nationwide and they are suppressed, ignored, covered up, whitewashed, and forgotten.

is a considerable undercurrent of violence and horrific acts that are covered up that the light of day never reaches. And often masked by those whom one would think would have the integrity and responsibility to clean up the transgressions, but often they are part of the problem.

Lennon Lacy looks like such a fine young man!
What a loss to the world!

They don't care about covering news, I mean. They need to entertain us and make a profit, but they are not required to tell us the truth about what is happening in the world or even in our own backyards.

http://www.librarygrape.com/2009/06/court-fox-news-has-first-amendment.html

If it's allowed to happen to 'other folks' kids, it won't happen to your own?

We have entertainment companies that compete for ratings and advertising dollars.

We haven't have real news in decades.

Kim Kardashians ass....


It never fails to shock me when I go out of the country and tune into actual news. Many who don't get that opportunity have no idea how bad it's gotten..

I have still yet to see any news here about the Recession that has been hitting Japan..

Sickening

Mr. Holder, do not fail us.

I'm sorry to say this is the first I've heard of this particular incident - such horror everywhere, who can keep up?

Where was the push back from Democrats? Did I miss it?

imho, we must begin the herculean task of passing an amendment to our Constitution that will give members of both houses term limits.

many years? As to limited number of terms - my legislator is excellent. Why should I want him to leave just because someone else does?

people run for congress by assholes all the time. Why would I want my good congress person to quit after so many years if he/she has been good enough to continue to win and is representing us the way we want him/her to do? Why would I want to take the risk of some teabagger winning because some billionaire buy the election. When I already have someone who is looking out for the greater good.

By the way, I have Al Franken in mind.

if it is a lynching.

Teenager's mysterious death evokes painful imagery in North Carolina: 'It's in the DNA of America'

Ed Pilkington in Bladenboro
Thursday 9 October 2014 12.54 EDT

Friday 29 August was a big day for Lennon Lacy. His high school football team, the West Bladen Knights, were taking on the West Columbus Vikings and Lacy, 17, was determined to make his mark. He’d been training all summer for the start of the season, running up and down the bleachers at the school stadium wearing a 65lb exercise jacket. Whenever his mother could afford it, he borrowed $7 and spent the day working out at the Bladenboro gym, building himself up to more than 200lbs. As for the future, he had it all planned out: this year he’d become a starting linebacker on the varsity team, next year he’d earn a scholarship to play football in college, and four years after that he’d achieve the dream he’d harboured since he was a child – to make it in the NFL.

“He was real excited,” said his Knights team-mate Anthony White, also 17, recalling the days leading up to the game. “He said he was looking forward to doing good in the game.”

The night before the game, Lacy did what he always did: he washed and laid out his football clothes in a neat row. He was a meticulous, friendly kid who made a point of always greeting people and asking them how they were doing. Everybody in his neighbourhood appears to have a story about how he would make a beeline to shake their hand, or offer to help them out by moving furniture or anything else that needed doing. “He was in the best sense a good kid,” said his pastor, Barry Galyean.

His brother, Pierre Lacy, said that football was the constant that ran through Lennon’s life since he started out as a Pee Wee: “He was very serious about being a professional, very passionate about it. He never changed his mind or wavered from the course.”



http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/09/-sp-north-carolina-teenager-suspicious-death-lennon-lacy?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

shoes? 2 sizes too little? What does everyone make of that? How did that happen?

No way this kid killed himself.

laying around thinking they were his? This point does not seem to have an explanation. You can murder someone without changing his shoes.

He was dating a white 31 year old woman who was recently divorced. LEO hasn't even interviewed her ex.

They should have STARTED with him.

No sure where you get that idea. I am interested what the significance of the shoes is to the case. And yes someone should have interviewed the ex. I wasn't disputing that either.

Just wanted to make sure you saw the article.

I agree, the shoes are weird. I could see kids taking them, but not replacing them with another pair. Find the owner of the shoes and you'll probably find the killer.

their hurry they grabbed any pair of shoes they could find. I also think it was not JUST the ex. The young man was strong and big it would probably have taken more than one to do this.

Horrible crime and once more another cover up. This has got to stop.

His father saw him and told him to go to bed...then heard him go outside around midnight. They found him at 7:30 the next morning.

I think this indicates someone called or texted him and he went outside to meet them. I certainly hoped they checked his cellphone records.

Hopefully this tragedy will begin to be covered by more media, it certainly deserves investigation.

my PVR of her show today.

it was very informative and she ended the segment stating she will continue to watch and see if there are changes re investigation.

when she mentioned the case in her opening monologue, I'm really looking forward to hearing her reporting on it!

I sure hope Rev Al gets on this case as well.

of this case which, imo, is sorely needed from what I have read and heard on this.

about this case. Each new link a new email so that his inbox screams at him about this lad. I'm with you, if anyone can wake the public and the media up about this, it's Al!

first I am hearing about this. I am thankful that this is on your radar and that you will be continuing exposure until the truth is found and reported! I think Rev Al's inbox should be inundated with material concerning this case.

about this or read about it in the papers.

He was just a kid... for pete's sake....

America's Terrorists

read the article yesterday - and nothing from my initial awareness has worn off. in fact, it has intensified. unfuck america!

it is up to each one of us to walk the talk and teach our children well. how much more of this shit can we stomach? this may be a job for anonymous (as are all of those involve in the coverups of the michael brown murder and that of the beaten man with bipolar disorder). but, the rest of us better step up and stop the hate (now!) because it continues to get uglier and uglier. no place to raise a family of color or mixed heritage.

i am older and have done my share of standing for non violence for civil rights, the environment, and many other human rights issues. i am only one person and can't even stand for more than 10 minutes (i take my chair to demonstrations) - but, we must continue doing what we can to stop this shit.

thank you for the post, babylonsister. you are so right.

dating an older woman who was white. Surely pissed a lot of the good old boys off. Yes, they still try to intimidate black men with white women. Smaller shoes than his feet, they just put some on wherever they carried him after kidnapping him. It was dating the woman that got him killed. Guaranteed. Not post racial in that trailer park, "largely white" trailer park. Man this shit is just like the 50's. Emmett Till was murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Mississippi. I remember my parents talking about those "crackers" that killed that boy in Mississippi.

With the last six years bringing out decades of barely suppressed virulent white racism, this murder, among MANY recently, is not something that will be tolerated for too much longer, methinks. Truthout.com had a good one on white racism today.