The Dunbar Village Gang Rape case is among the most horrific criminal cases
I've ever seen. What is perhaps even more horrific is the deafening silence and inaction of black men on this issue, and the active support of the rapists now being given by Al Sharpton and the NAACP. Black women bloggers are taking action. Black male bloggers need to do the same and there are plenty of us.
I'm issuing a call to arms.
The imperatives are clear:
1. Make the NAACP & NAN accountable for their defense of the rapists and reverse course.
2. Bring pressure to bear on WPB authorities to catch the remaining six rapists
3. Raise a lot of money for this woman and her son to help rebuild their
shattered lives.
This is a black accountability moment. Black organizations, national and
local, underperform almost across the board because we don't require them to operate at a higher standard of judgment, accountability or transparency.
Both of these organizations should be made to publicly reverse course on this case, or pay a serious price until they do. For black men, I can't think of a
more clear opportunity to show unflinching, unwavering, non-negotiable, take no prisoners support for black women.
So come on brothers, join the campaign. The women got it started, but
frankly, the brothers should finish it.
This is simple:
A black woman was gang raped for 3 hours by 10 black men in front of her 12 year old son.
10 black men destroyed her life. I'm looking for a hundred black men to help put it back together.
Join the campaign and take action now
Support your local police.
ReplyDelete@ Cobb,
ReplyDeleteWow. Read the post. I'm subscribed to your blog and so I read your stuff. I find your writing a little impenetrable at times, but generally regard it as intelligent. This post is certainly lucid. However its devoid of compassion or empathy, as is most of the comments to it.
I'll say it again; this is simple. A black woman was gangraped in front of her 12 year old son.
The cops got called. Only 4 of the rapists are caught. But your post, done in the near aftermath of the event I'll grant you, is too busy sneeringly attempting to make a point about how there is no misogyny issue in black america to address the crime and the victim.
That post gets you admitted to the league of the morally indifferent my brother. Now its months later and black organizations are supporting rapists. Its morally wrong, it ought to bother you and you ought to want to do something about it besides score rhetorical points against the WAOD crowd.
I say black men should step up and take action. Rebuking Sharpton and the NAACP is one part. Raising some money to help the victim is another and pressuring those cops down there to find the remaining rapists is another.
So brother, rhetoric aside, what are you going to do?
"Support the police."
ReplyDeleteThat is a bizarre statement, for what our bloggers are doing is more in keeping with supporting the police than anything the NAACP or Al Sharpton has done.
Also WAOD is not the core of this movement, it is every day, working black women who are sick of being thrown under the bus, tired of being beaten, burying our children, raped, and have been left for dead by black political organizations.
I do not read Cobb's site but I have been told that several non-WAOD people have presented the facts on his blog in a logical, clear mannter but their comments were deleted. I truly hope that this is not the case.
This is not a radical fringe of a couple of blogging women. There are nurses associations, black female ministers, authors, reporters, students, stay at home mothers involved.
Clearly, the lack of concern over our very lives is evident by the behavior of quite a few 'spokespersons,' and frankly I would have preferred for them to stay out of it over this abomination that they are doing now.
There has already been another rape, forcible impregnation and prolonged torture of a black woman this year. We aren't going to leave our sisters for dead, no matter who wants us to shut up.
hi Aaron-
ReplyDeletei salute you. be encouraged! all things come at a cost:-)
Cobb---the philosophizing brothers must come to the understanding that we (black men, women and children) need a lot less conversation and much more action. literally. put up or shut up! support your local police??? this is not a statement that any enlightened brother i know would make. understanding that quite a few police officers practice shooting black targets and in fact repeatedly shoot black wallet reaching for, unarmed, human targets.
additionally, real men (all colors) don't wait for others to save them. real men understand that they have been blessed with dominion and seize it without asking permission or apologizing. if you are waiting on your servants (civil in this case) to save you---you are lost. hopelessly, i fear. which means at that very least you should be quiet and get out the way while the warriors go to work to save us all. entiendo?
Cobbs- i second Aaron, what are you going to do?
please be advised, it is not beneath me to chop off at the knees the weak males that are too afraid to do anything other than try to neutralize the brothers that are moved to action. victory mandates this course of action.
with all due respect...
focusedpurpose
Aaron,
ReplyDeleteThank you for stepping up and calling it like it is. Our women and children need us. They should not shoulder the responsibility of being the backbone of the black community. We need to step in and be the difference in our community(ies). I'm in California...and I am ready to protect ours!
You have a soldier in California!
B4B
@B4B,
ReplyDeleteAs you can see from Brother Cobb's post, not every brother is trying to step to the plate on this one. Its frankly a position I really don't understand.
But brother, I need you to do some things for me. Using ThePoint.Com, I've started two campaigns, one focused on holding the NAACP accountable and the other focused on getting pledges for the Dunbar Village victim. Please sign up to both campaigns. The financial campaign is trying to raise $5000. If 500 of us put up $10 lousy bucks, we can do that. Chump change to help rebuild a life.
The other thing is to keep spreading the word. The NAACP does not appear to be taking action to reverse course, and they are going to have to be pressured to do so. We need to keep the pressure on. So keep telling people, emailing the campaign and getting people to sign on to it as well as pledge for the victim's fund.
Brother Aaron,
ReplyDeleteYes...I am there...and committed to making a difference for the victims in Dunbar Village, and for black families across the country. I will sign up now at ThePoint.Com to affect change in the NAACP’s misguided practices in this case…and others, and I will forward this info to everyone I know so that we will effectively raise the $5,000.00 in…let’s say… 2 weeks! With the power of the web…that should be possible.
The NAACP definitely feels the heat from our efforts…and they are surely scrambling to cover their butts. With the fortitude and electronic/technological access we have…we can and will change the world as we know it. I am fortunate to live in a time where activism can unify at the click of a mouse…where millions can share the same information in a matter of minutes! We have the power…we need to continue to harness it.
Thank you Brother,
B4B
Aaron --> I'm not sure if your initial goals were met ... but, I think that we've unleashed a new process for dealing effectively with nonsense taking place in the Black community via our online activism and growing community. Umoja in action.
ReplyDeleteWell done...
peace, Villager