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Name: kingme

Comment: thank you JC and you are so correct. there should be a little bit more of an outrage in the black community at large. however- this atrocity has the makings for virtually no one to care about it. he was 29 and i'm sure he didn't look his age (we age well too) he was a BLACK male. and being a young looking "black man" in the america that it is no one cares about our well being. in addition to the fact that he was gay. and that doesn't sit well with younger white men whom already (in general) have a learned hate for black men to start. throw in the fact that he was gay, and a frenzy was in the mist of brewing. where are all of the "humanitarians" and "equal rights avengers" when they are needed most.

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: Jasymne...I feelz u on this. For too many of us, it really is just a non-story. We AND the media would rather focus on a stupid 19 yr old, killing a 16 yr old in the worst parts of town. Those things usually make the news. What's worse is the fact the even THOUGH the suspects were white and the victim black, this just doesn't seem to warrant national attention. I know you guys must feel like cattle on the block. *sigh*

Name: blackdiamondleo

Comment: It disgusts me that we don't rise up in anger. Sometimes I just want to cry and scream out to our people "WHAT'S WRONG WITH Y'ALL?". I wish for the anger of the 50's and 60's. I say this all the time. Are we that comfortable with ourselves?

Name: Onyx

Comment: This is going to sound harsh, but, here goes. First, America does not truly care about black life, that's very evident, by it's actions past and present. Secondly, although no one deserves to have their life taken, this young man made a poor decision. He should not have went to meet a stranger or strangers alone. People should use more caution and common sense when trying to meet people. There are things that he may have done, that might have prevented this terrible tragedy. He could have taken some friends with him or met at a less secluded place, like a restuarant or club. Granted, these men still may have killed him, but it sounds like he did not take any steps to be safe and that cost him his life.

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: Uhm..Onyx...I don't think your post is harsh at all...maybe another word...but not harsh. Sure he could've, would've, should've, but he didn't. He's dead now..that's hindsight. The young lady in Maryland "could've" realized much earlier that her ex was a complete psycho. She maybe "should've" left him a long time ago. Now 3rd degree burns cover her body after he doused and set her on fire.

Name: Onyx

Comment: You're right musbdherbs, hindsight is 20/20. But hopefully, my message is a reminder for those living to be careful. Also, another opinion I'd like to share is, I think our society is immune to human suffering in general. My heart only bleeds but so much for people I don't know personally, because everyday I am bombarded with one tradegy after another. The violence that I am exposed to on a daily basis via internet, television and radio has made me somewhat numb to other peoples suffering. I don't think I have the ability to get outraged at injustice and crime. It's sad to admit.

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: Yeah it's really a hard gamble. The internet is so vast..so wide, so available that more and more people are using it as a source to meet people. I believe that incidents like this are rare but horrible nonetheless. Also, I think that people are immune to the suffering of those they can't relate to...especially if you're black. Katrina is a prime example of that. In this case, this guy was a triple minority...(black, male, and gay). Those three along warrant little attention and the fact that this is not news speaks to that

Name: Winn30344

Comment: Sharpton and Jackson will only speak out on this case when the national media takes hold of it and someone calls them out on it. This man didn't deserve to be murdered by thugs regardless of his sexual preferences. My heart breaks for him and his family. Trust me Ms. Cannick..there is some outrage but we're not celebrites so it's being repressed in the media. They'd rather write about Ms. Rock being discriminated against by a restaurant than a Black man being murdered by thugs because of his sexual preference.

Name: blackdiamondleo

Comment: We can all make our comments, but it's all been foretold (if you believe the Bible's prophesies), these things are meant to be. But I'm still angry. My friend reminds me all the time that I told him in '86 the internet would be used by a majority in negative ways. It can't be stopped.

Name: katee

Comment: This is heartbreaking. Mr. Sandy seemed like a smart, likable man who was savagely murdered by sadistic psychopaths. I luved Ms. Cannick's column. I had never heard of her before, but I feel like I have read the column of a new leader for our people.

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: Al and Jessie are not the only black "media" personalities in America. It's time for us to stop acting like they are. We have an entire CBC in Washington and a lone black senator. I've yet to hear/see them speak out against this injustice either. Oprah, our esteemed Cosby, and many others are also silent. So, let's not put this one on two individuals as we often try to do.

Name: Kofi

Comment: Black people should feel outraged about any number of things but, apparently that is not the case. My question to Ms. Cannick is where is the black LGBT community? Why haven't they kept the case alive and visible in the public eye. This also exposes the white LGBT community's hypocrisy.

Name: Winn30344

Comment: The only reason I mentioned those 2 is because they are normally the watchdogs and never miss an opportunity to get in front of the camera i.e., Cracker Barrel, whatever to march against injustice..of course others should speak out.

Name: Winn30344

Comment: Kofi..I wondered the same thing. I have often said that the Lesbian/Gay community has racial issues just like that of yt america. Only time they connect with Black people is when they need something otherwise it's business as usual.

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: I'm thinking...and only thinking..that it may be hard to get anybody outside of the black LBGT interested in this. I read that it was a press conference held at the NY City Hall but it wasn't covered by any major news outlet. I believe the lack of interest in coverage outside of gay folk is what Jas is writing about here. Winn...this doesn't seem like something that anybody is interested in..including the "media" driven Sharpton and Al which speaks to the larger issue of "nonissueness." I don't think that nongay people are interested in connecting w/gay people so I can see why it would be business as usual.

Name: CILLA8192

Comment: Winn30344; That was exactly what I was expressing the other day on that post about Mrs. Rock. Here we have a man murdered and no one backing this story but the story of Mrs. Rock has been on here two days in a row and counting. I guess it only counts when white people can possibly be proven right, because clearly the men who killed this boy is guilty so why bring light to this story. Let it had been a white gay man killed by three black men imagine the outrage.

Name: CILLA8192

Comment: musbdherbs; Your right about the media coverage because I didn't even here about this on tv. I heard about this on a gossip column mediatakeout.com. They write some pretty interesting stories on there not just gossip but fact. But for this to not get the media attention as Mrs. Rocks case is just plain wrong.

Name: bigheadbull2

Comment: As tragic as this all is I hope this becomes a lesson for gay,straight,bi,people of all races. These are the kinds of things that can happen when one trolls on the internet for sex

Name: wayne1

Comment: First of all, condolences to the family and friends of Michael Sandy; this was truly a horrible, horrible event, and the fact that the family recently had to make the decison to take Mr. Sandy off of life-support makes it an even more difficult situation for them. Still, I find Ms. Cannick's "where's the outrage" concerning. Here's why: What's race got to do with it? I read several articles on this event after I heard it on NPR tonite. The earliest articles made it out to be about a robbery gone bad, and later about "gay bashing." OK. Now, in the 10 articles I read in which police interviews of the killers were cited NONE of them mentioned the crime being motivated by race. NONE of the perpetrators indicated that race had anything to do with their motivation. Ms. Cannick states in her article that racial motivation is "unclear." It's not unclear: These thugs chose to target Mr. Sandy because he was gay, not black. why make it a race hate thing, rather than a gay hate thing? Why PURPOSELY try to make it a race issue? This I'll try to address in my blog (just started, check it out: http://getthis-www.blogspot.com/) Now, I mean no disrespect to mr. Sandy or his family, but let's now examine the "It could have been you, it could have been me" thing. It couldn't have been me because, frankly, I'm careful enough not to make blatnet sexual rendezvous over the internet. It couldn't have have happened to anyone prudent enough to avoid meeting a total stranger for sex in a parking lot. I am not making a moral judgement here, just stating a fact--a fact Ms. Cannick ignores maybe this is why there is no outrage: 1) the buckets and buckets of anonymous gay sexcapades over the internet is embarassing to the G/L community (come on, we've all been on Craigslist!),as is the fact that Mr. Sandy put himself in this position. 2)It is just not a Black/ race hate issue. It is a gay-hate issue--and a robbery issue. Period. Even Sharpton and the NAACP know this. I believe there is a lack of black activist involvement because race, in this case, is a non issue. Trying to bring race into this is clearly disingenuous and is an argument that doesn't hold water. Why play the race card, ms. Cannick?

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