Posted on 09/05/2001 12:57:30 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee
Bivins, TX, September 4, 2001
An East Texas woman who claims she was the victim of a racially motivated attack appears to have made the story up.
The woman told Cass County Sheriff's investigators that two white men abducted her last week.
She went on to say that the pair sexually assaulted her, and scrawled the letters K-K-K into her chest.
Now the woman says she carved the letters into her own chest and was actually with the man who she said picked her up after the made up attack.
Investigators say they have not charged the woman yet, but they are planning to meet with the district attorney.
Though as I understand, Smith used the imaginary black man as a scapegoat for the crime she committed, rather than committing the crime in order to accuse blacks. Both are bad (And directly, Smith's was far worse), but they are not technically the same race-wise.
Unless I'm dyslexic and didn't know it.
The K's were pointing to her right shoulder!
I thought he was running for President. Has he changed his mind?
Anyway, not too surprised by this woman; but, what is with these people. Does the pull of victimization run so strong that if nothing real is happening in their lives to prove they are victims, they have to make things up?
Sorry, I'm just reelin' here from the shock. I need answers! They showed it on TV?
The woman had the NERVE to show her chest to a camera, when it was her own handiwork?
Not personally,but I've seen Kluxers trying to recruit at gun shows in Colorado. This was over 20 years ago,though.
>> Have you met anyone who had even ever heard about anyone or anything related to the Klan?<<
Yes,my mother and my aunt were both saved by their local KKK from abuse when they were both less than 10 years old. Their parents had died during the flu epidemic of 1918,so both young girls were "boarded-out" to a old batchelor who lived alone. He needed somebody to cook and help him around the house,and the girls needed some place to live. The agreement was that they would help care for him and provide him with company (a VERY rural area) in exchange for him feeding,clothing,and sending them to school. My mother told me that one Friday night the Klan showed up in his yard with torches burning and ordered him out in the yard. The head Kluxer told him,"Old man,I've been told you ain't been providing for them girls or sending them to school,and that you have been spending all your extra money drinking. If we hear just one more report on you like this,we will return and horsewhip you.If that doesn't work,we will come back again and hang you."
My mother told me that they NEVER had one more minutes worth of trouble out of that old man as long as they lived there. There wasn't any court of appeals with those boys,and hiring a lawyer or being related to somebody important didn't mean squat. If they said it,they meant it.
Purely for the sake of argument, let's say that what you say is accurate. Of what importance is "identification" with one's "race?"
You said I should "seek help." What kind of "help" is there for people who don't "identify with [their own] race?"
Don't chicken out.
No. I should have been more specific. He's throwing his weight (pun intended) behind a way-left Demo candidate for mayor of New York (Ferrer, I believe).
He knows he's never going to be elected President -- just like Nader and Buchanan know they won't -- so he's picking a battle that might actually enhance his reputation before getting whipped in 2004.
"Victim' carved initials into her own chest with pair of scissors
By SAMMY ALLEN of the Gazette Staff
LINDEN, Texas--A 32-year-old black woman lied about being abducted and assaulted by two white men last week, Cass County authorities said Tuesday.
Chief Deputy Ronnie Fincher said the Bivins, Texas, woman also etched the letters "KKK" into her own chest.
"She admitted it to the FBI agent and one of our deputies," Fincher said Tuesday afternoon. "She can't give us an answer as to why she did it. Charges are pending against her."
Authorities said the woman may have been involved in an interracial affair with a white man--the same one she told investigators picked her up Thursday morning after she was allegedly thrown from a pickup after being held captive overnight by two white men.
"They say they're just friends," Fincher said of the couple. "The (FBI) agent and the deputy got him to admit she spent the night at his house. Authorities said both the man and woman were recently separated from their spouses.
The woman filed a report Thursday with the sheriff's office claiming two white men wearing white sheets or pillow cases over their heads had abducted her in a pickup. She was treated at Atlanta Memorial Hospital for several injuries and was examined for possible sexual assault.
Fincher said the woman had injuries to her body, but the story she told to back up her claims was not true.
"It was all fabricated," Fincher said. He said the woman carved the letters KKK on her chest with a pair of scissors.
Cass County investigators had already voiced doubts about the racial attack Tuesday morning during the news conference. The FBI agent arrived later in the day and questioned the woman and witnesses.
"The letters appear to be mirror images--as if someone did them while looking in a mirror," Fincher said.
Cass County investigator Sgt. Ray Copeland said much time and effort was spent looking into the woman's claims. "We went door-to-door Friday in the area where she said she was kidnapped. We notified authorities in the surrounding area with the description of the truck.
"We've stopped several vehicles fitting that description in the Bivins, Linden and Atlanta area and identified the drivers."
By the way, while the KKK was a without a doubt a murderous, racist organization, they were praised by black separatist Marcus Garvey (founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association) for the way that they kept their people in line.
No, I am not a fan of Garvey, either.
Hmmmm...it was the AP office in the Texas-Arkansas region that "missed" the rape-murder of Jesse Dirkhising in Rogers, AR., and didn't send locally published accounts over the national wire. Think maybe there's a pattern?
Let me see if I have this right--L.N. Smithee suspects this woman (100% correctly too) of deliberately "crying wolf", something that will only harm HIS RACE here in the U.S., and you see that as evidence that he over-identifies with white people.
No, that can't possibly be what you mean. I think you meant to say "Gee, I was wrong. Sorry."
Triple-K? No thanks! I like voluptuous women as much as the next straight guy, but enough's enough!
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