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The above link contains the words of the late great Hosea Williams, one of Dr King's lieutenants.
He can be heard detailing the conditions for Black people in Dekalb County Georgia back in the 1950s and 60s. During that time "White Racists" were the #1 threat to the public safety of Black people who had the audacity to think that they could walk the streets of Dekalb County, expressing their civil rights.
Today that "threat matrix" for Black people in Dekalb is as dated as the black and white vintage film that shows Blacks being brutalized every 3rd Monday in January and throughout the month of February. Today in Dekalb County Georgia the main threat to the safety and long life of a Black person is the Street Pirate who was produced in his own community. Unfortunately the assaults upon Blacks by the Street Pirate are not called "Civil Rights Violations" and thus won't ever trigger the same response as is the case when external murderers generate business for the undertakers.
Fast forward about 55 years after Hosea Williams' account about Dekalb County and today we see an "Mission Accomplished" environment that serves as the setting for the A&E series "The First 48 Hours" because of the abundance of homicides there. Of course the leadership of the county were disturbed about having their dirty laundry exposed in such a way on national television. They believed that it showed the county in a bad light and rebuked the police chief for agreeing to allow filming.
Sadly their reluctance to allow an outside view of the presence of "dead Black people" won't be seen as the same protectionism of the status quo that the people who used to occupy the same seats of power during the Civil Rights Era. The key similarity is that Black people remain as disproportionate murder victims in this area of the nation. The key distinction is that the people in power during this higher than normal rates of murder are not called "racists" today and these murders are not called 'Civil Rights Violations".
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From The Article
DeKalb police were investigating a drive-by shooting that left a 20-year-old Stone Mountain man dead in the street near his home
When police arrived at the scene late Friday on Lake Watch Drive in the Mainstreet Park area, a short distance from South Hairston Road, they found Keith Vaughn with multiple gunshot wounds.
According to Channel 2 Action News, witnesses said the man was walking when a dark-colored Buick drove by slowly. Occupants in the vehicle fired numerous rounds before fleeing, the witnesses said.
Michelle Jackson, the victim's aunt, said Vaughn lived a short distance from where he was killed. "It's not right," Jackson told Channel 2.
One of Vaughn's friend said the victim didn't have "a beef "with anyone. "He just always kept calm," Jennifer Poston said.
At least one of the six shots neighbors said they heard went into a nearby house.
Jordan Richburg, 12, told Channel 2 he was watching TV with a cousin when a bullet came through his garage and hit a picture hanging on a wall.
"That's when that shattered and then we just like crawled out and then went upstairs," Jordan said."[I] could have gotten shot, but God let me see another day."
Family members urged the killers to come forward.
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