The Black Man Did It

Believe it or not, yet another -- "A Black Man Did It" story recently surfaced in the media. Have you gotten to the point that every time you hear a negative news story you ask the question, "Is he/she black?" Last week, yet another "A Black Man Did It" story was widely published in the media. This time a white mother from Philadelphia said two black men abducted her and her young daughter. The mother said the black men had thrown them into the trunk of a black Cadillac. Wonder why her story wasn't more thoroughly checked out before a national media blitz hit the air waves? Why are we all so quick to believe these kinds of accusations? It was all a hoax. This heifer was later found laid up in a luxury hotel at Disney World. Can you believe that! I am so sick and tired of black men being portrayed as violent, aggressive, angry, sex-crazed animals. Enough is enough! Black women go missing all the time and you never see the same media hoopla as when a white woman goes missing or says she was attacked by a crazed, big, bad black man. Remember the Susan Smith case back in 1994. She claimed a black man abducted her two young boys. When that story was unraveled, the police found that this heifer drove her car into a river with her two sleeping babies in the back seat. Think of the countless black men who were questioned and harassed during that case. Remember Charles Stuart from Boston, who in 1989 claimed a black man killed his wife? The Boston police arrested a black man in this case and coerced him to admit to the crime. Later, it was discovered that Stuart had murdered his wife for profit. I guess it was too much to hope for that the attitudes about black men would change with the historical election of the country's first black president. We really are slow to change, aren't we?