No 'Hate Crime' Here, Boss – Just Killin' a White Man

Probably the biggest news story of 1998 was the murder of a black Texas man, James Byrd, Jr., by three white men. The white men, since convicted and sent to prison, dragged Byrd to death behind a pickup truck. The ACLU, NAACP and various other race-conscious groups made sure this was on everyone ´s radar screen, but they needn´t have worried. The ‘liberal´ media had as big a ‘hate crime´ fest over this crime as they did with the Matthew Shepherd case.

In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, the NAACP, ever the lackey to their patron Democrat Party, even ran a TV ad attempting to taint then-Governor George W. Bush as involved in a ‘cover-up.´ When that last-minute slander didn´t quite work, black Democrat lackeys failed in another spectacular scam in Florida.

Today, however, the NAACP, the ACLU and all their media cohorts are especially silent about another inter-racial murder in Texas…with good reason. For this time, the murdered man is white, and the four murderers are black, and if you see this story at all, it will be in the blurbs buried on page 15 or 20 of your newspaper. You won´t be hearing about ‘hate crimes ´ on this one, nor be seeing weeks of on-the-scene reports from the networks. And I doubt there will be a national TV ad just prior to this fall´s elections attempting to tie any Texas Democrat candidate to the crime.

The victim, Ken ‘Bimbo´ Tillery, 44, visited a Jasper, Texas, trailer park Friday night, reportedly a crack house. Later, he asked various people for a ride home to Pineland, about twenty miles away. Blake Little, a 34-year old black man, offered to let him ride in the back of his pickup truck in exchange for $5, to which Tillery agreed. Along the way, according to Sabine County Sheriff Tom Maddux, the three other black men in the truck with Little upped the price of the ride to $50, but Tillery protested.

When they stopped on the side of the road—to urinate, according to the black men—Tillery took off running. Whether it was to avoid paying for the ride or because he was afraid of the men following the argument we´ll never know. For two of the black men chased him down and beat him, then the driver of the truck ran over Tillery, killing him.

But Jasper County Sheriff Billy Rowles, who in 1998 investigated the Byrd case—and was savaged as a redneck know-nothing by the media and the black race-conscious groups—said ‘race or revenge do not appear to be behind the killing.´ The sheriff attributed the killing to the argument over gas money.

As patently ridiculous as that story is, it shows that Sheriff Rowles has learned his lesson: he´s not about to buck the race-baiters and national media again. This time, he´s sticking to his argument-over-gas-money story…and the ACLU and media are (surprise!) accepting it. Funny, isn´t it, how this redneck know-nothing became so wise in just three years? Unlike in 1998, the media today are completely satisfied with his judgment and determination of what happened and why, so there´ll be no independent inquiries or investigations, as they insisted upon in the Byrd case. In fact, this article may very well be the last—perhaps the only time—you hear of this story. Case closed. No ‘hate crime´—whatever that is—here, boss; just some good ol´ boys fighting over five dollars (uhh, I guess I can´t say ‘boys,´ since four of the men were black, lest I be guilty of the only ‘hate crime´ associated with this man´s death).

If you need any clearer picture of the reeking hypocrisy of the ACLU and the ‘liberal´ media when it comes to race, you´ll have to hire screenwriters and Hollywood producers to create it, because real life won´t offer one much clearer than this. The only real difference between this case and the infamous 1998 Byrd murder is the fact that these black men didn´t drag Tillery after they ran over him. Simple reasoning would lead one to conclude, then, that for the ACLU, NAACP, national media, et al, a major criteria for a ‘hate crime´ must be the dragging part.

So I guess the lesson is: If you´re going to kill someone of the other race, all you have to remember is to not drag him afterwards. Simply killing him gives no evidence of ‘hate,´ as defined by our self-appointed moral consciences in the race-consciousness business. Since dragging is rarely a factor in the 90% of inter-racial crime that is committed by blacks against whites, that explains why those crimes are never ‘hate crimes.´ I´d like to thank the ACLU, NAACP, national media—and Sheriff Billy Bob—for the clarification of such a ‘complicated´ issue.

I´ll bet that´s a great relief to Tillery´s family. I´m sure they´re comforted by the ‘fact´ that he was not the victim of a ‘hate crime.´

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