Only in
America
Forgotten Facts Back in 1969 a
group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black named Alex Rackley needed to
die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty.
Rackley was first tied to a
chair. Once safely immobilized his 'friends' tortured him for hours by, among
other things, pouring boiling water on him.
When they got tired of
torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Mr. Rackley outside
and put a bullet in his head.
Rackley's body was later found
floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.
Perhaps at this point you're
curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers.
In 1977, that's only eight
years later, only one of the killers was still in jail.
The shooter, Warren Kimbro,
managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at
Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a '60s radical you
can pump a bullet into someone's head, and a few years later, in the same state,
you can become an assistant college dean!
Only in America!
Erica Huggins was the lady who
served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years
later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board.
How in the world do you think
these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was in part due to the efforts of two
people who came to the defense of the Panthers.
These two people actually went
so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the
accused Black Panthers during their trial.
One of these people was none
other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a
College dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of
the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
O.K., so who was the other
Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board
member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean?
No, Neither!
The other Panther defender was,
like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known
as the "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than the
Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from the State of New York, our lovely
First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.
