Well today I could chime in on that dead horse about single black women thing, but I vow to myself I am not, If you want to know my views on the single black woman dilema, click here and here. I have something else I really want to write about and this one is uneasy for me the following two reasons (I will put these in MLK quotes):
1. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see (MLK)
2. Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. (MLK)
With that being said , I know that there are very few people that have heard of the name Richard Barrett and if you don’t know him I will just give you a brief description of him.
Richard Barrett was a lawyer, author and founder and leader of the National White Supremacist Organization. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Barrett was able to attract small numbers of like-kind.
Barrett was often seen at rallies around the nation, touting his nationalist movement and ideology. The former Vietnam veteran was labeled everything from a rising star to a troublemaker. He was in skirmishes, arrested multiple times, and was the suer and suee numerous times in race-relations cases.
The pro-white Barrett never changed his segregationist ways, was never apologetic for his actions, and frequently sought the spotlight. (click here)
And for all that he has done he was stabbed and burned to death in his property in Pearl. Now everybody thinking “Maybe he was killed by his own,” but the shocker (or not) of who killed him was even uneasy because it was a young black man that came fresh out of prison who killed him
“Oh crap, you know that this has added fuel to the fire in this post-racial era. The white supremacists groups are going to try to retaliate and we can’t call it a hate crime because of this.”
…..But hold on, hear is where the mystery part of this comes in.
According to Lewis, the 22-year-old was angry over money. He said his stepson was hired to do lawn work at Barrett's home in Utica on Wednesday.
The two traveled the roughly hour-long trip each way together. After six hours of work, Lewis said Barrett paid McGee $26.
"He thought he was at least going to get $60 or $70 for the work he did. He was kind of upset for $26," said Lewis.
Family and neighbors did not know what kind of relationship Barrett and McGee had, but they call it odd.
That is something I kept stratching my head for because of the following:
1. Out of All the people he chose, why this young black man who was fresh out of prison?
2. Why he could not find any of his Caucasian-American friends to help him out on this?
That is the mystery of Richard Barrett that puzzle not only people within the community who at one-time, saw the hatred of his demeanor toward African Americans in the public. But I do agree with what Dan Hall, chief consultant of Mission Mississippi and Charles Evers, Civil Rights leader, said.
Dan Hall said the following:
"What (Barrett) stands for was hate and was wrong," Hall said. "That he was murdered is no more right than someone who would be against abortion murdering an abortionist. That is not something we should take into our own hands. We exist to be able to have conversations in times like this. This is a great opportunity for Mission Mississippi. We don't shy away from it. We don't take stands, as much as we create opportunity for Mississippi."
Evers said this:
"I hate to know he was murdered, No. 1, and No. 2, when you got to know Richard, he was not that type of guy," Evers said. "I hated when he talked all that stuff. He said to me once, 'I don't hate negroes. I just don't believe in mixing."
What are your views about this mystery?
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