03/01/2007
Detroit VIPs Silent on Gay Senior Andrew Anthos' Murder
The reaction to the cold-blooded hate killing of Detroit gay senior Andrew Anthos has been pathetic at best:
"It has been 16 days since someone killed Andrew Anthos, a 72-year-old openly gay man, by beating him with a pipe. Before and after the beating, the killer shouted anti-gay slurs. In 16 days, only one person with any sort of a well-known name in southeast Michigan has stepped forward to say it is wrong to beat a 72-year-old man to death with a pipe because he is gay."
Sen. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit, pictured) has been the only public official to come forward. He said: "It’s so sad and tragic. I can see why an elected official may not want to be involved."
Columnist Bill McGraw asks: "Is the high-level silence here because Anthos was gay, or is it because everyone has grown immune to metro Detroit’s never-ending mayhem? Last week, a 13-year-old and 11-year-old were shot and killed, execution-style, in a Detroit dope house. Public officials mostly have remained silent on that outrage, too."
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Gay Senior Citizen Brutally Beaten in Detroit Hate Attack Dies [tr]
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Joe T:
If black criminals continued to kill white folks for the next 3000 years they could never match the number of black folks murdered by whites over last 300. But that's not something that Americans (including Barack Obama) really want to talk about, and so let's not.
It is something how Michigan politicians haven't spoken out on this crime, a crime that's representative of what's happening to gay people all over this world. Because we defined ourselves as "gay" over the last forty years, we've become targets of political murder-- yeah, not just regular murder, but murder that's meant as an attack on the entire gay population.
Funny, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan had such harsh words against President Carter for telling the truth about the Palestinians' plight, but he doesn't open his whorish mouth on this injustice in his hometown.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Mar 2, 2007 11:24:58 AM
"But when guys like you and JSC argue things the other way, that the Duke guys should be prosecuted because of crimes against blacks..."
Joe, where in my coments do I make that argument?
Posted by: soulbrotha | Mar 2, 2007 11:47:39 AM
@Joe
I had this debate about statistics with someone on here before. I had found a site by a social scientist that debunked statistics because they are more often than not skewed to the beliefs or agenda of those putting them together. I couldn't find that site, but here is an interesting excerpt from Wikipedia:
The use of any statistical method is valid only when the system or population under consideration satisfies the basic mathematical assumptions of the method. Misuse of statistics can produce subtle but serious errors in description and interpretation — subtle in that even experienced professionals sometimes make such errors, and serious in that they may affect social policy, medical practice and the reliability of structures such as bridges and nuclear power plants.
Even when statistics is correctly applied, the results can be difficult to interpret for a non-expert. For example, the statistical significance of a trend in the data — which measures the extent to which the trend could be caused by random variation in the sample — may not agree with one's intuitive sense of its significance.
I refuse to make assumptions and generaliztions about Black-on-Black vs. Black-on-White crime. So although I won't "shoot the messenger", I will ask the messenger to stop making assumptions and grand pronouncements and show me the proof.
And personally I don't thing that media coverage of crime and race is open for debate. What I said holds true.
Posted by: soulbrotha | Mar 2, 2007 12:20:40 PM