According to Leflore County coroners, an unidentified black male in his twenties was discovered about 12:30 pm Friday afternoon hanging in a tree in a field in Greenwood, Mississippi.
I have heard much discussion about this “supposed suicide”. Clearly, this scene is a throwback to the 50’s and 60’s and cries of race mob induced lynching. Personally, I must have all my information before making any assumptions. In order to “fight the power”, one must have a clear mind and secure all facts before making a case.
There needs to be mainstream attention brought to Greenwood, Mississippi pending a full investigation. The action itself is cause for a nationwide stir regardless of who is responsible, black or white. And yes, historically, Mississippi is notorious for its racial tension and continued segregation. I am quite familiar with the ongoing racial issues in Greenwood and for that matter throughout the nation. If this is in fact a race-related/hate crime, then Mississippi will need to bring swift resolution or continue to wear its scarlet letter. Let us also consider the violent gang activity and black-on-black crime in Greenwood as well. Furthermore, let us consider the symbolism here; a black man hanging from a tree in the fields of Mississippi clearly points fingers elsewhere – “It must have been a racist white man who did this.” Again, let us get the facts first.
In short, a new year is upon us. We are not living in the 50’s. It is 2010, soon 2011… let us push Greenwood authorities to get this case wrapped up quickly. Be mindful, most local agencies do not want the feds in their business. But I am certain the FBI has already assumed much of this investigation. And if not, phone calls will be made.
We deserve the truth.
Mario Strong (Mississippi Dread) 
December 4th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
As a family member this picture is unappropriate and disrespectful to my family!
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December 4th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I agree with the family member, Rachel, this picture is offensive and inappropriate. The article alone would have been sufficient to get your point across. Above all, you may have violated a law because this case is under investigation.
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December 4th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Hello Rachel,
I do sincerely apologize for your family’s loss. There were no ill intentions towards my submission here. At the time I posted this photo, the young man had not been identified. I simply wanted to raise attention to certain matters surrounding this state’s history and the continued racial strife. Rumors are rampant and are now causing further strain. All I ask is that there is resolution and truth can be brought to light.
I found this photo online and was surprised that no immediate information was provided other than it indicated that a young black male was hung in a remote field in Greenwood, and that Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks deemed the death as a suicide. This just didn’t settle with me and I wanted answers.
I do understand that immediate family must be contacted prior to releasing additional information.
Thank you for coming forward. Again, I apologize. However, whether this was a suicide or race-induced lynching, the media has made it a public matter…
But in response, the photo will be removed here.
Mario
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December 4th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
It always seems appropiate to show how others have suffered but we are supposed to suffer in slience and not draw attention to our ongoing holocaust. But by the same token, if we do not help ourselves we cannot expect that others will. Know your history and know yourself.
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December 5th, 2010 at 12:16 am
This gentleman has violated absolutely no laws. I’m very sorry for your loss but, after the grief period is over I hope and pray that you see fit for the picture to go back up. The world needs to see what Mississippi is like in 2010.
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December 5th, 2010 at 8:43 am
This is absolutely ridiculous after reading the story that just goes to show that things of this type still exists, I dont know what happened but in Mississippi i wouldnt doubt it. I wouldnt think that the stepfather would appear in writing to be so calm about it and just go along with what the investigator says. I find it strange that he would put the rope back in his pocket after he got the right length to do the job. And im not from greenwood nor mississippi but when i see where he was found in a tree in a field i wouldnt think that this field was in a neighborhood. So im tryna say that i know that somebody saw this guy walking aside the road, and like i said im not from there but i bet this field was way off away from everything and just so happen he walked upon a tree with a table sitting beside it. I sure hope the issue is pushed about a deep investigation because like a present commentor said it shouldnt get swept under the rug like the guy who died becasue he dated a white girl. MY deepest sympathy goes out to the family and all the friends and people who was affected by this lose. We just pray for a better day where color wouldnt matter. Not saying that this was or wasnt the case, btu i wouldnt dare not rule it out as a hate crime. “ONE LOVE, ONE LOVE LETS GET TOGETHER AND FEEL ALRIGHT”
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December 5th, 2010 at 9:38 am
It doesn’t surprise me how things are still going on in the south.I am white and I date a black man,I live in jackson Ms and I see the way people look at us in the store’s and even at church.I stopped attending this one particular church because of the way some people acted.The south might one day change,but I don’t see it happening anytime soon.All we can do is pray about the situation.
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December 5th, 2010 at 9:53 am
The Picture tells us not to Be Death, Dumb and Blind!!! It gives us a face that doesn’t want to be forgotten!!& The WORLD NEEDS TO SEE HOW THE BLACK MAN IS STILL TREATED TODAY!
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December 5th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Look im from Greenwood. Where that body was found, those waters are only treaded by whites, point blank period. We have what we consider is Greenwood and they what they have considered as North Greenwood. We once shared post offices and parks. I feel if it was left up to some then they would have a different zip from us. They down played this action. If you notice the Greenwood Commonwealths two line posting of the incident and notice the headline story you should see the cover up. Anything we do to ourselves are posted big pictures first 48 style from pictures, breakdowns, interviews, all front page. But when that same shoe is on the other foot well I dont even have to accusate. So the facts are they are going to do us the way they have always done us, through our school system, locking up of 100’s of black faces, jobless rates and through the Greenwood Commonwealth using media to show a imaginary picture of how all of us are irresponsible lifeless gangbangers. When in actuality they are racist, cocky, and now the new thing of 2010, “nigger hangers”.
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December 5th, 2010 at 11:18 am
Is this another lynching? “Johnson was found hanging in a pecan tree in 2000 – authorities said that it was a suicide.”
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December 5th, 2010 at 11:24 am
What the hell??? Let’s face it, you wouldn’t expect something like this to occur in Vermont, would you?
I’m speechless. Why haven’t the main streamers latched on to this? I haven’t heard about it and came by your excellent blog only by accident.
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
Tom Degan
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December 5th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Black Man You Have My Support I’m Not Suprised It’s The Deep South that’s Why Right now We Need To Mobilize And Vote 2012 Barack H.Obama Back In Office Not Because With Him It’ll Be A Post Racial America We All Know that’s a Fairytale,But Because he represent progress the type of progress racist white men and women don’t like it’s called upward mobility.when in reality they are afraid of our progress and that horrible act is their way of saying that we need to stay in our place not again.they don’t want to use our god given right and that is to vote and keep the republican agenda out of office.
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December 5th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Furthermore; what is disrespectful is the fact that folks in Mississippi will sit on their behinds and let the powers that be call this another suicide as they did in June of 2000 with Reynard Johnson – the 17 year old who dated a white girl.
By The Way — Free The Scott Sisters
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December 5th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
This is horrible! Question: How many unsung deaths have been reported in Mississippi? What of the Prison’s there? how hard is it to believe that this could very well be the maliciousness of a hate crime?
Yes this is a throw back, a throw away and a damn shame for human beings to be so ignorant and place little to no value on life.
1950, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2010…hate is a learned behavior, why would we not believe that hatred of this kind is still prevalent? It is and will be apart of the past present and future sad to say. Why and how we can fear the unknown yet go into unknown territory of lands and universes is far beyond my understanding, it’s more than hate it’s fear, fear of being last. Fear of payback from the throwbacks and thrown away.
I wish minds would open.
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December 5th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
BROTHER CAN WE GET THAT PICTURE TO POST!!! THEY ARE BLOCKING IT!! WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM OF PRESS!!!
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December 5th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
I didn’t see the picture was it the actual body in the tree? Crime has a face a live picture of the individual would be appropriate at this time.
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December 5th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I respect the family’s wishes. However you still need to place the photo there. It may sting for them now but it needs to be shown now. Don’t back down from true journalism. Don’t back down from true acts of showing racism. Don’t back down if they are too much in grief right now, understand. But Emmett Till’s photo woke a nation up.
Put it back up there. Emmett Till’s mother had an open casket. We act like racism isn’t here any longer. See this photo. In fact do a photo of a Black man hanging and the family’s photo. Don’t compromise for the truth of racism. Apologize to the family but be stronger than them and tell them one day they will understand that you too supported their family by showing the truth!
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December 5th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
You don’t even know if that’s a member of the family. Until they can show you by telephone conversation or something that verifies THEIR credibility then you have no reason to change or alter this!
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December 5th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
ENOUGH OF THE BULLSHIT- IT’S TIME FOR NIGGAZ TO STAND-UP AGAINST THIS SHIT STR8UP!! NO CRAKKA SHOULD FEEL SAFE WITHIN 100MILES OF GREENWOOD!!!
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December 5th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
[…] Body discovered hanging in a tree in Greenwood, Mississippi: According to Leflore County coroners, an unidentified black male in his twenties was discovered about 12:30 pm Friday […] […]
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December 5th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
[…] Body discovered hanging in a tree in Greenwood, Mississippi […]
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December 5th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD HAD KNOWN WITHOUT THE PICTURES OF “EMMETT TILL. HIS MOTHER UNDERSTOOD, SHE NEEDED OUR HELP FOR ANY FORM OF JUSTICE. MAYBE THIS POOR FAMILY HAS FOTGOTTEN HOW HIS MOTHER HAD TO STAND. IF SHE WAS ALIVE SHE WOULD I’M SURE STAND WITH THEM.
“LESS WE FORGET”
The murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year old black boy murdered in Mississippi in August 1955 sparked the Civil Rights movement, but the crime won’t caused a nation to awake if not for the above photo. The gruesome photographs of Till’s mutilated corpse however circulated around the country, notably appearing in Jet magazine, which targeted African American crowd. The photo drew intense public reaction. Till, visiting Mississippi from Chicago, whistled at a married white woman thus incurring the wrath of local white mob.
In the middle of the night, the door to his grandfather’s house was thrown open, and Emmett was taken by the mob of at least six white men, forced into a truck and driven away, never again to be seen alive. Till’s body was found swollen and disfigured in a river three days after his abduction and only identified by his ring. The body was sent back to Chicago, and his mother insisted on leaving the casket open for the funeral and allowing people to take photographs because she wanted people to see how badly Till’s body had been disfigured—she has famously been quoted as saying, “I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby.” Up to 50,000 people viewed the body.
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December 5th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Brother SETI – send an e-mail to Truth Seeker – will forward the pic. It’s very small and rather blurry –
issuestoday at gmail.com
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December 5th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
If this is what I think it is Jessie Jackson Al Sharpton and other leaders will get on it. But facts first.
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December 5th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Why is this not on the National News?
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December 5th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
I live in Washington,DC i am very tired of this ancient racial killing’s. What we need to do is contact the NAACP and the FBI so they can get this matter resolved quickly, if not it won’t stop, thre responsible persons for this young mans death is a disgrace, I pray to the lord some will be brought to justice on this on this killing.
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December 5th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
That’s a god damn shame!
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December 5th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Let us not forget, THIS IS THE SAAAAAME VERY SAME PLACE EMMETT TILL WAS MURDERED 55 YEARS AGO! THEY GOT SOME NERVES SAYING THEY DON’T KNOW OF THE PERSON WHO COMMITTED THE CRIME WAS BLACK OR WHITE! IT’S OBVIOUSLY A WHITE PERSON! GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI WAS AND STILL IS INFAMOUS FOR LYNCHINGS! AND I’m on my phone so I can’t see the picture!
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December 6th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Mario,
It would seem that your admonition to readers to get the facts prior to passing judgement has fallen on deaf ears. It’s a sad turn of events for the family whatever the outcome of the investigation. My prayers are with them.
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December 6th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Sometimes emotions will sway one’s rational thought. The purpose of my reporting and posting the initial picture was to to draw such emotion and generate discussion, which I see has thus resulted. But it is the urgency of truth that I seek; not to provoke racial unrest. There’s enough tension already. Again, I reiterate… Let us get the facts before passing judgement. Whether by suicide or lynching, this was not a welcomed manner for this young man to meet death. I await the final autopsy report before further commenting on this situation. My prayers are with the family of Frederick Jermaine Carter.
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December 6th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
This should not be ignored. Facts first then action. Let’s get to the bottom of this.I send my condolences out to the family and friends. May you have strength thru this unfortunate situation whichever way it goes, But please follow thru for your loved one. Its going to be rough but you will have much support. Make a difference.
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December 6th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
It’s absolutely extremely difficult to commit suicide by hanging one’s self from a tree. So let’s not be naive. You would’nt be committing racial unrest for simply posting a photograph that could very well be a racial incident. I hope you don’t allow any one else to sway you from reporting again. A picture is worth more than 1,000 words. I respect you. I just think you will learn from this incident that courtesy and due dilligence are fine. It’s not mutually exclusive to the efforts of creating a culture of reality and honesty on your blog. If you want to paint a real picture of delta, include it all. Good luck on your journalism and your reporting.
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December 6th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
of course this stuff still goes on, WE ARE STILL IN THE LAND OF OUR CAPTIVITY AND U PEOPLE LOVE IT SO… THE SO CALLED WHITE MAN(EDOMITES) ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES IS THE DEVIL SATAN MEAN HUMAN ADVERSARIES DONT LET THESE CRACKERS TEACH U THEIR FALSE DOCTRINE AT THESE CHURCHES AND MAKE EVERYTHING MYTHOLOGICAL… AND U BAPTIST R UNDER THE SAME DOCTRINE AS THE POPE THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE… THE BIBLE WAS NEVER TO BE A RELIGION IT IS A BOOK OF HISTORY FOR A CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE THE HEBREW ISRAELITES Amos 3:1 . Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: Matthew 10:5 . These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
Matthew 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel…. this stuff we have been going thru since the slave trade of our ppl is punishment to us for disobeying and serving false gods and images as we do today seeing as every church has a cross and images all over clearly against the scriptures the so called negroes latinos and native americans make up the twelve tribes of Israel… Jeremiah 5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Jeremiah 5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours. AS WE ALL KNOW WE HAVE AND STILL R SERVING THESE STRANGERS IN THIS FOREIGN LAND…STILL ISNT ENOUGH PROOF?? Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. THAT NATION IS AMERICA AND THOSE OTHER GODS OF COURSE R NE FAKE GODS BESIDES THE TRUE CREATOR AND THE WOOD IS THE CROSS WITH CHRISTIANITY THE STONE IS THE MUSLIM WITH THE PRAISE OF THE ROCK THEY HAVE
Deuteronomy 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. WER AN ASTONISHMENT ON BOTH SIDES FROM HOW PPL LOOK AT THE MICHAEL JORDAN AND TIGER WOODS ETC, BUT ALSO HOW THEY LOOK AT THE BUMS AND THE STEREOTYPE OF “NIGGERS” ALSO A PROVERB ie “DONT TRUST THOSE NIGGERS” “NIGGERS LOVE CHICKEN” ETC. BYWORD NIGGER COON ALLIGATOR BAIT PORCH MONKEY SPIC WET BACK TANTO ETC…
Dt 28:43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. WE ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PILE PPL AND THE STRANGER THAT BROUGHT US IS WAY ABOVE US
Dt 28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. WHO LENDS AND WHO BORROWS ITS OBVIOUS
Dt 28:45 . Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
Dt 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; THAT NATION IS THE CAUCASIANS( WHICH LETS U KNOW THESE WHITE PPL DWELLED IN THE CAUCAS MOUNTAINS BUT THE BIBLE ALREADY TOLD US THIS OBADIAH 1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ALSO EXPLAINS Y THEY/WHITE PPL LOVE LIVING IN HIGH RISES AND STUFF)
DEUTERONOMY 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: THEY DIDNT GIVE A FUCK IF U R OLD OR YOUNG THEY TOOK US ALL KILLED US ALL AND STILL DOING SO
DEUTERONOMY 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you]. EGYPT MEANS HOUSE OF BONDAGE/SLAVERY THE ACTUAL LAND KNOWN AS EGYPT WAS CALLED MIZRAIM IT WAS NICKNAMED EGYPT FOR WHEN WE WERE IN SLAVERY BACK THEN AND WE WERE BROUGHT HERE ON SHIPS SOLD TO OUR ENEMIES AND NEVER GOT ANY REPARATIONS OR NOTHING STILL IN SLAVERY TO THIS DAY, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER U R JUST CATTLE TO THE RULERS OF THIS WORLD, THE jewISH PPL R NOT THE TRUE JEWS, JEW IS SHORT FOR THE TRIBE OF JUDAH THATS JUST ONE TRIBE AND THOSE JEWISH BASTARDS AINT EVEN IN JUDAH THE SO CALLED NEGROES R JUDAH… REVELATION 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan. GOD KNOWS OUR WORKS AND HOW POOR WE R AND HE KNOWS THAT THESE PPL WHICH R LYING ABOUT BEING JEWS R TRULY THE SEAT OF SATAN THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEWISH AND THESE WHITE PPL HERE THEY R EDOMITES SATAN
REVELATION 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. THE MOST HIGH MADE IT KNOWN AGAIN THAT THEY R NOT THE TRUE JEWS…
TITUS 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. ONLY TIME jewISH SHOWS UP IN THE BIBLE IS LETTING US KNOW NOT TO BELIEVE THEIR FABLES INCLUDING THE FAKE HOLOCAUST THEY FAKED ENOUGH PROOF OF THAT IN THOSE SCRIPTS BUT ITS PLENTY OF PROOF ON THE NET ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST HOAX…
REVELATION 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
REVALATION 1:14 His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire;
REVALATION 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
THATS THE DESCRIPTION OF CHRIST AS HAVING SKIN THE COLOR OF BURNED BRASS BRASS IS ALREADY BROWN NOW PICTURE IT BURNED IN THE FURNACE JEREMIAH 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. WE HAVE ALWAYS RANGED FROM LIGHT TO DARK BLACK THATS THE COLORS OF THE GROUND LIGHT BROWN SAND TO DARK DIRT
Jer 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Lam 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Lam 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
JOB 30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
ACTS 13:1 . Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. EVEN WITH THE APOSTLES THE WERE CALLED NIGER WHICH IN THE LATIN/GREEK JUST MEANS BLACK
JEREMIAH 18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
JEREMIAH 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
JOEL 2:12 . Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: ITS TIME FOR OUR PEOPLE TO RETURN TO THE MOST HIGH AND SERVE HIM IN TRUTH AND CALL UPON HIS TRUE NAME Zep 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent… WHICH IS YAHAWAH PSALM 83:18 That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth. THE LETTER J DIDNT COME TO EXISTENCE AND USE UNTIL 1634 IF U DONT STUDY HEBREW THE V IN HEBREW IS THE W SOUND AND THERE R NO VOWELS IN HEBREW SO EVEN WITH THE TRANSLATED NAME THEY GIVE IF U DROP OF AND PUT WHATS REALLY THERE A “Y” FOR THE J AND THE W FOR THE V U GET YHWH WHICH IS YAHAWAH
PSALM 68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him. AGAIN THE Y FOR THE J AND U GET YAH WHICH IS WHY PEOPLE SAY HALLELUYAH ITS THE HISGHEST FORM OF PRAISE AND YAH IS SHORT FOR YAHAWAH.. KNOWING THAT CHRIST WAS HEBREW HE WOULD HAVE A HEBREW NAME AND HIS NAME MEANS YHWH SAVES WHICH IS YAHAWASHI
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December 6th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Thank you for posting this information. I hope that the family will allow you to repost the picture as I agree that because of Emmett Tills Mother’s courageous act of opening his casket the world was able to put a face on the reality of the crimes and cruelty and see first hand what is going on in our towns.
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December 6th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
lets get the facts first!!!!!!!!!!! GOD forbid some gangbangers did this!!!! we should not jump to conclusions.IF we as a race of people do not respect each other, how do you expect someone else to respect us.greenwood ms, not complaining or curbing black on black crime, why complain about a couple more blacks being lynched!!!!!! whats the difference?black kill black or white kill black?do we really CARE? Another brother bites the dust!same here in chi town. people talking, but aint doing nothing, talking loud, saying nothing!lets get REAL WITH SELF, WE DONT REALLY CARE!OTAY, POP QUIZ!put your money where your mouth is, or take your individual behind to greenwood ms, and do something on your OWN!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU DONT NEED A CROWD!!PUT UP OR SHUT UP!!!!!NOW, DID YOU PASS THE QUIZ?WHAT YOU DO OR GOING TO DO?JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE NEGROS IN AMERICA. DONT GIVE A DAMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
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December 6th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Not surprised if it turned out to be black on black crime, which, is what crossed my mind initially as I read the story. As I have traveled this great country of ours every town has it black on black issue. Downtown Atlanta was scary and looked like a a bunch of zombies roaming the streets. Streets filled with lost souls. Denver near where Chauncy Billips grew up playing ball reds and blues who are black still can’t get along and don’t pick up the pop cabs around the Rec center that raised one of the NBAs greatest stars.. You’ll be spotted by a young kid or worse shot because theres either dope or money in them. In Wichita Ks where a teenage wanna be red banger says with audacity that he would kill a mf in front of the police at a boys and girls club forum meeting. In Jackson Ms where around the campus of Jackson State Uni it looks like a war zone full of blight. We need another movement… A movement out of the box of ignorance and diseducation…NAACP where are you? Our advancement is reaching
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December 7th, 2010 at 12:21 am
I would not be surprised if we read this next week and it states that a “white”, was found hanging. I really think that an eye for an eye was meant for black people to use on whites. And if violence never solved anything, then why are we in Iran. Kill one of mine, expect the same thing. The one way to stop these whites from killing us is to kill them back. Make someone in my family cry, your family will cry too! They’ll want to stop because then they would have to live in fear. And yes, every one should wear a mask. This is not an isolated incident, this plays out everyday in the United States. And whites wonder why we still don’t like or trust any of them. St. Petersburg, Florida is the same, only they start the racism in kindergarten. They teach little black children that they arent worth anything and send them home with books on slavery to read over the summer holiday. One school in particular, Golfport elementary, did exactly that in 2010. They wanted the little black children to think of themselves as slaves and the white kids to believe they were the masters. Anything deemed to be black was wrong and they were(probably still are) teaching this, and the parents arent saying one word about it. Probably because they were taught the same thing, and dont pay those types of things any attention. To name a few schools in St Pete that do this would be Boca Ciega HS, Gibbs HS, Lakeland HS, Seminole HS, Tyrone MS, just to name a few. Dont educate your children in St. Petersburg, Fl, Bush was Gov. and this place has gone to Hell in a handbasket.
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December 7th, 2010 at 9:03 am
If there is anything we can do in a proactive manner, please contact us at the website given…Peace In, and Thanks for this very significant Blog; our prayers go out for the Carter Family.
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December 7th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Nothing yet? Come on this is not going to get swept uinder the rug is it. We need answers. The people of chicago need answers. This is my mom.s home town. Again the family has our prayers!!!
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December 7th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
OK here is the problem… FIRST it is absolutely HORRIBLE that anybody would post the picture of a man’s dead body (no matter how he died) & 2nd my prayers go out to that man’s soul & to his family, who not only lost a loved one, but now are having to deal with his picture being posted on the internet..
2nd.. the comments about him being a black man hanging from a tree MUST be by racist white men are about as ignorant as I can think of.. I am SOOO SICK & TIRED of hearing the race card being thrown up everytime a person of color (ANY race) has something wrong happen to them.. IT IS NOT ALWAYS ABOUT RACE!!!!
(this is a reply to the person who said the authorities will just chalk this death up to “another suicide”)
I live in California & the gang violence here is out of control!!! Black, Latino & WHITE people are murdered here allllll the time & so many times it is called “Gang Related”!!
& sooo many times they are right, they are society losers killing other society losers!!! BUT when it is found that a “white gang member” killed a “Black gang member” the damn race card is thrown up & HERE WE GO!!!! Californians have to prepare for another riot.. Im sick of it.. how many times have a white person been killed by a black person?? PLENTY!!!!!!
GROW UP take responsibility for your own actions, quit expecting a specific race, gender, religion, political party, sexual orientation etc.. group to speak for another individual person.. I in NO way expect EVERY Black man to defend the mistake made by ONE black man,, NOR do I expect EVERY Muslim to have to defend & or correct the mistakes of the radicals on 9-11.. People are People & they are individual, nobody can explaine, defend, or correct what another individual person does..
my prayers go out to the family of this poor man (however he passed away) I hope that IF somebody else did this, then I hope & pray that they are brought to justice & is SENTENCED TO DEATH in the same horrific way that this man was.. If he did infact commit suicide I am very sorry that he felt that there was no other way out.. My prayer go out to you..
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December 8th, 2010 at 12:17 am
People are you serious! And the cracker remark??? I live in Greenwood and I know what goes on. You rarely see in the papers that a white person killed another white person or that a white person killed a black person. All I ever see is about Blacks killing blacks. All of the robberies here, blacks. North Greenwood and whatever, there were plenty of neighborhoods that whites lived in that were taken over by blacks and the violence. So yes, white people live in North Greenwood and keep it crime free and clean. All of the apartment complexes are filled with black people. A white person with a low income can rarely find a low income apartment. A white person even gets crap when going to get food stamps. But when you see a black person in there with her nails freshly done, new hair, baby phat clothing, it makes you wonder. I know the SSI check ratio here too. They have more black people living off of us the tax payers who go out and get jobs. Yes, there are quite a few of decent black people here. And yes there are white people who are racist, but before you start making remarks, read the news everyday. As far as Obama, that was the biggest mistake voters made. It was more about having a black president rather than what was good for this country. He has not done one good thing since being president. All I can say is that the blacks in Mississippi have more of a free ride than the whites. And they not only assume they should have, but they expect it and demand it. Whatever may have happened to this young man, i hope they find out but it is highly possible that he did commit suicide. But of course as usual its always something racist here in Mississippi
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December 8th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Yes let’s get the fact first, before we ride on them fools, if yt America don’t know they are about to get their wakeup call. because those of us in the spiritual realm, have always stayed out the fray, now the “Mothers” are watching and folks will be dealt with on a spiritual level. no longer will you think its your divine birthright to kill black folks, just because by nature your hateful and fearful. you have done enough damage on this planet. and is foolish to think you will be allowed to continue your reign of terror. if you can’t coexist, you must be dismissed!! Our prayers go out to the family, may the young lord find peace and travel well.
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December 8th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
@Greenwood Resident
Where to begin…
I don’t understand how you go from a young man’s death, to food stamps, to President Obama’s election.
Through all the comments, rants and whatever (except yours possibly), people just wanted fair and impartial justice for this young man no matter what the cause would have been. And getting justice can be a wild ride, but it is never free for anyone concerned.
My condolences to the family and I hope they can find some island of comfort in this storm.
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December 8th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
I agree with The Greenwood Resident & Jodi. I live in Greenwood myself and they always play the race card here. In all actual reality it’s the whites that have a hard time here. It’s hard finding a decent place to live that is affordable, clean, and free of a bunch of black guys standing on the corners asking if you wanna buy something. The schools are filled with chaos and racism. In order for your child to be happy in school without drama, you have to fork out thousands of dollars every year for a private school. Then the whites that don’t have that kind of money have to deal with an unhappy child. It is hard for white people to get government assistance. I myself know this for a fact. I was given an extremely hard time trying to get food stamps when my family and I really needed them. They treated me as if I was lying or something. She wanted all types of paperwork and information that I had never been asked for before and it would have took forever to get all of that. So I called in and started asking questions about everything she was saying she needed and come to find out, she didn’t have to ask me for any of it. In fact, my counselor was a black woman. Then I gave up and went back and had a white lady as my counselor and she had a much better attitude with me. She did not give me a hard time at all. It’s hard to get anything around here is you are a struggling white person. Not to mention, they all seem to have money to pay for these nice rims and sound systems that drive me crazy. Really, what makes them think everyone within a 1/2 mile wants to hear what they are listening to. Then when they go deaf from it, they will get a check every month! Plus they are living in apartments and houses where they get assistance and don’t have to pay for anything. So, if you ask me, If the white people in Greenwood are racist, it’s because the government has made us that way. Black people think they deserve a free ride because of history years ago. Get over it! Stop whining and crying about it. Get out and work, stop having dozens of kids you can’t afford. We have to pay for them is what it all boils down to. You get a free ride for everything else, get some free birth control. It’s even hard for a white woman to get that here at the health department. Because we work and have income to pay our own bills and rent or house payments, they won’t give us free service. And by the way, everyone who thinks the whites have issues in Greenwood and Mississippi, please go read the article about the man who was raping the hogs… He was black.
The statement that Greenwood Resident made about obama, very true. Hopefully that sorry excuse for a president wont be elected again and it’s doubtful he will. He has done nothing good for this country but bring it down and make black people feel as if they are better than everyone else. It was all about having a black president. They do have some smart black people out there that became wise after he was elected and were kicking themselves. As far as Ricky Banks, I know him and I know that he is a very good man. He wouldn’t have been the Sheriff for so long if he wasn’t. But those of you who think that you are being done wrong and playing the race card, do your research on Greenwood crime and I promise you will find that more than most of it comes from blacks. Nothing will ever change here because of everyone always pointing fingers because of race. It’s not the white person who is pointing fingers all the time!!!
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December 8th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
@M DeCarabas
This whole blog is about more than this young mans death from the start. Did you simply pass up the very bad vocabulary comment with some fool calling white people crakkas and all the comments jumping to the conclusion that this just must have been a murder by a white person… The obama comment that Greenwood Resident made was a reply to another comment made by someone else about our so called president.
My heart goes out to the family as well but there are murders everyday that don’t make headlines like this that should. Just because it was a person hanging from a tree, everyone yells race. It seems to me that Mississippi is the way it is because people can’t let go.
As for NubianGoddez, all I can do is laugh and shake my head at that post.
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December 8th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
If I missed those other comments, then I’m sorry. Still doesn’t change the fact that the issue is of this young man’s death. Whether his death was or was not a hate crime is important to understanding what happened to him. The coroner’s report says it was a suicide. Some people believe it, some people don’t. That’s plenty enough to talk about.
Again, for all the the folks dragging these ancillary issues on both sides:
1. We don’t have any evidence that he voted for Obama. Nothing indicating he supported President Obama was found anywhere near him. So, why the talk about the president whether pro or con?
2. We don’t know if he was on welfare, but considering that he was working with his stepfather, a painter, when he wandered away, circumstantial evidence indicates that he at least was trying to do something to better himself financially. But, again, why is this important to this discussion?
3.We don’t know if he bought rims, or kept people up at night with loud music. So why is that pertinent to the conversation?
Now to address the haters:
4. Lumping all white people into some nebulous blob of sheet wearing nightriders hellbent on wiping out those of a darker hue doesn’t help anything. And it prevents a healthy, but heated debate about what’s going on down there.
5. Lumping all black folk into some nebulous blob that seems to be working to ruin lives and take livelihoods doesn’t help anything. And it prevents a healthy but heated debate about what’s going on down there (see what I did there?)
I’m not saying that there aren’t some white people or some black people who could have done this, or that this wasn’t a suicide. Some of us have an answer we believe, some of us don’t.
Like I said earlier, plenty enough in there for us to debate. But as a wise person once said, we can disagree without being disagreeable.
I’m asking that we keep it above the belt. Because, in the end, we don’t know what indignities of life caused him to meet his end under such circumstances. But what we can do, as fellow human beings, is allow him some dignity in death.
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December 8th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NOW & THEN,..NOW PEOPLE SIT BACK & WAIT FOR THE TRUTH,…THEN,.PEOPLE WERE NOT AFRAID TO ORGANIZE & FIGHT FOR IT KICKING ASH,..& TAKING NAMES LATER,..NOW LAZY,..FULL OF SELFISHNESS,..THEN FULL OF FIRE & MOTIVATION FOR THE PEOPLE,..LACK OF MOTIVATION,..LACK OF UNITY,…LACK OF TRUE LEADERS,..& YES WHY KEPT SO QUIET???
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December 8th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
this is a disgrace ! this poor young man didnt commit suicide this is and act of racial violence i dont care what anyone says.and not once did i hear about this on local or your big cable news networks. wheres our black activist on this one? or was this so hush hush that no one else heard about it as i hadnt? my heart goes out to the family for such a tragic lost, and the worst of all no one is speaking about who ever did this klan act :no man can save you from the raft of the almighty GOD!
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December 9th, 2010 at 8:06 am
@evelyn What evidence do you have that suggests this was not a suicide? Is that statement based on factual evidence, or is it just another tired out of date argument of deflection. The idea that this can’t be a suicide because the young man is black, and therefore it is the fault of somebody somewhere “out there” that is white, is a racist comment. Your obstinent platitudes do nothing to aid this family or the community in the healing process. It also belies a need to hold on to outdated beliefs. Do you believe in reconciliation, or is the fact that the black community faces some serious self-inflicted problems too much for you to come to grips with? We can’t blame others for our problems. We must rise above on our own accord. In this day and age no one is holding us back based on race alone. Lack of education? Yes. Lack of character? Yes. Lack of self respect and personal responsibility? Yes. But not solely on race.
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December 9th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
You are living in an area that is full of kkk do you think the poor white crackers are going to admitt they know what happened. If you go to a nursing home and you see them old crackers do you wonder how many blacks there family killed by hanging. They are not twisted for nothing saying sister girl can you give me a glass of water. Some one of color will have to wipe there asses at the end……..God thank you for setting us free.
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December 10th, 2010 at 1:08 am
To race card getting old: Reading your bullshit comment sickens my stomache… The you don’t have shit is because you are a trailer trash bitch! With no education.. You are unemployed because you are unemployable, and a ignorant bitch…. Mississippi should have flooded years ago! And killed every one of you it could have.. History shows your dislike for everything that’s not white…I wish their was a hell on earth so I could watch you burn to death, so you white piece of trailer trash you are just getting a taste of what people of color go through daily… Now you see just being white won’t give your stanking dog smelling ass a free ride, and I bet you didn’t go to a private school! Bet you couldn’t get a GED if it was in trailer schooling…. I bet if your redneck son was strung up in a fucking tree all hell would break out…
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December 10th, 2010 at 10:41 am
I agree with this post! Lets get the facts! Quickly people! Bam!
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December 15th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
To M.Decarabas,
What type of human being would say some of the rude and disrespectful statements you would say about African Americans. How do you feel that African Americans have it better then whites. So what if they wanna buy the big cars with the big rims its there money. Where do you get off talking about African American women having all these babies and cant take care of them, at least I know that African Americans women dont take the government money to have there children injected into them. And furthermore taking your hard earned money please we all know if you was making a good piece of change you wouldn’t be elgible for foodstamps anyway.Truth be told the person could be African American or White, Mexican, whatever. The only thing the Carter family want is to find out what happen. Mississippi is not the only state with murders and black on black, and white on white crime. Whites get high just likes the blacks. Some blacks might be rich one day and lose there job just like whites can. African Americans breath the same air whites do and truth be told when we leave this hateful earth we all gonna be in heaven together yellow, red, purple, blue, black so stop making your stupid racism marks and pray for this family.
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December 16th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
@Tiffany Davis
I think you meant to respond to Race Card Getting Old.
But if you didn’t, I suggest you slow down and reread what I wrote. But if you don’t I’ll give you the salient points for what you’re ranting about:
M Decarabas wrote:
>>2. We don’t know if he was on welfare, but considering that he >>was working with his stepfather, a painter, when he wandered >>away, circumstantial evidence indicates that he at least was >>trying to do something to better himself financially.
Tiffany, here is the kicker right here:
>>But, again, why is this important to this discussion?
Ok, now for the second one:
M Decarabas wrote:
>>3.We don’t know if he bought rims, or kept people up at night >>with loud music.
Wait for it… Wait for it…
>>So why is that pertinent to the conversation?
In that post, I tried to answer some ignorance with some well-reasoned truth and by not flying off the handle. And I tried as diplomatically as possible to ask folks to keep it clean.
There’s a lot of stuff I want to say about your response, but I’ll only say two things:
1. What you are demonstrating isn’t much different than what Race Card Getting Old did. All emotion and righteous indignation but at the wrong person(people).
In my opinion, that’s the big reason these situations never get resolved. Instead of focusing on figuring out what happened to the victims and putting pressure on the authorities to do real investigations, folks just snipe at each other until we forget that we want answers to why something like this could happen.
2. I’m black.
To bring this thing back around, hey Mario, any new developments?
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December 16th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
@M Decarabas… Thank you for your responses. A calm mind and rational thought are needed at this time; Stereotypical assumptions are not. Stay vigil… Additional dialogue and further updates can be found at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frederick-Jermaine-Carter-Unresolved-Lynching
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December 22nd, 2010 at 7:09 pm
People need to look at the evidence. How did Frederick Carter tie this complicated knot? Was he an experienced Boy Scout or have other training? He cut the rope, put the unused part in his pocket — but there was no knife on the scene? The family has repeatedly asked for the body to be transferred for an independent autopsy– why are officials delaying? Letting the body and evidence decay? Why weren’t police procedures followed and the area roped off– what was the name of the officer(s) involved and why aren’t they up for charges? Why were there a second unidentified pair of footprints and why aren’t they being investigated? How can the police chief say there has been an investigation without answers for these minimal questions? Please take up the fight, sisters and brothers, or there will be no justice.
p.s. I am an anti-racist white ally. Some of us go to real churches and love our neighbors (and know that all white people are racist and are working to be healed and do justice).
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December 23rd, 2010 at 9:39 pm
It is not necessary to put a race of people down, because of this incident. And if anybody hates anyone, you hate God’s creation. God is love, and we must love everybody IF you want to go to heaven. One thing we all know is that we will have to die one day. Just put yourself in the this family’s place. How would you feel if your child was found hung. I believe that anybody would want to know what happen, and what caused this. My heart goes out to this family, and you all are in my prayers. I love everybody, whether you hate me or not.
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December 28th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Good article. Thanks.
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January 7th, 2011 at 5:24 am
Looks like nothing changed in Mississippi but the weather, this is so sad!
Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBiAtwQZnHs&feature=fvw
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January 13th, 2011 at 11:41 am
This is my first time hearing about this. I did not know it happen.
I didn’t hear it on the News maybe they said something, but i was just suffing the web. I guest evenone is being slience about it.
I do hear about this state when i am visting other states and its offend not good, but when i am back hear i do not hear anything.
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January 13th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) – Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks says a man whose body was found hanging in a tree had a history of mental illness.
This is the problem. Sheriff jobs is to investigate not to fill people head with false allegations. That is why we have Doctors who go to school
for a long time. Cutting open a heads or reading through med records is
not one of them for a sheriff i do not thing you need to have education being a police, but only in Mississippi were uneducated people or
trying to make educated decisions. Want to be a Doctor! go to school.
Everyone wants to do other people jobs and it looks easy, but you need
some education to do it. Let me ask this question. Would anyone get on a
airplane and ride it across the ocean untested and billy builded it in his workshop, no education no history of flighting and no training?
On tv it looks easy when you are watching CIC NYPD educated and trained personnel but i assure you it is not.
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January 13th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Its is time for someone else to step in now. Mississippi failure rate is not good when it comes to investigating crime of hate and death of other people than white. Since 1776 to 2011 America is 235 years old now. slavery was a good much of that 235 years. hate has been the other part of what is left now. Failure is no more of an option since the hangings in the jail house fews years ago and now no one has said nothing. We know
crimes can not investigate themself. So now it is time for someone else
to investigate problems like this because Mississippi can not do it on there own.
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January 18th, 2011 at 10:05 am
say im from the delta in miss. an i know that when hanging,killing,black peoples by the whites is not a surprise.black peoples dont not go to whites neighborhood andso do they dont come to a black one. so for me i know it was murder.go to mississippi your self an see that the world just dont cover this kkk state.
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January 26th, 2011 at 10:36 am
thanks for the medie not to talk ,show they are controlled and only talk what they are told to say.only what they talk about his fake bomb plot what his also control by CIA operative who stage these attacks to put people in fear so they can put certain law in affect
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February 2nd, 2011 at 12:40 pm
@ Race Card Getting Old You are a very ignorant person for the comments that you have made. I am not a resident of your town but I live in the south, matter of fact I live in Mobile, Al. I understand that you feel like that African-American got it made, that mess is NOT TRUE AT ALL. I HAD TO AND IS STILL GOING THRU WHAT YOU HAD TO ENDURE TO GET HELP FROM THE GOVERNMENT. I APPLIED FOR FOOD STAMPS FOR MY CHILD AND I WHEN I WAS 18 AND I WAS NOT ABLE TO GET THEM UNTIL I WAS 22. MEANWHILE, I KNOW OTHER PEOPLE AFRICAN- AMERICAN AND WHITE (YEAH, I SAID WHITE) THAT WAS SAME AGE AS ME THAT WERE GETTING THEM. AND AS FAR AS HAVING YOUR AFRICAN- AMERICAN CASEWORKER THAT WERE RUDE, I HAVE HAD BOTH TO BE RUDE ACTING AS IF IT IS THEIRS TO GIVE AWAY. EVERY MAN THAT HAS CAR WITH RIMS AND BEATS AREN’T ALWAYS US!! WHITE BOYS ARE DOING IT TOO NOW!!! I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THERE BUT HERE IN MOBILE THERE IS JUST AS MANY IF NOT MORE WHITE FOLKS LIVING OFF THE SYSTEM THAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN. AND EVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN THAT IS LIVING OFF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE DOESN’T PLAN TO LIVE OFF OF IT FOR LIFE. IT IS JUST A BUILDING BLOCK TO THEIR FUTURE OF BEING INDEPENDENT OF THE SYSTEM AND OTHERS. I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN A LOT IN MY CITY.
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February 12th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
As a 19yr old white female living in Tupelo MS I know how wide spread racism is. I have seen it first hand. But its not everyone. Just because some people are like that doesnt mean everyone is. I have a lot of black friends. My best friend is a black lesbian and she is one of the best people I have ever met in my life. I call her “chocolate syrup” and she calls me “whip cream “…we are close as sisters. I actually know more black people who are racist against white people. I am not responsible for the actions of my ancestors My opinion is the past is the past…whether its was wrong or right, that doesnt matter. We are ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!! Whether you are black, white, red, yellow, brown, pink, blue, green, purple, orange or what ever, we are all AMERICANS!!! Put the past behind you and lets move forward as ONE PEOPLE!!
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March 1st, 2011 at 8:26 pm
OH GET OVER IT IT..ITS A PICTURE IF YOU DONT LIKE IT THEN GET THE FUCK OFF THE SITE. PEOPLE ARE SO FUCKING UP TIGHT.
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March 9th, 2011 at 11:19 am
Lady, Honestly whom ever did the killin was racist how can a person hang them selves and the object that they are hanging them selves with not even near the crime scene . Personally i think that who ever did it should be incarracerated for life but to the family you have my condolences sincerely a greenwood resident
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March 21st, 2011 at 11:10 am
what is the latest news on this case
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June 11th, 2011 at 12:25 am
The only problem I see is a waste of perfectly good rope.
Mississippi Madman
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June 11th, 2011 at 12:34 am
Ah I see they are stirring the Race Pot again. While I cannot (and willnot) divulge the police report that I have in my possession regarding this case, I WILL say it was determined that the victim suffered from MENTAL ILLNESS. Legally thats all I can and will say.
Not to worry,there wont be any “midnight rides” by the KKK or any one else. This wasnt a lynching as some of you are suggesting. It is a sad loss of life. It is nothing more than that. I live in Greenwood and worked 23 years at “The Farm” ( Mississippi State Prison for those that dont know)
While there is racism(on BOTH sides of the color line) lets not inject that into this forum. You are speculating and grabbing at straws as opposed to reading the factual matters of the case/investigation.
What bothers me the most about some people in Greenwood and other parts of MS is that they are altogether too quick to bust out the deck of race cards and point fingers WITHOUT getting all the facts.
Let the investigation run its course. If you dont like the outcome you can contact the FBI.But you HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CONCLUDED.
Calm Down people……….This wasnt a Klan kill.
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