House Party

WARNING: Although it is not my intent to just flat out and insult anyone, some people may find this article extremely offensive. If merely the suggestion of behavior that people with a white mindset may find disgusting is enough to offend you, then may I suggest you stop reading now and move on. However, if you are intelligent enough to keep the message of this article in its proper context and read it completely to its end, then welcome.

When Martin Lee Anderson was murdered by the seven guards and a nurse at the Panama City, Florida boot camp I was taken aback by the number of painfully insensitive comments coming from people in the white community. The cover up that ensued after his murder started with the county coroner attributing his death to a latent sickle cell trait despite the fact that the guards were seen on video standing around Mr. Anderson and beating him. The guards even confessed to shoving ammonia tablets up his nose and holding his mouth shut in order to suffocate the young man and gain his compliance.

But what was more troubling was the fact that so many people with a white mindset were actually celebrating because the juvenile judicial system had taken another one of our black children out of the picture before he had the opportunity to become another thug terrorizing America. So many good white people are so afraid of Mr. Anderson and the potential trouble from “his kind” that the emerging thought process can be summed up as any time a black child is killed society should rejoice. One good white Christian said that they prayed for Martin Anderson’s soul to be redeemed from his evil ways so that he can get into heaven, but they still considered his death a good start for something positive for our national community.

It’s no longer enough for white mindsets that our black youth are given a separate and less than equal sorry form of American public education. It is no longer enough that our black children have a greater chance to be impoverished and grow up in single family homes. It is no longer enough that black children receive less than adequate medical care. White people in America now party when black children are wrongfully killed by a system that refuses to have compassion for the black community.

In the early morning hours of Sunday, October 28th, seven college students were killed in a massive house fire in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina. Six of the students went to the University of South Carolina while the seventh is said to be a student form Clemson University. According to the news reports one of the students who lost their life was related to the owner of the home. Six other students were treated for burn injuries. Reportedly, the students were affiliated with the Delta Delta Delta sorority or the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Ocean Isle Beach is a popular resort area along the Atlantic coast. The daily population of the island town is only four hundred, but it will swell to twenty five thousand at the peak of the tourist and vacation season. The area sounds very affluent and disassociated from the black community. In fact I’m willing to bet that this community is the type with people who are more likely to overlook people in the black community and to celebrate the death of our children.

What if people in the black community actually celebrated the death of these young white people? After all, these kids sound like the type of people who would graduate from college and go on to be managers and executives in corporate America. Chances are these students would have been the type of people that would have been more comfortable around their white mindset peers and would have little incentive for helping people in the black community. Sure it might be true that some of their best friends are black. But would they or their so called black friends lift their fingers to help the black community? If these students made it to their management positions would they compound the problems of the black community by excluding black people?

Or maybe these students would have gone into politics and helped pass the laws that would make the observance of racial conditions in a school or place of employment some form of hate crime. The law could be designed to say anybody who would dare mention the disparity in racial communities would be a criminal. Or these students would become the judges and law enforcement personnel that would work diligently to keep low life black people in their place. Or maybe they’ll just become boot camp guards and nurses and work to alleviate the social problems of America by activating black people’s latent sickle cell trait by suffocation.

With so much racist potential from these students and “their kind” the black community should be in fear just like white people were in fear from Martin Anderson and “his kind”. And just like white people whooped it up when Martin Anderson was killed and his murderers were exonerated maybe black people can celebrate the death of these white young adults. After all, we don’t know what kind of damage these people were going to do to the black community. There’s just too much at risk here. But if it is any consolation to the white community black people could pray for their potentially racist souls to be redeemed so they can go to heaven. And just like so many white people called for more boot camps and more guards so that more black kids can have their sickle cell activated with the business end of a baton maybe the black community can call for more fires in affluent houses full of rich drunk white kids.

There is little doubt that people would find the celebration of the loss of life in the Ocean Isle Beach house fire reprehensible. A lot of people can identify with the loss of a white American life. People will have compassion for the grieving families. There is no doubt somebody is going to be offended over my fictional suggestion even with my disclaimer. But day in and day out people in the black community have to deal with white mindset insensitivity from people who hate black people so much that they call for our murder and our exclusion from mainstream America and there is nothing fictitious about them. If someone is offended by just the suggestion of black people having a party at the expense of seven white young adults who lost their lives then hopefully this will give pause the next time someone feels the need to voice their gratification over the loss of another young black person.