Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Brooklyn Six

Today while driving to work I was listening to the Tom Joyner Morning show and the commentator segment came on. On this segment they were talking about 6 young black professionals that went on a vacation cruise and they stopped on the island of Antigua. A cabbie offered to take the vacationers on a tour around the island for $50.00 but before the driver was to take them back to the boat the cabbie added an extra fee of $100.00. Of course the young tourist not wanting to be cheated told the cabbie they were not paying a extra $100.00 to be taken back to the cruise ship. Well, the cabbie drove them to police station where they were interrogated and mistreated. Somewhere during that time a fight broke out between the tourist and the police. I got so disgusted about the story because if it had been six Caucasian journalist or professionals who had gone missing. This story would have made national news, with updates every 10 minutes on Nancy Grace talking about a conspiracy theory.

I don’t understand why other stories similar about our white brothers and sisters seem to get more news coverage when something happens to them than those of other races. If a group of black kids or young adults were involved in an extremely violent crime it would receive more news coverage. I find that very sad and disheartening that those six individuals have been locked up since the beginning of this month and we are just finding out about it. It was said that the parents of the tourist have tried contacting their local Senators and Representatives only to give information to deaf ears and no response. What good is it to have someone to represent and protect the rights of the American people when the person in office can’t even issue a statement or assign for someone to contact the families. To read the article CLICK HERE

2 comments:

wadadlianu said...

I am sorry but I do believe you need to check your facts in respect to this situation. The actual fare to Jolly Harbor would have been USD66.00 each way for the 11 passengers. They agreed to USD50 for all 11 to be taken to the beach. The taxi operator was charging them for the return USD50 to the city.

The lovely young ladies even beat up on female police officers and pictures show where one officer is missing a large portion of flesh from her back, which was bitten out.

Are you in fact agreeing with anyone that wishes to steal from poor black people? Remember 85% or more of that country s citizenship are of black people. Sorry but these young people need to behave theirselves when in other people's countries

Anonymous said...

David says:
There are two sides to a story, while the story that was told by these young people seemed believable when they were in Antigua. It is now obviously confusing to have them return to the US and now talk about fear of being raped by whomever while in the cell....

If you knew the cell they were in, you would know that that is next to impossible...

Secondly, why would this one person, want to fabricate such a bodacious lie....the attorneys have made statements that reflect not ever being told this by their clients...the police refute this accusation categorically...

This Sunday school teacher is looking for a shake down.....you cannot defy the law and expect to be a Poster child....You ought to be ashamed of yourself young lady Henry..what kind of a law"iar" are you going to turn out to be...

Stop this out and out lie and try and get back to putting your lives together ALL OF YOU.....you were extremely lucky to have gotten off as you did and should now look to move on and get it together..

Mother said there would be days like this is a song that comes to mind...we have all suffered things that we never thought we would in live...it makes us stronger and better for it all..

Grow up and stop looking for freebs....now that you are back in the US...and stop your thought process if you are thinking of shaking down Antigua and Barbuda for money....they have none......!!!!!!!

GET A JOB SHOSHANNAH....and GO BACK TO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!