Benjamin Dewell Osborne

"Rewarding Murder"

Posted by Doc Farmer
www.chronwatch.com
Saturday, July 19, 2003

About 20 years ago, there was a vicious triple murder in my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. A man, his wife, and their 11-year-old son were brutally bludgeoned to death one weekend in their own home. When the man didn’t arrive at work on Monday morning, his co-workers got worried, went to his home, and found the bodies. And they found wandering among the corpses the only survivor --a toddler, barely two years old. The little girl had been alone for two days with her murdered family.

The police investigated, the murderer was found four months later, and he eventually confessed to the crime. He also confessed to other crimes, including rapes, beatings, muggings, etc. The man committed suicide in jail a day after he was charged. This, of course, saved the city the cost of a trial, and saved the state the cost of incarcerating him until they strapped him to a gurney and gave him a final send-off far more humane than he gave to his victims.

Why am I telling you this sad story? Because the killer, one Calvin Perry, was recently turned into an award.

The Juneteenth organization, which advocates African-American freedom and achievement, decided on the 21st of June this year to create the new ''Calvin Perry Stop-the-Violence Award.'' The organization gave the award to a local minister who was a strong supporter of Calvin Perry’s cause--but apparently not much of a supporter of the cause of the three dead victims. The real victims.

Since when is murder an achievement that is worthy of celebration? Why in the name of sanity would people name an award for peace after a man who clubbed a man, woman, and child to death in their own home?

Could it be because the victims were white?

And their killer was black?

The African-American community was all up in arms because Calvin Perry committed suicide in prison. They suspected foul play. No such evidence was ever found to substantiate that, despite several investigations, but since when have facts ever gotten in the way of a really good myth, or lie? The preachers and the community ''leaders'' and the other appeasement people in their corner were all too quick to support a dead murderer. Odd that they didn’t seem to be all that fussed about three dead honkies that their ''cause celebre'' happened to snuff.

Apparently, this new award is to recognize people who defend the rights of murderers who are incarcerated and commit suicide, and then spend time accusing the cops of offing the prisoners, in spite of all the actual evidence and an annoying thing called the truth.

So instead of honoring the victims of the murderer with an award, this organization awarded the murderer. They named an award after a killer who committed suicide, which they would rather view as a murder by ''whitey''--although all the real evidence is contrary to their feeling. They think that this honour is more important than the real victims. But since those poor dead folks are white, they don’t really count as victims, do they? After all, Caucasians can never be victims. Only minorities can be victims. Even when they’re the actual perpetrators of a crime.

I guess that those three white folks deserved it. Right?
I guess what I’m really saying is this. After 20 years, the victims of a brutal murder have all but been forgotten. But their killer is now an award.