Thursday, July 07, 2005
Where's Al?
On Wednesday, June 29, 2005, a black man from East New York, Brooklyn went to a neighboring community, Howard Beach, Queens, to steal a car. He was confronted by two white men who allegedly beat him with a baseball bat and told him: "That's what you get when you rob a white boy." One of the white men stated that they acted in self defense because the black man held a screwdriver to his neck.
Needless to say, Al Sharpton, in all his glory, was outraged at this bias incident and went so far as to retrace the black man's steps on that fateful night.
On the same day, Concetta Russo-Caffiero returned to her car parked in a White Plains, NY mall parking lot and was brutally killed by Phillip Grant, a homeless man and convicted rapist. In a videotaped confession, Grant stated: "I never seen her before, and I didn't care. As long as she had blond hair and blue eyes, she had to die. I want the death penalty. I want to die. But I wanted to kill somebody white first."
What I want to know is: Where is the outrage? Where is Al Sharpton to protest a bias attack, a hate crime against an innocent victim? Why hasn't a single prominent public figure spoken out against this heinous crime?
Needless to say, Al Sharpton, in all his glory, was outraged at this bias incident and went so far as to retrace the black man's steps on that fateful night.
On the same day, Concetta Russo-Caffiero returned to her car parked in a White Plains, NY mall parking lot and was brutally killed by Phillip Grant, a homeless man and convicted rapist. In a videotaped confession, Grant stated: "I never seen her before, and I didn't care. As long as she had blond hair and blue eyes, she had to die. I want the death penalty. I want to die. But I wanted to kill somebody white first."
What I want to know is: Where is the outrage? Where is Al Sharpton to protest a bias attack, a hate crime against an innocent victim? Why hasn't a single prominent public figure spoken out against this heinous crime?
