The Mass Murders That Dare Not Speak Their Name

Pity the late Cedric Ford. If he had understood the way the media worked, he might not have gone on the horrific shooting spree in central Kansas on Thursday that cost three people their lives and fourteen people their health. But once the major media understood the demographics of the case, they lost interest in Ford quicker than you could say “Muhammad and Malvo.”

Ford simply did not fit the narrative. “Who commits mass shootings?” read the headline of an all too typical piece on CNN.com some months ago. CNN’s answer: the “young, white and male.” At 38, Ford was relatively young, and he was certainly male, but he was not white. Ford, in fact, represents the most recent manifestation of a widely underreported phenomenon -- the black mass murderer. As in virtually every other case, Ford’s blackness was not an incidental detail. It was at the heart of why he did what he did.

Helping focus that anger are the mavens of the grievance industry from Al Sharpton to Barack Obama. At every opportunity, these mountebanks remind young African Americans that nothing is their fault. If these young men take their anger to such frightening extremes that they cannot easily be absolved, the media step in to make sure they are quickly forgotten.

Just a year ago, for instance, J.C.X. Simon died an unheralded death in a California prison cell. Never heard of him? Forty years earlier, the openly racist Simon and his fellow “zebra killers” shot at least twenty-one whites and Asians in San Francisco, including a future mayor of that disturbed city, and killed fourteen of them. The Bay Area’s Zodiac Killer murdered half as many people in that same era and got ten times the attention, including a feature film just a few years ago

To get the media’s attention, black mass murderers must do something fairly spectacular. Colin Ferguson accomplished that feat in 1993 when he shot twenty-five non-black commuters on the Long Island Railroad, six of whom died, including the husband of future congresswoman, Carolyn McCarthy. Back in its saner days, the New York Times dismissed Ferguson’s stated motives. “While Mr. Ferguson blamed racism for all his misfortunes and shattered expectations,” wrote the Times, “the examination of his past shows no evidence that he was ever a victim of discrimination.” True to form, McCarthy, a Democrat, decided to make guns her cause de tutti causes.

Save perhaps for Charles Manson, no mass murderer in American history caused as much widespread panic as John Allen Muhammad. Remember him? In October 2002, he and his young ward Lee Malvo decided to shut down the nation’s capital. According to Malvo, Muhammad planned to “terrorize” the area by killing six whites a day for thirty days. He was particularly keen on shooting pregnant white women.

Before they were through, the pair shot thirteen random people, killing ten of them, and paralyzed the DC metro. As authorities learned, Muhammad had shot twelve additional people before he got to Washington, killing seven. Despite the much greater body count, Muhammad could only envy Manson’s celebrity. Know what happened to Muhammad? I’m guessing not. He was executed by the State of Virginia in 2009. “The motive for the attacks remains murky,” wrote Dena Potter of the Associated Press.

Not coincidentally, the killings accelerated after Obama’s election as president. In August 2010, Omar Thornton shot ten of his coworkers at a Connecticut beer distributorship, killing eight. “You probably want to know why I shot this place up,” said Thornton on his 9-1-1 call. “This place here is a racist place.” Added Thornton, “I wish I coulda got more of the people.”

Thornton was the only black employee to experience racism at a company that had historically gotten excellent reviews for its HR practices. The fact that Thornton had been twice caught on video stealing beer may have had more to do with his forced resignation than the company’s alleged bigotry. Unable to work the racist angle, the media buried the story. Union officials helped with the digging. “It’s got nothing to do with race,” said one Teamster official, “This is a disgruntled employee who shot a bunch of people.”

In 2013, Christopher Dorner killed four people and wounded three others, all of them either white or Asian, in an around Los Angeles. In his final manifesto, Dorner listed all the racial insults he had suffered or imagined from the first grade through his termination by the LAPD. The “sole intent” of the white LAPD officers, he wrote, was to “victimize minorities who are uneducated, and unaware of criminal law, civil law, and civil rights.” A big Obama fan, Dorner attributed all attacks on the president to racism.

Some months later, Aaron Alexis killed thirteen people at the Washington Navy Yard before the police killed him. Like Dorner and Thornton, Muhammad and Malvo, Alexis had no real father in his life and focused his rage on white people. “He felt a lot of discrimination and racism with white people especially,” a friend told NBC News. It took nine incidents of misconduct before the Navy terminated him, and still he blamed the Navy. Said a friend, “He thought he never got a promotion because of the color of his skin.

In Rise of the Black Serial Killers: Documenting a Startling Trend, Justin Cottrell expels the myth that serial killers in America are predominately white.
On the contrary after sifting through a myriad of newspaper records and books, he's compiled a list of murderers that is equal too or greater than the number of white serial killers from 1860 to present.
Few if any have ever heard any of their names or stories, until now. Based on his findings white serial killers have been underrepresented throughout American history when compared to the percentage of the population they represent by a factor of 1.79 on average.
On the other hand, black serial killers have been over-represented 2.68 to 7 times their portion of the population, with a 150 year average of 4.18.
Another startling trend he uncovered is black serial killers have never represented less than 26.83% of the number of serial killers in a given decade, despite their overall percentage of the population never exceeding 13.1%. This trend has steadily increased to the point that in our current decade they represent 88.24% of the number of serial killers apprehended since 2010, yet only account for 12.6% of the populace.

Aside from trends, this book offers reasons most people assume black serial killers don't exist--from the media prohibition on the subject, to general misunderstandings.
Coupled with this is a look into the various factors that breed serial killers, with a look into why black serial killers are on the rise, while white serial killers are on the decline.
To prove his research is valid, a full list of every black serial killer is provided, along with a brief description of their crimes. In addition to this the biographies of 35 of these killers are given, with detailed information about their crimes.

Rise of the Black Serial Killer

It was offered up as a joke. Jada Smith of course is the one who raised all of the objection to the Oscars having no Black nominees.

They only real deterrent is for one to stop themselves from taking someone else's life based upon the concept that it is a sin. That justice will eventually be served when one meets their creator and punishment involves eternal damnation from which there is no parole for good behavior or overcrowding.

In other words morality and the consequences from acting immorally. As morality breaks down, more and more engage in immoral activities including the ultimate sin of killing another human being. The world now finds it acceptable to take the lives of the truly innocent, the unborn child.

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