In Chicago, Black History Month is a time when some of us reflect on
one of our poorest-kept secrets, an ongoing injustice born of brutal, systemic racism, which has spread over a generation and whose stain is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city.Burge tortured Anthony Holmes using electric shock and suffocation, causing him to crawl on the floor in pain. Lacing this torture with racial epithets, Burge initiated a pattern of dehumanizing abuse that would terrorize at least 120 African- American men, their families and the black community for the next twenty years. This pattern was marked not only by its uniquely brutal tactics, but also by its overtly racist motivation. Burge referred to his notorious electric shock device as the “@!$%# box,” used the term “@!$%#” as part of his torture routine, and also used the term to describe his victims in boastful conversations with friends and even casual acquaintances.
the trouble with oriented sadistic racist is they always have to tell someone of the deed, presumably like thinkers but even that fails and we get the 411 from a source not of that kind but awitness none the less.
One day, when asked by an acquaintance about his work investigating homicides, he remarked that he had been “dealing with dead @!$%#ing @!$%#s all day.” His “right-hand men,” Sgt. John Byrne and Detective Peter Dignan, also repeatedly used the term, including during interrogations, introducing the plastic cover used for suffocation by saying they had “something special for @!$%#s,” and threatening to hang another suspect by pointing to a noose dangling from the basement ceiling and saying they “hang @!$%#s around here all the time.” Burge and his confederates often focused their torture and brutality on the genitals of their victims.
if Emmanual is aware and does nothing then he deserves to be exposed and locked up with those perpetrators in general population, and get a first hand experience of what he allowed to exist.
