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mississippi soil on june 26 2011 four days short of his 49th birthday the blood of james anderson was added to mississippi s soil the common denominator of the deaths of these individuals was not their race it was not that they all were engaged in freedom fighting it was not that they had been engaged in criminal activity trumped up or otherwise no the common denominator was that the last thing that each of these individuals saw was the inhumanity of racism the last thing that each felt was the audacity and agony of hate senseless hate crippling maiming them and finally taking away their lives mississippi has a tortured past and it has struggled mightily to reinvent itself and become a new mississippi new generations have attempted to pull mississippi from the abyss of moral depravity in which it once so proudly floundered in despite much progress and the efforts of the new generations these three defendants are before me today deryl paul dedmon dylan wade butler and john aaron rice they and their coconspirators ripped off the scab of the healing scars of mississippi causing her our mississippi to bleed again hate comes in all shapes sizes colors and from this case we know it comes in different sexes and ages a toxic mix of alcohol foolishness and unadulterated hatred caused these young people to resurrect the nightmarish specter of lynchings and lynch mobs from the mississippi we long to forget like the marauders of ages past these young folk conspired planned and coordinated a plan of attack on certain neighborhoods in the city of jackson for the sole purpose of harassing terrorizing physically assaulting and causing bodily injury to black folk they punched and kicked them about their bodies their heads their faces they prowled they came ready to hurt they used dangerous weapons they targeted the weak they recruited and encouraged others to join in the coordinated chaos and they boasted about their shameful activity this was a 2011 version of the nigger hunts though the media and the public attention of these crimes have been focused almost exclusively on the early morning hours of june 26 2011 the defendants terror campaign is not limited to this one incident there were many scenes and many actors in this sordid tale which played out over days weeks and months there are unknown victims like the john doe at the golf course who begged for his life and the john doe at the service station like a lynching for these young folk going out to jafrica was like a carnival outing it was funny to them an excursion which culminated in the death of innocent african american james craig anderson on june 26 2011 the fun ended but even after anderson s murder the conspiracy continued and only because of a video which told a different story from that which had been concocted by these defendants and the investigation of law enforcement state and federal law enforcement working together was the truth uncovered what is so disturbing so shocking so numbing is that these nigger hunts were perpetrated by our children students who live among us educated in our public schools in our private academies students who played football lined up on the same side of scrimmage line with black teammates average students and honor students kids who worked during school and in the summers kids who now had full time jobs and some of whom were even unemployed some were pursuing higher education and the court believes they each had dreams to pursue these children were from two parent homes and some of whom were the children of divorced parents and yes some even raised by a single parent no doubt they all had loving parents and loving families in letters received on his behalf dylan butler whose outing on the night of june 26 was not his first has been described as a fine young man a caring person a well mannered man who is truly remorseful and wants to move on with his life a very respectful a good man a good person a loveable kind hearted teddy bear who stands in front of bullies and who is now ashamed of what he did butler s family is a mixed race family for the last 15 years it has consisted of an african american step father and step sister plus his mother and two sisters the family according to the step father understandably is saddened and heart broken these were everyday students like john aaron rice who got out of his truck struck james anderson in the face and kept him occupied until others arrived rice was involved in multiple excursions to so called jafrica but he for some time according to him and his mother and an african american friend shared his home address and sadly deryl dedmon who straddled james anderson and struck him repeatedly in the face and head with his closed fists he too was a normal young man indistinguishable in so many ways from his peers not completely satisfied with the punishment to which he subjected james anderson he deliberately used his vehicle to run over james anderson killing him dedmon now acknowledges he was filled with anger i asked the question earlier but what could transform these young adults into the violent creatures their victims saw it was nothing the victims did they were not championing any cause political social economic nothing they did not a wolf whistle not a supposed crime nothing they did there is absolutely no doubt that in the view of the court the victims were targeted because of their race the simple fact is that what turned these children into criminal defendants was their joint decision to act on racial hatred in the eyes of these defendants and their coconspirators the victims were doomed at birth their genetic make up made them targets in the name of white power these young folk went to jafrica to fuck with some niggers echos of mississippi s past white power nigger according to the fifth circuit court of appeals that word nigger is the universally recognized opprobrium stigmatizing african americans because of their race it s the nuclear bomb of racial epithets as farai chideya has described the term with their words with their actions i just ran that nigger over there is no doubt that these crimes were motivated by the race of the victims and from his own pen dedmon sadly and regretfully wrote that he did it out of hatred and bigotry the court must respond to one letter it received from one identified as a youth leader in dylan butler s church a mentor he says and who describes dylan as a good person the point that t here are plenty of criminals that deserve to be incarcerated is well taken your point that dylan is not one of them not a criminal is belied by the facts and the law dylan was an active participant in this activity and he deserves to be incarcerated under the law what these defendants did was ugly it was painful it is sad and it is indeed criminal in the mississippi we have tried to bury when there was a jury verdict for those who perpetrated crimes and committed lynchings in the name of white power that verdict typically said that the victim died at the hands of persons unknown the legal and criminal justice system operated with ruthless efficiency in upholding what these defendants would call white power today though the criminal justice system state and federal has proceeded methodically patiently and deliberately seeking justice today we learned the identities of the persons unknown they stand here publicly today the sadness of this day also has an element of irony to it each defendant was escorted into court by agents of an african american united states marshal having been prosecuted by a team of lawyers which includes an african american ausa from an office headed by an african american u s attorney all under the direction of an african american attorney general for sentencing before a judge who is african american whose final act will be to turn over the care and custody of these individuals to the bop an agency headed by an african american today we take another step away from mississippi s tortured past we move farther away from the abyss indeed mississippi is a place and a state of mind and those who think they know about her people and her past will also understand that her story has not been completely written mississippi has a present and a future that present and future has promise as demonstrated by the work of the officers within these state and federal agencies black and white male and female in this mississippi they work together to advance the rule of law having learned from mississippi s inglorious past these officials know that in advancing the rule of law the criminal justice system must operate without regard to race creed or color this is the strongest way mississippi can reject those notions those ideas which brought us here today at their guilty plea hearings deryl paul dedmon dylan wade butler and john aaron rice told the world exactly what their roles were it is ugly it is painful it is sad it is criminal the court now sentences the defendants as follows the specific sentences are not part of the judge s prepared remarks the court has considered the advisory guidelines computations and the sentencing factors under 18 u s c 3553 a the court has considered the defendants history and characteristics the court has also considered unusual circumstances the extraordinary circumstances and the peculiar seriousness and gravity of those offenses i have paid special attention to the plea agreements and the recommendations of the united states i have read the letters received on behalf of the defendants i believe these sentences provide just punishment to each of these defendants and equally important i believe they serve as adequate deterrence to others and i hope that these sentences will discourage others from heading down a similar life altering path i have considered the sentencing guidelines and the policy statements and the law these sentences are the result of much thought and deliberation these sentences will not bring back james craig anderson nor will they restore the lives they enjoyed prior to 2011 the court knows that james anderson s mother who is now 89 years old lived through the horrors of the old mississippi and the court hopes that she and her family can find peace in knowing that with these sentences in the new mississippi justice is truly blind justice however will not be complete unless these defendants use the remainder of their lives to learn from this experience and fully commit to making a positive difference in the new mississippi and finally the court wishes that the defendants also can find peace hands up don t shoot 23 tuesday dec 2014 posted by asabagna in afrospear afrosphere eric garner ferguson genocide john crawford iii kajieme powell michael brown tamir rice tayvon martin white supremacy ideology leave a comment cornel west on bbc hardtalk 13 saturday dec 2014 posted by asabagna in afrospear afrosphere barack obama bbc hardtalk cornel west exploitation justice knowledge white supremacy ideology leave a comment when i grow up i want to be like cornel west the whiteness project 15 wednesday oct 2014 posted by asabagna in afrospear afrosphere critical thinking white privilege white supremacy ideology 2 comments interesting commentary click on image below to access documentary cornel west president obama doesn t belong on any shirt with martin luther king and malcolm x 08 wednesday oct 2014 posted by asabagna in afrospear afrosphere cornel west democracy now 1 comment watch part 2 of his interview on democracy now here black prophetic fire cornel west on the revolutionary legacy of leading african american voices 07 tuesday oct 2014 posted by asabagna in afrospear afrosphere cornel west democracy now youtube leave a comment the killing of kajieme powell a good shoot is an oxymoron 24 sunday aug 2014 posted by asabagna in afrospear afrosphere bob marley captain ron johnson ferguson missouri genocide justice kajieme powell peter tosh revolution white supremacy ideology 2 comments i received the following note on facebook bro asa i m also distressed about the recent killing of kajieme powell i understand police having to protect themselves but this young man was acting erratically and after viewing the video it looked like suicide by cop are the cadets trained on how to disarm someone acting in a bizarre manner who is probably mentally ill without killing him one officer years ago told me that you can drop someone by shooting them in the legs knees arms he s never had to kill anyone they cuffed this young man and it was clear that he was down and unable to attack anyone i guess i m wondering given your law enforcement expertise when you have the time if you can address these issues on your blog i also understand the precariousness of doing so given your profession i would like to see more officers with the intelligence common sense and expertise of highway patrol captain ron johnson i feel like you do thanks for hearing me out my reply dear sis carolyn like you i m also distressed by the executing of our black men and boys by the police as a black man a black father of a young black son and a black police officer i have a certain maybe even an unique perspective into these situations however i made a conscious decision to not do a blog post so as to add to the deluge of intellectualized placebos from all quarters which only real and lasting accomplishment is to further desensitize our society to the genocide being committed against those of african descent those with black and brown skins worldwide the word states that there is nothing new under the sun it s all been said discussed and debated before as well as now the truth is that whether it s 1614 1714 1814 1914 or 2014 the terrorism that is white supremacy continues to be unleashed upon us ironically even more so under the administration of the first usa black president and his black attorney general however as you are my sister and i know of the sincerity of your empathy i will offer my two cents to you to spend as you wish in the kajieme powell incident what compounds the situation was the fact that he was mentally and emotionally disturbed i don t know about kajieme s personal history but i do know that in an effort to reduce health care costs there is a trend to release those with mental and emotional problems into society when they actually should be in facilities that are adept in treating their conditions or at least monitoring and stabilizing it with medication they are being released into the custody of those who do love them but aren t capable in handling their conditions if it deteriorates it then more often than not becomes a police problem however police officers aren t trained to be psychologists simply put we re trained to eliminate a threat with extreme prejudice which means different things to different police officers as a police officer in canada we re specifically trained that when you re dealing with 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