Excuse me is this 2009 or 1929?Yesterday, hundreds of supporters were on hand at the Clayton County Court in Georgia for the indictment of a 47 year-old white Georgia resident named Troy Dale West, Jr. on charges he viciously beat Tasha Hill, an African-American Army reservist, in front of her 7 year-old daughter.
The incident occurred outside of a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Morrow, Georgia at about 7:30pm on Wednesday September 9th. The case has been referred to the FBI's Civil Rights Division to determine whether or not the incident is a hate crime.
Witnesses and Atlanta television station WSBTV reported that West allegedly erupted when Hill asked him to "please be careful, that door almost hit my daughter" after he slammed the door open on his way out of the restaurant, nearly striking her daughter. In response to Hill's request, West simply exploded, using his fists to hit Hill in the face then throwing her to the ground and striking her in the head several times and kicking her in the body while repeatedly calling her a "fucking black nigger bitch".
Horrified witnesses watched as Hill's 7 year-old daughter desperately tried to get back through the glass doors to help her mother while the assault was taking place.
Click the link above, or click play on the upper right side of the page to hear Hill's account of what happened. Local Atlanta news reported that the Cracker Barrel employees were very cooperative in helping the victim and police/EMTs who arrived on the scene, so kudos to Cracker Barrel.
Given the realities of America's complex racial history, it's not a shock that the election of an African-American president has stirred deep-seated resentment by some Americans.
What IS shocking and repugnant to most people is to see people of any color, religion or race violently channel that resentment onto a mother and her 7 year-old child. The Clayton County DA was so incensed, she is prosecuting the case personally.
The anger, violence and hate displayed by West should concern ALL Americans, it's an unfortunate part of the fabric of our nation that's as much a threat as the economic crisis or terrorism - Troy Dale West, Jr. is the real terrorist.
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