For years, I’ve had a special sensitivity to reports of child abuse.
This one may give you nightmares for the rest of your life.
Victoria Martens
According to the police report, on her 10th birthday, the mother’s boyfriend and his female cousin injected this little girl with drugs “to calm her down.” They proceeded to strangle, torture, rape and dismember her.
While her mother looked on.
Where is God, or what is God, when such an event can occur?
2016-11-10 – 2 plead guilty in rape, killing of 16-year-old Baltimore girl
2016-11-29 – Testimony Played Again in Teenager’s Case of Arnesha Bowers’ Murder
2016-12-02 – Jury returns partial verdict in Raeshawn Rivers trial
2016-12-05 – After Split Jury, Teen Accused In Bowers Murder To Be Retried In March
I continue to be scandalized over what I perceive as a lack of outrage, as indifference, in the community over this crime.
Previous posts:
– 2015-06-22 – Burglars rape, murder, burn high school junior
– 2016-04-04 – Names with issues; issues with names
The bias reflects belief in the politically correct dogma that racism is the sole cause of poverty.
In fact, two thirds of America’s poor are white. Thus racism cannot be the sole cause.
You’d never know that from the mainstream media, however. For example, in a July pictorial in U.S. News and World Report, “The New Faces of U.S. Poverty,” every face is black.
We’ll never understand black poverty until we understand white poverty. And the existence of white poverty, currently, the Left denies.
Reblogged 11/21/24.
(Originally posted 09/30/13.)
Don’t let that odd title put you off. I think this op-ed by Robert J. Samuelson is pretty important.
The question is whether we direct the economy so as to increase wealth for everyone, or instead merely give poorer or richer people larger pieces of the “pie.”
In my conversations with other homeless folk and poor people generally, I hope to emphasize the desirability of creating wealth as opposed to merely taking it away from others.
On that point, I’m certainly prone to agree with Andy Kessler, though I have uneasiness as to whether or not he would support corresponding policies.
Other recent articles on similar questions:
An Obituary for the American Middle Class
Race, income, education increasingly polarize U.S. families since recession
Higher education’s biggest challenge is income inequality
As to Catharine Hill’s piece, I really have to question what “special services” rich families are “demanding” that are bidding up tuition costs.
From what I saw over the weekend, Burger King seems to have adopted the scruffy people approach McDonald’s was using a few years ago and discarded.
Related: Scruffy people in commercials
Bookmarks:
Pitch •
The Homeless Blogger 