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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Isn’t A Possible Lynching in NC National News?
Thu Nov 20, 2014 at 07:34 PM PST
Updated: Why Isnt A Possible Lynching in NC National News?
by ExpatGirl
Lennon Lacy was a 17 year old African American high school student whose body was found hanging from a childrens swing set in a largely white mobile home park in rural North Carolina less than two months ago. The local police declared his death a suicide within nine hours of finding his body despite the fact that the shoes on his feet were not his own and were two sizes too small, despite his parents saying that conclusion couldnt be right and despite the fact that locals in the small, rural town he lived in have alluded that his death might have been a hate crime. Lennon Lacy, a 17 year old African American high school student, was found hanging by the neck in a largely white trailer park and local police closed the case on the possibility that he was lynched before performing any investigation. Why don't more people know about this?
Lennons family wants a federal investigation. The NAACP has asked for a federal investigation saying we believed there was a good possibility of a race-based homicide and possible law-enforcement involvement in the decision to provide the State Medical Examiner with their conclusion that this was a suicide before any real investigation of a possible homicide had been undertaken.
I wrote a diary about this yesterday. The title was provocative and specifically mentioned lynching. More people cared about a fire chief using the N-word. I find that shameful. I will keep writing about Lennon Lacy and the need for a federal investigation every.single.day until this community knows his name and why a federal investigation is important.
My diary from yesterday appears below. Whether or not you read it, please join me in pushing for a federal investigation into the possible murder by lynching of this child.
more...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346362/-Why-Isn-t-A-Possible-Lynching-in-NC-National-News?detail=facebook#
BumRushDaShow
(130,379 posts)nationwide and they are suppressed, ignored, covered up, whitewashed, and forgotten.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)is a considerable undercurrent of violence and horrific acts that are covered up that the light of day never reaches. And often masked by those whom one would think would have the integrity and responsibility to clean up the transgressions, but often they are part of the problem.
raging moderate
(4,323 posts)Lennon Lacy looks like such a fine young man!
What a loss to the world!
annominous
(68 posts)They don't care about covering news, I mean. They need to entertain us and make a profit, but they are not required to tell us the truth about what is happening in the world or even in our own backyards.
http://www.librarygrape.com/2009/06/court-fox-news-has-first-amendment.html
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Blue State Bandit
(2,122 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)If it's allowed to happen to 'other folks' kids, it won't happen to your own?
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)We have entertainment companies that compete for ratings and advertising dollars.
We haven't have real news in decades.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Kim Kardashians ass....
It never fails to shock me when I go out of the country and tune into actual news. Many who don't get that opportunity have no idea how bad it's gotten..
I have still yet to see any news here about the Recession that has been hitting Japan..
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Most of it by Reverend Barber, who has my total respect. See the connections... What has gone on there... IMO, it's NOT suicide.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)Sickening
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Mr. Holder, do not fail us.
Heidi
(58,237 posts)bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)I'm sorry to say this is the first I've heard of this particular incident - such horror everywhere, who can keep up?
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Where was the push back from Democrats? Did I miss it?
imho, we must begin the herculean task of passing an amendment to our Constitution that will give members of both houses term limits.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)many years? As to limited number of terms - my legislator is excellent. Why should I want him to leave just because someone else does?
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)people run for congress by assholes all the time. Why would I want my good congress person to quit after so many years if he/she has been good enough to continue to win and is representing us the way we want him/her to do? Why would I want to take the risk of some teabagger winning because some billionaire buy the election. When I already have someone who is looking out for the greater good.
By the way, I have Al Franken in mind.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)if it is a lynching.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Teenager's mysterious death evokes painful imagery in North Carolina: 'It's in the DNA of America'
Ed Pilkington in Bladenboro
Thursday 9 October 2014 12.54 EDT
Friday 29 August was a big day for Lennon Lacy. His high school football team, the West Bladen Knights, were taking on the West Columbus Vikings and Lacy, 17, was determined to make his mark. Hed been training all summer for the start of the season, running up and down the bleachers at the school stadium wearing a 65lb exercise jacket. Whenever his mother could afford it, he borrowed $7 and spent the day working out at the Bladenboro gym, building himself up to more than 200lbs. As for the future, he had it all planned out: this year hed become a starting linebacker on the varsity team, next year hed earn a scholarship to play football in college, and four years after that hed achieve the dream hed harboured since he was a child to make it in the NFL.
He was real excited, said his Knights team-mate Anthony White, also 17, recalling the days leading up to the game. He said he was looking forward to doing good in the game.
The night before the game, Lacy did what he always did: he washed and laid out his football clothes in a neat row. He was a meticulous, friendly kid who made a point of always greeting people and asking them how they were doing. Everybody in his neighbourhood appears to have a story about how he would make a beeline to shake their hand, or offer to help them out by moving furniture or anything else that needed doing. He was in the best sense a good kid, said his pastor, Barry Galyean.
His brother, Pierre Lacy, said that football was the constant that ran through Lennons life since he started out as a Pee Wee: He was very serious about being a professional, very passionate about it. He never changed his mind or wavered from the course.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/09/-sp-north-carolina-teenager-suspicious-death-lennon-lacy?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
jwirr
(39,215 posts)shoes? 2 sizes too little? What does everyone make of that? How did that happen?
B2G
(9,766 posts)No way this kid killed himself.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)laying around thinking they were his? This point does not seem to have an explanation. You can murder someone without changing his shoes.
B2G
(9,766 posts)He was dating a white 31 year old woman who was recently divorced. LEO hasn't even interviewed her ex.
They should have STARTED with him.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)No sure where you get that idea. I am interested what the significance of the shoes is to the case. And yes someone should have interviewed the ex. I wasn't disputing that either.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Just wanted to make sure you saw the article.
I agree, the shoes are weird. I could see kids taking them, but not replacing them with another pair. Find the owner of the shoes and you'll probably find the killer.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)their hurry they grabbed any pair of shoes they could find. I also think it was not JUST the ex. The young man was strong and big it would probably have taken more than one to do this.
Horrible crime and once more another cover up. This has got to stop.
B2G
(9,766 posts)His father saw him and told him to go to bed...then heard him go outside around midnight. They found him at 7:30 the next morning.
I think this indicates someone called or texted him and he went outside to meet them. I certainly hoped they checked his cellphone records.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Spazito
(50,708 posts)Hopefully this tragedy will begin to be covered by more media, it certainly deserves investigation.
arthritisR_US
(7,303 posts)my PVR of her show today.
Spazito
(50,708 posts)it was very informative and she ended the segment stating she will continue to watch and see if there are changes re investigation.
arthritisR_US
(7,303 posts)when she mentioned the case in her opening monologue, I'm really looking forward to hearing her reporting on it!
I sure hope Rev Al gets on this case as well.
Spazito
(50,708 posts)of this case which, imo, is sorely needed from what I have read and heard on this.
arthritisR_US
(7,303 posts)about this case. Each new link a new email so that his inbox screams at him about this lad. I'm with you, if anyone can wake the public and the media up about this, it's Al!
arthritisR_US
(7,303 posts)first I am hearing about this. I am thankful that this is on your radar and that you will be continuing exposure until the truth is found and reported! I think Rev Al's inbox should be inundated with material concerning this case.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)about this or read about it in the papers.
He was just a kid... for pete's sake....
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)America's Terrorists
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)read the article yesterday - and nothing from my initial awareness has worn off. in fact, it has intensified. unfuck america!
it is up to each one of us to walk the talk and teach our children well. how much more of this shit can we stomach? this may be a job for anonymous (as are all of those involve in the coverups of the michael brown murder and that of the beaten man with bipolar disorder). but, the rest of us better step up and stop the hate (now!) because it continues to get uglier and uglier. no place to raise a family of color or mixed heritage.
i am older and have done my share of standing for non violence for civil rights, the environment, and many other human rights issues. i am only one person and can't even stand for more than 10 minutes (i take my chair to demonstrations) - but, we must continue doing what we can to stop this shit.
thank you for the post, babylonsister. you are so right.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)dating an older woman who was white. Surely pissed a lot of the good old boys off. Yes, they still try to intimidate black men with white women. Smaller shoes than his feet, they just put some on wherever they carried him after kidnapping him. It was dating the woman that got him killed. Guaranteed. Not post racial in that trailer park, "largely white" trailer park. Man this shit is just like the 50's. Emmett Till was murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Mississippi. I remember my parents talking about those "crackers" that killed that boy in Mississippi.
With the last six years bringing out decades of barely suppressed virulent white racism, this murder, among MANY recently, is not something that will be tolerated for too much longer, methinks. Truthout.com had a good one on white racism today.
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