From Tookie to Toronto: lessons in black on black crime

Anthony Oluwatoyin:

Canadians were shocked when Toronto's ever-expanding gang warfare culminated in the recent brazen, daylight murder of one black youth mourner at the very funeral of another black youth victim.

White liberalism was never more impotent to explain such a dramatic turn in the particular field of its vaunted expertise. But as always in these matters there is much to learn from that great laboratory of ethnic experimentation. Black America.

Take the case of Stanley Tookie Williams. The 51-year-old African American is the cold-blooded coward on death row in California whose death, set for Dec. 13, has global white liberalism itself in the death throes of diabolical apologetics.

In spite of a quarter century of legal access and reviews certifying Tookie's guilt, in the most liberal jurisdiction on the face of the earth, Governor Arnold ("Terminator") Schwarzenegger has been arm-wrestled into scheduling a clemency hearing for Tookie this Thursday, Dec. 8.

Williams will die for four murders. In separate robberies in 1979, then 26-year old Tookie, whose actual middle name has taken on the obligatory love-fest of bleeding heart diminutives, killed store clerk, 26-year old Albert Lewis Owens, and Taiwanese immigrants, 76-year old Yen-I Yang, Yang’s wife, 63-year old Tsai-Shai Yang and the couple's 43-year old daughter, Yee Chen Lin.

And that was just the crowning criminal achievement of what prosecutors at the time rightly called the "Bengal Tiger" outside its "natural habitat."

Tiger Tookie was born to kill. In his teens, he co-founded the still most violent Los Angeles gang, the Crips, so named for reported descriptions of crippled victims of young thugs in Tookie's notorious South Central neighbourhood.

True to form, the beast regaled his colleagues with accounts of victim Albert Owens: "You should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him." Tookie then made gurgling, growling noises and laughed about Owens’ death.

But to hear Hollywood tell it, the murder of Owens, who was white, was a black on white fatality from the era of race riots and white police brutality. Just the kind of revisionist feed that fuels opposition to capital punishment.

All the more reason to focus on the role of the Crips in the black community, in black on black crime. No grand socio-reformatory statement there. Just plain jungle savagery. But then I speak as a black African man who was born into, was raised, schooled and has worked in black communities the world over, including the black/Koreatown south central Los Angeles area. I was certainly never embedded in white racial guilt.

To save Tookie is to sacrifice the blood-right of a people to weed itself of a poison ivy to its very existence. When every black predator is treated to the equal ethnic empathy of any black man, white liberalism becomes the root of all evil. For then no black community can separate Hitler from his daily grind of victims.

A black man, more than any other man, needs to know that he does not reduce to an indistinguishable horde of black criminality. You would think that white liberals, so concerned with uniquely vulnerable ethnic self-esteem, would know that. In fact, they indulge a lethal disconcern that disdains the very foundations of right versus wrong just where life is most nasty, brutish and short.

To draw the line at capital punishment does not soften the blow. Or save such a perverted failure at justice. Remember Lionel Tate? Just under five years ago, at age 13, a massive 160-pound Tate was given the alarmist distinction of "the youngest person to be sentenced to life," in the brutal beating death of his 6 year-old neighbour, Tiffany Eunick. Tate, on probation after his conviction was overturned, went on a spree of crime, from gun possession to armed robbery, racking up nothing more than additional probation. Just now, no longer a minor, he is back in the system and will, finally, get that original life sentence.

In any case, life or death, all punishment is secondary. What saves lives on a day to day basis is the view normal people have of the infliction of suffering. A black predator equals himself to his black victim in the pigment of pain. He is doing no worse to his victim than is done to him simply by virtue of being who he is.

With equal opportunity annihilators like Tookie, this attitude will cross the racial divide. But basically, pigment needs sameness to mirror, again and again, that it is just what it is and cannot help but be. Thus, from Tookie to Toronto to Timbuktu, from burning Paris to Boston's record homicide this year, the victims of black crime are overwhelmingly disproportionately also black.

Small wonder, black men in the barbershop of Tookie's old neighbourhood, in spite of obvious dangers that could come from Tookie's Crips, openly on national TV, condemn Tookie, all these years later, saying he must die.

While Hollywood stars apologize for Tookie, the beast itself apologizes for not one of his murder convictions. He simply denies all four.

So what is there to forgive? Indeed, Schwarzenegger's granting of a clemency hearing is an abomination. The governor has no jurisdiction to retry the case. And logically, you cannot forgive a man for something he did not do.

So Tookie's case reduces back to simple due process. Fact-finding in a fair trial. But again, Tookie has had a lifetime of examination and re-examination, all at great cost to taxpayers who include, of course, relatives of victims of his monstrous deeds.

Just last month, the governor suffered quite a political loss. All four reform propositions that he backed went down in flames. Will Schwarzenegger, himself up for re-election next year, now sacrifice four murders for four propositions?

Uber-liberal California is nevertheless staunchly (66 - 70%) for the death penalty. Instead of a clemency hearing, Schwarzenegger would do well to conduct a Multicultural Presentation Ceremony of the lives of Tookie's victims and their surviving relatives.

It's time to redress a gross imbalance. Tookie's tony set has had him nominated for Nobel prize after Nobel prize. It's time to nominate the victims of this ape for justice.

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