THE FIRE THIS TIME...BLACK LIFE IS EXPANDABLE

Take a good look at the face of a black teenager that has physical evidence of hatred sheared into his very person by fire! If that's not enough the powers that be added a trumped up charge to make him look like a criminal so the white teens that did this shit can say, oh he hit my cousin earlier on another day so that's why I set his ass on fire. Is this an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth? I see what y'all trying to do and I think its pure bullshit! It stinks to high heaven and I hope all the boys that were involved in setting this teen on fire end up with due justice in this world and in the hereafter!


I wonder where can one go with melanin in their skin and have their life valued? Is there such a place on this earth? Its like you're either invisible or discounted because you're the wrong color and when they do pay attention to you its always negative attention. I know that black people are the most forgiving people on this earth that's why we continue to get shit on as a people. Its sad because we don't demand respect and the whole world sees us as expandable. Black life doesn't amount to the same as a white life, and the liberal we are the world hand holders who don't see that are just as blind as justice in this country!!!! Unless you have lived as a full fledged black person you can't tell me shit! This tirade is brought you to you courtesy of this news story:

Teen Set Afire Now Charged for Earlier Fight

Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 5:23 am
By: Denise Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com

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A Missouri teen who was doused with gasoline and set afire June 13 by two white schoolmates now faces charges himself for a fight he allegedly had with them.

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A black Missouri teen, who last month was doused with gasoline and set afire by two white schoolmates, now faces charges himself as he recovers from burns over most of his body.

Walter Currie Jr., a 15-year-old in Poplar Bluff, Mo., was burned on June 13 after an exchange with two teens with whom he reportedly had a previous altercation.

The youth who allegedly doused him with the gasoline and lit the fuel has been charged with assault as a juvenile, Currie’s parents said.

On July 6, several weeks after the incident, authorities gave Currie and his parents notice that he is being charged in connection with another incident where a teen related to the youth who set him afire was hit in the face, said Winonia Currie, Walter’s mother.

“All of a sudden, they decided to charge him with something that happened on June 10, but Walter said he didn’t have anything to do with it,” she said.

Because all of the people involved are juveniles, court officials in Butler County, Missouri said they can give only limited details on the incidents and cannot discuss names.

“I can tell you that there are charges against everyone involved,” Lesi Smith, chief juvenile officer for Butler County, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.

The suspects have not been revealed publicly and could not be reached for this story.

Walter Jr. said the teen who burned him told him he had gasoline and a lighter, and then began to spray him with the fuel before striking the lighter. Walter Jr. ran and jumped on a car, rolling on it to try to stop the burning. He even shed some of his clothing.

Initially, the youth suspected of burning Walter Jr. was arrested and was being held in a juvenile detention facility. He has since been released, according to sources familiar with the case.

The Curries say they want to see justice for their son. They want the 16-year-old to face stiff penalties.

“I want him to serve some time,” Walter Currie Sr. told BlackAmericaWeb.com.

Winonia Currie said her son is scheduled for a hearing on Aug. 5 at 1 p.m. and the teen that set her son afire is scheduled on the same day, in the same courtroom, at 2:30 p.m.

The Curries say they have only lived a couple of years in Poplar Bluff, a town about 125 miles south of St. Louis, Mo.

“It’s like a country city,” Winonia Currie said.

Though the family has received words of encouragement from black and white residents, Mrs. Currie said she questions whether everyone will get just treatment.

“The prosecutors have told us they will do everything they can to try him as an adult, but we’re getting very little information,” she said.

The charges for Walter Jr. bring additional hardships for the family.

“We’ve had all these medical bills. The insurance will only cover so much. We have to take him back and forth to the hospital in St Louis,” she said. “Now we have to try to find a lawyer. That’s more money.”

Doctors have told the Curries that it may be two years before their son’s burns are completely healed. He suffered burns on much of his body, including his face, chest, neck and arms.

“The physical wounds are healing, but we still have to deal with the mental stability,” Mrs. Currie said.

The incident has taken a devastating toll on the Walter Jr. and the family, said Tierra Shaffer, Walter’s older sister via email. “He has nightmares of being burned alive,” she said.

SOURCE OF STORY www.blackamericaweb.com