via:blackamericaweb.com
This “Stop Snitching” nonsense has gotten way out of hand.
Rajahnthon Haynie’s father can’t go home. He can’t show his face on television either. In fact, he was afraid to even give a Baltimore television station his name.
The “Stop Snitching” maniacs are after him, you see. And what did he “snitch?”
It seems the dad dimed out Lakesha Haynie, Rajahnthon’s mother. The boy was only one month old when Lakesha Haynie killed him and buried him in a park near her home. During a quarrel with the boy’s father, she confessed to her deed. The dad told police and led them to the body.
How did values in black America become so skewed that the dad is now the bad guy?
Here’s how the Web site for WJZ television in Baltimore summed up the father’s plight: “He says he’s gotten death threats since he went to the police, and he’s scared to go back to his home. People are angry he snitched, so he asked WJZ to conceal his name and his face.”
Baltimore is kind of ground zero for the “Stop Snitching” movement. It was here that the first controversial “Stop Snitching” DVD was shot. It was here that the mother of a 13-year-old boy who callously and viciously murdered a 22-year-old man went to court sporting a “Stop Snitching” cap.
And it is here, apparently, that the “Stop Snitching” idiots want to protect the mother who not only murdered her month-old son, but had four other children taken from her as well.
Yes, Lakesha Haynie’s record as an abusive mother was so bad that the state felt compelled to remove four children from her home. Little Rajahnthon would have been removed to, had she given birth in a hospital. But Rajahnthon’s father said she gave birth at home to avoid that possibility.
It is here that I should probably go on my rant about how I’m one of the few people left in the country who supports forced sterilization. It’s for people like Lakesha Haynie, people who need to be stopped from having children whom they’ll either end up abusing or, in Rajahnthon’s case, murdering. When I’ve suggested in the past that the Annapolis mother who tricked out her 16-year-old daughter to men in their 40s and older should be forcibly sterlized, some reacted as if I were the bad guy. (Some readers even tried to play the race card, claiming I was advocating sterilization of black women only, even after I made it clear the mother in that case was white.)
But if advocating forced sterilization to keep men and women from abusing and murdering children makes me a bad guy, then I’ll be happy to wear the label of the bad guy.
The brother who clearly does not deserve the label of a bad guy is Rajahnthon’s father. Just what is the logic of the “Stop Snitching” crowd for protecting the mother? Her being an upstanding citizen? It sure as heck can’t be Lakesha Haynie’s good mother creds. What prompts such foolishness?
Granted, black Americans have a history with snitches and informants that other Americans probably can’t appreciate. An informant or a snitch betrayed more than one slave rebellion or planned uprising. When Herman Perry, a black soldier in Burma during World War II, got fed up with racism and fatally shot his lieutenant, he went on the lam and hid in Burmese jungles for a few months. Other black soldiers helped him survive. When Perry was finally captured, white military police demanded he give up the names of those soldiers who helped him. Perry refused.
More snitches and informants emerged during the civil rights and Black Power …..eras. William O’Neal was an FBI informant who provided information the Chicago Police Department used to carry out a raid that left Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton murdered in his bed. Louis Tackwood snitched for the Los Angeles Police Department and ‘fessed up to helping drive a wedge between Los Angeles Panthers and the US organization. (In December of 1969, two US members, also FBI informants, fatally shot L.A. Panther leaders Bunchy Carter and John Hudgins.)
Snitches and informants became so rife in radical black organizations that Robert F. Williams, the granddaddy of Black Power, radicalism and self-defense, was forced to observe that some black organizations had trouble telling the infiltrators from the real idiots.
None of that applies to Lakesha Haynie. She wasn’t fighting for black liberation; she murdered her own child. Her child’s father told police about it.
That’s not snitching. That’s reporting a heinous crime that never should have happened.
