What Is The Cause Of The Recent Spike In Party/Bar Shootings In Georgia?

From The Local Headlines On December 27, 2010

• East Point GA - Long Running Dispute Cause Of "Central Station Shooting"
• Savannah GA - Shooting At Teen Dance Club

In The Past Two Months:

• Dec 7 - Lamar County GA - Party Chrasers Shoot Gordon College Student In Face w/ Shot Gun
• Nov 15 - Conyers GA - Mother Loses Second Son To Murder In Less Than A Year - The Fatal Teen Party 
• Nov 8 - Douglassville GA - College Student Bobby Tillman Murdered After Bone From Chest Stomping Impails His Heart

With all due respect, and not to make light of ANY of these murders - As I listened to a local radio show on Friday night as they talked about Frederick Jermaine Carter, the young Black male who was found hanging in Mississippi they went on to list the names of:

• Emmiet Till as having been murdered near (1955)
• Cheney Goodman and Schwerner (1964)

From these past indictments as to the compromised integrity of the officials in Mississippi the commentator suggested that we not believe the official classification of the death as a suicide.

I am going to allow the multitude of people who will involve themselves in the Frederick Jermaine Carter case to do their thing and not leave any stone unturned.

As the forces in Metro Atlanta for civil rights and social justice have their collective attention focused upon the "Strange Fruit" that was found in Mississippi - 374 miles to the west - I plan to keep my eye on the bumper crop of "Strange berries" that seem to be found closer to the ground in the places that have been vacated per this westward focus. 

It seems that while these "Strange berries" bleed red when they are squeeze - they don't prove to be as succulent as the "Strange Fruit" that is found in trees. 

While these Metro-Atlanta civil rights activists have mastered the technique for harvesting"Strange Fruit" from the trees - these "Strange Berries" that are found growing abundantly in their home communities have THORNS that prick them and cause them the great pain of "SELF INDICTMENT". 

The "Strange Fruit" and the "Strange Berries" have one thing in common:  They were both fertilized by the mindset that possessed great IGNORANCE and HATRED.   Each also festered in a community eco-system that provided complict protectionism from the time that they were seedlings.

The last and most shameful common denominator is that in both cases it is a BLACK MAN'S LIFELESS BODY that these fruits and berries are shaped like.




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