There were at least 20 people within sight of the shooting of seven-year-old Tajahnique Lee, but they all say they didn't see what happened. As the New York Times reports, one fellow said he was too busy attending to his young son. Another said he and his neighbors were engaged in conversation on a very important topic. The shooting occurred a year ago, but it remains unsolved because not a single witness will step forward.
As you may have guessed, this lovely young black child was killed in the crossfire of a gang war. Two factions of the Bloods gang--the Sex Money Murder faction and the Gangsta Killer faction--were shooting at each other, and Tajahnique Lee got caught in the middle. So feared are the gangs in the Trenton, New Jersey housing projects that even the little girl's grandfather refused to talk to police saying he feared for his life.
If Tajahnique Lee had been murdered by a white man, it would be a racial incident and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be leading a national hoopla. But black America faces new kinds of challenges today, and the leadership doesn't seem to have noticed. At the NAACP, they've been really busy lately trying to outlaw the N-word. NAACP leaders a couple of days ago held a ritualistic burial of the N-word at its annual convention. The N-word was symbolically loaded into a coffin and placed in the ground. The women were dressed in white, the men in black. Politicians invoked the name of Don Imus and other verbal offenders. Nobody mentioned the rise of gangs like the Bloods, the Crips and the Latin Kings that are terrorizing the poorest sections of our urban communities. Tajanique Lee's name didn't come up.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 5)
1. Don't you think this tragedy may have been prevented if was mandatory that all people carry weapons like they do in Kennesaw, Georgia? http://ecclesia.org/truth/kennesaw.html
I say they just round up all of the Crips and Bloods and put them in a warehouse locked from the outside so they can't get out. Give them a bunch of liquor and crack cocaine and a stockpile of guns. Let them take of the problem once and for all.
In all seriousness, my thoughts and prayers go out to that little girl, her family, and the community.
Mrs. T.D. Gaines-Crockett at 11:15AM on Jul 10th 2007
2. dinesh,great exploitation of the little boy's murder....to you,nothing more than an excuse to go after sharpton etc,a complete non-sequitor----if you really cared about tajanique...i tip my hat to you,you are consistently shameless--------david
david at 10:51AM on Jul 10th 2007
3. Shame on all of you for not telling what you saw. Shame on you gang members. Baby killers.
suan at 10:56AM on Jul 10th 2007
4. You are now proposing that racism is criminality?
THAT's funny!
Give me a mailing address so I can send you a few bars of soap-on-a-rope...
So when you report to Federal Prison to do your time for racial pimping...
Your virginity (in the shower at least) will remain intact.
BT at 11:01AM on Jul 10th 2007
5. its eye opener..good for you, I think you did a great job=)
Bhavna at 11:01AM on Jul 10th 2007
6. Violence in the poor urban neighborhoods is nothing new. You may have just heard about it, but our young people are dying everyday in those inner city streets. There are many movements trying to bring it to light....one is "Peace on the Streets". However, when you have a president that focuses on the well-being of other countries, versus taking care of home first, what do you expect. This problem is much bigger than Jesse or Al. If these neighborhoods knew that someone was going to setup an army in their neighborhoods and "police" and rebuild their streets maybe they would speak up. Right now, you and I as well as many others are aware of the issue, but we go home to our "safe" neighborhoods and that young girl's grandfather has to live there. If you had to live with those gangs, what would you do? If there was a simple solution, don't you think the people who's family's were dying would try?
Bobbie at 11:02AM on Jul 10th 2007
7. Seems that the Capitlist-Marxists know how to deal with political corruption and incompetence -
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/china-executes-ex-food-and-drug-chief/20070710005109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Too bad America doesn't have the cajones to deal with the putrid stink of Rethuglanism, and Rethugly treason the same way.
Brownie, Scooter Libby, Gonzo, and a host of Dumbyella scumbags surely must be glad to be in America...
'Cause in China they'd have hung their rancid asses.
Bushthwak at 11:08AM on Jul 10th 2007
8.
I don't get it: When others state here that prominent, moderate Muslim's do not speak out against radicals (when they actually do) so they must tacitly approve of their methods, you rightfully acknowledge that is a somewhat Islamophobic sentiment.
Yet you claim prominent, moderate African American's don't speak out against gang violence (when they actually do) so they must tacitly have no problem with the gang culture, and that isn't somewhat of a racist sentiment? Interesting.
Peter at 11:14AM on Jul 10th 2007
9. You've nailed it. Only when the "truth" is convenient and self-promotable do that Jackson's and the Sharpston's get involved.
I witness much more hatred and intolerance from the "left" in general, and the "Jackson-Sharpton's" in particular than I've ever witnessed from the "right".
Robert at 11:16AM on Jul 10th 2007
10. Wow...
More white children murdered!
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1010495
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/10/state/n025856D64.DTL
http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070710/NEWS08/70709001
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=5462285
Not to mention white teens committing murder -
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=0fd3c92e-cc28-4efb-af4c-233bc330ebd0&k=13156
Where's Dinesh! Where is the article?
Why isn't he leading a march of conservatives on town hall???????
Now - i realize your followers are both stuid and racist enough to eat that shit...
But you actually needed to go to college to write this crap?
Bushthwak at 11:26AM on Jul 10th 2007
11. A couple of corrections regarding your story about Tajahnique Lee.
1. She was shot through the face and IS ALIVE!!!! God bless that child!!!!!
2. She was visiting her GRANDMOTHER who lives in the project development in question in New Jersey at the time of the shooting.
Please get your facts correct if you're going to play reporter!!
Stacy at 11:51AM on Jul 10th 2007
12. Exactly right....the killing of a little girl is not near as tragic as some old fart calling Rutgers team nappy headed....or the Duke lacrosse non-rape...the black leadership is such a joke...I wish someone with real character and morals would come along and somehow reach the young black people and show them a way to climb out of the black hole..(yes pun intended).The black race is heading nowhere fast with the culture that reigns it now. Burying the n word. How stupid. They should be burying all those crips and bloods and others who kill and call them niggers before they take their lives and the lives of young innocents!.
Rick at 11:33AM on Jul 10th 2007
13. Valid points made throughout this article. I think its common knowledge that most of the leadership figures of us Blacks have a lack of vision to attack dynamic new problems facing our community but to stress that against a neighborhood that doesn't have the manpower or ability to fight against this kind of terror is unfair and unjust. Lets juxtapose your argument, why wasn't there significant media coverage or political help to find the perpetrators as opposed to the media coverage of Elizabeth Smart and Jon Benet Ramsey or even worse the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Justifying the lack of significant action or witnesses against gang warfare by citing it on the lack of black leaders to step up and act is only partly correct as you fail to cite that those with the power to police gangwarfare are upperclass White politicians who would rather shell out large budgets to law enforcement and military agencies to unjustly invade middle eastern countries and keep their already safe affluent neighborhoods stocked with the latest in law enforcement technology rather than upgrade facilities and enforcement forces that truly need them.
Mecc at 11:44AM on Jul 10th 2007
14. So again its race..I guess we should be looking for a white man in the killing of the little girl.In the end, it always comes back to the white man holding you down. How long can you hide behind this cancer? It is rotting your race from within. Can't you see this?. Oh wait..how stupid of me. Its so easy to race it all up. Well at least you have given the police a good lead..They should be on the lookout for a white man in the shooting. Can I say white man? Is that politcally correct?..Well, I'll take that chance.
Rick at 11:56AM on Jul 10th 2007
15. Rick,
If you read what I wrote you would see I made mention to the fact that indeed we do have a lack of black visionary leadership to resolve problems that affect us this day and age rather than focusing on problems that afflicted us in the early to mid, even late 20th centuriy. But to blame the travesty of gang violence and the policing of such violence squarely on the shoulders is ignorant to a fault dare I say stupid. I'm all for facing our problems and the miscreantic nature of some parts of our culture but to ignore the fact that those with most of the power in this country that could assist in closer to a situation have taken a back seat doesn't do this situation justice.
Mecc at 1:59PM on Jul 10th 2007