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 Lying is legal. Police officers are allowed to lie to “suspects” during “interrogations” or “investigations.” This is precisely what happened to 14 year old Michael Crowe. Crowe's baby sister - twelve year old Stephanie- was stabbed to death in her bedroom. According to the San Diego Union Tribune, enough evidence was obtained to point elsewhere but the police ignored most of it and turned their focus on Mike and his two friends, Joshua Treadway and Aaron Houser. Several witnesses saw a vagrant, well known to the local police, lurking in the neighborhood the same night little Stephanie was killed.

            The day before he was picked up for following kids into an apartment complex. After the murder the cops picked the drifter up the following evening, questioned him, took his clothes and released him. This guy was again found looking into car windows at a motel where he admitted that he thought this was where the parents of “the dead girl” was staying.

            Why on earth Michael was taken into custody and interrogated to confess is still dumb founding citizens. But like the Central Park Five, the Crowe family were working class powerless people: “They have never owned a home. They buy their cars used. But they said that there's always enough to cover the monthly bills and provide a comfortable home for the kids, as long as they don't splurge.”15 

                        Michael Crowe and his young friends were manipulated, lied to and forced to lie on each other. They were kept awake as much as 26 hours without legal counsel or parental consent, and coerced to accept that the police had evidence that could convict them. The kids finally told the cops what they wanted to hear just to be left alone.

            So why was the integrity of this drifting white male preserved over that of three innocent kids? My theory is this. If they made that white male a suspect, then the criminal integrity of white men would now be on display. It paints a grim picture of those who charge themselves with the duty of “protecting their women.” Now one of your own saviors is a sinner. The trust is diluted and some power is lost. The citizens would immediately have to keep a vigilant eye out for other white males in the community. The paradigm begins to shift.

            Now the vagrant, drunk, biker, ruffian, drifter, loner or new guy in town are all suspect. Any unknown white man is suspicious. Folks would try to protect their children by having them be wary of their adult male counterparts. This was once just reserved for the Black male. To equally transfer this stigma to white men is illogical - if power is to be exclusively maintained.

            Blaming the kids is easy: “Kids today! They are spoiled, mischievous and dangerous. They are influenced by video games, rap music, and violent films.” This is the mantra of the matured. Had it not been for DNA testing the real killer- a white male - may have been free to continue to do as he pleases. 

            In my opinion all of these young boys were played; and in the Central Park case the victim was played even worse. I believe that this woman, who was said to have no recollection of the incident,  actually knew more than she was allowed to admit. If those testimonies were coerced, which many experts believe they were, then I'm lead to believe that the jogger’s participation in this case was also tampered with. Amnesia, though it often occurs after traumatic events, might have been used as a convenient excuse to limit or eliminate her full participation in the trial. Not only did the boys contradict themselves in the video “confessions,” they also did the same to the evidence. One boy said that they cut her pants off - no evidence supported that the jogger’s pants were cut off - so either the boy was lying or the evidence was. It is for  this reason I believe the amnesia card was played. She may not have known who raped her, but I think she knew that it wasn't five people. Evidence tampering is nothing new in law enforcement, and the best evidence to corrupt is the victim as well as the accused. An experienced detective asserted that: “the moral jump from making illegal drug deals to getting evidence and dealing in drugs to make money is not as big as it might look to an outsider.”16 

                        The man who confessed to raping the woman admitted that he talked to her about revealing her address and she refused. He had every detail of the crime down to her Fanny Pack. Of course the police refuse to believe him, because police only believe jail house testimonies when that evidence can be used to convict rather than exonerate. Justice Earl Warren said: “...the policeman is more powerful than the President. Only the policeman has the power to deprive an American of his liberty, and only the policemen defines, on a daily basis, the real law of the land. That the policemen themselves are often criminals, then, maybe the gravest concern for a rule of laws, not men.”17

                        Police games are power games: “Negative sanctions were applied against “goofs” who advocated following the legitimate police ethic.”18 Recruits who accepted the code, “the police way of life having precedence over legal responsibilities,”19 were rewarded by senior officers. Cops that “are honest and would report illegal activities are ostracized.”20 The level of delinquency in police games is not much different from the corporate games that we see in American business today. The end result of police delinquency, political corruption and corporate criminal behavior is the same -  to buttress the power of white men. It is widely believed that the change in the New York political scene was a direct result of the Central Park case. New York City elected a Republican mayor three times in a row. Rudy Giuliani was elected twice because he was “tough on crime.”

            The conviction of these five boys was a false message to white women that their men were immediately in control of the situation. Before daybreak the papers had reported that the “suspects” were in custody. White women felt safe, the cops were getting the job done and it was safe to go back into water.

            This illusion of safety allows white women to yield even more of their power to their male counterparts, which is exactly what men want. The victims are not just the jogger and the wrongly convicted boys; the false pretense of protection makes white women more vulnerable to violation. They walk around thinking it's all good and their men are jiving them into subjugation. As a result of a “rush to judgment” in the world of cosmetic convictions, the actual criminal involved in the rape was free to continue his grotesque gallivanting, and did. He raped and murdered a pregnant woman after the Central Park attack. The shark was still in the water as the lifeguard kept lying to the swimmers; they felt assured while their male counterparts secured more power.

            Previously, in 1921 the Klu Klux Klan used racism, hatred, jealously fear and treachery to attract new members. Many of these members were police officers, sheriffs, business people, and politicians. They perpetuated an engrossing mentality of fear that has been skillfully grandfathered into their contemporary counterparts. When racist white men want more power they create fear and rage and use it for conquest.

            This very tactic was used to destroy one of the most thriving Black economic power bases in the history of America, Black Wall Street. It was a lively, energetic, intellectual and business community that dwarfed similar efforts of any race in the state of Oklahoma. Some of the Blacks, though limited in investment opportunities denied by racism, were the wealthiest men in America. Jealous white males could not stomach this so they sought to destroy it: “No Black Wall Street! No Rich Niggers! No Freedom!,”21 said the powerful and politically connected Sam Wells, racist and Grand Marshall of the Knights Liberty. The eldest of the Simpson brothers, a powerful oil family in Oklahoma, declared: “We will not allow these nigras to prosper like this. There is no way we can allow this to continue.”22

                        A coalition of rich oil men, news reporters, Klan like organizations and other powers had nefariously and successfully manipulated:

“... the press, the poor and uneducated, city and state law officials and the rough neck whites of West Tulsa to the point of an all out race war... The men who pulled the strings cared little about life, death or the high casualty rate that would result in an all out war between the races. The only thing that mattered to them was that the powerful eventually crushed! There was no way they were going to stand by and allow what was happening in Black Wall Street to continue and possibly emulate itself throughout the south and ultimately throughout Black America. This and numerous other facts that were discovered proves that the systematic destruction of Black Wall Street reached all the way to the heads of the American Government.”23

            A respectful, self-reliant Black community was bombed from the air and lost about six thousand people in a vicious race riot that ended an economic power base that may have spearheaded financial independence for the Black race in America and beyond. The catalyst? The accusation that a Black man raped a white woman. The young woman in question never accused anyone of rape; but the, “To Lynch Nigger Tonight! Tries to Rape a White Girl in Elevator”24 headlines dominated the press in an almost identical fashion in which the Donald Trump ads called for the death penalty for “murderers and muggers.” LYNCH A NIGGER and “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY” are viscerally close in spirit. The headlines of 1921 were enough to seal the fate of Black Wall Street as the ads in 1989 sealed the fate of five Black boys.

            When the sensationalism of fear fails, the repercussions can reverberate for years and question the strength of the white male’s power. Here is one example I observed after the O.J. Simpson verdict. A news correspondent ironically stopped a female jogger - somewhere in California - who was crying as she turned and removed her headphones. The reporter asked her how she felt about the verdict. Still crying and very distraught, the woman said, “I just want to be left alone.” Having watched this behavior for so long I believe I know exactly what ran through her mind at that moment. She was very disturbed by the verdict because it is a sign that her man is losing the ability to protect her and her counterparts after all the power they had relinquished to guarantee such protection. That verdict was more than an injustice to white people - it was an assault on their power. It questioned the white man's ability to protect his women thereby jeopardizing any further pursuit of power.

            It is from this foundation that racism and sexism is executed. And from this foundation comes the various ways that the rulers of a society would pursue power: sex, politics, symbolism, socialization, economics, art, science, education, medicine, any and all other areas of people activity are used to acquire, assume, consume and use power. And like anything else, racism and sexism have residuals and one of those residuals is the Black man's love for the white woman. And it is this residual of race that I will explore. I will also discuss what Black men have been trained to become, what they have become, how they relate to Black women as well as what white women are to Black men. There are many reasons Why Black Men Love White Women and I chose those I believe are important to the dialogue. My conclusions were drawn from study, personal experiences, observation, interviews, research and media.