Florida back in June.
If women and children can't feel safe in the United States of America, just where in the world can we feel safe?
