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Is love ever really enough???
4/28/2004 11:34:15 PM
Black man found Friday hanging from a tree in rural
Mississippi had returned home to fight for his
family's land. This man was 52. God Bless AmeriKKKa
What's Bush's stand on this? --there's oil in
Mississippi so he can declare war down there now too.
Black man found Friday hanging from a tree in rural
Mississippi had returned home to fight for his
family's land. This man was 52.
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disgusting article. God Bless AmeriKKKa:
Posted Friday April 23, 2004 (Funny, that date was my
youngest son's 21st birthday, the day they falsely
arrested Crystal, our daughter here in Muncie for
being a passenger going to the grocery store with her
friend over an unpaid bill from 1998 she didn't even
know about, but they lied and said it was "a warrant"
when it was an "attachment" that didn't have anything
to do with the lie the cops told about them running a
stop sign they never got a chance to even stop at.
It's got me really ticked!)
Man found hanging in tree in Wilkinson County
Associated Press
WOODVILLE, Miss. - Family members say a man found
Friday hanging from a tree in rural Mississippi had
returned home to fight for his family's land.
The body of 52-year-old Roy Veal was discovered in
Wilkinson County, relatives said.
Warren Strain, spokesman of the Mississippi Department
of Public Safety, said the body was discovered about
midday in a wooded area of the county near Woodville.
Authorities declined to identify the man pending
notification of relatives.
But Doris Gordon, a Woodville native now living in San
Francisco, said the victim was her brother, Roy Veal
of Washington state. Thelma Veal, the man's mother,
also confirmed the identity.
"They found my brother hanging from a tree with a hood
over his head and some papers burned at his feet,"
Gordon said in a telephone interview with The
Associated Press from San Francisco. "It's awful. We
don't know who did it."
Gordon, who said she would be returning to Woodville
as soon as possible, said her brother had returned to
the family home in Wilkinson County "to help with a
lawsuit pending against our family."
"There are people trying to take part of our land
because they apparently think there is oil on the
land," she said.
Officials at the chancery clerk's office in Woodville
said a lawsuit pending in chancery court names several
members of the Thelma Veal family, including Doris
Gordon and apparently Roy Veal, as defendants.
Chancery Clerk Thomas Tolliver Jr., said the case
involved title to land in the county and damages.
Thelma Veal said the lawsuit sought portions of land
owned by her late husband and his brothers. She said
her son had obtained a map of the property and was
collecting documents to prove the family owned the
land.
"Now they have found my son hung back there on a
tree," said Thelma Veal, 79.
She said her husband owned more than 40 acres in the
area southwest of Woodville and that it was being
sought because it might have oil deposits.
There is oil production in that area of the state.
"My husband's daddy bought this land in 1926 and I've
been here ever since I was 18," she said. "It's our
land."
Strain said the Highway Patrol's Bureau of
Investigation was looking into the circumstances
around the death.
County Coroner Travis Sharp said he had not been
contacted about the death and the sheriff's department
declined any comment when contacted Friday.
BLOG BEGINS (but as long as I'm black, and female, it will probably never end.)
MY HUSBAND IS 52!!! Serious makes me want to get a gun
license and take it with us when we travel, not
kidding about this! And I'd shoot just below the belly
button and above the thigh, dead center. Yes I'm a
Christian but Jesus used a whip. There is not one
single day that goes by where I can feel completely
relaxed when a bunch of white folks are around, but
I'm trying. Either (and this isn't all I know, just
the ones who "pretend" to want to know me by
addressing me when they feel they have to so they
don't appear to be racist, as opposed to the ones
addressing me because I'm ME. They are in business, in
church, in politics, in our neighborhood. It's like
the only safe place is no where at all if your skin is
anything but white.
What's Bush's stand on this? --there's oil in
Mississippi so he can declare war down there now too.
blessin's, I've about had it up to here, especially
with the mayor hanging up on me about one of his
crooked cops harrassing our daughter on a charge that
didn't exist. Trying hard to forgive but you'd have to
be black to understand the looks I get all the time
everyday living in Muncie. No place is perfect but I
really and truly CAN'T STAND this place. The
decendants of the racists are around us 7 days a week.
If not for Jesus. . . .
This is why I think that Iraq is the racist white
man's war over a racist white man's greed. So let the
racists go overseas, and let the peace-loving people
alone to take care of more important matters, like
healing America. I just have to keep telling myself
that this world is not my home, but no race of people
should have to be made to feel like we have to be
stared at like animals in a zoo every time we go out
to dine, or walk into a bank, or browse a store, or
wonder about the police car behind us.
Maybe I can even represent myself as an independent
business woman without both whites and blacks thinking
I'm trying to "jack" their wallet, when Walmart jacks
them every single day. (Now, I just had to say that.)
If a black woman isn't working for a white
establishment, then there must be "something wrong
with her character." They are right, it's called
insanity due to 45 years of racism (I'll be 50 in
September and you don't have to be old to experience
it first hand, especially being from a Klannish state
like Indiana.)
That too will be an essay one day--seeing my family
members going into the back door of a KFC on 14th and
Jackson (now torn down praise the Lord!) to get carry
out only because we couldn't sit in the restaurant to
eat. Sometimes it feels the same way when we go to MCL
in Muncie.
Is love ever really enough???
cynth'ya
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