Black Man in Chicago Kills Many in Office Building
Last week a distraught Black man who accused a patent lawyer of having stolen his patent for a truck toilet went into an office building in Chicago and forced his way up to the intended victim's floor. Once there he killed two lawyers and another person. Joe Jackson, the distraught killer, was later killed by the Chicago police.
Seemingly, Jackson had a long standing dispute with attorney Michael R. McKenna over some patent that he felt had been mishandled or stolen; it is not clear at this time precisely what the dispute over the patent was about. Reports are that Joe Jackson had asked for Michael McKenna by name; he had McKenna's card in his pocket.
This killing episode by Mr. Joe Jackson follows in a long line of people who have decided that the way to resolve their problems is to kill the one with whom they are in dispute, regardless of how minor or major the dispute--a parking spot, a girlfriend, a pack of cigarettes, a deal gone sour, etc. Whereas this behavior among Black people is generally played out in the ghetto and in street disputes where a neo-wild west mentality seems to have taken root, it is more common among whites to settle these types of disputes with guns and mass killings. But Blacks seem to be catching up with whites in the atrocity department as well as other negative acts.
Two years ago, John Allen Muhammad, aka John Allen Williams, carried out a series of sniper killings throughout the Washington, DC area. Previous to this a spate of killings occurred in Atlanta, GA, by a Black serial killer that is now in some serious dispute. However, traditionally, the FBI's profile of serial killers and mass murderers was (and still is) a disgruntled white male about the age of 35, and single.
But in this increasingly homogeneous society, regardless of how dastardly a deed is, Blacks are starting to imitate whites in all things. What happened to our long-stand general code of fundamental morality that was so common among Blacks?
Black America has come through too much ignorance disguised as sophistication in this harsh society to now take on aberrant traits that are not peculiar to us; that is acculturation gone too far; let white folk be white folks and Blacks be Black folks. Let us not forget who we are.
Ida Wells Jackson
12/11/06
