I know I should be bothered; but unfortunately, I think I have now become too desensitized to the issue at hand to really shed a tear. Recently there has been an upsurge of brothers who are just really loosing it. I mean they are really hitting that nihilism switch with authority. It’s as though their perception--and really the only thing that separates their perceptions from ours is fate and destiny--has become warped by a lack self worth or self efficacy. I think Terrance makes a salient point regarding his argument for undesirables and the caste system that swells beneath our
façade called democracy, liberty and the American dream.
What is interesting--maybe a better choice of words here is devestating, is that our HBCUs at the Undergraduate level at least, contribute to the ill development of the current student. The end
effect: the student pays the grave price. Professors are paid the negro rate for their efforts and the students become shortchanged. Hence, no longer is the HBCU producing critical and analytical thinkers, but instead the graduates are operatives or mindless drones for a neo conservative economic power base. They are eager to take their place in a workforce that a) robs them of their character, b) kills their spirit, and c) obliterates their sense of agency: all in the name of the all mighty Benjamin. We in essence have lost our way and have forgotten how to be the captains of our souls.
This tragedy, in my opinion, supports my theory to some degree. Mind you I am not saying this is the case 100% of the time, but episodes like these are happening more and more frequently from those of us college educated Negros who feel trapped, alienated, and deluged by systems and structures-- not designed by us, but yet contain and to some degree re-enslave us......
And this concludes yet another Russell Robinson Sociological Commentary..
-- All to be included in my book-- My life and times with white folks.
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From: Sistrumatic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sistrumatic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of T Garrison
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:33 PM
To: Sistrumatic@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Sistrumatic] Morehouse
"ain't no tellin". I have an associate, the son of a world famous jazz vocalist, who was SHOT while a student AT Morehouse on Morehouses campus. The campus ain't exacly in the country club so there is ample opportunity for "undesirables" to mix with the students.
Folks on the list will attack me (or at least they should); but the fact of the matter is that many of the HBCU's are in the business of educating some of these "undesirables".
It's clear that in 2006 in America, we are heading towards a caste system. If these dudes are guilty of the crimes with which they are charged, this is a warning sign that we need to make the likes of Snoop Dog and pooky (see street corner on Monday at 11:00 AM-with
Cisco) untouchables.
I'm bothered by the fact that these are all black men.
I can't type all I want, because listserve comments are archived and searchable on the internet by potential employers...
>From: "nemwa dimka"
>Reply-To: Sistrumatic@yahoogroups.com
>To: Sistrumatic@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [Sistrumatic] Morehouse
>Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:57:58 +0000
>
>its sickening, soo disheartening and look at their ages! it always
>floors me more, for some reason, when the perpetrators are young and
>sick like this.
>is there any info on the characters involved? i.e. the ex-students:
>what were they doing with their lives prior to this?..
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: ccoy
>Reply-To: Sistrumatic@yahoogroups.com
>To: sistrumatic@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Snipes
>
>Cousin Bonnie
>Hans Etienne
>Griffin
>Subject: [Sistrumatic] Morehouse
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Just as I have been singing the praises of 600 brothers graduating from
>Morehouse in June, we get this:
>
> Police Seek 4th Suspect in Killing of Morehouse Student By Ashley
>Hindsman Black College Wire
> Photo credit: Family photo Carlnell Walker was
>tortured before his death.
> While slain Morehouse student Carlnell James Walker Jr. was being
>buried in his hometown of Richmond, Calif., on July 21, police in
>Atlanta held a news conference announcing the arrests of three suspects
>in the killing of the sophomore business major.
> One current and two former Morehouse students were arrested and
>charged in Walker's slaying, while police said a fourth suspect, a
>non-student in his 30s identified as Theodore Paul Holliman, also known
>as Rahim Muhammad, remains at large.
> Theodore Paul Holliman Clayton County, Ga., Police Capt.
>Chris Butler said Walker, 23, was killed over $3,000 in insurance money
>he was anticipating as an accident settlement. He had yet to receive
>the money, Butler said at the news conference.
> Breylon Wendell Garland
> Walker was tortured and beaten in his home in Riverdale, an
>Atlanta suburb, police said, as his attackers tried to get him to say
>where the money was hidden. They poured a flammable liquid over him
>after he was bound and gagged, beaten, stomped, stabbed and left for
>dead in the trunk of his car, which was parked in the garage, they
>said. The date of the killing was unknown.
> Walker's decayed body was found on July 8 after his mother called
>Atlanta police saying she had not heard from her son in two weeks. Her
>name and location were not released.
> Miles Jonathan Allen
> The suspects "got away with about 20 bucks," Butler said.
> Three of the suspects, Breylon Wendell Garland of College Park,
>Ga., 20, Miles Jonathan Allen of Atlanta, 21, and Keith Jerome Roberts
>Jr., 22, also of Atlanta, were arrested over three days. Allen is a
>current student; Garland and Roberts are former students.
> Kevin Rome, Morehouse vice president of student affairs, said at
>the news conference, "This is very unusual, atypical of Morehouse
>College and its students."
> Keith Jerome Roberts Jr.
> "We are in mourning with the family, and we are grieving with the
>family," he said.
> Campus police tightened security in an effort to protect students
>and to find the fourth suspect.
> Walker was described by close friends as being deep into his
>studies and a rap-music fan who dreamed of becoming a music producer.
>The three in custody are charged with murder, aggravated assault,
>aggravated battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment. They are being
>held without bond in Clayton County jail, awaiting a preliminary
>hearing that has yet to be scheduled, the Clayton County captain said.
>
