The term being used now is Hate Crime, but violence and racist behavior toward the black community is nothing new. We have endured this mess for hundreds of years in this country. The sad thing is the future doesn’t look any brighter.
File this in under “Another Damn Racist Hate Crime”. This time the scene of the crime is Council Bluffs, Iowa. A couple had their home broken, the N-word spray pained on their walls and a fire set in the back bedroom.
According to NY Daily News: ‘They wrote the N-word all over my walls,’ homeowner Shelly Owens says. Racist vandals broke into Owens house, spray painted the walls and set a fire in the bedroom. Owens, fiance Kevin Durham and their biracial children live in a diverse neighborhood Council Bluffs.
Vandals in Iowa spray painted racist slurs on an interracial couple’s home and set it on fire, police said.
Shelly Owens returned home to find the house in flames.
“They wrote the ‘N-word’ all over my walls,” Owens told KETV. “This is against me, I guess, and it’s a hate crime.”
Shelly Owens and Kevin Durham are engaged to be married. They live in the vanalized home with their children. Obviously, they are considering moving, but in truth that is what the cowards who performed this devilish act wants. I’m not sure why this isn’t classified as domestic terrorism. Maybe then some resources to stamp out this devious pattern around the country could be stopped.
“I’m very angry,” Owens said. “I’m just fortunate that my kids were in school and that we weren’t home.”
Kevin Durham and fiancee Shelly Owens returned home on Tuesday to find their house on fire and racist graffiti spray painted on the walls.
The first 911 call came in at 2:35 p.m. on Tuesday. Firefighters found the bedroom in flames and smoke poured through the rest of the house.
Council Bluffs Fire Marshal Curtis McKeon told the Daily News the fire was set inside the bedroom. The family dog escaped unharmed.
Fortunately, no one was hurt this time, but the trend in violence against the black community is growing. We are aware of it. Now is time to put this madness to rest.
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