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On Friday during a speech in Florida, slain civil-rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.’s far fatter, balder, and lighter-skinned son urged Americans to break free from their wretchedly shameful “culture of violence.”
The next day, a Mississippi man was shot in the chest during a parade honoring King’s legendary (and, c’mon, far more famous) daddy.
The shooting occurred on Martin Luther King Drive in Jackson, MS. The 23-year-old victim and the shooting suspect have yet to be named, but police officer Colendula Green is on the case, and I only mention her name because, well, it’s one of those great black names, you know?
This tragic shooting at the MLK Parade on MLK Drive follows what is a darn-near epidemic—or, to put it as mildly as possible, a “spate”—of recent stabbings, shootings, and other violent incidents that are sadly yet unfortunately related in some way to Dr. King’s legacy:
• Right before Christmas, a San Antonio woman was stabbed by her boyfriend inside her home near the intersection of I-10 and Martin Luther King Drive. Three of her children reportedly witnessed the incident.
• In late December, a man was stabbed in his bicep while trying to defend the honor of his girlfriend from a mob that was harassing her on Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City.
• In the wee hours of New Year’s Day, a woman was stabbed on a DC Metrobus near the 2200 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE.
• In Detroit on January 2, 26-year-old Semeria Greene was charged with the stabbing death of her eight-year-old daughter, Tameria, at the Martin Luther King Apartments. And I’ll mention a neighbor of Greene’s, Kimyatta Craigmiles, merely because her name is so fantastic.
• Early in January, Chevon C. Dixon pled guilty to fatally stabbing her boyfriend last April at his apartment on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Peoria.
• On January 4 a man claims he was robbed in a stairwell on the third floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Transportation Center in Sioux City, IA. He says the suspect held him in a headlock and threatened to stab him.
• On January 6, 19-year-old Marcus Turner died of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest in the 8400 block of South Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago.
• A North Carolina woman named Tamika Sheral Laughinghouse was arrested in mid-January and charged in connection with a knife attack on Johnnie May Rasberry at Rasberry’s home in the 4200 block of Martin Luther King Drive in Ayden, NC.
• This past Friday, 17-year-old Tyrone Lawson was fatally shot outside a high-school basketball game, also on Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago only eleven blocks from Marcus Turner’s murder earlier in January.
• In Long Beach, CA on Friday, two shootings occurred on the same day as the city’s MLK Parade.
• This past Saturday, a robbery suspect died in a car crash while fleeing police on Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. near Renton, WA.
• Of all these cases, the most tragic—i.e., “amusing”—is the recent arrest of a 33-year-old Jacksonville man named Martin Luther King in connection with a January 9 triple shooting in which one man died. King allegedly used a dreaded “assault rifle” and wore a facemask while attacking his victims as they innocently played a game of dominoes.
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cool article of vaguely related provocative facts.
So, basically, if you are black, and live on MLK Blvd, you will find it difficult to purchase life insurance, even if you have the money?
With all the hoopla of those poor white kids getting killed in CT, it is amazing (actually tragic) that the liberal news does not lament the passing of that many black kids, every week, in Chicago.
This math student pointed out that 13 percent of our population contribute to 53 percent of our murdered. And when a black person is killed, 93% of the time, it is a black person doing the crime.
If you are white in America, you have a chance of being murdered at the same rate as anybody in Europe.
If you are black, and live on MLK Drive, you are fucking doomed.
That is not racism folks, it is a fucking tragedy that white America, and the liberal news do not give a crap about.
If you want to allow MILK Street a chance to live up to that good name, legalize drugs.
The War on Drugs is solely responsible for the violence that has plagued this country since the late 60′s (well, the Gun Control Act had a lot to do with making things worse, since it only disarmed the law abiding blacks).
I love how everybody that comments here seems like they’ve never been to a poor neighborhood.
a flurry is much midler than a spate.
nuh uh, have you ever been in a flurry? I lived the dead man’s dream on MLK Way in Oakland, and the amount of human flotsam surging up and down it was incredible.
but a mcdonalds flurry is so mild and creamy. whereas a mcdonalds spate would be a spare rib and pate mcwich which doesnot sound appetizing.
Way to piss more people off James.