Africology

The following articles and pictures were from the Boston Globe/New York Times/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/CNN/MSN and Yahoo news. All articles I took from the internet after I was unable to discover a way to scan the articles I collected onto my computer.)

The Frank Jude case relates to class and the text in various different ways. The Jude case shows a stark reality of racism as it exists today. Black people were not the only people completely surprised by the verdict. Many white people also felt very surprised by this verdict while others saw it as just. Hacker would argue with his text that many times white people will look the other way in situations like this because they do now believe racism exists. Berry/Blassingame would show us that this situation has happened before in the past and that we should find it as no surprise today. B/B would show us how we use a white criminal system and that it would not be right to have an all white jury. In class we had various opinions on the case. Many believed it was down right racism and that these men must be punished for their savage beating to Frank Jude. All in all these three separate sources could agree that there is most likely one truth to this situation. That truth would be that there is something terribly wrong with the judicial system we have when not one person is convicted for such a savage crime that we know happened.

As for the Henning and Parker situation I think we can prove Hacker wrong in some essence because he would most likely not have thought that the community would have pulled together in such a tragedy. In B/B we could see that things have continued to get “better” in relation to slave days and that these black children were treated as human beings and were the concern of many races not only in the Metro-Milwaukee area, but the entire country. As a class we were all able to see that the community was able to pull together, however most of the community that did help was black. The police was able to work well with the community which is a positive step since many blacks in the north side or inner city of Milwaukee have learned to distrust their law enforcement officials. Some still would argue that the investigation might have been more thorough if it were two white children. I know that with all three sources we can agree that the reaction of the city and the people would have been different 50 years or even 100 years ago vs. the recent reaction. That shows us all hope and at least a small step in the right direction on the grand scale of giving equal rights to all people of all races. The overall moral is that a lot of the good accomplished in the Henning and Parker investigation is overlooked because of the blatant prejudice of the Frank Jude case.

Churches' motorcade to deliver Jude petitions

300 cars expected to drive to federal courthouse

By LEONARD SYKES JR.

lsykes@journalsentinel.com

Posted: May 13, 2006

About 50 Milwaukee area churches have organized a motorcade to the federal courthouse on Monday to deliver petitions demanding a thorough investigation by the U.S. attorney's office into the Frank Jude beating. The petitions are a direct response to the acquittal of the three former police officers accused of beating Jude, said Rev. Roland Womack, pastor of Progressive Baptist Church, 8324 W. Keefe Ave., one of several clergymen who helped organize the petition drive.

Womack estimated that as many as 300 cars are expected to be part of the motorcade, which will begin its trek to the courthouse from three churches in the city - Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, 3500 W. Mother Daniels Way; Christ the King, 7750 N. 60th St.; and Ebenezer Church, 3132 N. King Drive.

"We've been collecting petitions to show our displeasure over the Jude verdict, and we now have over 12,000 signatures," Womack said Friday afternoon.

"We probably had 40 or 50 churches involved, but that number has been flexible. There have been different churches, synagogues and mosques involved. This is an ecumenical body. . . . (I)t is predominantly African-American, but it is not all African-American."

The petition drive began Easter Sunday, a day after an all-white jury acquitted the three officers involved in the Oct. 24, 2004, beating of Jude, who is biracial. The jury deadlocked on one count.

The day after the verdict, District Attorney E. Michael McCann met with Bishop