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Why Were Four Black Girls Violated By School Administrators?
When I did a google search for “four Black girls,” it wasn’t surprising that the results pulled up the precious lives that were massacred by the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing that took place the Sunday morning of September 15th, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Now that one of the most prolific filmmakers of our time, Spike Lee, is finally getting the spotlight in his direction from the faithfully negligent Academy — you might want to check out 4 Little Girls — the affecting Oscar-nominated documentary, that captures the chaos that ensued after the church bombing, and the bereaved families that were forced to bury their young, during the turbulence of the civil rights movement.
Almost fifty-six years later, and we are still embroiled in a country that terrorizes Black girls and Black women.
From Chikesia Clemons who endured an epic beatdown at the hands of thuggish White cops to the fourteen-year-old Black girl who was physically assaulted by Florida police officers, who kept hitting her repeatedly even though she was unarmed and posed no threat.
And now from Binghamton, NY, we are greeted with the stunningly disturbing headline about four Black girls who attend East Middle School.
