How Cheap Is Black Life? II

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People vent on facebook.  They celebrate.  They network. They solicit people for jobs.  Twenty-year-old London Eley asked for someone to kill the father of her child.  And she found him.
“I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father.”
This is the facebook status Eley posted on May 23 after having an argument with her child’s father.   It was used as evidence to arrest her on June 10 for offering a hitman $1,000 to get the job done.



The first reply to her status was from 18-year-old Tim Bynum.  He wrote, “say no more, what he look like?”
The victim’s aunt saw the post, alerted her nephew and the two went straight to the police.
“He has guns in his pictures and all that on facebook,” the alleged victim said. “Of course you wouldn’t take anything like that lightly.”
Bynum’s mother, Madeline Wimberly, believes the situation was exaggerated.  “He would never do anything like that and it was just blown out of proportion,” she said.
The police were not convinced.
“We did a search warrant at his home on Friday,” said Lieutenant John Walker. “We recovered from inside the house a nine millimeter fully-loaded handgun.”
Eley was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and is being held on $250,000 bail.  Bynum, who was arrested on June 12, was charged with attempted murder and a weapons charge. He is being held on $350,000 bail.

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As much as I like to rail against police shootings and police brutality, nobody kills us like us.  It's just a fact that a black male is a million more times likely to be killed by another black male, than any skinhead or crooked cop.

It's sad that violence is the primary language we speak to each other.  Whatever disagreement he and she had, did it warrant his death?  I seriously doubt it.  For all the black children growing up without a father, that she was willing to be the cause of that same pain to her own child, is also sad.  That same child will now likely grow up without a mother for a better portion of it's life.  When that child is old enough to ask questions, and understand the answer "Mommy tried to kill Daddy" will be the answer.  Too sad.

As for the young man who was willing to kill another man for a mere "stack", I can only wonder if he still thinks it was worth it. 

I won't even dwell on how stupid she was for soliciting a hitman with her Facebook status, or how stupid he was for accepting the job in her comments.

All that said, you can't expect people outside your community to honor your lives, when you of the community clearly don't honor your own lives.

As a side note, anyone who considers what the victim and his Aunt did as "snitching" is simple part of the problem...