Racists, Like Criminals, Come In All Colors

 The only thing missing from the cast of characters at the Black Pioneer Renaissance Organization meeting called (see Nexus 2/26.2008) to discuss the “facts” in the Frimpong rape case was Reverend Al.  Come on guys, if you are going to race-bait, at least call in the Pro from Dover.  Oh yeah, one other thing:  Perhaps it would be best to have someone present the “facts” who actually had the facts— say, someone who had actually attended the trial.

While one could argue that the meeting itself was a new low for both the African-American community and UCSB, I am sure that with a little more effort, new lows can be reached. 

According to the Nexus report, the event organizer, Chris Martin, said at the conclusion of the meeting that “the only positive solution to the current set of circumstances was a retrial of Frimpong.  Victory in my opinion is that justice is served,” Martin said. “If they prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is guilty, then he should be put beyond bars. Otherwise, he deserves his freedom.”  Martin, wake up and smell the bars.  Frimpong already had a trial—the jury found him “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”  There is a pending motion for a retrial, and Frimpong will have an appeal.  While Martin put out a bunch of clap-trap about just wanting to give students some “accurate information,”  it was clear that the agenda of the meeting was to trash the victims, the police, the courts, the DA, the jurors, and to rabble-rouse for a new trial for Frimpong.  In the mind of the BPRO, the victims, the cops, the DA, the judge, the jury, the jailers, and the medical experts are all racists and liars—nice, real nice.   

Why is it that groups like the BPRO can never find a black person who actually committed a crime?  Why is that these groups can never standup and demand justice for anyone who is the victim of a black criminal?  Perhaps if once, just once, they condemned a black person who committed a crime they would have some credibility.       

I guess that young Master Martin would just like to keep getting new trials for the rapist Frimpong until they can find one juror that they can intimidate into voting not guilty so that they can get a hung jury.  The UCSB community should be outraged at the treatment of rape victims.  Instead, UCSB ostracizes rape victims and support rapists—truly, a disgusting culture. 

The one bright spot of the evening was Carol Mosely, director of the Rape Prevention Education Program at UCSB, when she said she was present at the meeting to speak on behalf of rape victims too intimidated to represent themselves.  Ms. Mosely said, “The survivors in this case are having a difficult time on this campus and they are not feeling supported or believed,” Mosely said. “Survivors also don’t tell because they feel they will be blamed.”  

Thank you, Ms. Mosely, for being an ever so small breathe of fresh air in the putrid cesspool of the formerly great university known as UCSB.  However, I strongly advise you to hire an attorney who specializes in wrongful termination.  If you keep speaking out, UCSB will get rid of you.