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Racists Who Raped and Tortured Black Woman Won't Be Charged With Hate Crimes
September 20, 2007 |
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This post, written by Malena Amusa, originally appeared on Race Wire
A friend warned me this news would be more disturbing than Jena 6-- the sad tale of six Black boys unethically charged in Louisiana after beating up a white student behind a noose-hanging.
This story is about the group of six white men and women in West Virginia who held a 20-year-old Black woman captive, and for a week, subjected her to gang rape, stabbings, torture and psychological abuse.
As if the case isn't shocking enough, what's also stunning is the authorities won't pursue hate crime charges in the case. Despite strong evidence suggesting just the opposite.
Malena Amusa is the Communications Associate at the Applied Research Center and co-editor of RaceWire.org. She has written community profiles and feature stories highlighting people of color for some of the largest newspapers in the world. In the spring of 2006, Malena earned her bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism from Northwestern University.
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