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This is the corner of "Reverend Joseph E Boone Blvd" and Elm Street in Atlanta Georgia. The street is named after the civil rights leader Rev Joseph E Boone. When Rev Boone was alive he struggled for our community so that we might not have to wake up in the morning and read news report that a dead body was found, discarded in the underbrush like trash.
Rev Boone's name was hoisted upon the street signs of the old Simpson Road in Atlanta. The theory at the time was that the foundation for the transformation of this crime plagued community resided in stripping the names of "their long time oppressors" from the streets named after Confederate generals and replace them with civil rights heroes. I have no problem with the prevailing municipal establishment making such an imprint upon the domain that they now have control over.
I reserve the right to scrutinize the results of the plan. It is true that none of the honor guards who stood at the ribbon cutting ceremony a few years ago as the "portrait" was hoisted upon the telephone pole killed this Black woman who's body was thrown into the bushes. This is not about their direct actions this is scrutiny of their "gravitational pull" through symbolism and imagery. This is the latest Street Pirate attack upon a Black person in the community that is recognized as "the most deadly block in Atlanta" (Elm is about 4 blocks away from the intersection of Joseph E Lowery and Joseph E Boone - which has that formal title).
The real question that must be asked is:
Did the strategy of replacing the street signage in the community as a means of uplifting the spirits of the community and make it a "safe place" work?
I am not seeking to exploit the murder of this Black woman. Regardless of the circumstances she did not deserve to have her head and arms cut off and get thrown into the bushes. This incident outrages me as it does any other rational person looking in upon it. I also acknowledge that the people in the community feel terrorized and the Black women in particular are forced to live around murderous Street Pirates with an elevated amount of fear after seeing one of their own carved up and discarded.
My frustration comes in my observation that my "hands on human resource management to produce directed outcomes" strategy is seen as lacking compassion. Others who seek to apply yet another dose of the "inspire them and they will come" - inductive gravitational pull strategy appear less "hostile" to "Black interests" than my way. My rebuttal is: While a diet pill will aways be more attractive than an exercise program that has you waking up in pain in the morning - one depends upon unseen hope while the other requires directed actions and the endurance of pain. This pain is temporary and will dissipate once your body is used to the regiment.
I don't want to get lost on an apparent attack against my ideological adversaries. The true assailant here is the Street Pirate. The evaluation of the efficacy of our dueling strategy must be based upon the effectiveness in curbing "Street Pirate Attacks that terrorizing the Black Community" as such.
The bottom line of it all is: Street Pirates Don't Care About Portraits Hanging On The Wall. They use the name "Simpson Road" or "Rev Boone Blvd" as navigation aides for their vehicles. There is little guidance in these signs relative to their actions.
I challenge those that I so frequently engage in intellectual combat with to come up with a plan to get the Street Pirate who presently doesn't give a WHAT about our community and the standards within to change his behavior, becoming an asset rather than a liability who terrorizes the community.
I refuse to apply some notion of "intrinsic value" for a person who have no consciousness enough to extend it to others.
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AJC Story:
Police are trying to determine whether a dismembered body found Monday belongs to one of several missing Atlanta women.
Atlanta Police Maj. Keith Meadows confirmed at least two matches of missing women fitting the description of the body.
While Meadows told WSB Radio early Monday evening that those two women's ages were in the late 20s and early 30s, he later said the number of matches had grown.
"We have more than that now," Meadows told the AJC. "We have to go through the elimination process."
Cadaver dogs were searching the immediate area after the woman's body was discovered Monday afternoon.
Police discontinued the search around 6:30 p.m., but will return Tuesday to search through vacant homes in the area, Meadows said.
A woman cutting through a vacant lot at the corner of Elm Street and Joseph E. Boone Boulevard stumbled upon the naked female corpse that was missing its head and hands and wrapped in a comforter, Meadows said.
An autopsy will be performed on the body Tuesday morning by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office, but a spokesperson for the office said identification will be difficult without the head to gather dental records, or the hands pull finger prints.
The body was discovered at around 2:25 p.m. in the west Atlanta neighborhood known as the Bluffs.
"She didn't think it was a body at first," said Jamilah Garth, whose friend discovered the body. "So she went up to it and kicked it, and she said she just started screaming."
Investigators believe the woman was murdered elsewhere and dumped at the lot, Meadows told the AJC.
"It appears the body has been here a couple of days," he said. "It's never easy to work cases like this."
Garth said her friend had just left Garth's apartment when the body was found. The friend ran back to Garth's apartment after her discovery.
"The head ... the hands were just cut off," Garth said, repeating what she said her friend described. "Her arms ... they were laying there."
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