Remembering Two Black Men Arrested and Freed in Aruba

We haven't heard any new information from Aruba today. There's a lot of solidarity with Natalee Holloway's mother, father and other family for any news, whenever it comes. One of my family emailed to ask what I think of what's going on there. I said I hope those two Black bodyguards sue, and get Aruba or Curacao. Maybe each of them should get an island. This is no joke. Three weeks ago, in just a matter of hours, Aruba's white elite showed us and the world every racial stereotype that exists in the just-us system. "Just us Black people," that is. It was no coincidence that those men, who were Black, were put on prominent public display and in handcuffs of course. I will never forget the mother of one - an old woman, flailing her arms, professing her son's innocence before God. And the face of the quiet little 10 year old boy with big eyes who is related to one of those brothas. He saw Aruba police break into his home and take his relative away. What kind of crap is that. How did white-dominated societies - even in the Caribbean - decide such spiritual violence by authorities must be a 'rite of passage' for so many Black children? Who's held responsible? If anyone tells you the Dutch, as Europeans, aren't racist, they lie.   

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[jaysen]

Look! I'm not the one who said Joran Van der Sloot is gay.

I've heard he was gay, and I've talked to guys who claim to have slept with him, but I never slept with him, so I just can't say.

Maybe Joran Van der Sloot is gay. That doesn't make him innnocent. Maybe he killed Natalee because she was with his boyfriend. Maybe his boyfriend is bi-sexual, and killed Natalee, and Joran helped dispose of her body.

All I'm saying is that I never said Joran was gay.

[Crys T]

"If anyone tells you the Dutch, as Europeans, aren't racist, they lie."

If anyone tells you that racism isn't a big problem all over Europe, they lie.